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Dee. 15, 1916, 
We are offering an unusual collection of 
PERENNIAL PLANTS 
And a choice lot of Conifers. 
NORTH SHORE NURSERIES & FLORIST CO., Beverly Farms 
F. E. COLE, Prop. 
Telephone, Beverly Farms 43 
We shall be better prepared than usual to store plants for the winter. 
DECEMBER is a busy month for the débutantes in 
New York. Miss Katherine Cumnock Blodgett of 
Pride’s Crossing will make her début at Sherry’s, Dec. 
29, when her parents, the John Wood Blodgetts of New 
York and Grand Rapids, Mich., will present her at one 
of the large functions of the season for the buds. Miss 
Blodgett received in the group of friends selected by Miss 
Margaret Van B. Mason at her recent coming out recep- 
tion. Miss Mason, one of the season’s most prominent 
girls, visited in the Blodgett home last summer. Miss 
Blodgett was also in the receiving party of last week for 
Miss Katharine Biggs. 
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the residence of Mrs. William Franklin Draper, so well — 
known on the North Shore. She has just sailed for — 
Rome to be with her daughter, the former Margaret 
Draper, who married into the illustrious Boncompagni 
family this fall. 
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Mrs. Mary R., widow of the late John L. Bremer, 
and daughter of the late Ezra and Sarah M. Farnsworth, — 
died Tuesday, at her Boston home, following a long ill- 
ness. Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Fri- 
day) at 2 o’clock, at Trinity church, Boston. Mrs. Bremer 
was for many years a summer resident of Smith’s Point, 
Manchester. 
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It is predicted that Washington will no longer be 
place last summer. 
On account of illness she did not open her 
Break Ground For New Home of North Shore Horticul- 
tural Society 
Attractive New Structure on Summer St. 
Will be Valuable Addition to Manchester. 
At a special meeting of the North 
Shore Horticultural Society, In- 
corporated, held in Lane’s hall, Man- 
chester, on Tuesday evening, the 
building committee, which has had in 
charge the raising of the $20,000 fund 
for the new home of the society, was 
empowered to accept the bids of 
Roberts & Hoare, general contractors, 
and Robert Robertson Co. plumbing 
contractors, with the approval of the 
architects, and proceed with the erec- 
tion of the building. The committee, 
which had reported the success of its 
endeavors to secure pledges for the 
required fund at the regular meeting 
in the Congl. chapel on Friday eve- 
ning, was also empowered to author- 
ize the Manchester Trust Co. to make 
payments from the fund as they fall 
due. The building will occupy the 
site purchased over a year ago on 
Summer st. across from the railroad 
station. 
Owing to the increased cost of ma- 
terials since the bids were made, the 
building will cost the society about 
$880 more than originally estimated. 
Roberts & Hoare made no increase in 
their bid, except where it will be 
necessary to pay sub-contractors. E. 
A. Lane stood by his bid for the 
painting and G. S. Sinnicks made no 
change in his bid for the plastering, 
The committee reported that Austin 
Morley would stand by his bid for 
constructing the foundations provid- 
ing he could drive a pick when the 
contract was awarded him. The bid 
of Roberts & Hoare, which included 
all of the work, except the plumbing 
and heating, was $20,859. The bid 
of Robert Robertson Co. for plumb- 
ing and heating was $2,500. The cost 
of the electrical fixtures and the arch- 
itects’ commission were included in 
additional $1500, making the total 
estimated cost of the building $24,859. 
At the previous meeting the commit- 
tee was authorized to build a_ build- 
ing at an approximate cost of 
$25,500. 
Work of excavation for the found- 
ation for the new building was start- 
ec by Constractor Morley immediate- 
ly after the lines had been run by R. 
C. Allen on Wednesday. No time is 
set for completion of the structure, 
but it is expected that it will be fin- 
ished sometime in June. The build- 
lug committee whose energetic efforts 
were responsible for the raising of 
the fund for the new home is as fol- 
lows: Frank Foster, F. P. Knight, 
Axel Magnuson, F. J. Merrill, A. E. 
Parsons, H. W. Purington, Herbert 
Shaw, William Till and Eric Wetter- 
low, 
The plans accepted by the society © 
were prepared by the Boston firm, 
Kilham & Hopkins. The building 
will be of slap-dash finish and will 
contain a hall on the main floor 
38x60 feet—larger than the Man- 
chester Town hall. Another hall of 
the same size will occupy the base- 
ment beneath the main hall. The 
main hall will have a stage and will 
fill a long felt want for a large hall 
for public gatherings for use in sum- 
mer as well as winter, and the base- 
ment will serve splendidly for ban- 
quets, etc., as there will be a kitchen ~ 
off it. Cloak rooms, dressing rooms 
and closets will be located in the base- 
ment directly beneath the stage. The 
building will have a frontage on Sum- 
mer st. of 68 feet and will run back 
ac feet. Good sized wings on either 
side of the main floor will provide 
rooms for ladies and gentlemen and 
cloak rooms. There will be three 
doors entering the building from the 
front. Six wide steps extending 
nearly the width of the building lead 
to the doors. From the vestibule 
three doors lead to the main hall and 
others to the lower hall and a gallery 
overlooking the ground floor hall. 
That there was a well founded need 
for the new building aside from its 
necessity for the society as a place 
