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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1918
Page
3
Mrs. Grace I. Sheets of 115 Regent Street Roxbury reports her 16 year old daughter Roxbury resident ran away to marry a 17 year old United States Marine. The couple eloped prompting parental action and local inquiries.
Mrs. Cecelia Carey of Dorchester seeks annulment from Suffolk Superior Court for the marriage of Grace I Sheets aged 16 of Roxbury to Joseph W Carey aged 17 a marine at the navy yard in Charlestown. The elopement occurred despite parental objections with Grace and Joseph as principals.
Miss Sheets and Carey, long sweethearts since grammar school, married at Cambridge City Hall after obtaining a waiver of the five day law. Carey, 17 years 5 months, a Marine recruit, wed in the minister's residence with Rev. Austen T. Kempton officiating. The marriage prompted a court challenge by Mrs. Cecelia Carey alleging false ages and misrepresentation. The bride resides with her parents on Regent Street.
Funeral services for Porter Emerson Cummings, pioneer shoe manufacturer and longtime Dorchester resident, will be held tomorrow afternoon at his late home 652 Stanton Street. The Rev. Quarry Foster Burns of the First Church will officiate.
State Board of Charity held a conference at the State House with 43 nurseries represented. Speakers noted postwar popularity of day nurseries and many private establishments formed during the war, urging licensing and regulation.
A boy named Clint Buchanan was killed in Somerville when he stepped from a trolley into a passing car while selling tapers. The tragedy left a widow and four children in deep hardship as his earnings supported the family.
Mrs. William A. Buchanan, widow of a Boston pressman, seeks Post readers' help to feed and clothe her two daughters Jennie Ruth ten and Mary six after her 13 year old son Clinton Buchanan died recently. The Post contributes ten dollars to start a fund to support the family while neighbors and charity assist.
A mother and her three children were rescued from smoke by firemen in Chelsea at a three story brick dwelling at 26 Front Street. A lodger suffered a sprained leg after leaping 30 feet from a second story window. The fire caused $500 damage and the cause is not yet determined.
Socialist Deputy Marcel Cachin pressed the government in the Chamber of Deputies asking if secret diplomacy would end at the peace conference and if talks would be public. Premier Clemenceau was to answer tomorrow as Briand backed full public disclosure.
Edwin Holt Hughes Jr., son of Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes and Mrs Hughes of Malden, received the Croix de Guerre from the French government for heroism with a French ambulance unit. On November 4 and 5 he braved artillery and machine gun fire to carry wounded comrades to safety. He is 22, enlisted in 1917, and went overseas promptly. Bishop Hughes serves in France as a YMCA worker.
New York on December 27 Mrs Josephus Daniels wife of the secretary of the navy paid a visit of cheer and comfort to patients at the Brooklyn naval hospital bringing encouragement and news from Washington.
Everit B Terhune leads a 25 maker delegation from New England and the West on a six week tour leaving New York January 15 aboard the Lapland. They will visit England France Italy Switzerland Belgium and Holland to study trade conditions and strengthen ties with European manufacturers.
In Southboro on December 27 a crowd greeted Mrs. Nancy Fay who turned 102. Born in Framingham in 1816 she remains active, attends Sayville Baptist Church and reads without glasses. Her husband Reuben Fay died over sixty years ago and her only living child is daughter Mrs. A. E. Bacon with five children including Horatio who died in the Civil War.
Next week’s Boston Sunday Post features H F Wheeler’s The Real Life of General Pershing. The piece details how General Pershing undertook a massive command to tame savage Moro tribes in the Philippines with many little known details.
Washington December 27 Secretary Baker today addressed criticism of the War Department order requiring silver chevrons only to denote service at home and said there is no plan to rescind it He added the army will in future consist of two groups those who served in the war and those who did not and chevrons marking foreign and home service will grow more valuable.
Alderman George R. Hussey, president of the Baird North Company, died today in Providence of pneumonia. Born in Augusta Missouri in 1884, he had long resided in Salem Massachusetts.
Public urged by Colonel Albert S Williams chief of staff Army Department not to give money to men in uniform who solicit funds for themselves or for alleged charitable purposes. Offenders should be reported to police or Army headquarters at 99 Chauncy Street. Credentials will be issued by the North eastern Department to those authorized to solicit funds for charity.
Frank Sclyak 25 a Jodger on the second floor leaped from a smoke filled room when exits were blocked and was treated at Frost Hospital for a sprained leg. Mrs Salevski and her three children Josie 10 Fannie 4 and Peter 5 were rescued by Firemen Lehan and Riley after smoke drove them to an open window. First aid aided all as the basement blaze spread to the walls. Lehan recently discharged from Camp Devens is on Engine 2 duty.
Darius Cobb, 84, will give a noon talk on The Master at Tremont Temple auditorium, accompanied by his high tenor voice, and perform sacred arias from his own compositions. The event ends with the unveiling of his latest painting The Christ, described as the crowning effort of his life’s work with palette and brush.
Treasury Secretary Glass announced a new issue of 75 million dollars or more in treasury certificates of indebtedness maturing in six months to support the Fifth Liberty loan. Books will be open at federal reserve banks from January 2 to January 7.
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