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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08
BOOKINGS AT THE ILLINOIS.

BOOKINGS AT THE ILLINOIS.
March 1o-AI G. Fields Minstres,
matinee.
March Neutrality-suspicious. COM
pany.
March 17-"When knighthood Was
in Flower"
March 1a-"The College Widow"
March 2o-O'Brien-Burns Fight Pic.
lures.
March 23-Mahara's Ministries.
March 24-"Royal Chef"
March 25-McIntyre & Heath in
1.-THE Ham Tree"
March 31-"The Village Parson."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08

Phone girls have many ills.
For which they take some nasty pills:
If healthy and happy girl you'd be,
Ring up for Rocky Mouiain Tea
T II. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08

Il place. No phase of American his
tory is more typical of the strength
and progress of the new country than
that which deals with the gold fever
of 40 on the slopes of the Sierra Ne
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08

Real College Playa real college
play has at last been found, and will
be shown here shortly under The man
agement of Jules hurry. The star,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08

yr .H-- s -
vada mountains and the dramatic val
ues of the types which made the period |
unique have been fully and enthusiast |
tically appreciated by Belasco, master
playwright and producer Miss Bates
will be seen at the Grand opera house,
Davenport, Thursday, March IA.
Fields Remarkable Record.-In his
most remarkable career of almost %
years, AL G. Field and his greater min
strels, who come to the Illinois Sunday,
have appeared to more than 20,O0G,0 600
of American theatergoerS. They have
travelled more than $4,000 miles and
given a total of S,749 performances.
The record is the most flattering of any
| theatrical organization en- tour, and is
one of which Al Field is justly proud.
In his entire career on the road Field
never missed filling an engagement.
| AL Field began his career as circus
clown So years ago. Later he took to
the end in a circus side show minstrel
and a little more than II years ago he
organized the successful AL G.. Field
greater MINISTRIES. The company re-
Gently celebrated the 21st anniversary
of the Field organization at Charles
ton S. G.. The event was of more than
passing interest in theatrical circles,
and the festivities were attended by
newspaper men and notables from all
parts of the country. Manager r. II.
ITaylor of the Illinois theater announces
a special matinee performance of the
Al G. Field minstrels, Sunday after
noon. The minstrels will give a con-
lcert in front of the theater some time
before the performance, and they will
lgive special entertainment in the way
Iof genuine new minstrclsy at the mat
Iince. Mr. Field will appear in a char
iacter sketch, and Press Eldridge, the
celebrated monologist, will appear alsJ
in his musical absurdity, Il Was Born
on Il Friday"
Has a Good Defense.-Pat Grove has
in his varied career, but he need never
fret i'll the fear that he will be accused
of being an actor. Even if he should
the state. or several states. for tha
matter. would have a merry time prov
ing the case. On the stage, as off. witt
Pat it is a question of doing just what
ever is necessary to get the money
He walks out of the flies, speaks his
little piece, and walks off again. He
is there merely for exhibition purposes
but he hardly fills the bill at that, fol
he never gives the audience a square
look at his features. Perhaps he il
afraid he will be identified. From ,
purely dramatic standpoint, The Pride
of Newspaper Row might be made a,
success in spite of Pat, if the othe
members of the troupe were stron:
enough to cover up his deficiencies
But they are not. Grove. in addition
to being the chief curiosity, is about a!
near a star as any of the astral bOdie:
in the armament of the piece. The ma
jority belong to that dramatic schoo
! established by the Cherry sisters o
/ Iowa Grove is also from the Hawkey'
/ state, and it would not be surprisin:
: if the whole bunch were. Pat Grove
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08

it is said, has reformed He is no longer
thug and kidnaper. He is trying TO
however. he is willing to pose in the
light of an eX-criminal before the Amer
lean public and to take its money under
false pretenses as an actor. That any
company of which he is Il member can
make a living on the road, is a sad
commentary upon the stage and upon
the perverted taste to which it has ca
tered these later years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08
Peculiar ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Will

Peculiar rsonality.-IiGnrietta Will
son, who is appearing with the H'Or-
mond-Fuller Stock company at the IL
lnois this week, has personality pc
culiarly all her own. readily winning
her way to the hearts of her audiences
by her Carnestness of purpose and by
truthful portrayal of the different char
acters in which she appears, faithfully
drawing out all the pictures the author
intended. Then, too, she sings sweet
~, and at all times amuses her audi
ences with the latest song hits. Mat
inee Saturday, March 16.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-08

Don't consider lightly the evidence
of disease in your system. Don't take
desperate chances with ordinary medi-
cine Use HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea, the great specific. 50 cents, Tea
or Tablets. T. H. Thomas pharmacy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
SOCIETY EVENTS.

Mrs. S. B. Donagbe has returned
from her trip TO Colorado.
Capt. jacob w. Miller and family
have returned from New York, and
are now occupying Maccnlloch Hall. :.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphe de Barry have
announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Anita de Barry, to
Cecil Lyon, of New York.
Mrs. Paul Bigelow and Miss Wilde
will give bridge party at their home
on Wednesday, May 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitehead G. Duy-
ckinck and family have established
themselves in Plaintield, N. ).
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Ford arrived in
Morristown on Wednesday and have
re-opened their Morris street house.
Mrs. Henry w. Ford is having some
improvements made to the exterior OF
her Morris street cottage and expects
to reoccupy it SOON.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse NJ. Eddy are still
at Hot Springs, Va They will stay
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse L. EDDY dur
ing the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max e. Schmidt are
staying at The Boyken having temper
arilly left their Madison avenue house.
Mrs. Oscar Bloodgood Smith, Jr.,
and Mrs. Edward Kirkpatrick Mills,
will give bridge party at the Golf
Club on Monday, May q.
MIR. and Mrs. James f. Maury have
rented their cottage at Quogue for the
summer, and do not expect TO go there
this season.
Mrs. John @. Williams will give a
bridge party on May %.
f. w Keasbey has rented the house
64 Maple avenue for a term of five
years.
The Thursday Luncheon Club met
at Miss Dana'S on May 16. After the
luncheon Mrs. Hoyt read a paper on
Florence. +"
Mr.. and Mrs. FL. e. Niese are again
occupying their place at Pickatlnny.
DR.. Alfred Brush has been spending
several days with his sister, Mrs. Sut.
phen on Franklin place.
Mrs. w. D. Vanderpool won the first
prize at the bridge contest at the Colt
Club on Tuesday. Mrs. Jacob e. Ward
was second and Mrs. Castles third.
Several parties were entertained at
luncheon after the bridge.
Mrs. f. b. Dwight and Mrs. L.. o,
Stiles attended the twenty-fourth an
nual meeting OF the American McAll
Association held in Boston, May 8th
and 9th. Mrs. Dwight returned home
on Friday the 10th but Mrs. Stiles is
still away visiting friends in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut.
Colonel and Mrs Mitchem and son
left the Morristown Inn on Tuesday
for Watervliet, N. Y, where Colonel
Mitchem has been assigned TO the
command of the arsenal. Mrs. Dunn,
wife of Major Dunn, gave dinner On
Monday evening in honor of Colonel
Mitchem.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
OBITUARY.
CHARLES FRANCIS CUTLER.

CHARLES FRANCIS CUTLER.
The news of the death of Charles
Francis Cutler at Saranac on Satur-
day night came as a great surprise to
his friends in MorriStown on Sunday.
He had not been i'll and only few
days before had been at his home in
Kahdena, going to Saranac for a fish,
ing "trip. He was stricken with hear t
disease from which he died. Mr.. Gut
ler was in the sixty-Sixth year Of his
age
Mr.. Cutler was born in Ashland,
Mass, in 1841, and began his bust
ness career at the age of twenty-four
in South Framingham. Mass, as a
commission merchant, travelling
through the West, buying grain. He
became interested in the telephone
business in South Framingham, and
later removed to Brooklyn, where he
organized the New York and New
Jersey Telephone Company, of which
he was made president. He then
went to New York with the Metro
politan Telephone and Telegraph
Company, afterward the New York
and New Jersey Telephone Company
In addition to being president of
the New York Telephone Company
Mr.. Cutler was chairman of the board
of directors of the New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company,
the Bell Telephone Company of Phil
adelphia, the Delaware and Atlantic
Telegraph and Telephone Company,
the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company, the Hudson River
Telephone Company, the Central
New York Telephone and Telegraph
Company, the Empire State Tele'
phone and Telegraph Company and
the New York and Pennsylvania Tel
ephone and Telegraph Company. He
was director of the Morristown
Trust Company, the Washington
Trust Company, the Washington Life
Insurance Company Of New York
and theS American Brake-Shoe and
and Foundry Company.
He was a member of the Metropolis
tan. Morristown, Riding, New Yorl;
fAlH1SIlS, Law Ol D MILLS NOuhoS
Golf and Whippany River Clubs.
Mr. Cutler married, in 1885, Miss
ELLA S. Poole, of Boston. Two years
later he moved to Morristown. build
ing a handsome country residence at
Kahdena. He leaves, besides his
wife, a daughter, Mrs. James B. Cur
tis, of No. 116 East 62d street, and
one son, Earle N. Cutler, a student
at ST. Pauls School, Concord, Mass
The body is being brought on to
day and is expected here this after
noon.
The funeral will be held at the
Church of the Redeemer this TUESDAY
afternoon at 2:30. The burial will be
at South Framingham, Mass, on
Wednesday The executive and gen
eral offices of the New York Tele,
phone Company and the New York
and New Jersey Telephone Company
will be closed from 12 O'clock noon
on the day of the funeral.
The Office here will also be closed
during the afternoon.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
PlainfieId Horse show.

The horse show committee Of the
Riding and Driving Club of Plainfield,
N. j., announces the dates of their
fourth annual shcw which will be held
at the club'snew show grounds, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, June 6, Z, s..
The entry list will contain the names
Of every competitor of last year as well
as many new ones. There are tifty-two
classes in all covering every depart
ment in riding, driving, jumping and
special events, and for each perform
ance an excellent program will be ar
ranged Exhibitors, horses and vehi-
cles, will be transported free from Jer-
sey City to Plainfield by special shil-
ment. The entries close SATURDAY.,
May 25th, with Charles w. Smith, as
sistant secretary, 16'East 23rd street.
New York City. The judges are as
follows: Messrs. George Willing, DIR.
II. ID. Gill, p. V. S., William g. Rock
feller, George G.. Haven, Jr., Hanil-
ton II. Salmon, Robert A. Fairbairn
y. TaberWillets, Charles III. Hurkamp,
Harry T.. Peters, DR.. e. r. Voorhees,,
DIV s., and DIT Earle Budd, DIV. S.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
clxnlserviee Examination.

An examination will be held for the
position of clerk and carrier in the
Post Office at Morristown, N. j., on
June l, 1907. Appointments of clerks
and carriers are made as substitutes,
who are paid at the rate of 80 cents
per hour when serving for absent
clerks or carriers and they are eligi-
BILE for appointment as auxiliary en-
ployees who are paid for actual SER
vice at the rate of 30 per hour and are
required to work not less than two
hours each day. Age limit, all posi-
tions, Is to 45 years. Male applicants
must be at least 5 feet inches in
height, and weigh not less than 125
pounds. For application blank, full
Instructions, specimen examination
questions and information as to the
location of the examination room, in
quiry should be made at once of Mrs.
l.. ID. Ambrose at the Post Office.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
STREET LIGHTING BIDS.

The Public Service Corporation Con-
siders specifications too Onerous.
Pursuant to advertisement, the
lighting committee of the board of
aldermen received bids at the Office of
N. G. Toms, the town clerk, on We'd
nesday at noon for the lighting of the
town according to specifications pre-
pared by the committee. Promptly
at the time appointed the bids we're
opened. Envelopes were handed in
on the hour by A. III. Lynch, local
manager of the United Electric Co.,
and by Peter V. Stryker, the manager
of the Bernardsville lighting plant.
The first was found on being opened
to be not bid, but letter from
Thomas McCarter, president of the
Public Service Corportion, objecting
to the specifications as too onerous
and requiring too great an initial
charge for the length of the CONTRACT
and suggesting that conference be
held between the committee and rep
resentatives of the Public Service.
The second envelope contained a
bid signed by Mr.. Stryker Offering to
furnish the equipment and light the
town at the rate of 800 per annum for
arc lights and $lS per annum for in
candescent lamps of twenty-five can
lie power and $12 per annum for church
clock lights.
The specifications provided by the
committee were attached, the bidder
agreeing to build on the lines of the
bids furnishing the ornamental poles,
ETC., but making as a provision of the
bid that he be given a working fran
chise for doing commercial as well as
tile city lighting.
The committee announced that the
bids would be considered and and the
matter referred to the board of alder
men.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
PHASES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

The subject of Magistrate whltman's
Address before the Mems Club.
Charles S. Whitman, president Of
the board of magistrates of NewYork,
was the speaker before the Mems Club
of the First Presbyterian Church at
the meeting held on Monday evening,
and discussed phases of law enforce
ment. He opened with quoting the
old saying that mans house is his
castle, which he characterized as mere
rhetoric, showing how in many ways
it is not so, and although the King of
England might not enter, a NewYork
policeman can. Most of the judges are
honest men and always have been.
There is of course corruption in all
places but he believed that if an hon.
est question is presented justice can
be secured although it may be neces-
sary to go to the highest court. He
emphasized the Importance of law to
business foundation and the necessity
of every citizen seeing that it is en-
forced.
Taking up some Of the difficulties,
Mr. Whitman told of the efforts now
being made to secure night court to
eradicate the professional bondsman
evil. 1t seems to be stuck in the as
sembly but it seemed impossible that
the forces which want the bondsman
should be able to prevent this reform.
He also discussed the Raines law,
not as to the moral side of drinking or
why it is right to sell liquor at one
hour and not at another, but on the
general ground of the necessity of the
enforcement of law because of its eff
feet on the young policemen and young
people of the cities. At present the
enforcement is left to police officers
who see the possibilities of graft.
The hope for the future is in che
children and young men. He had
noticed That when an American sees q
condition he has already found it's So
luton. He had been out speaking
many times of late to let the people
know the situation along the lines he
spoke on. Judge Whitman expressed
the thought that conditions are i'm
proving and compared a recent utter
ance by clergyman on the divorce
evil with an expression of opinion a
hundred and fifty years ago as proof
of the fact.
Vice Chancellor Pitney said he could
not see why the clergy are SO fierce
against divorces. If they read the evi-
dence of four-fifth of the cases which
had come before him he thought they
would change their attitude. He did
not believe anyone is called upon to be
a martyr but that is just what one
party is in the marriage relations if
continued under conditions shown in
divorces. The Bible nor the Christian
religion 90 not call for it. He also
spoke on the attempt to change the
courts of the state.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
REPRODUCING A LANDMARK.
.. Bullock Hall'' In Replica Feature
of Jamestown Exposition.

g Bullock Halls' in Replica Feature
of Jamestown Exposition.
Bullock Hall" the famous land
mark which links the name of Presi-
dent Roosevelt with the South, is to
be reproduced at the jamestown ex-
position.
President Roosevelt has frequently
expressed himself as being proud OF
his southern blood and of the part his
ancestors and immediate relatives have
had in southern history. The repro
lduction of Bullock Hall, his mothers
home, at the jamestown exposition
near Norfolk is material evidence that
the South and especially the State OF
Georgia, which has the closest claim
on him, does not fail to reciprocate
this feeling more or less strongly in
spite of President Roosevelt's pro
bounced Republicanism and certain
positions he has taken on the negro
question, says the st. Louis "Post-
Dispatch" -
On Georgia day, June l0next, Presi-
dent Roosevelt will speak from the
stone steps of Bullock Hall as it will
then stand at Jamestown.
The stone forming this step was put
in place in the old home by President
Roosevelt's neutrality-suspicious.,
Governor Bullock of Georgia, and from
it Governor Bullock delivered his
speech of acceptance when he was
made president of the Georgia col
ony, as the position was then called.
The original stone has been removed
and taken to Jamestown. The re-
mainder of the building is to be a re-
plica of the Georgia home.
Bullock Hall, was the home of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's mother, Miss Magtha
Bullock, and of two uncles who served
the Confederacy strikingly and valor-
ously. 1t was there that Theodore
Roosevelt, Sr., the presidents father,
went as an attendant of DIR. Hilborne
West of Philadelphia when that gen
tleman married Miss Susan Elliott.
half-sister of Miss Bullock.
Theodore Roosevelt, ST.. met Miss
Bullock on that occasion. For week
preceding and after the wedding cefe-
monies which made Miss Elliott the
wife of DR.. West a gay and brilliant
gathering assembled at Bullock Hall.
1t was several years afberward, how
ever, before Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.,
made another visit to bullock Hall
that was as important as his first.
During that time his c0urtship, of
Martha Bullock had continued, and
finally they were married. Theodore
Roosevelt was son of this union.
DR.. and Mrs. West spent their de-
clining years in New ersey-their
winters in Morristown, and their sum-
mers in Mendflam. While here in
Morristown they attended quite regu-
larry, as long as was possible, the
South Street Presbyterian, Church.
The Rev. James B. Beaumont con-
Quoted the funeral of Mrs. West, May
20, 1905, Mrs. Douglass Robinson max
ing all the arrangements for Jfle same,
manifeSting the forcefulenergy OF her
brother, the President, as family
characteristic.
The Rev. DIR. Albert Erdman per-
formed the last sad rites for DR.. West
during the last winter of 1907.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
THE OLD LADIES' HOME
To be Open for Inspection on Thurs
day Afternoon.

To be Open for Inspection on Thurs
day Afternoon.
The board of managers of the Old
Ladies' Home, Mt. Kemble avenue,
have issued a large number of invita-
Jions TO Morristown people to make an
inspection of the building on Thurs
day, May 23, in the afternoon, at which
anyone interested will be welcome.
The Mary Louise Memorial addition
has been completed and many improve
mentS have been made to the old sec
tion of the building. Tea will be SER
we'd at 4 O'Clock.
There are at present seventeen in
the home, but there is room for many
more. Many applications are received, [,
but the managers have formulated
strict rules for admission.
The officers of the home are Mrs.
Wheelock, president; Miss Sallie N.
Whitney, vice-president; Miss Eliza
beth Earl, treasurer; Mrs. James B.
Griswold, secretary. On the board of
managers are Mrs. Alexander BenneIl,
Mrs. ThomasW. .Cauldwell, Miss 1zath-
crime Clark. Miss Kate V. Ferris, Miss
Lidgerwood, Mrs. D. Hunter McAlpin,
Mrs. John 0. H. Pitney, Mrs. Philan-
der b Pierson, Mrs. Elliott Smith,
Mrs. Harvey Williams, Mrs. John /.
Waterbury Honorary managers are
Mrs. Charles e. Noble and Mrs. F.
Wooster Owen.
The trustees of the Institution are
the Rev. Franklin B. Dwight, Charl-
ton A. Reed, Thomas w. Cauldwell.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
Invitation Concert.

A large audience assembled in the
Sunday School rooms of the South
Street Presbyterian Church on Mon
day evening at the invitation concert
given by the Treble Clef Club. The
club numbers were well rendered un-
der the direction of j Sebastian Mat
thews, the director. The soloists
were Miss Minnie Parker, Miss May
Brooks and Warren w. Biggen. their
efforts being much appreciated, en-
cores being demanded for each num-
ber. Miss Ethel Brown rendered sell
ections on the piano in artistic man
mer which delighted the audience.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21

Lauter Grand Pianos are used very
largely, not only throughout New
Jersey, but all over the country for
concert purposes, as well as in schools
and studios where a Grand Piano of
fine character is an absolutely neces-
sity. There are at least twice as many
Lauter Grand Pianos in schools in
this State as can be found of all other
makes combined. These instruments
give remarkable satisfaction, and we
have scores of testimonial letters from
school principals and teachers testi-
flying to their appreciation of the Lau-
ter quality and musical excellence.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21

At a meeting of the Board of Mana
gers Of the State Hospital at Morris
Plains Thursday, Harry A. VanGilder
of Morristown was elected secretary to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Charles HI. Green.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21

The Lauter Grand and Small
Grand Pianos are delightly artistic
instruments.
You should come here and
investigate these beautiful Grands
for yourself.
The demand for Grand and Small
Grand Pianos among people of mod
crate means has become very marked
during the past five years. To-day
there are hundreds of Lauter Small
Grand Pianos in homes where former
ly an Upright was considered satisfac-
tory.
The huge old style, elephantine
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able for concert use in all but excep-
tionally large halls.
The LAUTER GRAND and the
LAUTER SMALL GRAND, illustra-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21

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They are made in beautifully figured San
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