MANCHESTER SECTION 
The New England supper given in 
the chapel last night by the Ladies’ 
Social circle was well attended. 
At the Probate court at Salem 
last Monday the will of Nancy B. 
Hoyt of Manchester was _ proved, 
Sumner D. York, executor. 
The annual meeting of the Man- 
chester Baseball association for elec- 
tion of officers will be held in Lee’s 
hall next Thursday evening, Feb, 26. 
Invitations have been sent out for 
a subscription dancing party to be 
given on Monday evening next, 
Washington’s birthday, by the W. A. 
N. club, at the Manchester Town 
hall. 
Enoch Crombie and Nathaniel Mor- 
gan, members of Allen Post 67, G. 
A. R., will attend the annual re- 
union of their old company, the Ran- 
toul Light Guards of the 23d Mass. 
regiment, to be held at the Beverly 
G. A. R, hall next Monday. 
The monthly vesper services at the 
Congregational church will be held 
the coming Sunday afternoon at 5 
o’clock. Edward Griffin of Glou- 
cester will be the soloist, The girls’ 
choir will assist in the singing. The 
subject of Rev. C, A. Hatch’s talk 
will be “In the Cool of the Day.” 
The Poet’s tea at the chapel next 
Friday afternoon from 3 to 5.30 un- 
der the auspices of Harmony Guild 
is sure to prove a very interesting 
occasion. A table of home cooking 
will be one of the attractions. The 
meeting of the Guild next Monday 
evening is to be a Manchester his- 
torical night and the members of the 
Social circle are to be guests of the 
Guild on that occasion, 
Oysters fresh every day as Swett’s 
fish market. adv 
Robert A, Mitchell of Manchester 
has been appointed to the board of 
instructors of the new Essex County 
Agricultural school at Hathorne and 
will begin his work there March Ist. 
It is likely that he will move with 
his family to Danvers. Mr. Mitch- 
ell’s work will be for the most part 
outside instruction, following the 
work of students carried on at their 
homes in various towns and cities of 
the county. 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
Friday, February 20, 1914. 
Miss Annabel Lodge is taking a 
few weeks’ vacation from her work 
at Daniel Low’s, Salem. 
Liberty Rebekah lodge is planning 
to hold a May Party and Sale the 
first Saturday in May. A good time 
is anticipated for old and young. 
The winter issue of the telephone 
directory will be delivered to Man- 
chester subscribers the last week in 
this month. The delivery is in charge 
of Joseph W. Cawthorne, 
Felt boots, overshoes and rubbers 
at Walt Bell’s Central Sq. adv 
F. J. Merrill is returning from a 
fortnight’s vacation trip to Geneva, 
N. Y., with Mrs. Merrill’s relatives, 
Sunday. Miss Grace Merrill is re- 
turning from the West Sunday also. 
She has been attending school in 
Seattle the last six months, and is 
just now concluding a visit with re- 
latives in Portland, Ore. 
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Real Estate and Insurance of .All Kinds 
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry R, Floyd are 
to be in town over the week-end an 
Washington’s birthday. 
Miss Blanche Bailey, Charlestown, 
fiancee of Bert Floyd, is here for a 
short visit over Washington’s birth- 
day. 
A Town Meeting supper will be 
served in the Baptist Vestry on 
Town Meeting day, March 2, from 
5:30 to 7:30 under the auspices of 
Friendship Circle. 
A sunlight party will be held in 
the Manchester Town hail tomor- 
row ‘afternoon under the auspices 
of the W. R. C., from 3 to § o’clock. 
Ice cream, cake and candy will be 
for sale. 
The Red Cross Nursing class had. 
their first meeting last evening at the 
Price school. Miss Mabel Lodge is 
the instructor, her appointment com- 
ing from the Red Cross association 
in Washington. 
At Beverly last Saturday after- 
noon Joseph F. and Lucy L, Andrews 
observed the 25th anniversary of 
their marriage. Mr. Andrews is a 
native of Manchester, being born 
here Dec, 31, 1849, the son of Joseph 
R. and Mary P. Andrews. He mov- 
ed to Beverly when 15 years of age. 
Headquarters for raincoats at 
Bell’s Beach street store. adv 
Mr, and Mrs. Lewis A. Leach and 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bullock are ex- 
pected back from their trip to Flor- 
ida the latter part of next week, 
though the latter will propably re- 
main in New York for another visit 
with Mrs, Bullock’s brother, George 
FE. Scott and family. On Friday 
evening of last week Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas A. Baker, who are in St. 
Augustine, Fla., for the winter, had 
the pleasure of entertaining Mr. and 
Mrs, Leach and Mr. and Mrs. Bul- 
lock, the occasion being Mr. Baker’s 
birthday. The season at St, Augus- 
tine is at its height at present, as is 
the case with all the southern resorts. 
One of the features of a stay in this 
old Spanish town are the band con- 
certs by the Royal Venetian band, 
hired from New York for concerts 
twice daily during the season, at the 
sum of $4,000. 
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