MANCHESTER SECTION 
The Arbella club will hold an extra 
meeting in the Chapel on Friday 
afternoon, March oth, at four o’clock. 
The next meeting of the Woman's 
club, which is scheduled for March 
10 is the annual Children’s Day meet- 
ing. 
“Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Burke are re- 
ceiving congratulations on the arrival 
of a son at their home on Bennett st. 
on Sunday. morning. 
Miss Edith. Menken of the Cove 
was given a shower at the home of 
Mr. and -Mrs; Albert’ Marlen, Lin- 
coln street, Thursday evening of last 
week. 
Miss Eva Ellis has resumed her 
duties in charge of the Gloucester 
Coal Co. office in Manchester, after a 
two months’ vacation, spent mostly in 
Toronto, Can. 
An entertainment for the benefit of 
the relief fund will be given in Town 
hall on Wednesday evening, March 
14, by, the-:ladies: of Allen Relief 
corps. - An interesting program is be- 
ing arranged. 
"Carnae! Knight, the oldest son of 
Mr. and Mrs.. Frank P. Knight, is 
home from Arizona for a visit. Mr. 
Knight has been conducting the Bird 
Co. cattle ranch. in Aezona, not far 
from the Mexican border the last two 
years. 
The local Odd Fellows have taken 
on quite. a new lease of life. For 
years the largest and most substan- 
tial of the many fraternal orders in 
town, with a membership ranging be- 
tween 150 and 170, the lodge is one 
of the most prosperous small lodges 
in the state. Applications for ten new 
members were received at the meet- 
ing last week, and two or three more 
were presented last night—and they 
are nearly all young men between 20 
end 30 years of age. 
Manchester. is to have another 
movie show on Friday evening, 
March 16, when an entertainment will 
be put on at Town hall in behalf of 
the Baseball association. The enter- 
tainment committee has engaged 
Stanley Wonson of Essex. who fur- 
rished the recent entertainyent for 
the Parent-Teacher. association, to 
provide the show. If the entertain- 
ment is the expected success a series 
will. be arranged. for the balance of 
the season. It is planned to organize 
an auxiliary committee of » young 
Jadies to make and sell candy at the 
entertainments for the benefits of the 
team. 
Friday, March 4 21017. 
The report of the committee on by- 
laws for the town was distributed to 
the voters this week, being sent out 
by mail. 
Miss Florence Haskell, who teaches 
iit Ware, is home for a week’s vaca- 
tion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
John G. Haskell, West Manchester. 
Miss Princie Dodge is spending a 
week’s vacation from her _ school 
duties in Quincy, at the home of her 
mother, Mrs. Jennie Dodge, School 
street. 
John Singleton, who has been em- 
ployed as chauffeur for Reginald 
LDoardman, has entered the employ of 
Perkins & Corliss. Leone (Bill) 
Bailey, who has been employed at the 
garage will drive the supply truck fo. 
Perkins & Corliss in Manchester this 
season. 
Gordon Northrop, who has_ been 
with Stone & Webster in Boston the 
last year and a half, has been trans- 
ferred to a new position as assistant 
engineer in the car department of the 
Heywood Bros. Co. plant in Wake- 
field, and will take up his duties there 
next Monday. 
At least two Manchester men will 
take prominent parts in the National 
G. A. R. encampment in Boston next 
summer. Edwin P. Stanley, as junior 
vice department commander will be 
active in the general arrangements, 
and Lyman W. Floyd has _ received 
an appointment as a member of the 
committee on reunions. 
Mrs. Anna A. Phillips, Miss Mary 
Dodge Giles, Mrs. Harriet Gold- 
smith and daughter, Miss Lila G. 
Goldsmith started Tuesday by train 
for Atlanta, Ga., where they are to 
spend some two months visiting 
Arthur E. Giles and family. Mr. 
Giles has been located at Atlanta for 
some time as general manager of the 
Southern Division of the General 
Electric Company. 
The North Brookfield National 
Bank. which opens next Monday, 
March 5, has two well-known former 
Manchester residents prominently 
identified with its board of manage- 
ment and officers. Ralph H. Mann, 
who organized the Manchester Trust 
Co. in I9IT, is a vice-president, and 
I. E.. Trish, until a few weeks ago 
connected with the Manchester Trust 
Co., is cashier. The best wishes of 
a host of friends in Manchester and 
along the North Shore, are extended 
to these two young men in their new 
work. 
rank H. Crombie 
returned Wednesday for a_ two 
months’ visit with their son-in-law 
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Witt, in 
Belchertown. 
Mrs. Daglan Walsh and family are 
moving away from Manchester next 
Monday, to Winthrop, where Edward 
Walsh, the oldest son, formerly con- 
nected with. Allen’s Drug store, has a 
position. 
Mr. Beach and family are to move 
into the Walsh house on Pine st, 
when Mrs. Walsh and family move. 
away from Manchester.. Mr. Beach 
is employed at the W. B. Walker es- 
tate. 
The next Arbella concert is, sched- 
uled for tomorrow (Saturday) after- 
noon and will as usual be a great treat 
to Manchester music lovers, who 
look forward to the first Saturday of 
each month during the winter season 
with a great deal of pleasure. 
On Tuesday evening, March 6, 
North Shore lodge, A. O. U. W., will 
hold a Class Initiation of eleven can- 
didates, the work to be performed by 
a degree team from out of town. Al! 
brothers and visiting brothers are re- 
quested to be present. 
Yesterday was the last chance to 
file your income tax return. If you 
didn’t you may have a chance to try 
the edge of the “teeth” with which the 
new law is provided. Town Clerk 
Jewett’s office has been a busy place 
the last few days, many people leav- 
ing the filing until the last moment. 
Dr. Geo. F. Keenan of Brighton, 
Captain of Co. I, Mass. Ambulance 
corps, will give an informal talk at 
the Manchester club, Saturday eve- 
ning, at 8 o’clock, on his experiences 
at the Mexican border last summer. 
Dr. Keenan married) ‘one ot she 
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
D. Connolly at Beverly Farms. 
“Abraham Jacobs, a tailor at 301A 
Huntington avenue, Boston, was rob- 
bed of $156 by two men, who en- 
tered his shop and covered him with 
a pistol after decoying him into a 
hack room. They left him tied to a 
table and gained nearly an _ hour’s 
start before Jacob’s plight was dis- 
covered.” Mr. Jacobs ‘conducts a 
tailor shop in Manchester. Two sea- 
sons ago he was in the Blaisdell block 
on Beach street; last summer he had 
a small shop on Union street.. The 
robbery occurred on Monday night, 
at Mr. Jacob’s shop near the Boston 
Opera House, Boston. 
Mr. and’ Mrs. 
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