MANCHESTER SECTION 
Friday, November 17, 1916. 
James Beaton and family are oc- 
cupying rooms over their store on 
Central st. 
Harry Connors has a-position with 
a private family in Lenox and is to 
move there shortly with Mrs. Con- 
nors (nee Sargent) and little son. 
A new and improved type of gaso- 
line service pump has been installed 
this week in the sidewalk in front of 
Perkins & Corliss’ garage, Beach st. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hooper left 
Tuesday. for Bradentown, Florida, to 
spend the winter on their large pro- 
duce farm devoted largely to the 
growth of celery. 
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Purington 
have been spending a week’s vacation 
with relatives in Bethel, Me. They 
returned today and tomorrow will at- 
tend the Andover-Exeter football 
game. 
Miss Florence MacDonald is_re- 
turning from Prince Edward Island 
tomorrow and will be accompanied 
by her mother and two younger sis- 
ters, who will spend the winter here, 
Mrs. MacDonald with a son in 
Quincy and the two girls with their 
sister, Mrs. Daniel Chane, Pleasant 
st. 
The ladies of the special aid com- 
iittee who sew for the allies each 
Thursday afternoon at the emergency 
room on Beach st. made 460 dressings 
yesterday afternoon at their meeting. 
There is a standing invitation issued 
to Manchester ladies to take part in 
the work. Any who desire to help 
are urged to attend the meetings. A 
permanent organization will be per- 
fected at an early date and officers 
will be elected. 
The engagement has been an 
nounced by Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
Leslie Robbins of West Newton, of 
their daughter, Miss Hazel Louise 
Robbins, to Martin Luther Alsop of 
New York. Miss Robbins has been 
at Manchester summers for a num- 
ber of years, in connection with the 
summer salesroom of the School for 
Crippled and Deformed Children, in 
which the late Francis J. Cotting was 
the active moving spirit. Miss Rob- 
bins was Mr. Cotting’s private secre- 
tary. She has lived the pass summer, 
with Mrs. Robbins, at one of the 
Willmonton cottages, in Windemere 
Park. Mr. Alsop has been in Man- 
chester the pass two summers. He 
is a dealer in precious stones and 
shared a store on Bridge st. 
FIRE, LIABILITY, AUTOMOBILE, LIFE, 
ACCIDENT, HEALTH, BURGLARY, 
PLATE GLASS INSURANCE 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
The building committee of the 
North Shore Horticultural society 
would like to make the following ap- 
peal through your columns: The 
amount necessary to be pledged be- 
tore building operations can be com- 
menced is $20,000. Of this amount 
$17,600 has been pledged, leaving 
$2,400 to ‘be raised. We would be 
giad if those who have not already 
subscribed to this worthy project 
would send any pledge they may be 
able to make to the Manchester 
Trust Co. It has been impossible for 
the committee to interview everyone 
and they take this means of reaching 
those who have not been seen. 
A. E. PARSONS, 
Chairman Building Comr. 
J. A. Lodge returned Wednesday 
from a few days’ business trip to N. Y. 
Sachem Philip Croteau and a dele- 
gation from the local tribe of Red 
Men went to Danvers last night to 
attend a reception tendered by Aqua- 
num tribe, No. 5, to one of its mem- 
bers, Charles Hayes, recently elected 
Great Junior Sagamore of Mass. 
The only open meeting of the sea- 
son will be held by the Manchester 
Woman’s club in Town hall next 
Wednesday evening, Nov. 22. A 
stereopticon lecture on “The Lure of 
New England’s Colonial Period,” by 
Collins VandenBerg will be the at- 
traction. Over 150 colored slides are 
used in illustrating the lecture and it 
will be especially interesting to the 
children. Members will be admitted 
by ticket and the usual admission 
price for open meetings will be 
charged to others. The High School 
Glee club will sing. 
The fire in the Preston Building, at 
179 Summer st., Boston, on Thurs- 
day night last, caused great damage 
in the officers of A. C. Needham, 
goatskin broker, most of the damage, 
however, being done by water and 
by the necessity of the firemen in 
breaking down two doors in one of 
the offices in order to save the con- 
tents. A-number of oil paintings, 
rugs, hangings and Eastern curios in 
the private office were fortunately 
saved, though naturally receiving 
rough handling. The building itself 
was badly gutted. 
Salem Commercial School 
Day and Night Students admitted next Monday 
WILLMONTON’S 
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY 
Mrs. Susan Slade passed her 88th 
birthday at her home on Brook st. 
last Sunday. 
Miss Louise Walsh returned to her 
home on Pleasant street last Satur- 
day after a two months’ absence. 
Miss Etta L. Rabardy is having a 
six months’ leave of absence from 
her duties as an assistant at the Bos- 
ton Antheneum, a position which she 
has filled for the past 21 years. 
To celebrate the third birthday of 
their son, Lawrence Talbot, Mr. and 
Mrs. George T. Cleveland gave a 
party last Saturday at their home on 
School st. to some twelve little folk. 
Games were enjoyed and dainty re- 
freshments served. 
The meeting of the Red Men Wed- 
nesday evening was quite largely at- 
tended. A bean supper was served 
after the regular session of the coun- 
cil and a pleasant feature of this part 
of the evening was the presentation 
cf a past sachem’s jewel to Alfred 
john Cool, who is leaving the first of 
December for his native home in 
Newfoundland, to spend the winter. 
ihe presentation was made by Lyman 
W. Floyd. 
The Board of Selectmen and the 
town engineer, Raymond C. Allen, 
accompanied the Mayor of Gloucester 
and the members of the Gloucester 
city council on the perambulation of 
the Gloucester-Manchester line on 
Wednesday. The perambulation is 
made every five years. On Thursday 
the Manchester officials and the select- 
men of Wenham and Hamilton made 
the journey over the Wenham and 
Hamilton boundaries. It is planned 
to perambulate the Essex line some 
day next week. The Beverly line 
was traveled last year. 
The Gilson property on the corner 
of School and North streets is to be 
improved, the lower part of the house 
being changed over into offices for 
Raymond C. Allen, whose engineer- 
ing rooms are now located on the 
upper floor of the Lee block, Central 
square. The floor space will be ample 
for Mr. Allen’s use, with minor addi- 
tions and the removing of partitions. 
A brick vault will be constructed on 
the outside for the storage of plans 
and drawings and other valuable 
papers entering into a business of this 
sort. Mr. Allen will have the upper 
nortion of the building renovated and 
changed over into a modern tenement, 
for rental. 
SURETY BONDS 
School-and Union Streets, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
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