MANCHESTER SECTION 
An entertainment is planned by the 
ladies of Allen Relief corps to be held 
in Town hall on Wednesday evening, 
March 28. 
The Red Men started a pitch 
tournament between the floor men 
and chiefs at their meeting Wednes- 
day evening. 
One of the sons of George An- 
drews of this town, who married a 
young woman of the Provinces, and 
who joined the Canadian troops at the 
outbreak of the war, was wounded 
recently and is at present in a British 
hospital. 
Mrs. John Neary, who makes her 
home with her son Edward J. Neary 
at 35 Lincoln st., has been quite ill. 
the past week. One of her sons came 
on from New York and another was 
expected on from Idaho last night. 
Mrs. Neary passed her 73d birthday 
only recently. 
Monday’s snow storm brought with 
it one blessing—the finest sleighing 
Manchester has had in years. Sleigh- 
ing parties have been enjoyed in con- 
siderable numbers the past few days. 
On Wednesday evening three pung 
loads of young people came up from 
Gloucester to attend the movie show 
in Town hall. 
Mrs. Joseph Floyd and young son, 
Julius F. R. Floyd, accompanied by 
Miss Abbie Floyd, left Wednesday 
to join Mr. Floyd in Denver, Colo. 
A number of friends went to Boston 
to see them off, at a luncheon party 
for twelve. They will break the 
journey by a stop-off in Iowa for a 
ten days’ visit with Mrs. Floyd’s 
people. Miss Floyd may prolong her 
stay in the West indefinitely. 
Baseball is fighting with the annual 
Town meeting for center of the stage 
these days, at least so far as the local 
followers of the national pastime are 
concerned. The local fans became 
more disturbed last week over the an- 
nouncement of the signing of Frankie 
O’Leary by the Marblehead manage- 
ment than they would have been if 
Marblehead had stolen our Town hall 
instead of our star third baseman. 
Their shouts for action have been 
answered by the officers of the base- 
ball association and a meeting will be 
held next Wednesday evening in Car- 
penters hall. All fans are urged to 
show they mean business by attend- 
ing the council of war. The election 
of a treasurer in place of I. E. Irish, 
who has left town, will be one matter 
of business. 
Friday, February 9, 1917. 
The Arbella club will meet in the 
Chapel on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 
1 4. 
Chairman Edward S$. Knight of the 
board of selectmen attended the ses- 
sions of the American Road Builders 
assn. in Boston this week. 
Members of Allen Relief corps and 
Allen post, G. A. R., will unite with 
Col. H. P. Woodbury camp, S. of V., 
next Monday evening to observe 
Lincoln’s birthday. 
The next dance of the Winter So- 
cial club will be held in Town hall on 
Tuesday evening, Feb. 20, instead of 
next Friday evening as previously 
announced. It will be the last affair 
of the club before the Lenten season. 
The posters for the Manchester 
club minstrels will be out today or 
tomorrow and they will offer much 
in the line of novelty, for every pos- 
ter will be different. Never before 
has such an array of original cartoons 
been arranged for an affair in Man- 
chester. Every poster will be a work 
of art, most of them in colors. They 
are deserving of much credit. Most 
of them were done by Fletcher Mac- 
Callum of the local postoffice, and 
another Gloucester young man, and 
some by boys of the High and G. A. 
Priest schools. The show will be 
held on two nights—Thursday and 
Friday, Mar. 1 and 2, and tickets will 
go on sale next week. Another re- 
hearsal will be held in Town hall to- 
night (Friday) and the next on Mon- 
day of next week. 
So great an attraction did the mov- 
ing picture entertainment in Town 
hall under the auspices of the Parent- 
Teacher assn. prove on Wednesday 
evening that it was impossible to ac- 
commodate the 600 or more who de- 
sired admission and over 200 were 
turned away. A second performance 
was given last evening to take care of 
those who did not get in for the first 
show. The films shown were ‘The 
Silk Industry in India,” “An Ameri- 
can in the Making,” “Arts and Crafts 
in India,” “Indian Justice” and a com- 
bination film. As an experiment the 
entertainment was wholly satisfying. 
Between the reels the Orpheus club 
entertained with pleasing selections. 
The pianists for the music with the 
pictures were Misses Ruth E. Norris. 
Lila McEachern. Ruth Brooks and 
Doris Knoerr. The attendance at the 
show last evening was below that of 
the previous night, the hall being a 
little over half filled. 
At a meeting of the school commit- 
tee held last Friday evening, Law- 
rence F. McCarthy was reappointed 
as playground instructor. 
Miss Pauline Semons left Wednes- 
day for Hanover, N. H., to attend 
the Dartmouth college winter carni- 
val, which is the big event of the 
winter there. 
Mrs. E. P. Wheeler and son of 
Bridgeport, Conn., are visitors at the 
home of Mrs. Wheeler’s sister, Mrs. 
Andrew Lee. Mrs. Wheeler intends 
to extend her visit for several weeks. 
The floormen increased their lead 
in the pitch tournament by defeating 
the past commanders of Col. H. P. 
Woodbury, S. of V., on Tuesday eve- 
ning mine games to six. Their lead 
is now I3 games. 
The electric company was tempo- 
rarily out of business Monday when 
a large tree blew down opposite the 
Tweed estate at Beverly Farms, tak- 
ing with it several poles besides 
breaking the wires. Service was re- 
sumed late in the afternoon. 
The engagement is announced of 
Miss Annabelle Lodge, younger 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. 
Lodge, of Bennett st., and Edward 
Russell Lloyd of Cambridge. Mr. 
Lloyd was graduated from the Mass. 
Agric. college, in 1912, with Miss 
Lodge’s brother, C. A. Lodge, Jr., 
and the two are associated in agricul- 
tural work in Munson, Alberta. 
Walter B. Calderwood is building 
two Class R. racing yachts similar to 
the Pam, the record breaker built for 
racing on Lake Erie last season. One 
of the boats is for Samuel Dauchie of 
Chicago and the other for Charles 
Adams of Boston. The Chicago man 
will use his boat on the lakes, but Mr. 
Adams will race at Marblehead. Both 
boats are designed by John Alden of 
Boston. It is expected that the little 
Pam will be brought to the coast for 
racing next summer. 
Alfred Parsons and William Till 
were appointed delegates to the con- 
vention of the Davies Tree Experts 
to be held in Kent, Ohio, on March 
8 and 10, at the meeting of the North 
Shore Horticultural society last Fri- 
aay evening. They plan to attend the 
last day’s session of the convention. 
It was decided to hold a flower show 
in August of the coming summer. 
The date will depend upon conditions 
of the early part of the season and 
will be announced as soon as it can 
be with safety. 
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