MANCHESTER SECTION. 
Lewis W. Hutchinson is advertis- 
ing his butcher-cart business for sale. 
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Stanley 
are the proud parents of a baby girl 
born Monday. 
F. Leonard Floyd has been ap- 
pointed assistant town clerk for the 
ensuing year by L. W. Floyd. 
Austin Morley has started work on 
the foundations for new greenhouses 
on the A. C. Burrage estate at Pride’s 
Crossing, 
The ‘Manchester club will hold a 
special meeting Saturday evening—at 
9g o’clock—to take definite action on 
the question of holding a banquet. A 
lerge representation of members is 
hoped for. 
Selectman Geo. R. Dean was in 
Boston yesterday looking over some 
horses, incident to the proposition to 
buy a new pair of horses for the fire 
department. He didn’t see anything 
anywhere as good as several that E. 
J. Semons has in his large stock. 
Harry Davis and family have mov- 
ed from the Allen house on Bridge 
st. to the Tappan house on Bennett 
st. The Manchester Lawn Mower 
Co. business will be conducted in the 
upper portion of the shop occupied 
ky Clare Peters as a bicycle shop. 
Mrs. William C. Rust has been ill 
with the grippe during the past two 
weeks. It is Mrs. Rust’s intention to 
move out of town and take a much 
needed rest, and her going away will! 
be a great loss to ‘Melvin Rust. He 
will miss the care she has always 
given him. 
E. Wallace Stanley, after 22 years 
as blacksmith with the late Horace 
Standley and since Mr. Standley’s 
death, with his sons, is concluding 
his services the latter part of April. 
Though undecided as to his plans for 
the future, Mr. Stanley thinks he may 
buy a fatm in New Hampshire or 
Vermont and move there with his 
family. 
Manchester friends of Israel Mar- 
tin, who conducted the brickyard on 
Summer street for so many years will 
be interested to hear from him. Mr. 
Martin now makes his home in 
Georgetown. He has taken a great 
deal of interest the last few weeks in 
following town affairs and the town 
meeting by reading the BrrrzrE.. He 
is now 74 years old, but is enjoying 
splendid health. He recently bought 
a wood lot and has been employing 
his time the past winter in cutting it 
off. 
Friday, March 23, 1917. 
Nelson Wood is working at Stand- 
ley’s garage. 
There will be an adjourned Town 
meeting on Monday evening, at 7.30 
o'clock. 
Four candidates were initiated by 
Conomo tribe, I. O. R. M., on Wed- 
nesday evening. 
The annual guest night of Friend- 
ship circle will be held in Town hall 
next Tuesday evening. 
Fletcher R. MacCallum has re- 
ceived appointment as a regular clerk 
at the Manchester postoffice, appoint- 
ment to take effect April 1. Mr. 
MacCallum has served as substitute 
clerk for the past four years. 
The Park board organized on Wed- 
nesday evening with Jeffrey S. Reed 
as chairman and Alfred E. Parsons 
as secretary. The board has been 
swamped with applicants for work at 
Singing Beach the coming summer. 
Mrs. Carrie Peake of Boston, who 
is visiting her niece, Mrs. 
Hersey, was painfully injured Wed- 
nesday evening at the B. & M. station. 
She had just alighted from the 5.17 
train from Boston when she tripped 
on the crossing and fell, striking her 
face. 
Manchester got a glimpse of the 
preparations for war on Wednesday 
afternoon when two auto loads of 
naval recruiting officers stopped in the 
square for a few minutes on their 
way to Gloucester. Streamers at- 
tached to the automobiles read, ‘“En- 
list in the Navy—U. S. Battleship 
Georgia.” The machines attracted 
attention again in the evening on their 
return trip to Boston. 
Manchester friends of Ira E. Irish, 
formerly cashier of the local trust 
company, will be glad to hear of the 
success of the new national bank at 
North Brookfield with which he and 
Ralph H. Mann, also formerly con- 
nected with the local instittition, 
are at present associated. Says 
the North Brookfield Journal: “In 
another column we _ publish the 
first report of the North Brookfield- 
National Bank, to the Comptroller of 
the Currency, made March 5, 1917. 
The bank opened for business Feb. 
26th. Cashier Irish is rapidly making 
friends and gaining the confidence of 
the public by his uniform courtesy 
and prompt business methods. Busi- 
ness is increasing consistently, prov- 
ing without doubt the crying need of 
banking facilities such as are afford- 
ed by this new local association.” 
Alfredz 
FE. J. Semons shipped a carload of 
seventeen horses to Boston Monday; 
The Arbella club will meet in the 
Chapel Tuesday afternoon, March 27 
at four o’clock. 
The body of Miss Susan Fessenden 
Cobb, niece of the late Mrs. William 
Hoare, was brought from New York 
yesterday afternoon for burial in 
Rosedale cemetery. Funeral services 
were held in New York on Wednes- 
day. 
Six candidates were initiated into 
Magnolia lodge, I. O. O. F., last eve- 
ning. Including the ten who received 
the initiatory degree a week ago the 
class which will take the first degree 
next Thursday evening will be one of 
the largest in the history of the local 
lodge. 
Liberty lodge of Rebekahs will cele- 
brate their 28th anniversary next Fri- 
day evening. They will entertain the 
Odd Fellows and will provide out of 
town talent for entertainment. Miss 
Eva G. Batchelder of Danvers, dis- 
trict deputy president, and suite will 
be present. 
Miss Lousia P. Loring of Pride’s 
Crossing, secretary of the Essex Co. 
Chapter of the Am. Red Cross so- 
ciety spoke to the members of the 
Manchester Surgical Dressings com- 
mittee in the engine house yesterday 
afternoon. She made an appeal for 
support of the Red Cross work at this 
time. She asked codperation with 
the local committee organized last 
season. It is expected that the local 
Red Cross committee will begin 
activities about the first of April. 
There were 1960 dressings folded and 
packed yesterday by the dressings 
committee. A number of additional 
workers were present for the first 
time. 
The springlike air of the past few 
days has stirred the minds of the 
fans with the thought of the ap- 
proaching baseball season. And with 
cther harbingers of spring comes the 
news that Hal Grover will be on the 
mound for Manchester again this 
year. Grover’s excellent perform- 
ance throughout last season made the 
selection of a pitcher for this season 
an easy problem, especially as Grover 
is willing. His season record of 14 
games won and three lost was worth 
having. He started one other game 
in which he struck out five men in two 
innings and gave way to Gourley, 
who finished. He struck out 161 men 
in the 18 games he played. 
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