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~The Red Men are reminded that 
the adoption degree will be practiced 
at the wigwam next Wednesday eve- 
ning, March 8, at 7:30. The brothers 
are urged to come around. 
At the session of the probate court, 
Newburyport, Monday inventories 
were filed of the following local es- 
tates: Hannah Stevens, $2700; Gid- 
eon Stevens,, $2700; Sarah A. Porter, 
$8940.91. 
The Manchester Woman’s Club 
will meet in the Chapel, Tuesday af- 
ternoon, March 7, at 3:30. The sub- 
ject, ‘‘Blessed be Humor,’’ will be 
presented by J. L. Harbour, editor 
of the Youths’ Companion. Mrs. 
Annie H. Knight will be the hostess. 
Letters remaining unclaimed at the 
Manchester, Mass., P. O. for week 
ending Feb. 25, 1911: A. E. Brig- 
ham, Mrs. Catherine Fitzsimmons, 
Carl H. Farley, Mrs. Robert Hyde, 
Mrs. May Morgan, Dilvina Richard, 
Miss Hazel B. Shepard, S. H. Walker. 
SAM’L WHEATON, P. M. 
Mrs. Emma G. Tenney, president, 
and Miss Annie L. Lane, recording 
secretary of the Manchester Woman’s 
club, attended last Saturday after- 
noon’s meeting of the Thought and 
Work club, Salem. The Glee club 
sang and Miss Marjorie Benton 
Cooke, of Chicago, read. Miss Ruth 
Kerans of Danvers, was the piano 
soloist. The hospitality committee of 
the club served refreshments at the 
close of the entertainment. Mrs. 
Emma A. Missud, president of the 
club, presided. 
A variety entertainment will be 
given on Friday evening, March 10, 
in the Town hall under the direction 
of the YMCA boys and tickets are 
now on sale at Allen’s drug store. 
The entertainment will include read- 
ings by Mrs. Abby F. Hayden of 
Pigeon Cove, the singing of folk lore 
songs by Miss Dorothy Burnham, cos- 
tumed, violin selections by Master 
Edward Newell, Mrs. George H. 
Newell accompanist. There will also 
be an exhibition drill by a squad of 
Gloucester High school cadets and 
other features to make a very pleas- 
cri. ne it 
ing entertainment. 
N. 8. Hortic. Society. 
A meeting of the North Shore 
Horticultural society will be held 
this evening, March 8, in Lee’s Hall, 
Manchester, at which time Peter 
Miller, president of the Gardeners’ 
and Florists’ club of Boston, will 
speak on a pertinent subject. 
NAUMKEAG TRUST CO. 
E, J. Fabens, President 
N. A. Very, Treasurer 
Robert Osgood, Vice=Pres. 
William O. Chapman, Sec. 
DIRECTORS 
Gordon Abbott 
George H. Allen 
Roland M. Baker 
Henry P. Benson 
Stedman Buttrick 
Arthur F. Estabrook 
Eugene J. Fabens 
Francis R. Hart 
Jeremiah T. Mahoney 
Robert Osgood 
Francis Peabody, Jr. 
George Lee Peabody 
David Pingree 
Frederic G. Pousland 
Charles S Rea 
Charles W. Richardson 
Nathaniel G. Simonds 
This company solicits your account whether it is large or small. 
Interest paid on deposits subject to check. 
MUNICIPAL LIGHTING PLANTS. 
Rockport Considering Establishing 
One—If So Gloucester Company 
Will Be Deprived of 
Large Contract. 
We were amused as well as sur- 
prised to learn this week that the 
citizens of Rockpert, who are talk- 
ing seriously of establishing a mu- 
nicipal lighting plant, have had Ip- 
swich held up to them as an awful 
example of the folly of having such 
a plant. To be sure those who have 
thus warned Rockport may be said 
to ‘‘have an interest’’ in discourag- 
ing their town from going into the 
lighting business, for it is generally 
understood that they are talking for 
the Gloucester Electric Light Co., a 
private company which at the pres- 
ent time has a very profitable con- 
tract selling electricity to Rockport, 
not only for street lighting but for 
private buildings also. 
If the figures given us are correct, 
Rockport is paying to this company 
as much for less than 200 street 
lights, burning until one o’clock at 
night, as it costs Ipswich for 785 
street lights burning all night. The 
price to private consumers is 18 
cents per K. W. hour in Rockport, 
and in Ipswich only 12 cents, with a 
ten per cent reduction if paid before 
the 20th of the month. 
The Ipswich plant is in excellent 
condition, and the machinery put in 
seven years ago is not only taking 
care of Ipswich but for the past six 
months has furnished light for Row- 
ley as well. 
| 
The reason for install- — 
ing a new set of machinery, is be- 
cause the plant is so successful that | 
the demand for its output has in- 
creased so rapidly that more machin- | 
' 
ery is necessary. The story reported © 
in Gloucester and Rockport, 
the first ~lant is a wreck and that 
new machinery is being put in to 
take its place,’’ 
It is one of those tales told by the 
‘that — 
is absolutely false. | 
‘‘hanger on’’ of private companies, | 
who naturally do not enjoy the pros- 
pect of losing a fat customer. 
Ips- | 
wich went through the same exper- | 
ience that Rockport is now having. | 
We went through it on the water | 
supply question and on the Electric | 
Lighting question. Had our people 
believed the 
’ 
‘‘tales of woe’’ told | 
them by representatives of private | 
concerns, we would be at 
merey of private companies today, 
instead of having one of the best | 
the | 
water and lighting systems in the | 
state; located under one roof; run 
by one commission and giving our 
peonle plenty of water and light at 
figures far below those of the places 
: 
where they are (blessed?) with pri- | 
vate ownership.—From 
Chronicle. 
Ipswich 
The more a man goes round, the | 
less apt he is to develop into a 
erank. 
Time robs us of many things, but | 
wounds our vanity first by introduc- | 
ing wrinkles and the double chin, 
