56 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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THE MANCHESTER TRUST COMPANY 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, Mass. 
Capital $100,000.00 
Surplus $33,500.00 
Deposits $600,000.00 
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ANTIQUE JEWELRY 
We are showing for a short time a fine collection of antique jewelry. 
Many pieces are of rare design and exquisite workmanship. 
Our prices are very reasonable. 
F. S. Thompson, seweer 
164 Main Street, Gloucester 
SUFFRAGE NOTES 
Mrs. Henry Preston White (anti- 
suffragist) and her friends sometimes 
say that the suffragists do not answer 
her statements. It is quite true that 
we usually ignore her remarks, be- 
cause they do not seem to us import- 
ant. But our silence seems to be 
misunderstood, and I will make a 
brief, plain statement, once and for 
all. Mrs. White’s reports are reck- 
lessly inaccurate and I sincerely re- 
eret that they appear in our North 
Shore paper and thus seem to repre- 
sent certain ladies who are our 
friends and neighbors, (ladies who 
would not really approve of slander 
and untruth). -The statement in last 
week’s Breeze as to Suffragists pay- 
ing large sums (so much apiece) for 
signatures to their petition in Ohio 
is too preposterous,—it is almost 
comic. As usual this wild tale is not 
backed up with dates and Mrs. White 
has not yet been able to produce any 
proof. We are truth-seekers and 
once more we ask the Antis to verify 
this and similar (mis) statements. 
The characters of Suffrage workers 
and their methods of work are open 
to inspection. They are very busy 
women and have no time for bribery; 
corruption and slanders, — hardly 
time even to answer slanders! 
I wish we Suffragists had as much 
money as this tale suggests! We 
should have a better use for it than 
buying signatures! If we had the 
wealth or the methods of “the inter- 
ests” we should have won the last 
campaign in Ohio. Their methods 
(bribery, corruption and _ slander) 
gave us a temporary defeat there and 
in other states. But we know that at 
last “the truth shall make us free.” 
Loure R. StaNwoop. 
The Manchester Equal Suffrage 
league is to hold a small sale some- 
time in the near future,—probably on 
lucy  Stone’s  birthday,—August 
15th. Further notice will appear 
next week. The League regrets that 
it cannot at this time announce any- 
thing further about the debate in the 
Town hall between the Antis; a reply 
has not yet been received from the 
latter. 
The date of the open-air rally to be 
held at the estate of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harry E. Russell at Manchester 
Cove is Friday afternoon, August 
28th. Some prominent speakers are 
announced and everybody will be in- 
vited to attend. 
TAX RATE OF $11.20 
IncrEASED Cost oF GENERAL Gov- 
ERNMENT—STATE, COUNTY AND 
Town—CauseEs INCREASED 
Tax Rats. 
The Manchester board of assessors 
announced the tax rate for the pre- 
sent year last Saturday noon,—$11.20 
on a $1000, which is an increase over 
last year of $2.40. This is the high- 
est rate in Manchester for some 
years, and it is caused, it is announc- 
ed, by no one item of expenditure in 
Manchester, but by the general in- 
crease in the cost of government, in 
state, county and town. The big item 
of increase is in the state and county 
tax, which will be $74,912.63 this 
year. The matter of sewers in Man- 
chester has nothing to do with the 
increase, for the only expense by the 
town this year is the interest on the 
bonds, which is not a big item in, 
the total output for the year. 
The figures employed to derive at 
the rate is based on the following: 
Personal property: residents, $8,- 
123,515; non-residents, $32,970; total, 
$8,156,485. 
Real estate: residents, $3,868,110; 
non-residents, $4,794,145; total $8,- 
662,255. 
Legally exempt: $33,520. ' 
Total assessed on April 1, 
$16,785,220. 
Last year’s valuation was $16,758,- 
754, which is $26,466 less than this 
year. 
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