Aug. 11, 1916. 
oe 5 eax RATE $11.20 
“=Mancuesrer’s R Rate Hicuer Tris 
f YEAR BY $1.20. 
The Board of Assessors of Man- 
chester, Edward S. Knight, chairman, 
announced the tax rate for 1916 lasi 
Saturday as $11.20 on every thousand 
dollars of valuation—an increase of 
$1.20 over last year’s $10 rate. 
_ The rate is based on the following 
‘figures: 
Resident Personal. . 
$12,204,193 
29,395 
-- Total Property Assessed. 
Polls 856. 
aan Per Thousand. 
Gain or Loss Over 1915 Valuation 
Resident Personal Gain.........$1,348,220 
Non-Resident Personal Loss..... 6,061 
Resident Real Estate Gain...... 168,410 
Non-Resident Real Estate Loss.. 33,185 
Net Gain Valuation Over 1915.$1,477,384 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
_. A few men’s and women’s second- 
-hand bicycles for sale—C. 5. Peters, 
bicycles, opposite Manchester Electric 
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| Co., Summer st. 
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adv. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
_ Clay’s ice-cream by plate or cone 
at Reed’s Beach st. café. adv. 
- Taxi—Phone Manchester 200. adv. 
BEVERLY FARMS 
There will be a service for worship 
at the Beverly karms Baptist Church 
on Sunday morning at 10.45. The 
Bible school will meet at 12; there are 
classes for all ages. Miss Florence 
Chapman will lead the Christian En- 
Geavor meeting. There will be a spe- 
cial musical service at 7.30. The choir 
will be assisted by a violinist and an 
orchestra. The choir will sing two 
anthems and there will be two violin 
solos by Master Clarence Knudsen. 
The minister, Rev. Clarence Strong 
Pond, will preach upon “Harvony.” 
The special collection taken last Sun- 
day evening for the Home for Little 
Wanderers in Boston amounted to 
fifty dollars in cash and pledges. The 
Young People’s Society lawn party 
was a success despite the rain on 
Tuesday. Rev. Oscar W. Johnson 
will address the next meeting for 
Scandinavians on Friday evening, Au- 
gust 25. at 8.30. The Italian classes 
in English meets twice a week, Tues- 
days and Thursdays, under the care 
of Mr. Loreto Tessicinni. The cer- 
vice on Sunday evening, August 20, 
will be illustrated by the stereopticon. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
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Non-Resident Pers’l. 75,231 
; | ——___$12'979 494 
_ Resident Real Estate. $4,336,700 
' Non-Res. Real Estate. 4,891,060 
; ae 227,760 
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ht M $21,507,184 
. $21,477,789 
The Real 
The Thirty-Nine Steps, 
The Prisoner, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Telephone 190 
MAGNOLIA 
A grand Irish concert and dance 
in the Town. hall at Manchester will 
attract many from here on Wednes- 
day evening, August 30. The artists 
include the great Shaun Nolan & Co.; 
Rahilly Bros., champion exhibition 
step dancers, the greatest exponents 
of Irish step dancing, and Peter 
Rooney, the man with the McCormack 
voice. Also Miss Maude Howland 
Burns, contralto, and Miss Viola EI- 
dredge, Peabody’s child reader and 
solo dancer. There will be a fine ar- 
ray of local talent. Dancing will fol- 
lew the concert. 
Magnolia prides itself on having a 
spendid library which has been well 
patronized thus far this season. It 
now has over seven thousand vol- 
umes, the most of which are worth 
reading and some of which are very 
valuable. 
Some of the summer people have 
made to it very generous contribu- 
tions of money, books and time and 
among these are Miss Elizabeth G. 
Houghton, Mrs. Margaret Curry- 
Chaplin, Miss Elizabeth Thornton, 
Mrs. Frank Chick, Miss Mary Thorn- 
ton, Miss L. A. Bigelow, Miss E. P. 
Hamlen and Otis Weld Richardson, 
its treasurer. 
Among the recent accessions to the 
‘library are the following: 
The Lightning Condietor Dis- 
covers Aiierica: 
C. N. and A. M. Williamson 
The Side of the Angels, Basil King 
A Diplomat’s Wife in Mexico, 
Edith O'Shaughnessy 
Adventure, 
Henry Kitchell Webster 
John Buchan 
Alice Brown 
The Round About, J. E. Buckrose 
My Home in the Field of Honor, 
Frances Wilson Huard 
Eingland’s Effort, 
Mrs. Humphrey Ward 
Mh Bailey 
Mary S. Watts 
Glory of Youth, 
The Rudder, 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA 
Bullock Brothers, 
Veuve Chaffard Olive Oil, Swansdown Flour, Brigham Creamery Butter 
S. S. Pierce Co.’s 
Golden Scarecrow, 
Just David. 
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Fancy Groceries 
FRESH FRUIT! 
Direct from the Boston Markets Daily 
Only Fruit Store on the North 
Shore that Guarantees Its Fruit. 
Native Garden Vegetables in Season 
Pure Olive Oil 
MANCHESTER FRUIT STORE 
Post Office Block Phone 160 
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GROCERIES 
KITCHEN FURNISHINGS 
Manchester, : : Mass. 
J a SS SS 
The Accolade, Edith Sidgwick 
Where the Path Breaks, 
Capt. Chas. di Crespigny 
When | Was a Boy in Belgium, 
Robt. Jouckhere 
Life of Julia Ward Howe, 
Laura E. Richards 
The Three Things, 
Mary R. S. Andrews 
Seventeen, Booth Tarkington 
Living the Radiant Life, 
Geo. Wharton James 
Hugh Walpole 
Felix O’Day, F. Hopkinson Smith 
‘the First Hundred Thousand, 
Tan Hay 
Autobiography of Rdward iy, 
Trudeau, M.D. 
Charles Francis Adams, 
Henry Cabot Lodge 
Marguerite Bryant 
Eleanor H. Porter 
Felicity Crofton, 
The Dark Forest, Hugh Walpole 
Pierrot, Dog of Belgium, 
Walter A. Dyer 
ALLEN’S DRUG STORE 
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MANCHESTER 
Registered Pharmacists Always on Duty 
Telephones: 217, 8388 
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