1893*

President Guy Cox was given credit for leading the successful opposition of holders of the Curtis Publishing Company's preferred stock to a proposal of the Company's officials to pay more dividends to the common stockholders and less to the preferred stockholders. In a statement given wide publicity, Guy has given his blessing to the proposed Boston and Maine Railroad reorganization plan. We learn from the papers that the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Guy W. Cox, President, did the greatest business of its long career during 1939.

"Billy" Mann has been at his usual winter hideout, Sheldon, Vermont, and gets a great deal of enjoyment out of the winter landscape. He writes: "Since the passing of my wife in '32, I have been taking the line of least resistance and spending my winters here and summers around Penacook and Concord." "Billy" says he looked in on "Skid" before his hibernation started and says, "Rest is making him look like the boy I roomed with up at 'P. Vous's.' "

That illustrious and very interesting, magazine YANKEE had in its April issue a very good picture of our Secretary, together with a sketch about him, a small extract of which is as follows:

"He is the New Hampshire No. 1 newspaperman and when a cub reporter onceasked if 'Granite Chips' was a quip column, the city editor practically threw him out of the news room. 'Mr. Pearson,' hesaid, 'writes in the old-time elegant manner.' He is an eighth generation Yankeehis ancestor, John Pearson, came from England to Massachusetts in 1643."

In his recently published Synoptic History of the Granite State Hon. John Henry Bartlett, Dartmouth '94 mentions three '93 men, namely, Pearson, Cox, and Metcalf, as of historical importance in connection with New Hampshire affairs.

We learn that Charles Gordon and Mrs.. George Greeley each had the misfortune at about the same time to slip on the ice during the last part of the winter and were temporarily disabled. Both have recovered nicely.

In a Rochester, New Hampshire paperwas a very fine picture of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Calef who were celebrating their forty-seventh wedding anniversary in September. They have seven grandchildren, which, perhaps, is a '93 record so far.

An interesting call on Mrs. Charles Goss. at Dover, New Hampshire, furnished the information that "Quin" Eaton has been quite ill in the hospital at Memphis but is now feeling very much better. "Quin" isliving at Whitehaven, Tennessee, near Memphis, but his business address is unchanged.

Secretary, Concord, N. H. Acting Secretary, Upland Way, Barrington, R. L Class Agent, EDWARD GRIFFITH Manchester, Vt.