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Vol. IV. No. 13 
CAUCUSES IN MANCHESTER 
The “Shaw Ticket” Won Out at the Repub- 
lican Caucus Tuesday Evening Almost 3 to 
{— James F. Shaw Carries the District 
Against Aug. Hubbard 31 to 16 
The Republican voters turned out 
for the caucus in Manchester Tuesday 
evening in large numbers, there being 
201 votes cast, the largest on record, 
with one exception, that of last year, 
when 273 votes were cast. 
The Shaw forces, so-called, had 
everything their own way, their ticket 
winning over the opposition, about 
147 to 54. Last year the vote was 
approximately 171 to 102. 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1906 
24 Pages. 
Three Cents 
While it was conceded that dele- 
gates favorable to Mr. Shaw as the 
senatorial nominee would be elected, 
the friends of Mr. Hubbard worked 
hard. This was the issue that brought 
out the big vote. 
The old town committee, or at least 
that of last year, was re-elected, though 
an effort was made to return the com- 
mittee of two and three years ago. Two 
were added to the board, making nine 
in all, and one was elected to take the 
place of one resigned, the three new 
members being Alexander Robertson, 
Alfred C. Hooper and E. P. Stanley, 
though Mr. Stanley had served on the 
Continued on page 32 
JAMES F. SHAW OF MANCHESTER 
Senatorial Candidate, Delegates Favorable to whom, were elected at Caucuses Tuesday 
AUTUMN REVERIES 
By D. F. Lamson. 
Men live very much in the pres- 
ent today, and worship material 
greatness, wealth and success; their 
thoughts are bounded for the most 
part by the near horizon; they for- 
get that there are mightier forces 
in the world than Steam, Electric- 
ity and Co. 
The craze for phonetic spelling 
which is now and again revived 
confuses very much the derivation 
and history of words often so in- 
structive; who would detect in thru 
the good old English word thor- 
ough? If we dre to spell according 
to sound rather than sense, why 
not canonize Josh Billings as pa- 
tron saint of the nu_ speling, and 
done with it? He was past master 
inv the-art: 
A little maiden was greatly sur- 
prised when told that God is 
everywhere; she had thought of 
Him only as up in the blue; it has 
taken the race a long time to out- 
grow its childhood, and _ believe 
in the immanence as thoroughly as 
in the transcendence of the Supreme 
Powers. 
We need not go far afield of this 
season of the year to see illustra- 
tions of the fact that like begets 
like, that as we sow we shall reap, 
that the future is what the present 
is making it. 
The days when knighthood was 
in flower were for the most part 
sad days to live in, though they 
seem attractive as seen through the 
haze of romance; there was little 
right except might, and the boasted 
chivalry was a matter more of 
manners than of the heart; manya 
day laborer is more’ worthy .of 
knighthood than half the Sir Guys, 
Sir Bevises, Sir Gawains. 
We often say that some persons 
die before their time, while others 
lag superfluous on the stage; but 
our judgments are often misjudg- 
ments, we know. far less about 
these things than we think we do. 
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