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GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, HATS, CAPS, 
Boots and Shoes, Daily and Weekly Papers, Cigars and Tobacco, 
Fruit and Confectionery. 
PHONOGRAPHS 
73 Main st. - South Essex, Mass. 
SALTED PEANUTS A SPECIALTY 
We make them as needed 
Always New and Crisp 
J. N. TUCKER 
Post Office - So. Essex. 
ESSEX. 
Thursday night of last week, a 
welcome change came over the face 
of Essex, burned with heat and 
parched for. want of rain. It was 
like the Irishman who: lay’ spache- 
less three days and three nights and 
his continual ery was .wather} cold 
wather, cold wather! «And the 
cold water came in great rain'drops 
and plenty of them. It helped the 
gardens, it filled the cisterns and 
cooled and purified the air. Thun- 
der, we guess it did and lightning, 
too. Pour, crash and. snap. At 
South Essex it struck the house of 
Elias Andrews on Forest avenue. 
No one was at home, so it did as it 
chose. It hunted around and found 
an iron bedstead; the bedelothes 
caught fire and the lightning fled 
out of the window. Neighbors 
rallied and before the fire depart- 
ment could reach the spot, the dan- 
ger was. over—loss’ $150.00. The 
lightning searched electric lights 
and burned them out it struck the 
various wires along the streets and 
shapped them as_ threads. And 
when lights were beyond the light- 
ning’s reach, the thunder took a 
band and stood over that house and 
the electric lamps in many places 
were ruined by its vibrations. Then 
there was a ery of fire again and the 
bells again gave out the call and it 
was found that the lightning had 
found another place where there 
was no one at home; had sneaked 
under one barn and gathering cour- 
age as it went had come up through 
another through a pile of rags and 
rubbish, and fire became rampant 
and one of the barns of the estate of 
Wm. C. Howard on Story street was 
burned to the ground. The firemen 
did. noble work, as Essex firemen al- 
ways do, and the flames were con- 
fined to the barn. It took two heavy 
thunder storms to do all this; then, 
as if satisfied with devastation and 
ruin, the third storm came with no 
thunder and lightning, but with 
pure spontaneous, refreshing rain, 
cooling, invigorating—and when the 
hours for morning came the rain 
had ended and the storm had fled. 
Rev. Washington Choate, D. D., 
expected to preach at the C Gharaoh: 
tionalist chureh Sunday. 
The Methodist Society of South 
Essex were invited to a ttend the 
union picnic of the Methodists of 
Gloucester and Cape Ann at Centen- 
nial Grove Wednesday. Many avail- 
ed themselves of the privilege. 
The organ at the Congregational 
chureh has been thoroughly’ over- 
hauled and put in perfect tune dur- 
ing the past week, 
ESSEX. 
It has been a genuine pleasure to 
the people of Essex during the hot 
weather to take advantage of the 
cooling water of lake and_ river. 
Corporation wharf has been the fav- 
orite place for bathing. One has but 
to shut his eyes to imagine that he is 
at Atlantie City. Nothing is more 
soothing and refreshing than a good 
salt water bath. 
A fine new schooner was launched 
from the ship yard of James & 
Tarr last Saturday. She was 12 ft. 
long, 25 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep. 
She will be commanded by Capt. Al- 
bert Larkin and will go to the banks 
for fresh fish. She was towed 
around to Gloucester on Monday, 
where she will be fitted out for sea. 
The -spars will be furnished by the 
Union Spar Co. About 100 people 
took the trip to Gloucester and a 
fine sail was enjoyed. She was sa- 
luted in royal style as she passed 
through the Narrows. 
John Muleahey and son Clarence, 
returned Saturday from a week’s 
trip to Evangeline’s Isle. They 
started from Boston in the steamer 
‘‘Prince Arthur’? at 2 p.m., and 
reached Yarmouth at 6a.m. As 
Clarence looked over the side he 
saw a huge monster coming toward 
the ship, mouth open, big enough to 
swallow five or six boys his size. 
Ile was just getting ready to scream 
when rush! it went out of sight and 
came up the other side of the ship. 
It was a whale. A large number 
were sighted during the trip, as well 
as great schools of mackeral, seals 
and porpoises. Clarence was sick as 
a boy expected to be; had just a 
little headache, you know. Nova 
Scotia is a rretty fine place, and he 
had an elegant time. 
Ilenry Burnham and family, late 
of North Adams, have moved to 
town to the old homestead at Essex 
Falls. Mr. Burnham contemplates 
making numerous improvements and 
repairs. Mr. Burnham has for many 
years been superintendent of one of 
the big mill at North Adams. He is 
now traveling agent for a large mill 
at Providence. His family will be 
quite an addition to the Hssex social 
world. 
The fire in the woods at Essex 
Falls, set by lightning the other 
night, has been put out.» Alonzo 
Mears, the deputy fire warden of 
that district, had it in charge. When 
it comes to handling a woods fire 
Mr. Mears is a fire extinguisher of 
no mean ability. 
L. E. Perkins and family have re- 
turned from their trip to Colebrook, 
N: H. . at 2 olaw 
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