36 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Connolly Bros. 
GENERAL 
CONTRACTORS 
for BUILDINGS 
OF ALL 
DESCRIPTIONS 
CARPENTER SHOPS, MILLS AND OFFICE AT 
BEVERLY FARMS, MASS. 
THE DEACON’S DAMAGED LOT 
HE Deacon sat daily, in mood irat2, 
on the topmost rail of the pasture 
gate, revolving of Bible words his fill, 
as Doctor Holmes says that Deacons 
will. 
Brickbats he scarcely cared to shy, 
but he shook his fist as the trains 
went by, and told how, if he weren’t 
a Deacon, he’d fix that “9.43” or that 
“516? For the Deacon harked back 
to ancient days when the cows, 
through that gateway, strolled out to 
eraze,—since the day that his fore- 
bears, wife and man, moved across 
Bass River for old Cape Ann. To 
smooth out the seams in Endecott’s 
sway, when five old-time planters 
were slow to obey,—that all in ac- 
cord might forever abide——each was 
granted a home by the Great Pond’s 
Side. 
But peace in these confines shall 
not prevail! Freight trains, ponder- 
ous and noisy, their solitudes trail, 
and, puffing and screaming, each pas- 
senger crew whisks, alas! back and 
forth, where the pumpkin-vines grew! 
Hard luck for the Deacon. - He 
sits on the fence and checks off, as 
they go, their confounded contents. 
But a fact he discovers that gives him 
great cheer, with a promised release 
ere the end of the year! The trav- 
elers he counts in each swift-rushing 
train are the same, day by day, seen 
again and again! They’re employed 
by the railroad to fill every seat, and 
secure good reports when the share- 
holders meet. 
So there sits the Deacon, still shak- 
ing his fist. Such nonsence can’t 
last when the profits are missed. Steel 
rails will come up and _ rail-fences 
come down, and the smoke-snorting 
engines abandon the town! 
Then back to the good days of En- 
decott! Each farmer shall rest in 
May 19, 1916. 
OLIVER T. ROBERTS 
WILLIAM HOARE 
Roberts & Hoare 
Contractors and Builders 
Contract Work a Specialty 
Particular Attention given to Jobbing 
MANCHESTER-B Y-THE-SEA 
Telephone Connection 
7 
J. M. Publicover 
W. B. Publicover 
Publicover Bros. 
Contractors and Builders 
Special Attention given to Jobbing, Furniture Repaired, etc. 
ALL WORK NEATLY and PROMPTLY DONE 
SHOP: Hale St., Beverly Farms 
Telephone Connection 
P. O. Box 74, Beverly Farms, Mass. 
ROBERT ROBERTSON COMPANY 
PLUMBING 
HEATING 
WATER SUPPLY 
BEVERLY BEVERLY FARMS 
MANCHESTER HAMILTON 
Telephone Connection 
POF Box (62 
J. A. MAYBERRY 
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER 
CARPENTER WORK IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 
HASKELL ST., NEAR HALE ST. 
PRIDE’S CROSSING, MASS. 
Tel. Beverly Farms 130 
Estimates Furnished 
HOWARD A. DOANE, Carpenter 
BUILDING AND REPAIRING 
ORDERS TAKEN FOR AWNINGS 
SCREENS, 
BEVERLY FARMS, MASS. 
| ied BIOS 
Shop at Pride’s Crossing 
his own corner lot. No more steel 
nor fence-rails will the Deacon abide, 
but repose, undisturbed, by the Great 
Pond’s Side!—OseEDIAH OLDSCHOOL, 
in Salem Observer, Saturday, May 
[3° TOR 
30STON THEATRE. 
Margaret V. McDonough, “The 
‘Frisco Girl,” and the prize winning 
beauty chosen to represent Massachii- 
setts last summer at the great Pana- 
ma-Pacific Exposition at San Fran- 
cisco, after a spirited competition in 
which girls from all over New Eng- 
land took part, is making her profes- 
sional debut as a dancer at the Boston 
Theatre the week of May 15th. Miss 
McDonough will appear in the Con- 
cert Vaudeville portion of the enter- 
tainment, supported by the Boston 
Theatre company of thirty enter- 
tainers. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
The Breeze $2 a year postpaid. 
