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CAREFUL PERSONAL ATTENTION 
To each Customer and his Account 
In the Manchester Trust Company 
Is given the Careful and Personal Attention 
Of the Officers in Charge, which Assures you 
That your Business is Appreciated and Given 
Every Protection. 
THE MANCHESTER TRUST COMPANY 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, MASS. 
Banking hours 8:30-2:30; Sats, 8:30-1; Sat. Ev’gs. 7-8 (deposits only) 
Assoc. Mem. Am. Soc. C. E. 
Lee’s Block, Manchester 
MANCHESTER 
Harry Boardhurst is moving to the 
James Gallagher tenement on Pleas- 
ant st. 
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore -C. Rowe 
have moved to their camp in West 
Gloucester for the season. 
Miss Isabelle Lee will drum and 
the pianist from her orchestra will 
preside at the piano at the movie show 
to be given in Town hall next Wed- 
nesday evening, May 2. 
RAYMOND C. ALLEN 
Member Boston Soc. C. E. 
CIVIL ENGINEER 
Investigations and Reports—Design and Superintendence of Con- 
struction—Design of Roads and Avenues—Surveys and Estimates. 
ESTABLISHED 1897 
Tel. 73-R and W 
Mrs. Herman C. Swett has been 
spending the week in Springfield. 
An office is being fitted up for the 
accommodation of the Western Union 
Telegraph Company in the lower floor 
of the Manchester House. 
Mrs. John Baker has had her prop- 
erty on both sides of Lincoln ave. 
ploughed in preparation for planting. 
Anyone desiring to avail themselves 
of a’ section of this land for garden 
purposes should apply to Mrs. Baker 
at once. 
Manchester 
Flectric Co 
ELECTRIC LIGHT and POWER 
Open WIDE the gateway to better, brighter LIGHT by 
putting in every. socket “EDISON MAZDA LAMPS.” 
Our desire is to assist our customers in obtaining the 
very best results from electric lighting. 
Office: 
21 SUMMER STREET 
Telephone 168-W 
T. A. LEES, Manager 
April 27, 1917. 
PROBATE COURT 
Horace H. ATHERTON, JR., REVEALS 
MYSTERIES OF THE Court FROM 
Wuicu TuHers is No Escape 
Horace H. Atherton, Jr., of Salem 
and East Saugus, more or less con- 
nected with the Probate Court in Sa- 
lem, the Saugus Herald, the Essex 
Country Press club and the Sandy 
Bay Harbor of Refuge, gave an in- 
formal talk to the members of the 
Manchester club last Saturday eve- 
ning. It wasn’t his fault; he was in- 
vited to do it. And, .as the Harbor 
of Refuge project still slumbereth, he 
talked about the dire and inner work- 
ings of the probate court. 
“My speech, like all Gaul (gall), is 
divided into three parts—information, 
relaxation and interrogation,” said 
the president of the Amateur Lectur- 
ers’ union. It was mostly relaxation, 
for train time came at a convenient 
juncture in the talk and the harbor 
of refuge advocate escaped the “in- 
quisition.” 
Mr. Atherton defined the functions 
of the courts of the state from the 
supreme judiciary court down to the 
justice’s court in “the great and thriv- 
ing community of East Saugus.” 
The functions of the latter, he said, 
included the fining of men for spit- 
ting on the sidewalks and the im- 
prisonment of individuals who went 
about making speeches on Saturday 
nights when they should be at home 
with their families. Naturally the 
least information was forthcoming 
regarding the probate court. 
“All matters which come before 
this court,” he volunteered, “must be 
by petition and it is the one court 
where you can try your own case. 
You may not know it, but a man can 
die in two ways, testate and intestate 
—or, as a woman told me the other 
day, her husband died ‘interstate.’ ” 
According to Mr. Atherton the one 
place on earth where a man is sure 
of having to pay his debts is when he 
gets into the hands of the probate 
court. “By that time the man him- 
self does not usually care much about 
it, but his heirs may. The probate 
court determines the legality of a 
man’s will, and if he leaves no will 
and has over $100 in a bank his af- 
fairs must be settled in the probate 
court. A man making a will may ex- 
empt his executor from giving sure- 
ties, but cannot exempt him from giv- 
ing a bond. A man must mention his 
children otherwise they can take the 
same share as if no will had been 
made. The probate court appoints 
guardians for insane persons, minors 
and spendthrifts, It is the only court 
where children may be adopted, cases 
