Dollar, the American members, are retiring and in their place we understand that Mr. S. Fessenden and Dr. S. A. Ransom will be candidates. Several other names are mentioned as ''probable starters," but it would be unbecoming to print them at present. It may, however, be mentioned that some pressure is being put on Mr. E. C. Pearce to remain for another year. The whole community would only be grateful if he were to consent. But it is simply unfair to Mr. Pearce to make such a demand of him. He has served for nine consecutive years, for seven of them as Chairman, and he is L.|more than entitled to ask that some one shall relieve him of a charge so unselfishly and so ably borne through years of exceptional stress.
There is, of course, nothing uno usual in the list of nominees being incomplete almost up to the day lof sending in notice of candidaration of Russian states isiture, and yet, at the last, of more
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