MANCHESTER SECTION 
Friday, January 17, 1913. 
MANCHESTER. 
The workmen will install officers 
next Tuesday evening. 
A daughter was born Tuesday, Jan. 
14, to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Taylor, 
Jeffrey’s court. 
Harry I. Swett went to Glouces- 
ter Wednesday evening to make an 
informal inspection of the camp of 
». of V. there. 
Miss Eleanor Donahue of Chest- 
nut Hill is spending the week-end as 
the. guest. of “Mr. and (Mrs. FE.  B; 
Rust, School street. 
J. F. Welch, the new owner of the 
Manchester Wet Wash Laundry, is 
out again after a serious illness of 
several weeks. 
Mr. Kimball of the Massachuseits 
Savings Bank Life Insurance Com- 
pany, gave an interesting half-hour 
address at the local high school yes- 
terday. 
Ladies Aprons 
bridge’s. 
The next meeting of the Manches- 
ter Woman’s club will be held in the 
Congregational chapel, Tuesday, Jan. 
Miss Jennie A. Cole will speak 
on Current Events. Miss Edna Pea- 
body will be hostess. 
Miss Jane Watson’s dancing classes 
continue to be popular among. the 
young people. A number of new 
members were added to the class last 
Saturday. Mrs. Edward S. Knight 
and Mrs. Frank P. Knight were ma- 
trons. 
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and Elite Fall and Winter 
Shoes at Bell’s, Central square. * 
About 50 Red Men attended the 
~eeting Wednesday evening. The 
entertainment feature of the evening 
was an informal talk by J. E. Beck- 
with of the Lynn Item on some of his 
experiences with the camera. He 
showed about 150 views, many of them 
to do with baseball, aviation and other 
sporting events. This proved very in- 
teresting to the members. An en- 
tertainment feature not announced 
was the appearance of Chief Blue 
Sky, a real Red Man, who was for 
'2 years a student at Carlisle. He 
has more recently been on the stage, 
and at present is going around among 
the Red Men's tribes giving enter- 
taiments. He sang some Indian 
songs, gave the war dance and talked 
on the Indians. He was dressed in 
Indian costume. 
MANCHESTER 
Mr. and Mrs. Roy MacDonald 
(nee Ada Crombie) of Beverly spent 
Sunday in town visiting relatives. 
The Manchester firemen have de- 
cided not to accept the challenge sent 
to them for a whist tournament by the 
firemen at Beverly Farms. 
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Reed have had 
as guest the past week Mrs. Nellie R. 
Bradford. Mrs. Reed’s sister, Mrs. 
Almeda Leavitt is also visiting them. 
Lamson and Hubbard hats for fall 
and winter at Bell’s Beach street 
store. * 
A reward of ten dollars is offered - 
by Winthrop Wetherbee for informa- 
tion that will lead to the conviction of 
persons responsible for the cutting 
down of an ornamental spruce tree 
on his estate, on Summer street, just 
before Christmas. This is as mean a 
thing as we have heard of for a long 
time and we hope the responsible per- 
sons will be brought to justice. 
Table Linen at EF. A. Lethbridge’s. * 
PaRENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION 
Mr. Edwin F. Mulready, Mass. Dep- 
uty Commissioner of Probation, will 
be the speaker at the next meeting of 
the Parent-Teacher association, to be 
held in the Price school, Wednesday 
evening, Jan. 22, at 7.45 o’clock. 
There will also be musical select- 
ions,—announcement of which will be 
made later—followed by the custom- 
ary social hour. 
FoRESTERS INSTALLED 
The officers of Fr. Shahan Court 
of Foresters, Manchester, were in- 
stalled on Thursday night of last week 
by Deputy Chief Ranger Sullivan of 
Gloucester, and suite. The officers 
for 1913 are as follows: 
Henry O. Bohaker, chief ranger; 
John Holloran, vice chief ranger; 
Wm. H. McEachern, rec. secy.; John 
G. Gillis, fin. secy.; Mary Bohaker, 
treas.; Mary Gillis, senior conductor ; 
Margaret Coughlin, junior con.; 
James Gallagher, outside sentinel; 
Austin Morley, John Baker and 
James Gallagher, trustees; Henry O. 
Bohaker, representative; John G. Gil- 
lis, alternate. 
Following the ceremonies, remarks 
were made by the district deputy, Fr. 
Sullivan and others. A collation was 
served. 
MANCHESTER 
Mrs. William Plumb (nee Annie 
Crombie) of Cambridge spent Wed- 
nesday in town. 
Miss Abbie Floyd has a position as 
a cooking teacher at the Whittier 
school for girls at Merrimac. 
Fred K. Swett and Maynard B. 
Gilman went over to New York 
Wednesday to attend the auto show. 
The.degree. team, -of _ Col, EVP, 
Woodbury camp, 149, S. of V., will 
go to Salem some time in the near 
future for a class initiation. 
Dr. Geo. W. Blaisdell was the 
speaker Tuesday evening at Magnolia, 
at the meeting of the Parent-Teacher 
association. His subject was ‘School 
Hygiene.” 
Next Tuesday evening Ernest Mead 
of Wellesley Farms will give an in- 
formal talk at the meeting of the S. 
of V. Each member may invite one 
friend to the meeting. 
The Republican Town committee 
met Monday night and organized for , 
the year with the same officers as last 
year: P. H. Boyle, chairman; W. W. © 
Hoare, secretary; and W. R. Bell, 
treasurer. 
Kenneth Wolcott, who has been 
connected with the Regent garage for 
the past two seasons, is going into 
business for himself. He has hired 
the building on Central street, rear — 
No. 42 and will overhaul cars. He 
already has several cars on hand. 
Some local nimrods have been 
quite successful with the hook and 
line at the ponds between Manchester 
and Hamilton of late. At Gravelly — 
pond the first of this week the ice — 
was about 1 1-2 inches thick, but at 
Coy’s pond it was nearly 4 inches — 
thick. One party of three had landed 
12 pickerel Wednesday and another — 
had caught 18. One was taken from — 
the pond measuring 19 inches. 
The officers of the Manchester 
Brass Band recently elected are: Wm. _ 
J. Lethbridge, president; Geo. Burch- — 
sted, vice pres.; Wm. Slade, secy.; 
Willard Rust, treas.; Louis Fritz, — 
business mgr.; Henry Hennebury, — 
leader; L. M. Blythe, director; James — 
Kehoe, Levi Harvey, George Burch-— 
sted, board of directors; L.Fritz, O. 
Stevens, W. Phillips, A. James and H. 
Hennebury, entertainment committee. 
The band proposes to hold a concert 
and dance in the near future. 
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