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25th Anniversary of Preston Post 
G. A. R. 
Beverly, Beverly Farms, Essex 
and Manchester veterans of the G. 
A. R., were prominently identified 
with the observance of the 25th 
anniversary of Preston post GAR of 
Beverly Farms Monday evening. 
Nineteen members of the Beverly 
Farms post, headed by the Beverly 
Farms Brass band, marched to the 
depot and met the visiting com- 
rades, 300 strong. 
Supper was served by members of 
the WRC. Prayer was offered by 
Rey. Clarence 8. Pond, pastor of 
the Second Baptist church of Bey- 
erly Farms. 
Around the great table were 
seated Deputy Commander Hosley 
of the Massachusetts GAR, Asst. 
Adjt. General Weatherly of the 
Massachusetts GAR, Major Freder- 
ick A. Dodge, Aldermen James A. 
Torrey, Henry FE. Woodberry, 
George H. Hurd, James Me Phers- 
son, William H. Ropes, Martin lk. 
Lane, Roland B. Lindsay, Williuin 
C. Blaisdell, Augustus P. Loring, 
Jr., Representative Herman A. Mac- 
Donald, J. Horace Burnham, Com- 
mander of O. P. Sargent Post at 
Essex; Enoch Crombie, commander 
of Alben Post of Manchester; E. 
Walter Woodberry chief of police, 
Thomas D. Connolly, Postmaster 
William R. Brooks. 
At another table was seated visit- 
ing members of the Women’s relief 
corp and among them was the 
Massachusetts Deputy inspector. 
After supper was served the vet- 
erans with guests marched to Neigh- 
bors hall, a short distance from G. 
A. R., headquarters, where the even- 
ing was spent in speechmaking, 
piano selections, singing and recita- 
tions. 
Commander Theodore A. Holmes 
of Preston Post presided and wel- 
comed the members and _ invited 
guests to take part in making the 
event one which would long be re- 
membered. After his remarks he 
ealled upon as the first speaker of 
the evening, Eben Day, Adj. of the 
Post, who gave a brief history of 
the Post from its organization up to 
the present time in which he stated 
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that there were nineteen members, 
and during the twenty-five years 
seven had died and several had 
moved from that section of the city 
many being transferred into other 
posts. 
Mayor Frederick A. Dodge was 
the next speaker of the evening and 
in a few well chosen words con- 
gratulated the Post in behalf of the 
city upon having passed its 25th an- 
niversary. He was followed by the 
Massachusetts Department Com- 
mander who also extended con- 
gratulations in behalf of the mem- 
bers of the Grand Army Posts from 
all over the state. The next speaker 
was Assistant Adj. Commander 
Weatherby, who spoke in favor of 
emigration. 
Other speakers were Commander 
Enoch Crombie of Alben Post, GAR, 
of Manchester, who assisted in the 
mustering of Preston Post twenty- 
five years ago, Commander J. 
IIorace Burnham of O. P. Sargent 
Post of Essex, Thomas F. Whiting 
commander of John HU. Chipman 
Post of Beverly, Alderman James A. 
Torrey, Representative Herman A. 
MacDonald, Alderman Augustus P. 
Loring, Jr., Rev. C. S. Pond of Bev- 
erly Farms, Asstt. Adj. Commander 
Weatherly and the Massachusetts 
Department Inspector of the Wo- 
men’s Relief Corp. 
One of the most pleasing features 
of the event was the presentation of 
$100 to the veterans by the Women’s 
Rehef Corp which is to be used for 
the starting of a relief fund. The 
presentation was made by Mrs. 
Louis Williams president of Preston 
Corps. 
Mrs. Arthur Harlow rendered a 
number of piano selections and 
Samuel A. Gentlee sang several war 
songs which pleased the veterans. 
The hall was prettily decorated 
with American flags and bunting. 
At 10 o’clock the evening’s program 
came to a close with the giving of 
three cheers to the members of 
Preston Post. 
Mrs. Harry Pratt McKean of the 
Pride’s colony, who has recently 
returned from Colorado,  enter- 
tained at a prettily appointed lunch- 
eon recently. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. A. C. Thornton who has 
been sojourning at Haverford, Pa., 
is now at Magnolia for the season. 
Professor Charles Loring Jack- 
son, ’67, of Boston and Pride’s of 
the department of chemistry, Har- 
vard college, whose resignation is to 
take effect in September, and who 
was obliged to give up his lecture- 
room work last month on account 
of ill health, has resumed his duties. 
It is hoped that he may be able to 
continue his lectures in chemistry 
for the balance of the year. 
Mr. and Mrs. A. Henry Higginson 
of Lincoln and West Manchester, 
are expected from Europe the tenth. 
Twenty-eight fox hounds, selected 
from the noted kennels of Lord 
Fitzwilham and the Duke of Beau- 
mont in England by Mr. Higginson, 
master of hounds of the Middlesex 
Hunt, have reached Boston on the 
Sagamore from Liverpool, which 
docked this week. 
Congressman A. P. Gardner was 
elated over the victory of the Taft 
forces in the Sixth district. Con- 
gressman Gardner has been con- 
fined to the bed at his Hamilton 
summer home for several days and 
his physicians have ordered him to 
take two weeks of complete rest be- 
fore returning to his duties in 
Washington. 
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kilpatrick 
of St. Louis and Magnolia, are of 
the North Shore contingent in Paris 
after a sojourn in Munich. 
British Ambassador Bryce and 
Mrs. Bryce left Washington April 
25, for San Francisco, to sail for 
New Zealand. The ambassador will 
study at first hand the political and 
sociological conditions of a part of 
the British empire he has never be- 
fore visited. He will be away about 
three months. The embassy is left 
in charge of Alfred Mitchell Innes, 
the councillor. 
Mrs. James Howe Procter of Bos- 
ton and Ipswich, during a recent 
stay in New York, gave a dinner at 
Hotel St. Regis. 
Special Attention Given 
to Out-of-Town Orders. 
