On the day after his return, with Mrs. Kinney, from a trip into Maine celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, Kinney fell in the parsonage at Lyme and broke his left leg, necessitating a subsequent long stay in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital at Hanover. His letters from there to the Secretary and to other members of the class who heard of the accident are filled with the same courage and cheer that are so nobly characteristic of him.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Gordon have returned safely from their enjoyable European trip, in which they had as a fellow passenger, outward bound, that distinguished Dartmouth man of our own day, Senator George H. Moses '9O. Charles writes of visits since their return to Chandler and Lougee.
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jarvis announce the marriage of their daughter, Jewel Lowry, to Andre Petrovich Maximov, on Wednesday, July 16, in the city of New York. The Jarvises, who have another wedding on the family calendar for this fall, paid the Pearsons an all too brief call in August while on their way to Newfound Lake, where their son was at Camp Mowgli.
They also called at Chichester Brook Farm in Pittsfield upon Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Cox, who had as other summer visitors Mr. and Mrs. George B. Dodge. Guy was called upon as usual for a speech at Pittsfield's Old Home Day, and paid eloquent tribute to the charms of his country estate, from the grateful coolness of its shaded walks by the river at noonday to the glorious sunsets viewed from its hilltop.
Just before Kinney arrived at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital Chadbourne left there after a long sojourn, including two operations. It is good to know that he has recovered his health sufficiently to take motor trips.
Rev. and Mrs. Byron F. Gustin of Amherst, Mass., were noted among this summer's visitors to Skyline, the Dartmouth Outing Club Camp in Littleton. W. W. Brown was one of the judges at the Lake Sunapee regatta. Colonel Charles A. French was one of the committee in charge of the arrangements for the annual reunion of the New Hampshire Veterans' Association at The Weirs. John Baker, son of Rufus, while spending the summer at their place on Cape Cod, won first place in the hammer throw at field sports at New Bedford, Mass.
The West Lebanon correspondent of the Hanover Gazette writes: "A very attractive spot in our little village is the bed of petunias in full bloom in the park at the intersection of the roads at the foot of Seminary Hill. This flower bed is maintained by S. P. French of the Perennial Gardens."
When Dr. Elam R. Wright of Alton visited Laconia, the other day, he was given a splendid write-up by Editor Weeks of the. News and Critic, who was his schoolmate at Gilmanton Academy before their Dartmouth days.
During the summer John Ayer and Dr. E. S. Miller were heard from as attending the state conventions of the rural mail carriers and the dentists, respectively. Harry Metcalf is second vice-president of the Lions' Club recently formed in Newport. Mrs. Samuel P. Hunt is one of the charter members of the recently formed Society of Mayflower Descendants in New Hampshire.
Aborn is a grandfather again through the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Aborn of Providence, R. I.
New addresses: Dr. Lucius J. Mason, 3871 Sedgwick Ave., New York city; Rev. Willis T. Sparhawk, The Norfolk, Bth and Elm Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Winthrop P. Abbott has taken over the Tri-State Teachers' Agency at 36 High St., Greenfield, Mass., a line of work for which his more than 30 years of experience in the public schools of Vermont and Massachusetts have fitted him admirably.
McQuesten took his vacation in September and sent the Secretary some postcards from Lake Wanganbaug. Know where that is? Well, it is in the town of Nathan Hale. Now do you know? Probably not. The answer is South Coventry, Conn.
Austin L. Calef of Barrington is the Democratic candidate for state senator in the 21st district this fall.
Rev. Frank N. Saltmarsh was in attendance upon the annual meeting of the trustees of Pinkerton Academy.
Following the transfer of Insurance Commissioner John E. Sullivan to be state bank commissioner of New Hampshire, Deputy William N. Johnston is acting head of the insurance department.
Miss Elizabeth French, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. French of Laconia, has entered Middlebury College.
Mrs. George B. Dodge was the winner of a prize offered by the New Hampshire Federation of Woman's Clubs on "The Right Use of Leisure Time."
On September 20, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Merry, in Brighton, Mass., Miss Mary Cummings Merry and John B. Russell, Jr., were united in marriage by Rev. Andrew H. Mulnix. The bride is a graduate of the Massachusetts School of Art and has been an assistant supervisor in the public schools of Concord, N. H. The groom is the son of our John B. Russell, is a graduate of M. I. T., where he specialized in electrical engineering, and is now an instructor at the same institution, with radio research work as a side line.
Among the entries in the recent field trials at Hooksett, N. H., were Monomack Colonel and Monomack Elsie, entered by L. K. Ebbs of Newport, R. I.
An aviation landing field is part of the equipment of President Cox's Chichester Brook Farm at Pittsfield, N. H., and from it Mrs. Cox recently took her first flight, in her son's.new 245 horse power Travel-Air, to the Concord airport.
Secretary, 104 North State St., Concord, N. H.