MANCHESTER SECTION 
Five car loads of asphalt arrived 
at Manchester this week for use 1 
the new street construction. 
The work of setting out about 200 
shrubs at Masconomo Park has been 
tshed along the past week. The 
park is beginning to show the results 
of the improvements. 
Mrs. Harry W. Purington left 
yesterday for a brief visit at her 
former home in Hudson. Next week 
Mr. and Mrs. Purington are going 
to Maine for a week’s visit. 
Mrs. J. C. Mackin, as chairman ot 
the Manchester Branch of the Mass- 
achusetts Anti-Suffrage association, 
attended the mass meeting at Fan- 
euil hall, Boston, last Saturday even- 
ing. 
The newstand of the Armstrong 
News Company at the Boston and 
Maine station was broken into some 
time between Monday night and 
Tuesday morning. Forty cigars be- 
sides cigarettes were taken. 
Mr. and Mrs. ‘Harold M. Bater 
are to have the L. W. Carter tene- 
ment in the Carter house on School 
St. this. summer, —* Mrs Bater. (nee 
Bingham) intends to continue her 
business as maker and designer of 
gowns. Mr. and Mrs. Carter will 
live in the rooms over the J. W. Car- 
ter Co. store for the summer. 
Educator shoes at W.R.Bell’s. adv. 
Although he has been out of Tech- 
nology only about 10 months, Henry 
F. Merrill, 2d, son of Mr. and Mrs. 
F. J. Merrill, has just received an 
offer from the Chinese government 
of a position as assistant engineer in 
the lighthouse service at a salary of 
$2000. Mr. Merrill was graduated 
from Tech last year in the course of 
sanitary engineering. Since then he 
has spent seven months with a firm 
of marine engineers that has recent- 
ly completed the sewer system in 
Manchester. He also worked under 
the same company on the Cape Cod 
canal salvaging a towboat. For the 
last few weeks he has been in the 
draughting rooms of a _ consulting 
engineer. As the position in China 
is now open, ‘Mr. Merrill left this 
week, sailing from San Francisco on 
the Manchuria May 15 for Honkong, 
whence. he will proceed to Canton. 
He has an uncle who has been in the 
U. S. diplomatic service in China for 
the last 40 years. 
Friday, May 7, I9I5. 
The annual meeting of the Man- 
chester Fireman Relief association 
has been postponed to Monday, May 
1721915, at(7ugO ngs 
Postmaster \Foster was host last 
Saturday evening for a number of 
Manchester men who have been as- 
sociated with him in bearing the 
Democratic banner though sunshine 
and storm the last five or six years. 
John N. Furguson of Canton is the 
engineer to supervise the construc- 
tion of the 2-mile section of highway. 
Mr. Furguson married a_ former 
Manchester school teacher, Miss 
MacIntire. They are living at Mrs. 
Campbell’s, School st. 
The benefits derived from the 
training which the members of the 
Manchester police department re- 
ceived from Dr. Blaisdell in ‘First 
aid” instruction, was emphazied last 
Sunday when a man in trying to 
board a moving train fell under the 
car and had his foot crushed. Offi- 
cers Bullock and Sheehan were at the 
railroad station at the time and they 
were the first at the side of the in- 
jured man. Officer Sheehan was 
quick to wind two handkerchiefs 
about the injured leg, administering 
first aid. He afterwards went to the 
hospital with the man. 
Miss FLorRENCE LEACH 
of Manchester, one of the entrants 
for the Boston Traveler Panama- 
Pacific Tour. Above picture was 
recently published in the Herald. 
NOTICE 
NEW TIME TABLE 
Story & GREENWOOD 
Gloucester—Manchester—Magnolia 
*BUS LINE 
Leaves Glouc. Leaves Mane. 
A. M. 7.00 omitted Sunday 7.30 A. M. 
9.00 9.45 
10.30 T1.15 
M.12.00 Leave Bry Pee 
P. M.1.30 Magnolia 2.00 
2.00 15 minutes 2.30 
S00 slater 4.00 
4.00 4.30 
BS 6.00 
6.30 7.00 
8.00 8.30 
9.30 10.00 
10.30 11.00 
11.30 Sat., Holidays 12.00 
We guarantee our patrons a year- 
round service, with warm cars on 
cold days and cool cars on hot days, 
and every person riding on our ‘bus 
is covered with a liability insurance. 
If this means anything to you, think 
it over. 
Miss Arline Tarbell, secretary of 
the Hudson Anti-Suffrage branch, 
was in town a few days this week, tie 
guest of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mac- 
kin. Miss Tarbell came in time to 
attend the Anti meeting at the home 
of Mrs. Harry Purington, Tuesday 
afternoon. 
Dr. Maynard B. Ladd was in town 
yesterday afternoon for a consulta- 
tion over the one and a half year old 
son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Crafts. 
Tuberculosis of the spine was the 
verdict rendered by Dr. Ladd, who 
is a specialist on children’s diseases. 
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mulcahay 
and family have removed from the 
Collins house on School street to the 
Mulvey cottage, 21 Norwood ave. 
The Forward family, who were in the 
Mulvey house, have taken part of 
Mrs. Abbie Hooper’s _ residence, 
Bridge st. 
Mrs. Lyman W. Floyd and daugh- 
ter, Miss Abbie Floyd left Monday 
for New York, whence they sailed 
for Norfolk, Va., and the trip up the 
Potomac River to Washington. They 
will be away nearly two weeks, dur- 
ing which they will visit J. C. Crom- 
well and family in Chevy Chase, Md. 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attormey and 
Counselor at Law 
WILLMONTON’S AGENCY 
Real Estate and Insurance ef All Kinds 
Schoo! and Uniem Sts., Manchester ~~: Old South Bidg., Boston 
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