NINETY-FOUR YEARS. 
Manchester's Venerable Librarian Still ‘' Hale 
and Hearty.” 
Delucena L. Bingham, Manchester’s 
venerable librarian, and who also has the 
distinction of being the oldest~ librarian 
in the state, passed his 94th milestone 
DELUCENA L. BINGHAM 
(We regret that we have no better picture of Mr. Bing- 
ham than the one presented here. 
Mr. Bingham has promised 
to pose for a picture a little later.) 
last Saturday. He celebrated the event 
informally, a number of his friends call- 
ing during the day to extend congratula- 
tions, and to express the hope that Mr. 
Bingham would continue to enjoy good 
health. Among his callers were several 
members of the summer colony who are 
still on the shore. 
Mr. Bingham enjoys remarkably good 
health. His life has been one of use- 
fulness throughout,—and this usefulness 
he still maintains. He may be found 
attending to the active duties incumbent 
on his position as librarian almost every 
day. Last Saturday he was at the library 
as usual and it was there that many 
greeted him on the occasion of his birth- 
day anniversary. 
Mr. Bingham was born in Manches- 
ter, Nov. 7, 1814. For nearly three 
quarters of a century he has been identi- 
fied with the town library, —that is, the 
library such as it was, first in the days of 
the old lyceum library. It was through 
him principally that the present library 
building was present to the town and the 
present large collection of books was pro- 
cured by the town. 
_ Another Manchester Nonogenarian. 
_ John Girdler of Beverly, a native of 
Manchester, and for many years a resi- 
dent here, also celebrated his 94th birth- 
day the past week. The Beverly Times 
‘ing of her 79th birthday. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
of Tuesday comments thus on the event: 
“One of the most active men in the 
city today, the oldest man in_ business, 
if not the oldest man in the city is John 
Girdler, the well known coal dealer. 
““ Mr. Girdler was born in Manches- 
ter 94 years ago today. He came to 
Beverly some years ago and established a 
wood and coal business, and by strict in- 
tegrity and square dealing has built up 
one of the largest industries in this 
vicinity. 
““Mr. Girdler personally attends to 
his business each day, and may be seen 
bright and early every day at his office or 
on the wharves, and is hale and _ hearty 
as many a man years his junior. 
““'There was no formal observance of 
the event, Mr. Girdler being about his 
work today the same as on any other 
day.’”’ 
Her 79th Birthday. 
At her home on Pleasant street, Man- 
chester, Monday, the 9th, Mrs. Sarah 
F. Leach celebrated informally the pass- 
Though she 
made no formal observance of the event 
a score or more friends called to extend 
congratulations. 
Auction Sale of Groceries at Man- 
chester. 
The auction sale of the grocery store 
of Frank H. Dennis, School street, on 
Monday and Tuesday, resulted in the 
whole of the stuck, fixtures, horses, 
wagons, etc., being cleaned out. At- 
wood & Pattee of Boston were the 
auctioneers, Mr. Atwood having person- 
al charge. On Monday the goods went 
rather slowly and prices were small. 
Tuesday brought a bigger crowd and 
things moved off at a little swifter pace. 
It was thought some grocery concern 
from out of town or some speculator 
might have bid in most of the outfit, but 
this did not develop. In-town parties 
took practically all of it. P. J. Hurley 
took a horse and one pung; F. J. Mer- 
rill bought a large pung; F. P. Dennis 
bid in the other horse and one wagon, 
and an out of town man bid in the other 
wagon. J. R. Weener of Boston bid 
in a good share of the fixtures for $175. 
Richard J. Baker bid in a big lot of the 
stock, canned goods, etc. 
With the auction sale of the above 
business, one of the oldest grocery stores 
in town goes out of business. The lo- 
cation has been used as a grocery store 
for upwards of forty years. At least it 
was some few years after the war that 
John Little started a grocery store there. 
He was bought out by the late Henry 
Knight, which business was conducted 
in its later days by David Knight, a son. 
Frank B. Rust was the next to use the 
store, moving from his place of business 
on Washington street some ten years 
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Mr. Rust sold out to Dennis & 
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has conducted the business alone since, 
ago. 
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