20 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING 
Sewer ASSESSMENTS AND PARK IM- 
PROVEMENTS CHIEF BONES OF 
CONTENTION 
The question of sewer assessments 
and further improvements at Mas- 
conomo park were the prime issues 
before the voters at the adjourned 
Town meeting in Manchester Tues- 
day evening. In the former matter 
the question was recommitted to the 
sewer board for action and the park 
board engineered through a just ap- 
propriation of $2990 for the work on 
Masconomo Park. The moderator 
had some perplexing complications to 
straighten out several times, but mat- 
ters were righted finally to the satis- 
faction of all. 
Chairman Edward S. Knight of 
the selectmen presented the report of 
the board relative to a contract with 
the * Manchester” Electric Coo for 
lighting the streets with some 250 
lights. Everything was set forth in 
a most comprehensive manner and 
the board was authorized to make a 
10-year contract with the company. 
It is understood a 60 c.p. lamp will 
be used for the most part, and at cer- 
tain points more powerful lights. At 
five places the 250 c.p. lamp will be 
used—cor. Pine and Central sts., 
cor. School and Union, Postoffice 
square, cor. Union and Washington, 
and corner Summer and Forest sts. 
Mr. Knight stated further that the 
* Welsbach company had agreed to 
continue their lights until the new 
system was installed and ready for 
use in October or November. 
A petition was presented, signed 
by 30 or 40 citizens asking the town . 
to continue with the present system 
of gasoline lights. 
The question of sewer assessments 
was recommitted to the sewer com- 
missioners, they to report at some 
adjournment of this meeting or at 
some other meeting. This motion 
was carried at the conclusion of an 
excited argument as to rescinding the 
vote passed at the meeting a month 
ago, to the effect that users of the 
sewer be assessed a minimum of 
$3.00. An effort was made to have 
all the expense paid out of the gen- 
eral tax levy. The moderator fin- 
ally ruled all motions, except the one 
mentioned above, out of order on the 
ground that the town voted in Aug. 
1913, that every person who enters 
the sewer shall pay a just and equit- 
able charge therefor, based on the 
reading of their water meter; and 
until this vote was rescinded, all 
TREE PRUNING 
Everything in Forestry 
action contradictory thereto was out 
of order. 
The moderator immediately ap- 
pointed the Fourth of July commit- 
tee.-—C. A. Hatch, F. L. Smith, L. 
W. (Carter, Alfred Walen, Cheever 
Hersey, Waldo F. Peart, A. H. Sjor- 
lund, James Murray, Wm. H. Allen. 
After some more wrangling $2990 
was appropriated to continue the 
work at Masconomo Park. At the 
former meeting it was voted to ap- 
propriate no money for this purpose. 
Somebody moved to lay on the table, 
but the meeting was opposed to this, 
47 voting in favor to 120 against. 
Mr. Reed’s motion as above was car- 
ried by a vote of 115 to 50. 
On motion of Forster Tenney 
$300. was appropriated for the use of 
the special investigating committee 
on the concrete standpipe. M. J. 
Callahan of the committee to nom- 
inate an appropriation committee, of- 
fered the following list of nine: 
Geo, 5S. Sinnicks, CSL. Crafts; Won. 
Coolidge, Philip Stockton, W. L. 
Putnam, AltredG. Hooper, Laue Os 
Rowe, A. C. Needham and Frank W. 
jell. This committee was accepted. 
It was suggested that the finance 
committee hold their meetings in the 
Town hall and that such meetings be 
open to the public. 
It was voted that $600 be approp- 
riated to make needed repairs on the 
dam at Central pond. 
At 9.30 the meeting adjourned 
until Monday evening, April 26, at 
7.30 o'clock. 
MANCHESTER 
Mrs. Hannah Tappan and Mrs. 
Seddie Follet attended the 32d. an- 
niversary of the Woman’s Relief 
Corps at Danvers, Thursday after- 
noon. 
The firm of Morley, Flatley & Co., 
partners, has been dissolved by mu- 
tual consent, Mr. Morley having 
bought the business, and will conduct 
the same in his own name. 
The Manchester Boy Scouts play- 
ed their first ball game of the season 
last. Saturday at Essex, the game 
running to If innings, the Essex 
boys finally winning, 8 to 7. A’ re- 
turn game will be played at Man- 
chester tomorrow forenoon. 
The Park Board met last night and 
appointed Levi A. Dunn as caretaker 
of Masconomo Park, and Benjamin 
Crombie as caretaker of Singing 
Beach Park. 
Men’s Elite and Ladies’. Queen 
Quality Shoes at W. R. Bell’s. adv. 
April 16, 1915 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES 
The Manchester Equal Suffrage 
League will hold an unusually inter- 
esting meeting and tea on Wednes- 
day, April 21st, at 3.30 o’clock, at 
Mrs. Leach’s Tea Room,—owing to 
illness in the household of | Mrs. 
Hatch. Mrs. William Codman 
Sturgis will come out from Boston 
to give a talk on her Colorado exper- 
iences. Mrs. Sturgis is the daughter- 
in-law of Mrs. Russell Sturgis and a 
well-known visitor on the Shore. 
This year she in living in Cambridge, 
but for many years she lived —and 
voted—in Colorado. She has recent- 
ly spoken in Milton, and in Boston at 
the house of Mrs. Robert Gould 
Shaw. Mrs. Shaw has also been in- 
vited to come to Manchester with 
Mrs. Sturgis on this occasion. New 
members will be welcome. 
On Saturday of this week (April 
17), the Boston American will have 
a special Suffrage Supplement, which 
will be edited bythe Mass. Woman 
Suff. Ass’n. 
Cambridge, Editor in chief). This 
edition promises to be full of news 
and fun, and extra copies will be sent 
to Manchester and other towns. 
The Christian Science Monitor of 
last Saturday had a splendid leading 
editorial (one third of a page) on 
“The. Franchise and We Men,” jn 
which the Editor said: “Nobody has 
ever been able to produce a single 
logical reason for the distinction be- 
tween men and women in the fran- 
chise.****A + position, however, which 
is indefensible logically, can always 
be defended, after a fashion, by pre-. 
judice.” And the same _ editorial 
shows how the present war is bring- 
ing nearer both woman suffrage and 
temperance. “Out of evil cometh 
good !” 
At the recent municipal election in 
Chicago, a very great number of wo- 
men came out ot the polls and voted 
(over 224,000)—and at ‘the same 
time the percentage of men voting 
was increased (giving Chicago a new 
record)—which usually happens 
where there is equal suffrage. I have 
heard men in Manchester (and in 
Boston) say that women will not use 
the vote if they get it.- They said the 
same thing in Chicago a little while 
ago!—But never again! 
—L. R. S$ 
Past Presidents Mrs. Fred Lane 
and Mrs. Jennie Dennis were in at- 
tendance at the W. R. C. convention 
in Boston last week. 
R. E. HENDERSON 
BOX 244, BEVERLY, MASS. 
Telephone. \ 
(Mrs, E. C. Jeffrey of 
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