ORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XV 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, March 9, 1917 
No. 10 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The demand for summer rentals along the North 
Shore continues unabated. There is every indication that 
~ coming summer will be a busy one, as far as the num- 
ber of families on the Shore is concerned. That every 
house will be occupied is practically assured at this early 
date. And there are many indications that the season 
will be an early one, from the number of houses that are 
to be opened the latter part of this month and made ready 
for occupancy. 
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From the office of T. Dennie Boardman, Reginald 
and R. deB. Boardman of the Ames Building, Boston, and 
Manchester, we report the following rentals during the 
past week: 
Mr. and Mrs. Conover Fitch of Chestnut Hill, Brook- 
line, are to occupy the Smith Farm on Proctor street, 
Smith’s Point, Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch were 
not on the Shore last season, but the summer before they 
had the Churchman cottage on Proctor street, just oppo- 
site the estate they have leased for next season, on the 
Manchester inner harbor. Mr. Fitch is associated with 
his father in the Waltham Watch Co. Mrs. Fitch was 
before her marriage Miss Gladys Bogert. They have 
three lovely children. 
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Strauss of the Hotel Somerset, 
Boston, will again occupy “Ledge Leaf,” the attractive 
bungalow on Proctor street, Manchester, which they had 
last season. 
In this same locality, Mrs. Rebecca McM. Colfelt of 
Philadelphia, who is spending most of the winter at Mag- 
nolia as usual, will occupy the James Means cottage. 
Mrs. Colfelt had the Pickman gray cottage at Beverly 
Cove last season. 
Capt. and Mrs. Charles Webster Littlefield of the 
Plaza, N. Y., and Kansas City, will return to Manchester 
again the coming summer where they have released the 
Bradbury cottage, on Smith’s Point, which they have had 
for several years. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick I. Emery of Brookline will 
again occupy the Hardy cottage, at the corner of Hale 
and Valley streets, Beverly Farms. 
Gerald L. Hoyt and family of New York will also 
return to the North Shore for the summer. They will 
again occupy the William Endicott cottage on Neptune 
street, Beverly Cove. 
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Mrs. Ernest W. Roberts of the Rockport colony, a 
former president of the Congressional club in Washing- 
ton, was among the ex-presidents present at a luncheon 
given recently for the new president. 
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Mrs. John Hays atm president of the Mihtia 
of Mercy in New York, offers to be first in point of ser- 
vice to the families of the Naval Militia when needed. 
Prominent workers with her are Mrs. Harry Payne Whit- 
ney, Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. Charles 5. Whitman, 
Mrs. William R. Hearst, Mrs. L. M. Garrison, Mrs. 
James Speyer and Mrs. Isaac Guggenheim. 
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It is said that Ree ey T. Harahan of ‘Chicago and 
the North Shore is planning a charitable scheme for the 
tenement districts of New York and Chicago from her 
plantations in the south. Vegetables and cotton enter into 
the project, the cotton being grown for the soldiers. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The engagement is announced of Miss Helen Le Roy 
Lane of Cambridge, to Wells Blanchard of Concord, 
Mass. The announcement was made by Mrs. Nathaniel 
Tyler Lane, the prospective bride’s mother at a dinner 
given by Prof. and Mrs. Robert De C. Ward in ‘Cam- 
bridge. Miss Lane is a graduate of Mary Institute in the 
class of ’12 and after a year spent in Europe with her 
grandmother, Mrs. Francis Adams Lane, she made her 
début in St. Louis, was one of the débutantes chosen to 
belong to the Imperial and was one of the belles of the 
season. The Lanes, including Mrs. Francis Adams Lane, 
her daughter, Miss Bell Lane and Mrs. Nathaniel Tyler 
and her children, Miss Helen and Nathaniel T., Jr., have 
spent the greater part of the last few years away from 
St. Louis at their summer home in Manchester, and in 
Cambridge, returning to St. Louis for a part of each 
winter. Last spring they sold their old home at 3640 
West Pine boulevard, St. Louis, which had been the scene 
of many important social functions for three generations. 
Miss Lane has been a student at Simmons college in 
t:osion tor the last two years taking a course in household 
economics. Mr. Blanchard is a son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Herbert Wheeler Blanchard of Concord. He is a grad- 
uate of Middlesex in 1912 and of Harvard in 1916. The 
marriage probably will be in the early summer. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Bradley of Boston and 
Pride’s Crossing are at Palm Beach for a brief holiday. 
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Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, D.D., of Washington, 
D. C., began a course of lectures on Tuesday in Peabody 
Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Harvard college. Rev.. Dr. 
Smith has a summer home at Ipswich, known as “Cotton- 
field,” where he usually spends the warm months with his 
family. 
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At the Santa Barbara Country club in California 
are many sojourners just now, among whom are Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward S. Moore and their children of Lake For- 
est, Ill. Mrs. Moore’s sister, Miss Lois McGinley, of 
Pittsburg and Manchester, is with them. 
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Mrs. Hendricks H. Whitman and children of the 
North Beverly colony are spending March and April 
with Mrs. Whitman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart 
Chatfield-Taylor, in their new home, “Far Afield,” in 
Santa Barbara, Cal. Mr. Whitman will join her later in 
the spring. 
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Mrs. Russell Tyson gave a dinner and theatre party 
at her Chicago home last week for Miss Christine Snel- 
ling of Boston, fiancee of Loring Coleman, son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Joseph G. Coleman. 
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The Reginald de Kovens recently entertained with 
one of their popular musicales in their home in New 
York. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter were among the Wash- 
ingtonians entertaining extensively over the inauguration 
ceremonies. Last Friday night they gave a dinner of 
one hundred covers and as many more came in for danc- 
ing later. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Mitchell entertained Hugh 
G'bson, first secretary of the American Embassy at Lon- 
don, in their Washington home last week. 
