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John C. Shreve and Alfred F. Gregory are partners at law in Chicago. Their business is so extensive that they employ 27 secretaries who are constantly busy corresponding and making records of their proceedings. Colonel Shreve only two years ago resigned his position as Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. At the present time he is employed by the Government for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the Federal incorporation laws, the Supreme Court not being com- petent. Gregory has already served with great distinction as Secretary of State during the presidency of Wilfollette. Three weeks ago he was chosen by F.ngland and Germany to settle a dispute between these two powers concerning an air-line which has recently been established from the south pole to the north pole. He has already been mentioned as a presidential candi- date for 1944. It gives me extreme delight to even mention the name of Wilford L. McCutcheon. He is an evangelist and an ex- pounder of the Bible without equal in all the history of mankind. He has just recently closed a meeting in Tokio, Japan, which resulted in the conversion of 61,098 Japanese. Since his evangelistic services began five years ago, he has converted to Christianity 22.739,854 people. Mabel Gay — who has not heard the name of this lady? Her fame as a reader is unbounded. On the 27th of last month I attended her entertainment at Boston, and, though I have heard many noted readers of both hemispheres, I have yet to find her peer. The audience numbered 35.229, of whom 8, 1 I 5 came by special steamer from England. Miss Gay will tour the world next year, and it is needless to say that she will be overwhelmingly successful, for she reads with ease in seventeen languages. After a most thorough education in one of our Eastern colleges, Ethel Snodgrass has deservedly become president of the National W. C. T. U. Some time ago I read an article contributed by her to the Chicago Tribune in which she said, I have found my elocution, in which I was instructed at Buckhannon. very useful in my work. (No doubt you have heard that she once won first prize — a gold medal — in an elocution contest in the Buckhannon High School). She is uni- versally acknowledged to be far superior to all former presidents of this organization. I infer from your letter that you have some knowledge of my occupation, but in addition I think that I can truly add that on account of my prodigious labors, a nation-wide prohibition victory is assured in the coming election. Trusting that these statistics may fully meet your wants with reference to the members of the 1914 class of West Virginia Wesleyan College, I remain. Very truly your friend, J. Forest Witten, A. M., F. R. S.
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Buckhannon, W. Va. October, 25, 1940. Hon. J. Forest Witten, A. M., F. R. S.. New York, N. Y. My Dear Mr. Witten — At the opening ot this school year it was my pleasure to meet Dr. Cail G. Doney, ex- Fresident of W. V. W. C, and in the ensuing conversation, he spoke with unbounded praise of the famous class of 1914 His remarks created within me such a desire to know more of the members of this class and their present positions of honor and trust that I am writing you for full particulars. Knowing that you are a man of world-wide fame, both as a temperance lecturer and a traveler, I believe that you can give me the desired information. Very respectfully yours, Theodore Howard Taftvelt, D. D., LL. D., Ph. D., Pres. W. V. C. C. 415 East Broadway, N. Y. November 1 7, 1 940. Pres. T. H. Taftvelt, D. D., LL. D., Ph. D., Buckhannon, West Virginia. Dear. Dr. Taftvelt — I have just returned from San Francisco and found your lettei of inquiry on my desk. Am very glad, indeed, to know that you are interested in my old class, and for this reason it gives me extreme pleasure to tell you of the achievements of her members. John Ruskin Hall has served with such eminent distinction as Vice President of the United States for the past eight years that he was appointed as ambafsadcr to Rursia on August 1 5th of this year. During the two mo.iths which he has served in this capacity he has so thoroughly mfused democratic principles into the entire naticn that she is fast becoming the most progressive and liberal republic of all Europe. John T. Kinch is chief engineer of the subterranean railway which is now being constructed from New ' ork to London. An army of 337,000 men is energetically doing his commands. As soon as he completes this work, which will probably require six weeks yet, he is going to Mars where the next two years of his life will be spent constructing a canal 3,000,000 miles long in which aqua regia is to be brought from the Platinum Hills to the Royal Palace. Dr. Fats Williams is president of the International University of Pekin, China. The enrollment of this University is 8,921 ; the faculty is composed of 203 of the best educated men of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Dr. Williams ' Moral principles are regarded by the Chinese as vastly superior to those of Confucius whose teachings they are rapidly replac- ing. Two years ago Edward Rowlands succeeded R. W. Sears as co-partner in the Sears-Roebuck busiress Prm, of Chicago. This firm is now known as the Rowlands-Roebuck Company. Because of the exercise of Red ' s excellent business qualities this company now practically controls the household and clothing markets of the three Americas. 29
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