Class of 1894

Editor, HENRY N. HURD, Claremont, N. H. On the 28th of September John Eliot Allen was nominated by Governor Winant as chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Judge Allen has been on the bench continuously since 1917, when he was made a judge of the Superior Court. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1924.

Judge Allen was born in Claremont in 1873, and was a son of William H. H. Allen (Dartmouth 1855), who was a judge of the Superior Court from 1876 to 1893. After graduating from Harvard Law School he began practice at Keene, where from 1900 to 1906 he was judge of probate for Cheshire county.

Matt B. Jones has retired from the presidency of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company to become chairman of the board of directors. The Boston Herald published the following appreciative editorial:

"Masses of machinery are the foundationof the business from which Matt B. Joneshas just withdrawn, but the individualswho make up the human mass have interested him most of all. As counsel, vice-president, and president of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company,he emphasized continually the necessity ofgood morale, liberal treatment of all employees, fair dealing with the subscriber,and frank relations with the public. Hedid a great deal to 'sell' his company to thepeople, and he 'sold' himself to them andto his associates long ago. As he sits backand takes a look, reviews his busy life, twothings will loom probably largest. One isthe memory of the late E. K. Hall, withwhom his friendship was so strong. Theother is the great company which has doneso well under his guidance.

"It is to be hoped that Mr. Jones willnot become a slacker merely because hehas slackened his activities at sixty-three.There is a worthy little task ahead of him,and, as he is a bookish fellow, with a PhiBeta Kappa key and a fine collection ofbooks, he is well qualified for it. Let himadd to his history of his native town, Waitsfield, Vt., a volumn on the genesis, development, and decay of the camphor chest! Heis among the few addicts of that interestingreminder of simpler days. The camphorchest is a plain, blunt, honest, unmistakably four-square thing, a sort of Matt Jonesin wood, and he would be doing a sort ofimpersonal autobiography of himself if hetook his pen in hand."

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