1901

A letter of April 24 from Dr. Perley C. Grant, Three Rivers, Mass., to Richard Ward follows: "I would be glad to retire, but pensions are so small and living so high and my salary has always been so meager I feel I must keep going as long as I am able. Then too every time I speak of it my church people ask me not to, so I am still going on. But sometimes the load is heavy.

"With a sunrise service on Easter morning at 5 o'clock with over a hundred present, followed by breakfast, a Bible class of an hour, a sermon at 11 o'clock and another in the evening, and with a baptism in the afternoon over in the neighboring city of Chicop the, it is a load for a younger man. But, of course, I am profoundly thankful to the One Above to be able to do it.

"My book, 'The Prophet of Calvary Church,' is now being printed by the Vantage Press, Inc., of New York City. Galley proofs were sent me about a month ago. I hurriedly went through them, made some last corrections and returned them at once. No date has been set yet for its publication but the contract said 'within 100 or 150 working days' and was signed last December. However, they will notify me when the time comes. Please do not expect too much of it. It is only a story of a young minister with some of his troubles and successes-who came out as gloriously as I would like to have come out, but missed doing so. The price will be $3.00. I am sure Pilgrim Press, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, will carry it, as they have been quite interested in my getting it published.

Gardner N. Cobb writes from Strafford, Vt„ as of May 5: "About four years ago I was out taking a little walk in Spencer, Mass. It was late afternoon in January and I became unconscious. There was no snow on the ground and after coming to and wandering around I finally saw lights and reached the highway. An ambulance took me to the Worcester City Hospital where I remained unconscious three or four days. Spent three and a half months recovering, and when able to walk I came back to the old home in Strafford where the last two summers have been spent.

"If any of our classmates come this way, I hope they will come here to see me. It's only seventeen miles from Hanover and all black-top road. From Pompanoosuc up it is called the Justin Smith Morrill Highway. I am still under a doctor s care.

Rupert H. Whitcomb, familiarly known to us as "Minnie," is reported as comfortably situated at the Harbor Haven Nursing Home 44 Elm Street, Scituate, Mass., where' he would be glad to receive cards from classmates.

Secretary, 76 Davis Ave. White Plains, N. Y.

Class Agent, Essex Savings Bank 292-295 Essex St., Lawrence, Mass.