MANCHESTER SECTION 
There will be a meeting of the 
North Shore Horticultural society 
this evening. 
Albert W. C. Maslin was appointed 
a special police officer by the board 
of selectmen on Tuesday evening. 
Mrs. Joseph Winsor and _litt'e 
daughter, Louise, of Chelsea spent 
the past week with the former’s aunt, 
Mrs. Peter Diamond of Forest st. 
Sayre Merrill is expected home 
Sunday or Monday from Tintic, Utah. 
for a short visit previous to leaving 
for Southern California where he will 
accept a new position. . 
Alfred C. Rowe of Worcester, Past 
Commander of the Department of 
Massachusetts, G. A. R., will be the 
speaker at the Memorial Day exer- 
cises to be held in Town hall on the 
evening of May 30. The full pro- 
gram will be announced next week. 
While the Manchester baseball sea- 
son will open at 10 o’clock Memorial 
Day—Tuesday, May 30—with the U. 
S.-M. Co. as the attraction, the real 
fun of the day will be staged at 7 in 
the morning, when the Married and 
Single Men will play their first game 
of the season on the playgrounds. 
Ye heavens! who wants to get up that 
early to see a ball-game,—save the 
newspaper men and the wives: and 
sweethearts of the brave combatants ! 
Invitations have been accepted by 
patriotic organizations from Glou- 
cester, Beverly, Beverly Farms and 
Salem to attend the reception to ‘be 
tendered this evening to Junior Vice 
Dept. Commander, G. A. R., Edwin 
P. Stanley. The reception will be 
from 8 until 10 o’clock in Town hall 
and will be under the auspices 91 
Allen Post, G. A. R., Allen Relief 
Corps and the Col. Woodbury Camp, 
S. of V. The-affair will be public. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
Dr. Robert Scott Catheron, a form- 
er .Manchester boy, who went to 
France with the second Harvard unit 
last winter, gave an address at the 
American Dental college of Paris re- 
cently. He was a guest of Dr. Hayes, 
head of the dental division of the 
American Ambulance corps at Neuilly. 
Though a member of the Harvard 
unit, Dr. Catheron has been connect- 
ed *with the English Hospital in 
France much of the time since his 
arrival in the war zone. He has ap- 
plied for a release for the 17th of 
May, and if accepted he may reach 
home in the course of a few weeks. 
Friday, May 19, 1916. 
MANCHESTER BASEBALL. 
Manchester ball fans will have their 
first opportunity to “root” for the 
town team on Tuesday morning May 
30. The Memorial Day game will 
be played with the United Shoe Ma- 
chinery team of Beverly. Manches- 
ter will have to turn out in good 
force to support the team as the ope.- 
ing game will be a hard one. The 
United Shoe team defeated the 
Queen Quality team on Saturday 
last. The latter team is usually one 
of Manchester’s mid-season opponents 
Manager. Charles Fritz has nearly 
completed his line-up for. the open- 
ing game. It will be announced ia 
full next week. The batteries for 
the two teams will be: Manchester, 
Grover and Perkins; United Shoe, 
Lingstrom and Hayford. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
The following licenses to collect 
garbage have been granted by the 
board of health: Semons & Little- 
field, Harry Morgan, John L,. Silva 
and Jasper Roy. 
Ferris Waists at E. A. Leth- 
bridge’s. adv. 
Rev. W. B. Whitney, chaplain of 
the state prison at Charlestown, will 
give the address at the next Brother- 
hood meeting on June 5. This lec- 
ture will be the second during the 
winter on prison life and administra- 
tion. Rev. Mr. Whitney’s talk will 
be illustrated by stereopticon views. 
There will be one more meeting af- 
ter Mr. Whitney’s lecture, on Mon- 
day, June 19. After the last meeting 
the next gathering will be the annual 
Brotherhood picnic at Tuck’s Point. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
One-side of Central street from 
Bridge and Pine streets to the corner 
of School st. was torn up this week 
by A. G. Tomasello & Son in prepar- 
ation for re-surfacing the road. An 
emergency traffic squad of three men 
are stationed one at each end of the 
torn-up road and one in the middle, 
to direct traffic along that portion of 
the highway. Although work on the 
surface of the highway was just com- 
menced this week the installing of the 
drainage system has been practically 
completed. The contract calls for 
the entire completion of the road from 
the Priest school to the Beverly line 
by Wednesday, June 28, which allows 
33 more working days in which to 
complete the work. 
Lee Marshall is out with a new 
Overland runabout. 
Mrs. W. B. Jackson of Summit, N. 
J., is visiting Miss Isabella McKay, 
School st. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
Henry Potterton and family have 
moved into the tenement at 38 Nor- 
wood ave. 
Rev. Charles A. Hatch will ex- 
change pulpits Sunday with the Rev. 
Albert Todd of Essex. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
The Odd Fellows had the pleasure 
of listening to prominent officials a¢ 
their meeting last night, anong whom 
was the president of the Triple Luck 
League. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
Lewis Hutchinson and Charles 
Bell of Manchester were defeated at 
the Seaside alleys in a ten  striny 
bowling match with C. Adams and E. 
Holmes of Beverly, last evening. 
The Manchester men were behind 21 
the way until the beginning of the 
last string when they led by three 
pins. The total score. was Beverly, 
1968; Manchester, 1929. 
Children’s White Dresses at E. A. 
Lethbridge’s. adv. 
The internal troubles of China are 
described in letters received from 
Henry F. Merrill, a Manchester boy 
and a graduate of M. I. T. in ror, 
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred- 
erick J. Merrill of Bridge st. In 
one letter recently received the young 
man, who is on the Board of Conser- 
vancy and is stationed at Shameen, 
China, he tells of the revolt of the 
province of Kwangtung. During the 
days which followed its declaration 
of independence Chinese cruisers im 
the harbor threatened to shell Canton 
and the removal of valuables to 
Shameen was considered necessary. 
A bomb was thrown at a hospital a 
few hundred feet from the office 
where Mr. Merrill was located. He 
witnessed fighting between the sold- 
iers and rioters. He has a poor 
opinion of the Chinese soldiers, most 
of them being coolies recently enlist- 
ed and they are careless in their 
handling of firearms. The U. S. S. 
Wilmington lies off Shameen and 
foreigners feel safe as the Chinese 
have learned to have a wholesome re- 
gard for the gunboats of the for- 
eigners. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. ad”. 
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