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VOLUME 5B. NUMBER 23 
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907. 
New England Telephone Topics is 
the title of a new monthly publication 
published and edited by employees of 
the New England Telephone and 
Telegraph company. The paper is 
published solely by and for the benefit 
of the employees and is intended to 
develop and foster a spirit of co-opera- 
tion among them. ‘The first number 
contains sixteen pages, is illustrated 
with several good half-tone cuts, and 
contains much _ interesting reading 
matter, written up in bright, attractive 
style. 
It now looks as though a special 
Town meeting will have to be called 
in Manchester soon. The _ special 
matter to be acted upon at present is 
that pertaining to appropriation for 
suppression of gypsy and _ browntail 
moths. The town has already appro- 
priated $1710 for this work, but the 
state says $4308.32 must be appropri- 
ated. This figure is arrived at from 
the valuation of the town, and, in 
truth, is much in excess of what is 
needed. Manchester’s valuation of 
$12,000,000. places her in the class 
with cities, so to speak, and as the ap- 
propriation is based on valuation, the 
amount named above is much more 
than is needed to do the work re- 
quired. — 
It now looks as if Manchester might 
get an appropriation for dredging the 
channel from the railroad bridge to 
the outer harbor, despite the fact the 
committee did not include Manchester 
in its report. Tuesday Senator Shaw 
came to Manchester with Senators 
Wheatley, Faxon of Stoughton, Keith 
of the Cape, Johnson of Pittsfield and 
Shuster of Worcester, to look into’ 
the matter, and Thursday on a sus- 
pension of the rules the bill passed 
through the senate. Yesterday it was 
put in the hands of the Ways and 
Means Committee of the house and a 
hearing is to be given before that 
committee on Monday afternoon at 3 
o’clock, at which time it is.hoped 
Manchester will have a representative 
delegation appear to favor the pas- 
sage. This has been accomplished 
through Senator Shaw’s good efforts. 
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On Beacon Hilt j 
(By Our Special Correspondent.) { f 
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It is now considered doubtful if the 
Legislature will be able to prorogue 
next week. The House still has be- 
fore it many matters for its considera- 
tion. The Governor’s message on the 
merger question will doubtless delay 
the final adjournment a little, but if, 
as a result of this message and its con- 
sideration, some protection is. afforded 
the people of the. Commonwealth in 
the settling of this serious question, 
it will be time and effort well spent. 
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A bill entitled “An Act to Author- _ 
ize the Town of Manchester to take 
additional Sources of Water Supply,”’ 
was signed by the Governor ‘on 
Wednesday last. This act authorizes 
the town of Manchester to expend a 
sum not exceeding $125,000, to ac- 
quire a water. supply from Gravel 
pond, the expense of the samé to be 
met by the issuing of bonds to run 
for a period of thirty years from the 
date of issue. 
The Sunday law bil was defeated 
on reconsideration in the House on 
Wednesday, Speaker Cole casting the 
deciding vote against the bill. 
One of the greatest legislative bat- 
tles ever fought out in a Massachu- 
setts legislature came to a conclusion 
on Saturday last when the Governor 
affixed his signature to the Shoe 
Machinery Bill, so-called. The Gov- 
ernor, after carefully considering the 
stenographic report of the testimony 
offered at the hearing before the com- 
mittee on the joint judiciary, came to 
the conclusion that there was no valid 
reason why the bill should not become 
a law. 
The Governor in his message to the 
legislature on the merger situation 
states that in his opinion some legisla- 
tion should be enacted which will pro- 
tect the people in the expected 
merger of the Boston & Maine and 
the New York, New Haven & Hart- 
ford Railroad Company. 
WHISPERINGS 
To the ordinary observer nothing is . 
more interesting than a blast. As I 
was waiting for a train at the Mag- 
nolia station the other day and 
watched the operations in progress at 
the large rock-cut to the east of the 
station I was impressed. by 
the work going on. First there. 
is the sight of the workmen 
busily engaged; the powerful steam 
drill noisily boring holes in the hard 
rock. Then the hurried preparations 
for the blast, the warning cries of sev- 
eral workmen, and the rapid retreat of 
the rest of the workmen from the 
danger point ; thena moment of silent 
suspense followed by a mighty explo- 
sion, and tons upon tons of rock are 
hurled into the air amidst a great 
cloud of dust and smoke. Next the 
return of the workmen from their hid- 
ing places to remove the shattered 
fragments of rock from the railroad 
track ; the sharp commands of the 
foreman, the creaking of the great 
derrick which raises huge pieces of 
rock into the air and casts them 
aside as a child would toss aside its 
broken toy, all of which causes one to 
realize that after all this is a busy 
world in which the individual is only 
a small part. 
- Manchester Public Library 
Will be open until the first of November 
every morning except Monday, from 9 to 
10.30; every afternoon from 2 to 5, and Sat- 
urday evenings from 6.30 to 8.30. Sundays 
and holidays are excepted. 
PER ORDER TRUSTEES. 
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER 
Typewriting, carbon work, shorthand, ad- 
dressing envelopes, etc., done at reasonable 
rates by an experienced amanuensis. 
MISS EMMA A. HOTZ. 
At G. A. KNOERR’S, Electrician, 
Central Sq., Manchester. Tel. 53-2. — 
MILLINERY ANNOUNCEMENT. 
Owing to press of business 
Mrs. A. E. MARSHALL 
announces that until further notice she will 
close her Millinery Parlors every day at six 
o’clock excepting Saturdays, on which even- 
ing she will be pleased to see her patrons as 
usual. 
Mrs. A. E. MARSHALL, 
31 Central St., 
Manchester 
