MANCHESTER SECTIO! 
Born, Sunday, Oct. 29, at the J. B. 
Thomas hospital, Peabody, to Mr. 
and Mrs. R. P. Young of 7 School st., 
a son. 
Born, in Jamaica Plain, the latter 
part of last week, a son to Mr. and 
Mrs. William Hawkes. Mrs. Hawkes 
was Miss Mary Barry of this town. 
Congratulations are being extended 
to Mr. and Mrs. George A. Sinnicks, 
Bennett st., on the birth of a 8% 
pound son, Monday, Oct. 30, at the 
Beverly Hospital. He will be named 
after his paternal grandfather, George 
Stephens Sinnicks, 2d. 
Liberty Rebekah lodge, No. 78, 
I.0.0.F., will entertain Magnolia 
lodge, 149, at the lodge room next 
Friday evening, Nov. 10. All mem- 
bers of the Rebekah lodge are urged 
to be present that evening and mem- 
bers of the Odd Fellows in town, 
whether members of Magnolia lodge 
or visitors, are invited. There will 
be an entertainment, followed by 
supper. 
Manchester will go to the polls 
next Tuesday between the hours of 6 
o’clock in the morning and 4.30 in the 
afternoon to vote for presidentiai 
electors, state and congressional offi- 
cers. Tellers- will be Richard L, 
Cheever, W. W. Hoare, Oscar BE. 
Wing and F. J. Merrill. Ballot cle:ks 
will be Hollis A. Bell, Gustav A. 
Knoerr, Theodore C. Rowe and Ed- 
ward P. Flynn. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
Tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon 
the first of the season’s Arbella con- 
certs will be held in Town hall, at 
3.30 o’clock. The doors will be open 
at 3 o'clock. An evidence of the ex- 
cellence of the concerts and of the 
estimation of them held by Manches- 
ter people is obtained from the fact 
that all of the original allotment of 
season tickets was exhausted early in 
the week. The balance of the seating 
capacity of the hall is now being sold 
for the season and it is possible that 
no individual concert tickets will be 
obtainable after this week. Any who 
have not obtained the season tickets 
and wish to avoid missing any of the 
splendid concerts should wisely ob- 
tain them of Mrs. F. G. Cheever or 
Miss Anne Clarke at the earliest pos- 
sible moment. The season tickets 
for the entire series of six concerts 
are $1.50 each. If any seats remain 
unsold the tickets for individual con- 
certs will be 35 cents. 
FIRE, LIABILITY, AUTOMOBILE, LIFE, 
ACCIDENT, HEALTH, BURGLARY, 
PLATE GLASS INSURANCE 
Friday, November 3, 1916. 
As he doesn’t attend church, 
And his soul can’t be saved by the Blacksmith’s Union, 
The sacred silence gives him a shock 
As he turns the key in the rusty lock. 
Standing there alone he shudders, and then 
Thinks what a wicked sinner he’s 
But he cannot tarry, he must not delay, 
So upwards he starts whistling “A Perfect Day.” 
Up ladder, 
Alas! after ‘all, what’s 
Manchester, Nov. 2, 1916: 
“Che Village Blacksmith” 
TH E, village blacksmith one day was seen 
Plodding towards the village green; 
Hammer and chisel under his coat, 
Out on the warpath for somebody’s goat. 
No one surmised he was bound for the church 
Till he gave a sudden, left-handed lurch 
And stood before the old church door— 
A spot where he never stood before. 
He pauses and looks around the green; 
Perchance by some he might be seen; 
Ha! Ha! he smiles, he has no fear, 
He enters in, the coast is clear. 
through cobwebs up to his neck, 
He lands at last on the old bell deck. 
Soon the sound of his hammer is heard from below 
As he pounds with vengeance blow after blow. 
Some ask, “What’s the matter?” but no one can tell, 
Till some keen watcher shouts, 
Those immortal names will ahine no more, 
Except in the cracks of the bell-deck floor. 
Soon the storms of winter will tarnish the same. 
in a name? 
But in years to come his grandchildren will tell 
How Grandpa hammered the names off the bell. 
Sabbath school or Communion, 
been; 
“Taking names off the bell. 
—G.D.H.& 
The pupils of Story High school 
will take a straw vote on presidential 
candidates at the school next Monday 
morning. ; 
Following a time-honored custom 
of a perambulation of the city’s 
bounds once in five years the Glou- 
cester city council will start on their 
jaunt on Tuesday, Nov. 14. On Wed- 
nesday, Nov. 15, at 10 o’clock they 
will begin the tour of the Manchester 
boundary. The Manchester board 
of selectmen will accompany them. 
‘T'axi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
Salem Commercial School 
Day and Night Students admitted next Monday 
WILLMONTON’S 
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY 
The Haphazard club, which was 
cne of the live social factors in the 
town for a dozen years or more, met 
Monday evening after a lapse of six 
years. The meeting was called at the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. F. €. Rand. 
It was decided to reorganize and hold 
meetings regularly once a month this 
winter. The new officers are: Alex- 
ander Robertson, president; Miss 
Susie Allen, vice-president; Mrs. 
John Baker, secretary and treasurer. 
The next meeting: will be with Mr. 
and Mrs. Robertson, School < st., 
Nov. 6. yee 
Fall Underwear at W. R. Bell’s, . 
Central sq. adv, 
SURETY BONDS 
School and Union Streets, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
