The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-08-08
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

The Belvidere authorities sent Ju-
Illus Griel, who was bitten by rabid
dog, to the Pasteur Institute in New
York to be treated. He was too poor
to pay, and now the Institute threat
ems to sue the town of Bevlidere for
the 800 charges.
The regattas on Lake Hopatcong
will be held each Saturday afternoon
until the close of the season. This
news comes from Commodore George
W. Knight, of the Lake Hopatcong
Yacht Club, now stopping at the
Llewellyn. Victor A. Wiss, of this
city, recently sold Mr.. Knight seven
teen yacht pennants, averaging twelve
feet in length.
The Black line boats on Lake Ho-
parcong has been reinforced by the
addition of the mystic Shrine" a
close cabin yacht with charter for
forty passengers. Captain John Cor
don is running the new boat.
Labor Day in Dover will be appro-
priately observed In the morning
there will be parade in which some
2,000 men Will participate, headed by
the Citizens Band Following the
parade the Labor Unions will run an
excursion to Lake Hopatcong.
The ninth annual Warren County
Prohibition picnic will be held in the
park to Belvidere on Wednesday, Aur
gust 10. There will be three sessions
beginning at II a. M, and s p. m.
Sheriff John @. Hotalen, with Con-
stables Judson K. Gum and John
McClusky, Jr., of Sussex County,
visited Cranberry Lake Sunday to
look for gamblers and excise violators.
There was nothing doing" and
no arrests were made.
The coach barn of G. Ledyard Blair
at Far Hills, was struck by lightning
last week during heavy thunder
shower, and the cupola shattered.
Remarkable catches of pike are
reported from the millponds all over
South Jersey.
The watermelon crop throughout
the state is reported good.
The Hunterdon County farmers
alliance will hold their twelfth an
nual picnic on the Pennington fair
grounds, August 20 and 81. There
will be more exhibits than last year,
and Pennington poultry fanciers will
also exhibit their stock. The speak
ers will include William Skillman, of
Philadelphia; John B. Smith, of
New Brunswick; John S. Crobsy,
of New York Mr.. Gobel, of Newark
j. B. KLEIN, of Jersey City Morti-
mer Whitehead of Middlebrush.
Professor Smith the state entomolo-
gist, will talk on the destructive San
Jose scale and tell the farmers how
to control it. .
Farmers are complaining of excess
sive daily downpours that have &C.
CURED since st. Swithin's Day, July
Is. Hardly a day has passed with
out shower and the land is soaked.
Oats are ready for harvest, those
which have been cut being in
danger of mildew. Truck farms can
not be worked in, the ground being
too wet to NEEDLE with. Weeds are
rank and running riot.
Peach growers have received ad-
vices from the department of argicul-
ture in Washington, that the ordinary
lady bug is an enemy to the San
Jose scale and by not destroying them
they will be a benefit to tine trees,
and in time wipe out the plague of
the scale.
Reports from nearly all sections of
Warren county, and especially the
northern part, state that despite the
gloomy outlook for quail shooting
this year there is every reason to be-
lieve that there will be plentiful
supply of the birds when the season
opens.