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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1921 



Dorchesterite ! 



Oftentimes a man who follows prin 

 ciple receives no recognition while 

 he is living, but the splendid tributes 

 paid Judge Joseph R. Churchill of the 

 Dorchester Court at the dinner in 

 honor of his 50 years on the bench, 

 were not only fitting but will linger 

 long in the memory of those who had 

 the good fortune to be present. The 

 tribute paid by associate justice Mi- 

 chael H. Sullivan, was, perhaps, the 

 most beautiful. "To be a member of 

 the judiciary for 50 years, with full 

 possession of his faculties, as to be 

 holden of the oldest judiciary com- 

 mission active in the State, is a great, 

 great honor, and a man who can live 

 a life so worthily to keep his being 

 together for such a span of years is 

 a remarkable man. You have a man 

 who knows not alone human nature 

 but all nature. Five splendid de- 

 cades of splendid work is looked upon 

 by the multitudes and we do not 

 fittingly say what ought to be said 

 at this anniversary of a great and 

 faithful work of dispensing justice to 

 the people." 



The dinner to Judge Churchill j 

 brought many surprises. I was not I 

 the only one surprised to find that 

 Charles T. Reardon, "skipper" at the 

 Fields Corner police station, was an 

 orator. Capt Reardon was surprised 

 to discover an oratorical ability in 

 Clerk Alpheus Sanford of the Dor- 

 chester Court, and the host himself 

 was surprised to find out that both 

 men were fine speakers. With a 

 Judge, alert, keen and intelligent, and 

 well informed on the law; with a 

 captain of the police station adjoin- 



ing establishing a record with the 

 aid of the new force and with two 

 clerks handling the bulk of work, 

 the people, I am satisfied, feel a 

 sense of security and are apt to over- 

 look an occasional flare-up, by law- 

 breakers. 



Walter Deane, close friend of 

 Judge Churchill in botany, and ex- 

 clerk N. Thomas Merritt contributed 

 the entertainment and fun to the 

 otherwise interesting program, Mr 

 Deane for the educational value of 

 his talk and side-lights on botany, 

 during which he carried the as- 

 sembly into the woodlands and 

 streams, and Mr Merritt who created 

 heaps of fun by his comic yarns. I 

 think I can safely $ay that everybody 

 had a most enjoyable time. 



