A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE |\@) 
WoL. V. No. 15 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1907. 
28 Pages. 
Three Cents. 
MeN CHES TER CHORAL SOCIETY. 
Hold First Concert in Town Hall. 
Delightful Program Carried out. 
Hall 
Crowded. 
The first concert of the Manchester 
Choral society, held in the Town hall on 
_ Thursday evening, proved a grand suc- 
cess, both in point of quality of the pro- 
gram carried out and financially, for the 
hall was crowded. 
The society was organized late last fall 
and has been practicing since the latter 
part of December, with Arthur S. Won- 
son of Gloucester as conductor. After 
the concert last night he expressed him- 
self as highly pleased with the work of 
the chorus and the success attained. 
There are 66 members in the society 
and these were augmented last evening 
by a number of singers from the Glou- 
cester choral, Mrs. Irene C. - Tirrell, 
saprono soloist, Oscar L. Huntting, bas- 
so, and by the Boston Festival Orchestra 
club, John W. Crowley, leader. ‘This 
orchestra makes a specialty of playing at 
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ArTHUR S. Wonson 
Conductor, Manchester Choral Society. 
TOWN MEETING. 
Manchester Voters Decided not to continue 
law suit against Mr. Burnham. Matter 
consumed all time of Monday Evening 
Session. 
Two more sessions of the annual 
Town Meeting in Manchester were held 
this week, one on Monday and the other 
on Tuesday evening. Atthe first only 
one matter came up, the question of 
whether or not the lawsuit of the Town 
against Frederick Burnham should be dis- 
continued. On Tuesday evening so few 
voters were present as a result of the 
storm that the meeting adjourned after a 
ten minutes’ session. 
‘The vote on the matter of lawsuit was 
strongly in favor of discontinuing the suit, 
which, in fact, was very generally con- 
ceded beforehand. Counsel for both 
sides were present and a very compre- 
hensive view of the case was given, Mr. 
Underwood, for the town, giving a clear 
explanation of the case from the legal 
standpoint. 
It will be recalled that a gravel pit had 
been dug along the line of Arbella street 
for about 200 feet on the land of Fred- 
erick Burnhamand that the selectmen had 
asked Mr. Burnham to erect a fence in 
accordance with the town by-laws, that 
Mr. Burnham declined to do this unless 
forced to do so, and the selectman filed 
a bill in equity against him to compel 
him to erect a fence and also to compel 
him, in removing gravel from the land, 
to avoid injuring the street surface. The 
case was dismissed by the court after a 
week’s trial. 
Whatever may be the legal. bearings 
of the case the town voted that it be drop- 
ped and that the suit not be carried to 
higher court, and virtually instructed the 
selectman not to enforce the town by-law 
on this matter at least. 
Counsel for both sides were present 
and each was granted the privilege of the 
floor for twenty minutes. The discuss- 
ion lasted until 9.30 when the meeting 
adjourned until Tuesday night. 
The question of additional water sup- 
ply was to come up Tuesday evening, 
but so few were out the meeting adjourn- 
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