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Real Estate and Improvements 
There is great activity this fall in 
summer real estate circles at East 
Gloucester. Hon. Isaac Patch and 
others have sold to the proprietors 
of Hotel Fair View land on East 
Main street and a private way com- 
prising 18,582 square feet. Mrs. 
Sarah M. Garland, widow of Dr. J. 
E. Garland of Gloucester, has sold 
her property at Eastern Point, a 
cottage and land on Fort Hill ave- 
nue comprising 46,851 square feet. 
This cottage is famous as the sum- 
mer home of the late Jean Clemens, 
daughter of the late Mark Twain, a 
few seasons ago and is near ‘‘The 
Ramparts’? the Rouse mansion. 
The purchasers are Mrs. Elsie D. 
Little and her husband, W. Jay 
Little, who are so active In summer 
real estate movements at East Glou- 
cester, where they have many sum- 
mer cottages. The Garland cottage 
will be extensively remodeled. Mr. 
and Mrs. Little will also erect an- 
other house near the Eliott cottage 
and the Taft estate in the elevation 
above the golf clubhouse. It will be 
ready for next season. Charles F. 
Wonson, who has successfully re- 
modeled small buildings near his 
Rocky Neck property into bunga- 
lows, is branching out extensively 
in summer real estate in that sec- 
tion. An eleven-room cottage is be- 
ing built on a very picturesque point 
of his property. One of his tenants 
the past season has been the family 
of the famous explorer, Walter 
Wellman. Mrs. Lathrop, who ac- 
quired the Bates property on Won- 
son street, Rocky Neck, is to raise 
the house and remodel it. Cam- 
bridge parties have already secured 
it for next season. 
A fine stone building is being 
erected on Woodbury hill at Folly 
Cove, Lanesville, Gloucester, for 
Miss Hale of Baltimore, for a sum- 
mer residence. It is on land, which 
was purchased from Edwin Canney, 
and the site commands a fine view 
of the ocean and Ipswich Bay, as 
well as the land on the opposite 
shore including Mt. Agamenticus in 
York, Me. The work is being done 
under the superintendence of Alex- 
ander Jungvist, and when finished, 
it will be a two-story building, with 
a ground floor measurement of 35 by 
40 feet. 
Mrs. Frank Brumback of Kansas 
City, who occupied the Hast Glou- 
cester cottage of Ralph H. Barbour, 
the author, of Cambridge and Man- 
chester, promises to boom East Glou- 
cester in her proposed development 
of a very beautiful stretch of hill 
country in the rear of East Main 
the Haskell 
rear of Chapel 
She has purchased five acres 
street, starting from 
street’ end to the 
street. 
-of-this beautiful hill country near 
Bass Rocks and plans to erect bung- 
alows. The elevations of this hill 
commands a grand view of the inner 
and outer Gloucester harbors and 
hitherto has been ignored by the 
summer visitor. Mrs. Brumbach is 
artistic and in her rambles for sub- 
jects for paintings found these hills 
and was deeply impressed with their 
possibilities. .The opening up of 
this section of East Gloucester is to 
have a great bearing on the future 
of that whole section as a summer 
locality. 
John Clay and Arthur Leonard, 
prominent summer residents from 
Chicago at Eastern Point, Glouces- 
ter, are said to be the prime movers 
in the erection of a garage to hold 
twenty automobiles on the Wheeler 
property on Point Hill, East Glou- 
eester, near the foot of Haskell 
street. Buildings are now _ being 
torn down to prepare for its erec- 
tion. The location is just half way 
between Eastern Point and Glouces- 
ter proper. The object of the gar- 
age is a matter of much interesting 
conjecture. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
President Taft will be the guest 
of honor at a dinner to be given by 
John Hays Hammond to the execu- 
tive committee of the National Re- 
publican League in Washington the 
night of December 11th. The league 
will meet there December 12th at 
the time of the session of the Na- 
tional Republican Committee. 
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The news reaches us from Paris of 
the arrival there of Miss Helen 
Laneashire, the daughter of Dr. and 
Mrs. J. H. Laneashire, so promi- 
nently identified with the summer 
life at Manchester, and Miss Lanea- 
shire’s aunt, Miss Jane EK. Lanca- 
shire. They have settled for the 
winter. Miss Helen Lancashire is 
continuing her music studies. The 
Laneashires left Manchester several 
weeks ago and are now settled in 
their winter home in Michigan. 
Their son Ammi is making quite an 
extended trip with his roommate 
Mr. Burrows, of Chicago, and they 
were joined in Paris recently by an- 
other Yale classmate, Ben Thaw of 
New York, who is making the bal- 
ance of the trip with’ them. Mr. 
Laneashire expects to return about 
the first of the year, when he will 
join his parents in Detroit, where 
they are to spend the winter months. 
Running a Newspaper—People Who 
Could Not Do Anything Else 
Think They Could Do That. 
George Ade says about every 
other fellow you meet thinks he 
could run a good hotel, and we have 
come to the conclusion that about 
every one you meet could run a fine - 
newspaper, remarks Eugene L’Hote, 
the genial editor and publisher of 
the Milford (Ill.) Herald, editorially 
in a recent issue of that paper. 
Men will take the liberty to tell 
you how to run a paper, asserts 
L’Hote, when they wouldn’t think 
of hinting to the merchant how to 
conduct his store or tell the preacher 
what to preach. They pay good 
money for schools and don’t know 
whether John is learning the rule 
of three or how to hold a cigarette 
gracefully, but when it comes to the 
newspaper, sizzling cats! there’s 
where they all get off. 
During the past week a friend 
wanted to know why we didn’t try 
and run a paper a little more along 
the lines of how Christ would run a 
paper. We don’t know just how 
that would be. In the first place if 
Christ was back on earth we don’t 
believe he would go into the news- 
paper business at all, and if he did 
we are sure he wouldn’t come to 
Milford to do it. If our friend had 
wanted it more on a religious plane 
we could tell him frankly that it 
wouldn’t pay. 
There is not an editor or a 
preacher that could tell the truth 
for thirty days and stay in the com- 
munity in which they live. If our 
friends doubt this, let him try tell- 
ing the absolute truth for just one 
week and see where he lights. We 
never were much to ‘‘soft soap’’ or 
‘‘blarney’’ anyone; in fact’ our 
bluntness and honesty of speech has 
cost us many friends. Tell the 
truth! We are not going to do it. 
A Kansas editor announced he 
would try for one week, and he is 
still in the hospital. He didn’t get. 
past the first day. The following 
item appeared in Monday’s issue 
and now the boys are getting out the 
paper. This is what it said: 
‘‘Married, Miss Sylvia Rhode to 
James Cannaham, last Sunday eve- 
ning at the Baptist church. The 
bride was an ordinary town girl who 
don’t know any more than a rabbit 
about cooking and never helped her 
mother three days in her life. She 
is not a beauty by any means and 
has a gait like a duck. The groom 
is an up-to-date loafer, has been 
living off the old folks all his life, 
and don’t amount to shucks nohow. 
They will have a‘hard life while they 
live together,”’ 
