14 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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St Isn't Vour Cown, Its You 
If you want to live in the kind of a town 
Like the kind of a town you like, 
You needn’t slip your clothes in a grip 
And start on a long, long hike. 
You'll only find what you left behind, 
For there’s nothing that’s really new. 
It’s a knock at yourself when you knock 
your town. ~ 
It isn’t your town—it’s you. 
Real towns are not made by men afraid 
Lest somebody else gets ahead. 
When everyone works and nobody shirks 
You can raise a town from the dead. 
And if while you make your personal stake 
Your neighbor can make one, too, 
Your town will be what you want to see. 
It isn’t your town—it’s YOU! 
—From Co,umMsus (Miss.) NEWSPAPER. 
APE ANN folk are taking more or less interest, his- 
torically and sentimentally, in preserving and protect- 
ing whatever rights the city of Gloucester may~have in 
the extinct village—Dogtown Common. The Gloucester 
Times comments editorially on the matter as follows: 
“The time has certainly arrived when the City of 
Gloucester should take the steps necessary to preserve anid 
protect whatever rights it may have in that portion of its 
territory which is known to its people as Dogtown Com- 
mons. That the city has certain rights there has never 
been disputed and that these rights may be lost to the 
inhabitants of Gloucester is sure to happen unless some 
definite action is taken to consereve them. On several 
occasions former city governments have endeavored to 
start something that would lead up to some definite in- 
formation as to what rights the city might have and to 
have those rights well defined, but it has seemed that 
every time anything has been attempted something has 
blocked the attempt. Why this has happened has never 
been definitely understood. 
“The present council did well last evening to take 
steps to instruct the proper officials to handle the proposi- 
tion, and they should start and proceed until the job is 
finished and the city should know just where it is as far &s 
its rights are concerned and these officials should be given 
to understand that nothing must interfere with a prompt 
solution of the problem presented. It will probably take 
considerable time to do these things, but that should make 
no difference. Stumbling blocks may be placed in the 
way by parties who may not want the rights of the city 
defined and established. | Never mind these stumbling 
blocks; they must not retard in any way the progress nor 
prevent the proper solution of the questions involved. It 
should be distinctly understood and appreciated that it 
is not the purpose of the city to take away any rights that 
other parties might have in this territory, but simply to 
define the rights if any that the inhabitants of Gloucester 
may have and then to protect those rights not alone for 
the people of the present generation, but for those who 
inay come after. 
“One of the most interesting among the many places 
on the Cape is Dogtown and it could be made by reason 
of easy access an objective point to be visited not only by 
our own people, but by the many visitors who come here 
during the summer months. The view from the heights 
of Dogtown in all directions is superb, but far more in- 
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teresting than the view is the place itself, its deserted 
cellars around which are woven the traditions of the de- 
serted village. It teems with romance which has been the 
subject of song and story, It still keeps hidden in its 
unwritten history so much of mystery that it will ever 
appeal to the imagination, and ever recurrent visits to its 
environs, but deepens these mysteries. 
“The City of Gloucester must preserve and conserve 
all that belongs to it in this wild and romanic tract of land 
and nothing should stand in the way of keeping for those 
who are to come after us Dogtown Commons with its 
history and its traditions.” 
It’s a poor brand of charity that sticks to the fingers. 
T is doubtful whether there will be a prettier or more 
interesting figure at the North Shore, the coming sum- 
mer, than Miss Uytendale Baird, whose engagement to 
Harrison K. Caner, Jr., was announced recently. Miss 
3aird is to pay an extended visit to her future parents-in- 
law, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison K. Caner, at ‘‘Felsenmeer,” 
Manchester, and that she will be widely entertained and 
feted goes without saying. The Caners are delighted at 
their son’s selection of a fiancee, and Mrs. Caner has 
issued a large number of invitations for her dinner dance 
in compliment to Miss Baird on the evening of Friday, 
May 19. Miss Baird was of the past winter’s most suc- 
cessful debutantes in the Quaker City. She made her 
bow at a tea dansant at the Bellevue-Stratford, given by 
her grandparents, which was largely attended. In addi- | 
tion to exceptional good looks, Miss Baird is an accom- 
plished musician and linguist, and her dancing is quite 
worthy the professional stage. The date of the wedding 
has not yet been decided upon. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Spalding and son Evans 
Spalding, who have lived at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, 
the past winter, are to live in their own cottage at West 
Manchester this year according to present plans. 
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Mrs. Gordon Prince plans to occupy her own house 
at West Manchester, this summer. 
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The marriage of Miss Miriam Mason of Boston and 
Franklin H. Trumbull of Salem, will take place Thurs- 
day afternoon, June 5, at 6 o’clock at the Episcopal 
church in Ipswich, followed by a reception at the sum- 
mer home of her Pea eC eagoet Warren Mason. 
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Norman Prince, who is serving as a military aviator 
in France, has received an official citation from the 
French government, according to information received et 
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Prince of 
East Wenham. The citation is believed to have beea 
made for two articles by young Prince on military avia- 
tion, published in the United States, whose- influence was 
said to be valuable to the cause of the entente allies. 
Prince is serving in the same aerial squardon as Elliot 
Cowdin, the New Yorker who was recently decorated for 
bravery. Prince has been awarded “Le Croix de Guerre,” 
and has been twice mentioned in the despatches. Three 
such mentions carry with them the “Medaille Militaire,” 
which corresponds to mene Victoria Cross. 
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Tunipoo Inn at Beverly Farms is now open for the 
reception of guests and already has booked a large list for 
the coming season. ‘The only hotel located in the beautiful 
little Farms village, it presents an excellent opportunity 
for rest and recreation. In close proximity to an excellent 
beach with splendid bathing facilities and in the midst of 
a network of fine motor roads it possesses some admirable 
features to the vacationist. Not the least among its desir- 
able qualities is its excellent cuisine and service, . 
