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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
4
Prince Michel Murat was indicted by the May grand jury on a first degree grand larceny charge. A Manhattan dealer claimed he lost 1500 through a check transaction during Murat's visit in June, with a bench warrant to follow and possible extradition action from Paris.
The Army and Navy Service Club in Park Square will dedicate a library through help from the American Library Association. Boston Public Library representatives supplied a varied assortment of books after a request from the club officials.
William Justin Mann writes of a white birch at the Cambridge Public Library made memorable by Miss Heywood who planted it after 1894 and died from a fall while working on library expansions. The tree is praised in poetry and prose, with Lowell and Holmes quoted on trees and memory.
The Church of the Good Shepherd in Watertown will build a parish house funded by member subscriptions totaling 15 000 dollars. Work starts in fall with rest rooms social rooms and a children nursery. Interior layout will allow a large auditorium by opening rooms for social or other meetings. Site on Russell avenue beside the main church will be reshaped to fit the new structure.
May 27 New York The White House sheep wool was presented by President Wilson to the Salvation Army. Joseph P Tumulty wrote that the flock would not be moved to a Salvation Army farm at Tappan New York and the wool is a gift from the President.
The Non-Partisan Association of Club Women elected officers at yesterday afternoon’s meeting held at the Twentieth Century Club. Mrs Henry Coolidge Mullia was named to a key post and other officers were chosen.
A speaker recalls a willow near the Public Garden bridge as worthy of a Boston pilgrimage. The passage cites Tasso in Jerusalem Delivered where enchanted trees bleed and cry, hindering soldiers until Rinaldo slays a tree, breaking the spell and yielding timber for the Christian siege engines.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine plans to feature Stacy Aumonier in a story titled A Grave Responsibility. It hints at a different narrative approach for the upcoming issue.
The Methodist Episcopal general conference in Des Moines Iowa approved the Interchurch World Movement plan at its closing session It also urged church members to participate in a further canvass and left future relations to the bishops board to act Bishop J F Berry delivered the closing bishops address outlining a four year programme The conference adjourned this afternoon.
Gan as president, Mrs. Gamaliel Bradford and Mrs. Frank B. Sanborn serve as vice presidents. Miss Flora L. Mason is recording secretary, Miss Maude Folts is corresponding secretary, and Miss Edith J. Swett is treasurer. The board of directors includes Mrs. Lewis A. Foye, Mrs. Charles B. Hall, Mrs. George O. Jenkins, Mrs. William H. Mitchell, Mrs. Walter G. Newell, Mrs. Frederick G. Smith, Mrs. Francis E. Stanley, Mrs. Frank H. Stewart and Mrs. George B. Wallace for 1920 21.
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