CLASS OF 1903
Hinckley has now become a commuter, living in Oak Park, Ill., at 257 Maple Ave. He is still in the advertising game with Kritchfield and Company, 223 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.
William S. Chapin moved from Vanderbilt, Mich., to Muskegon, Mich., in 1921. He has his sixth child, Robert Yorton Chapin, born August 1, 1923.
Mrs. Bolster, contrary to the information given in our last issue, did not accompany her husband home to North Dakota late in June, after he had successfully completed his course in golf and recreation in the East. She was in Nashua, N. H., with her people through the summer, and only went back in late September.
Chauncey Colton has been heard from. Carroll Paul called him up when in Duluth sometime in July, and we have learned that Chauncey is married and has one child. Has been city counsel. All our Masonic brethren will be interested to know that he is at present chief rabban of Aad Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and may be elevated at the coming election in December. We will all hope so His interest in Masonry has been very keen.
And now for the real news. We wish we knew more about it, but here goes for our rather indirect information. It seems that on the last Sunday in September Karl Skinner left six dollars in his trousers pocket, and left the pants hung up in a closet at home while he went away, presumably to preach. At any rate, while he was gone the house was broken into and the above mentioned sum of money was all that was missing, although the house was ransacked. Evidently it was real money they were after, and just why they should pick on Karl we don't know. Perhaps he can give us a good explanation of his apparent classification with the affluent classes when we see him.
In a letter from J. W. MacLennan we note some reference to a trip, in company with his brother Ed, from whom we have had no news in a long time, to the park Toot Worthen has charge of. Besides hunting and fishing, we are told about a golf course. Too bad "Tute" can't bring this East with him for a 1903 summer party or something.
Windsor, Vt. (where Teddy Hale was born), was completely swamped by the Keene Country Club golfers in a match played at the Keene Club in August, the score being to 17½ Take notice that Keene's first two men were defeated, but Nat Batch, playing No. 3, beat Campbell 3 to 0, and started the debacle which ended as given above.
Late in September, the E. L. Browns, returning from a vacation at West Falmouth, stopped in Middleboro to call on the Pratts.
Barbara Pratt and Rhoda Howard were among those in attendance at the Brockton Fair on Children's Day, September 25, Tuesday.
The Boston Herald of September 12 carried this item: "Prof. James Francis Smith was today appointed by State Superintendent of Education Dempsey of Vermont as superintendent of schools in the southern towns of Essex county." Evidently our Smith, J. F., has decided to stay out of the South this winter. He will live in Island Pond.
Tapper is now in the garage business at Ripley, Cal. There could seemingly be quite a charge formed from 1903 men resident in California. Guess we shall have to ask Frank Wentworth to take the matter in hand.
Mrs. Carl Farley's address is now Orlando, Fla.
Talking about Masonry, so far as we knew we had no 33d degree Mason in the class. However, the September 19 issue of the Boston Globe, in naming the candidates for this year's New York meeting listed Julius B. Walther, street address and all. So it would appear that we have come through. The exact occasion for the conferring of this degree we have not learned as yet, but as Jule is with the New York Telephone Company now we shall surely get the facts in due course from some of our Telephone gang if not from him. Any way, congratulations.
Mrs. Ralph Oliver Durrell of Newtonville, Mass., and Richard Stimson Emery of Cambridge were married in August at the home of the bride, 35 Highland Ave. After a motor trip through New England they will live in Newtonville. There are three of the Durrell children, Betty, Cornelia, and Emery. May be one can qualify for Dartmouth.
Here is one item of real news. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Howard were celebrating their wedding anniversary on September 29. Remember the date. And such was the "peace, love, and harmony" that telephone calls to them were unanswered, although they were paged from one end of the Hotel Touraine, where they were supposed to be, to the other.
Victor M. Cutter has been elected a director of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, to succeed John Forbes Perkins, resigned. Also at the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Boston, held at the Club rooms September 24, Vic was elected president for the ensuing year. He was not present, and the retiring secretary, in explaining that he was not there because he had unexpectedly gone to Europe for a week or two on a business trip, took occasion to remark that his absence was not caused by any lack of interest; he had been on the board of directors for the last year, and had worked hard. All of which of course 1903 did not have to be told, but likes to hear just the same.
The death of United States Senator Dillingham of Vermont leaves Charles A. Webb, who has been summering at Lake Bomoseen, near Poultney, Vt., at liberty to accept one of the many flattering offers that have been made him during his long duties and faithful devotion to his chief. Since writing this we find that Charles has entered the contest for the Republican nomination for congressman from the Second Vermont district. This is a six-sided contest, and he is the last one in. It seems to be conceded through the district that his long service in Washington alone makes him extremely well qualified for the job, and he seems a logical candidate.
John Hale McElroy is the scout master of Troop 16, Boy Scouts of America, Albany, N. Y., and had them with him for a week at his summer home on Lake Bomoseen in July.
Ote Mudge, Mrs. Mudge, Ned Burbeck, Bertrand and George Otis Mudge are to board at a large farm house on Lake Bomoseen in July, 1924.
Speaking about rivalry in the newspaper business or whatever may have caused the following, we reprint it for what it is worth, from the New York Times.
"New York, August 20 — A specially culled audience, ranging all the way from Mrs. Fiske to the editor of the AmericanLegion Weekly, forgathered at the Greenwich Village Theatre Sunday evening to witness the first performance of a play which the rank and file will be suffered to inspect from tonight on. They found there not a finished work, but rather the exceedingly raw material of an adult, suggestive, and engrossing play."
Now the question is, Is the range upward or downward? And is this a slam or a boost ? We will gladly print anything H. D. Cushing may send us, explanatory or otherwise.
The Boston Post in August carried the following:
"Postmaster Mahoney of the Chelsea district has received a letter from E. W. Thomas of Eureka, Cal., asking him to search for a woman named Place whose son, Victor M. Place, was killed recently in Brookings, Oregon. The letter says that young Place went to California several years ago from Chelsea, and his mother is supposed to be living in that city."
Your class secretary, Charles L. Luce, Milford, N. H., would welcome any information about this. His last information was that Mrs. Place lived near Syracuse, N. Y., but he has not located her to know that such is the fact.
The following is impromptu verse composed by Mrs. Charles A. Webb one afternoon this summer when the McElroys, Mudges, Webbs, and Wheldens got together :
We started out from Bomoseen With our friend John in his machine. Seated five, but we rode nine; Tucked in together we rode fine.
Sang and jogged along the road Till we met Dr. Mudge and his big load; Turned them around towards Rescue Lake; There we were met with a good hand-shake
Mrs. Prexy and children three, Ben and John and little Bobby; Mrs. Mudge, so full of fun; Ned Burbeck, Otis, and sturdy Bun.
Into the house and by the fireside, They opened the door and portals wide. Mrs. McClellan, as there she sat, Welcomed the crowd to the bacon bat.
Down to the edge of the lake we went, Our minds on the food and coffee bent. Fires were lighted, the bacon soon hot, We toasted the dogs right there on the spot
After the feast then a duck in the lake, While some of us chatted for old times' sake All danced around the cottage floor, Heard Dartmouth songs for an hour or more.
Now the time has come to part, We propose a toast with all our heart: Here's to the class of young '03; May we meet again right soon, by gee !
Winfield L. Rice spent the summer traveling in the British Isles.
Editor, Perley E. Whelden, 516 Commonwealth Ave., Newton Center, Mass.
