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Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Johnson of 
Bennett street are receiving congratu- 
lations on the arrival of a little girl in 
their home Wednesday morning. 
The annual meeting of the S. H. S. 
Alumni association will be held at the 
home of the president, Geo. A. Sin- 
nicks, Ashland avenue, next Tuesday 
evening, April 20, at 7.30 o'clock. A 
full attendance is desired. 
Nathan Greenberg, the cobbler, lo- 
cated last season in the Postofhice block, 
is opening for the season next Tuesday 
in the shop in the Kimball block, Union 
street, occupied for two or three seasons 
by H. Statland, tailor. 
Curtain Muslins at E. A. Leth- 
bridge’ s. na 
The contract for dredging at Masco- 
nomo Park, in accordance with vote of 
the town, has been awarded to the Bay 
State Dredging Co., and the work will 
be started very shortly. The price tobe 
paid is 324 cents per cu. yd., and the 
material will be taken outside and 
dumped in the ocean, which means that 
some 13,000 cu. yards of mud will be 
removed. 
The petition of Geo. L. Knight and 
others to dig up Friend street for the pur- 
pose of laying pipe across the street has 
been granted, a majority of the board 
acting favorably upon same. 
An entertaiment consisting of music 
and dramatic readings will be given in 
the Congregational chapel on Friday 
evening, April 23, at 7.45, for the bene- 
fit of Phi Alpha Pi. ‘Tickets are on 
sale at 20 cents each and may be secured 
from any of the young men. The fol- 
lowing artists will contribute to the pleas- 
ure of the evening: Walter H. Moore 
of Gloucester, cornetist; Allan A. 
Brown of the N. E. Conservatory, pian- 
ist; Miss Hester E. Cunningham, N. E. 
Conservatory, soprano; Harold Blakeley, 
illuminated club swinging, Salem Y. M. 
C. A., and Miss Mildred Murray of 
Lynn, reader. All of those to take part 
come highly recommended. A fine 
concert is promised and a liberal patron- 
age should result. 
The Greeks of Gloucester and vicin- 
ity joined in observing Easter in real 
European style last Sunday. Those con- 
nected with the local fruit store spent the 
day in Gloucester and took part in the 
festivities. | Dolliver’s Neck wasx the 
scene of the celebration in the afteridon, 
at which time a number of Gloucester 
business men were their guests. A 
Marathon race, which started at the Bev- 
erly Farms depot, and ended at Dolli- 
ver’'s Neck, was a feature of the day. 
Lamson & Hubbard hats, spring 
and 
summer styles, at Bell’s. 7 
Fire at the F. R. Spaulding Residence, 
West Manchester. 
The Manchester fire department was 
called out about 1 o’clock Thursday 
morning for a fire at the Francis R. 
Spaulding residence, West Manchester. 
The alarm was sounded at 12.52, and 
the all out at 1.45. 
The fire started in a little room on the 
ground floor, in the rear of the house, 
used for telephone room, for one thing, 
and is supposed to have started from 
spontaneous combustion. There were 
some greased rags in the room at the 
time, it was learned afterwards, and it is 
thought the fire originated through these. 
But for the excellent fire fighting qual- 
ities of Mrs. Spaulding there is no ques- 
tien but that more serious results would 
have developed. 
Evans, the second son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Spaulding, had come home from 
Boston on the midnight train, and Mrs. 
Spaulding had retired after his return, 
when about 12.45 she detected a smell 
of smoke. Soon she heard a crackling 
as of something burning and as she arose 
it was plain to her the house was afire. 
She alarmed her husband and _ sons, 
Francis and Evans, and the servants, and 
very thoughtfully closing doors behind 
her she went to the ground floor. Fran- 
cis assisted her in getting the hand hose, 
already attached to a faucet in the base- 
ment, up stairs and to the little room in 
which it was evident the fire was then 
confined. Just then the heat broke a 
pane of glass in the door, a very con- 
venient circumstance, and through this 
Mrs. Spaulding played the hose. Like 
a veteran fireman she stood there pour- 
ing the water into the room, twisting 
and turning the nozzle so that the water 
covered the ground to the best advantage. 
‘The heat was getting to be intense, but 
the effective work of Mrs. Spaulding 
kept the ames down and confined them 
to this one little room. 
Meanwhile an alarm was telephoned 
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Whose fault is it? Twice today 
trains passed over the Beach street cross- 
ing without the gates being down. Early 
this morning,—about 7.15 a freight train 
came down the track and over the cross- 
ing ata 30 mile clip. No gates were 
down. At2.10 this afternoon another 
train came thundering down the line and 
over the crossing. The gates were not 
lowered. Now this can’t keep on this 
way long. Soon we’llrecord ‘‘ accident 
at the Beach street crossing.’’ 
The special meeting of the Manches- 
ter Woman’s club Tuesday afternoon 
was the largest attended of the season 
and the lecture by Mrs. May Alden 
Ward of Boston was the most interest- 
ing yet given before the club. Mrs. 
Ward taiked on current topics. 
Ladies’ Dutch collars at E. A. Leth- 
bridge’ s. * 
A large delegation of Red Men are 
planning to go to Ipswich next Tuesday 
night. 
The printing plant of the BREEZE 
closes down at noon on Saturdays now. 
Breeze advertising pays. 
in from the Clark residence alongside by 
one of the boys, and by the time the de- 
partment arrived Mrs. Spaulding had the 
fire pretty well subdued. Her hands 
were burned and her hair was _ badly 
singed. She had been unable to dress, 
which made the risk she took all the 
more serious. 
The fire was confined to the one 
room, fortunately, and the damage will 
amount to only a few hundred dollars at 
the most. [he room will be repaired 
within a few days. 
Mr. Spaulding’s poor health rendered 
him helpless. Too Mrs. Spaulding all 
praise is due for her excellent work. 
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