MANCHESTER SECTION 
MANCHESTER 
Chas. E. Bell is the new special mail 
carrier, assisting for the present. 
The White truck of the Water 
Dept. is out with a new. coat of paint, 
from the shop of Wm. F. Roberts. 
Walter R. Bell is out with a new 
Studebaker auto, a 5-passenger car, 
purchased from Perkins & Corliss. 
_ The next meeting of the Woman’s 
club will be Tuesday, March 18th. 
Mrs. Rachel Noah France will speak 
on ‘Humorous Reminiscences of 
Thirty Years on the Stage.” Mrs. 
Marian B. Lodge, hostess. 
Mrs. Larkin J. Foster, Everett Fos- 
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Webber 
and son Randolph, all of Beverly, 
spent Sunday with Mrs. and Mrs. 
Benjamin Foster, Central street. 
Herbert Lampron, who has been 
brakeman on the Southern Division 
of the B. & M. the last four months, 
was home Wednesday, prior to being 
transferred to the New Haven road, 
on one of its Connecticut lines. 
Sorosis shoes in Winter styles at 
Bell’s Central square store. * 
The committee in charge of the an- 
nual reunion and dance of the High 
School Alumni have decided on Fri- 
day, March 28, as the date of the af- 
fair. Tickets have been issued and 
may be obtained at Mrs. G. W. Blais- 
dell’s resdence on and after Monday 
of next week. Members in good 
standing are entitled to one ticket for 
themselves and one guest ticket. 
Tickets are: Ladies, 25 cents, gentle- 
men, 50 cents. Members of the senior 
class of the Story High school are en- 
~ titled to purchase one ticket each, and 
same may be had by applying to Mrs. 
Blaisdell. Carey’s five-piece orchestra 
will furnish the music. 
The management of last year’s base- 
ball team have received a communica- 
tion from baseball interests in Glou- 
cester requesting them to send two 
representatives to a meeting to be held 
in City hall, Gloucster, next week at 
which plans will be discussed concern- 
ing the formation of a baseball league 
to inclitde teams in Gloucester, Rock- 
port, Annisquam, Manchester and 
other Cape Ann localities. It is un- 
derstood that John Hays Hammond 
will again this year present a trophy 
to be contested for. Last year this 
league (which did not include Man- 
chester) was quite a success, the games 
being followed with much enthusiasm 
all over the Cape. 
Friday, March 14, 1913. 
MANCHESTER 
The automobile show in Boston has 
attracted many Manchester people all 
the past week. 
Mrs. Mary E. Foley of Rockland, 
Mass., was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. 
B. F. Burchstead over the week-end. 
Mrs. Mary E. Murphy of Long Is- 
land, N. Y., is visiting her brother, 
M. E. Callahan, at the Manchester 
House. 
Emerson and Douglas shoes in win- 
ter weights and styles at Bell’s Cen- 
tral square store. 2 
By the will of the late Hattie Par- 
sons Allen the residence on Bridge 
street was bequeathed to Mrs. Wal- 
ter (Hattie Lee) Harris of Salem 
and Manchester. 
ARBELLA CLUB MEETING 
Homre Meetinc Day OssERvED—Lo- 
CAL TALENT | 
The semi-monthly meeting of the 
Arbella club of Manchester was held 
Tuesday afternoon in the Chapel, and 
was largely attended. It was a Home 
Meeting. Day and the entertainment 
was furnished by the members of the 
club. The program consisted of mu- 
sical selections and a pantomime. 
In the absence of the president, Miss 
Milded Peart, the vice-president, Miss 
Fannie Knight presided. The pro- 
gram presnted was as follows: 
Duet, “Barcarolle,”’ Denza 
PAULINE SEMONS, HELEN CHEEVER 
Vocal Solo, “Over the Billowy Sea” 
Smith 
Marton LATIONS 
Pantomime, ‘“Villikens and His 
Dinniah”’ 
Villikens, PAULINE SEMONS 
Dinniah Exists McCorMack 
The Parent ETHEL SPRY 
With singing by MELissA STANLEY 
Song, “I Know a Bank’ Horn 
DorotHy BLAISDELL, GLADYS SE- 
MONS, EMILY FERRIERA, HESTER 
Rust, Mary Morty, NINA 
SINNICKS. 
Following the entertainment the 
meeting adjourned for a social hour, 
with Miss Fannie Knight as hostess. 
The meeting was very much enjoyed 
and the numbers of the program were 
very well presented, especially the 
pantomime. 
Lamson and Hubbard hats for fall 
and winter at Bell’s Beach street 
store. * 
MANCHESTER 
Miss Jane Kendall was in town over 
the week-end. 
The members of the Manchester 
Launch club enjoyed a dutch supper 
at their rooms last Saturday evening. 
The final examination of the First 
Aid class will take place next Tuesday 
evening, March 18, at 7.30 in the 
Price school building. Please bring 
paper and pencil. 
The local firemen were called out 
last Saturday afternoon on a still 
alarm for a chimney fire at Mrs. C. 
S. Hanks’ residence, West Manches- 
ter. No damage resulted, the blaze 
being quickly controlled. 
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford B. Goodwin 
and young son Maynard, are shortly 
to move to Boston where they plan to 
make their permanent home in one 
of the suburbs, so as to be more con- 
viently located for Mr. Goodwin’s po- 
sition with the American Radiator Co. 
The reflection in the sky, from the 
hotel fire at Long Beach, Gloucester, 
Monday night, was quite pronounced. 
In some parts of the town one would 
gain an impression the fire was close 
at hand and the telephone operators 
were kept busy answering questions. 
From Beverly and Ipswich, too, quer- 
ies came in by telephone as to: the lo- 
cation of the fire. 
Mrs. Martha Chute of Cambridge 
who has many friends in Manchester 
in connection with her work at the 
Pierce studio, was in Washington for 
the inauguration, and was one of the 
host of women in the Equal Suffrage 
Parade, that was a feature of the 
demonstration. - Mrs. Bain, also well- 
known in Manchester, a sister of Mrs. 
F. A. Rowe, and who now lives in 
Washington, also took pat in the 
parade. 
Gents: We have the right thing for 
solid comfort for your feet in Ground 
Gripper Shoes. Bell’s, Beach St. * 
The North Shore Bowling league, 
comprising teams from Gloucester, 
Beverly, Ipswich and Manchester, 
completed its schedule last Friday ev- 
ening, when the Beverly team took 
three points from Gloucester on the 
latter’s alley, and finished two points 
in the lead over Gloucester. Ipswich 
finished third and Manchester took 
the honors for last place undisputed. 
The Manchester boys have played 
some good games, however, but were 
not quite strong enough for the other 
teams, 
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