BEVERLY FARMS 
The floor at the Farms engine 
house is being strengthened in 
preparation for the return of 
Steamer 3 and the new tractor, which 
are expected to arrive from Provi- 
dence, R. I., shortly. 
There will be a special meeting of 
O. W. Holmes council in the Mar- 
shall block Sunday afternoon. 
Miss Frances Conway, chief oper- 
ator at the Farms telephone ex- 
change, has ben appointed chief 
operator of the Beverly office. Miss 
Rose Conway will be her successor at 
the Farms. ‘The change will go into 
effect next Monday. 
Felix Naylor is on a vacation trip 
to his former home in Canada, 
Ernest Boucher, the seven-year-old 
boy who broke his leg six weeks ago, 
returned from the Beverly hospital 
this week and is as well as can be ex- 
pected. 
Mayor H, A. McDonald purchased 
the Samuel Kilham house on Hale 
street, Beverly, at public auction 
Wednesday for $2,700. 
A new hard pine floor is being laid 
in the Farms postoffice. 
After Monday next it will be Al- 
derman Caleb Loring. 
The annual election of officers of 
the Farms Baptist Sunday school 
took place last Monday evening. The 
officers chosen are as follows: Willis 
- A. Pride, supt.; Miss M. Elizabeth 
Hull, asst. supt.; Miss Addie Wil- 
liams, secy.; Elmer Standley, treas. ; 
Mrs. A. J. Harlow, organist. The 
executive committee is to be appoint- 
ed by the superintendent, 
John West colony will hold its 
semi-monthly meeting in Marshall’s 
hall tonight. After the business ses- 
sion there will be a New Year’s party. 
Mrs. Hannah D. Larcom, aged 63 
years, I1 mos, and 28 days, wife of 
Milton F. Larcom, died at her late 
home, 35 Stone street, Beverly, last 
Sunday after a (brief illness. She is 
survived besides her husband, by a 
daughter, Ella F. Larcom, and two 
grandchildren. ‘The deceased was a 
former resident of Beverly Farms 
and has many friends here. Funeral 
services were held on Wednesday 
afternoon at her late residence. In- 
terment was made at the Farms 
cemetery. 
The friends of Miss Marie Line- 
han are pleased to see her out again 
after her confinement for some time 
from illness. 
Mrs, Robert P. Williams and two 
children have spent the past week 
visiting Mrs. Williams’ relatives at 
Brookline, 
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The next event in the free course 
of entertainments at the school house 
hall will be on Friday evening, Jan. 
16, when the program will be of a 
literary nature under the direction of 
Mrs. Charles M. Cabot, 
Mr. and Mrs. Melville R. Perkins 
of Berlin, N. H., have been visiting 
friends at the Farms this week. 
Mrs. Mary Bartlett and daughter 
Jane plan to spend the balance of the 
winter on ‘a plantation in the vicin- 
ity of New Orleans, La. They plan 
to leave in two weeks. 
The adult dancing class of Miss 
Jane M, Watson held an enjoyable 
party in Marshall’s hall last Wednes- 
day evening after their lesson. There 
was a joke Xmas tree, each person 
receiving a gift, accompanied by a 
humorous poem. Refreshments were 
served, 
The annual meeting of the Bever- 
ly Farms Firemen Home Benefit as- 
sociation was held last evening. Be- 
sides hearing the reports of the past 
year, the old board of officers was 
1e-elected as follows: Wm, 5S. Pike, 
pres.; Rueben E. Grush, v. p.; Ar- 
thur C, Davis, sec’y; Elmer Standley, 
treas.; W. S. Pike, Wm. R. Brooks, 
Benjamin Osborne, James FE. Cole 
and Lewis G. Williams, board of di- 
rectors. 
The following letters remain un- 
claimed at the Beverly Farms P. O.; 
Mrs. Minnie Wairs, James Flavan, 
Mrs. John Jaffray, Miss Jennie Jef- 
fery, James McMillan, Miss, Mun- 
sey, Mr, and Mrs. A. McNeill, Mr. 
and Mrs. BE. C. McGuiness, Miss An- 
nie O’Brien, Miss Mary Peacock, 
Fred Sherman, Miss P. Sohier, Wm. 
Turner and Miss Nellie Westwood. 
Lawrence G, Watson, P. M. 
The difference between a reconteur 
and a bore is that one has enough 
money to buy the drinks and_ the 
other hasn’t, 
When failure comes along and up- 
sets our plans it isn’t every man who 
can save a few chunks of hope for 
the future. 
German pencil manufacturers are 
looking to California incense cedar 
for pencil wood. The establishment 
of a pencil factory in California is 
not improbable, 
Beverly Farms, Mass. 
If one is busy call the ether- 
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The average man’s aim in life de- 
pends largely on the size of the tar- 
get. 
We admire some men for the ene- 
mies they have made unless we hap- 
pen to be numbered among the ene- 
mies. 
Women are right to crave beauty 
at any price, since beauty is the only 
merit that men do not contest with 
them.—A. Dupuy. 
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