1878

Bouton keeps at his astronomical work in a small way, and hopes to continue until his approaching 90th birthday Hayt declares the Dust Bowl has sent his state a million voters who are awaiting the age of 65, spending all they get meantime so as to be eligible for that $50 a month old age pension. .... The people of Winchester gave a testimonial luncheon to their First Citizen, Lewis Parkhurst. The local paper says they were surprised (they shouldn't have been) when he responded to their tributes with the most stirring speech of the occasion. Late in June Parkhurst turned up at Dick's House for his annual check-up and brace-up Parkinson, too, was in Hanover for Council and Secretaries' meetings, and was once more put on display as the most ancient piece of wreckage in sight Tarbell tells of two relatives of an earlier generation carried away as small boys and adopted by Indians, whose descendants, now prominent in Indian affairs, refuse to return to the life of the Whites, In the same letter Tarbell tells of the great Allis Chalmers Strike and its enormous losses to all hands, company, community, and the strikers themselves. Such exhibitions of white behavior may account for the reluctance of the Indian Tarbells to join the white caravan.... That picture of Dr. Leeds in the May MAGAZINE defiant of weather in his heavy cloak and broad-brimmed hat refreshes for many older Alumni memories of a remarkable personality. Students, at church by rule, listened little and spoke lightly of Pa Leeds; but returning as Alumni, at church by choice, were often heard to express surprise at the high quality of the sermons they heard. Meeting the courtly old gentleman on Campus or street one was surprised again to be greeted by name, and asked about family and College intimates. More than any member of the faculty, he seemed to know and to retain a student's identity. He was an imposing personage.

REUNING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1886 pose with the cup presented to them Commencement weekend for having the highest percentage of their class present. Left to right, front row, Miss Eleanor Richmond, Mrs. James W. Newton, Mrs. William P. Kelly, Mrs. Louise Richmond Huse; back row, left to right, Dr. Allen P. Richmond, James W. Newton, William P. Kelly and Harry B. Burley.

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