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WALTER P. BREWER, Prop. 
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“™ "“ WMeats and Provisions 
Fruit and _ Berries 
Orders will be Collected Every 
The Best Quality Morning and Promptly Filled. 
Beverly Farms 
James B. Dow 
Mass. 
John H. Cheever 
JAMES B. DOW & CO. 
COAL AND WOOD 
We are now prepared to deliver coal at short notice to all parts of Man- 
chester and Beuerly Farms. 
Beach Street 
Manchester 
MAGNOLIA 
A special Easter service will be 
held at the Village church Sunday 
morning and the pastor, Rev. Walter 
S. Eaton, Ph. D., will deliver a-spe- 
cial Easter sermon. In the evening 
the annual Easter concert will be 
given by the children of the Sunday 
school. 
A week from Sunday evening the 
pulpit at the church will be occupied 
by Prof. MacWaters of Boston Uni- 
versity. 
BEVERLY FARMS 
Lawn mowers sharpened to cut 
like new by special machinery. All 
work guaranteed. Price $1.25. Ship 
by either Dunn’s or Smith’s Ex- 
press—Manchester Lawn Mower 
Co., 61 School, cor. Vine st., Man- 
chester Telephone 327 W. adv 
The Ladies Sewing circle were en- 
tertained last evening by Mrs. Mur- 
dock Macdonald at her home on 
Hart’ St: 
Brewer’s market has opened for 
the season. A Ford delivery auto 
has been added to the store’s equip- 
ment. 
James J. Nugent has leased the 
Winthrop F. Low stable on Vine St. 
for a term of years and took pos- 
session of it yesterday. He has also 
purchased the horses, harness, car- 
riages and other stable furnishings. 
He will run the Low stable in con- 
nection with his other livery and 
auto business. 
Several Beverly Farms young men 
are candidates for the Beverly High 
baseball team. 
Lewis Voorhees will open his new 
fruit and vegetable store in the Sil- 
verberg building on West St. next 
Monday. 
Oak Street 
Beverly Farms 
“ROMANCE OF THE VIOLIN.” 
INTERESTING ADDRESS BY Rev. E. J. 
PrescoTt AT MAGNOLIA. 
Rev. Elvin J. Prescott of Glouces- 
ter gave his address upon the “Ro- 
mance of the Wiolin” at the Village 
church Sunday night. Mr. Prescott 
was accompanied by his organist, 
Harold Ohn, also of Gloucester. Be- 
fore beginning his address, Rev. Mr. 
Prescott rendered a selection upon 
his violin to show, as he said, “what 
the violin could do.” Mr. Prescott 
plays with the feeling and expression 
of a master and his violin is a Strad- 
ivarius, one of the few now in exist- 
ence and has a wonderful tone. The 
instrument was brought into this 
country in 1710 by an old Salem sea 
captain and was handed down in that 
family from generation to generation 
until Mr. Prescott bought it some 
years ago. The speaker has studied 
the violin from the time when he was 
a boy, about five years of age, and 
is a true lover, not only of music, but 
also of the beauty and symmetry of 
the violin, itself. He studied into the 
history of the instrument and by the 
time he left college was such a good 
judge of violins that many of the 
large firms, such as the Oliver Dit- 
son firm of Boston commissioned him 
to buy and pass upon examples of 
genuine Cremonas for them. 
Rev. Mr. Prescott gave an inter- 
esting resume of the history of the 
violin from the most primitive form 
of stringed instrument, which was, in 
fact, the bow string of a savage’s 
bow. In connection with this Mr. 
Prescott spoke of the story of the 
pipe organ which had its birth in the 
first crude reed flute of the ancients. 
He said, “The pipe organ is the mar- 
vel of marvels in musical extension; 
the violin is the marvel of marvels in 
intension. The violin is the king of 
instruments, producing, next to the 
human voice the most perfect tones 
of any musical instrument in the 
world.” ' 
In speaking of the making of the 
violin the speaker gave interesting 
sketches of the great violin makers, 
who lived in the now famous little 
town of Cremona, Italy, who made 
violins for kings, princes and great 
artists for about thirty dollars. These 
same instruments today are worth 
eight or ten thousand dollars and 
some are valued at much higher prices. 
Concerning the Cremona varnish, 
the speaker gave much interesting 
data. The varnish which the famous 
old makers put on their violins over 
two hundred years ago is as bright 
today as then. The secret of its com- 
position was lost to the world in 
about 1760 and has never been re- 
discovered, although many makers 
have suffered bitter disappointments 
in thinking that at last the secret was 
found again. 
Mr. Prescott spoke at length of the 
different styles of playing and illus- 
trated each kind. He spoke briefly 
of the violinists of the old school and 
of their execution which in their day 
was thought wonderful. Such is the 
advance in skill in playing now that 
the most difficult pieces of the old 
masters are played with comparative 
ease by the students of today. The 
making of the violins has not improv- 
ed for two hundred years, but still 
in execution has made great pro- 
‘gress. ; 
At the close of his lecture, Mr. 
Prescott, accompanied by Mr. Ohn, 
rendered another selection upon the 
violin, which left no doubt of his 
mastery of the instrument. Mr. 
Prescott’s address was one of the fin- 
est of the winter series and everyone 
appreciated it and the effort he made 
to fill Dr. Eaton’s place, when he, 
himself, was speaking for the third 
time that day. 
CAIN—T ARR. 
The marriage in Gillette, Wyo- 
ming, on Sunday, March 20th, of 
Miss Olive A. Tarr and Emit Cain, 
's of interest to the many friends of 
the bride in Magnolia and Glouces- 
ter. Miss Tarr is the daughter of 
Mrs. Addie Knight Tarr and. the late 
Captain Tarr of Gloucester. They 
formerly lived near the Magnolia 
railroad station. Not long ago Mrs. 
Tarr and Miss Tarr moved to Wash- 
ington and later they went to Gillette, 
Wyoming, and Miss Tarr has been 
teaching near her home. Mr. and 
Mrs. Cain will make their home at 
Bitter Creek, Montana. 
