MANCHESTER SECTION 
MANCHESTER 
Miss Gwendolyn — Glendenning, 
Smith 1916, arrived home Wednes- 
day for the Easter holidays. 
A. A. Cushing has a position as 
asst. supt. of the Beverly Gas and 
Electric Co., and will assume his du- 
ties April 1. 
The Sons of Veterans are to enter- 
tain the members of Post 67, G. A. R., 
W. R. C. and eligible Sons at their 
anniversary on Tuesday evening of 
next week. 
Do not wait until you want to use 
your lawn-mower to have it put in 
order. Call any express and they will 
deliver it to the Manchester Lawn- 
Mower 'Co.” 61 “School “Sti, Scor- 
Vine. 1 
“A Drop in the Ocean of Probate 
Laws” will be the subject of a talk 
to be given by Register of Probate 
Horace Atherton, before the mem- 
bers of the Manchester club at their 
rooms, Friday evening, April 4. 
Mrs. Dora (Chaffin) Fisher, who is 
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Frank P. 
Knight and family, Central street, is 
to have a few friends meet at the 
Knight residence Saturday evening in 
a sort of class re-union. Mrs. Fisher 
was in the Class of 1898, Story High 
school, with Frank A. Rowe, Grace 
M. Prest and J. A. Lodge. 
John Hogan of 11 Washington 
street, telephoned to the Gloucester po- 
lice station at 11.15 o’clock last Friday 
evening that he had attended the box- 
ing match at City hall in that city dur- 
ing the earlier part of the evening and 
had lost his wallet. He was unable 
to say whether he had lost it at the hall 
or on the train. It contained $44.— 
Gloucester Times. 
The Manchester Lawn-Mower Co., 
is the latest business to organize in 
Manchester, and it is unnecessary to 
say the concern will fill a long-felt 
want, as the North Shore is a place 
where lawn-mowers are much used, 
and thus far no machine has yet been 
invented that doesn’t need sharpening 
once in a while. (We say this from 
experience). Harry C. Davis, who 
was formerly with D. T.. Beaton, the 
plumber, is proprietor of the new 
concern. Several new machines have 
been installed so that the work can 
be done in an up-to-date manner. 
The business will be conducted at 61 
School St., cor. Vine street, rear of 
Mr. Davis’ residence, opposite the 
Catholic church, 
Friday, March 21, 1913. 
MANCHESTER 
George L. Knight was in Amherst 
over the week-end. 
Miss Annie Lutz left last Saturday 
for Stillwater, Me., where she has a 
position. 
A class in Home Economics was 
formed at the home of Mrs. George 
S. Sinnicks Thursday afternoon of 
this week. 
Among the marriage intentions filed 
in Salem last Saturday were those of 
James Edward Slattery of Salem and 
Miss Mary A. Leary of Manchester. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Valentine 
are expected home from Porto Rico 
today. They have been away since 
the first of the year. They were to 
have sailed for New York last Sat- 
urday. 
Loca, ConcERN Has INstTALLeD Bic 
IMPROVEMENTS 
The improved facilities for hand- 
ling their business, recently installed 
at the plant of the D. B. Hodgkins’ 
Sons, at Manchester, places _ this 
concern to the front of the numer- 
ous firms in the hay and. grain busi- 
ness along the North Shore. The 
changes include first of all a spur 
track which now lands the cars at the 
door. In this connection the build- 
ings had to be moved away from the 
street and nearer the railroad. And 
in order to handle the contents of the 
freight cars more speedily new ma- 
chinery has been installed to lift the 
grain and various products to the top 
of the elevator. The grain falls from 
the car to a recepticle under the 
building by gravitation and then is 
conveyed to the elevator by small 
scoops on an endless chain. By 
another contrivance the corn is sent 
into one compartment, the oats in 
another, and so on,—there being seven 
compartments. ‘These compartments, 
in turn, have outlets on the ground 
floor through which the grain passes 
by gravitation. The same motive which 
carries grain to the elevator, will, 
by change of belts, hoist baled hay 
from the cars into the loft. The 
Hodgkins concern, with offices at 
Gloucester, Rockport and Manches- 
ter, is undoubtedly the bigest concern 
in the grain business on the North 
Shore. In the period of nearly two 
decades during which the firm has 
been doing business in Manchester 
the patronage has increased steadily 
and consistently. 
MANCHESTER 
The water commissioners are call- 
ing for bids for laying water pipe— 
some 1,000 feet on Norwood avenue. 
Liberty Rebekah lodge, No. 78, I. 
O. O. F., will celebrate its 24th an- 
niversary, Friday evening, March 
28th. Supper will be served at 6.30. 
Albert E. Gibson is out with a new 
motor-cycle. He will use the machine 
to get back and forth between here 
and Essex, where he works. 
The Senior class at the Story High 
school went to Boston yesterday af- 
ternoon, under the chaperonage of 
Principal Saben, to visit the State 
House. 
Mrs. T. W. Long announces her 
dancing class at the Town hall next 
Tuesday evening, March 25, with in- 
struction the first of the evening, fol- 
lowed by general dancing. s 
The regular meeting of the Arbella 
club will be held in the chapel, Tues- 
day, March 25th, at 4 o’clock. Dr. 
Southand of Cambridge, will give 
her third lecture on “Personal Hy- 
giene.”’ 
Herbert Full of Newport, 
formerly of Pigeon Cove, 
Reels 
a young 
man of 23 years, passed away Tues- 
day. He was known in Mancheste: 
where he was a frequent visitor at 
the home of his aunt, Mrs. Frank B. 
Rust, School street. 
Ladies: Why not try a_ pair of 
Ground Gripper Shoes? What they 
have done for others they will do for 
you. Bell’s, Central Sq. * 
An orchid never before grown in 
this country, known as the “Digby- 
ana,’ was one of many in the exhibit 
of Mrs. Lester Leland of West Man- 
chester, at the annual spring flower 
show of the Massachusetts Horticul- 
tural society at Boston. 
This is the season of year when 
people who are coming to Manchester 
for the summer are looking around 
for tenements and rooms. Scores of 
applications will be made at the 
Breeze office along this line. May we 
suggest that persons desiring to let 
rooms for the summer advertise same. 
M. J. Callahan, owner of the 
Postoffice block, is having the vacant 
store on the Union street side, form- 
erly occupied by the telephone ex- 
change, altered and improved. A 
new front is being constructed and 
a small jog from the postoffice will 
be turned into the store. The store 
has not been rented. 
