MANCHESTER SECTION 
The first meeting of the Arbella 
club will be on Tuesday afternoon, 
Nov. 14, at 4 o’clock, in the chapel.— 
L. M. Jones, secretary. 
James A. Crocker expects to move 
into the remodeled building on Ben- 
nett st., about the first of December. 
His son, Raymond, and family will 
occupy the other tenement. 
Miss Clara Sargent returned to her 
duties as chief operator at the Tele- 
phone office Monday, after a three 
weeks’ vacation. Miss Mary Cor- 
rigan is now having a two weeks 
vacation. 
Orrin Fish of Newtonville, who 
was one of the victims of the acci- 
dent in Boston Tuesday evening when 
an electric car plunged through an 
open drawbridge, was a brother to 
Mrs. Alma Haskell of Vine st., and 
of Mrs. Charles Allen. He formerly 
lived in Manchester. 
The Rebekahs have a pleasant pro- 
gram arranged for this Friday eve- 
ning, when they will entertain the 
members of Magnolia lodge of Odd 
Fellows. Following an entertainment 
one of the old-fashioned suppers will 
be served. All Odd Fellows and 
Rebekahs are invited to attend. 
The next meeting of the Manches- 
ter Woman’s club will be the only 
open meeting of the season. It will 
be a stereopticon lecture, in the Town 
hall, on “The Lure of New England’s 
Colonial Period,” by Collins Vanden- 
Berg. It will be illustrated with 150 
colored views throughout New Eng- 
land. Members will be admitted on 
ticket. The usual admission price 
will be charged to others. 
The next meeting of the Parent- 
Teacher association will be held at 
the Price school hall, Thursday even- 
ing, Nov. 16, instead of Wednesday 
evening. This change was necessary 
in order not to conflict .with -the lec- 
ture at Gloucester. The speaker will 
be Thomas Curley of Waltham, play- 
recreation engineer and_ secretary. 
His subject will be on the Gary 
schools, “The Work-Play-Study Sys- 
tem.” Mr. Curley has “spent- some 
time in the Gary schools and as he 
is no stranger to a Parent-Teacher 
audience, an interesting evening is 
assured. The music will be a trio 
consisting of the Misses Helen 
Cheever, Emily Ferreira and Pauline 
Semons, accompanied by Miss Helen 
Knight. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
FIRE, LIABILITY, AUTOMOBILE, LIFE, 
ACCIDENT, HEALTH, BURGLARY, 
PLATE GLASS INSURANCE 
Friday, November 10, 1916.. 
-MILLINERY SALE 
MISS GRACE G. GOING 
oF Mme. MoHAN’s, Boston 
will hold a 3-days’ 
Sale of Trimmed Hats 
to reduce stock 
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 
and THURSDAY 
NOV) 14, 157 16 
28 Prpapect St GLOUCESTER 
Cor. School St. 
During the winter months the Sun- 
day mail will close at 6.12 for depar- 
ture on the 6.42 train, instead of 7.20. 
Collection from letter boxes on Sea, 
Proctor and Pine streets, Essex Co. 
club and the Cove are to be discon- 
tinued on Sundays for the winter. 
On Monday afternoon at Story 
High school a debate was held on the 
question of who would be the best 
man for president for the next four 
years. After the debate, 87 students 
ballotted and Wilson was elected by 
56 votes to Hughes 31. At the G. A. 
Priest school on Monday afternoon 
the pupils had a straw vote on presi- 
dential candidates in which Wilson 
received g9 and Hughes 59 votes. 
The property belonging to the late 
Edward S. Bradley was sold at pub- 
lic auction last Saturday. The house 
and two lots on Pine st. was bid in 
by John F. Scott, and the Swett prop- 
etry, so-called, on Central st., was 
bid in by Nathan Greenberg, who 
conducts the shoe-repairing shop on 
Union st. Mr. Greenberg and family 
plan to move into the house. The 
laundry business and property was 
not included in the sale. 
Manchester boys in Co. H of the 
Sth Mass. infantry arrived Monday 
evening after being reviewed in 
salem. They returned to their quar- 
ters in the Salem Armory on Tues- 
day morning. Arrangements have 
been made so that the men have been 
able to spend the nights in their own 
homes, reporting daily at the armory. 
The Manchester men in the company 
are David Chadwick, Harry Baker. 
Frank Amaral, Perley Roderick and 
Walter N. Smith. A great many 
Manchester people are planning to 
attend the parade of the batteries and 
Co. H in Salem tomorrow afternoon. 
Salem Commercial School 
Day and Night Students admitted next Monday 
WILLMONTON’S 
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY 
Se Se ei 
Henry B. McCollum, who is living 
in Wellesley Farms, was in- town to 
cast his vote on Tuesday. 
Mrs. A. G. Warner left this -week 
for Warren, Me., where she has gone 
te bring her father, J. H. Payson, 
who will spend the winter in Man- 
chester with Rev. and Mrs. Warner. 
Allen Relief Corps will have its an- 
nual inspection.on Thursday evening, 
Nov. 23, in G. A. R. hall., Mrs. Mary 
Langdon of Ipswich will be the in- 
specting officer. 
Election returns were received in 
Manchester on Tuesday evening. A 
telegraph wire was looped into Town 
hall and F. Clifford Rand officiated 
at the key. The. Breeze raised a 
fund by subscription to cover the ex- 
penses of the evening. Quite a num- 
ber gathered during the evening to 
hear the returns. 
Shortly after one o’clock Tuesday 
afternoon an alarm was telephoned to ~ 
the fire station and the apparatus 
went to the carpenter shop of Michael 
Kehoe on Summer st. where a bon- 
fire in a pile of shavings had got from 
under control. When the truck ar- 
rived a line of garden hose had been 
laid and the blaze, which had spread 
to the outside of the shop, was under 
control. The fire in the pile of shav- 
ings had been burning all the morn- 
ing and had apparently died out when 
Mr. Kehoe left it at noon. Return- 
ing an hour later he found the shay- 
ings, a pile of rubbish and the rear 
of the shop ablaze. The damage to 
the building was slight. 
The new quarters of Alex Sjor- 
lund on Union st. are nearing com- 
pletion. |The shop, which will be 
used as a manual training school for 
boys next summer, is made up of 
three rooms. In the largest room 
which is light and airy a long bench 
will run the length of the room on 
one side; the other side has a wide 
open fireplace. The room is adorned 
with sea pictures and nautical anti- 
ques. A beautiful set of andirons in 
the form of two anchors is in front 
of the fireplace. Another room is 
Mr. Sjorlund’s office and it is filled 
with models of all styles of boats 
from fishing schooners to power 
cruisers. The making of these models 
is part of the work of the boys in the 
classes which Mr. Sjorlund started 
the past summer. The third room of 
the shop is a well arranged stock 
room. 
SURETY BONDS 
School and Union Streets, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
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