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TOWN NOTICES 
MANCHESTER 
NOTICE 
All bills and claims against the Town 
should be presented to the Selectmen on or 
before Wednesday of each week. After 
approval the bills will be paid by the Town 
Treasurer, at his office, on the following 
Saturday. The regular business meeting 
of the Board, will be held on Thursday 
evening of each week at seven o'clock, al- 
so on the last Saturday afternoon of each 
month from two to four o’clock. 
EDWARD S. KNIGHT, 
WALTER R. BELL. 
GEORGE L. ALLEN, 
Selectmen of Manchester. 
Water Board Notice 
The regular meeting of the WATER 
BOARD will be held at their office, in the 
Town Hall Building, on the last Wednes- 
day of each month, from 2 to 5 o'clock, 
P. M. All orders for shutting off or letting 
on of water, reports of leaks, and all business 
of the department under the Superintendent 
should be reported at his office at the 
Pumping Station. 
Per order, 
MANCHESTER WATER BOARD. 
Town Treasurer’s Notice 
The TOWN TREASURER will be at 
his office in the Town Hall Building, on 
gfaturdays, for the payment of bills, from 1 
o'clock to 5 and from 7 to 8 o’clock P. M. 
When a holiday comes on Saturday the 
pay day will be Friday previous at the same 
hours. : 
EDWIN P. STANLEY, 
Treasurer. 
Notice 
The regular. meetings of the SCHOOL 
COMMITTEE will be held the first Mon- 
day evening of each month at which time 
all bills against the school department of 
the town should be presented for approval. 
ALFRED C. NEEDHAM, 
Secretary. 
NOTICE. 
For the convenience of any person having 
business with .the School Committee or Supt. 
of Schools, Mr.. John C. Mackin, the Superin- 
tendent, will be -at the Principal's room, on 
the second floor of the G. A. Priest school 
Thursday afternoon of each week, from 4 to 5 
o’clock. 
SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
ARTS AND CRAFTS. 
Manchester Woman's Club Hold Very Inter- 
esting Meeting. 
The meeting of the Manchester Wo- 
man’s club Tuesday was devoted to the 
subject of ‘‘Arts and Crafts,’’ and a 
feature of the occasion was a display of 
rare old laces, embroidery, variour arti- 
oe of wearing apparel, cooking utensils, 
, to show something of the Oc- 
cnet of our Foremothers,’’ which 
was the subject of the address given by 
Mrs. Mary W. Overholzer. 
The collection was one of the finest 
ever seen in Manchester, even better in 
many details, than the display of historic 
things at the time of the 250th annivers- 
ary in 1895. 
Following the usual business of the 
meeting Mrs. Overholzer, was intro- 
duced. She spoke in part as follows: 
“Tt is a popular delusion that woman 
has drifted out of her sphere during the 
last generation or two. A comparison 
between ancient and modern housekeep- 
ing reveals the fact that most of the oc- 
cupations which formerly engaged her 
time have been taken out of the home 
by the introduction of machinery and the 
development of the factory system, and 
she has followed in pursuit of them. 
** Woman has always been a factor in 
the industrial world, but that world was 
once bounded by the borders of her own 
estate. Now when we find her in mill 
or shop it is the location of the business 
that has changed and nother relation 
to it. 
‘Tn colonial days the store afforded 
the opportunity of purchasing imported 
products as spices, tea, sugar, silks and 
crockery. Everything else thata family 
required was produced upon its own 
premises under the direction of the 
housewife. She raised the poultry, 
‘cured’ the feathers, made the butter, 
grew the herbs for dressing meat and 
healing the family ills; she made the 
candles that prolonged her own working 
day; she spun and wove the home- 
grown flax, converting it into household 
linen; 
sheep could best spare it and at her will 
it became a bed blanket, ora Sunday 
gown; when its days of usefulness in 
Ped 
she took the fleece when the — 
either capacity were ~ended she trans- 
formed it into rug or carpet. ©: 
‘“TIn a home where so many. occupa- 
tions were carried on the children’ early 
learned to. share. the. work. ~ :They 
learned many a lesson. beside . mastering 
the particular process in which they were 
engaged. They learned the value of 
time and of. money, the necessity of 
cleanliness and thoroughness; they grew 
into an appreciation of art in seeking de- 
signs for their work which would satisfy 
them; they came to love and. value the 
heme which to so great an extent was 
the product of their own industry. 
‘* Woman’s ingenuity has enabled her 
to adapt herself to new conditions. Her 
inventive genius has led her tosdevise ways 
and means for uplifting humanity through ~ 
club and church organizations. 
‘“The study of art and especially of . 
applied art encouraging the pupil to em- 
body his own designs in thread, wood or 
metal, training the hand to give tangible 
expression to one’s own  ideals,---this 
comes nearer than anything else that has | 
been devised to take the place of the old 
home industries, educating in its literary 
sense, leading out the individuality of the - 
pupil, developing character.’ 
After the address everybody was given 
an opportunity to look at the various 
articles which were displayed on tables. 
and hung up around the room. 
So many articles were displayed that it 
would be quite impossible in this. article 
to give description of all. . We mention 
a few that attracted particular attention: 
A white. spread owned by. Mrs. 
William Hoare, spun and woven in -her . 
grandfather’ s house in. Wells, - Me., | 
about 100 years ago. (3 
An all-wool blanket, hand oie 
loaned by Mrs. Marianna, Cheever. 
Counterpane, spun, woven and dyed 
by Sally Wheeler about 1800. 
A homespun table cloth loaned by Mrs. 
William Johnson, jr. 
A school copy book done by Mary E. . 
Potter, mother of Miss H. P. Allen, in 
about 1836. 
Picture tapestry, cross stitch, done by 
Mrs. E. S. Knight’s mother. ; 
Copy book dated 1786 done by Asa — 
Woodberry, and containing a love letter 
and its answer. Loaned by Miss Annie — 
‘Tappan. x 
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