The following unidentified newspaper article (ca. 1904) was found in a scrapbook owned by Betty Burton of Lowell:
A birthday surprise party was tendered to Mrs. Lewis McNay last Friday night, which proved to be a very enjoyable affair. An oyster supper was served and the evening spent in sociability. Those present were: Lewis Pattee and wife, Star Brownell and wife, Ernest Dickinson and wife, Del Wilkinson and wife, Thomas Grant and wife, Henry Clement and wife, Misses Grant, Pattee, Clement, Comeford, Flint, Messrs, Wells Ainsworth and Guy Brownell.