REV. GEORGE J. JUDKINS

Rev. George Janvrin Judkins, a prominent Methodist clergyman, died at his home in Bristol, July 31, 1914.

Mr. Judkins was born in Kingston, N. H., December 21, 1830, son of William and Anne Judkins. He was educated at Kingston Academy, Tilton Seminary and the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., graduating from the latter in 1863. He was a teacher in Kingston Academy five years, and principal of the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton six years. He joined the New Hampshire Methodist Conference in 1868; was ordained a deacon in 1870 and an elder in 1872. He was a pastor at Methuen, Mass., and Newmarket, N. H., following his service at Tilton, and served later as presiding elder of the Claremont and Dover Districts. He was for some time a Trustee of Tilton Seminary and also of Wesleyan University. In 1880 he was a member of the Methodist General Conference at Cincinnati.

For some years past he had been on the superannuated list, with his home at Bristol, where, August 16, 1860, he had married Almira S. Dolloff. Two children survive, Dr. Charles O. Judkins of Glens Falls, N. Y., and Anne L., wife of Dr. Leon K. Willman of Asbury Park, N. J.

JAMES E. NICHOLS

James E. Nichols of the extensive wholesale grocery firm of Austin, Nichols & Company, Inc., of New York City, died on July 21, at Marienbad, Austria.

Mr. Nichols was a native of the town of Meredith, son of Robert M. and Huldah J. (Black) Nichols, born April 26, 1845. After gaining a common school education he became a clerk in the store of Jordan, Marsh & Company, of Boston. Subsequently he was made New York agent of the Sawyer and Franklin Woolen Mills, removing to that city. Later he was a partner in the Fogg Brothers & Company banking house, Boston. In 1878, with R. F. Austin and others he organized the wholesale grocery firm of Austin, Nichols & Company, whose business became one of the largest in the country, Mr. Nichols devoting his time almost wholly to the management of the firm's affairs, though he was interested in and a director of various banking and other corporations.

He presented a fine library building to the town of Centre Harbor, which bears his name. He belonged to various clubs.

On October 16, 1878, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph G. Griggs of Springfield, Mass.

GEORGE W. SAWYER

George W. Sawyer, a leading merchant and prominent citizen of Franklin, died at his home in that city July 18, 1914.

He was a native of Franklin, born October 20, 1846, son of Josiah and Nancy (Kittredge)

Sawyer. He was educated in the common school, Franklin Academy and Tilton Seminary. He was a clerk in a Boston grocery for a time and was, later, in trade at Tilton, but had been in business in Franklin since 1870. In politics he was a Democrat, and was a representative from Franklin in the legislature of 1878. He was a Mason, and a charter member of the Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, A. O. U. W. and O. Ŭ. A. M., organizations of Franklin. He was also a member of Pemigewasset Colony, U. O. P. F.

In 1869 he married Louise C. Barnes of Tilton, who survives, with two sons, Augustus B., and Enos K., the latter now president of the New Hampshire State Senate.

REV. CHARLES H. DANIELS, D. D.

Rev. Charles H. Daniels, D. D., long secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, died at his home in Wellesley, Mass., August 3.

Dr. Daniels was the son of William P. Daniels of Lyme, N. H., and was born in that town June 6, 1847, but removed, in childhood, with his parents, to Worcester, Mass., where he attended school, and! ater entered Amherst College, graduating in 1870. He then pursued a course in the Union Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1873. He was six years pastor of the Congregational Church in Montague, Mass., and subsequently was a pastor in Cincinnnti, Ohio, and Portland, Me. In 1888 he became district secretary of the American Board in New York City, and in 1893, was called to the position of home secretary in Boston, which he held till 1903 when he accepted a call to a pastorate in South Framingham, which he held till 1911, when he retired on account of failing health, and took up his residence in Wellesley.

In 1892 he received the degree of D. D., from Amherst.

Dr. Daniels was first married, on December 23, 1873, to Miss Charlena Caroline Harrington of Worcester, who died in 1880 at Cincinnati. One daughter of this marriage, Anna Louisa Daniels, survives him. He was again married, on May 28, 1884, to Mary Louise, daughter of Hon. Charles and Mary Underwood of Tolland, Conn., who survives him, as also do the two daughters born of this marriage, Margarette and Agnes Carter Daniels.

MISS HARRIET J. COOKE Harriet J. Cooke, born in the town of Sandwich, in this state, eighty-four years ago, died July 27, at a hospital in Stoneham, Mass.

Miss Cooke was for thirty-four years professor of history at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and later spent three years at the Mildmay Mission in London, studying medical mission work. She returned to Boston in 1892, when she founded the North End Mission on Hull Street, of which she was the superintendent for fourteen years.

As this issue of the GRANITE MONTHLY goes to press Old Home Week in New Hampshire is about opening, with the promise of more earnestness and enthusiasm in the observance of the festival than has been manifested for several years past. In some towns the festivities extend over several days and many interesting features are introduced. It is only to be regretted that every town in the state does not have an observance every year. Nothing more thoroughly advances the welfare of a town than the persistent cultivation of the "Old Home" spirit.

The primary election occurs on Tuesday, September 1, leaving, now, but a short time for the preliminary campaign. While some exciting contests are promised in some districts there seems to be no large measure of general interest in the outcome on the whole. In many cases it has been difficult for either party to get candidates into the field. Among the more notable of the later entries were those of Judge Calvin Page of Portsmouth for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, and that of Councilor Daniel W. Badger of the same city for Governor.

The town of Lancaster has just been celebrating, with fitting ceremonies, its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in recognition of which the next issue of the GRANITE MONTHLY will present an illustrated article on that town, as the leading feature of a double number.

Wednesday, July 29, was a notable day at the Isles of Shoals, it being the occasion of two events of great historic interest, occurring in quick succession, the scenes being in near proximity. The first was the dedication of the stately granite monument erected in memory of the Rev. John Tucke, minister at the Shoals for over forty years in the middle of the eighteenth century, and buried there, by his kinsman, Edward Tuck of Paris, the exercises being under the auspices of the New Hampshire Historical Society, to which the monument was presented by Hon. Benjamin A. Kimball in behalf of Mr. Tuck, the land on which it stands also being presented to the society by the owners of Star Island, through Charles A. Hazlett of Portsmouth. Follow

ing the dedication of the Tucke monument, a bronze tablet, placed by the New Hampshire Society of Colonial Wars, through a committee of which John C. Thorne of Concord was chairman, in honor of Capt. John Smith, who discovered the islands three hundred years ago, upon the restored base of the dismantled monument erected in his memory by Rev. Daniel Austin fifty years ago, was unveiled, with appropriate ceremonies. Immediately following the company repaired to the hall of the Oceanic, where the joint exercises were concluded, with addresses by Rev. Alfred Gooding of Portsmouth, in behalf of the Historical Society, in connection with the monument dedication; and by Justin H. Smith, governor of the Society of Colonial Wars, in conclusion of the Smith memorial exercises. In conclusion the Historical Society served a banquet to all guests present, followed by after-dinner speaking, with Hon. Wallace Hackett of Portsmouth as toastmaster.

For nearly twenty years the Unitarians of New England have held annual summer meetings, or conferences, at Star Island, Isles of Shoals, during the month of July, and it has been through their instrumentality that the unique and historic little stone church, near the Oceanic House, where the meetings are held, has been repaired and improved, they having taken a fifty years' lease of the same. This year the Congregationalists, under the auspices of their New England Congress, recently organized, of which Rev. John L. Sewall of Worcester is the efficient secretary, held a two weeks' conference there, following that of the Unitarians, which was decidedly successful for an initial affair, and is likely to be the first in a long series of annual gatherings of the representatives of this denomination, at this delightful summer meeting place.

Announcement has been made, since the first forms of this issue of the GRANITE MONTHLY were made up for the press, of the withdrawal of Hon. Daniel W. Badger from the field, as a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, this leaving only Councilor Noone and Senator Hutchins to contend for the same.