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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1911
Page
6
Mr and Mrs Harold M Chapin eloped and married Saturday in Nashua New Hampshire. The new bride and groom seek forgiveness from the boy's mother who laments the match as premature. He is 22, only child of a widow.
Eva Lawrence daughter of a Brockton druggist and Chapin of Boston recount how a sudden romance led to a quick elopement. He cooked meals and she hurried to pick a dress as they plan a wedding reception at her home next Wednesday amid cautious family reaction.
In Weymouth Great Pond a small skiff with five friends capsized after drifting without oars. William Stetson and Herbert Sprague, both from North Abington, drowned. three others survived with rescue. Stetson left a wife and four children. Sprague a wife and one child.
M J Shannon master of the Lincoln School South Framingham and Harry Waldron Westboro superintendent of schools aided two terrified women after a naphtha launch exploded near Alton Bay. They brought the women aboard the Lakerian and conveyed them to Pine Point for safety.
In Great Barrington Edge wood farm owners Dr. Frederick Spearson of London reports 11 thoroughbred Shropshire sheep and eight Angora goats killed by dogs. The sheep were from the Duke of Norfolk’s flock, valued at 50 dollars each, and the goats were from a royal English flock. Ownership traced to Alford farmers. selectmen order dogs shot. Dr. Pearson’s loss totals 800 dollars. Berkshire county to settle. One bottle of Adamson's Cough Balsam noted.
About seven thousand worshippers gathered yesterday morning for a 9 o'clock mass held outdoors at Castle Island. Rev. J. J. O'Malley, chaplain of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Wilkesbarre, Penn, led the ceremony from a makeshift altar set before his quarters. The crowd knelt on the ground, directly within earshot of the celebrant.
Father Malley Colonel Murphy Lieutenant Colonel Rielley and Surgeon Caffrey praised Boston interest in the Wilkes-Barre regiment encampment at Castle Island. An estimated 20,000 visited the grounds with crowds by boat and on foot. A dress parade and band concerts drew large crowds, and a high mass is planned for next Sunday with local clergy assisting.
William F. Beal a New York real estate operator filed for bankruptcy with liabilities totaling 1 090 775. Listed unsecured creditors include Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co 125 000 Columbia Life Insurance Co 21 000 Municipal Real Estate Trust 75 000 Warren Institution for Savings 70 000 F R Dalley Are more Penn 48 000 estate of James Beal 30 000 Joseph Green 33 000 and F B McQuesten 19 500. Secured creditors include the estate of James H Beal 69 000 L E & E Beal 15 000 Eliot Wadsworth administrator car Edward Holmes & Co and John Salisbury estate of Boston.
President Taft is weighing a petition concerning Past Assistant Surgeon A H Robnett U S N who along with Paymaster George P Auld faced a court martial after a Boston navy yard hop incident on December 11 1909. Robnett supporters argue the row involved Auld and Dr Cowles not Robnett.
Chief Charles Bacon of the Medford fire department reported yesterday that a car was seen leaving Combination Park before a fire destroyed the pavilion and grandstand. State police fire inspector Silas Smith will conduct a special investigation into two fires in one building, one from outside and one from inside, both with headway. Park owner George A. Graves said he would likely not rebuild and would sell the land for house lots.
Heliographic signals were exchanged between Charles J. Glidden at Appledore Island and A. Booth at the Wentworth Hotel in Newcastle. Large mirrors and Morse code conveyed greetings and compliments, witnessed by guests from both hotels and several coastal vessels. Captain Staples of Shoals life saving station noted all exchanges.
The body of 65 year old Joseph Schiller was found lying 50 feet from the main highway between Pittsfield and North Adams. He had shot himself at least two weeks earlier and left home three weeks ago seeking work. Schiller had worked as a gardener on the Lenox estate of John K. Parsons. Identification came from naturalization papers in his pockets near a revolver with three empty shells.
Judge Bailey Richardson of the Massachusetts Superior Court is comfortable tonight and no crisis is reported in his illness. He slept well and his condition is better than for several days in Orford New Hampshire.
Mrs. Ernest W. Day, widow of the Hood Rubber Watertown plant master mechanic, says her missing husband vanished July 2 during a longer coast cruise toward Marblehead and Gloucester. She believes disaster struck and fears news of his death soon, noting he was a devoted husband and father who supported their daughter.
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