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MANCHESTER 
Rey. L. H. Ruge will preach at 
the Congregational chureh Sunday 
morning on ‘‘Depreciation of the 
True and Great’’; Sunday evening 
“The Safe Way of Salvation.’’ 
Gunners at Round Pond Wednes- 
day, bagged four of a baker’s half 
dozen wild geese that stopped there 
on their way south. 
Gray squirrels in many of the 
North Shore woods have increased 
in such numbers that some of the 
owners have hired men to trap and 
shoot them. One such man killed 
fifteen of the squirrels one day re- 
cently and buried them, not know- 
ing they were good to eat. C. T. 
Loomis killed twenty gray squirrels 
on one Smith’s Point estate the lat- 
ter part of last week. 
Beginning Sunday and continuing 
to May Ist, only one mail collector 
will call at the mail boxes Sundays. 
The boxes in the outlying districts 
will be omitted in this particular 
collection. The boxes omitted will 
include those at Proctor — street, 
Brownland, the Cove, Essex County 
club and Pine street. 
George Rust, one of the popular 
clerks at Allen’s drug store, is start- 
ing Sunday on a fortnight’s vaca- 
tion. 
Willmonton’s insurance agency is 
passing out the first 1912 calendars 
of the season. ‘‘A Hold Up’’ is the 
name of one of the best we have 
seen this year. 
Eighty-seven pupils are enrolled 
at the Story High school this year— 
about the same number as last year, 
which is a good number for the four 
classes. 
Reception to New Pastor 
A large number including both 
members from his own church and 
many from the sister-church, the 
Congregational, gathered in the ves- 
try of the Manchester Baptist 
church Wednesday evening, to ex- 
tend a most hearty welcome to the 
Rey. and Mrs. Albert G. Warner. 
The reception was given under the 
auspices of the BYPU and the 
committee in charge worked most 
faithfully to make it the succéss it 
was. The whole appearance of the 
vestry had been changed. Carpets 
and rugs were on the floor, the pil- 
lars and walls were trimmed with 
evergreen, beautiful chrysanthe- 
mums were plentiful, and the word 
“Welcome,’’ in effective scroll work 
over the door was most noticeable. 
Mr. and Mrs. Warner, assisted 
_by the ehureh deacons and_ their 
| wives, received under a_ beautiful 
| arch. Miss Annie P. Younger, Miss 
So) His 0 shia 
Carrie Preston, Robert M. Baker 
and Clarence Preston acted as ush- 
ers. Refreshments were served 
during the evening from daintily 
arranged little tables around the 
room. The tables were presided 
over by Mrs. Levi B. Harvie, Mrs. 
Arthur Walker, Mrs. Herman Swett, 
the Misses Bessie A. Lethbridge, 
Effie Stidstone, Alice Mason, Althea 
Morse, Olive Cook, May Rogers and 
Edith Menkin. A number of musi- 
cal selections were rendered during 
the evening with Allyn Brown as 
pianist. The solos by Miss Andrews 
of Gloucester, were well received, 
while Mr. Posner, the talented vio- 
linist, always pleases where he ap- 
pears. <A social evening was spent 
by all in this attempt to make Mr. 
and Mrs. Warner feel at home both 
in Manchester and in chureh life. 
WRC Hold Entertainment and Sale 
Last evening the Manchester 
Town. hall was gayly decorated 
with red, white and blue in honor of 
the WRC sale. Around the hall 
were most attractively made booths, 
which: were presided over by vari- 
ous members of the Corps, dressed 
in white. Home-made candy, cakes 
and fancy articles were for sale, 
while the old-time fishing’ pond or 
grab-bag came in for its usual share 
of patronage. The entertainment 
consisted of a one-act farce ‘‘No 
Cure, No Pay,’’ ,in. which Mrs. 
Cook imagines herself to be the vic- 
tim of many diseases, and advertised 
to pay $500 for a complete cure. 
Her daughter and friends did not 
want to see the money go out of 
the family, so devised a scheme to 
eure her. After each in turn had 
dressed as a female doctor and of- 
fered assistance, Mabel Whalen fi- 
nally brought about an_ effective 
cure. Mrs. Nellie Smith was, as 
usual, good. The following. are the 
parts so well taken: 
Mrss' Cookin earn -G Mrs, Languish 
Wrse J. Wi hee. Soe... Susan Dean 
Mrs. Nellie Smith ....Aunt Midget 
Mrs. Chester Dennis ..Jennie Carter 
Mabel Whalen 
Mrs. Hannah Tappan 
Mrs. Edw. Preston ..Alice Languish’ 
Following a brief intermission the 
remainder of the program was car- 
ried out as follows: Solo, ‘‘I Love 
You,’’ Brenda Cook; ‘“‘reading, 
‘‘Joining the Lodge,’’ Mrs. Nellie 
Smith; ‘‘Blackface’’ sketch by 
Pauline Semons and Emily Ferrari, 
which was well worth seeing. These 
children are always good entertain- 
ers and last night’s number was no 
exception to the rule, 
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Elsie Janis at the Colonial Theatre 
The Boston Herald said editorially 
the other day: ‘‘Now that Miss 
Elsie Janis has arrived in town the 
local football season may be said to 
be officially open.”’ 
It is perhaps because Miss Janis 
is so fascinatingly young that she 
has such a tremendous following 
among the college boys and girls of 
her own age, but her following 
doesn’t end there, as was demon- 
strated by the circumstance that the 
audience at the Colonial Theatre last 
Monday night when she opened her 
annual engagement presenting for 
the first time in Boston, the new 
musical comedy, ‘‘The Slim Prin- 
cess,’’ looked like a first night at 
the Boston Opera House in the 
distinction of the audience which 
filled every seat of the beautiful 
theatre on Boylston street. The 
list of names of ‘‘those present’’ in 
Tuesday’s papers read like the sec- 
tion of the Boston Blue Book and 
the applause which greeted the 
dainty young star was of a sincerity 
and frequency which prolonged the 
action of the piece to such an ex- 
tent that a good many commuters 
missed their cars. The measure of | 
Miss Janis’s success in ‘‘The Slim 
Princess’’ was promptly attested in 
the extension of her engagement to 
December 16th 
WEST GLOUCESTER 
Seventy-five percent of the voters 
of West Gloucester have signed a pe- 
tition favorable to Ralph W. Den- 
nen for the office of collector of 
port. 
Rev. Warren Low of Essex, will 
preach at the Congregational church 
Sunday. 
Miss Mabel V. Pierce of Boston, 
was the guest of her parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. George Pierce of Essex 
avenue over the week-end. 
Alex. W. Andrews is a candidate 
for alderman. 
A. H. Bray and Frank Lane have 
gone on a two weeks’ trip to North 
Adams. During their stay they will 
hunt deer in the Berkshires. 
ESSEX 
There are changes even in Essex. 
On account of improvement to the 
Winthrop Low farm, the new owner 
has formally given notice that no 
playing ball on ‘‘Daniel Low’s’’ 
field, or trespassing over the estate 
will be allowed. 
per 100. be 
All subscriptions to the Breeze 
received during the balance of 1911 
will be dated January 1, 1912. 
$2.00 a year to any part of the U.S. 
