NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
VOL. IX 
SOCIETY NOTES 
With all the vivacity and eclat of 
a mid-summer function, the dinner- 
dance given last Saturday night at 
the Essex County club by Miss 
Katharine W. Tweed lent charm to 
an otherwise dull week, socially 
speaking, on the North Shore. But 
it lent emphasis to the fact that the 
North Shore is fast throwing off its 
garb as a summer resort pure and 
simple; it is getting to be quite a 
winter resort. Miss Tweed was host- 
ess for a party of nearly sixty. 
Among the young men present—for 
it was a young people’s party— 
were Philip Stockton, Reginald 
Boardman, Harrison Tweed, Shaw 
McKean and Nelson Bartlett, all of 
whom are familiar faces on _ the 
North Shore nearly every day, as 
they live here in winter. Others 
were Amos Lawrence, Dudley and 
Edw. Pickman, Alex Grant, Harry 
Clark, Sam Warren and Frank Sar- 
gent. A splendid dinner was 
served. Miss Tweed had twenty at 
her table. The decorations were 
greenery and white chrysanthemums 
—this being in charge of a Boston 
florist. A supper was served .at 
midnight. The Essex County club 
is open all winter and every week- 
end a number of members and 
friends are down on the Shore, mak- 
ing the club their headquarters. Be- 
sides, there are about thirty families 
who now keep their houses open all 
winter, and these are frequent pa- 
trons of the club, entertaining 
friends there at times with little 
luncheon or dinner parties. 
Among the Boston people who 
make annual pilgrimage to Quebec 
during the winter and go in for win- 
ter sports are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 
Henry Barbour of Cambridge and 
Manchester. 
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Mr. and Mrs. George E. Warren 
of Bay State road, Boston, motored 
to Manchester last Sunday to note 
the extensive improvements at their 
estate on Blossom lane. 
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At the joint recital of Alice Niel- 
gen and George Procter yesterday 
afternoon, at Fenway court, Boston, 
Wallace Goodrich served as one of 
the accompanists. 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1911. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Nehemiah W. Rice, a long-time 
and prominent summer resident of 
Burgess Point, Beverly, president of 
the tanning company that bears his 
name, died at his winter home, 341 
Commonwealth avenue, Boston, last 
Thursday. He was 79 years old. 
The funeral was held at his resi- 
dence Sunday afternoon at 2.30 
o’clock. Mr. Rice was born in 
Brownfield, Me., May 15, 1832, the 
son of Nehemiah C. Rice and Phoebe 
Tyler Rice. He attended school at 
Brownfield, Gorham and Lewiston. 
He removed to Portland in 1850, and 
two years later went to Buenos 
Ayres, returning to Portland in 
1853, when he entered the firm of 
Tyler Rice & Sons, of which his 
father and uncle were members. 
That was one of the early American 
houses to transact business with ‘the 
Argentine Republic. Mr. Rice con- 
tinued business under that name in 
Portland until 1866, when he re- 
moved to Boston, where he formed 
the firm of N. W. Rice & Co., deal- 
ers and tanners of sole and upper 
leather, and also carrying on a large 
business in the importing of hides, 
wool and other products of the Ar- 
gentine Republic and the exporting 
to that country of lumber and gen- 
eral merchandise. The business was 
incorporated as the N. W. Rice 
Company in 1900. Mr. Rice was a 
director of the First National Bank, 
the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust 
Company, the United States Smelt- 
ing, Refining and Mining Company 
and other corporations. He was a 
member of the Algonquin Club, the 
Union League Club of New York, 
The Country Club, the Exchange 
Club, the Beacon Society, the New 
Riding Club, Essex County Club, the. 
Merchants’ Club and others. No- 
vember 3d, 1857 he married Miss 
Josephine Emery of Portland, who 
survives. A son, Charles G. Rice, of 
Boston and Ipswich; a_ daughter, 
Miss Annie T. Rice, and a sister, 
Miss Sara V. Rice, are also living. 
The deceased was in failing health 
during the past summer at Beverly. 
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Alley have re- 
turned to Boston from Hamilton 
and have an apartment at the 
Charlesgate for the winter. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Louie Rogers Stanwood, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis 
M. Stanwood of Brookline and 
Manchester, has written a one-act 
play, ‘‘Another Pair of Socks.”’ It 
presents humorously and engagingly 
an interest in the suffragette move- 
ment. Miss Stanwood is a Radeliffe 
college graduate and a suffragette. 
While Miss Stanwood is deeply in- 
terested in comedy, she is equally 
determined to do more serious work. 
Another farce, ‘‘Mrs. Alexander’s 
Progress,’’ written a year ago, and 
successfully produced at Harvard 
and elsewhere, will be given at 
Smith college this winter. A short 
play was presented at Keith’s Bijou 
Theatre last winter, and it is ex- 
pected that ‘‘ Another Pair of 
Socks’’ will soon be staged. Miss 
Stanwood became interested in the 
suffragette movement about two 
years ago, and she became an ar- 
dent, eager worker. She has not yet 
spoken in public, but if it seemed 
necessary for the good of the cause 
she would not hesitate to do so. 
Miss Stanwood studied play writing 
for two years under the tutelage of 
Prof. George P. Baker of Radcliffe. 
What Miss Stanwood terms simply 
a good natured bit of raillery at the 
expense of the anti-suffragettes is 
cleverly illustrated in her charming 
little farce, ‘‘ Another Pair of 
Socks,’’ which was recently pro- 
duced by the members of the Massa- 
chusetts Woman’s Suffrage Associa- 
tion. The only male part in the cast 
was taken by Samuel Eliot Jr., the 
grandson of Dr. Eliot, . formerly 
of Hravard. The Stanwoods are 
among the latest sojourners at Man- 
chester and Miss Stanwood has an 
ideal environment each season in 
which to pursue her dramatic writ- 
ing. The Stanwood cottage is lo- 
eated at Smith’s Point. 
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Elizabeth Ely of Beacon street, 
Boston, has issued a number of in- 
vitations for the debutante luncheon 
which she is giving at the Tuileries 
on the afternoon of Tuesday, De- 
cember 19th. The luncheon is given 
in honor of Miss Charlotte Read, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. 
Read of Read’s Island, Manchester. 
