1899

In these later days it is easier to write each other than to see each other. This column reminds its readers of some who would rejoice to hear from you. For example, Mary Edith (Mrs. Charles E.) Adams, Brooks Home, 358 Main St., Keene, and Agnes (Mrs. Herbert L.) Watson, 17 Foster Road, Belmont 78, Mass. Herbert W.'s "Aunt Belle is nearly 98." Let that encourage the rest of us! Sadie (Mrs. Edward R.)Skinner, 11 Park View Drive, Worcester 5 and her neighbor Muriel (Mrs. Gustin L.)Heywood, 146 Morningside Road, Worcester 2, also faithfully hold up their end in friendly correspondence. Try them! Sadie's Sacramento niece couldn't persuade her aunt to go back to California with her, - "East, West, Home's best!" By the way, Austin Walker from Westboro was another '99er attending Eddie's funeral.

We all extend deep sympathy to Gertrude Warren and family of Orford in the loss of her husband Ned '01. They had long been adopted '99ers.

Our December birthday tally is a trio:Joe Hobbs, 85 on the fifth; Montie Fuller, 85 on the sixteenth; and Ed Allen 88 the twenty-third. If the N. H. Highway Commission has its way, Joe will have an additional bridge between Kittery and Portsmouth. Montie and Martha were delighted by a call from Warren and Helen Kendall on the latter's way south. Doubtless one of Martha's apple pies was one attraction. The four Fuller young people occupy four states: Melville, Massachusetts; Mark, New York; Marcia, Florida; Miriam, California. As to Ed Allen, — besides picking his cucumbers and tomatoes he hoped to make a Boston trip before frost; Laura's Easter lily, replanted, had ten blooms at once in August; Ted was traveling to Illinois, lowa, Kentucky, while Deanna drove daily from Valhalla to her White Plains secretarial School.

Yes, it's true, the girls of our generation have birthdays too. During 1961's final quarter, candle light shone in the homes of Eva (Mrs. Guy E.) Speare, Lillia (Mrs. Frank A. Musgrove) "Tat (Mrs. Arthur P.)Irving, Amy (Mrs. Daniel) Ford, and Laura (Mrs. Herbert S.) Rogers. I'm not pin-pointing dates or ages. The important thing, - they're all young in spirit. In October Herb and Laura moved to West Springfield near daughter Virginia Noyes. Some hospital care for Laura too. No information on exact new address yet.

Frank Cavanaugh's son Philip of Chatham died in Providence Veterans Hospital after a long illness resulting from wounds in World War II. Six others of the Iron Major's nine children also served in that war, including David, who died in 1955.

Peddy Miller's granddaughter, Elizabeth Cravath Brown, was married to Paul Standish Rockwell in Black Mountain, N. C., last June. The couple will live in Cambridge. Her sister Petra with her husband Johnny Lopes and their two small children left Gloucester in August for a year of teaching in Germany. Mother Gustova Miller Brown is going to be lonely at Black Mountain near the graves of Peddy and Bessie.

Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H.

Treasurer, 22 Vera St., W. Hartford 7, Conn.

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