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MAGNOLIA 
Mrs. Ernest Lucas entertained the 
Whist club Tuesday afternoon. 
Mrs. Willard R. Boyd spent the 
week-end with friends in Boston. 
A Pie Party will be given under 
the auspices of the Ladies Aid so- 
ciety this evening (Friday) at the 
Women’s clubhouse. Moving pic- 
tures and dancing will follow the ser- 
ving of refreshments. 
Tracy Hoysradt and Layton Sy- 
monds are quite ill with pneumonia, 
while Mrs. Gordon Dunbar, Mrs. 
William Waddy, Mrs. Small, Flor- 
ence Parsons and Master James Dun- 
kar, are among those who are con- 
fined to the house and under the doc- 
tor’s care suffering with the grip and 
severe colds. 
Fred A. Boardman in his lecture in 
the Village church last Sunday night 
assured his audience that both the 
Chinese and Japanese:are very friend- 
ly towards Americans and America 
and. that this country has nothing to 
fear from either China or Japan. 
This at least is comforting news at 
this time of national anxiety and un- 
rest. 
Dr. Eaton will preach in the Vil- 
lage church Sunday morning and in 
the evening Miss Mary McGill will 
give an old Scotch Song recital and 
interpretation of Robert Burns. 
Among the songs that Miss McGill 
will sing are the following: “The 
Gonnie Lass 0’ Ballochmyle ;” “Ca the 
Yowes tae the Knowes;’ “My Love 
is Like a Red, Red Rose;” “Ye Bank 
snd Braes o’ Bonnie Doon;” “O 
Whistle, and I'll come tae ye, my 
Lad;” “O, wert thou in the Cauld 
Flast:” “Scots wha ha’e wi Wallace 
bled,” and “A Man’s a Man for that.” 
Miss McGill will also read “Sic a 
Wife as Willie Had” and “To Mary 
‘1 Heaven,” besides other popular 
poems of Burns. 
NEW FIRE PERIL 
Swany Execrrica, Devices CAUSE 
Many DisastErous PRESENT 
Day Fires. 
The Salem of Commerce commit- 
tee on fire prevention the present per- 
sonnel of which is Alvah P. Thomp- 
son, chairman; (Carlos P. Faunce, 
vice chairman; Greeley S. Curtis, 
Tohn E. Browning, Edward T. Sand- 
erson, E. Francis Enos and Fred A. 
Norton, has asked the BREEZE to give 
publicity to the following statement 
recently issued by the National Board 
of Fire Underwriters: 
“A new form of fire peril is com- 
ing into prominence as a cause of 
TREE PRUNING 
Everything in Forestry +... 
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 37 Magnolia, Mass. 
MAGNOLIA MARKET 
LAFAYETTE HUNT, Proprietor, 
BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, HAM, POULTRY, VEGETABLES, AGENTS FOR 
DEERFOOT FARM CREAM AND BUTTER. 
ORDERS TAKEN AND DE- 
LIVERED PROMPTLY. 4 
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 
much destruction, and its fires are so 
directly associated with carlessness 
that it has been deemed necessary to 
issue a special warning to the people 
of the United States. Because of 
their convenience, small electric de- 
vices, such as pressing irons, curling 
irons, toasters, electric pads of- blan- 
kets, electric plate warmers and elec- 
tric sterilizers or heaters are now to 
be found in almost every community. 
If these were used with proper care, 
the danger would be negligible, but, 
unfortunately, a portion of their users 
does not realize the peril of leaving 
them in circuit when not in use. In 
such cases these devices tend to be- 
come overheated, whereupon they are 
likely to set fire to anything combus- 
tible with which they are in contact. 
“Most of these fires are small, but 
the aggregate loss is large and occa- 
sional instances show extensive dam- 
age, as in the case of the $350,000 
fire in the Boston residence of ex- 
Governor Draper; this was traced to 
an electric plate warmer in the but- 
ler’s pantry. 
“Fires of this class furnish a spe- 
cial peril of life, being most frequent 
in dwellings and often breaking out 
at night. A characteristic example 
is that in which an electric pressing 
Notary Public ; 
iron is left upon the ironing board, 
with the current turned on, and then 
forgotten. In such a case the fire 
may not occur until some hours later. 
‘ihe burning of the residence of John 
Wanamaker, several years ago, was 
due to an electric pressing iron. 
“That this form of hazard is al- 
ready assuming large proportions ap- 
pears from the statistics. For ex- 
‘ample, the Acturial bureau of the Na- 
tional Board of Fire Underwriters in 
one day noted approximately one 
hundred reports of fires from this 
cause, out of a total of two thousand 
losses in the day’s report, and it esti- 
mates that small electrical devices are 
causing fires at the rate of 30,06c or 
more in the course of a year. 
“Tt is safe to say that most of these 
fires are entirely preventable and can 
be charged to nothing but careless- 
ness on the part of the user. Vari- 
ous ‘safety’ devices have been added 
by certain of the manufacturers of 
these articles, and among them are 
some that are fairly effective, but 
there is one absolute precaution which 
should be borne in mind at all times 
by every user, namely, that of shut- 
ting off the current when not person- 
ally and continuously supervising the 
use. 
«  R E. HENDERSON 
BOX 244, BEVERLY, MASS. 
Telenhone. 
