CLASS OF 1893
Harry B. Metcalf, editor and publisher of the Newport Argus-Champion, has been elected president of the New Hampshire Weekly Publishers' Association.
Colonel W. W. Brown of New York and Lake Sunapee is contributing to the ArgusChampion, over the pen name of Red Connors, a series of sketches of the Old Corner Drug Store, combining humor, philosophy, and pertinent comment on the affairs of the day.
We hear, also, from Sullivan county, how well John D. Ayer, senior employee of the Claremont post office, presided over postprandial exercises when 18 bowlers from the Concord post office went to Claremont for a match with the mail handlers there on a recent Saturday night.
Harry McLaren represented '93 at the annual banquet of the Manchester alumni. George Dodge was an honorary bearer at the funeral of one of the finest gentlemen in New Hampshire, Editor William T. Nichols of the Manchester Union. Sam Hunt has had his annual elections as director and trustee of several million dollars worth of banks and insurance companies.
Guy W. Cox, President Cox, so far as we are concerned, but vice-president as regards the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, addressed the Boston Life Insurance Trust Council recently on the subject of options and trusts as applied to life insurance contracts. The occasion was a dinner in the Chamber of Commerce for bankers and insurance men, and the revered Transcript gave a long and appreciative report of Guy's remarks.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox have been often at their Chichester Brook Farm in Pittsfield this season for winter sports, entertaining weekend and holiday parties of friends.
W. P. Abbott of Greenfield, Mass., has been elected secretary for the ensuing year of the Franklin County Congregational Club.
Judge F. N. Chandler of Lawrence, Mass., had his name in the papers quite often while the strike cloud hung over his city during the winter, and doubtless no one rejoiced more than he when it was dissipated.
Dr. Herbert S. Martyn got into the first page headlines by introducing in the Vermont legislature an act to abolish the death penalty in that state. Notables came from far and near to appear at committee hearings in behalf of the measure, but it failed of enactment.
During the session of the New Hampshire legislature the Secretary had the pleasure of greeting at the State House Colonel Charles A. French, who went back to Laconia with an increased appropriation for the Veterans' Association plant at The Weirs, of which he is custodian; A. L. Calef of Barrington, who was shown about the' Capitol by the member of the executive council for his district with an attention which made plain Calef's standing in his community; and Mrs. Charles H. McDuffee, who is engaged by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests in spreading the gospel of roadside beautification in the Granite State.
Mrs. McDuffee reported a grandchild, daughter of Charles and Doris (McDuffee) Andrews of Cambridge, Mass.; and Calef told of another marriage among his six children, his son Robert taking as his bride' Miss Katherine Miller of* Rochester. They are residing in Allston, Mass.
Secretary, 104 North State St., Concord, N. H.
