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SPRING OPENING 
April 4-5-5 
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DESIGNER 
185 ESSEX STREET 
Opp. Gentral 
SALEM, MASS. 
(24) 
A. A. MOORE 
MILLINER 
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Millinery Opening week 
of April Ist. 
All the latest Novelties 
in Trimmed Millinery. 
170 Cabot St. 
BEVERLY, MASS. 
(16) 
Who world think that the apple tree 
So barren, awkward and bare, 
Would ever don its living blooms 
And become most wondrous fair? 
Would think that birds could ever hide 
Brown rests that uone could see 
Beneath its robes of green and pink? 
Yet 1t. wail not fail! to be: 
—April Farm Journal. 
We can walk into trouble with our 
hut it is often impossible 
to back out with both eyes open. 
eves shut. 
the was a carpenter by trade. 
Mroand Meson Rogers Allen of Manchester Celebrated 
Their 55th a ee Anniversary. 
Mr. and Mrs. 
Surrounded by their children, 
grandchildren and near relatives, 
Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers Allen 
very informally celebrated the 55th 
anniversary of their marriage, at 
their attractive home, in Allen’s 
Court, off Summer street, Manches- 
ter, last Sunday. They were married 
on Mareh 26, 1856, by the Rev. Ru- 
fus Taylor, pastor of the Congrega- 
tional church. 
Mr. Allen was born in Manchester, 
August 31, 1839, and like many of 
his age and time, he has had his 
share of adventurous experiences. 
He is one of two Manchesterites left 
who made the trip to Caifornia in 
search of gold in *49. William C. 
Rust is the other. 
Mrs. Allen is a native of Portland, 
Me., but since her marriage she has 
made Manchester her home., Mrs. 
Harlan G. Morgan of School street, 
and KE. EK. Allen, who conducts a 
grocery store on Washington street, 
are the two surviving children. 
There are also six grandchildren. 
For many years Mr. and Mrs. 
Allen lived in the Eastern part of 
the town, where Mr. Allen dida 
teaming business... In his early life 
Both 
Mr. and Mrs. Allen enjoy excellent 
health. 
Mr. Allen can relate many inter- 
esting incidents of that eventful trip 
to California in 1849. He was one of 
a company of 40 who got together 
on the share and share alike plan. 
They bought the brig Metropolis, 
loaded it with lumber and set. sail 
under command of Capt. John Ben- 
nett of Beverly, Eben Ellenwood 
John R. Allen 
first mate. The voyage consumed a 
few days lacking seven months. In 
their provisions when they started 
were 31 live hogs, and it was a part. 
of Mr. Allen’s duty to slaughter one 
every Saturday, which kept them in 
fresh meat. When they arrived in 
San Francisco, they had a sow and 
a litter of pigs left, “‘and the old 
sow was so thin,’’ said Mr. Allen, 
‘‘she would hardly cast a shadow, 
but she readily sold for $80.’’ 
There was a profit for each man 
on the trip of about $250, but they 
reckoned that the fare to San Fran- 
cisco was worth $500. ‘‘ Although I 
could readily make $12 a day in 
Sacramento at my trade,’’ said Mr, 
Allen, ‘‘I was bound to go to the 
diggings and so after recuperating 
and fitting out a mule team I went 
up 70 miles with five of the company 
as partners.’”’ 
It was a rough, wild life. They 
staked out three river claims, which 
they cradled, besides cutting timber 
and sawing it up by hand into 
miners’ tools. Mr. Allen’ soon 
amassed $2300, but it dwindled 
while he was ill for six months, with 
doctor’s fees of $16 a visit. He con- 
tinued at the diggings for four years 
and then came home via the Nicar- 
agua route, there being 800 in the 
party. Two days were required for 
the transit across the isthmus and 
22 days from San Francisco to New 
York. He had intended to return 
again, but his people dissuaded him. 
The hotbed is well enough in its 
place, but few people would care ty 
sleep in it. 
