MANCHESTER SECTION 
Mrs. N. B. Sargent of Haverhill is 
in town for a short visit with Mrs. 
C.»H.¢ Belk. 
The Odd Fellows will work the 
Third Degree on one candidate at 
their meeting next Thursday evening. 
Miss Maude Denton is recovering 
from an attack of appendicitis and 
will be able to resume her duties as 
teacher in the sixth grade at Priest 
school Monday. Mrs. Waldo Peart 
has been teaching during Miss Den- 
ton’s illness. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hooper are to 
spend the winter in the South where 
Mr. Hooper is interested in a produce 
and grape-fruit farm with his brother 
Charles, who is already there for a 
few weeks. He will return in late 
November. Mrs. Susan Hooper is 
visiting her sister in Salem. 
At the solicitation of many of his 
friends Walter R. Bell has announced 
his candidacy for the office of Town 
Clerk, which will be vacant by the 
withdrawal in March of Alfred C. 
Jewett, who has filled the office ably 
and honorably for the past 29 years. 
Mr. Bell has been one of the board 
of assessors for the past 10 years and 
his friends are anxious to see him iry 
for the office of clerk. He will resign 
as assessor on March 1, leaving one 
year of an unexpired term . 
The members of the North Shore 
Horticultural society learn with re- 
gret that Mrs. Scott Fitz, for the 
past two years the president of the 
society, has declined to serve another 
term. Mrs. Fitz has been one of the 
best friends the society has had and 
has been active in promoting its in- 
terests. Her successor will be chosen 
at the annual election next Friday 
evening in the Congl. chapel. All 
members are urged to attend. The 
fund for the new building has been 
growing steadily until at the present 
time $16,750 of the required $20,000 
have been pledged. Numerous inde- 
terminate pledges, which are not in- 
cluded to date, will bring the fund 
well above the amount. The progress 
in securing funds has been highly 
gratifying ‘and although there is yet 
guite a sum to be raised the new 
building is assured. Everyone is in- 
vited to contribute to the fund no 
matter how small his contribution 
may be. Work on the building will 
be started immediately after the $20,- 
000 mark is reached. 
adv, 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. 
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Friday, October 27, 1916. 
ARBELLA CONCERTS 
It is gratifying to learn that Man- 
chester is to be favored with a con- 
tinuation of the series of concerts un- 
der the auspices of the Arbella club. 
The wonderful success of the con- 
certs given to the people of Manches- 
ter last season speaks volumes for 
their excellence and we are fortunate, 
indeed, to be favored with another 
splendid series of such high grade 
concerts. It has been, and is the aim 
of the committee in charge of the 
Arbella concerts to provide for the 
girls of the club and for the people 
of Manchester good music within the 
reach of everybody. That is in fact 
the primary purpose of the club— 
service to others—as we all know 
from experience. Few communities 
are so fortunate as to have the privi- 
lege of enjoying such excellent con- 
certs. That Manchester is blessed in 
this respect may be contributed to that 
spirit of doing-for-others which is the 
dominant spirit of the Arbella girls. 
The concerts this season will be the 
same high type so much enjoyed last 
season and the season tickets will be 
sold at the same low price, $1.50 for 
the entire series of six concerts. The 
tickets are now on sale and may be 
obtained from Mrs. F. G. Cheever or 
by communicating with Miss Anne 
Clarke. This season admission to in- 
dividual concerts will be 35 cents in- 
stead of 25 cents as last year. The 
committee is anxious to sell as many 
as possible of the season tickets early 
in order to arrange for reservations, 
as it is planned to reserve a section of 
the hall for subscribers and let non- 
holders of season tickets have the 
seats not thus reserved. The concerts 
will be held on the first Saturday af- 
ternoon of each month from Novem- 
ber until April inclusive. They will 
start promptly at 3.30 o’clock and will 
last until 5. The first concert, to 
which everyone is looking eagerly for- 
ward, will be held Saturday after- 
noon, Nov. 4. It is asked by the 
committee that people come promptly 
as it is most disturbing to try to seat 
people during the music. 
Buy your paints, oils, varnishes 
and shellac from H. S. Tappan, 17 
Bridge st., Manchester. adv. 
Salem Commercial School 
Day and Night Students admitted next Monday 
WILLMONTON’S 
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY 
Former Supt. of Schools Chas. E. 
Fish, who died of apoplexy in Ames- 
bury Monday, was 62 years of age. 
Funeral services were held in Ames- 
bury yesterday. 
The townspeople will be glad to 
-know that Mr. T. Dennie Boardman, 
who has been critically ill the past 
week, is reported this morning as 
greatly improved and on the road to 
recovery. 
At the meeting of the Selectmen 
on Tuesday evening the following 
bids were received for the installation 
of a system of plumbing at the Stone 
Mill property: D.* 20S y Beacon, 
$272.66; F. A. Morgan, $273.37; 
Robert Robertson Co., $337.00; J. F 
Scott, $347.00. The contract was 
awarded to Mr. Beaton. 
The last session of the board of - 
registrars of voters will be held in the 
office of the selectmen tomorrow 
from noon until 10 p. m. This will 
be the last opportunity for voters 
whose names are not on the list to 
have them placed before the election 
on Noy. 7. Eighteen new names 
were added to the list of voters at 
the sessions Wednesday evening and 
the week previous. 
The classes in gymnastics and danc- 
ing under the direction of Mrs. Geo. 
R. Dean started in Town hall yester- 
day afternoon. In the first class, for 
boys and girls under 14 years, over -_. 
60 were enrolled. Nearly half of the 
number were boys and another class 
will probably be started for boys 
alone. Not everyone who planned to 
attend the second class was out, but 
it is expected that about 20 will be 
enrolled. 
The active work which Manchester 
folk has done the past summer in 
French Wounded relief, Red Cross 
relief, etc., is to be kept up by the 
townspeople. A class is to be started 
next Thursday afternoon in the Emer- 
gency Room. The meeting will be at 
2 o'clock and a trained nurse will be 
present to give instruction as to mak- 
ing bandages, surgical dressings, etca 
The particular line of work to be 
done will be the making of surgical 
dressings for the Allies, to be sent to 
the Peter Bent Brigham hospital be- 
fore shipping to France, Every wo- 
man in Manchester is invited to at- 
tend and become an active worker in 
this great relief work, which is doing 
so much good abroad. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
SURETY BONDS 
School and Union Streets, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
