Milford chronicle., 1903-07-24
MILLION NEWS.

WILL YIN NE D
It a common remark of many bus.
mess and professional men, that Life
insurance and Building and Loan Associ-
ations are the curse of Milton" When
expressing their views upon this subject,
they are led to say in substance: There
are many parties in Milton carrying iu-
surance, who are not able to do so. It
takes all the money they can raise to
keep their fees paid up, and their credi-
tors are the sufferers. We know this is
true in many instances, but when a man
dies,i is nice thing for his family to
have fund coming TO the'u from life
insurance company. There are several
families living comfortably in Milton
to-day, and part of them running other
families, as a result, if not directly, of
fund received from life insurance pol
icv of money received from some bene-
fetal order, which is all the same in it's
financial meaning According to the wri-
ter's idea, these institutions and societies
are all right ifa man be able to take stock
in them, belong to them, or invest in
them; if he be not able, he has no right
there. We all know there is a certain
class who Join all the orders that will adj
nit them, merely for the sake of living
off of them. These persons constitute
peculiar class, and are all known to the
fraternities to which they belong, as well
as to those to which they do not belong.
They are known to the lodge, or lodges
to which they belong, as being chronic
beneficiaries, and they are known to the
lodges of which they are not members,
as "spotted men," Men whom they will
not admit to membership, or fraterniZe
with on account of their known habi-
tude. If a man can pay his honestly
contracted debts, and have money to spare
to keep up dues in a life insurance COM
pany, or other society, association, or
order, he has perfect right to do so;
otherwise. he has not. He has no right
to defraud his creditors to aggraudize
himself, nor anyone else. But the chronic
beneficiary, he has a perfect right to do
as he pleases, ifhe can get there.
Jane Morris, alias "Spot, was COM
mitted to Georgetown Jail on Tuesday
night of last week in default of 81, 800
bail. Morris has a legitimate wife in
Milton; woman of fair record, and of
whom no word of scandal or reproach has
ever been made and by whom Morris has
had several children. For several years
past Morris has been living in cOucubi
mage with a woman, first on boat, later
at Broadkiln Beach, or Point Pleasant.
This summer resort was,a few years ago,
tine delight of the people of Milton, who
built cottages there, aud took their sum-
mer outing along this coast. BY for
tuitous circumstance, certain property
came into the possession of ''SpOt" who
has inhabited it with dogs, foxes aud dis
reputable women. His last dulcinea be-
coming afflicted, he procured a young
girl, ostensibly to nurse her, but, as is
alleged, turned his favors to the younger
girl and drove his concubiue of fifteen
years away; or she became disguised and
left. Notification of this was brought to
the attention of Commissioner Stout, who
worked up the case. The last woman
was the chief witness. We may say the
charge is for improper intimacy with a
girl under the age of consent. The girl
is fifteen years old, and it is said there
are two other charges of the same kind
against Morris. As has been said, Morris
p was committed to Jail. Commissioner
Stout took the girl with him to the refOr.
matory.
The Socials that are being held on Sat
urday evenings near tho NJ. Z. Church
suggests the idea of beautiful place
that might be made of this lawn. The
old refuse in the rear might be cleaned
, off and burned, and way opened togthe
mill race; and on the embankment be-
hind the church, a row of trees might bC
planted longitudinaly, or parallel witt
the street Then from this row, othei
rows running latitudinally, or toward the
street. This work could be done at sinai
cost and in less than decade a splendit