MANCHESTER SECTION 
George Trafton. of Boston spent 
Columbus Day. with his family, 
‘School .st. 
Miss Clara Corrin of last year’s 
graduating class, Story High school, 
has entered Wheaton college. 
Col. Woodbury camp, S$. of V., will 
begin. the annual pitch tournament 
next Tuesday evening at G. A. R. 
hall. 
Food and candy sale by Senior 
class, 1917, Story High school, Oct. 
21, 2 p..m., in vacant store in post- 
office block. adv. 
Robert Stoops is taking his annua! 
10 days’ vacation from the police 
force. L. Nelson Cook is substitut- 
ing on his beat, at West Manchester. 
Dr. A. E. Turner of Swarthmore 
college will speak at the regular meet- 
ing of the Manchester Brotherhood 
at the Baptist church next Monday 
evening. 
Benjamin L. Allen of the Allen 
Drug store is on his annual vacation 
with his family at Conomo Point. 
Richard: Dickinson of Boston is an 
additional clerk in the store. 
The next meeting of the Woman’s 
club will be next Tuesday afternoon 
when Miss Laura Estelle Blakely will 
be the entertainer, interpreting Rud-- 
yard Kipling. Mrs. Catherine Camp- 
bell will be the hostess of the after- 
noon. 
On exhibition in the window of 
Bullock’s grocery is a large squash 
grown by Levi A. Dunn, Central st. It 
is of the Chili squash variety and 
weighs 3834 lbs. 
At a meeting last night of the 
guarantors of the Chautauqua to be 
held in Manchester next August the 
following organization was effected: 
Rev. A. G. Warner, president; Oscar 
F, Raymond, secretary, and Harry W. 
Purington, treasurer. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Knight 
leave today for Arizona, making the 
trip via water to New Orleans. They 
will visit the Iron Cap Copper Co. 
property, and go from there to Cali- 
fornia, returning about Thanksgiv- 
ing time by rail across the continent. 
A fire at the residence of James 
MeNeary, 97 Summer st., was check- 
ed in the nick of time Wednesday 
night. Sparks from a wood fire set 
fire to some clothes hanging in the 
kitchen’ and considerable headway 
was made before the flames were ex- 
tinguished. The department was not 
called. 
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Friday, October 13, 1916. 
The walks at Singing Beach have 
been taken up and the work of enclos- 
ing the shelter’ house for the winter 
will be completed by tomorrow. 
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Knoerr left 
Wednesday with Boston friends on a 
motor trip to Washington, D.°C., 
stopping at Gettysburg, Pa., en route. 
Miss Gwendolen Glendenning came 
home from Wickford, R. I., over Col- 
umbus Day, accompanied by Miss 
Machette, another of the teachers in 
the high school. 
The Board of Registrars will sit in 
the office of the Selectmen between 7 
and 8 o’clock on Wednesday evening, 
Oct. 18; at the same hour, Wednes- 
day evening, Oct. 25, and from 12 
noon to 10 p. m. on Saturday, Oct. 
28, for the purpose of qualifying 
voters for Nov. 7 election. 
OLSON-GREEN., 
At the home of the bride, 26 
Charles st., Westboro, Wednesday, 
Oct. II, at 3 p. m., Miss Ada Ger- 
trude Green, daughter of Waldo E. 
Green, and Arthur Elias Olson, of 
Manchester, were united in marriage. 
The ceremony was performed by Rev. 
J. J. Walker of Newton Highlands. 
The bride wore a travelling suit of 
hunter’s green velours, with trimmings 
of moleskin, and hat to match. She 
was attended by Miss Lulu B. Chap- 
man of Leominster, a Manchester 
school teacher, as bridesmaid. Daniel 
‘. Olson of New Britain, Conn., was 
his brother’s best man. 
The decorations -were autumn 
leaves. Guests were present from 
Worcester, Leominster, New York, 
New ‘Britain and South Manchester, 
Conn. After a trip to the White 
mountains, Mr. and Mrs. Olson will 
reside at 75 School st., Manchester, 
where Mr. Olson is connected with 
the firm of D. B. Hodgkins’ Sons. 
The bride taught for several years in 
the Manchester public schools. - Last 
-year she was at Beverly. 
McEWEN-SMITH. 
Gilbert Lester McEwen, a chauf- 
feur employed by Sprague, Breed & 
Brown Co. of Beverly, was married 
on Saturday evening of last week to 
Mrs. Abbie Ellen (Sanborn) Smith 
of Manchester at the Baptist parson- 
age in Manchester by the Rev. A. G. 
Warner. They were unattended. 
Mr. and Mrs. McEwen will reside in 
Beverly. 
WILLMONTON’S 
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY 
Miss Mildred Foster has taken a 
position at the Gift Shop in Central 
sq. yee 
“No Shooting” sings at the BREEzE 
office — cloth 15c¢, cardboard, 10c 
each. .  sady, 
Mrs. George Scott of Irvington-on- 
the-Hudson, N. Y., is visiting her sis- 
ter-in-law, Mrs. Frank P. Bullock, of 
Norwood ave. 
A delegation from Col. H. P. 
Woodbury camp, S. of V., will at- 
tend the big class initiation in Faneuil 
hall, Boston, Monday, Oct. 30. 
William O’Brien, manager of the 
local office of the Western Union Tel. 
Co., has been conducting a score 
board giving returns from the World 
Series games in Gloucester this week. 
Charles H. Stone observed his 74th 
birthday on Tuesday of this week. 
He was visited by a committee from 
the Sons of Veterans who remember- 
ed him as is their custom with mem- 
bers of Allen Post. CIS 
The Glen grist mill in Rowley 
which burned on Tuesday evening 
was built in 1643 and was one of the 
oldest mills in the United States. It 
was formerly owned by Henry Pier- 
son, step-father of L. W. Floyd of 
Manchester. It was owned by the | 
Pierson family over 125 years. 
Another series of concerts for the 
Arbella club has been promised for 
this season. At a meeting of the ex- 
ecutive board Tuesday evening plans 
for the club work this season were 
discussed. The first meeting of the 
club will be held the latter part of 
next month. ‘ ; 
Jr. Vice-Dept. Comdr. Edwin P. 
Stanley will attend the meeting of the 
department staff of the G. A. R. in 
Boston Saturday of next week when 
the executive committee will be 
chosen for the national G. A. R. con- 
vention in Boston in 1917.  Yester- 
day Mr. Stanley addressed the Ply- 
mouth County G. A. R. association at 
its annual gathering in Abbington. 
W. B. Walker has purchased house 
and land of Daron W. Morse at the 
entrance of Jersey lane. It is under- 
stood that Mr. Walker’s plan is to 
remove the house and widen the en- 
trance of Jersey lane. Mr. Morse 
has purchased the property of Frank 
Morgan on North st. and will move 
there when he vacates his present 
house. Mr. Morse has conducted a’ 
cobbler’s. shop at West Manchester 
for many years. 
SURETY BONDS 
School and Union Streets, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
