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_ The Beverly Farms baseball nine 
has as its opponents tomorrow the U. 
'S. M. Co. team, said to be the strong- 
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est aggregation of ball tossers in this 
yicinity. As this will prove to be one 
of the best attractions of the present 
season, the fans locally should show 
their appreciation of the manage- 
ient’s efforts to give them a good 
card and attend the game in large 
numbers. 
Exceptions taken to the decisions of 
the umpire by the visiting team at the 
Beverly Farms playground last Sat- 
urday prevented the game from going 
more than eight innings. ‘The Ly- 
man A. C. of Beverly did not take 
kindly to the umpire’s work and left 
the field, with the score standing 4 
to 3 in favor of the Farms nine. ‘The 
- umpire, a Gloucester man, has a rep- 
utation for ability and fairness and 
as the game was the best of the sea- 
son it was regrettable that it should 
end in such a manner. The umpire 
awarded the game to the local team 
Q to oO. 
Arthur A. Woodbury has purchas- 
ed from Stephen A. D. Edwards land 
on Essex street, Montserrat, 60x240 
feet. 
* this week. 
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If one is busy call the other- 
George Walter Larcom has been re- 
moved from the Boston City hospital 
and is now at the hospital at the Sol- 
diers’ Home, Chelsea. His condition 
is still serious. 
John West colony, Pilgrim Fathers, 
will hold their regular monthly meet- 
ing in Marshall’s hall tonight. Com- 
ing events of interest to members are 
the annual picnic at the Standley cot- 
tage, Chebacco lake, August 20, and 
the third annual public dance and so- 
cial scheduled for Thursday night, 
Sept. 4, in Neighbor’s hall. 
Frank E. Cole, for many years sup- 
erintendent of the greenhouses of the 
Messrs. W. S. and J. T. Spaulding 
and their Greenwood avenue gardens, 
will leave Sept. 1 to devote his entire 
time to the nursery business he has 
started. John L. Chapman, who has 
been at “Swiftmoor,” will be Mr. 
‘ Cole’s successor. 
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Kimball of 
Bangor, Me., have been visiting here 
Daniel Neville, First Catholic at Beverly Farms, Rowed to 
Beverly Shore to Attend Church at Salem 
Back in the days when the pictures- 
que Beverly shore was dotted with 
farms, in the days before the railroad 
had reached beyond Beverly on the 
Gloucester branch, Daniel Neville, set- 
tled on Misery, now called by perhaps 
the more fashionable name of Mys- 
tery island off the Farms shore, the 
first Catholic to settle in that section 
of the city. 
The fact was brought out by the re- 
cent twenty-fifth anniversary observ- 
ance of St. Margaret’s church at Bev- 
erly Farms. Born in Ireland, Daniel 
Neville, a sturdy son of Erin took his 
young wife and sailed for America 
in 1830. His ship was wrecked, put 
back and then started again, it taking 
three months for the sailing vessel 
to cross the Atlantic and then owing 
to mishaps the passengers were land- 
ed at Halifax instead of Boston. 
Neville spent a few months in Hali- 
fax but thought that he preferred the 
states and went to Boston in 1821 
where he soon entered business. In 
those days most of the ships carried 
ballast of rocks and it was this busi- 
ness that Neville took up. He was 
successful at it and in time acquired 
three schooners which he used in the 
business. Sailing vessels would come 
from Europe, find little cargo to take 
back and so had to take ballast. Ne- 
ville developed a profitable business in 
this line. Boston then took up paving 
its streets with cobblestones and the 
Neville fleet brought thousands of 
loads of stone from Maine to Boston. 
On those trips the Neville schoon- 
ers were wont to drop anchor off 
Misery island, off the Beverly Farms 
shore and Capt. Neville, who often 
went ashore there, grew to love it and, 
back in 1846, purchasing both Big and 
Little Misery islands from the Dodge 
family of Wenham for $4,000. To- 
day hardly a piece of land large 
enough for an ordinary dwelling 
house could be purchased on fashion- 
able Mystery island for that sum. 
Capt. Neville still continued in the 
ballast business and finally retired 
from the sea and took up farming at 
the island. He attended church at 
Salem, rowing ashore with his family 
to the Beverly Farms shore and from 
there going to Salem. He was the 
first Catholic to settle in that section 
and lived to the ripe old age of eighty- 
five. The island properties descended 
to his children and were both sold 
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Beverly 
some years ago. Today there are 
many costly cottages on the island 
and it is one of the beauty spots along 
the shore, a real life reminder of the 
changes of 65 years. 
