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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1916
Page
5
In Everett and Malden a group of 59 boys have organized a fully officered military company and drill daily on a camp ground near Rich Street in Malden. Twenty girls have formed a junior Red Cross corps and drill alongside the boys.
Old brothers in D Company Fifth Regiment spur younger siblings to form D Company Jr. Paul Valentine leads as captain with Theodore Williams as first lieutenant and Allen Bovard as second lieutenant. Beatrice Day chosen head nurse by unanimous vote. Cadets wear khaki and nurses white caps while drilling daily and marching with a drum and fife.
Nineteen Waltham and Newton youths were captured yesterday afternoon after being cornered by water on three sides in a Rumford avenue field. They surrendered to twenty Newton patrolmen led by Inspectors O Halloran and Fletcher.
Funeral services for Linn Boyd Porter were held at the Second Unitarian Church with Rev. Maxwell and the DeMolay Knights Templar assisting. Burial followed at Cambridge Cemetery. Poem by Quincy Kilby was read, praising Porter’s life and kindness.
A Brattle Street cat named Terry prefers taxi rides to shop lounging. Owned by Frank Capone the cobbler, Terry darts to taxi engines at the Quincy House, hops aboard through open windows, settles on the cushions, and rides back with driver Dan Gaines to the hotel whenever a taxi is ready.
Young Men’s Christian Association secretaries volunteering for border camps as tents on Framingham muster ground are aiding build ing projects. Boston vacation Bible schools set to open Wednesday with a teachers’ training session at Morgan Memorial Settlement House. Cathedral Church of St Paul reports 19 367 50 in pension fund contributions. Reverend Edward T Sullivan preached at a patriotic service at St Paul on Abraham Lincoln. Reverend James E Walker of Billy Sunday Campaign departs for Pennsylvania then Detroit to lead the campaign in September.
More than 3000 Greater Boston canoeists sought relief from the heat on the Charles between Riverside and Waltham. Six young men were thrown from their canoes and dumped into the water but were rescued by Metropolitan Park Commission officers and taken to Riverside station to be dried out.
A 2 PM meeting of the Arlington branch of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness will form relief efforts for U S troops in Mexico. The gathering occurs in the vestry of Arlington First Parish Congregational Church and aims to organize aid shipments and support.
Funeral services are held for Mrs Emma E Bostwick O Donnell the Melrose bride who died on a train near Utica New York while honeymooning in California Her husband Louis P O Donnell a physician of Melrose is 20 years her junior They married in Windsor Vermont and returned to Boston Burial is set for Mt Hope Cemetery Her estate valued between 400 000 and 500 000 was inherited recently
The notes report two South Boston men Thomas Conroy and Francis Conners to be ordained next Saturday at St. Vincent's Seminary Germantown Penn and celebrate their first public masses at Gate of Heaven Church next Sunday. It also notes the first Mass in Squantum by Rev. Coghlan and ongoing Sunday services, plus preparations for the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer picnic in East Boston to be held July 26 at Spring Grove Wellesley with Pastor Rev. Patrick H. Riley leading efforts for a record church event.
The three masted Providence schooner Donna T Briggs, which struck Ash Island Friday night, was pulled off by a tug and towed into Rockland harbor. Her bow is damaged and she is full of water.
Baltimore officials report the tug Thomas F. Timmons remains off Cape Henry awaiting the German merchant submarine with a cargo of dyestuffs and medicines. The vessel has been at sea nearly ten days as delays and tides raise cautious optimism among Baltimore residents. The submarine left Cuxhaven on June 14 with an estimated 14 day voyage.
Letter to the editor recalls Joel C. Gleason who invented the sole leather cutter shipped worldwide. He died in Marlboro Massachusetts near age 65 leaving widow Emma Bennett Gleason and daughter Marion B. Gleason. Funeral held at 48 Newton Street Marlboro.
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