CLASS OF 1889
Dr. and Mrs. N. K. Noyes, with their sons and daughters, entertained nine of the class at dinner at their home in Duxbury, Mass., on August 25, and gave us an exceedingly pleasant evening. The occasion was made noteworthy by the presence of Wheat, from Washington, who was spending a month at Marblehead, Wellman, from Manchester, N. H., and Ralph Doane, from the Cape, whom several of us had not met since we separated in Hanover many years ago.
Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Robie, of Baldwinville, Mass., returned home on September 3, having spent July and August in travel in Europe.
O. S. Warden, of Great Falls, Montana, chairman of the Montana State Highway Commission, gave one of the addresses at the annual meeting of the Alberta-Montana Highway Association, sponsors of the International Sunshine Trail, which was held in August at Lethbridge, Mont. He described the comprehensive road building program across the border, and was optimistic about the vote to be taken in his state on November 2 on a policy of state road construction and maintenance covering a period of ten years.
The Outlook for August 18 contained an interesting article by Lawrence F. Abbott, contributing editor, entitled "Three Impressions of the Northwest." One of the "impressions" was derived from Great Falls, "A Montana Industrial City," whose site was first surveyed and named by Paris Gibson, a graduate of Bowdoin. Mr. Gibson was called "a crank on parks," and, with the co-operation of the late James J. Hill, plotted parks before he did anything else. Great Falls has a population of about 15,000, and is said to have more park acreage than any other city in the United States. Mr. Abbott wrote: "I do not know of any city in America, not even Washington, D. C., that has a more beautiful front door than Great Falls." He added: "The citizens of Great Falls like not only handsome parks but handsome newspapers as well, and they have one in the DailyTribune. As an Easterner of Yankee extraction I am happy to think that New England has played a creditable part in the development of Great Falls. As I have already said, its founder and first mayor was a graduate of Bowdoin and the publisher of its newspaper is a graduate of Dartmouth. Some of the quiet beauty of Brunswick, Maine, and Hanover, New Hampshire, have thus been transplanted to the banks of the Missouri."
The "graduate of Dartmouth" is O. S. Warden, who went to Great Falls a few weeks after graduation, and there made his home and has been an important factor in the city's growth and development.
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