1885

John P. Brooks, wife and daughter Elizabeth are spending the summer at the Brooks home in Eliot, Maine. Contrary to their previous custom, John and Mrs. Brooks spent the winter at the Hotel Wentworth in Portsmouth, N. H. Others, they have gone to Southern Pines, N. C.

Beatrice Allard Brooks, daughter of Frank Allard, has been on a two months' trip to New Mexico and Texas where she attended the installation service of her son Frank A. as minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Piano, Texas. She wishes that he had chosen a cooler place, as the temperature during her visit never fell below 800 at night and in the afternoons was usually 104-109.

Marian Bayley Buchanan, daughter of Ed Bayley, spent the summer at the Bayley summer home at Beverly, Mass. She kept busy entertaining her grandchildren.

The secretary's wife, Mrs. Harriet A. Austin, passed away on August 4 at the Concord, N. H., Hospital after a seven weeks' illness following a fall which resulted in a broken hip. The secretary, who is not feeling very well, is under the care of his daughter, Naomi A. Fifield, at her nursing home in Webster, N. H. On their trip north from Florida on May 2, Henry and Mrs. Austin were much surprised to hear over the loud-speaker system congratulations on the completion of their 67 years of married life. Mrs. Austin was a good wife and mother, bringing up her children in "the fear and admonition of The Lord." Her influence will expand over the years. She is sorely missed by her husband and family.

Word has come that $303,000 has been received from the estate of Samuel H. Hudson. This sum, together with the sum of $48,000 received from the estate of Herbert D. Foster, plus $10.000 given by the Class of '85, totals $360,000.

No one who saw us on our arrival at Hanover, dressed in the various clothes of the period, even in his wildest imagination could have envisioned us as having such a sum in our possession, even after seventy years. This illustrates the opportunities faced by every boy as he starts out in life.

Secretary and Treasurer 433-4 th St., N. St. Petersburg 4, Fla.