The story I had planned for this week has been postponed for a couple of weeks, and so my title for this week is, "Ye Rogers Manse."

How well I remember that beautiful old eating place at No. 1 High Street, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Mackay-Smith, Jr. I remember it because I was friendly with the children of Joseph Burnham, the proprietor.

I used to like to go up there because when we were children Mrs. Burnham would set up a little table in the pine behind the house and we would have sort of a little party.

If you should look at the sign in the picture you will see lobster and chicken dinners were a specialty.

The bay window opposite the sign was the main dining room. And it was in this room that the Ipswich Rotary Club was born in 1923 with the late Walter Hayward as president.

There were also accommodations for overnight guests, and garage accommodations in the rear. Upstairs in the barn, the Burnham children had their sleeping quarters. There was also a large screened piazza on the side facing the sign.

It was in this house that the graduating classes of the old Manning High School held their final get together. Here they would dine and dance to the tune of a local orchestra. You will note that the sign says " Dancing. "

The two children sitting on the seat in front of the sign were Ralph and Muriel, children of Mr. and Mrs. Burnham.

Any day from noon on one could see cars lined us on High Street in which there were chauffeurs dressed in uniforms. This was a first-class restaurant.

I understand that the sign is still in the basement of the old house. The house takes its name from Rev Nathaniel Rogers, pastor of the First Church, who built the fine old mansion in 1727.