MAGNOLIA. 
Among those who were home for 
the city election were Benjamin Fos- 
ter, E. Haring Dickinson, Winifred 
Story and John Sullivan. 
Mrs. Elbridge Knight and son, 
Chester, returned Monday from a 
few weeks’ trip to New Hampshire 
and New York City. 
Henry Story and family have 
moved to their cottage on Magnolia 
avenue this week for the winter. 
Miss Lillian Dennett of Gloucester 
has been visiting her grandmother, 
Mrs. Martin Burke, this week. 
Charles Brown, F. L. Hunt, John 
Burke and Edward Ballou were 
among the local Elks who attended 
the Elks’ memorial service in Glouces- 
ter last Sunday. 
A crew of 10 men, hired «by 
the Magnolia Improvement society, 
started this week to clean the trees on 
Magnolia Point of gypsy moths. 
JONATHAN MAY, 
Real Estate and Insurance, 
NOTARY PUBLIC, 
MAGNOLIA. 
Tel. Cen. 
Gorham, Davis, Proprietor Frank H. Davis, Manager 
GORHAM DAVIS, 
LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES, 
Gloucester and Magnolia. 
First-class Stable for Boarders. All the latest styles of 
Carriages, with safe horses and careful drivers, furnished 
promptly. Auto Garage. Electric Carriages re-charged. 
AUSTIN MORLEY DOMNICK FLATLEY 
MORLEY, FLATLEY & OU. 
Estimates and complete contracts 
made and performed for Stone, 
Brick and Concreting, Water 
Works,Sewers, Bridges,Steam 
Drilling,Road Building, Blast- 
ing, see eet | and Grading. 
Blue stone dust, loam and gravel 
always onhand. Jobbing promptly 
attended to. 
Masons and General Contractors 
COAL ano WOOD. 
We have also purchased the Coal 
and Wood business of Mr: Henr 
W. Butler at Magnolia, and shall 
continue the same in addition to 
our other lines. We always carry 
a full stock of selected grades of 
Coal and Wood for all household 
and office purposes, and make a 
specialty of prompt and careful de- 
liveries to the resident trade. We 
respectfully solicit your patronage. 
OFFICES: magnotia Avenue, Magnolia 
Tel. connection 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
At the regular monthly meeting of 
the Magnolia Engine company Tues- 
day evening, Rev. F. J. Libby and 
Clifford Story were elected substitute 
members. At the next meeting, Jan. 
2, there will be an election of officers. 
Mrs. Willard Boyd and sister, Mrs. 
John Fisher of New York, left for 
Portland, Me. Wednesday, where 
they will visit their mother, Mrs. 
Reed. 
William L. Wilkins was given a 
good complimentary vote at Tues- 
day’s election, winning out in the 
fight for common council with 171 
votes. The other two successful can- 
didates in this ward were ._Wm. F. 
Marshall and Geo. F. Miller. 
There appears to be considerable 
sickness about town at present. The 
condition of Capt. John Lycett re- 
mains practically the same as last 
week with noapparent change. Wm. 
Douglass is able to be about his work 
again. W.R. Boyd was prevented 
from working the first of the week by 
a neuralgic cold. 
Rumors of weddings are in the air. 
Mrs. John Burke and her sister, 
Miss Marjorie Severance of Glouces- 
ter, left Tuesday for a visit to Provi- 
dence, R.I. 
Mrs. John Symonds returned today 
from a visit to Gardner, Me. 
The singing school will meet to- 
night. 
The travel class will hold its last 
meeting before Christmas next Thurs- 
day. The members intend to spend 
the holidays in their own country, 
after which they will take another 
tour or stay at home and study his- 
tory. 
Mrs. H.C. Foster returned from 
her vacation in the Berkshires Thurs- 
day. 
The preparations for the Christmas 
concert at the church go merrily 
on. The concert will be held prob-, 
ably on Saturday evening as last year. 
The dance in the Donchian build- 
ing Monday evening was well at- 
tended Another is scheduled for 
next Monday with chafing-dish re- 
freshments at intermission. 
Historic Landmark, Willow 
Cottage, Being Demolished 
The work of demolishing the Willow 
Cottage, so-called, one of the historic 
landmarks in this sectlon, at Magnolia, 
was started this week. Its passing 
away calls to the memory of Mag- 
nolia’s oldest residents thoughts of the 
long ago. The following was written 
by one of Magnolia’s daughters : 
How many tales this old Willow 
cottage could tell if it could but 
speak !—-tales of joys and sorrows, 
births, marriages and deaths. How 
many feet, now long forgotten, have 
passed its threshold since the original 
building was erected by the negro 
Dalton. 
The early Knowlton farm comprised 
all the land where the Davis stables 
stand, straight to the beach and ex- 
tended away back into the woods. 
This property came later into the 
hands of Mr. Barnard Stanwood, whose 
wife was the daughter of Mr. James 
Knowlton, who holds it today. Across 
the street, where Mr. Davis’ stable 
now stands, was an old barn, and 
there, in 1877, Mr. William Hunt, the 
great artist, established his studio, 
calling it “The Hulk.” He built an 
observatory that can now be seen in 
the stable yard, which, with its cling- 
ing vines and bridge-like walk over 
the roadway, transformed the old barn 
into a most artistic abode. In this 
studio he painted his famous pictures, 
“The Headsman”’ and “Tom in a Felt 
Hat,” and also “Gloucester Harbor,” 
one of his finest works. On the south 
was a queer sun dia] with his favorite 
motto, ‘‘Now is the time,’’ the twelve 
letters corresponding to the twelve 
hours which the sun marked on its 
course. 
In 1876 the old farmhouse had as- 
sumed the shape in which we see it 
today, and later Mrs. Bray had built 
the small building at the right of the 
cottage, calling it “the annex,’’ which 
contained a large parlor and sleeping 
rooms, and a year later a still larger 
building called ‘‘the Postscript,’’ con- 
taining sleeping rooms only. — This 
building was a few years ago pur- 
chased by George Upton and moved 
to the hill. 
Many famous people have made 
this house their summer home. The 
first guests to be entertained there 
were Miss Lillian Clarke and Miss 
Helen Knowlton, the artist who later 
built the small cottage back of Willow 
cottage, which was at that timea very 
artistic house, called ‘‘The Nautilus.” 
Edward Hale, James Freeman 
Clarke, Lucy Stowe, Lucy Larcom, 
and many others came here, among 
them the young girl, Martha Marion, 
who was drowned at the chasm, and 
in whose memory the iron cross was 
erected. These people were very 
fond of the old house with its quaint 
rooms, especially its upper front cham- 
ber with the two big hearts above the 
fire place, and the lower front room 
with its low ceiling, big fire place, its 
tiny closets, and the old clock in the 
corner. The great willows in front 
and the immense horse chestnut were 
planted in 1821. ; 
We warrant and stand behind our 
goods at H. B. Winchester, jeweler, 
Post Office sq., Gloucester, Mass. * 
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