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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24
sHIDLIR REUNION.

The Shidler reunion was held Sat
urday afternoon at Nimlsila park,
About 100 relatives and friends were
present and the day was n most pleas
ant one. Several members rendered
vocal selections and u numper of sd-
dresses were made. Members of the
family were present. officers for the
ensuing year were elected and Septem-
Der 10, 1908, chosen as the date for
the next reunion which will be held
at Nimisila park.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24
A Correction Made.

Myers, o., Sept. 22.-I wish to say
that the word received AZ Myers, o.,
that Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Spring, Of
Alliance, o., are the proud parents Of
a son are absolutely not true as pub
llshed In the Myers news Of date Sep
tember II. Mrs. Spring was formerly
Miss Bertha Dourm. OF Myers.
A Reader OF Morning News.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24
Death Of Wilma Marie shorb.

Wilma Marie shorb, aged one month
died yesterday morning at the homo OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfrsd
Bhorb, 11l6 Franklin street. Funeral
services will be held this morning at
81. Johns church and interment will
be made In *. Johns cemetery.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24

japan announces that she will have
Worlds Fair in 1912. This may be
intended to contradict the widespread
reports that Japan's finances are so
straitened that she has no money to
throw away.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24

ONLY A LITTLE COLD In the head
Ss: ; 's: $:isl S1s.'' .bss sS:sss; W +;
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24

Prominent Railroad Man Dead.
New York, Sept. 22.-samuel Sloan,
chairman of executive board. and for
mer president Of the Lach.wanna rail-
road, died early this .monine. s
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24

II you were a mind reader you
would learn lot OF unpleasant things
which now you can only surmise.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24

In the socialistic millennium. ons
WI ~ able 70 register q 3 ho(el =
'1cho ~ 21d eGlni(y."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24

CANNOT CURE. They can at best
merely RELIEVE, and that usually
at great COST and INJURY TO the
BODY.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-09-24

shall find that the rate OF freight
charge by these vessels is excessive
and unreasonable. in which case con-
tracts shall be made under the law
as II now exists"
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
PERSONAL ITEMS.

B. M. Van Cleve has been confined
to his residence for several days by
illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Sturgis have
been visiting their son at Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca, N. Z.
Mrs. S. G. Haven and children start
ed on Wednesday for Saranac, where
she will join her husband, DR.. S. G..
Haven.
James Barber, Jr., has received the
appointment as alternate candidate
for admission to the West Point Mill
tary Academy from Senator Briggs.
DR.. and Mrs. B. D. Evans gave a
large dance at the State Hospital on
Tuesday evening, in honor of the six
ueenth birthday of their daughter,
Margaret Evans. Halloween decora
tionS were feature.
Miss Bertha Jerusha Matthews,
daughter of County Superintendent,
Watson B. Matthews, of Dover and
Herbert Briant Van Etten, OF New
York City, formerly of Dover were
married at the home of the brides
parents on Orchard street, Dover, on
Wednesday afternoon. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. DR.. w. w.
Halloway, pastor of the Memorial
Presbyterian Church.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
NEWS FROM
OTHER TOWNS
HANOVER.

Miss Agnes Ely Cook, formerly of
this place, and graduate nurse of the
New York City Training School, left
on October 20 for Seattle, Wash,
where she has accepted a position as
surgical nurse in a Sanitarium.
Miss Lydia Louise Cook, of New
York City, spent the first OF last week
with her father, James Cook.
David A. Hopping has recently pur-
chased the Madison retail milk route
of Kiuhcart. of Florham Park, and is
running it.
The burial of William Mulford, Of
Orange, took place at the Hanover
cemetery on Thursday afternoon last.
Mr.. Mulford was Six6y-tive years old,
and a former resident OF Hanover
Neck.
The regular Sunday morning service
of the Hanover church was held last
Sunday at Bethel chapel, Hanover
Neck. 1t is hoped that the new fur
mace for the church will be in place by
next Sunday, when the regular SER
vice will be hello in the church.
A second meeting of the milk pro-
ducers of this section selling to Henry
Becker, of Roseland, was held recent
ly, at which Mr.. Becker was present.
An agreement was finally reached,
whereby the raiserS are to receive four
and a half cents for their milk.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
OSBORN URNs CATHOLIC.
Maloney Family Accept New York
Broker as Son-in- law.

Maloney Family Accept New York
Broker as Son-in-Iaw.
Philadelphia, Nov. s. Martin Ma
.loney, the Standard Oil magnate,
whose daughter Helen recently eloped
with Samuel Clarkson, young Eng
lishman, has effected a reconciliation
with his daughter and is now on his
way home with her, Clarkson having
returned to London. They may be al
ready in America.
Arthur Herbert Osborn, the young
New York broker who after the elope-
ment asserted that Miss Maloney had
married him, has become convert to
the Roman Catholic faith. and his mar
riage has been accepted as legally valid
by Miss Maloney's family. The pope
is said to have refused to annul the
marriage.
Mrs Maloney has been so prostrated
by the events of the last few weeks
that she has had to go to a sanitarum
in Philadelphia, believed to be DR. S
Weir Mitchell's private hospital Clark
son, who, friends say. sought only Miss
Maloney's money, is in London.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
COUNTY AND VICINITY.

Henry Weise, of Flanders, a brother
of John V. Weise, died last Wednes-
day in that village. He was about
sixty-fve years old.
Ira MOwery was elected director
of the Canyon City and Royal Gorge
Railroad Co. of Colorado last Monday,
and also chairman of the Board of
Directors.
The wedding of Miss Jean Few
smith, daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Fewsmith, of Green Village, and
Howell S. Lord will take place at the
town residence of the bride, " Wash
ington street, Newark, on Wednesday,
November 6.
Justice Swayze has filed an opinion
in the Supreme Court which holds
that the shooting of deer in New Jer-
sey has been prohibited by the LegiS-
lature until 1909 The opinion sustaiES
the conviction of Mr.. Grace and an
other man, who were fined 5000 for at
tempting to shoot deer in Cumberland
county last year.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany, as lessee of the Morris Canal
and Banking Company, has secured
writ of certiorari certifying to the
Supreme Court the action Of the Dover
Common Council, in laying 1884 feet
of sidewalk on West Blackwell street
along the Morris Canal and assessing
the cost against The Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company.
Governor Stokes has appointed dele
gates to represent New Jersey at the
American Mining Congress, to be held
at Joplin, Mo-, from November IL to
November l6, as follows: Frederick
A. Garfield, Dover Edward Kelly,
Wharton; r. A. Catlin, Franklin
Furnace; Augustus Munson, Hi
bernia; James Arthur, Wharton II.
L. Ables, Buttzville; William r.
Tonking, Franklin Furnace M. d.
Valentine, Woodbridge; j, S. Ken
nedy,< Stanhope; Stewart Lindsey,
Orange; Henry B. Kummel, Trenton.
Robert M. Boyd, Jr., town attorney
for Montclair, has obtained permission
from the Town Council of that place
to bring suit in the Court of Chancery
to compel the Lackawanna Railroad
to abolish its grade crossing over
Bloomfield avenue. Mr.. Boyd said
that every other means had been tried
but failed, and one of the most dan
gerOus crossings in the State still ex-
listed. He added that recent decisions
by the courts in regard to other cross
iEgs were such that the prospect
seemed good for relief to be obtained
in that manner
The Princeton dinner, which is
scheduled for English's Hail. East
Orange, on the evening of November
7, win be the fourth annual occasion
of this sort given by the Princeton
Alumni Association of the Oranges,
each of which has heretofore been pro-
nounced more successful than the last.
In the attempt to keep up the repura-
tion Of the association in this respect,
the committee has been working very
hard. and confidently expects to sur
pass the last function of this kind in
both size and enthusiasm. Hon. E.
d. Dutfield, '92, will act as toastmas-
ter
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05

A. number from Morristown attend
ed the wedding Of Louis ID. b. Pruden
and Miss Mary Mulford Amin at
the home of the BRIDES mother, Mrs.
A. M. Amin, at 40 Burnett street,
Newark on Wednesday evening. Miss
Gertrude Pruden was one of the
bridesmaids. Mr.. and Mrs. Pruden
after their return from a wedding tour
will reside at the Burnett street ad-
dress.
An organ recital will be given at the
First Presbyterian Church, Morris
town, on Wednesday evening, Novem-
Der l3, by Mrs. Kate Elizabeth Fox,
A. g. u, organist of the church.
Mrs. Fox will be assisted by W. Pauld-
ing De Nike, cellist. of Brooklyn,
N. Y, and Master Walter Carbutt
soprano soloiSt of Christ Church, and
pupil of Weston Spies Gales, of New
York City. The public is cordially
invited.
The Boards of Registry and Elec-
ton sat in the several districts last
Tuesday The registry, as corrected,
is as follows First Ward, first dis
trict, added 25, total 346 second dis
trict, added 9, total 465. Second
Ward, first district, added 81, total
355; second district, added 3, total
429. Third Ward, first district, added
20, total AT; second district, added
10, total 29S. Fourth Ward, added
33, total 524. Total 1884. Morris
township added %, total 653.
| Several. horses died suddenly in Nor
ristown a few weeks ago and word has
now come from the establishment
where they were skinned and the
bodies made marketable, that in sew
eral of the Stomachs were found balls
Of matter as hard as stone. 1t is sup
posed that the balls came from dirt or
impurities in the feed which rolled
into ball in the stomachs and be-
came hard, resulting in the death OF
the horse apparently from collie.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
MORRIS COUNTY COURTS.

George Moluska was tried and con-
victed ol assault and battery, the jury
recommending him to the mercy of
the court.
The indictments against Garrity
and Miller, of Mendham, for stealing
apples were nolled after considerable
evidence had been given, it appearing
that they had simply done as directed
by Others.
Herman Bakerman was tried for
bigamy and convicted.
Sylvester Till and Mrs. Ellicks were
tried for adultery and convicted.
DR.. Lust and @. W. Bastian were
tried for assault and battery on
Thursday, the former was acquitted
and the latter convicted.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
SHE DID NOT FEAR DEATH

An old lady on her seventy third birthday
once said, 81 do not mind getting old, and
do not fear death, but | live in constant
dread of paralysis. I"
sFor some time | have been wanting to
tell you of the great good your wonderful
Sloan's Liniment is doing here, - writes Mr..
James F. Abernethy, of Rutherford College,
N c. In fact, all your remedies are doing
noble work, but your Liniment beats all
In my eight years experience with medicine
] find none to 60 ahead of it, having tried it
in very many cases. / know of one young
man. a brick mason, who suffered from a
partial, yes, almost complete, paralysis of one
arm. | got him to use your Liniment, and
now he can do as much work as ever, and he
sings your praise every day, l get all to
use it possibly can and know there is great
virtue in it. | have helped the sale of your
noble remedies about here greatly. and ex-
pect to cause many more to buy them, as
know they can't be beat. " ..a
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05

The formal installation of Rev. Geo.
S Mott Doremus as pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church took place
at Rockaway on Friday night. Rev.
Stanley White, moderator Of the Pres
bytery of Morris and Orange, presided.
The invocation was by Rev. #. A.
Mason, pastor of the Rockaway M. K.
Church. Rev. DIR. j. f. Patterson,
pastor of The Central Presbyterian
Church of Orange, delivered the in
stallation sermon, taking as his text,
I" Not Ourselves, but Christ Jesus as
Lord" Rev. w. w. Halloway, pastor
of the Memorial Church of Dover, Of
fered the installation prayer. Rev.
DR.. Robert Hunter, stated clerk of the
presbytery of Philadelphia, gave the
charge to the pastor. The charge to
the congregation was delivered by
Rev. DR.. G. l.. Richmond.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
IMPORTANT MUSICAL EVENTS
The Boston symphony Orchestra and
Paderewskl TO Give a Concert


The Boston symphony Orchestra and
Paderewski TO Give Concert
AS a result of contracts entered into
by Charles Ellis, business manager of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and
Paderewski, and Frederick N. Som
mer, of Newark, the famous orchestral
organization will give a concert in the
Kruger Auditorium, Newark, Mon
day night, December 8, and Ignace
Jan Paderewski, the great Polish
pianist, will give recital in the same
hall Tuesday night, December II.
The Boston Symphony comprises
ninety-seven musicians, all of whom
rank among the musical virtuosi, and
it's conductor is DR.. Karl Muck, one of
the greatest of living musical di-
rectors, who was brought from Berlin
a year ago to succeed William Gerick
as the leader of the orchestra. The
coming concert will be the first to be
given by the Boston organization in
Newark and will be the most i'm
portant event marking the Newark
musical season. For the Boston
Symphony Concert, the price of seats
are 50. 90, S1.5O and $1.0O, and for the
Paderewski recital, the prices are
$3.50, $500, $1.5O and S1.00. Mail
orders for both concerts, accompanied
by check payable to the order of f. N.
Sommer, 1914 Broad Street, Newark,
N. j., will now be received.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
BOARD OF
ALDERMEN
CONTINUED FROM FIRST rAer.l

Chancellor Pithey, P. B. Pierson, w.
W. Cutler and Guy Minton. The bond
calls for payment January /, 1913, but
may be paid atany interest period after
ten years from January lst next, the
date of issue, although they will be is
sued as needed and not all at that
date. The interest is at four per cent,
payable semi-annually and the bonds
are to be of the denominations of $500
and 81, 1000. Mr.. Mills said that the
form permitted the payment of the
bonds gradually without a sinking
fund commission and possibility of a
commissioner getting away some time.
Alderman Mowery expressed the APP
probation of the board at securing the
terms indicated in these days when
New York is on four and half per
cent basis and then underwritten by
one man on the personal solicitation uf
Mayor Mcclellan.
Alderman Mowery reported the re-
ceipt Of check from Antonio Costa
for $40 to pay for the advertisements
put in the papers relative to sewer
connections.
Alderman Mowery reported that
pursuant to the vote at the last meet
ing, he had secured bids for new
sidewalk in front of the police build
ing from plans by Collins Weir.
Alderman Twining asked what they
amounted to, as he could not vote on
the subject without information.
1t was brought out that there ap-
parently is money enough in the mis-
cellaneous account to pay for a walk,
but as only two bids were presented
and Alderman Mowery was averse to
reading the bids publicly, the matter
was referred bids to be advertised for
to lay the walks. The specifications
prepared were read and commented
ON at some length.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05

"The decision of Vice-Chancellor
Stevens in the matter of the suit
brought by Newark to abolish the
grade crossing at Plum Point lane,
while adverse to the city with respect
to that particular crossing laid down
principles of law which show that the
city's expenditures for the partial cost
of elevated railroad structures were
unnecessary if the cost of human life
is to be left out of consideration. The
81, 200, 900 OF so that the city has paid
for Lackawanna, Pennsylvania and
Central Railroad elevation made GER
tain the abolition of the grade cross
ings years before the matter could
have been determined in the courts.
The opinion just rendered by Vice
Chancellor Stevens remains to be re-
viewed by the Court of Errors and APP
peals and, in the event of affirmance
by that court, the suit will take its
chances in the United States Supreme
Court in the course of years. F"
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
QUICK RETRIBUTIvE JUSTICE.
An Outrage Committed and states
Prison within Three Days.

An Outrage Committed and states
Prison Within Three Days.
The reputation Of Morristown as a
place in which woman was safe to
venture out at any time was given a
rude shock last Monday night, when
at half-past nine a young woman who,
two minutes before had left two rela-
tiyes who had accompanied her from
visit part way home, was accoSted
by colored man, James Battle, struck
in the head and dragged off into the
property of DR.. Mial, on Elm street,
where she was detained against her
will and outraged AS soon as she
could make her escape she went to the
house where she was employed and
was sent to a hospital, and later to
her relatives home.
The victim gave fair description
of the fend, and on the following
evening Officers Young and Meeker
found him at the Washington Hotel
and took him into custody The evil
dence was very incrimination and Bat
tie finally admitted hisguilt. Brought
before Judge Mills about six O'Clock
Wednesday evening he plead guilty
and was given the limit for the crime,
twenty years in State prison. Sheriff
Shaw secured an automobile and at
eight O'Clock started with him for
Elizabeth, where a train was taken
for the final journey to Trenton.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
NEW JERSEY D. A. r. MEETS
Contributions to Memorial Continental
Hall. The Movement to Raise
the Frigate Augusta

Hail. The Movement to Raise
the Frigate Augusta
The semi-annual meeting of the
New Jersey d. A. R. was held on Fri
day at The Montclair Club, Montclair.
About two hundred delegates from
differentchapters Of the State were
there. Miss Ellen Mecum, State
regent. af Salem, presided at the
morning &ession, her report being read
by Mrs r. G. Putnam, of Elizabeth.
The delegates were welcomed by Mrs.
Charles II Allen, yice-regent of the
Eagle Rock Chapter, the host of the
convention. The speaker Of the morn
ing session was the Rev. Henry Emer-
son Fosdick, of Montclair. Other
speakers of this session were Mrs.
Althea r. Bedle. of Jersey City, and
Mrs. Matthias Steelman, of Elizabeth.
Mrs. Steelman's subject was Patri-
otto Education"
State Regent Mecum in her report
stated that the chapters had with a
few exceptions contributed to the
Memorial Continental Hall, a marble
structure that is being erected by the
Daughters of the Revolution, thus re-
deeming the pledge of 1000 for the
New Jersey room and Naving a bal
ance for the finishing of the interior.
Miss Mecum said she had visited the
chapters and impressed upon them the
importance of the work The efforts
of the organization in the future, she
said, would be along the lines of
patriotic education.
Miss Matlack, regent of the Ann
| Whittle Chapter, of Woodbury., spoke
briefly of the movement on foot TO
raise the frigate Augusta, of Lord
Howe's feet, sunk in the Delaware
more than century ago. The wood
is we'll preserved and can be polished
to hign degree. 1t is the purpose OF
the New Jersey society to have all the
| furniture and trimming in the New
Jersey room of Continental Hall made
of this wood.
1t was decided to hold the next
meeting in the old Franklin House at
Perth Amboy.
The afternoon session was of social
character.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05

MT. FREEDOM.

Nathaniel johnson has moved to
the property known as the Babbitt
farm, near Mendham.
George Wright, who is working in
New York, was home for short visit
last week.
Miss Ida Coe attended the wedding
OF Miss Ella Van Houten and Robert
McInnes on Wednesday last, at
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Jerry Baldwin has moved to
her home in Newark.
A large number of people from here
attended the Carnival at Morrlstown
last week.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
at Mrs. James Carrell's on Wednesday
afternoon of this week.
Mrs. Horace Baird and Mrs. George
Pool spent Friday last at Morristown
with Mrs. Oliver Coe.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
The l.. II. Nature League.

A meeting Of the Directors of the
L. H. Nature League was held at the
residence of Col. Benz. p. Holmes,
Summit, October twenty-ffth, at
which time the first annual report of
the Association was read, showing a
membership of about fifteen hundred.
of which number one hundred and
fifty are adults. Forty-two lectures
in the interest of nature, were given
during the year ending July 18th, 1907
and about four thousand leaflets dis
trubted. apart from other literature
on Natural History subjects. The
lectures of the series on "Bird Life, ;"
we're given during the past week, at
the Springfield Public School; St.
Teresa's Parochial School the Chat
ham Public School Chapters and at
the Carleton Academy, Bedford Road
Summit
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
MENDHAM.

Y.P. S. c. E. in chapel at 7 o'clo ok.
Topic, =" Acquainted with God" Ref
erence, Job. %: 2l-22. Leader, Frank
Freeman.
Mrs. NJ. Cook, who has been spend
ing some time at this place, has re-
turned to Newark.
Rev. and Mrs. r. j. Johnston have
been entertaining Mr.. JOhnston's
brother, of New York,
About $40 was realized at the
Ladies' Auxiliary sociable.
Work on the Wise residence is pro-
crossing nicely, and FL. Johnston, of
Ralston, will occupy the farm house
November l.
Paul Ware and family are moving
from Mendham to Bernardsville.
A number of the ladies of the Mis-
Sionary Society attended The cOnyen-
tion at Dover on Wednesday last.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
Attempted suicide.

Kate Kelley, aged about forty, made
an attempt at suicide in the county
jail on Sunday. She tore. up sheet
of her bed and made a rope which she
tied one end to the stair rails and the
other around her neck and jumped
from the stairs in the women's depart
ment. She was quickly cut down by
other occupants of the department.
She had been committed from Dover
for drunkenness.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
OBITUARY.
WILLIAM c. cAsKEY.

William 9. Caskey, once prominent
and wealthy merchant of Morristown,
where he lived for thirty-tive years,
died at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Robert Osmun, at Washington, N. j..
Thursday He was 81 years old, and
his death was the result of a stroke of
paralysis sustained but few hours
before. He had lived in Washington
for thirteen years, and was a member
of the Presbyterian Church.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
RAILROAD NOTES.

Contracts for the construction of the
Erie's new bridge over the Hacken-
sack river on the Greenwood Lake di-
vision and Newark branch have been
awarded to McMullin s. McDermott
for the substructure, while the Amer
ican Bridge Company, of New York,
gets that for the superstructure, to be
completed by June l, 1908. The bridge
will be 6s8 feet long
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-11-05
Organ Recital.

An organ recital will be given in the
First Presbyterian Church on Wednes-
day evening of next week, at O'Clock,
by Mrs. Kate Elizabeth Fox, A. G. O.,
organist of the church, assisted by
w. Paulding DeNike, 'celloist, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, and Master Walter
Garbutt, soprano soloist of Christ
Church and pupil of Weston Spies
Gale, of New York. Subjoined is the
programme
Andante Maestoso Sonata l.
Allegro Risoluto St. Salome
Pastorale in A fiat. G.. McMaster
Aria-"O o Bona Patria " (Aora
Novlssimal II, Parker
ToccatO in + major, j. S. Bach
Cello Serenade, Schumann
| Revere, Bottesini
lntermezzo, from the Sixth
Symphony, G. M. Widor
Aria" Elegie," with cello
obligato, Massenet
Capriccio, Ed. Lemaigre
'Cello-La Handel
Allegro, from the Sixth
Symphony, G. M. Widor
The public is cordially invited.