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VISITING NURSE FUND 
BENEFITTED BY ENTERTAINMENT IN 
MANCHESTER Monpay EVENING. 
HE first entertainment of the Vis:t- 
Nurse Committee of the Manches- 
ter Woman’s club was held Monday 
evening of this week at the Town 
hall and was an immense success in 
spite of the fact that it was accom- 
panied by a most severe storm that 
might well have been the excuse for 
a small attendance. There was no 
need of any excuse, however, for the 
hall was exceptionally well filled; and 
the entertainment, which comprised 
the reading of “Daddy Long-Legs,” 
from the book of that name by Jean 
Webster, by Miss Marion Hertha 
Clarke, of New York, a well-known 
and most successful reader, and a 
musical program by Lee’s Ladies’ 
Orchestra, followed by an informal 
dance. 
The success which Miss Clarke at- 
tained earlier in her career in her 
“Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary” has 
been equalled and, perhaps, surpass- 
ed in this new and wholly delightful 
comedy of the little orphan girl 
whose course of life runs from the 
drab, sordid surroundings of the John 
Grier Home to the brilliant fields of 
college successes and, finally, 
longed- eet goal, the 
someone Ww ho really “belongs” to her. 
Judy is a complex character, one re- 
quiring the art of a master to inter- 
pret. 
Miss Clarke is such a master, and 
her dramatization of Judy in her 
happy moments when the sense of 
humor that even the years under the 
watchful eye of Miss Lippett could 
not wholly quench crops out clean 
and unspoiled, is as charming as her 
interpretation of Judy’s bitter mo- 
ments, which are the indelible mark 
that eighteen grinding years have 
left even upon so sweet a nature as 
hers, is vivid and true. Miss Clarke 
held her audience in the hollow of 
her hand and they laughed aloud, 
chuckled sympathetically, or listened 
intently without murmur or move- 
ment as she wished them to do. 
The following selections were play- 
ed by the orchestra: “Western 
World” (march), “When It’s Tulip 
Time in Holland,’ “Down Among 
the Sheltering Palms,’ “Bon Bon 
Bay,” “Lee’s Favorite,” “A Perfect 
Day” (by request), “Over the Hills 
to Kentucky”; and Miss Isabelle Lee 
of this town and director of the or- 
chestra, gave a drum solo, “Dixie” 
to het 
discovery af 
MANCHESTER 
Selectmen E. S$. Knight and L. W. 
Floyd have been in Worcester the 
last few days attending a road con- 
egress, getting the latest _ ideas and 
know ledge of road construction and 
conservation. 
Buy your wall papers from H. S. 
Tappan, 17 Bridge street, Manches- 
ter. adv. 
Another scare was created Thurs-- 
day afternoon when two little chil- 
dren, the 4-year old sons of Mr. and 
Mrs. Wm. J. Lethbridge and Mrs. 
Cora MacDonald, of Pleasant st. ex- 
tension were reported missing. They 
were found after a long search play- 
ing by a brook in the Essex County 
club grounds, quite a distance | from 
their homes. 
Acep Man Lost 1n Woops—DIEs OF 
EXPOSURE. 
Manchester citizens were called out 
Monday 
violent rain and wind storm—the 
most violent of a decade—to search 
in the woods for Joseph Francis, 
aged about 76, of Jeffrey’s Court, 
who was reported lost. It was a 
terrible night, but thirty people, with 
lanterns, ceareed from 11 o'clock 
until three in the morning, without 
avail, : 
Mr. Francis had gone to the 
woods, off Mill street, back of Bak- 
er’s farm, about eleven in the morn- 
ing, seeking wood. When he did 
not return in due season-his wife 
searched for him. As night came on 
and he did not return, and it began 
to storm she notified the police, and 
Officers Sheehan, Bullock and Stoops 
went to the woods with a_ strong 
searchlight. They kept up the search 
until ten o'clock, when a general 
alarm was ordered by the board cf 
selectmen. Selectman F. G. Cheever 
took active charge and organized a 
party of about thirty citizens, with 
the police. The woods were searched 
over and over again, all through the 
raging storm, and about 2.30 the 
party began returning home. 
Next morning officers again search- 
ed until eight o’clock. 
It appears, however, Mr. Francis 
wandered until he reached West 
Gloucester and was found there 
about six o’clock unconscious in the 
road. He was taken to the police 
station, where he died within half an 
hour. He was subject to fits and it 
is supposed he had lost himself in the 
woods after coming out of one. of 
these. He was a native of Fayal, 
Azores, and had lived at Manchester — 
a generation or more, 
night in the midst of the — 
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