The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-07-31
GERMAN VALLEY.

Senator Welsh spent last Saturday
in Trenton.
Edward Wack is critically i'll with
typhoid fever.
William B. Hall is recovering from
an attack of appendicitis.
Miss Charlotte Knight, of Morris
town, is visiting friends in town.
Chester Lodge, No. 2O9, L. o. o. F.,
has procured fine set of officers re-
gala
Lyman Kice has shut down his stone
quarries until September, pending or
derS.
The middle trap-rock quarry pro-
duces about 225 tons of crushed stone
daily.
Mrs. Truesdale and two children, of
Jersey City, have been visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Simon Charles.
Lawrence H. Hunt lies in critical
condition at his home, suffering from
a cancerous growth on the neck.
E. L. Young, the noted whip of Ber-
nardsville, entertained tallyho party
for dinner at the village inn on Satur-
day.
Jacob Hoffman, son of George S.
Hoffman, has been taken to All Souls
Hospital in MorriStown to be treated
for appendicitis.
Our boys put up a good game of ball
at Cokesbury last Saturday afternoon.
The return game will be played here
tomorrow afternoon.
The dates of the vicinity fairs are as
follows; Pleasant Grove, August 5;
German Valley Methodist, August 6
Pottersville, August 6.
DR.. Edward Sutton will harvest
about forty-tive tons of fine timothy
hay from the twenty-eight acres OF
grass purchased at the Stevens sale.
The Democratic executive commit
tee of Washington townip met at DR..
Sutton's office last Saturday. Gentle.
men, you need to lay your tiles with
care.
During the recent electrical storms
rye stack belonging to Philip Kelts
was struck and burned. The dwell.
ingS of Robert Harrison and jeremiah
Holman were somewhat damaged by
lightning.
While employed at the Califon Lime.
stone Company'S quarries a few days
ago, Holloway Emmons was severely
injured on the head and left arm, hav.
ing been struck by falling rock from
the hang-wall above,
Our board of education has engaged
Miss Margaret Hall, of Pennsylvania
for the Parker school, and Miss Curtis
of Landing, for the primary depart.
ment of the Middle Valley school
All the teachers positions in the town.
ship are now filed.
Mrs. John P. Krechting, of New Ger.
mantown, general president of the Lu.
theran National Woman'S Missionary
Society of the United States, will speak
in the Lutheran Church next Sunday
evening. Special music will be pro,
vided for the occasion.
Mrs. John Kice, 81 years old, was
found dead in bed at an early hour last
Friday morning. Mrs. Kice has for a
number of years made her home with
her son Jacob. Thursday evening she
retired as well as usual, and nothing
was heard from her during the night
Cause of death, heart failure. The
funeral services were held last Sunday
afternoon at her late home. Interment
in Pleasant Grove cemetery.
While alighting from the engine OF
his train at High Bridge on Saturday
morning Leonard d. Alpaugh, brake
man on the morning passenger train
on the New Jersey Central branch, fell
under the engine and had his left leg
crushed below the knee. DIR. AlpaugE
dressed the injured limb and then his
patient was taken by special train tC
Easton Hospital, where the leg was
amputated about four inches below
the knee.
A meeting of the labor unions
was held last Tuesday night to tall
over a labor day celebration. 1t was
decided to have a parade and hold ar
athletic contest similar to that of last
year, only on a larger scale. A COM
mittee from each local organization Il
to be appointed to make necessary
arrangements.