1896

Owing to the Government restrictions and the very heavy weekend traffic on the railroads, President Richards and your secretary decided not to hold the '96 class gettogether after the Cornell Game in Boston. For years many members of '96 have looked forward to this occasion with much anticipation and will miss seeing their classmates and their families this fall.

When the Sullivan County Bar Association honored him with a dinner at the expiration of twenty-five years' service as Judge of Probate, Hardy Richardson expected to have considerable leisure. Much to his surprise, business is flowing through his office in such volume as to occupy all his time.

Kid Hodgdon expected to come East early this fall to attend a bankers' convention. He wrote your secretary for the addresses of classmates located in or near Boston whom he hoped to contact. Kid is trust officer of the Farmers and Merchants Bank and Trust Cos. of Hannibal, Mo.

Your secretary and his wife Margaret spent July, August, and September at his brother-in-law's farm in North Berwick, Maine. His duties consisted in caring for nine hundred hens and the preparation of surplus farm products for the market. Margaret superintended the canning and our preserve closets are full to overflowing with good things to eat.

Secretary and Treasurer 21 Forest Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Me.