Judge Frank Eugene Dimick died suddenly of acute indigestion at the home of a friend in South Boston, Mass., in the early morning of July 18. Judge Dimick was born in Lyme, N. H., June 21, 1847, and fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy. His parents were Daniel and Diadema Dimick. In College he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. For two years after graduation he was submaster in the high school of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and then studied law in a Boston, office and at Boston University. Upon his admission to the bar in 1876 he began practice in Boston. He soon achieved success in his profession, making a specialty of conveyancing. In 1903 he was made an associate justice of the East Boston District Court, and in June, 1910, he was promoted to the presiding judgeship of the same court. In this position he endeared himself to the law-abiding people of the district, dealing sternly with the confirmed lawbreaker, but showing himself a merciful judge and a good friend and adviser to the man who showed a real desire for a chance to do better. Judge Dimick was a director of the Liberty Trust Company and a trustee of the Sumner Savings Bank, and a prominent mover a year ago in the . formation of the East Boston Bar Association.. He was a Mason, and an elder in the First Presbyterian church of East Boston. . Judge Dimick's wife, Mrs. Judith (Meader) Dimick, died in 1907,. leaving two sons. A second marriage would have soon, taken place.
John Herbert wa's Progressive candidate for Congress in the Ninth District of Massachusetts at the recent election, standing second in the vote.
Professor Charles F. Richardson becomes book critic of The Boston Herald, and will write weekly a review of current publications for that paper.
Secretary, Prof. Charles F. Richardson, Sugar Hill, N. H.