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SOCIETY NOTES. 
Judge Moore’s horse show, an an- 
nual event which North Shore peo- 
ple look forward to with keen inter- 
-est, as it is one of the most exclu- 
sive events of the season, will be held 
Saturday afternoon at the private 
track at Pride’s Crossing, where 
Judge Moore trains his horses. This 
is not public affair, but is an invita- 
tion affair only. An al fresco colla- 
tion will be served at Rockmarge 
after the show. 
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Dr. T. B. Gannett gave a dinner 
for twelve Tuesday evening at the 
Essex County club in honor of his 
son, Thomas B. Gannett, Jr., whose 
engagement to Miss Dorothy Draper 
was recently announced. 
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Wednesday was a busy day at the 
Essex County club, as usual. Over 
a hundred were at the elub for 
luncheon and during the band con- 
cert over seventy-five teas were 
served. Among those entertaining 
at lunch that day were Mr. and Mrs. 
Prescott Bigelow, J. C. Kerr, C. L. 
Stover, G. R. White, Mr. and Mrs. C. 
E. Cotting. 
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The North Shore Grill club at 
Magnolia continues in the popular 
favor of North Shore people. Many 
of the best known society matrons 
have been noticed there the last 
week entertaining friends at lunch- 
eon, afternoon tea or dinner parties. 
Among them were Mrs. C. A. Potter, 
ten, last Friday evening at dinner; 
Mrs. William MeMillan, ten, for sup- 
per Wednesday evening;Mrs. Regi- 
nald Gray of Chestnut Hill, eight, 
for lunch Tuesday. E. D. Duke of 
Virginia, is spending a week or so 
at the Grill. Dr. Andrew Jackson, 
leading physician of Matteawan was 
at the Grill over the last week-end 
with party of four. 
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Pennsylvania friends of the Geo. 
Wigglesworths will occupy the 
small Wigglesworth cottage at Man- 
chester the coming week. 
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Miss Lilhe Rhodes of Philadelphia 
concluded her visit with Dr. and 
Mrs. Maynard Ladd of the Manches- 
ter colony yesterday. 
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Col. Gracie and family of Wash- 
ington, who have been boarding at 
the Leach cottage, 41 Central street, 
Manchester, have gone to Gloucester 
to spend a few weeks at the Surfside 
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The North Shore summer colony 
counts among its most interesting 
members two Pittsburg women who 
have been co-workers in an_ un- 
usually successful scheme of philan- 
thropy. They are Mrs. Frances G. 
Vandergrift and Mrs. David Kirk, 
who are spending the _ season, as 
usual, at the Oceanside Hotel, Mag- 
nolia. Jointly they are the founders 
of the Social Center Association 
of America. This national  or- 
ganization is securing the evening 
use of the public schools as 
civie and social gathering places for 
adults. It has invested its endow- 
ment in the People’s Recreation 
Company which is making interest- 
ing attempts to increase the social 
value of popular amusements. The 
latter organization which has offices 
on Broadway in New York, will be 
in a sense the laboratory of the 
other association. The Social Center 
Association will not give advice on 
any subject connected with popular 
recreations on which it has not first 
had conerete experience through its 
subsidiary business organization. 
These two enterprises, although not 
yet a year old, have already won 
substantial recognition from  edu- 
cators and social workers and such 
prominent people as President G. 
Stanley Hall, Prof. Edward J. Ward, 
Prof. L. H. Bailey, Dr. Lester Gu- 
lick, and Clarence A. Perry of the 
Sage Foundation, have accepted 
vice-presidencies of the association. 
The success of the organizations is 
due to the wise foresight with which 
they were planned by the founders. 
It occurred to Mrs. Vandergrift that 
oftentimes the work of a philan- 
thropic organization is actually im- 
peded by its having too much money 
at the start. A foundation of ten 
million dollars—and several founda- 
tions for philanthropic work have 
exceeded that—is almost unwieldy. 
It necessitates years of organizing 
labor before impressive results can 
be shown. Without minimizing the 
beneficial work of any of these 
heavily endowed bodies, Mrs. Van- 
dergrift thought she saw a better 
way of launching a good work. She 
proposed to begin with a very mod- 
est foundation of money and a large 
foundation of personality. She was 
able to realize this theory by inter- 
esting Mrs. David Kirk, and en- 
trusting her with the working out 
of the scheme. Mrs. Kirk showed 
extraordinary capacity for gaining 
the cooperation of able leaders in 
various lines of social center work. 
Besides that, Mrs. Kirk proved her- 
self an indefatigable worker, and 
her organizing ability has given 
significance to the keen insight of 
Mrs. Vandergrift’s theories, 
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SWAT THAT FLY. 
The committee of the National 
Conference of Charities and Correc- 
tion on ‘‘Housing, Health and Ree- 
reation’’ gave a demonstration on 
Saturday morning in the use of 
moving pictures, illustrating the 
house flay as a cause of disease, the 
campaign for pure milk, the fight 
against tuberculosis, and a safe and 
sane Fourth. The house fly is now 
known to be a pest more serious than 
the mosquito in this section, though 
perhaps less annoying, and the pres- 
ent month is the most effective time 
to make war upon him. Killing one 
now may be equivalent to killing a 
million a month later. Let his breed- 
ing place be destroyed. Let houses 
be screened, make relentless war 
unon such individuals of the pestif- 
erous tribe as get within doors. He 
is an enemy of health. 
Prof. Hodge of Clarke University 
has succeeded in arousing a lively 
interest among the people of Wor- 
cester in the campaign against this 
pest. He regards the ‘business of 
‘‘swatting’’ the fly as a waste of 
time, when you can trap him around 
your garbage pail. Since April he 
has had a fly trap over his garbage 
pail into which he puts whatever is 
likely household waste, and even 
other things attractive to flies. He 
has caught 16,000 flies in a single 
day. His windows are open day 
and night without screens, yet he has 
no flies in his house. 
Flies are bred in, and delight to 
feed upon filth. Every disease is li- 
able to be conveyed by them if they 
have access to the excret of the vic- 
tims of the disease. The number of 
bacteria which they can convey can- 
not be well conceived. Much less 
the number of flies of which a single 
pair might be the progenitors in one 
season. Therefore, the great im- 
portance of killing the early flies of 
the season. If you can trap them 
from the garbage pail, well and 
good. But keep the premises clean 
and the house screened.—F all River 
News. 
MAGNOLIA. 
The annual ‘‘Bal Masque’’ ten- 
dered the employees of The Hes- 
perus by the manager will be held 
Monday night. Much interest is 
taken in the preparations and it is 
one of the pleasant events at the 
season’s closing to be looked for- 
ward to. The guests at the hotel and 
their friends take as much interest 
in the ball as the employees them- 
selves, and occasionally one of them 
slips in and enjoys the occasion, 
masqued, 
