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SOME EXCELLENT FARMS IN ESSEX COUNTY. | 
LEAVING MANCHESTER. 
Well Known Manchester Business 
Man has Bought a Farm in Kings- 
ton, N. H., and Will Move There. 
Frank W. Bell, for the last 25 
years identified with Manchester 
business interests more than half of 
that time as one of the proprietors 
of Bell’s Combination store, on 
Beach st., has sold his interest in the 
FRANK W. BELL 
Who is Leaving Manchester, After Being 
in Business Here 25 Years. 
business here to his son, Walter R. 
Bell, and plans to move away from 
Manchester within the next fort- 
night. He has bought a farm in 
Kingston, N. H. 
Mr. Bell moved to Manchester 
some 25 years ago, from Beverly, 
being at that time proprietor of 
Manchester-Salem express. 
14 years ago, he had a shop built on 
Beach st., on the land now occupied 
by the fruit store in the Post Office 
block, and for a number of years 
conducted a barber shop and pool 
room. Later he put in a line of shoes 
in one section of the store which has © 
since grown to occupy the whole 
building, in combination with gent’s 
furnishing goods. 
The farm which Mr. Bell has 
bought at Kingston is of 65 acres 
and he is undetermined whether to 
conduct a poultry farm or do gen- 
eral farming. Kingston is about 12 
miles from Haverhill, just over the 
N. H. border. 
During his stay here Mr. Bell has 
been prominently identified with the 
Sons of Veterans, and has grown in- 
to the respect of the citizens. The 
business will be conducted in the 
Old Abandoned Property Being Developed; People Are Realizing That 
There Are Great Prospects in Agricultural Industry. 
James Poor of Andover, known 
throughout Essex county for his suc- 
cess as a farmer and his ability as 
a county commissioner says that 
prospects for the agricultural indus- 
try were never better than they are 
today. The steady growth of the cit- 
ies of Essex county has created a 
very large market for the sale of any 
and all foodstuffs that may be raised 
on the farms of Essex county. The 
high prices now charged for west- 
ern farm products give the farmer 
of Essex county an opportunity to 
sell his product to good advantage 
in competition with the products of 
the large farms of the West. 
Manchester kas furnished several, 
of late, who have given up their 
abode by the seashore to settle on 
farms in New Hampshire and else- 
where. One of her successful bus- 
iness men is about to leave town to 
take up the farming industry. The 
New England coast and inland 
towns and cities is the Mecea of the 
country’s wealth in summer. Why 
not furnish produce for these thou- 
sands from New England soil, rath- 
er than from the West! 
The agricultural industry in Ks- 
sex county is steadily increasing. 
The gain in the towns about Law- 
rence is very noticeable. This gain 
is due in a large measure to the in- 
erease in the manufacturing indus- 
tries of Lawrence. The large num- 
ber of people who labor in the mills 
of Lawrence require milk, butter, © 
eggs, poultry, vegetables and other 
farm products. They will buy as 
much as the nearby farmers can pro- 
vide them with. 
Some of the old farms that have 
teen abandoned are being bought up 
by farmers who will cultivate them. 
Farms that have been neglected and 
farms that are on the back roads are 
being secured and improved. 
The purchases are being made, not 
by the established farmers, but by 
new farmers. The successful farmer 
of today is not land hungry and does 
not buy up additional farm lands to 
invest what wealth he may acquire. 
The sueecssful farmer of today be- 
lieves in the small earefully culti- 
vated farm, not the big farm, which 
is so broad that a man cannot give it 
his close personal attention. Many 
10-acre farms today are paying 
largcr profits than farms several 
times their size, because they are 
better cultivated. Intensive farm- 
ing is the secret of success in Essex 
county farming at the present time. 
Dairy farming is one of the most 
promising ventures at the present 
time. Milk is held in higher esteem 
as a food than it ever was before. 
People of Essex county cities can 
get the best milk from the farms 
close about them. They are sure 
that such milk is fresh. 
future by Walter R. Bell, who has 
been fortunate to secure the servic- 
es of Henry B. McCollom to take up 
his work here as clerk in about a 
fortnight. Mr. MecCollom is well 
and favorably known in Manchester 
and has been actively identified with 
the work of the Sons of Veterans 
for the last few years. He lives in 
the Jeffrey T. Stanley house on 
School street. 
Keith’s Theatre. 
The coming of Mrs. Eva Fay to 
Keith’s next week will be one of the 
most important events of the sea- 
son. Mrs. Fay’s name is well known 
through America and the Eglish 
speaking world as the greatest ex- 
ponent of the physic art now extant. 
She may not be the first n this line, 
physics date back for centuries, but 
it is credited that this modern seer- 
ess has accomplished many of the 
greatest feats in the history of tele- 
pathy. For 30 weeks she kept all 
New York in a state of continual ex- 
citement and in the various cities 
on this continent in which she has 
appeared, she has left in her wake 
a host of converts to a belief in the 
existence of the sixth sense. Thou- 
sands of alleged exposes have been 
printed about her, but her wonder- 
ful powers continue unabated. Dur- 
ing her engagement at Keith’s she 
will answer all questions that may 
be asked her. Some of the things 
Mrs. Fay has told people in her au- 
diences have been of the most amaz- 
ing character. Her ability to tell 
what has oceurred, never fails to 
arouse the greatest interest while 
her predictions as to the future have 
been almost supernatural the di- 
reetness with which she has foretold 
events in the lives of those who have 
appealed to her. 
In order to have life one merry 
song you must be one of the singers. 
If men were half as generous with 
their means as they are with their 
advise there would be no million- 
aires. 
