Class of 1878
On Sunday, March i, a bronze tablet was unveiled upon the wall of the Congregational church of Tavares, Fla., a gift of the members of the church as a memorial to Edward S. Burleigh. A little granddaughter, Miss Janet Burleigh, stood upon a stool and pulled a cord that drew away the veil.
The tablet bears the name and dates and the inscription, "He went about doinggood." A solo by Burleigh's singing daughter, Mrs. A. P. Vaughan, is said to have been a very touching feature of the service. The following is quoted from the tribute paid by the pastor of the church: "A friend of everyone, a devoted supporterof the church with which he had unitedsoon after it was organized, and a citizenwhose example and activities have hadmuch to do with the standards of the community."
A belated clipping from the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune refers to Eugene O'Neill as "a practicing attorney in Lewiston for48 years until his retirement because ofill health in 1931, and United States commissioner for more than 30 years. He wasamong the best known practitioners inNorthern Idaho During his incumbency as U. S. commissioner thatbranch of the government's service herewas of great importance .He maintained anoffice in the Beach building, and theremany of th.e most important preliminaryhearings in cases of all hinds to which thegovernment was a party were held During almost 50 years residence in Lewiston he was interested in affairs of the Republican party, and at one time was candidate for district judge He was anactive member of the First Church of Christ,Scientist, and of civic organizations." O'Neill died at the home of his son Lawrence in Tacoma. His daughter, Mrs. John W. Greb, resides in Seattle. He leaves four grandchildren.
Bouton sends a picture of his comely (and only) granddaughter, Annie Jean Bouton, who was married March 30 at St. Petersburg, Fla., to Mr. Melvin Shannon of that city. The cut and announcement are taken from the St. Petersburg Independent, widely known as "the Sunshine Newspaper" because of its practice of delivering its issue free to everybody on every day in which the sun does not shine in St. Petersburg, an undertaking which Bouton says is lived up to religiously. The record is 121 such free issues in 251/2 years.
Harvey, answering the Secretary's queries, says his health is generally good; appetite fair, sleeps well, able to read, which takes most of his time. "But what I thinkof the New Deal is a plenty I votedfor him (F.D.R.) very honestly, and hopeI and several million others have beenenough punished for the mistake, if mistake it was, for I am still sure Hoover wasa failure Our farmers have beenhired by government funds to sit in theshade of tall weeds growing in their fertilefields in place of waving wheat and yellowcorn. They are still trying to buy theirvotes, but I do not think they will be forsale in '36. Many who in the past werebought are now seeing the folly of it."
Harvey has also traced neutrality legislation back to the time when Washington issued his proclamation and demanded the recall of the French minister Genet. He thinks a law enacted in 1794 as a result of that episode, and reenacted in 1818, is entirely adequate for the present dilemma without any modernizing, forbidding as it does the voluntary furnishing to either belligerent of "troops, arms, ammunition, or anything of direct use in war."
Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.
