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NORTH SHORE BREBZ® 
THE CHRIST OF TODAY AND 
THE EMPLOYEES 
Continuel from page 7. 
surplus profit, after expenses have 
been paid? Well heretofore the 
capitalists have always claimed it. 
Labor today is standing up to say 
they have the right. 1 believe there 
is justice in the heart of the Ameri- 
can working man. I beheve they 
should have their share of the sur- 
plus for better food and education. 
Labor wants the closed shop, is a 
fourth consideration.—Yes! I do ad- 
vocate the closed shop. J do believe 
in the demand of a working man, 
that none but union men be employ- 
ed. There are some people who will 
break away from unions for their 
own personal advantages. I do not 
wonder that the union men are out 
of sympathy with such men that sell 
out their class for their own person- 
al advancement. Capital in the 
hands of some people will crush out 
lives of people. If union is good 
for the union man it is. good 
for the non-union man. God pity 
the man who will take the advan- 
tages of the union and not help with 
its causes. 
Now—employment of children, is 
a fifth consideration.—There are two 
million children under 16 years of 
age employed in the United States. 
Do away with child labor and every 
man can get a job. The working 
man today wants adequate protec- 
tion for the women and children of 
today. 
Some railroads in this 20th cen- 
tury are resisting safe contrivances 
because of expense. 
These are facts not theories re- 
garding the working man. Above 
all the working man wants justice. 
[tl Jesus Christ has a message to- 
day for every working man. He is 
their best friend. Some men have 
misconstrued the bible for their own 
purposes. Some ministers have ney- 
er looked into the social question. 
Thank God, there are ministers to- 
day, generous and true and noble 
hearted, who are interested in the 
common man, as well as the ecapital- 
ist. 
Jesus Christ has a 
laboring men. (1.) 
message for 
Labor is sacred 
and there is a dignity in labor. He 
was born in a carpenter’s family, he 
handled the carpenters’ tools, and if 
Jesus didn’t think it was beneath his 
it is not beneath the 
dignity of any man or woman. Jesus 
moved among men, he commended 
men for their industry. Jesus was, 
and is practical. He says in our 
dignity to toil, 
MANCHESTER’S OLD-TIME TAVERNS. 
In his presentation speech on New 
Year’s Eve, co-incident with the 
presentation of a handsome mahog- 
any desk to Landlord Kenney of the 
Manchester House, Lyman W. Floyd 
made the following allusion to Man- 
chester’s old-time taverns, the ac- 
count of which we were unable to 
print last week. Mr. Floyd said: 
‘Through the courtesy of the gen- 
tlemen here assembled and such as 
would gladly be present were they 
not unavoidably detained, it has 
been delegated to me to perform a 
very pleasant duty. It is eminently 
fitting, however, that before proceed- 
ing to that which may be of more 
special interest to our host, we turn 
back the historic pages to the earlier 
years of our town history’’. Mr. 
Floyd spoke of coming to Manches- 
ter in 1888 and dwelt briefly on the, 
hotel conditions as they existed at 
that time, contrasting the Old with 
the New order of things. Continu- 
ing he said: 
‘‘Few, if any of the gentlemen 
gathered here, know of the old tav- 
erns which existed in earlier years. 
It is an item of town history that 
the first public tavern was located 
at the corner of School and North 
streets, the same being built some- 
time prior to 1700. It had a long 
slanting roof, small windows and ac- 
commodations consistent with the 
day and generation, affording cheer 
Lord’s Prayer we all love so, “‘Give 
us this day our daily bread’’. That 
prayer asked not luxuries, but the 
essential things of life. Jesus be- 
lheves in the living wage for men 
and women. He also believes in the 
character of working man. He 
says ‘‘Lay up treasures, not on 
earth, but in heaven’’. Oppression 
may rob a man of his rightful wage, 
but he can lay up treasures in heav- 
en. Jesus says ‘‘I stand in your 
midst as one that serveth’’. He 
gives us cleansing through his own 
infinite purity. He will be on our 
side, He will give us the victory, let 
us not neglect him, because he is 
our best friend. He will fight our 
battles for us. “‘If God be for us who 
can be against us’’. Labor for the 
standard of Jesus Christ, the nobl- 
est character that ever trod the 
dusty pathways of earth. 
Jesus Christ, the carpenter, Son of 
God, is the Christ of today. 
The funniest thing about a big 
man is that he is apt to have a little 
wife, 
‘and rest to the weary traveler. 
‘‘ Another tavern of which we have 
record was kept by Deacon John AI- 
len, same being located at what is 
now corner of Washington st. and 
Norwood ave. 
telry gloried and did business under 
the name of ‘Golden Bull’, and sit- 
uated on the traveled road to Cape 
Ann it did a good business. 
‘‘A third public inn, and second 
in point of antiquity, was located 
at the head of Beach street, where 
This particular hos- — 
the building now is, occupied by 
Valentine’s Market. This was call- 
ed the ‘Joe Babcock House’, and dis- 
appeared about the time of the new 
road (Union street) construction just 
prior to 1700’’. . 
The speaker then gave a few his- 
torical facts about the Manchester 
House, mentioning Squire Tuck as 
being landlord and probably owner 
just prior to 1800. He told how the 
postoffice was located there at inter- 
vals from 1803 to 1850. He spoke - 
of the various ones who had oceupi- 
ed the premises as landlord, and 
made mention of the great fire of 
1836 when the stables were destroy- 
ed, as well as a number of private 
buildings to the west. 
At the close of this sketch Mr. 
Floyd in a few well chosen words 
presented Mr. Kenney with the desk, 
and Mine Host in his usual happy 
manner responded briefly. 
Beverly Bank Annual Meeting. 
A year of prosperity was shown by 
the reports made at the annual meet- 
ing of the stockholders of the Bev- 
erly National bank held at the bank- 
ing rooms Tuesday afternoon. The 
following officials were elected: Pre- 
sident, Andrew W. Rogers, vice pre- 
sident Jasper R. Pope, directorss, A. 
W. Rogers, J. R. Pope, Walter A. 
Perry, Joesph C. Kilham, George P. 
Brown, Roland W. Boyden, Melville 
Woodbury, Herbert F. Winslow and 
Allen H. Bennett. The bank officials ~ 
are Allen H. Bennett, cashier; Ed- 
ward S. Webber, paying teller; F. 
W. Foster receiving teller; Fred H. 
Porter, bookkeeper; W. C. Brown as- 
sistant bookkeeper, Harry lL. Per- 
kins, clerk; Misses Mollie Bell and 
Annie M. Moses, ‘stenographers, 
Chester Perkins, messenger. 
It was not ‘‘Mrs. Partington’’, but 
some other woman who observed 
that the Sterling family must have 
been large and yery rich at one time, 
judging from the great quantity of 
silverware marked with their name, 
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