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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1879

Page

3

Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Scots Charitable Society

The Scots Charitable Society held its annual meeting at Youngs Hotel with dinner to follow after business. Petitions presented in the House include reforms to mackerel inspection law, charter changes for Simonds Manufacturing, free town hall political meetings, and liquor laws. Orders passed cover education funding limits, adjournment rules, bankruptcy substitutes, and salaries reporting by court officials. Reports from committees discuss voter registration, public highways rights, drunkenness laws, and recount petitions for a Boston ward race.

The Scots’ Charitable Society Young’s Hotel Senate House of Representatives French Essex Gov. Talbot Palmer Suffolk House Boston Commonwealth United States Massachusetts Committee On Ely Norfolk Republican Party Gen. Butler Congress H. Freeman Simonds Manufacturing Company P. O'Toole George White Chapin Worcester George Coffin Tisbury Lucien Drury Danvers A. A. Harlan Quincy Davis Committee On Education Schoors Noyes Bates North Brookfield Committee On Federal Relations Mr Hyde Secretary of the Commonwealth Maynard Springfield Ware Milton Ezra Towne Supreme Court Jennings Fall River Sherburne John D. Mulchinock Wardee Edward J. Jenkins Thomas Brookline Committee On Rules and Orders Council Coe Ward Twenty-two Cerby Dudley Greenough Hancock Hart Healy Hilton Howard Morrison Nason O’brien Parkman Perkins Plimpton Rust H. N. Sawyer N. Sawyer Sibley Stearns Swift Ward Wheeler Wolcott Wyman Police Standing Committee On Police Common Council City Council Colby Ward Eighteen Ammendments Rosnosky Ward Sixteen Ward Ten Messrs Christal Ward Hight Morgan Ward Fifteen McGaragle Ward Eight Brawley Ward Nineteen McGarale State House Secord Ward Eleven Ward Nine Costello Ward Twenty-three Commonwealth of Massachusetts John J. Williams Lynn Salem Court House C. M. Merritt Nomi Monwealth Mary C. Cutter William E. Cannon Charles A. Cannon Pspat Boston Post Joan W. McKim Sauire Salz Istrict Court OF the Patrick T. Dillark Cambridge Edward Dexter Jay R. B. Henderson Exchange Street Mass F. W. Paifrey, Esq

Fourth annual Alpha Delta Phi reunion at Youngs Hotel

The fourth annual reunion of the New England Graduates Association of Alpha Delta Phi met at Youngs Hotel on Thursday evening with 30 to 40 members from Bowdoin Dartmouth Williams Amherst Manhattan College Harvard and Brown. Rev E E Hale presided as president was absent. Officers elected included James B Thayer president and an executive committee with E K Hale and H L Eustis among others. A post dinner program featured talks on seriousness in public life education and the society’s aims. A New York club fund of 2500 was pledged toward a permanent Alpha Delta Phi Club in New York.

The Earnest Workers of the South Baptist Church of South Boston J. H. Barrows Mary Morse C. T. Ellis R. W. Jamieson Wilcox B. F. Crown H. Gifford H. Baker J. Wilcox Emerson Reading Cooke Foreign Missionary Society Monument Square Methodist Church Bunker Hill J. H. Mansfield William Keys F. R. Smith Abbie Attwood Mary J. Safford Blake Essex Street Michael Foley St. Gregory’s Catholic Church Dorchester Lower Mills Court Metropolitan Order of Foresters Grand Division Massachusetts Sons of Temperance New Era Hall Tremont Street Grand New England Graduates’ Association Alpha Delta Phi Society Young’s Hotel Bowdoin Dartmouth Williams Amherst Manhattan New York Harvard Brown Brown University E. E. Hale William T. Davis James B. Thayer J. W. Preston John O. Means S. C. Eastman Lorenzo Fairbanks Charles Hall David M. Ela Middletown C. P. H. Nason D. A. Goddard Yale E. K. Hale H. L. Eustis Hamilton B. Staples H. D. Williams J. Converse Gray Albert D. Boyson James E A. O. Treat J. Heed Thayer E. FE. Hale Harvard University Engineering School Francis Tiffany Newton Alpha Delta Phi Winsor Winchester J. H. Reid Dwight Yale Law School Alpha Delta Hi Messrs Gray and Salter Wells James E. Leach Denny Hildreth

Cambridge City Council Rules and Bridges Report

The Cambridge council adopts rules with changes to Police duties and committee notices. It transfers police duties to a joint committee and outlines voting and reporting procedures. The Bridges report refers mayoral topics to committees and a joint special committee for charter-related items.

Kidney Board of Aldermen Council

Railroads hearing on Faulkner petition for Billerica line

The Committee on Railroads held a morning hearing on Luther W. Faulkner and partners seeking incorporation to purchase operate the Billerica and Bedford Railroad a narrow gauge line. Dr Noyes said town payments 12000 and locals expect benefits while noting the line’s bankruptcy and current sale at 13000 with 20000 capital and 8000 land damages.

Committee On Railroads Luther W. Faulkner Billerica and Bedford Noyes Billerica Hayden Bedford Middlesex Central Railroad Company Commonwealth Concord Hocum Hosford Boston and Lowell Railroad Middlesex Central

Dartmouth Alumni Dinner in New York Highlights Oral Legacies

The fifteenth annual Dartmouth Alumni Association dinner in New York drew about seventy members. Officers elected for 1879 include President John Ordronaux and Vice Presidents Erastus Everett and John N. Goodwin, with Charles Carleton as Secretary and Ballard Smith as Corresponding Secretary.

New York Alumni Association of Dartmouth College John Ordronaux Erastus Everett John N. Goodwin William J. Tucker Charles Carleton Ballard Smith Grosvenor Dartmouth Webster Choate Thayer Bartlett College Vermont New Hampshire Senate of Massachusetts Supreme Court of Massachusetts United States France Italy Henry Winkley Philadelphia D. P. Stone Boston Gilman Boston Association J.B. Bouton Hubbard

Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association Meets

The Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association held a Thursday meeting at 608 Washington St with Dr John P. Ordway presiding. Members discussed printing 500 member lists, revising by laws, and a petition to adjust trout protection limits to September 15, plus a social reception for Gov Talbot and Lt Gov Long with remarks from notable attendees.

Fish and Game Protective Association Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association Washington Street John P. Ordway Massachusetts Gov. Talbot Weymouth Gov. Long Stockwell New Hampshire Bond Lock

Richards Found Guilty in Minden Murder Trial

S D Richards confessed to multiple killings and was found guilty of the December 9 murder of Peter Anderson. The judge sentenced him to be hanged April 26 under the one hundred days rule, amid fears of lynching.

Richards Gaslin Essex Edward L. Hill Danvers Sarah G. M. Hill Katie Cummings John S. Cummings Jersey City Hudson New Jersey Margaret E. Cummings Margaret KE. Cummings Kate Blanchard Hiill Nwealth Massachusetts Salem Boston Post Boston Suffolk Grerce F. Cupati Esquire J. T. Mahoney Register

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