1890

Donald D. Bacon, the secretary's son, will graduate from the Brunswick High School, Me., next June and will enter the Franklin Technical Institute of Boston next fall to take its Industrial Chemistry course. A postgraduate course at Dartmouth is on the program.

Two agents of the United Shoe Machinery Co. came to the hotel where I was living in Barrenquilla, Colombia, S.A., 1911, for the purpose of installing its machines in a modern' up-to-date shoe factory. These men had lived in Mexico, Central America, and every South American republic. Their shoe machinery was the best in the world and had supplanted that of all its competitors. The worst experience they had in all these places was in Guayaquil, Ecuador. They termed it the most insanitary, fever-ridden hole in the Western Hemisphere. Yellow fever, they related, infected one of them. It was the pest house for him. He owes his life to the American Missionary in Guayaquil who went all out to help save him. "What is the name of that Missionary?" I enquired. "Will E. Reed, I was informed. "He was my classmate in Dartmouth College," I exclaimed.

"Hombre, que le parece—the drinks are on us," they shouted.

Secretary and Treasurer, 3 Dartmouth Place, Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 160 Main St., Madison, Me.