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The park commissioners have 
awarded the contract for improve: 
ments at the Masconomo park to A. 
©, Haskell. 
Severan Olsen, who has been in 
charge of the Manchester Yacht club 
for the last. five years, will not be 
engaged for that purpose this sca- 
son. 
Mrs. Jennie Dennis attended the 
“Ww. R. G. convention in Boston, this 
week, as delegate from Allen corps. 
Allen Relief corps, 119, will hold 
a sale and entertainment in tne 
Town hall, May 2, afternoon and 
evening. A Baby show, children’s 
coaching parade and May pole will 
‘be features of the afternoon, and a 
good program is being arranged for 
the evening. Admission ten cents 
each, afternoon and evening. 
Adjourned Town Meeting, 
The adjourned town meeting in 
Manchester, Monday evening, was 
called to order at 7.30 o’clock, and 
at 9.16 the meeting was dissolved, 
thus bringing to a close the annual 
Town meeting. 
Under Art. 2, the tax collector 
submitted an additional report rela- 
tive to some of the unpaid taxes. 
There was considerable talk about 
unpaid taxcs and why the same hac 
not been collected. An effort was 
made to abate some of them, but 
only the assessors have the right to 
do this, not the voters, and no ac 
tion could be taken. The collector 
~gaid the town made a mistake in not 
“having a constable appointed so that 
~ warrants could be served without 
“going out of town for this purpose. 
A. -S. Jewett read a_ bill from 
-” Roberts & Hoare for making repairs 
on the steeple of the Congregational 
church, toward giving better sup- 
port for the town clock. The se- 
lectmen, he said, had refused to pass 
en. this bill: He read of a similar 
ease.in: Newburyport, where sueh a 
~ question had arisen, and endeavored 
to show that, though the work might 
not have been done on town prop- 
erty; it was for the people to pay 
“for such improvement... Mr. Knight 
of the selectmen said the bill was not 
presented until Jan. 1, 1910, and that 
the-board had no information as to 
who contracted the bill. 
F. K. Hooper moved that the se- 
lectmen be instructed to pay the 
bill. Voted. 
Art: 20. Street lights. Chairman 
Swett of the selectmen said tiat the 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
five years’ contraet with the Wells- 
bach Lighting company would 2x- 
pire on July 15, 1910. He had a 
new contract trom the company 
which he read. It was voted unani- 
mously to instruct the selectmen to 
accept the contract, which was the 
same as the old one, with the excep- 
tion that the company agreed to 
have the lights taken care of by an 
in-town party, instead of an outside 
eoncern. 
A letter from the , Honorable 
Pound-Keeper, F. Clifford Rand, was 
read by the moderator in which tae 
gentleman said that understundiny 
his department was not to be pro 
vided with an automobile he would 
decline the office. His resignation 
was accepted. William EH. Cougl:: 
lin was elected to fill the position. 
No action was taken on the play- 
eround question, as the leg:slature 
had not yet taken up the matter of 
eiving towns the right to furnish ap- 
paratus, ete., for this purpose. 
{t was voted that all taxes be paid 
by Noy. 1, 1910, and that interest at 
the rate of 6 per cent. be charged on 
all unpaid at that time. 
The question was asked of the se- 
lectmen if they had-attended to the 
matter of dredging, and if they had 
interviewed the Harbor and Land 
commissioners in an eftort to get 
state help for dredging this year. 
Chairman Swett said no formal ap- 
plication had been ‘nade; he did not 
understand they had the right to 
make application until the town had 
made some appropriation. 
F. P. Knight was of the opinicr 
the selectmen had not gone at the 
matter rightly and that they ougot 
to have asked help from the state. 
It was finally voted that $5000 he 
appropriated for dredging the outes 
and inner harbor, 50 per cent. to be 
spent for improving the drawbridge 
and the town landing, and 50 per 
cent. for channel and basin at the 
Beach street landing. 
F. P. Knight moved the selectmen 
be instueted at the earhest possible 
moment to petition the Harbor and 
Land commission for co-operation 
in dredging our harbor. Voted 
(This motion does not effect the mo- 
tion previously passed). 
F. K. Swett moved that $110,090 
be raised by taxation. Voted. 
E. 8. Knight resigned as a meim- 
ber of the committee on sewerage. 
Frank P. Knight was appointed in 
his place. 
It was voted that the moderator be 
paid $25.00 for his service. 
The meeting was dissolved at 9.16. 
Breeze Subscription $2.00 a year 
SS ee eS 
Minstrel Show Tonight. 
Tonight will’ be one of the -occa- — 
sions when a larger town hall would — 
come in handy, for the minstrel show 
given by the Y.M. C. A. boys will | 
attract a much larger crowd than — 
can comfortably find seats in the 
hall. Tickets have sold remarkabiy 
well and a packed house will greet — 
the boys tonight, when they put on 
their first show. ; 
The show is put on under the di- 
rection of Harry S. Tappan and © 
Richard Ll. Cheever will be inter- — 
locutor. End men: Cheever. Hersey, 
Walter Howe, -Albert Sinnicks, 
bones; Rufus Long, George Rust, 
W. Rust, tambos; soloists: A. Cool, — 
I[enry Hoare, Roland Knight, Jobn 
Gray; Circle: Gordon Northrup, El- 
mer Smith, Frank Floyd, Allen Me- 
Kinnon, Harry Floyd, Byron Hobbs, 
Bertram Allen, Winthrop Younger 
and John Carter. . 
Following the minstrel show there 
will be two very entertaining fea- 
tures which they have guarded from 
publishing beforehand so that it will 
be a complete surprise to those who — 
attend. This is the first public per- 
formance given under the direction 
of the local Y. M. C. A. boys, which — 
organization, by the way, is a branch — 
of the Essex County division. The — 
local board of management 18 com-— 
posed of Dr. W. H. Tyler, George 
S. Sinnicks, Albert Cunningham and — 
A. L. Sabin. The local branch is— 
organized with Allen McKinnon, — 
president; © Cheever Hersey, vice - 
president; Frank Floyd, collector; — 
Archibald Cool, secretary; Richard 
lL. Cheever, treasurer. “ei 
Manchester Motor Boat Activity. 
The splendid weather of the last | 
few weeks has ‘put much of the- 
“spring feeling’ into local yachts-— 
men and motor boat owners and) 
many of the enthusiasts are getting 
their boats in trim for the season, 
several motor boats having already 
been put overboard. So many are) 
now in the water that the Park) 
commissioners are being urged to put 
off the floats at Mdasconomo park, 
but they have not yet done so, al- 
though they probably will in the 
near future. &4 
Everett Smothers is having a 28- 
ft. open launch built in Gloucester. 
It will be equipped with a five h. ft 
engine. a 
Town Treasurer E. P.. Stanley 18 
having a new three-cylinder, four 
eyele engine. installed in his motor 
boat, ‘‘The Antonette.’’ ie: 
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