January 26, 1900

Thomas Bacon of Providence,R.I. a former resident of Andover has been visiting in town this week.

Season tickets to the Abbot Academy Piano Recitals are now $1.50 for the remaining two.

Miss Annie M. Johnson of Dorchester, formerly of this place, has been visiting friends in Andover this week.

Tom O'Brien, who recently moved from here to Lawrence, has opened a variety store on Winter Street.

Frank A. Hill is playing one of the forwards on the M.I.T. hockey team. He played last year on the P.A. hockey team.

It has been definitely decided to play Lawrenceville this spring, probably before the Exeter game although there has been talk of discontinuing the series.

The contract for printing the Class Book this year has been given to John N. Cole of the Andover Press. The Suffolk Engraving Co. has the contract for the half tones. The book will be issued by the first of June.

Lyman Charles, employed as a carpenter byJ.E. Pitman, fell on the icy sidewalk last evening and dislocated his shoulder.

Last Monday evening a neighborhood social was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Johnson, in the south part of the town. Part of the evening was spend in playing games, after which the guests repaired to the dining room, where tempting refreshments were served.Discussions took the place of "toasts," and at a late hour the guests departed, feeling sure they had passed a very pleasant evening.

A Growing Concern - The Tyer Rubber Co. Will Make Big Additions This Spring

The Tyer Rubber Company are to illustrate their belief in expansion as applied to their own business, in a most substantial manner during the coming season.Several times they have enlarged to accommodate their growing business, and now another step has been decided upon, more important and of greater magnitude than any of the previous ones.

They propose to erect a new office building where their engineer's dwelling now stands, to remove the old wooden building in the rear of their brick shop, to tear down the old Boston &Maine repair shop building said to have been built in the early forties, and in the place of these buildings, to erect a large three story brick building with two ells and basement under the whole.

These new buildings with the one erected in 1892 will make a frontage of about 22ft on Main street and 130 feet on the new Hardy &Cole street. New boilers, engine and other machinery will be added and every equipment provided to make the entire plant thoroughly up to date.

The company hopes to be able to make all these changes without any shut down or curtailment in their present large product, except during July which is usually the dull season. They hope to have the whole in running order by next autumn.