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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
5
The Winsor Boyson home hosted the Friday meeting that organized a singing club named Kridal Musicale with 40 members. Officers elected include Mrs Orville E Johnson president and George Steward vice president, Dorothea Smith accompanist, Jack Knudson treasurer, and Winston J Galtell director. A late winter concert is in rehearsal.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT from Winthrop Cash Dry Goods invites patrons to buy gifts with twenty days left before Christmas. The store emphasizes varied stock and personal service with free delivery to Winthrop and Boston price guarantees. Tel 1422.
Winthrop Yacht defeated Dudley in the Amateur Boston Pin series at the Dudley Club Tuesday evening.
A letter to the editor argues for including a woman on the Waltham School Board and urges Winthrop to appoint Dr. Eloise A. Sears or another qualified woman. The writer likens a school board without a woman to a home without a wife.
Engineering Magazine recalls Admiral Porter during Grant’s term limiting propeller blades to two for sailing ships and later claiming faster speed under steam. It notes his later push for full sail on Reach cruisers and mocks his stubborn stance as age advanced. The piece ends with a grim proverb about marriage to East Indian flowers and widows being sold.
Joseph Burden buys about 5 000 square feet on Crescent Street to build a house. Winthrop Associates acquire two lots near Pleasant Park Road for investment and a new Main Street corner property transfers to Mary D. Safford. Various society events, club meetings, and charitable entertainments fill the week including talks by Dr. Emily Noble and a Yale Tide Charity Club gathering.
Community notes report Mrs. K G Young hosting over 80 guests for Thanksgiving. Mrs. Thomas Henry Cross starts an embroidery class. Mr William H Topham to host Highlands matinee whist club. Detroit couple Schaltheis take a Winthrop Shore Drive apartment for winter. Taft family visits at 55 Wave Way and exudes local Thanksgiving cheer. Edith Hubley spends Thanksgiving with Amherst Academy family.
Social rounds include Mr. Howard Power visiting his uncle, Mrs. McGee planning a winter stay in Roxbury, and Mrs. Whitney traveling to Lewiston. Charity whist and holiday sales are announced, along with engagements, lodge dances, and a new dry goods store opening. The Winthrop Yacht Club introduces winter basketball benefiting the club.
In Winthrop November 97 Catherine E Kinney youngest daughter of the late John and Mary Kinney of Ward street Roxbury. In Winthrop Katherine L Watson widow of the late James M Watson of Boston.
The item notes a Winthrop store promotion offering a doll for every girl, a Winthrop Lodge Elks initiatory event in Hudson with about 50 members traveling from Boston, weekend guests from Brookline, and a Baptist pastor pair visiting Hingham. It also mentions McKenney Waterbury Co. in Boston showcasing electric and gas table lamps as wedding and holiday gifts.
Mrs Robert N Chapman hosted a Friday bridge and plain whist event at the New Winthrop Hotel with six tables. Bridge souvenirs went to Mesdames Jacobs Young and J N Hillier. plain whist souvenirs awarded to Miss Mary Jeune and Mesdames Mead y, Macomber, and Shorey. At the tea table Mrs Carrie V Paal presided.
Ellsworth Burrill was appointed chief of the Winthrop police by unanimous vote of the Board of Selectmen after acting as head since Ernest R. Buffington's resignation. Burrill has served nine years on the Winthrop force.
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