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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Manchester 
Town Meeting 
Appropriations for 
The annual warrant for Manches- 
ter’s town meeting has been com- 
piled by the Board of Selectmen and 
will undoubtedly be posted today 
-or tomorrow. The warrant contains 
’ 66 articles,—four more than last 
year. The articles of business are 
much along the same line as last 
year, only one or two large appro- 
priations being called for. 
Among the appropriations called 
in the articles of the warrant are :— 
$2,000 for clearing snow; $100 clear- 
ing snow from Central pond; $500 
for the care and improvement of 
Wenham and LHEssex old roads; 
$25,000 for schools; $600 care and 
maintenance of play-ground; $550 
repairs and painting outside Priest 
school; $200 medical inspection in 
schools; $300 new fence Priest 
school; $200 planting trees at play- 
ground ‘‘to take the place, in the 
future, of the apple trees that are 
fast dying out’’; $10,500 mainte- 
nance water works; $2000 (and re- 
-eceipts) water department. exten- 
sions; $350 salaries water commis- 
sioners ; $2250 new auto truck water 
department; $2100 improvement 
water mains; $5400 fire department 
“maintenance; $800, 100 feet hose; 
$1200 underground conduits for 
fire alarm; $8000 police department ; 
$1200 cable conduit for police sig- 
nal system; $1425 Board of Health; 
‘$500 benefit District Nurse Associa- 
tion; $5000 moth suppression; $600 
tree warden; $1000 Forest Warden; 
$4200 support of poor; $1500 state 
aid; $2500 park maintenance; $2000 
dredging (parks) ; $15,000 new bath 
‘house;. $125 care Central pond; 
‘$832.50 care Tuck’s point; $500 
“band concerts; $500 Fourth of July; 
$200 Memorial day; ‘‘for the main- 
tenance of the several departments 
of general government’’; legisla- 
tion $450, Selectmen’s $1500, ac- 
countant’s $850, treasurer and col- 
lector, $1800, assessors’ $1400, town 
elerk’s $525, Law department $1500, 
election and registration $300, Town 
hall and common $3800; $1400 cem- 
etery trustees; $250 sundry bills 
committee on sewerage. 
There are also several articles in 
the warrant calling for concreting, 
dredging, ete. 
Article 65 of the warrant: To ac- 
cept the report of the selectmen in 
regard to a new building at Tuck’s 
point, or take any action relating 
thereto. 
MANCHESTER 
Commander Enoch Crombie and 
Sr. Vice Com. Nathaniel Morgan, of 
Allen Post 67, in accordance with 
the annual custom on Washington’s 
birthday, attended the re-union and 
banquet of Company G, 23d Mass. 
Vol., held in the GAR hall, Beverly. 
A meeting of the Manchester base 
ball association will be held next 
Tuesday evening in Lee’s hall at 8 
o’clock. Everybody interested in 
furthering the interests of a base- 
ball team in Manchester this sum- 
mer is invited. 
The Breeze is in a position to 
handle any job of printing at a 
moment’s notice. No job too large 
or none too small for our well- 
equipped plant. 
Thomas and Charlie Marsh of 
Boston, spent the holiday in town 
with acquaintances. 
Candidates for Office in Manchester 
Selectmen, 1 year 
E. 8. Knight 
F. G. Cheever 
Frank A. Foster 
N. P. Meldrum 
Lyman W. Floyd 
Horace Standley 
Assessor, 1 year 
Frank G. Cheever 
Assessor 3 years 
W. R. Bell 
L. W. Floyd 
N. P. Meldrum 
Albert Haraden 
Water Commissioner, 3 years 
Senter Stanley 
Chas. W. Sawyer 
Frank A. Rowe 
Town Treasurer, 1 year 
E. P. Stanley 
Town Clerk, 1 year 
A. 8. Jewett 
School Committee, 3 years 
W. H. Tyler 
G. Lockhart Allen 
Trustee Public Library, 3 years 
R. T. Glendenning 
Tree Warden, 1 year 
Wm. Young 
Wn. F. Spry 
Trustee Cemeteries, 3 years 
E. A. Lane 
. Trustee Mem. Lib. Bldg. F’nd, 3 eX 
T. J. Coolidge, Jr. 
Park Commissioner, 3 years 
Jeffrey S. Read 
Constables 
Leonard Andrews 
L. O. Lations 
Jos. P, Leary 
aA AAG Cushing, Mrs. 
‘Mrs. W. F. Swan, Mrs. Healy, Mrs. 
L. W.. Floyd, 
Parent-Teacher Association 
The annual business meeting of 
the Manchester Parent-Teacher as- 
sociation was held Wednesday eve- 
ning in the Price school. The Pres- 
ident, Mrs. D. T. Beaton, presided. 
The annual reports of the secre- 
tary, Miss Anne Clarke, the treas- 
-urer, F. J. Merrill, and that of. the 
social committee of which Mrs. G. 
A. Knoerr is. chairman, by Miss 
Theresa Walsh, were read and ap- 
proved, and were indicative of very 
_suecessful and progressive meetings 
during the official year. 
The nominating committee com- 
posed of Albert Cunningham, Miss 
Audrey Calden and Mrs. G. A. 
_ Knoerr, nominated the following of- 
ficers for 1912: Mrs. Hattie F. Ba- 
ker, president; Miss Theresa Walsh, 
vice pres. ; Miss Lila G. Goldsmith, 
sec. Frederick J.. Merrill, treas. 
Program Committee: J. C. Mackin, 
Mrs. D. T. Beaton, Ralph Hayward, 
Misses Anne Clarke and Mae. Sten- 
house. Social Committee, Mrs. G. 
A. Knoerr, Mrs. Chester Crafts, Mrs. 
Henry Davis, 
Misses Edith. Folson 
and Florence Noulan and Albert 
Cunningham. The above eandi- 
dates were unanimously, elected. 
Mrs. Beaton in a fitting speech 
welcomed the new president, ‘Mrs. 
Baker, who responded in a pleasing 
manner. Interesting reports were 
given by Miss Lila Goldsmith and 
Mrs. Alfred I. Saben, delegates to 
the Mothers’ Congress at Lynn, last 
- week, 
Miss Goldsmith attended on 
Friday, the 16th, and brought | in- 
_ structive messages from the princi- 
ple addresses of that day: ‘‘ The 
Larger Patriotism,’’ ‘“‘Heonomic. -Nu- 
trition,’? and ‘‘ Thrift.” “Mrs. Sa- 
ben gave interesting excerpts from 
Saturday’s program at the Con- 
Breas when she heard Mrs. David 
Mears of Boston and Essex, on 
he “Child Welfare Campaign”; 
‘Getting Together and Working 
Together,’’ Frank J. Peaselee; and 
“How the Mother’s Congress. May 
_ Help the Community,’’ Rey. Fred- 
erick W. Perkins. 
During the social period Mrs. 
-Knoerr and the committee served 
various kinds of sherbet. 
Men are strange creatures. They-.-will 
bictena an hour hunting. a collar~button 
instead of having an: extra supply: and 
letting their wife find the missing. one. 
‘You never see a woman look for.a pin 
she drops. Her husband finds it when he 
walks around in his bare feet. 
