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| A WEEKLY JOURNAL 
Vol. IV. No. 25 
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MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 1906. 
24 Pages. Three Cents. 
Beer sorUL. TEST 
Has been made for filtering water at Beaver 
Dam Meadow. Manchester. 
F It would now seem that the question 
of anaddional water supply for Manches- 
ter is fully answered and it only remains 
for definite action to be taken by the 
town to secure more water if it sees fit 
to do so. 
As the result of the work done by the 
Water Board last year the State Board of 
Health ‘‘advised’’ the board to carry on 
tests this year toward seeing what could 
be done in the way of developing the 
Beaver Dam Meadow projest, so-called; 
to find out how much water could be 
depended upon, and, if satifactory as to 
quantity, to make tests, secondly, as to 
the best way of getting rid of the excess 
of iron in the water. 
The result of the experimental tests 
carried on the past summer and fall 
demonstrated that there is an almost un- 
limited supply of good water there. 
This week the writer was shown over 
the filtering plant in operation for the 
past month and it would seem that most 
satisfactory results have been arrived at 
in this respect, too. 
It now remains for the State Board of 
Heaith to make their official report. 
They are apparently well satisfied with 
the results obtained and will, no doubt, 
report favorably to developing this pro- 
ject, if any. 
On the edge of the swamp, just off 
the Essex-Manchester road is a small, 
roughly constructed house, in which the 
filtering tests have been carried on. 
A small gasoline engine, running a trip- 
ple pump, draws water from one of the 
driven wells near-by. The water is 
pumped into a large tank, No. as 
As a matter of proving the experiment 
a clay water is filtered as well as the clear 
water from the well. “This clay water 
is made by mixing one-half pound of 
clay with 30 gallons of water, which 
mixture is kept in a separate tank and is 
kept in motion by a centrifugal pump. 
From the large tank No. 1 the clear 
water flows into two other large tanks, 
No. 2 and No. 3; but in flowing to No. 
3 the water receives drops of the clay 
water mentioned above, which drops at 
the rate of one pint in 18 minutes, so that 
in tank No. 3, instead of being perfectly 
clear water, there is this very small 
mixture of clay water, while in No. 2 
the water is, of course, just as it comes 
from the wells. 
From these two large tanks (2 and 3) 
the water now flows through the filter 
tanks, and as it drips out at the bottom 
of each (filter No. 1-and filter No.2) it 
flows away to the brook, at the rate of 
one gallon in three minutes, 36 seconds. 
The filter is very simply made, there 
being in the two cylindrical tanks two 
erades of crushed rock and some sand. 
This work was started Nov. 23 and it 
is intended to end the test tonight or to- 
morrow. It is running continuously, — 
24 hours a day, and it takes four men in 
relays to look out for it. 
Samples of the filtered water from 
each filter tank are sent to the State 
Board three times a week. 
The purpose of the filter is to remove 
the iron, as this seems to be the only 
thing of a detrimental character in the 
water. Supt. Andrews is of the opinion 
there is no need of filtering the water, 
for there is so little iron present that 
when this water is mixed with the regu- 
lar town supply it would not be present 
in any noticable degree. Even now it 
is not present in such proportion as in 
the water supply of most towns and 
cities. 
In case it were necessary to filter the 
water an area some half an acre in extent 
would be needed. 
The plant is after the suggestion of 
the consulting engineer and State Board 
of Health. 
Literary Society. 
At the Story High school Wednesday 
the Literary society held an_ interesting 
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meeting, presenting an act from ““The 
Winter’s Tale.’’ The program follows: 
The Winter’s Tale Miss Edith Northrup 
ACT IV, CAST OF CHARACTERS. 
Leontes, king Alice Tappan 
Polixenes, king of Bohemia Bernard Taylor 
Hermione, wife of Leontes Edith Menkin 
Perdita, daughter of Leontes and supposed 
daughter of the shepherd Nellie Hobbs 
Florizel, son of Polixenes Marjorie Sargent 
Camillo, a courtier Almer Smith 
Paulina Anges Gillis 
Shepherd Edith Menkin 
Piano Solo Samuel Rowe 
LECTURE ON INDIA 
A. D. Ohol, a native of India, gave interest- 
ing Talk at Manchester last Sunday 
Evening 
Rev. Augustine Deoji Ohol, a native 
of India, gave a very interesting lecture 
in the Congregational church, Manches- 
ter, last Sunday evening on his native 
country. Hewas greeted by a good sized 
audience. Mr. Ohol is a young man, 
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Rev. AucusTInE D. OHOL 
Who lectured at Manchester last Sunday evening. 
27 years of age, who came to this coun- 
try 13 years ago to obtain an education. 
Having obtained this he is returning 
to his native home on the 29th of this 
month and will devote his time to teach- 
ing and preaching Christianity among his 
countrymen. 
Mr. Ohol said in his opening remarks 
that India was a country made up of many " 
different countries, as it were, the customs 
and manners of each being destinct. 
The houses, he said, are built mostly of 
clay brick and-stone. He had never 
seen a wooden house until he came to 
America and he was actually afraid to 
live in a wooden house until he had been 
here some time. In most houses one 
would find two or three large rooms and 
in every house there is a sacred corner, 
where are kept the household gods. 
It had been his duty, being the young- 
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