1925*

Bunnie Levison is lA in the draft and is expecting to have the finger put on him.

Eddie Pease, as Blackout Officer of Winthrop, Mass., has a busy night on his hands seven nights, per week. The town is under dim-out regulations, and 15 M.P.H. for cars. Eddie really enforces it.

They ain't much new here at this writ, ing. Me and my partner in the lumber business is getting out oak for subchasers. If any wants a good rugged paddle to discipline his children, drive on up and I will furnish one gratis. The folks in the tourist business is taking an awful lacing. Night before last a prosperous summer complaint got often the train, and before you could turn around once, the drivers for five hotels had torn him limb from limb. All they was left was a set. uv store teeth and a golf bag. We hed a Blackout here the other nite and a city slicker frum New York sed it didn't amount to nothing on account it was a hick Blackout. He put the lights onto his car and started to drive off. He will look real handsum awl stuffed and mounted when we get him back from the taxidermist.

The phone rang and Bob Pike was saying Hello, en route to Milan, New Hampshire, where he is spending the summer starting an important biographical job. Dr. John Spring made a trip to Canada recently to attend a Masonic convention. He called on his way back and was looking for a place to rest up from his vacation.

Curt Abel is going into the Army with a captaincy in Ordnance. He will have one month's training and then shove off for an unnamed destination. Curt's always good letter is brief and to the point "I am leaving this afternoon."

Pete Haffenreffer has been a Hanover visitor this summer to call on one of daughters who was hospitalized in the Mary Hitchcock wjth a leg infection she picked up at her summer camp.

Dick Holden, Lt. (j.g.) left Saturday, August 1, for Washington and is reported to look very very marvelous in his uniform.

Hal Stevens has reported for training as a naval officer at Quonset Point, R. I.

Jack Morris is busy doctoring at Eastman Kodak. His household includes his two sons, aged 6 and 8, plus a 14-year-old English lad for the duration.

Harry Crawford is a neighbor of Jack's. Harry is fast becoming a top notch orthopedic surgeon. With the exodus of doctors to the Army, the two men find their work load going up every week.

Ken Simonds is back in the States, Boston to be exact, and is expecting to come to Center Ossipee for two weeks of fishing. As you know, Ken's work does not allow him to stay long in any one place. He finished an assignment of eight months in New Orleans and then went to Puerto Rico on March first. While he was there, his wife Blanche, stayed at her old home in Macon, Georgia, instructed in First Aid and knocked off the city archery championship.

Another Hanover visitor this summer has been Jerry Gould whose young son was hospitalized from a summer camp.

Tragedy came to Buster Annis when his two-year-old daughter fell from his suite in the Copley Square Hotel in Boston. The five floor fall brought death to the child. Buster is manager of that hotel.

Bob Bishop picked up a first place with his fifty-foot boat "Siesta" during Marblehead Race Week.

Bill Carter is getting worried about the banana business. What with sinkings, getting fruit up to the States is no easy task.

A lot of '25ers have read Charlie Haywood's "No Ship May Sail." It has rare humor and well-done characterizationsCharlie at his best. I get no cut on the sales so this is on the up and up. Take a chance and buy it.

MAJOR EARLE E. HAMM '24.Recently promoted to rank of Major,USAAF, hi the Ferrying Division of theAir Transport, Hensley Field, Texas.

Secretary, Center Ossipee, N. H. Treasurer, P. O. Drawer 3, Bristol, R. I.