Dr. Walter Everett Scott Preston died suddenly March IS, at his home in Newfield, Maine. Dr. Preston was born in Bradford, N. H., May 3, 1858, and graduated from Baldwin University, Ohio, in 1880, receiving also the master's degree from the same institution in 1882. For a time after his college graduation he was principal of Limerick (Me.) Academy, and after his medical graduation and graduate work at Bellevue, he returned to Limerick for practice. In 1912 he removed to the adjoining town of Newfield.