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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1915
Page
16
Frank H. Cande will resign as Berkshire county clerk of courts, presenting the resignation within days to take effect April 1. He has served the office for 19 years in Pittsfield.
President and Mrs Wilson completed a 40 mile drive over the Blue Ridge to the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia. They registered as Mr and Mrs Woodrow Wilson of Washington in the noon arrival.
Mrs Wilson blends into the hotel scene in an elegant light blue suit and black feathered hat as the President signs the guest register. The couple shares a lunch in a crowded public dining room and receives only friendly glances. They pass Covington Virginia on the return trip, greeted by cheering locals before rejoining their security detail.
Worcester Pressed Steel Company distributed 10600 to 3800 employees as a war dividend for services on war orders, not a Christmas gift. Royal Worcester Corset Company plans an 8000 Christmas present for about 1500 to 1600 workers, each receiving a five dollar bill in their pay envelope Friday night.
Protestant congregations schedule Christmas events including a 40 voice Baptist chorus at Malden parish house, a Quincy First Parish Church gathering for poor children with games and gifts, and a King's Chapel noonday talk by Rev. Howard B. Grose. Cathedral at St. Paul hosts porch music with English Bell Ringers. Somerville First M E E carol group sings on streets all night. St Matthew's South Boston holds a Christmas tree festival and 10:30 pm carols on the porch.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in U S District Court by Mills Tea and Butter Company owner of 30 New England stores. Liabilities total 119 687 97 while assets total 49 067 98 including stock in trade 45 325 31 cash 2 600 and bank accounts 578 42. Store fixtures and debts due are listed as uncertain.
Representative Simon Swig was the guest at a complimentary dinner at Young's Hotel. State officials and many citizens paid warm tributes, praising his hustling, energetic life and success in free America. Swig and his large family sat in the banquet hall as he spoke of gratitude and duty to the country.
Gov elect Samuel W McCall and other leaders laud Simon Swig with strong remarks praising his loyalty and public service. Robert Luce highlights a Massachusetts bill he authored to curb corrupt campaign contributions as Swig recalls his immigrant journey from Russia and early hardships.
London reports Major military leadership reshuffles as Sir Archibald Murray is named to head at the Dardanelles replacing Sir Charles Monro who moves to command the First British army in France. Sir Douglas Haig remains supreme commander in France and Flanders with other staff shifts.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot told Massachusetts Reform Club members at a Preparedness dinner that the United States should join an Entente league with the Allied powers to bolster national readiness. The remarks were delivered at Youngs Hotel yesterday evening.
Sir Robert Borden told the New England Society in New York that Canada and the British Dominions refuse any inconclusive peace. He warned a peace based on jungle rule would crumble and stressed the war aims to preserve freedom and civilization through sacrifice for a genuine, enduring peace.
Daniel L. Tickton president of the Waltham Auto Bus Co and Alderman of the Waltham Board of Aldermen along with Charles J. L. Thomas general manager were arraigned in East Cambridge court on indictments charging them with burning their own garage where jitney buses were stored. Bail issues delayed their release with Tickton later secured by his father in law while Thomas remained jailed. The secret grand jury indictments caused political stir in Waltham.
Geneva December 22 The Austrian consulate secretary Herr Taussig was arrested on espionage charges. The case is linked to his alleged denunciation of Mrs Merrick Hildebrandt of Louisville Kentucky who was expelled from Germany and imprisoned over unspecified charges. The incident prompted protests to Washington from Mrs Hildebrandt regarding German authorities.
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