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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1920
Page
3
Mrs Jessie Patterson testifies her husband L James Patterson pursued Margery Force after a 1917 wedding in Waukegan. Affidavits from Mrs LaPash describe a Boston stay with a young woman matching Mrs Patterson’s claim. Judge Pinckney grants the divorce, citing the alleged affair.
The Knights of Columbus in New Haven releases Knights in Peace and War chronicling 1925 Greater Boston members. Elm Hill Council leads with 213 in service. Back Bay 159. Fitton 148. Rose Croix 127. Bunker Hill 89. Jamaica Plain 124. Melrose 78. Mattapan 64. About 4000 Massachusetts Knights served, excluding noncombat roles.
Josephine Adessa an 11 year old Watertown girl has vanished from her home for over six months prompting her parents to seek police help. Chief Millmore notes she has left home twice before and was found with friends in another state. She is described as fair with blue eyes chestnut hair five feet tall and about 125 pounds.
Frederick A. Bangs and James Hemingway of Chicago file a bill in the Supreme Court to remove the current board of trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Society and demand an accounting of funds since 1898. They are represented by William A. Morse Judge Frederic H. Chase and Frank H. Stewart.
Petitioners accuse current trustees of violating trust by failing to promote Mrs. Eddy's principles and causing discord in the church. The cross-bill seeks to settle long-standing friction with Mother Church directors, claim the trustees lack loyalty, and plead for replacement to end litigation.
Petitioners accuse trustees of promoting their own views harming church doctrines and disrupting finances. They seek removal of trustees, a new board, an account of funds, and delivery of deeds and records to the new trustees. No hearing date set.
Eight chamber of commerce directors will be formally voted on today with no contests. Polls run from 10 30 a m to 1 30 p m, listing Robert Amory F Alexander Chandler Wallace B Denham Dr Arthur W Gilbert Stanley King James E McConnell Charles A Pastene and Benjamin F White as the candidates.
The Massachusetts Conference of Congregational Churches begins its annual convention this afternoon at the Church of the Pilgrimage in Plymouth. Nearly 600 churches are expected to be represented with Henry A. Hyde of Ware serving as moderator. The Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt will lead devotional exercises and the church’s pastor the Rev. Dr Theodore E Busfield will welcome delegates. An evening session features speakers including A Z Conrad Arthur W Bailey Reuben J Goddard Sidney A Weston and others with remarks from Dr Charles W Eliot and clergy from leading Boston and New York churches.
At 4 p m Miss Fanniebelle Curtis speaks on Kindergarten Unit in France at Trade School on Parker Street Back Bay. 6 30 p m Boston Alumni Association dinner at Syracuse University. 7 30 p m Norway Independence celebration at Paul Revere Hall. 8 p m Charitable Irish Society meeting at City Club with Rev C M De Heredia S J on Spiritism Exposed. 8 p m Colonial reception by Daughters of the Revolution at Copley Plaza Hotel. 8 p m Boston Music School Settlement concert at Copley Plaza Hotel.
Letters from New England Interchurch World Movement officials praise the Boston Post for generous space and friendly press attitude that aided fundraising and campaign success. The New England publicity director and state director urge continued press support as the drive concludes.
Rome reports that league delegates will forward a request to President Wilson to designate a European city as the site of the next League of Nations meeting rather than Washington as originally planned.
Customs Inspector Frank Reed seized 1332 quarts of whiskey four ten gallon keys of alcohol and two 100 gallon drums of alcohol concealed in a carload of shingles and laths billed to Ernest A Brooks of Bangor Maine. The address appeared fictitious and the seizure occurred in Van Buren. The action highlights tax and prohibition era enforcement.
Harvard invites the public to view R. H. Tawney speak on the Coal Mine Situation in Great Britain at Emer son Hall Wednesday night at eight. Tawney, British economist and author, served on the Sankey Coal Commission and is invited by Harvard's economics department to lecture.
Encouraged by tag-off returns the Salvation Army Boston home service appeal committee begins the final four days of the drive to raise 170000. Chairman Charles I Burrill says we are not far from 50000 but still far from the objective and every effort will be made this week to reach the needed total.
A fascinating Fannie Hurst story titled Rolling Stock will be printed in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The feature highlights Hurst’s narrative style and the magazine’s planned serialization.
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