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the rest of the evening ,with Rich- 
ard Craven as floor director. 
The following young ladies in 
charge of Miss Alice Lations served 
as waitresses at the banquet and are 
to be highly complimented on their 
excellent service: Edith Northrup, 
Charlotte Howland, Princie Dodge, 
Flossie Allen, Elsie Northrup, Alice 
Hoare, Hazel Semons, Edna West, 
Abbie Floyd, Lillian Nunn, Olive 
Cook, Ethel Stanley, Lola Durrell 
and Lena M. Jones. 
Guest Night at Woman’s Club. 
The annual guest night of the 
Manchester Woman’s club, Wednes- 
day evening, proved a most delight- 
ful occasion. The affair was held at 
Town hall, and was largely attend- 
ed by members and their friends. 
The entertainment of the evening 
was an illustrated talk by the Rev. 
Henry R. Rose of Newark, N. J., on 
‘‘Parsifal and the Holy Grail.’’ Mr. 
Rose told of the legends of the Holy 
Grail and of King Arthur’s quest 
for the same as related by various 
writers, finally coming to Wagner’s 
‘*Parsifal,’? which he pronounced 
one of the greatest and most pro- 
found works of the great composer. 
The slides were beautifully colored 
and were particularly noteworthy. 
During this talk, and illustrative of 
the various phases of his lecture he 
introduced on the gramophone such 
noted singers as Shumanheink, Em- 
ma Hames and Caruso. The gramo- 
phone used was loaned for the oc- 
casion by M. Steinert & Sons, 162 
Boylston st., Boston. After the lee- 
ture a buffet lunch was served. 
Schleuber of Lynn was the caterer. 
Among the _ out-of-town guests 
present were Mrs. David Little, pres- 
ident of the Society of Higher Edu- 
cation, of Salem, and Mrs. Perkins, 
also Mrs. Sarah Kimball and Miss 
Woodbury of the Thought and Work 
club, and Miss Luey Gardner and 
Mrs. Charles Ropes of the Century 
club. 
Frank Darragh will leave next 
Monday for his home in Connecticut, 
where he intends to take up the eul- 
tivation of roses. He has been at the 
Miss Helen Hooper estate at West 
Manchester for the last two years. 
This morning we noted a painter 
riding to work on his bicyele in the 
teeth of a northeast snow storm. 
Last week we noted a man going in 
bathing in the icy waters of Sing- 
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The schools closed at noon today 
to permit the teachers to attend the 
lecture in Gloucester. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Stickney of 
Eastport, Me., were registered at the 
Manchester house the past week. 
Mr. Stickney came here to look over 
ground in Essex, toward the estab- 
lishing of a sardine factory in‘ that 
place. E. C. Porter of Boston, who 
preached at the Congregational 
church last Sunday, was a guest at 
the Manchester house during his 
stay in town. Others registered 
were N. S. Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. 
M. J: Ringe, Mr. and. Mrs.-J. C: 
Richards of Salem, S. E. Maleom of 
Somerville, E. H. Barker of Newton, 
Mr. and Mrs. Phelps and Mr. and 
Mrs. P. J. Leland of Boston. 
The Uniform Rank, K. of P. of 
Essex will give a grand military and 
civic ball at the Essex town hall 
next Wednesday evening, Feb. 9. 
Manchester people desiring to at- 
tend the function can procure tick- 
ets at Reed’s restaurant. If enough 
tickets are sold, there will be a 
barge run to Essex and return after 
the ball. Tickets for the barge will 
not be over 50 cents. 
Mrs. George P. Dole was the vie- 
tim of a surprise party Wednesday 
evening, some 35 of her friends eall- 
ing at her home on Norwood ave., 
to help her celebrate the passing of 
a birthday. Whist, games 
graphophone selections were enjoy- 
ed during the evening and Mrs. Dole 
was presented with a handsome par- 
lor-lamp, the presentation speech 
being made by Dr. W. H. Tyler. A 
bountiful collation of ice cream and 
cake was served and at a late hour 
the guests departed, having spent — 
a most-delightful evening. 
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What was the matter with the 
Manchester school whistle this 
morning? In the four classes of the 
John Price Primary school there are 
156 children. This morning we 
found on inquiry there were 82 ab- 
sent, more than half the school. 
Those who did attend were for the 
most part brought by the barges 
provided to bring the children who 
live at a distance. If the day were 
pleasant probably not more than 10 
per cent. would have been absent 
and this is a large number. Are we 
right in suggesting that the whistle 
should have been blown this morn- 
ing? The facts show that more than 
half of the children in town who at- 
tend the primary grades did not 
come and there were many who did 
go whose parents would rather have 
seen their children at home on such 
a morning. As we understand it, 
the whistle is blown only to an- 
nounce that the children of the low- 
er grades need not go to school and 
it is never blown for those of the 
upper grades or the high school. 
One sample of the destructive 
work of the two storms of this win- 
ter was noted by the writer a few 
days ago on a visit to Singing 
beach. Along the Dodge property, 
which is beyond Masconomo street 
on Beach st., was planted some years 
ago a row of spruce trees. To be 
accurate, there are now 150 trees 
and all grown to a good size. Fif- 
ty-one of these trees have been bro- 
ken off, some of them near the top, 
others half-way down the tree. It 
is a hard-looking sight and shows 
the fury of the storm. Many trees 
will have to be cut down altogether 
as they are rather unsightly in their 
anvearance. 
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