MANCHESTER SECTION 
George Melvin has been on from 
Detroit the past week, a guest of his 
brother William Melvin and family, 
Bennett st. 
Mr. and Mrs. M. P. LaBounty of 
Dorchester spent the week-end with 
Mr. and Mrs. C. Herbert Rayner of 
Vine st. 
Mr. and Mrs. John Scott have re- 
turned from Bedford where they have 
been visiting their daughter, Mrs. 
Marion Webber and family. 
Miss Ruth Baker has resumed her 
position at the telephone office after 
being confined to her home by illness 
the last two or three months, with 
heart trouble. 
Walter B. Calderwood is at work 
on a contract for six 18-foot knock- 
about boats for parties in Biddeford, 
Me. Plans were drawn by John G. 
Alden of Boston. 
The surgical dressings committee 
will meet next week on Friday after- 
noon at 2 o’clock, instead of Thurs- 
day, which is a-holiday. The com- 
mittee meets now on the upper floor 
of the fire engine house. 
A roll call of Conomo Tribe, I. O. 
R. M., and joint meeting of the Man- 
chester, Gloucester and Rockport 
tribes, is being arranged for by Co- 
nomo tribe to be held early in March. 
The Great Chief of Massachusetts 
has been invited and a most interest- 
ing program is being arranged. 
A series of gymnastic and dancing 
lessons is being held in the Price 
school hall under the auspices of the 
Parent-Teacher association. Mrs. 
George R. Dean has been engaged as 
instructor. The children’s classes are 
full, but there is room for a few more 
women in the adult class, which is 
held from 8 to 9 o’clock on Thursday 
evenings. The price is 15 cents per 
lesson. There will be no classes next 
Thursday, Feb. 22. 
The new officers of the Degree of 
Honor were installed by the deprty 
and suite from Lynn at a meeting in 
Carpenters hall last evening as fol- 
low: chief of honor, Mrs. Evelyn 
Mack, past chief of ceremonies, Mrs. 
Sarah Loomis; recorder, Mrs. Ida F. 
Mason; treasurer, Miss Charlotte 
Mason; financier, Miss Virginia 
Perry; lady of honor, Mrs. Rose 
Crombie; outside guard, Charles A. 
Mason; inside guard, Miss Lena 
Smith. Refreshrents were served 
following the ceremonies. Guests 
from Salem and Beverly were pres- 
ent. 
Friday, February 16, IQI7. 
Charles O. Lee is seriously ill at his 
ome. 
Fred W. Lane, who has Been seri- 
cusly ill at his home, School st., for 
s*me time, is reported to be very ‘low. 
The last dance before Lent of the 
Winter Social club will be held in 
Town hall next Tuesday evening, 
Feb. 20. It will be the third in the 
series the club is giving this winter. 
Edward A: Killam of 18 Desmond 
ave. was paid a birthday visit on 
Wednesday evening by 15 members 
of the Gloucester lodge of Elks. <A 
roast pig dinner was served and an 
enjoyable evening spent. 
The next Parent-Teacher meeting 
will be held in the Price school hall! 
next Monday evening, Feb. 19, at 8 
c’clock. This is the 20th anniversary 
of the formation of the Mother’s 
congress and Mrs. Grace Beaton will 
give the history of its starting and its 
accomplishments. ‘Mrs. C. Neal 
Barney of Lynn will speak on “Disci- 
pline in the Home.” The music will 
be appropriate to the occasion. Be 
sure to return the Lincoln penny 
slips given out at the last meeting. 
Tickets for the Manchester club 
Minstrel Show went on sale in Town 
hall box office last evening at 7 
o’clock with a big line in waiting. It 
was a case of “first come, first 
served,” and in this case the first 
came about 4.30 and waited until 7 
for the tickets to go on sale. All of 
the 50c seats for the Thursday night 
performance (Mar. 1) were soid, ex- 
cept 18, and all for the Friday night 
show except 81. The tickets are now 
at Walen’s. Members of the club 
fared no better than anyone else; no 
favoritism was shown. Everyone had 
an equal chance. The Manchester 
club believes in doing things right. 
Plans are completed for the an- 
nual Guest Night of the Woman’s 
club to be held in Town hall Wednes- 
day evening, Feb. 21. This wil! be 
an informal gathering of club mem- 
bers, their families and friends. A 
program of dances, music vocal and 
instrumental, will be furnished by the 
“Bluebirds,” Misses Helen Rumsey 
Smith and Helen Edlefson Barr of 
Boston. Refreshment of ices and 
cake will be served. Dancing will be 
indulged in later in the evening. 
Membership tickets admit club mem- 
bers to Guest Night : entertainment. 
Guest tickets may be obtained of Mrs. 
Ethel Valentine, Mrs. Eva Rand or 
Miss Beth Jewett. 
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James Mulvey has gone, to Warren- 
ton, Va., where he is employed as a 
stone mason by Connolly Bros. of 
Beverly Farms. 
The Arbella club is planning for 
an entertainment to be given in April. 
The proceeds will go to the Essex 
‘County branch of the Red Cross. 
Harold Trafton, who is connected 
with the Western Union Tel. Co. in 
New York, spent the week-end with 
his mother, Mrs. L. G... Trafton, 
School st. 
The floormen continue to gain in -~ 
the pitch tournament of Col. H. P. 
Woodbury camp, S. of V., having an- 
nexed eight more games on Tuesday 
evening. They now lead by 14 games. 
The pitch team of Magnolia lodge, 
I. O. O. F., started the new tourna- 
ment with Col. H. P. Woodbury 
camp, S. of V., last evening by de- 
feating the latter players 11 games to 
10. 
A special invitation is extended to 
every member of Allen Relief corps 
to attend the meeting next Thursday 
evening, Feb. 22, and spend an hour 
with George Washington. 
Washington’s Birthday, Feb. 22— 
next Thursday—is one the holidays 
the letter-carriers will not make any 
delivery. Persons on the various 
routes can obtain their mail that day 
by calling at the postoffice between 9 
and 10 o'clock. Mails will be dis- 
patched at the usual hours. 
he entertainment of the ladies of 
Allen Relief corps will be held in 
Town hall on Wednesday, March 14. 
The date previously announced was 
March 28, but owing to a_ conflict 
with another entertainment set for the 
same week it was decided to set the 
time forward two weeks. 
Officer Bullock went to Everett 
yesterday to take Antone Silva from 
the city tuberculosis hospital to a sim- 
ilar institution in Lynn. The Man- 
chester man was thriving’ under the 
treatment at the Everett hospital. A 
change of politics 
closing of the institution, caused the 
removal of all the patients. 
The postoffice at Manchester falls 
under the law regarding recruiting 
offices ‘for the army, navy and 
which places 
postoffices of the 2d, 3d or 4th class 
in a line for this duty. Literature 
may be procured from Postmaster 
Foster by anyone desiring informa- 
tion how to join the army, navy or 
marine corps. 
SURETY BONDS 
School and Union Streets, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
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