January 5, 1900

The Grange assembly occurs tonight in the West Parish.

Miss Maud M. Cole has been chosen as organist for the Seminary Chapel.

The first real snowstorm of the season came on the first day of the new year.

Edward C. Hayes of the Theological Seminary preached in Bartlett, N.H., last Sabbath, Dec. 31.

Joseph Myerscough has entered the wool sorting department of the Washington Mills, Lawrence.

Miss Milly Amerio has returned to Andover after a two weeks vacation spent in Providence, Lynn and Haverhill.

Miss Winifred I. Powers of Haverhill has been visiting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Dougherty on High street.

A number of young people from Andover attended Prof. Ralton's dancing class reception in Standish hall, Lawrence, last evening.

F. E. Gleason's new wood shed by Tuttle &Morrison's shop on Park street is nearly finished.

The regular monthly meeting of the Andover Florists and Gardeners' Club will be hold tonight, Jan. 5, in the Town house at 8 o'clock. A paper will be read on "How to grow Carnations."

A special meeting of the Andover cricket club will be held in Abbott Village hall next Monday evening at 7:45 o'clock to consider the proposed by-laws for the new Merrimack ValleyCricket league.

Mrs. Sarah J. Bucklin has sold the lease of the store she occupied here on Main street to J.W. Barnard, and the store will soon be fitted up with nice fixtures for business again.

Fred H. Ladd of the Lawrence Telegraph who has been sick for the past three weeks with slow typhoid fever shows some improvement and will soon be able to sit up. It will be several weeks more before he can get out again.

Mrs.George Lindsay and child have been spending two weeks in Hyde Park.

The engine company will hold a clam bake at the engine house Friday evening, Jan. 12.

The Sons of Veterans enjoyed steamed clams after their regular meeting last Wednesday evening.

Editorial Cinders

This is about the time of year when the annual bubble of political aspiration floats in the air of the average New England town. In Andover, this bubble sometimes bursts before it gets into the air current that would float it until March meeting, other times it manages to get into the final scrimmage and still other times it never appears at all. The offices have no seekers on the part of nay who are competent, save the present incumbents, and everything connected with local affairs is very quiet.

There are just two months before the battle and of course this is ample time for innumerable changes in the situation. There would seem to be no call for any extraordinary expenses the coming year, but the usual "demands" from the usual sources may be relied upon to show up with the same big calls that the town has become accustomed to. Meanwhile let everybody wish everybody else a "happy New Year."

John Cornell Legacy: Opening of the Art Room at Memorial Hall

It is no secret that something unusual has been going on in the upper regions of Memorial Hall for some months. Citizens have been found bold enough to affirm that the Trustees were making a picture gallery there. And now it turns out that these rumors actually correspond to the fact.

The Trustees have made an Art Room, and the public are invited to inspect the JohnCornell Legacy pictures during all the Library hours (morning, afternoon and evening) of Friday and Saturday January 12th and 13th and on every subsequent Friday and Saturday during the afternoon and evening hours.

It is confidently hoped that those whose hearts are stout enough to climb two longish flights of stairs will find something at the top that will repay the effort, and that, in the midst of the reproductions of some of the world's most inspiring pictures, they will feel themselves a little nearer heaven, in more senses than one. Anyway, they will find a welcome there, and for the sum of five cents, a neat little catalogue of the one hundred and sixty-four pictures already selected for the collection.

Not all the pictures mentioned in the catalogue are as yet in Andover, but they will probably all be on the walls in early March. This will not be the completing of the collection, only its beginning. As new books are every year added to the Library, so the Trustees intend to make continual additions to the John Cornell Legacy pictures.

If what the Trustees have done, shall find favor in the eyes of their fellow-citizens, it will make them very happy to have brought worthily and agreeably to their memories the personality of the public spirited citizen and kind-hearted man, John Cornell.