MANCHESTER 
Miss Ordway has just concluded a 
Pyisit with Mrs. Chas. FE. Williams, 
Norwood ave. 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Crowell 
visited relatives in Bolton the latter 
part of last week. 
Miss Mary Ross of Arlington is a 
guest of Mrs. Alice Wheaton, Nor- 
wood ave., for two weeks. 
At the Probate Court Monday the 
inventory was filed on the estate of 
Ida J., wife of Henry B. McCollum, 
$1778.15. 
Dr. and Mrs. George Jewett of 
Portsmouth are spending a few days 
with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Jewett. 
Dr. Jewett came here to attend the 
Elder Brethren gare 
The A. S. C. S. club held its second 
dance of the summer in Town hall on 
‘Tuesday evening. There was a good 
attendance, many staying to enjoy th» 
dancing after the band concert on the 
common. 
Boy’s pants and blouses at E. A. 
Lethbridge’s. adv. 
Entries for the Manchester tennis 
tournament at the playground wiil 
close tomorrow. Players desiring to 
take part should notify Playground 
Director McCarthy at once. A large 
number of entries has already been 
received. 
Edward F. Gunnison of Beverly, 
killed in Boston Tuesday while en- 
gaged at his vocation as trackman 
employed by the B. & M., was a resi- 
dent of Manchester in boyhood. He 
was born in Boxford 44 years ago. 
He was a member of the S. of V. and 
Workmen. 
Splendid weather favored the con- 
cert by the Salem Cadet band in Cen- 
tral sq. on Tuesday evening. ‘The 
concert was postponed from the pre- 
vious Thursday because of rain and 
as a result the attendance was not as 
great as at the regular concerts. 
However, several hundred people en- 
joyed an excellent program, including 
a cornet solo by Nelson Bernier which 
was heartily applauded. The next 
concert is scheduled for next Thurs- 
day evening, August 10. 
St. John’s Literary Institute of 
Cambridge will send a ball team to 
Manchester tomorrow to play the lo- 
cal nine. The institute team is 
heralded as a fast organization of bali 
players and it is predicted they will 
eive Manchester a hard game. The 
fans are satisfied that last Saturday 
they saw as fast and clean a game as 
any this season and that the shoe men 
had to extend themselves to win. 
They look for as good a game tomor- 
row with the heavy end of the score 
in the Manchester column, 
Aug. 4, 1916. NORTH SHORE BREEZE and eae jus a Oe ee 65 
“Busy” or 
“Don’t Answer’? 
WHEN THE OPERATOR REPORTS THAT “THE LINE IS 
BUSY,” it is because she has taken the time to test the line 
called for. It would be easier for her to complete the con- 
nection than to make such a report. If the operator did not 
test on every call, she might plug in on a busy line. 
Furthermore, “Busy” means that the line (not necessaiily the 
telephone number you have called) is in use. The subscriber 
on a four-party line may not be talking, but one of the three 
other subscribers may be, making the entire line closed to 
traffic, or some one of the party subscribers may have put in a 
toll call and the line is being held awaiting its completion. 
Lengthy conversations on unimportant matters often congest 
party lines and give cause for protests from other subscribers 
in common. 
WHEN THE OPERATOR REPORTS “THEY DON’T 
ANSWER,” she has done all within her means to compel a 
answer to her summons. That sum:roning pore 1S Ke 
ringing of a bell, a he mical signal which says, “Someone 
desires to speak to you.” It remains with the person called 
to be prompt in responding. 
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If a subscriber is slow in responding, the calling person may hang 
up the receiver, assuming that the former is inaccessible. ‘Then 
there is an additional inconvenience to the called person when 
the operator reports, “There is no one on the line now, please 
excuse it.” 
located at a different switchboard than the operator who rang 
The operator who makes that report usually is 
the bell, and is unable to ascertain where the call originated. 
NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE 
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 
IRVING W. ROLFE, Manager 
Two motor truck loads of young We do any kind of fine sewing to 
people from Manchester attended the order at the Gertrude Shop. Central 
monthly meeting of the Salem Union - sq. adv 
of Christian Endeavor at the Congl. Mrs. Susan Bolton of 4o St. Paul 
church in Topsfield on Monday eve- — street, Brookline, sustained a_ frac 
ning. The banner for the month was tured arm, when she fell at the home 
won by the society of the Baptist of Miss Katie MacLeod of Linceln 
church of Beverly Farms. The de- street Saturday morning. She was 
votional exercises were led by Rev. taken to the New England Baptist 
Clarence S. Pond of Beverly Farms. hospital in Roxbury in the Manches- 
A report on the C. E. summer school ter ambulance. 
at Sagamore was made by Abbott When you think of painting think 
Foster. of Tappan, 17 Bridge st., Manches- 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290, adv. _ ter. adv 
