1908*

Mr. and Mrs. Everett T. Marsh announced the marriage on May 5 of their daughter Virginia to Carleton Brooks Middleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Middleton of Chicago. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Middleton will reside at 1501 Fargo Avenue, Chicago. Ev sent us the news, but failed to describe the costume, flowers and feelings of the bride's father.

Wanna buy a duck? Or a likely looking heifer, or a right smart hawg? Maybe you've got some livestock to sell, or a batch of seed pertaties. If so, the chap to talk with is Tat Badger. You've been thinking of him, correctly as the oil refining tycoon, world flyer, golf association president, jovial suburbanite in Winchester. Tat's love of the soil, suspected only by his intimates, has led him into agricultural pursuits; he's just bought himself a farm in Pittsfxeld, N. H., where he will be a neighbor of "Satan" Sanderson 'll, and within easy distance of a number of his 'OB classmates. According to Art Wyman, a reliable reporter and a good judge of rural property, the new Badger farm is no simple little establishment of five rooms and an out-house. It takes up quite a spot on the county map, with enough buildings, barns, woodland, pasture, tillage, brooks and mowing to provide food for a fair sized chunk of the new army, and that we vpose makes it a 100 per cent defense project. Tat, though, thinks he has bought himself a lot of fun, and about August will be proud of the blisters that may have been caused by either a hoe or a niblic. Oh yes, he also has a big apple orchard- and a cider press.

The death of Dick Lunt was reported last month. Pete McCarty writes that he and Gene Jordan attended the funeral in Wakefield, Mass., and that Bill English assisted the local minister at the services. Flowers from the class were sent to Mrs. Lunt, whose acknowledgment was forwarded to the Secretary. Pete was one of the bearers.

Percy Gleason is reported to be recovering nicely from a serious abdominal operation.

Art Lewis' factory in Watertown is verybusy with defense orders. The class reporter hesitated (but not very much) to phone him and suggest a luncheon date. We knew he is very busy. But the receptionist who answered the phone told us that Mr. Lewis was not in, he was at his home in Medfield. Then she added "It's Saturday, you know."

Secretary, 115 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

From A. B. ROTCH Milford, N. H. Class Agent, 125 Walnut St., Watertown, Mass.