January 12, 1900

F.B. Grout attended the dog show in Providence Wednesday.

One of the Kimball houses on Elm street is being shingled byHardy &Cole.

Tuttle &Morrison are now located in their new shop on Park street, having removed there this week.

An error was made last week in announcing the birth of a daughter instead of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe E.Cole.

William H.Welch is to do some plumbing in J. W. Barnard's store on Main street, formerly occupied by Mrs. S. J. Bucklin. E.C. Pike will put in a furnace and heating arrangements and R. R. Ross is to cement the basement.

A meeting of the Abbott Village coal society was held last Tuesday evening at the village hall. The most important business was arranging for the dispensation of wood to members, by shares in the same manner as the coal.

James A. Keefe of Haverhill, an Andover boy born and schooled, has just been elected one of the Overseers of the Poor of that city.

Editorial Cinders

From one end of New England to the other, the cry is "low water." In our own town wells that have yielded freely for many years, are dry, and neighboring rivers are but partially filled. But up in West Parish the town's water supply, with hardly a noticeable rising or falling, continues to provide the Andover public with one of the purest and most abundant supplies of water enjoyed by any community. There may have been some mistakes made in introducing "new notions" into Andover during the past twenty years, but the town's water supply wasn't one of them.

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There is bound to be a pretty fight between the automobiles and the steam and street railway people. The fight is not likely to be a very spirited one this year, even though an Andover man is in the front at the state house with a request for incorporation as general carrier of everything and anything, by any and every sort of locomotion, but it will come. Will the end of it be public ownership of all public conveniences?

Subscription Phonograph Dance

In Musgrove hall last Monday evening was held something novel in the line of subscription dances, a "phonograph" party. The instrument used was one belonging to H. F. Chase, and with its polyphone attachment, made very good music for dancing. Located on the platform in one corner, the waltzes and two-steps played on the phonograph could be easily heard at all times during the dancing. the hall never looked prettier. Easy chairs and a couch added much to the comfort of the guests, while the potted plants, palms, ferns and the like, drapings of bunting and the hemlock bower in one corner for the punch bowl, added greatly to the pleasant and home-like appearance of the hall. A small ante-room with chairs, centre table and banquet lamp made a cozy retreat. One of the upper halls was used as a dressing room and the stairway leading thereto was tastefully hung with pictures and mirrors.