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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1917
Page
20
A legislative committee on towns favors a bill altering town meeting thresholds. It would set the calling requirement at least 10 percent of voters in towns under 1000 legal voters or at least 100 voters in towns with more than 1000 legal voters.
Trials for the annual public debate of the Marquette Debating Society at Boston College were held yesterday. Judges were Rev. Joseph F. Beglan Rev. John C. OConnell and Rev. Daniel F. Creed en. Participants named include Richard A. McShane Henry J. Gillen Thomas H. Bresnahan Francis J. Roland Joseph P. Smith and Thomas F. Scanlan. Alternates are John P. Murphy and Joseph A. Robinson. The public debate date will be announced later.
Commissioner O'Meara issued a general order urging Boston police to make it a personal obligation to stay fit and ready for any call. He ended all punishment duties to help the men, reversing the department's practice of imposing extra duty for rule infractions.
A Pomeranian owned by John Locatelli at 78 Belmont Street Somerville alerted the family to smoke early yesterday. The fire began in the cellar among rubbish, causing about 1000 dollars in damage.
The court of appeals affirmed the first degree murder conviction of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite of New York for the killing of his father in law John Peck of Grand Rapids Michigan. Waite remains in Sing Sing awaiting execution.
Levi Gould of Melrose and longtime Middlesex County Commissioner left about 102000 dollars in his will filed in East Cambridge Probate Court. The sole public bequest directs ten dollars to Melrose to establish a fund awarding medals to exemplary public school students.
Western Reserve University in Cleveland offers its grounds and buildings to the U S government for use as a military training camp and barracks to support the Cleveland quota of 500000 men under universal military training after a trustees meeting led by President Charles W Thwing.
John Lamellas, sued in Superior Court by Chriss Stavredes, accuses him of alienation of the affections of Stavredes wife Helen. Testimony from a former maid says Lamellas kept his hat and coat in the Stavredes kitchen to slip out the back if the husband returned. The couple married in 1910 and separated around 1914. Stavredes, a wholesale fruit dealer, says he found Lamellas leaving the house on June 17 1915 and later divorced in January naming another man. Mrs Nellie McLeod, former Stavredes maid, confirms employment in 1915.
The defendant visited the house two or three times weekly in the absence of the husband, sometimes in the forenoon or afternoon. He kissed Mrs Stavredes on entering and leaving. The witness admitted ill feeling toward Mrs Stavredes since 1915. The case remains unfinished.
Philadelphia April 3 The celebration next October of the 400th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation will not be postponed because of the war with Germany. Announcement was made today by the joint Lutheran and federal council committees.
In Tem berton square yesterday morning officers arrested J Jefferson a self described Spiritualist from Columbus avenue. He was taken to police headquarters for questioning as a suspicious person after wandering the courthouse corridor and stating he wished to see the district attorney.
Nathan Harmon was arrested yesterday on a charge of trying to sell a loaded gold nugget to a jeweler. The nugget reportedly contained a large copper washer.
Hundreds of homes in New England find relief as Neal Institute in Boston cures the urge for liquor in three days within a homelike setting. The treatment claims to remove alcoholic poison from the system and restore health and confidence with no hypodermics or withdrawal, and offers free consultation.
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