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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1918
Page
13
Washington May 16 Senator Hardwick of Georgia formally abandoned his efforts to block compulsory overseas service. He moved to indefinitely postpone Ol the measure first introduced last August aimed at prohibiting military commanders from ordering drafted men overseas unless they volunteer for overseas service.
Boston area recruiting has jumped with the British Canadian Recruiting Mission and U S Marine Corps bus visiting Watertown. Fourteen enlistments were recorded eight for Canada nine for the Marines and a sendoff planned at 10 o clock. Naval and Army stations reported strong weeks with 190 naval reserve enrollments and 29 recruits today at the Col lay square station.
A James Middleton of Cambridge, a library representative for Houghton Mifflin, is not the same individual tied to a Suffolk Superior Court divorce issued Wednesday. The Post reported the wife’s testimony that her husband chased her with a razor and threw jelly, though no address was listed in the story.
Garden supervisors at the Essex County School of Agriculture in Hathorne will meet next Tuesday to discuss pig raising and growing tomatoes. The session is held under the auspices of state federal and county officials.
Judge Hammond of the Superior Court held a long conference with counsel in the divorce case of William R. Walton a seaman in the United States navy against his wife Anna Louise Walton of Haverhill The libel for divorce on the ground of misconduct by the wife with a 17 year old youth named De Witt was dismissed after a hearing The court deferred alimony and will provide for the child two years old with custody to the mother Walton’s counsel said he would appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court
Cardinal O Connell asks archdiocese pastors to join President Wilson in observing May 30 as a day of fasting and prayer. He also urges observing June 29, St Peter feast day, as a universal prayer for peace and justice per Pope Benedict XV.
Lowell May 16 Captain M Ku Sis oc Duneid a veteran of the Civil War and longtime city official died today at Lowell Corporation Hospital in his 76th year. He served as city marshal in 1883 and 1884 and spent many years in police work with the city.
The obituary notes a veteran who earned the rank of captain during the Civil War with Perkins' Cavalry and belonged to Post 42 of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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