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POSTOFFICE DAMAGED 
‘Heavy Auto TrRucK RUNS AMUCK 
AND. CRASHES THROUGH FRONT 
oF BUILDING. 
A heavily loaded runaway motot 
truck crashed.into the front entrance 
of the Manchester postoffice about 
one o'clock Thursday afternoon shat- 
tering the big front window, smash- 
ing in the door and effectively block- 
ing the entrance for almost an hour. 
The truck, which was the property o! 
the Prior’s Express, Inc., of Lynn, 
was in charge of Charles W. Marsh 
of Summit st., Weymouth. The re- 
sponsibility for the accident 1n hard 
to fix. Marsh had left his truck in 
front of the O’Keefe store on Union 
st. and with his helper Herbert Car- 
roll, also of Weymouth, had started 
‘n search of the manager of the store. 
His machine, which was loaded with 
goods for the O’Keefe store ‘was a 
Pierce-Arrow truck and the 
five-ton t 
load weighed approximately eight 
tons. Marsh declared his brakes 
were set when the machine started 
on its backward ‘voyage down the 
grade to the postoffice. There were 
three chains on each of the rear 
wheels, but the base of the wheels 
was not resting on them. The power 
had been turned off. 
The truck gathered such headway 
before it struck the building that it 
shot over the curb and crashed 
through the wall at_the corner. Post- 
master Frank A. Foster, luckily, had 
been late in leaving for his luncheon 
and consequently late in returning. 
Had he been a few minutes earlier in 
returning he would have been seated 
at his desk in the corner where the 
truck struck and would probably have 
been seriously hurt by the shattering 
of the plate glass, window. Fletcher 
MacCullom, a-clerk in the office, was 
just leaving the office, after removing 
the mail from the drop-box in the 
outer wall, when the truck crashed 
through. The box was demolished, 
it being the only government fixture 
that was in anyway damaged. 
Ernest L. Valentine saw the truck 
as it was skidding toward the office 
and discovered that the brakes were 
set when he attempted to stop its mo- 
tion. Among other things on the 
load were 120 dozen eggs whose con- 
dition after the collision can be 1m- 
agined. eis 
The force of the collision with the 
building was ‘such that the joists in 
the wall were broken off short above 
the sill and the wall was dented in 
nearly two feet. . The door frame 
was wrecked and even the stone sup- 
port under the corner was dislodged. 
The damage to the building, which is 
owned by M. J. Callahan, will prob- 
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ably amount to more than $500. Car- 
penters began clearing away the de- 
tris before the truck was moved. The 
viindow was covered and supports 
put under the wall. Business was 
continued with only an hour’s inter- 
ruption. 
Several autos skidded badly on the 
corner during the day and it is for- 
tunate other accidents did not occur © 
at the same point. 
Ov WOOO 
WHISPERINGS $ 
of THE BREEZES 
BH00000000000000000000000008 
Have 
You done 
Your mite in 
Making up the Vital 
Statistics of Manchester this year? 
3: SP. 
That Manchester will be a thriving 
citv of more than a million population 
in 1977, is the prophesy of the 
WHISPERER, it the birthrate increases 
the next sixty years as it has the last 
two or three, and the death-rate de- 
creases. IF! Manchester will be a 
city before we know it. By a little 
figuring, employing the arithmetical 
progression process, any school boy 
or girl can deduct that at the end of 
three generations the population of 
the town, now about 3000, will be 
1,050,100, made up as follows: 500,- 
coo Polanders; 250,000 Irish; 100,- 
000 Nova Scotians; 60,000 New- 
foundlanders; 50,000 Italians; 50,000 
Yiddish; 30,000 Swedes and Nor- 
wegians; 10,000 Scotch; 10,000 
Greeks—and 100 Americans. All 
simple enough! Glance over the rec- 
ords; they tell their own story. Of 
ccurse, you must take into consider- 
ation that very few people ever die 
in Manchester, and if the percentage 
of decrease continues for sixty years 
Alas! , 
practically nobody would die. 
Manchester will be a veritable Foun- 
tein of Youth sixty years hence, 
IF aim 
Pao? So. ; : 
_A White Elephant party may pro- 
vide amusement in unexpected forms, 
ine plan of entertainment is for each 
REEZE 
W. B. Calderwood 
Builder of Yachts, Launches and Tenders 
Paints, Oils, Varnish, Cordage, Oars, and all kinds of. 
ae Marine Hardware constantly on’ hand Tis 
Marine Railways, Yacht and Boat Repairing of every description 
Boats STORED FOR THE WINTER AT OWNERS’ Risk IN. CASE.OF FIRE 
Manchester, Mass. 
Coughlin, 
Jan. 12, 1917, 
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TELEPHONES 
Office 254--Res. 241-W 
Watch for the - 
RED TRUCKS 
Telephones: 
GLOUCESTER MANCHESTER 
66 and 1266 ; 161 
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guest to bring such articles as he or 
she has no further use for. These 
at the proper time are jumbled in a 
basket and passed out, one to-each of 
the company asembled. It seems like 
the irony of fate that two nursing 
bottles, which one young matron de- 
cided she would have no further use 
for, should fall to the lot of one who 
lias looked with such disfavor upon 
wedded life as to be still endowed 
with the charms of single blessedness. 
X—X—x 
This (Friday) morning was the 
coldest of the winter thus far. The 
thermometer stood at'1° above zero 
at Ovaries 
ForESTERS INSTALLED. 
Officers of Father Shahan court, 
M. C. O. F., Manchester, were in- 
stalled on Wednesday evening by 
Deputy High Chief “Ranger Miss 
Annie Campbell of Salem in Odd 
Fellows hall. The following were 
seated for the ensuing year: James 
Gallagher, chief ranger; James Mc- 
Tiernan, vice chief ranger; John F. 
Ryan, recording secretary; Catherine 
Cleary, financial secretary; William 
H. McKachern, treasurer; Margaret 
senior conductor; John 
Wade, junior,conductor; Margaret 
O’Neil, inside sentinel; David Gillis, 
outside sentinel. 
Neat line of men’s and boys’ caps, 
W. R.. Bell’s, Central sq. adv. 
Taxi—-Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
Winter Underwear, at W. R. Bell’s, 
Centralisa yt ot, ait adv. 
Taxi—Phone. Manchester 290. adv. 
Elite shoes for Winter at W. R- 
Bell’s, Central:sq.: adv, 
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