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ManCheSter.

Geo. Combell of Cincinnati is visiting
his sister, Mrs. Judge Munson.
The parsonage is being fitted up fol
the pastor and family. The improve.
ments will include furnace for heat
ing.
Gen. Stokes and family return to New
York this week and Dea. Gone and fami.
ly re-Occupy their cottage. Most of
those renting cottages will remain into
October to enjoy our beautiful autumn
weather.
Extensive water works are being con-
structed, conveying water directly from
the inexhaustible springs of the noun
tain to Manchester, Manchester Centre
and Manchester Depot. This requires
piping to the extent of many miles, and
involves an expenditure of more than
$4,000. The work is being done by a
company.
Speaking of taxes, the rate will not
average to exceed one per cent. on a low
valuation, making the tax in fact, con-
sidering the value of property, only
about one-half of one per cent for vii
lage, State, town and school purposes,
and this, too, includes the roadmaking
under the new system.
Several enterprises have been inaugu-
rated within the last year or two, includ-
ing the Equinox Spring Company, which
has come to be a big concern, and the
manufacture of wooden ware of various
kinds. Two factories for the making of
wooden spoons are in operation, with a
single mill and smaller enterprises.
The philanthropic enterprise of the
Skinuer-Willing family in the erection
and equipment of library building has
proceeded to the adoption of a plan of
building, and contracts are being made
for the completion of the edifice. With
in good time this popular beneficence
will have its consummation. 1t will be
the carrying out of the policy of the late
Mark Skinner of Chicago, who was ma
tive of Manchester The town bears nu-
merOus evidences of his generosity, I'M
pretending but always in the direction
of large public benefit.
Skinner post, G. A. R., of Manchester
has lately received from Hon. f. H. Or
Wis of the Equinox house a handsome
memorial volume, in which will be re-
corded for preservation the war history
of each member of the post, with other
intel esting local facts of the war period.
Thus will be preserved for future gener-
atiOns many interesting facts which
would be otherwise lost. The thanks of
the post and people of the town are due
to Mr.. Orvis for his generous gift. Mr..
Orvis during the period of the civil strife
and since its conclusion has been a de-
voted friend of those who fought for and
saved the country. His work in this line
he has discharged and still discharges
without self seeking or boaSting, but in
the most efficient way for giving help
where it may be needed and recognition
of merit as presented by the deservings
of the old soldiers and their families.
He well deserves the name given him by
the old veterans, ''the soldiers friend"
A man may have his contentious in life,
confronting antagOnisms sometimes
painful; but with charity in his heart
and patriotism as a dominating princi-
pie he still accomplishes great good in
his day and generation.
There are eight OF ten boarding houses
and twenty to twenty-five cottages rent
ed for summer occupancy. These have
all been filled during the season. OF the
hotels the Equinox, the MunsOn house,
Manchester, and Colburn house and
Thayer's, in Manchester Centre, have
been filled, and for some weeks during
the season crowded to OVERLOOKING As
to permanent population these places
hold their own and have made some
gains. OF the surrounding agricultural
country it may be said that some farms
that have been in disuse or abandoned
are now coming to be reoccupied and
utilized, and thus this interest is certain
ly making progress in this section. In
is that the same improvement
of affairs is going on throughout the en-
tire state. And much of this improve
ment and progress may be attributed to
the policy of constructing good roads
and the improved method of education
in the town system of schools.