Class of 1893

Our foreign and interstate news service having been almost entirely cut off by censorship or some other interference during the past month, we were forced to climb into the state house dome at Concord and with a telescope search the state of New Hampshire for sights pertinent as paragraphs in this correspondence. In this pursuit we had some good fortune. At Derry we saw Judge Edwin Bell Weston, one of a committee working on the project of a hospital for the town. At Barrington we saw Senator A. L. Calef stocking the waters of his district with fish worth having as a political or other perquisite. Just over the line from Carroll county, New Hampshire, in Fryeburg, Me., we saw Mrs. Lucia Lougee presiding over the first meeting for the season of the Fryeburg Woman's Library Club.

At Manchester we saw Mrs. George B. Dodge managing the annual series of lectures on current events given by the Manchester Federation of Women's Clubs. Here we saw, also, Samuel P. Hunt, as one of the Boys' Club of Manchester trustees, working on a Boys' Week program. At the Pittsfield fair we saw many blue ribbons adorning the fruit exhibits of Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Cox's Chichester Brook Farm. In Cheshire county we saw James V. Stillings acting as grand jury foreman and telling the panel how his boys, Fred and Vinton, shot a fox that was in the crotch of an elm tree 25 feet from the ground with no branches below the crotch. That may sound like a George Washington Boutelle yarn, but the Associated Press gave it credence.

At Madbury we saw a pageant, "The Blue and the Gray," on the summer estate of Mrs. Charles C. Goss, with Mrs. Goss taking the part of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

For the next issue we ought to have some news about birthday parties. During December we have Doctor Woodbury's anniversary on the 4th; Julius Read, the 6th; Charles Gordon, the 8th; John Ayer, the 13th; McQuesten, the 18th; Bill Mann, the 22nd.

Secretary, 104 North State St. Concord, N. H.