40 
2 eo a or oe € 
3 Hrurrly Harms : & 
The board of assessors on Monday 
announced thatthe tax rate for 1909 would 
be $15.40 on each $1000 of valuation. 
This is two dollars less than last year. 
Mrs. Howard Bartlett of Amesbury 
has been a guest of Captain and Mrs. 
Duncan T. Smith, a portion of the last 
week. 
Quite a force of men are at work wid- 
ening and improving the road through 
the woods from the Farms to Chebacco 
lake. The upper end is the portion that 
has been attended to thus far. 
A party of Farms young people are to 
conduct a dance in Neighbors’ hall on 
Thursday evening, Sept. 16. The net 
proceeds will be given for the benefit of 
St. Margaret’s church. 
Misses Joanna T. and Elizabeth A. 
Toomey of Haskell street are today start- 
ing on their vacations, which will be 
spent principally at Hoboken, N. J., the 
guests of Miss Nora Foley, who is re- 
turning to that place after a week’s visit 
at the Farms. 
John Ryan and family have moved in- 
to the D. W. Hardy tenement over the 
vacant store on Hale street,—the rooms 
formerly occupied by Capt. Blaney. 
WHEN IN NEED 
of Drugs, Confectionery, Toilet 
Articles, Stationery, Fine T obac- 
cos, Pipes, Cigars or anything 
else kept by a modern woharmacy, 
telephone to the 
PRIDE’S CROSSING 
DRUG STORE 
Hale St., Pride’s Crossing 
IRA B. CASE 
.. Registered Pharmacist ... 
-Prescriptions Carefully Compounded... 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
Established 1877 
Telephone: Factory 248-12. Residence 134-12 
Be GAP SAG aoe: 
218 — 236 Rantoul Street, 
Corner Bow Street, 
BEVERLY, MASS. 
Carriage and Automobile Repairing 
New Coverings, Tops and Slip Linings 
for Automobiles 
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALTERATIONS 
Painting and Varnishing 
First-Class Work 
Special Departmert for Automobiles 
The Beverly parties who are running 
the fish trap off West Beach made some 
good hauls of mackerel recently. This 
kind of fish is a rare catch in these waters 
of late years. 
Harry Wyatt has resigned his position 
at the Wiley-Gibson Co. hay and grain ~ 
concern in Central square, and Brewer 
Hanson is his successor. 
Sixteen Beverly Farmers went on the 
Lake Winnepesaukee excursion Wed- 
nesday. The next and last trip to the 
Lake will be on Monday, Sept. 13. 
A wall about 20 foot long, facing 
West street, has been built this week at 
West Beach. The wall encloses the 
new acquisition of land to the corporation 
property by the recent Hutchinson-West 
Beach Corp. agreement. 
Alderman Robert E. Hodgkins’ fam- 
ily this week returned to their Beverly 
Farms home after spending several weeks 
enjoying camp life on the ’Squam river, 
Gloucester. 
Eugene Turpenny, formerly assistant 
lighthouse keeper at Baker’s Island, and 
who was appointed keeper of the light- 
house at Chatty-hunk, off New Bedford, 
died at that place the first of this week. 
Mr. Turpenny’s wife was Miss Ella 
Moon of Beverly. He was well known 
at the Farms and was a member of John 
West colony, Pilgrim Fathers, in which 
order he carried a life insurance policy 
at the full rate,—$2000. 
Miss Nora Foley and her brother, 
James Foley, are returning today to their 
home in Hoboken, N. J., after a_pleas- 
ant vacation spent at the Farms. They 
have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. 
Peter Ward, Hale street. 
ALDEN WEBB 
Watchmaker, Jeweler, Optician 
Repairing in all its Branches 
Cabot Street, BEVERLY 
THE PICKETT COAL CO. 
(Established 1844) 
DEALERS IN 
COAL “> WOOD 
CEMENT, LIME, SAND AND HAIR 
Offices, 15 Water Street, and 164 Cabot Cor 
Milton Sts. 
BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephones 
Masonic Bldg., 
HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS 
FILLED AT 
DELANEY’S 
APOTHECARY 
Cor. Cabot and Abbott Streets 
BEVERLY 
We keep everything that a good drug store 
should keep. 
Telephone Connection 
S. A. GENTLEE & SON 
Funeral Directors and Embalmers 
Calls answered day or night 
277 Cabot Street BEVERLY 
Residence, 16 Butman St. 
Travelers in America and Abroad 
need American Bankers Association Travelers’ Cheques. Current at face value in all parts of the globe. 
Seif-identifying, Safe, Convenient. 
pleased to explain the system. 
“The Perfect Inter-national Exchange.’’ 
We issue these cheques and will be 
BEVERLY NATIONAL BANK 
CAPITAL - ea nd 
BEVERLY, MASS. 
$200,000 
