MANCHESTER SECTION 
Wm. Hoare and Wm. W. Hoare 
returned Sunday night from a brief 
business trip to New York city. 
Miss Nina Sinnicks came home 
from Mt. Holyoke for the short 
Thanksgiving recess, to be with her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Albert Sin- 
nicks. 
Frank E. Gilcrease of Providence, 
R. I., and Miss Annie M. Gilcrease of 
Somerville are guests of their sister, 
Mrs. L. G. Trafton of School st. 
Harold Trafton was home from New 
York City for Thanksgiving. 
Lt.-Col. Frank S. Elliott of Glou- 
cester, formerly of the militia com- 
pany, Gloucester, will give an in- 
formal talk Saturday evening at the 
Manchester club on his experience 
with the troops at the Mexican bor- 
der. 
Immigration Inspector Bernard 
Leo Boyle and family are home from 
Jackman, Me., to spend Thanksgiv- 
ing. They live on the weiah hes border, 
in the midst of the deer-hunting re- 
gion, and Mr. Boyle brought along 
with him one of a pair of young deer 
which he shot Sunday. 
Friends of Henry B. McCollom 
will be pleased to hear that he is about 
to start in business for himself in the 
flourishing city of Bridgeport, Conn. 
He has been with W. R. Bell, the 
Central square shoe-dealer, for sev- 
eral years, until a couple of months 
ago. He will go into the shoe busi- 
ness in Bridgeport on Jan. I 
A big improvement has been made 
by the highway department at the 
junction of Masconomo and Beach 
sts., where 18 inches have been taken 
off the grade and 11 feet taken from 
the westerly corner opposite the Mas- 
conomo House. Shrubbery has been 
removed from right side of Beach 
st. leading toward Singing Beach and 
the corner considerably rounded. The 
lower grade and wider corner will 
give motorists a much better view of 
the approach to the corner and lessen 
danger of accidents as well as making 
the corner more sightly. It is one of 
the busiest corners in Manchester in 
summer as it is the entrance to 
Smith’s Point section. The work is 
completed down to the bed level of 
the road in all directions and is ready 
for resurfacing in the spring. The 
work could not be completed this fall 
as the money balance in the highway 
department is nearly exhausted. 
T'axi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
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Friday, December I, 1916. 
MEMORIES OF niet YEARS AGo. 
We reproduce on our front cover 
tnis week a picture taken back in 18901 
by John R. Cheever, showing the 
pupils then attending the High School 
at Manchester, when Aaron OB. 
Palmer was principal and Mrs. John 
l-aker, then Miss Hattie Damon, was 
his assistant. Many of the faces are 
recognizable today despite the pass- 
ing of a quarter of a century. <A 
number of the girls have since mar- 
ried; others have not, alas! Those of 
the number who have passed away 
are designated in the list printed be- 
low with a star (*). In the picture 
are: 
Front Row—Mrs. John Baker 
(Hattie Damon), teacher; Edward P. 
Knight, Mary White, Mrs. Charles E. 
Wheeler (Alice O’Neil), Grace Allen, 
Jessie Hoare, Augusta Friend, Lucy 
Carroll, Percy A. Wheaton, Aaron B. 
Palmer, principal. 
Second Row—Alfred C. Hooper, 
Mrs. P. J. Cleary (Minnie White), 
Mrs. Charles E. Washburn (Rosie 
Pine), Mrs. Frank P. Bullock (Eliza 
Scott), Mrs. William Nye (Emma 
Johnson), Mrs. F. C. Rand (Eva 
Hoyt), Mrs. Raymond C. Allen 
(Carolyn Allen), Gertrude Goldsmith, 
*Grace Danforth, * Jennie McCormack, 
Mrs. Dearborn Goodwin (Lulu Mur- 
ray), Bert Spinney, George Hooper. 
Third Row—Mrs. Graves (Clara 
Spinney), *Anna Coughlin,  E. 
Percy Lane, *Carrie Johnson, May- 
nard *Gilman, E. Wallace Stanley, 
Carroll. Crombie, Mrs. Ernest Mead 
(Etta Woodbury), Mrs. Alfred C. 
Needham (Bessie Knight), Mrs. 
Charles Herrick (May Killam), Mrs. 
Arthur Walker (Lila Morse), Jennie 
Sargent, Mrs. E. Wallace Stanley 
(Daisy Dennis). 
Back Row—Frank Clarke, Ray- 
mond C. Allen, George Graham, Ed- 
ward WHaraden, Thomas  Nicker- 
son, Archie Nickerson, Richard L. 
Cheever, *Ernest Knight, *Lou Dixon. 
Miss Virginia Weills will be the 
entertainer at the meeting of the 
Woman’s club on Tuesday afternoon. 
Miss Weills will read “Quality 
Street” by J. M. Barrie. Mrs. Edna 
Peabody will be the hostess on that 
afternoon. Red Cross Christmas 
seals will be on sale. 
Salem Commercial School 
Day and Night Students admitted next Monday 
WILLMONTON’S 
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY 
Oscar F. Raymond and family are 
spending the Thanksgiving holidays 
with relatives in Brockton. 
The Haphazard club will meet 
Monday evening, Dec. 4, with Mr. 
and Mrs. Raymond C. Allen, Vine st. 
Mrs. J. A. Lodge has been spend- 
ing the week with her parents in 
Peterboro, N. H. Mr. Lodge went 
there for Thanksgiving to remain 
cver Sunday. 
Mrs. A. G. Warner returned Sat- 
urday from Warren, Me., accom- 
panied by her father, J. H, Payson, 
who will spend the winter with Rev. 
and Mrs. Warner. 
Mrs. James Hubbard and _ little 
daughter of Watertown have just 
completed a fortnight’s visit with the 
former’s brother, Eugene Wogan and 
family, Summer st. 
Rufus Long is home from Tufts 
Medical college for the Thanksgiving 
holidays. Before returning to college 
he will put in a month’s special work 
in a Boston hospital. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Goodwin and 
young son, Maynard, of West Rox- 
bury are guests of Mrs. Goodwin’s 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George D. 
Haskell of 11 Vine st., over Thanks- 
giving. 
Gordon Crafts returned Tuesday 
from Amherst, where he is a student 
at the Mass. Agricultural college, to 
spend the Thanksgiving holidays with 
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester L. 
Crafts, 117 School st. 
Miss Bertha Marie Meroth of 
Neponset has been the guest of her 
sister, Mrs. C. Herbert Rayner of 
Vine st. the past few days. Philip 
McAteer of Boston was the Thanks- 
giving guest of Mr. and Mrs. Rayner. 
Between 50 and 10o Manchester 
men were in the Beverly and Beverly 
Farms delegations which attended the 
Tabernacle meeting in Boston last 
Sunday evening. All were impressed 
by the evident power of the athletic 
evangelist, Billy Sunday, over his 
audience and by his apparent sin- 
cerity. They are enthusiastic in their 
praise of his methods and many will 
take advantage of the opportunity to 
hear him again next Wednesday when 
a big reservation has been made for a 
North Shore delegation. Arrange- 
ments have been made to accommo- 
date 400 from Manchester at the. 
afternoon meeting on that day. The 
same evening 1000 will attend from 
the Salem Christian Endeavor union. 
SURETY BONDS 
School and Union Streets, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
