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May 14, 1915 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and 
COAL AT MAY PRICES ——© 
Filling your bins NOW with our “OLD COMPANY’S” LEHIGH is more than economy---its an INVESTMENT. 
Let us send youa delivery of the above, in any size you require. 
and our PRICES are as LOW as the LOWEST. 
9900000000000000000000000000 
WHISPERINGS 
of THE BREEZES 
$000000000000000000000000000 
The death last week of another of 
Manchester’s greatly beloved sum- 
mer residents of long standing brings 
vididly before the mind of the Whis- 
perer the efforts of Miss Fannie 
Bartlett and her sister toward secur- 
ing Manchester’s first pair of fire 
horses. It was about 15 years aga, 
a day or two following the gas ex- 
plosion and fire at the summer home 
of James Means, on Smith’s Point, 
in which a guest of Mr. and Mrs. 
Means, Miss Klemm of Philadelphia, 
was seriously injured. It was the 
custom then, in case of a fire, to pro- 
cure a pair of horses from one oi 
several stables near the center of 
town, and consequently the apparatus 
was often slow in getting to the scene 
of the fire. The seriousness of this 
fire in particular. awakened public 
opinion, especially among the sum- 
mer cottagers, and the Misses Barlett 
were the first to take an active move. 
They talked the matter over with the 
late Samuel Knight and others, and 
they decided the best way to get defi- 
nite action at once was to petition the 
town to buy a pair of horses and 
keep them at the engine house all the 
time. A petition was circulated 
about town, especially among the 
summer cottagers, and the writer has 
always been proud of the part he 
took in the movement in taking the 
petition all along the shore from 
Coolidge’s Point to West Manches- 
ter. Everybody was anxious to sign 
it, and it wasn’t long before the in- 
terior of the engine house was 
changed over and a pair of horses 
was installed. ‘The march of pro- 
gress has since seen the horses dis- 
appear from the engine ‘house and an 
up-to-the-minute motor truck takes 
their place, though the department 
still retains the horses for supple- 
mentary use, hauling other apparatus, 
extra hose, etc. 
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“A small mistake,” said Uncle 
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Eben, “makes a heap o’diff’renc=. 
Every weather prophet ‘ud be correct 
if he didn’t git his dates mixed.” 
Reminder 
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It’s the BEST COAL that money can buy, 
Send us your next order for COAL or WOOD---we have daily deliveries by AUTO TRUCK 
GLOUCESTER COAL COMPAN 
Office: 19 Beach St., Manchester. 
Telephone: Manchesjer 161 
NORTH SHORE MARKET, 
McDONALD and FOGARTY, Proprs. 
Postoffice Block, Beach St., 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, 
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MEATS ann PROVISIONS 
DRC. QM MAAS 
Our Markets in Manchester and Salem Supplied Daily with 
Fresh-Killed Topsfield Lamb. 
Fancy Fruit and Vegetables in Season 
James A. Gonley, Mgr. 
Telephone 228 Manchester 
Telephone 324-R 
LADIES’ 
13 BEACH STREET, 
A. JACOBS 
& GENTS’ 
Suits MADE TO ORDER 
Headquarters for French Cleaning and Dyeing 
At Reasonable City Prices 
TAILOR 
Pressing and Repairing 
MANCHESTER, MASS. 
On the first day of May, Mayor 
F. W. Brown of Franklin, Pa., is- 
sured an order that all city employes 
who drink intoxicants habitually shall 
be dropped from the pay rolls, on 
the ground that there are too many 
Franklin people in need of bread to 
warrant the city paying out money to 
men who spend it for lhquor. 
Would that there were 
Mayor Browns around! 
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Truth may not always be stranger 
than fiction, but it is generally more 
rare. 
more 
It is our duty to do our best to 
brighten the lives of the people who 
live with us or are dependent on us. 
X-X-X 
If the modern golf stick had a lot 
of broom corn on one end it would 
not be half as popular. 
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It would help some if we did more 
praying on Sunday and less preying 
on the other six days. 
X-X-X 
Great Britain is preparing esti- 
mates for an order for $10,000,000 
worth of motor trucks for war use. 
Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Company 
COAL 
SAMUEL KNIGHT SONS COMPANY 
32 CENTRAL STREET 
TELEPHONE 202 
MANCHESTER, MASS. 
