John W. Willis of St. Paul, Minn., left that city January 18 with Mrs. Willis for a cruise to the West Indies, the Panama Canal, and the northern coast of South America. They will return about the first of March.
William G. Davis, who has retired from legal practice in New York city to his old home in North Andover, Mass., writes that his time has been fully occupied "with having the buildings repaired and painted, getting in my apples and harvesting my potatoes, having a new boiler placed in the cellar, wiring the house and installing electric lights, and making various alterations and repairs." His address is Box 129, Lawrence, Mass.
Frederic L. Owen, who has been connected with the Boston schools since 1890 and for some years master of the Christopher Gibson School, has reached his seventieth birthday and has been retired by the inexorable law of Massachusetts, though he says, "I am as well and strong as I was twenty years ago."
Rev. William W. Prescott accepted a call last summer to assume the presidency of Union College at College View, Neb., an institution of the Seventh Day Adventist church which covers all grades from the primary to the senior course in college. He is finding the administrative work of so large an institution (the enrollment is considerably over five hundred) too heavy at his time of life, and will decline to serve another year as'president, but expects to remain as head of the English Bible department.
Secretary, Chelsea, Vt.