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PHILADELPHIA. 
Rev. De B. Ludwig of Philadel- 
phia, an annual summer resident of 
the North Shore, at Pigeon Cove, 
Rockport, where he has a cottage, 
has been elected treasurer of the 
Presbyterian Historical society of 
Philadelphia. 
Resolutions eulogizing Henry T. 
Coates, the well known Philadel- 
phia publisher, were recently ad- 
opted by a meeting of representa- 
tive booksellers and publishers of 
the Quaker City. Members. of the 
Coates family summer annually at 
Hotel Oceanside, Magnolia. 
The committee of the Philadel- 
phia auto show set aside special 
evenings, ‘‘Society Night’? and 
‘Army and Navy Night,’’ which 
were brilliant events with richly- 
gowned women and uniformed men 
in attendance in large numbers. 
The fourth annual show of the 
Philadelphia Poultry, Pigeon and 
Pet Stock association in the First 
Regiment armory displayed a blood- 
ed stock worth $100,000. Peggy, 
a white Orpington Hen, valued at 
$10,000, was the magnet for all the 
attendants since five of her chickens 
were sold to Madame Paderewski, 
wife of the famous composer, for 
$7500, and sent to Switzerland. 
Her eggs are worth only $50 apiece. 
She is a product of the Kellerstrauss 
Farm, Kansas City. 
Harrison K. Caner of Philadel- 
phia and Manchester is a member of 
the newly elected board of the Au- 
tomobile club of Philadelphia. 
Dr. William Campbell Poesy of 
Philadelphia, who summered at Ho- 
tel Moorland, Bass Rocks, last sea- 
son, was host of a recent theatre 
party and supper in honor of Miss 
Alice Scott of Overbrook, Pa., and 
Bass Rocks. Miss Cintra Hutchin- 
son was among the guests attend- 
ing. 
Miss Constance Hoyt of Philadel- 
phia and Washington, daughter of 
Solicitor General and Mrs. Henry 
M. Hoyt, has announced her engage- 
ment to Ferdinand Von Stumm, 3rd 
secretary of the German embassy. 
The wedding will be an event of the 
Kaster season. Miss Hoyt is a 
granddaughter of Ex-Gov. Hoyt of 
Pennsylvania and has been a belle 
in the Capital. Her fiance’s mother 
was a Miss Hoffman of New York. 
_ The greatest blessing in the world 
is a cheerful, sunny heart. 
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WASHINGTON. 
It is said that Mrs. Taft’s efforts 
to have a more strict observance of 
Sunday in social circles has been un- 
availing and the continental fash- 
ion of using the Sabbath as a day of 
pleasure and for entertaining is con- 
tinued. 
It is expected that John Hays 
Hammond will erect one of the finest 
residences in the world at the Cap- 
ital by next winter. 
Henry Clay Frick has contributed 
to the Red Cross fund of Washing- 
ton, $5000, for the Paris flood vic- 
tims. 
Secretary of the Treasury and 
Mrs. Franklin MacVeagh have as 
house guest, Mrs. John L. Gardner 
of Boston, and enterained in her 
honor such well known North Shore 
colonists as Sec. and Mrs. Meyer, 
Mrs. Frederick Keev and her sister, 
Miss Mabel Boardman, and A. Piatt 
Andrew of the U. 8. Monetary com- 
mission, a summer resident of East 
Gloucester. 
PITTSBURG. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Curry of Pitts- 
burg and Bass Rocks gave a dance 
on the 28th, in honor of Mrs. Cur- 
ry’s sister, Miss Ethel Spencer. Mr. 
and Mrs. Albert Curry assisted the 
hosts. There were beautiful floral 
decorations and dainty favors and 
prizes. The Currys were tenants of 
the former Judge Sherman cottage 
at Bass Rocks during the season of 
1908. 
The patroneses of the last in a 
series of cotillions at the Edgeworth 
elub included such well known 
North Shore summer residents as 
Mr. and Mrs. George E. McCogne, 
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Tener and Mr. 
and Mrs. Alex Laughlin. 
An auto chemical is bemg talked 
of for the Gloucester fire depart- 
ment. If Gloucester purchases this 
a>maratus before Manchester buys a 
new auto fire truck the coming 
s»ring, it will make the first piece 
of auto fire apparatus on the North 
Shore. 
The North Shore Ferneries Co. 
has been incorporated with a cap- 
ital of $5000. The directors are F. 
S. White, president; Ellen R. Pick- 
man, treasurer, and James Whittier. 
No matter how many entries there 
may be in the race of life, the clock 
is right there at the wind up. 
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Howard A. Doane has the con- 
tract, and work has been started on 
the garage to be built on Mrs. John 
C. Howe’s estate, Bridge st., Man- 
chester. The building is to be 28x30 
feet with a modern tenement for the 
chauffeur on the second floor. 
A. C. Needham is having changes 
made on the lower floor of his resi- 
dence, Union st., Manchester. C. L. 
Crafts is doing the carpenter work 
and Senter Stanley, the mason work. 
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The contract to erect a summer 
cottage for Albert G. Hale of Rock- 
port at Tregony Bow, Lands End, 
Rockport, has been awarded to Ed- 
win Bailey of Pigeon Cove. It will 
be a ten-room house. 
Contractor Garland of Gloucester 
has started on the erection of the 
new summer cottage of Henry P. 
Davison, the New York financier, at 
Eastern Point, Hast Gloucester. 
William M. Jelly of Salem has 
sold a lot and a half on Norwood 
Heights, Annisquam, to Caroline B. 
Richards of St. Louis,-Mo. The lots 
are on Valley and Wigwam roads. 
Mr. Jelly and family are well 
know summer residents of Annis- 
quam. Frank Bott of Arlington and 
Annisquam has sold two lots to the 
same party on the same roads. 
The Municipal Council of Glouc- 
ester is to consider the extension of 
Bass ave. from Bass Rocks, across 
Little Good Harbor Beach, to Briar 
Neck and on to Long Beach. <A. ce- 
ment bridge across the creek at Bass 
Rocks, with a road to be built on 
the crest of the beach between the 
trolley line and ocean are other con- 
siderations. Should this materialize 
and the town of Rockport should 
continue the road to Lands End, one 
of the most famous oceon drives on 
the Atlantic coast would be in oper- 
ation. 
With his neck broken and. itis 
skull fractured, George W. Thomp- 
son, a farm hand on the Wilkins 
farm, Wenham Neck, was fomnd 
dead, Sunday afternoon, as a result 
of an encounter with an in‘uriated 
bull. The man had been gored to 
death, every bit of clothing having 
been torn from his body. 
Throwing voeal stones at other 
people may be fun, but ten to one 
the other fellow will get mad and 
hit you with the real article some- 
time. 
