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Essex woods are a delightful background for the eclat of 
the pink-coated hunters who infest the country at this 
_time. The hunting set started their season in August when 
the pony drags were the chief jollity of the young folk 
Dancing 
and other amusements do not appeal to this horse-loving 
set as do the hunts and polo with their usual accompani- 
ment of social features. The Myopia Hunt club will be 
the center of all the social life of the community till the 
Rices, the Rodolphe L. Agassizs, the Charles F. Ayers, 
Mrs. George Buroughs, the George S. Mandells, the Isaac 
Rand Thomases, Childs Frick, the Albert C.» Burrage, 
‘Ne Thomas W. Peirce, Alvin F.- Sortwell, Gordon 
rince and many others. Among the hunters are Dr. 
Freeman Allen, Bradley W. Palmer, John S. Lawrence, 
Richard Mortimer, Jr., Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., Miss 
Mary Curtis, Miss Rosamond Bradley, Miss Alice Thorn- 
dike, Miss Julia Meyer, Miss Louise Dittemore, Miss 
Eleanor Seavey, Miss Betty De Blois. Miss Emma Man- 
dell was master of the hounds in the pony drags and Mrs. 
Frederick Ayer, Jr. (Hilda Rice), of Tonsfield, acted as 
her whip. Jares W. Appleton of Ipswich is M. F. H. of 
the Myopia club. 
The tea houses of Ipswich and Wenham always count 
upon the fall season as especially fruitful times in their 
year’s work. : j 
The Essex County Rifle club of over three hundred 
members has many respresentatives in this section. It 
is the region in which many prominent people of the 
country have chosen as their summer abode. Here are 
found the “Appleton Farms,” where many of the Apple- 
ton families of New York and Boston have lived for 
years; the Bayard Tuckermans, the Richard T. Crane, 
Jrs., of Chicago, the Chas. P. Searles, the Herbert Ma- 
sons, the Leonard D. Ahls, the Frederick J. Alleys, the 
Julian Codmans, the Augustus P. Gardners, the Henry 
C. Perkinses, Maxwell Norman, the John A. Tuckermans, 
the Frederic Winthrops, Mrs. John A. Burnham, the 
John B. Moultons, the E. B. Coles, the A. L. Daniels, T. 
C. Hollander, the Henry Pratt McKean, Jrs., Mrs. Wal- 
cott H. Johnson, Mrs. C. T. Parker, the Frederick H. 
Princes, the Richard P. Waters, the A. R. Merrills, Mrs. 
C. D. Sias and the various members of the Phillips family 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Closely associated with. this. life are the-.~ 
Appletons, the James Howe .Proctors, the Charles G.. Maple Farm, 
patpeire 
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who ‘have clustered their homes around Wenham Lake 
and the beautiful Moraine Farm belonging to Mrs. John 
C. Phillips. Among the many others who enjoy the in- 
land country are the J. Warren Merrills, who close their 
sumirer home on Smith’s Point Manchester, and spend 
the late season in their pretty place in Hamilton. Here 
the young daughter, Miss Rosamond, and the son, Jack, 
who takes to all things nautical, find a complete change 
of environment from their home on the Point. 
- One of the handsomest places in Hamilton is Rock 
” the home of the George von L. Meyers. 
This was opened for the Italian Festa, the largest and 
most attractive of the al fresco daytime affairs of the sea- 
son. Miss Julia Meyer was’ the enthusiastic worker 
-atrrong the young people in this affair as she has been all 
summer in various causes. She was the enthusiastic 
ticket-seller in the Tracy flower show in Wenham; and is 
again the leader in the Beverly hospital benefit at the 
Essex County club tonight, in which Miss Alice Thorndike, 
Miss Elaine Denégre and others of that corterie are ac- 
tively interesed. 
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Bement have been among, the 
new families who have joined the inland contingent. The 
Francis L. Higginson, Jrs., will also have a permanent 
country home in the Wenham Lake region, work having 
begun on it this summer. 
This region was prominent in many ways all sum- 
Its residents were actively engaged in war relief 
work and other good deeds. The laying of the corner- 
stone of the Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital 
in Ipswich was a notable day. This was given to Ipswich 
by Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr., in memory of 
their friend. The unveiling of the memorial fountain 
given by Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Appleton in memory 
of their son, James Appleton, was the occasion of an- 
other day in Ipswich which will live in history. Ipswich 
was prominent in the ecclesiastical world this summer, 
for the little Ascension Memorial Church had some of 
the most prominent divines inthe country as its preach- 
ers, Dr. Roland Cotton Smith ot ‘Washington being of 
the number. A 
Now the social life of the North Shore is centering 
and lingering in this “prettiest country” in which one can 
loose his heart,—the new world counterpart to old Eng- 
land. 
Mosquito Extermination Now Assured 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
Arrangements have been made to begin next week 
the work of exterminating mosquitos on the North Shore, 
from Beverly Cove to the Gloucester line; and two miles 
deep paralleling the ocean line. 
The contractors will begin next week ditching the 
marshes, and will follow with the rock and inland work 
so as to finish before mosquitos can breed in the spring. 
As it is not the intention of the Association, or the 
contractor, to go on any land without the consent of ‘the 
owners, permits to do the necessary work should be mail- 
ed by all land owners to me at P. O. Box C, Manchester, 
Massachusetts. ‘ 
Mr. Saul Phillips of the Gypsy Moth. Station, 148 
Hale street, Beverly, will assist in getting the permits, but 
much time and labor will be saved if the land:owners will 
help by mailing the permits to me and by. stating . the 
location of their properties. ; ; 
Property owners need have no apprehension that any 
work done will injure or disfigure their land, trees or 
shrubbery, No oil will be used. The work consists 
solely in scientifically draining the stagnant pools, and 
ditching the marshes in a way to improve and beautify 
the property. 
Any one desiring further information, or wishing 
to subscribe to the fund, may communicate with me. The 
Association solicits the assistance and co-operation of 
all, because the extermination of mosquitos will improve 
land values, and-add materially to the comfort and health 
in this district. 
It has been proven that yellow fever and malaria are 
cormunicated from the sick to the healthy by the bite of 
the mosquito. Infantile paralysis is as likely to be com- 
municated by the same method. 
WALTER D. DENEGRE, President, 
N. S. Association for the Extermination of 
Mosquitos, P. O. Box C, Manchester, Mass. 
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The Client—Hardly pay to skin me, eh?—Boston 
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