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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

A COW belonging to Winfield Par
ker, near Woodbury., is giving TWEEN
ty-two quarts of milk daily.
Assemblyman Cattell, of Wenonah,
is being congratulated by his towns
people for his stand on the Blohn bill.
Jacob Hager and Philip Whitman,
of Bridgeport, walked across the
eastern channel of the Delaware
River to Chester Island and found
the ice fourteen inches thick.
Robert Bracelin, of Salem, in one
day killed twenty-six ducks.
Henry Beal, aged seventy-eight
years, of Woodbury., fell from a hay
NOW and sustained broken hip.
The Pitman Board of Trade will
spend about $500 in advertising that
resort.
DIR. Israel Whitney Lyon, a pioneer
manufacturer of tooth powder, died
at his home in Englewood. He was
eighty-one years old and was born in
Needham, Mass. His father, Lemuel
Lyon, was a hat manufacturer in
Needham.
David Cresswell, former assessor,
has brought suit against the city of
Ocean City for $500 for extra SER
vices.
A Woodbury. physician who has
practiced twenty-three years says
that in only one month has he ever
done more business than last month.
Alfred w. Golf, formerly of Ham
monitor, was killed by train at Oak
land, Cal. The body will be brought
to Hammonton for burial.
Miss Bertha Campbell, of Mill
vile, has been elected a teacher in
the Port Elizabeth schools at salary
larger than is paid teachers who have
taught for forty years in Millville.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

my first thought was to take it off
and wave it as signal But by this
time the train was on a trestle about
two blocks away and | saw that the
engineer could not stop in time. I
reached down and after twisting the
child's foot around few times got it
out. Then just dragged her across
the track. wasn't a quarter OF a
second too soon either. for the train
Just whizzed past as got her safe. 1t
Just made my heart stop beating for a
few seconds and nearly tainted. /
saw the child to-day and she ran to me
and said that she had told her mann
ma that had saved her life."
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
A Non-Partisan Drum.

A story which certainly ought to
be true is told by the Irish Independ-
ent about the Orange celebrations
just concluded. All well informed
persons know that drum-beating
forms a most important part Of the
ceremonies. Now it happened that
an Orange lodge in Armagh (where
Colonel Sarndcrson comes FROM
found itself drumless on the great
day; and no dunn, no celebrations.
1t also happened, however, that there
was a Nationalist band in the same
town. Sub rosa, the Nationalist
drum was borrowed for the occasion.
1t pounded as loudly as the most
loyal Instrument Of percussion in all
Armagh. London Daily News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Submarine RlcvcIinu.

Submarine bicycling will never, it is
safe to say, become o popular form Of
recreation, but the wheel has never
theless been used below water with
success.
An experiment Of this kind was
made off the coast of England, near
Plymouth. The cyclist was diver
fully equipped, while he employed a
tricycle. with heavy, fiat-tired wheels.
On smooth surface it was found
that the wheel could be propelled
easily, If somewhat slowly, and with
much less effort than it required to
carry heavy suit of armor the same
distance. -Exchange
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
The minister and his wife who re

The minister and his wife who re-
Gently separated for a period of three
years, meaning to seek a divorce if
after that lapse of time they were so
minded, have introduced a happy
idea, contends the New York Sun. In
stead of the trial marriage, why not
the trial divorce? Three years should
enable an uncongenial pair to decide
whether divorce is the realm of per-
feet bliss it seems to those wishing to
Rnter it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

A singular mental disorder is re-
ported of a patient confined at Bice-
ire, France, declares the New York
Evening Post He processes to re-
member nothing except the month
and year in which he was born. Lest
he should forget the date of each new
day he fills sheet after sheet of paper
with memoranda. 1t is not case of
true amnesia or loss of memory; 9TH
srwise he should be unable to speak
or write. 1t is a fixed idea" of for
getfulness, a delusion, not an inca
pacity to remember. 1t has been ar
gued by some that all the decisions
Of the insane are the result of mag
nation filing the gaps which exist in
an impaired memory. But this is the
irst case which has been described
nj une idee fxe d'oubli.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Fifteen million votes were cast in {

Fifteen million votes were cast in a
plebiscite held by Paris newspaper
10 learn who, in the opinion of the
people, were the ten greatest French
men of the nineteenth century. Ma
poleon was fourth. The poll was
headed by Pasteur. The hero of he
roes was proclaimed to be the scien-
list, observes the New York Mail, who
gave to the world new means of bat
ting with disease and lessening hui
man suffering and loss of life.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

An express train on the West Jer-
sey and Seashore Railroad crashed
into a butcher wagon belonging to H.
l.. Jackson g. Son, OF Hammonton, at
the Weymouth crossing, at Dacosta,
and instantly killed and mangled the
driver, Jason G. Saunders, sixty-seven
years old. The horse was killed, the
wagon smashed and the load of meat
ground to bits. The crossing is con-
sidered dangerous.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
The paint of pride is not the same
as the robe of righteousness.
London,s HINGE Annette

The secretary of the Public Health
Committee says that the total amount
OF foodstuffs that reach London YEAR
~ IS between 2,500,000 and 8 ,OOO,-
200 tons. of which rather more than
two-thirds arrives by water and less
than one-third by rail Three-fifths
OF the whole quantity is consumed by
Londoners. The shipments include
100000 tons of meat, fish. milk,
butter, eggs, lard, etc.; 500 900 tons
Of fruit and vegetables. including
sugar and preserved fruits, and
1.400,000 tons of grain and flour.
The system of inspection is inefficient
and oleomargarine is largely sold as
butter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The general opinion among medi-
cal men, observes the Augusta Her
aid, seems to be that plenty of fresh
air is the best preventive of grip and
colds. Overheated houses are worse
chan cold ones in this respect. Well
ventilated rooms for sleeping and, if
possible, a cold plunge on arising,
will do much to keep one free from
cold throughout the year.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
BOTH BRAVE AND MODEST.
Schoolgirl Makes Light of Saving Life
of Companion.

Annie Silverman, the pretty four.
teen-year-old schoolgirl who saved a
little child from being run down by an
express train on the Jersey Central
railroad, is hailed as a heroine in
Lakewood, says the New York Wc<sS.
Annie Silverman works on Satur-
days in Lakewood dry goods store,
where she said:
81 don't see why everybody is talk
Ing about what did. 1t wasn't any
thing to boast Of Anybody who had
Oeen there would have done just as
did. was going Home from school
snd just. after crossing the tracks l
heard a scream. l looked back and
saw the little girl trying to draw her
loot from between one of the rails and
A crossing plank. AS l ran to her l
heard the whistle of a train which
was coming right toward us.
THE little girl wore red hat and
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Postmaster Holds His Job.

Postmaster Oscar Jeffrey, of Wash
ington, Warren County. is wearing a
$500 smile these days, and Joe Full
per is glum to that extent. Joe's
name had been sent in by the Presi-
dent as postmaster to succeed Jeffrey,
but the Senate got away without con-
firming him, and now jeffrey will
hold on for another year. Fulper is
member of the Warren County
Board of Tax Equalization, with a
salary of $1,000, jeffrey has held the
office eight years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Statue of Captain John Smith.

A model of a statue of Captain
John Smith, which will be cast in
bronze, has been completed by Mr.,
William Copper, the sculptor, who
lives in Mountain avenue, Montclair.
1t will be erected by the Society for
the Preservation of Virginia Antiqui-
ties on Jamestown Island. The
statue, which will be about eight feet
in height, will be unveiled in Sep
TENDER, and will stand on pedestal
of green granite. 1t represents Cap
tain Smith as the courtier rather than
the adYenturer
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

"A London court recently decided
that a passenger who is carried past
his station does not have to pay fare
to the station to which he is carried
Or for his return to his actual destin-
alton. The company pleaded in the
case in question that plaintiff was in
toxicated Then you violated the
law in carrying him." remarked the
Judge.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The Philadelphia Ledger declares
that in the case of Canada there is nc
feeling of antagonism either on the
part of Canadians or Americans that
is not temporary and related to ques'
tions that are perfectly capable of ad.
iustment.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Wife Sues For Divorce.

Mrs. Florence X. Griswold, of
Bloomfield, Union County, has filed
= the Court of Chancery petition
for absolute divorce from her hus-
band, Henry A. Griswold, now said
to be resident of Brooklyn, N. Y.
and to compel him to provide for her
maintenance and support.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The London Spectator sees that In
America the law is often simply the
screen of the wealthy. AS the cor
poration lawyers generally make and
interpret the laws, and frequently
administer them, it is no wonder the
case is as the Spectator states it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

Those who wish to free from bond
age the thousands of children of the
country spending their young lives in
labor in which they should not be
employed, admonishes the Rochester
Union and Advertiser, should seek to
secure remedy of this evil through the
proper channels, the legislatures Of
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The subscribers to newspapers in
the United States get them cheaper
than in any other country, declares
the Baltimore Sun. Are they to be
deprived of the benefit of low sub
scription rates by having to pay
heavy and unjust postage rates or
submit to burdensome and unreason-
able regulations?
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The New York Journal credits the
American Indian with being quite
temperate before America was dis.
covered. But even the sinful pale
face doesn't drink whisky when there
isn't any, comments the Courier-Jour-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Jersey Exhibit at a Eaapsh show.

Winton C. Garrison, Nhief of the
Bureau Of Statistics of Labor and
Industries, at Trenton, has accepted
an invitation to make an exhibit at
the International Book and Paper
Exposition, to be held in Paris, from
June to November. The exhibit will
show the progress New Jersey has
made in the betterment of conditions
in its manufactures.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

To be sure, DR.. Wiley, suggests the
indianapolis News, Gamers don't
need preservatives, and it is more
than likely, too, that the most of
them, being wise to the game, don't
take any of those medicated fruits
and vegetables into their system.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The apple is universal medicine
for human ills, according to Mr.. Tom.
linson. If he is right, his is ho-
meopathic remedy. Twas the for
hidden fruit whose mortal taste
brought death into the world, with
loss of Eden and all our woes
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Hurry has killed the art of polite

Hurry has killed the art of polite
conversation. Hurry has robbed cor
respondence of it's grace; hurry is
fast Transforming the once sedate city
of London into pandemonium of
whirring noises, whirling wheels and
evil fumes, laments the Nineteenth
Century.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Largest Toothpick Factory.

The largest quill toothpick factory
in the world is near Paris, where
here, is an annual product Of 100000
900 quilts. The factory was started
10 make quill pens, but when these
went out Of general use it was con-
verified into toothpick mill.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

Joseph Zero Of BrocktOn, Mass,
and Mrs. James Rugan Of vassalboroj
Me-, his sister. met last week for the
first time in thirty-four years. She
had believed him dead, and he had
lost all track Of her.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
Stole Signing SWANS Team.

William Taylor, who lives few
miles south of Bridgeton, called upon
his best girl, driving handsome sor-
rel horse, with a new buggy, all
equipped with new harness and robes.
When he started for home, about
midnight, someone had stolen his
team and he had to walk.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The newspaper discussion as tc
whether chipmunks cl4rob II ees is flu.
tile. Set dog after t>= and see, ad,
vises the Somerville Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The lEcxican Government charges
on transfers of land deeds amount to
from $40 to S45 Mexican on $1,000
value. According to the laws of that
country it is necessary for foreigners
to have their nationality mentioned
in the title, otherwise they become
Mexicans.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

No. the trusts needn't fear lynch.
ing, notes the Atlanta Constitution.
They've had too much rope already.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19

The production of gold in India in
1906 was 577,260 ounces, as COM
pared with 62S, AIS ounces in 1905.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-19
An AM Parts of the State.

the new bank At Williamstown Is
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14
PUBLIC SALEl
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 27.

l will sell to the highest bidder at
my place Meadow Brook Farm, form.
erly the old Tom Harrison farm, four
miles east Of Auxvasse, Galloway,
county, Mo-, on Wednesday Feb 81,
the following personal property, to-
wit:
As HEAD OF HORSES AND MULES
Consisting of 30 head of work mules,
ranging from 3 TO 6 years old, 151 to 1911
hands high, good, stockY and we'll built;
some extra yearlipgs and colts; /
Prince Denmark stallion, sired by
Rex Denmark, coming, 4 years old,
16 hands high, red bay with black
points, high actor, well broken and
will weigh ], 160 pounds; ten head OF
heavy draft mares, 3 yearling draft
colts, ! two year old gelding, one year
ling tilly, sired by Rex Mont, one 2
year old saddle fillY, one 5 year old
roam horse, one 5 year old black horse.
40 HEAD OF CATTLE IA two
year olds, 9 yearlings, 10 calves, 9
COWS, 2 yearling Shorthorn bulls. 3
extra good Jersey cows, will be fresh
soon.
10 sheep and 10 hogs-70 head OF
extra good breeding ewes,1 Shropshire
buck rs head Of stock hogs weighing
from 100 to $50 pounds
Farm implements, wagons, surrey,
harness and plows, household goods,
kitchen furniture, books, magazines,
canned fruits OF all kinds.
Sale commences promptly at 10
O'Clock a. m.
Terms-All sums under el0, cash;
over that amount q credit OF ten
months on an approved bankable
note with 5 per cent interest from date
The ladies Of the Christian church
will serve lunch.
-. L. B. soRoGGIN.
]. T. johnson,
Harrison Bros Auctioneers.
/. W. Holman, wi
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14
NEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL.
st. Geneveive County's Good Re-
cord - Bride Twice at Fifteen
Suspect Foul Play in Death
of Rlley--Callaway Thirty
Years A O.,

State Auditor Wilder points with
pride to the record OF his home county,
st. Genevieve, which has not had one
Of her citizens In the penitentiary as a
convict in 40 years. This is certainly an
extraordinary record, and me no other
county In the state enjoys. Year be-
fore last, the auditor states, the en-
tire criminal costs OF the county were
but s28 40 Last year the criminal
costs OF the county ran up to s470.
This is explained by the fact that
three tramps, touring the county,
broke In a smokehouse In the ancient
city Of st. Genevieve, the oldest
settlement in Missouri, and stole a
number Of hides. The trio-a white
man and two negroes-were sent to
the penitentIary. No citizen Of the
county, however, has been sent to the
state prison In forty years.
A young couple we're married the
second time 10 Sedaiia recently. Two
years ago the couple was married when
the bride was Is years did. Her father
had the marriage annulle6 after they
had been wed a week. After counting
his former wife two years The young
man secured the parents.. consent and
the marriage wasre- enacted, this time
with the bride Is years old.
Reports are current the Cornelius
Riley who was killed at Kansas City
Saturday while en- route to Oklahoma
met his death by foul play. ]. T.
Michel, of the bank of C~entralia told
a Herald reporter Wednesday that
he paid Riley about 1922 before he left
Centralia and that the money was not
found on the body after the accident.
Thirty years ago In Galloway county
there were 1882 white males and
10, 08s females In the county. The
total colored population was 4,S67.--
The returns showed an increase OF
6,054 since the ensus Of 1870. Fulton
had a population Of 2,160.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14

Bible, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare
and several other well known books
Though Lincoln's birthday is not a
legal holiday In this state there are
some who always recognize IL in re-
speet Of the man who they revere be.
cause Of his unselfish spirit and great
love for all bis fellows
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth
president OF tbe United States and
served during one Of the most trying
periods In The history OF the United
States. In was in 1860, at the Chi
cago convention that he was nominal,
ed for the presidency on a platform
whose principle plank was the non-ex-
tention of slavery intn the territories,
or new states to be formed from them.
Lincoln elected and received
the vote of all but one of the free
states while but few Of the Southern
states allowed a Republican ticket to
to admitted.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14

Ida NJ. Tarbell. made a poor choice
Of a husband. The facts do not en-
tirely warrant this theory. Thomas
Lincoln had been forced from his boy
hood to SHIFT for himself in a young
and u~ndeveloped country. He is known
to have been a nan who In spite of
this wandering life contracted no bad
habits. He was temperate and hon
est, and bis name is recorded In more
than one place in the records of Ken.
lucky. He was a church.goer, and If
tradition may be believed, a stout de-
fender Of his peculiar religious views.
He held advanced ideas of what was
already an important public question
in Kentucky, the right to hold negroes
as slaves. One Of his old friends had
said of him and his wife, Nancy Hanks,
that they were "lust stepped full of
notions about thelwrongs Of slavery
and the rights of men, as explained by
Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine.i
These facts show that he must have
been a man Of some natural intellig-
ence." L. NJ. w.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14

who take vacations IN Sanitariums.
on featherweight raiions, but the
healthy vigorous manhood and
womanhood that constitute the
useful majority. The first roasted
coffee sales Of Arbuck-
les ARIOSA Coffee for 81
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14

company, the Union Iron Works Of
San Francisco, the Newpor; Shipbuild-
Ing company, the VIM. II. Cramp q
Sons Shipbuilding company Of Phil
adelphia, and the New York Ship
building company Of Camden, N. j.
While the total sum involved In the
proposed suits would amount to some
$500, 000, 900, the CAPTAIN would be sat
isfied to retire from the fray with
IS, 200, 900.
The chief of the brueau Of ordinance
in a letter to Capt. Mcmillan contends
that dovetail keys at the Joints Of
armor plates were known before he Sc
cured his patent, In 1897
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14

Mr. Henry Albus and Miss Matte
Byrns, two prominent young people Of
this county, were married In this city
Tuesday morning The ceremony
was performed by Rev Father Dillon
at the Catholic church at Ia m, and
was witnessed by a large number OF
friends and relatives Of the contract
ing parties. After the wedding the
couple repaired to the ho me OF the
grooms parents where a sumptuous
dinner had been prepared for them
and the most intimate of friends.
The bride is the daughter OF Mrand
Mrs John Byres living several miles
south OF this city She is N Of
Audrains fairest and most popular
ladies and is an special favorite with
those who know her.
The groom is a prosperous young
farmer and enjoys the highest respect
and esteem of everyone Of this com-
munity.
The LEDGER extends its congratu-
lations and best wishes Of a long and
happy lives.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-02-14
NEWS OF NEIGHBoaIaG CITIES.
Fulton Woman Narrowly Escapes
Death BY Fire-Is Thought to be
Sane-More About Thief at
Walter Kerr's.

Mrs. ". II. Chenoweth, Of Fulton,
was severely burned Thursday night
by the skirt of her dress catching fire
from an open draft In a stove before
which she was standing. At bedtime
Mrs. Chenoweth and her daughters
went upstairs to retire and while
standing before tine stove the skirt OF
Mrs. O~henoweth' 8 dress caught on fire.
The flames quickly swept up toward
her head and we're not noticed until
they had reached up to her hair which
was somewhat singed. With rare
presence Of mind she threw herself at
full length on the floor and called for
a comfort which the young ladies quick
ly brought and by wrapping 1t around
her, extinguiehed the flames.
Louis Golhart, Of Cole County, who
was brought to the State Hospital for
Insane at Fulton q few weeks ago was
discharged Saturday afternoon and
started for bis home south Of Jeffer'
son City. Sheriff Cole. however stop
ped him Oh the charge Of stealing GIG
from a church. 1t seems that a Ger
man church over in Cole county has q
contribution box which is kept In the
church. and which contained about s76,
Young Golhart is accused Of breaking
into the building and carrying off the
box and money. The theory of The
officers is that he feigned insanity te
escape the charge OF theft
John Crawford,a white man, is In jail
at Paris, charged with stealing a s5t
diamond ring, $50 in money, and Other
things from the home eff Walter Kerr,
southeast OF Santa Fe He was ar
rested Ia Mexico. Sheriff Nolen
brought him to Paris Saturday night
The valuables belonged to Miss Venita
Cowherd, who teaches in that district
and boards at Mr.. Kerr's. The latter
followed Crawford over near Rush
Hill and placed him under arrest.
The diamond vas found In his poe.
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