The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-08-14
GERMAN VALLEY.

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Martins Grove yesterday.
John v. Stryker is convalescing
slowly from his recent illness.
The Pleasant Grove people realized
about S240 from their recent fair.
A. G. Pollock, of New York, is
spending a few weeks at the DORM
court. "
]. Miller Welsh will enter one of
the Newark business colleges in the
autumn.
Horton and Welsh will place about
100000 peach baskets on the market
this year.
The Musical and Literary Circle
has postponed its annual picnic
till September.
Mrs. Pierson Allen and daughter
have returned from their visit to
to Morristown.
William Whey, of East Orange,
has been spending a few days with
Harvey S. Cool.
Senator Jacob W. Welsh and
family are at Ocean Grove and Asbury
Park for the remainder Of August.
Oscar b. Smith, of Flanders, has
opened an undertaking branch here.
| Stewart Neighbour is in attendance.
Our township board of education
has designated Wednesday, September
9th, as the time for reopening the
schools of the township.
Abram Miller, an aged resident of
Schooley's Mountain, was found dead
in bed at his home at an early hour
last Saturday morning.
The Standard Shoe Factory at
Naughright has increased its work
ing force and they are turning out
about four hundred pairs of shoes
weekly.
Our ball team defeated the Califon
team here last Friday afternoon to
the tune of to 2. Our boys are able
to give any other team waterloo at
any time.
William A. Searles has been en-
gagged by our township board of
education to transport the brakes
town school children to the Flock
town school.
Miss Teresa Barrett, a former
school, is spending a ten4days' vaca-
Apgar, at Middle Valley.
Mrs. Zilpha Neighbour is visiting
Mrs. John w. Henderson at Califon.
The old lady is carrying the weight
of "a years upon her shoulders and
yet she is able to piece quilts and can
see to thread her needle without the
aid of glasses
Mrs. Gilmartin, eighty years old,
who lives near Glen Gardner, met
with a distressing accident few days
ago. During the night a thunder
shower came up, and the aged woman
in Fastening to close window fell,
breaking her arm. She had to re-
main until morning before she could
secure any help. Her condition is
improving slowly.
Bartholomew Hutchinson, of Della
ware, met with fatal accident few
days since while at work on the
construction of a pier for the new
railroad bridge across the Delaware
at that place. Mr. Hutchinson went
to work in the morning as usual and
was employed in the gang engaged to
haul concrete in wheelbarrOws to the
pier. The concrete is prepared on
the riyer-bank, and hauled out to the
pier over temporary treStling. Mr..
Hutchinson had just taken out a
wheelbarrow load of concrete and as
he attempted to dump it out of the
Wheelbarrow lost his balance and fell |
from the trestling to the partially |
completed pier thirty-fiye feet below, |
death resulting instantaneously from |
striking the hard cemented surface of |
the pier.
j. W. Eflross, of New York CITY,
is enjoying short vacation at Mount |
Hermon, Warren county. A few days |
ago while taking walk over an UNI
used by-rOad leading from Walpack |
Centre to Peters Valley, he stepped |
on huge rattleSnake which was
summing itself in the road and was
severely bitten. He FASTENED to the |
nearest house, where an old woman |
applied white bark poultice to hold in |
check the poison and keep it from
/ spreading through the system Mr. |
/ EtroSs mind being at a high tense of !
excitement and not being fully salts |
fed as to this simple remedy, FASTENED |
on to Port Jeryis and consulted a
! physician who told him that the bite
would cause paralysis and urged him |
to go to hospital but this he finally
concluded not to do, but to return to
the home of the old lady who again
applied her simple remedy of white
ash bark poultice. Now, the swell
ing has receded and Mr. Effross does
not experience any bad effects and
the wound is healing nicely.