BEVERLY FARMS 
Beverly’s tax rate will be $17.70 
this year, an increase of $2.70 over 
the rate of the last 12 months, ‘The 
assessors show a valuation as follows: 
Total valuation, $40,459,900, personal 
estate, $17,221,550; real, $23,238,350. 
There is a gain in personal estate over 
1912 of $693,185 and in real estate of 
$761,375, making a total gain of $1,- 
454,500. There is a total of 6,273 
polls and the total amount to be 
raised by taxation is $728,686.23. 
The registration in the Beverly 
schools shows that there are 2,941 
pupils, of which the Farms school fur- 
nishes 208. 
The popular instructor of the 
Mack park playgrounds, Salem, Miss 
Frances Connolly, of Beverly Farms, 
was the victim of a pleasant surprise 
Wednesday of last week, the affair be- 
ing held at the home of Miss Esther 
M. O’Hara, 119 Mason street, Salem. 
Miss Connolly was invited to attend 
a local theatrical performance with a 
group of the playground girls and was 
asked to meet with them at Miss 
O’Hara’s home, which she did, and to 
her surprise, she was at once sur- 
‘rounded and presented with a hand- 
some gold ring. Miss Esther M. 
O'Hara made the presentation 
speech, Miss Connolly being so taken 
back that she was able to simply ex- 
press her thanks. After this the 
evening was spent enjoyably with 
vocal and instrumental music, games, 
etc., refreshments being served also. 
The party broke up at a late hour, 
with the expressed wish that Miss 
Connolly again preside over the 
playgrounds of Ledge Hill park next 
year. 
Mayor MacDonald returned to his 
desk at City Hall Wednesday after a 
vacation spent in the Adirondacks. 
Allen Campbell has purchased a 
piece of land from Addison Williams 
on the Wenham road and plans to 
build a house there shortly. Mr. 
Campbell has moved to Montserrat 
on account of the sale of the house 
on Hale street, where he has lived 
for several years. 
A fair running four evenings was 
opened by O. W. Holmes Council, K. 
of C., in Neighbor’s hall last Monday 
and has been very successful each 
evening, there being a large attend- 
ance. The hall was prettily decorat- 
ed with the national colors. 
ious tables were artistically decorated 
and were covered with every sort of 
article which could tempt the shop- 
per. Dancing was enjoyed each even- 
ing with music by Long’s orchestra, 
a grand ball closing the fair last night. 
The vare- 
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The Green Box circulating library, 
Miss Prudence Connolly librarian, 
opened last week in the Neighbors’ 
hall block and many are taking ad- 
vantage of the opportunity to secure 
the latest in fiction and the standard 
books there. 
An interesting ball game was 
played at the playgrounds on ‘Tues- 
day afternoon between the Ward 6 
playground team and St. John’s, 
the former winning by a 3 to 2 score. 
By winning this gme the playground 
team wins the series. 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McDon- 
nell spent last week’s end and holiday 
visiting at Casco Bay, Me. 
Unclaimed letters at the Beverly 
Farms post office for week ending 
Sept. 10, 1913: George Amos, W. L. 
Allen, H. M. Barrett, Miss A. M. Dut- 
ton, Robert Des Charner, Miss Anna 
Farnan, Miss B. Griffin, Miss Ellen 
Gorlin, Amory Gardiner, — Pat Lydon, 
Mrs. Eugene Lapice, Miss Mary Mc- 
Lean. 
LAWRENCE J. WATSON, 
Postmaster. 
PRopucTION OF “THE 
CouRTIN’”’, 
A very noticeable local interest has 
been manifested in the forthcoming 
production at the Boston Theatre of 
the first New England rural comic 
opera, ‘The Courtin’ ”} book and lyrics 
by Charles Felton Pidgin and Justin 
Adams, and music by George Lowell 
Tracy. This will be the attraction at 
this theatre next week, opening Mon- 
day evening, Sept. 15th. As is al- 
ready quite well known, “The Cour- 
tin’”’ is a musical adaptation of the 
famous New England play, “Quincy 
Adams Sawyer”, which has had a 
number of very successful engage 
ments at this house, and that play was 
a dramatization of the popular novel 
of the same name, written by Mr. Pid- 
gin, who based it on the story of the 
late’ James Russell Lowell’s famous 
poem, “The Courtin’”’. All the quaint 
country charm of the courting days of 
the early sixties in New England is 
said to have been well preserved not 
only in the book and lyrics, the char- 
acters and the music, but in the elabor- 
ate scenic and costume effects. 
BRILLIANT 
Two Micuty Men. 
“Cholly and Algy participated in a 
disgraceful affair in a cafe.” 
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“Anybody hurt?” 
“NG. 
“Why, a couple of waitresses held 
‘em apart.”—From the Kansas City 
Journal. 
