Vol. V. No. 16 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1907. 
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE ||@) 
28 Pages. 
Three Cents. 
1882=1907 
Well Known Manchester Building 
Firm, Roberts & Hoare, hold Re- 
ception on Occasion of 25th Anni- 
versary of Being in Business. 
At the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. 
William Hoare, Masconomo street, cor- 
ner of Cobb avenue, Manchester, last 
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Monday from 3 to 10 o’clock, Messrs. 
Oliver T. Roberts and William Hoare 
received their business associates and 
friends on the occasion of having round- 
ed out 25 years of business partnership 
under the firm name of Roberts & Hoare. : 
The reception proved a most delight- 
ful occasion, more than 200 people call- 
ing during the afternoon and evening to 
extend congratulations. 
The firm of Roberts & Hoare is a- 
mong the best known concerns in this 
section of the state. Along the North 
Shore they are the leading builders. 
When they started in business a quarter 
of a century ago the North Shore was 
little known compared to today. “They 
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TOWN MEETING. 
Two More Important Sessions in 
Manchester. Decided to Investigate 
Gravelly Pond as a Possible Adz= 
ditional Water Supply, instead of 
Beaver Dam project. New Bath= 
house Scheme Turned Down. 
The question of additional water sup- 
ply for Manchester occupied all of the 
‘Tuesday evening session of the adjourn- 
ed meeting this week and part of the 
Wednesday evening session. It was de- 
cided to investigate Gravelly Pond as a 
possible solution of the question, and 
the Beaver Dam Meadow project on 
which the town has already spent $10, 
000 in making experiments is thrown 
overboard, so to speak, for the present. 
A committee was appointed to petition 
the legislature for the right to take water 
from Gravelly Pond and to make all the 
necessary investigation, analyses of water, 
etc., in shape to report to the town fully 
at a special meeting later on. 
It must not be understood that Man- 
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O. T. Roserts 
Who Celebrated 25th Anniversary of their going into business, Monday Evening. 
Wm. Hoare 
CARD 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
Spring, with its coy advances and sud- 
den retreats, with its changeful and 
coquettish moods, will always be a favor- 
ite with the poets; partly, perhaps, be- 
cause of its very capriciousness; and with 
all its fickleness, Spring has in it the pro- 
mise of Summer, it will give place in due 
time to sunny days and golden harvests, 
as hoydenish maidens often steady down 
into sedate and home-loving matrons. 
Longfellow wrote, perhaps, few finer 
short pieces than ‘‘The Arsenal at Spring- 
field,’’ in which he protested against the 
most widespread evil of our time. Many 
tell us that his vision of universal disarm- 
ament is only a dream, and a dangerous 
one at that; but it is to be hoped that 
there are others who will dream it, until 
the world will have no need of arsenals 
and forts, and war’s great organ will no 
longer shake the skies. 
This is an age of slang; we have a 
surfeit of it in the papers, on the street, 
in school-rooms, in college-halls, every- 
where; there is danger that an noble 
heritage of English undefiled become 
debased and the power to speak the 
language in its purity a lost art, unless the 
schools and people of taste set their faces 
as a flint against the prevalent custom. 
With its many importations from other 
languages and the coinage of new words 
required by our advancing civilization, it 
would seem that our English tongue is 
rich and copious enough to express 
thought with force and picturesqueness 
without resorting to the often meaning- 
less and silly vocabulary of slang. 
To be able to serve our generation in 
however humble a way is something to 
be profoundly thankful for, in these days 
of useless wealth and idle leisure, of 
meretricious display and gilded imbecility. 
There wasa time in the history of 
Israel when “‘every man did that which 
was right in his own eyes;’’ that was the 
time of the supremacy of the ‘‘unwritten 
law;’’ there are some who seem anxious 
to get back to that condition of barbarism; 
why do they not emigrate to New Guinea 
or some other corner of the earth where 
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