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MAGNOLIA 
Miss Grace O. Parker of Boston 
spent the week-end at the parsonage 
visiting Dr. and Mrs. Eaton. 
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Wilson 
and son, Lawrence, of Wenham 
spent Tuesday at the parsonage. 
The usual services will be held at 
the Village church next Sunday 
morning with preaching by the pas- 
tor. “A Poet’s Outlook on Life” 
will be the subject of Mr. Dennis A. 
McCarthy’s lecture at 7.30 p. m. 
Brinton ‘Colfelt, who has been visit- 
ing his grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca 
McM. Colfelt on Western ave., re- 
turned to West Newton Sunday after- 
noon to resume his studies at the Fes- 
senden School for Boys. 
Despite the snow storm last Wed- 
nesday night the Whist party given 
by the Ladies Aid society at the 
Women’s clubhouse was a great suc- 
cess in every way. Prizes were 
awarded to Mr. Fred S: Lycett, 
George Adams, Mrs. Philip S. Lycett 
and Mrs. John E. May. 
A. J. Rowe arrived last Friday at 
the eighty-seventh mile-post in his 
jcurney through life and a large num- 
ber of his friends assembled that day 
at his home to extend their congratu- 
lations and good wishes. Mr. Rowe 
is one of our most highly honored 
citizens and we wish for him many 
more years of health and happiness. 
Mrs. Mary J. ANDERSON. 
Mrs. Mary J. Anderson died of 
pneumonia at 100 Norway st., Boston, 
Friday morning, Jan. 5, at 5.30 
o’clock. The funeral services were 
held last Saturday morning at the 
above place, being conducted by Dr. 
Eaton. Mrs. Anderson was _ born 
eighty-six years ago at Londonderry, 
N. H., and was buried at Lowell. 
The remains were accompanied to 
the Lowell cemetery by Mrs. George 
A. Upton and Miss Margaret Mc- 
Gregor, who in these later years have 
ministered to her as tenderly as 
though they were her daughters. 
WENHAM 
A friend who is blessed with large 
vision, made a gift last week as the 
beginning of a fund for the erection 
of an adequate Sunday School build- 
ing and parish house in Wenham. 
The new plan of cooperation be- 
tween church and public library went 
into operation last Sunday, when an 
assortment of books were ready for 
delivery after the morning service. 
Jan. 12, 1917. 
Groceries and Kitchen Furnishings 
All S. S. Pierce Co’s Goods sold at their Prices 
Legal Trading Stamps with all Cash Sales of Groceries 
P.S. Lycett Telephone 43~ Magnolia, Mass. 
MAGNOLIA MARKET 
LAFAYETTE HUNT, Proprietor, 
BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, HAM, POULTRY, VEGETABLES. 
DEERFOOT FARM CREAM AND BUTTER. 
AGENTS FOR 
ORDERS TAKEN AND DE- 
LIVERED PROMPTLY. 
Telephone Connection. 
Magnolia, Massachusetts. 
Also Hunt’s Market, 172 Prospect Street, Cambridge. 
JONATHAN MAY 
Shore Road, Magnolia, Mass. 
Real Estate and Insurance Broker 
Sole Agent for the Gloucester Coal Co. 
Telephone 426-R Magnolia 
Notary Public 
Wenham scouts plan to visit Bos- 
ton on Monday evening. The annual 
meeting of the Y. P. S. C. E. will 
take place Wednesday evening. <A 
prayer meeting is planned for Thurs- 
day at 7.30 p. m. 
At the Congregational church Sun- 
day morning the minister, Rev. F. M. 
Cutler, will preach. Sunday School 
at noon, JuniomC Hh. ais.) Ys Pies: 
C; EB. at 6.) The-7. p. m. service twill 
be in the large auditorium, under di- 
rection of the department of church 
extension; and will be addressed by 
Rev. Thomas B. Bitler, of Hamilton, 
on the theme, “Religious Service as 
a Life-work.” 
Reports rendered at the annual 
meeting of the Congregational church 
Thursday evening indicated a year of 
prosperity. In membership ten were 
received during the year and five lost, 
leaving the present total 85. The 
number of accessions (6 being “by 
confession”), had been equaled only 
twice before during the previous 
quarter century. There were three 
baptisms, four weddings, and, alas! 15 
funerals. The minister made nearly 
1,000 calls, in addition to those of the 
The effort met with a cordial re- Membership department’s friendly 
sponse. visitors. Beneficent contributions 
SPRAYING, BURLAPPING, 
CEMENTING, BOLTIN 
and INSECT WORK 
ee Box 244. BEVERLY, 
under the apportionment totaled $200. 
of which $108 was for foreign mis- 
sions. Gifts for local missions and 
other beneficent causes increased the 
sum of contributions to $294, a figure 
which had been equalled only once 
before in twenty-five years. One 
hundred and two dollars of this came 
in through the “blue envelopes.” 
Sunday School enrolment was 151, of 
whom 9 were in the home depart- 
ment. There was also a cradle roll 
of 38, ready presently to become en- 
rolled members. Average  attend- 
ance for the year was 115, a figure 
equalled only once before during the 
past quarter century. The record of 
i61 for a single Sunday established a 
new high mark for the school. An- 
cther new record was established by 
the 13 who had perfect attendance 
during the entire year, there never 
having been so many before. _ Thirty- 
three boy scouts and committeemen 
were registered last year, and. the 
troop included almost all the eligible 
boys in town. Y. P..S. C. E. mem- 
bership was—junior, 56, senior 25, or 
81 in all. Deaths during the year 
were Daniel Trow, March 23; Wil- 
liam H. Hoyt, May -3; Charles H. 
Leach, Nov. 1, and Mrs: Anna W. 
Batchelder, Dec. to. ; 
G Reels HENDERSON 
Telephone. . 
