MANCHESTER SECTION 
Additional Manchester locals on 
page 10. 
We regret to report the continued 
illness of Edward A. Lane. 
Mrs. A. S. Jewett, Church st., is ill 
of pneumonia, but her condition is 
not considered critical. 
Mrs. Samuel S. Peabody is at the 
Beverly Hospital and may have to 
undergo a surgical operation. 
Patrolman Thos. Sheehan has re- 
sumed his beat after a prolonged ab- 
sence due to an attack of rheumatism. 
It is reported about town t!at the 
Manchester Ice Co. is about to change 
hands, the purchaser being an out of 
town party. 
Attention is called to a communica- 
tion from one of our summer resi- 
dents, printed on page 5, relative to 
the appropriation of $5000 for the 
mosquito campaign which is referred 
to as a “campaign of luxury.” 
The Mancliester club meets tonight, 
when it is understood the question of 
holding a club banquet will be one of 
the matters to be decided upon. The 
club has not held a banquet now for 
five or six years. 
A barge load of coal arrived in 
Manchester last Friday, the first to 
be unloaded since the harbor froze 
over in mid-winter. The channel ice, 
some 10 inches thick, was blasted out 
with dynamite to allow the vessel to 
get to Samuel Knight Sons Co. 
wharf. The picture on the cover of 
the Breeze shows the barge in the 
inner harbor after clearing the draw- 
bridge. 
The next meeting of the Parent- 
Teacher association will be held in the 
Price School hall Wednesday eve- 
ning, March 21, at 8o’clock. Through 
the interest of Mrs. W. H. Coolidge, 
Jr., of Magnolia we have secured 
Agnes C. McNamara, field secretary 
of the national civic federation, who 
will give an illustrated talk on “Sur- 
gical Dressings.” The illustrated talk 
on surgical dressings covers the origin 
and development of the work, the ap- 
palling need for the dressings and 
their shipment and distribution to the 
zone of the armies. The object of 
the talk is to stimuate the interest of 
New England women and focus the 
attention of New England communi- 
ties upon this phase of preparedness 
with the hope that it may increase 
the surgical dressings committee to 
ten thousand. Music will be furn- 
ished by the George A. Priest School 
orchestra. 
Friday, March 16, 1917. 
MR. J. OGDEN ARMOUR’S 
MESSAGE 
TO THE AVERAGE YOUNG MAN 
Many of these half-way folks get 
by, but they never get far. 
There is always a premium in busi- 
ness on the man who does his work 
painstakingly, with completeness and 
finality; he is the man who will be 
trusted with more and more responsi- 
bility, up to the limit of his capacity. 
The man who informs himself ade- 
quately about his firm, its methods, its 
policies and its products, who does his 
work so well that no one need follow 
him up to patch the ragged edges, is | 
on the safest, surest and shortest road 
to achievement. 
Rev. A. G. Warner was the speak- 
er at the meeting of the Taylor Bible 
class of the First Baptist church, Bev- 
erly, on Tuesday evening. His sub- 
ject was “The Royal Life.” 
The next meeting of the Woman’s 
club will be held in the Chapel next 
Tuesday afternoon, March 20. It 
will be a Thimble Bee and for mem- 
bers only. Mrs. George S. Sinnicks 
will be hostess. 
Edward S. Knight is advertising 
his florist business for sale. He will 
sell the equipment, greenhouses and 
land, or will sell equipment and rent 
greenhouses. The business was estab- 
lished in 1884 and ought to prove a 
valuable property for the right party. 
A recount of the vote on assessor 
for one year was held in the office of 
the board of selectmen on Monday 
evening. The registrars of voters 
canvassed the vote and found that 
four ballots, previously counted as 
blanks, belonged to Jeffrey S. Reed, 
giving Mr. Reed a lead of five votes 
over F. Clifford Rand. The vote now 
stands, Reed, 217; Rand, 212; Blanks, 
57: 
Today is “movie” day in Manches- 
ter. The two shows of the baseball 
association will be held in Town hall, 
one at 4.30 o’clock for everybody, at 
10 cents, and one in the evening at & 
c’clock. At the evening performance 
the admission for children under 16 
will be 10 cents and for adults 15 
cents. <A fine selection of pictures 
has been made for each performance. 
The evening program will be some- 
what changed for the benefit of those 
who see both performances. A Grif- 
fith production, “The Battle,” will be 
a feature of the evening program. 
_ Lester Goldthwait has moved to 
the Culbert house on Brook st. 
A daughter arrived at the home of 
Mr. .and Mrs. .Thomas.. O’Hara, 
Smith’s Point, Tuesday. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Rowe of 
School st. are the proud parents of a 
baby girl born Tuesday at the Hart 
hospital, Roxbury. 
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Blaisdell 
plan to leave the first of next week 
for a vacation trip of several weeks 
in Flordia. 
Spring has arrived! J. Harris has 
opened his tailor shop for the season 
—the first of the coterie of tailors 
who seek a fortune in Manchester 
during the summer. 
The selectmen are to give a public 
hearing at their ruom in Town hall 
on Tuesday evening, March 27, at 
7.30 o'clock on the petition of John E. 
Riggs for permission to maintain a 
floating fish trap in Manchester har- 
bor, to be located on the westerly 
side of Ram Island for a term not ex- 
ceeding five years. 
On Wednesday evening, March 28, 
the 25 anniversary of the institution 
of Col. H. P. Woodbury camp, S. of 
V., will be observed with appropriate 
exercises in Town hall. In addition 
tc prominent speakers, including Hon. 
Fred E. Bolton, past commander in 
chief, entertainment will be provided 
by out of town talent. G. A. R. and 
Relief corps members and eligibles 
are invited to be present. 
Local fans get another welcome bit 
of news in the announcement that 
“Bill” Sheehan, who played in the 
Marblehead series last year, is to of- 
ficiate at second base this year. Shea- 
han was not altogether in the favor 
of the local fans after the Marble- 
head game in which he failed to show 
his usual form. However, he was 
playing in the outfield whereas his 
customary position is at shortstop or 
second. He received a tryout with 
the Chicago White Sox at shortstop a 
couple of seasons ago, but did not 
have big league calibre. He is handy 
with the bat and in the Beverly series 
of 1915 was largely responsible for 
Manchester’s defeat. Last season he 
was one of the crack infielders of the 
U. S. M. team of Beverly. Another 
player who has been booked for the 
coming season is Gourley of last 
year’s team. The little rightfielder 
showed considerable skill at the bat 
and in the field and is expected to be 
better than ever this season. 
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