1886*

"Good news folks"—The "ban on the Secretary's writing" must have been removed as an autographic letter just in states, "I am still gaining in strength—my message to '86 is, 'after two months' illness, I send my thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's greeting to all in '86. May all of us, in our personal, family and world burdens, have strength equal to our days. This strength is now coming to me.' "

Mary Frost, after a busy summer in Williams Bay, putting on her "Garden Sense and Nonsense" skit about the country, started south last month via Boston to visit son, Ben; then Hanover to see Margaret Frost; then Portland to visit with son, Frederick; then, by train, to St. Petersburg where, as president of the St. Petersburg Garden Club, she anticipates a very busy winter. Daughter, Katherine, late of the Concord Book-Shop in Chicago, has taken a defense job with the Bituminous Coal Division of the Dept. of Interior in the same city.

The Kellys, after spending the fall in Newport, R. 1., are now on their way to St. Petersburg—by train also.

As "no news is good news," we assume that Tom and Lena Harris are "on the mend."

Secretary, : 215 Walnut St., Montclair, N. J

Treasurer, Hudson, N. H.