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Personal—The Bar, Walter S. Newhouse of New York read a paper on "The Legal Relations between Mill and Selling Agent," at the semi-annual meeting of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, held at the Mt. Washington House, N. H., not long ago. William Rotch Wister celebrated his six tieth anniversary as a member of the Phila delphia bar October 6. Mr. Wister is also one of the oldest members of the University of Pennsylvania Alumni. He is considered by many as the "father of American cricket." The Georgetown Law School of Washington, D. C., has a valuable addition to its lecturing staff in Wade H. Ellis, assistant to the Attor ney-General, who lectures on international and mining law. Another new instructor is Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr., who lectures on evidence. Secretary of War James M. Dickinson was presented on September 28 with a gold medal "for heroic daring," on behalf of the United States government, by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hilles. More than fourteen years ago he rescued James F. Joy, a Detroit lawyer, from drowning in the Detroit river. Roland B. Harvey of Baltimore, a gradu ate of Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland University law school, has been appointed Secretary of Legation and ConsulGeneral to Roumania and Servia, and secre tary of the diplomatic agency in Bulgaria. Until a few years ago he was an assistant States Attorney. Ralph Otto, Mayor of Iowa City, la., has been chosen by the Ohio State Board of Education to take the place on the faculty of the State University College of Law left vacant by Professor Lawrence M. Byers, who died early in the summer in London. Mayor Otto will not give up his duties as chief official of Iowa City. G. R. Hutchens of Cedartown, Ga., was appointed by Governor Brown, October 1, as a member of the Prison Commission to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Turner of Eatonton. Mr. Hutchens is con sidered one of the strongest as well as one of the best known lawyers in north Georgia. He is less than forty years of age. Adolph O. Eberhart, the new Governor of Minnesota, was born in Sweden thirty-eight years ago, but came to Minnesota in 1881. He studied law and worked hard for the success of the Republican party. He was at one time clerk of the United States Courts and later was United States Commissioner for the District of Minnesota. In 1903 and

m Bag 1904 he was elected to the state senate. In 1906 he was elected lieutenant-governor and was re-elected in 1908. Mr. Edwin W. Smith of the law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & Beal, Pittsburgh, Pa., and the classmate of President William Howard Taft of the Yale class of 1878, was appointed by President Taft as the repre sentative of the United States at the third international conference on maritime law, held at Brussels this fall. The other represen tatives from the United States were Judge Walter C. Noyes of the United States Circuit Court, of New London, Conn., Charles C. Burlingham of New York city and former Governor A. J. Montague of Virginia.

(Rat Associations The Wilkes County Bar Association, a branch of the Georgia Bar Association, was formed September 15 at the courthouse in Washington, Ga. The following officers were elected: Hon. William Wynne, judge of the city court of Washington, president; Hon. F. H. Colley, vice-president; I. T. Irvin, Jr., secretary and treasurer. The Bar Association of San Francisco held its first quarterly dinner at the St. Francis September 15. Mr. C. H. Lindley, president, spoke on "The Sporting Theory of Justice." Mr. F. H. Norcross, Chief Justice of Nevada, addressed the bar on "Criminal Law Reform." Mr. Thomas E. Hayden spoke on "The Lawyer in Public Life," and Mayor Edward R. Taylor made an informal address. The Allegheny County Bar Association, meeting at Pittsburgh October 1, unanimously adopted strong resolutions, on a motion of Attorney Charles D. Gillespie, condemning the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania which provides that in cities' election boards be appointed instead of elected. The amendment fails to say who shall appoint the board, and this, the lawyers allege, makes it a vicious propo sition. The annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Bar Association was held in Milwaukee on August 31 and September 1. President Neal Brown opened the meeting with an address, in which he paid his respects to muckrakers. The annual address was delivered by S. S. Gregory of Chicago. Other addresses were "The Spirit of Nullification and Secession in the Northern States," by Robert Wild, Jr., of Milwaukee, and "Some Features of State Regulation of Public Utilities," by John H. Roemer, State Rate Commissioner. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: President, James G. Flanders of Milwaukee; secretary, R. B. Mallory of Milwaukee; treasurer, J. S. Sanborn of Madison.