March 9, 1917. 
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In 
Union 
There is 
Strength, we 
Are told. The Five 
W’s tunion—of Minstrel 
Show fame—manifested its 
Strength at Town Meeting, Mon- 
day night, when it asked for a raise 
in pay from 35c to 40c an hour, and 
got away with it in less time than it 
tekes to write this, and with no more 
debate. 
X—X—Xx 
“What union is the Five W’s?” 
ask. “We-won’t-work-will-we.” 
xs x=——=x 
Perhaps this increase in pay will 
change things around a bit; someone 
suggests that President Baker of the 
union change the name to “We-will- 
work-won’t-we.” Personally, we do 
not like either name, for all of the 
embers cannot live up to the prin- 
ciples of either. There ought to be 
two distinct unions. 
D. ont, Gam, 
Seriously, we are glad the boys got 
their raise. They all need it, even if 
some of them are not worth it. 
Things are bad enough for town la- 
borers under the best of conditions. 
Very few of them ever get in a full 
week; the Weather Man wills it 
otherwise. Even if they did, they 
wouldn’t get more than $17.60 for 
their 44 hours, and in these times of 
struggling with the HCofL, $17.60 
doesn’t give us much more than a 
smell of the hook the meat is hung 
cen, as Gus Knoerr says. But 
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Like all Stories—there are two 
sides. This increase in pay of town 
laborers in Manchester is apt to cause 
some confusion. All appropriations 
in the various departments were made 
on a basis of existing conditions; that 
is, paying 35c an hour. Now, pay- 
ing 40c an hour, it is a question 
whether the work on the highways, 
in the water department. and in other 
lines of town work, can be done with- 
in the appropriation. The problem 
will probably work itself out satisfac- 
tory to all concerned. however. 
Ss 
Clifford Rand of 
Manchester has joined the ranks of 
the Also Rans. If he had voted for 
himself for assessor instead of our 
restauranteur, Mr. Reed, he would 
have been elected, for he would then 
have had 213 votes to Mr. Reed’s 212. 
In passing we might add that our 
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Station-agent 
Telephone 190 
genial, bald-headed agent has just had 
a telephone installed in his new home 
“on the road to Essex” so that pat- 
rons of the B. & M. may call him late 
at night, after the station is closed, to 
get information about trains, etc. 
The number is 24-X. In algebra X 
is used to denote the unknown quant- 
ity, which is not the reason it should 
be attached to this particular tele- 
phone. 
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The pessimist! May the Lord de- 
liver us from getting into this class! 
He sat behind me in the train the 
other day. “I always buy a regular 
full-fare ticket when I ride on the 
train,” he was telling a fellow pas- 
senger, “instead of getting one of 
these special tickets, because if she 
ever runs off the rails I don’t want 
any fuss about collecting full dam- 
age.” God forbid! That’s getting 
it down pretty fine. We hope he lives 
to collect. The remark was occasion- 
ed by Conductor Allen Goss asking 
him for the train check. “You didn't 
give me one,” said the passenger, “but 
| gave you a ticket through to Boston. 
The number of it was Pee hinks 
of it! This man takes no chances. I 
siippose when he pays a bill he makes 
a record of the numbers on the bank 
jotes and the dates on the coins. 
ee Neen 
“To encourage small towns and vil- 
lages to maintain National Guard 
units, the War Department, in a cir- 
cular issued Wednesday, has author- 
ized the establishment of detached 
piatoons, coming from neighboring 
towns or settlements, would form a 
company in a regiment organized in 
that part of the State. The minimum 
strength fixed for detached platoons 
is fixed at 34 men.” 
In this connection we might say 
that in case the call is ever issued to 
raise an army, Manchester ought to 
be able to do its share in recruiting 
and training one or more companies. 
ge a ake of the High School 
a member of the Reserve Force, 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA 
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Veuve Chaffard Olive Oil, Swansdown Flour, Brigham Creamery Butter 
———S. S. Pierce Co.’s 
Postoffice Block 
Fancy Groceries 
FRESH FRUIT! 
Direct from the Boston Markets Daily 
Only Fruit Store on the North 
Shore that Guarantees Its Fruit. 
Native Garden Vegetables in Season 
Pure Olive Oil 
MANCHESTER FRUIT STORE 
Post Office Block Phone 160 
i 
Geo. W. Hooper Est. 
DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS 
GROCERIES 
KITCHEN FURNISHINGS 
Manchester, : : Mass. 
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being a Plattsburg “graduate.” Alex- 
ander Robertson was an officer in the 
volunteer army during the Spanish- 
American war and had experience in 
recruiting and training men at that 
time. Rodney H. Dow served his 
time as a private in Co. G of Glou- 
cester, his term of service expiring 
just before the boys left for the Mex- 
ican border last summer. 
Buy your paints, oils, varnishes and 
shellac from H. S$. Tappan, Bridge 
{., Manchester. adv. 
Winter Underwear at W. R. Bell’s, 
Central sq. adv. 
When you think of painting think 
of Tappan, 17 Bridge st., Manches- 
ter: adv. 
To be trusted’ is to be saved — 
Henry Drummond. . 
It is easy to be generous; to be sat 
is more difficult and burde 
Louise de la Ramee. 
ALLEN’S DRUG STORE Su: MAN CHESTER 
Registered Pharmacists Always on Duty 
Telephones: 217, 8388 
If one is busy call the other 
