1894

This column will herewith be mainfy devoted to the retirement of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Said event took place on June 26, when His Honor John E. Allen was exactly seventy years old, this also being the first anniversary of his having received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth College. The New Hampshire Bar Association took occasion to meet on that day and under the leadership of the succeeding Chief Justice worthily commemorated the completion of nineteen years of service on the Supreme Bench, nine years of which had been as head of the Court.

Altogether, our classmate had served as a New Hampshire judge 33 years. He began his practice in Keene, New Hampshire, in 1898 and the very next year was made Judge of Probate. In this capacity he continued for seven years. Then for eleven years he was, shall we say, just a "lawyer." In 1917 he was appointed to the Superior Bench and from then on was promoted as above described.

What next? Well, the last the Secretary saw of Jack during a recent visit to Keene was as he pushed a bicycle along the station platform. Whether he used this means of transportation between Keene and Concord during recent months is un- known to this writer. What is known is that our classmate will afford the notables of New Hampshire a characteristic example of patriotic economy and septuagenarian vitality. "Retiring?" Bosh! The next ten years will be the best.

Jim McGroty's summer address is Beacon Chambers, corner of Joy and Myrtle streets, Boston.

VICTORY GARDENER deluxe is gopher, who, guided by his chain tether, digs up weeds and grass while pulverizing the soil and making two-inch deep circular drills in which to sow Victory seeds. It costs nothing to feed the gopher.

Secretary, 83 Oak Avenue, Belmont Mass.