1894

It can now be told that the main business considered at the Matt Jones fall Round-up in November came from "Frank Decker Field D.D., M.D., and LL.D." and "Lillian Turner field, Secretary of War," in the form of the following motions:

1. I move that we allow a 30 per cent increase in salaries to Allen and Merrill before they strike.2. I move that Billie Ames' salary be held as is and a competent audit be made of his check stubs. 3. I move committees be appointed at once to make our 55th Reunion the greatest ever. 4. I move that every mother's, son of us hang on and rattle until the Fifty-fifth comes up. 5. I move that the mid-year Matt Jones Dinner in 1946 be held with the Field's at Lincoln, Nebr., in the center of everything. All you will need is a bus ticket.

Needless to say such weighty matters as these could not be disposed of in one evening, and final action was postponed until later. Meanwhile, reflection may be had on the fact that Decker and Lillian have become so completely united with the passing of the years that they inevitably use the first personal singular in a document to which they append both their signatures.

Billy Wallis writes from Washington about his hob-nobbing with Governor Bartlett and Dr. Merrill. Keep it up, Billy. Perhaps we will get a letter of newsy particulars out of you boys yet. ! :

John Phillips reports on his meeting with Vice President Claggett last summer: "The years are dealing very gently with him." Did you deal gently with the fish when you went to New Brunswick last fall? How about it, Fred?

Jimmy Mann has a terse commentary on the housing shortage in Indianapolis, when he lists six addresses he has had recently. He is now struggling with the remodeling of an old house at 5868 Broadway.

Kent Knowlton particularly regretted his absence from the Round-up in the fall because it "spoiled a record that must have extended over some twenty-five years." Frank Griffin wrote that it grieved him sorely to miss the Round-up, for the first time "since Matt Jones started these dinners so many years ago."

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge. 38, Mass. Treasurer, 89 Prospect St., Somersworth, N. H.