davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

AS Fourth of July is approaching in
valids and nervous people generally
are dreading the ordeal through which
they will be compelled to pass for sew
eral days, and particularly through
the night of the third and all day the
fourth In many towns stringent or
dinances have been passed curtailing
very much the senseless practice of
making life a burden to most people
as well as endeavoring to safeguard
life and limb. Springfield, Mass, has
taken the lead in this matter and has
demonstrated that it is possible to
have a sensible celebration of the ma
tional anniversary. No feature of a
patriotic celebration is omitted, and
the municipal government and private
citizens contribute literally toward
the celebration. A widespread repu-
tation has been gained by these eff
forts. Probably no city, on the other
hand, has made such remarkable
stride in getting rid of the senseless
noise-maker. The firing of explosives
will be permitted this year only be-
tween the hours of and 10 a. M, and
6 and 7.30 p. m. To pave the way for
the entire elimination of the evening
firing next year and in all future years
the Board of Aldermen passed reso-
luton Hthat in fine OniniOn of this
board the use OF revolvers, torpedoes,
cartridges, crackers and all other ex-
plosiyes not intended for display or IL
Elimination should, after the present
year, be eliminated on the evening of
July 4. !" This concession was made
this year to the dealers iq fireworks
because of the large stocks on hand.
The warning is said to be final. Our
municipal authorities might well take
a lesson from this example.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

THE returns from Oregon show that
the Republicans have elected their
two congressman, commended by
President Roosevelt, also their gov
ernor and the legislature by a large
majority. But in spite OF this latter
a Democratic United States Senator
will be chosen. This extraordinary
result arises from the direct primary
law, combined with the remarkable
popularity of Governor Chamberlain,
a Democrat. He carried the State in
1906 by plurality OF 2,494. although
the remainder of the Republican tick
ct triumphed by pluralities OF from
$4,000 to 10000 and Roosevelt won
Oregon in 1904 by 42,988. This year,
although the Republicans have car
ried the State again, as was fully ex-
pected, Governor Chamberlain appears
to have safe lead over his Republi-
can rival in the. vote for United
States Senator. OF course Repub-
lican legislature is under no legal COM
pulsion to elect the Senator who is the
proved choice of the people of the
State, but it is morally bound to do
so. Indeed, Republican candidates for
the legislature expressly pledged them
selves to abide by the popular vote on
the Senatorship. If they do not, they
will repudiate the direct primary law
of which Oregon has been so proud,
and under which they themselves
have their political being. But fancy
the strain on party loyalty
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
Rainfalls In May.

Never in the history of the New
York Weather Bureau, which has
been in existence for thirty-eight
years, has there been a greater rain
fall for the month Of May than 9.1O
inches, the total for the month just
ended. The total rainfall for the
month, however, is not the only record
to the credit of last month. for on May
Z 4.16 inches, the greatest rainfall for
any twenty-four hours in any May In
thirty eight years, was recorded. I'm
til the steady downpour of May 7 the
record for twenty-four hours for May
was held by May, 1898, when, on the
Sd and 4th of that month, 3.04 inches
fell. The greatest rainfall on record
for twenty}four hours, which occurred
on Octobef s and of 1908, was 9.04
inches. Next to this comes a rainfall
of 81 inches, on September %, 1882,
and third on the list of the 24-hour
rain records was 486 inches, which
fell on September Is and 10, 1894.
Williams, Proctor 81 Potts, en-
gineers, send us the following report
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
TAFT AND GRANT.

In his Memorial Day address in New
York, Secretary Taft referred to Gen
eral Grants weakness for strong
drink, and the reference has stirred
up storm of protest, no doubt from
Taft's political enemies. 1t is mat
ter of history that the distinguished
soldier had this weakness, and that it
led to his retirement from the army
before the Civil War began.
Mr.. Taft has explained that he had
no intention of rejecting upon the
character of General Grant, and says
{" The lives of our great men belong
to the country. If facts are told show
ing that they had weaknesses which
they overcame, the force of their sue
cessful example is greater to lift the
youth of the country up to emulate
them than if they are painted as per-
feet, without temptations and with
out weaknesses.
One of the stories told about Lincoln
and Grant is that some of the latter's
enemies, jealous CT his success, COM
planned to the great War President
that Grant was hard drinker. i
wish I knew the brand of whiskey he
drinks" replied Lincoln; would
like to prescribe it for the other gen.
erals" Such story may do harm, but
a reference that shows that the great
commander overcame his weakness and
served his country with great distinc-
tion, will, as Mr.. Taft/says, be an ex-
ample to others. Trenton Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

AFTER years of effort Postmaster
Clarke, assisted by someRfSthe politi-
clans, has succeeded in securing am
Appropriation for government build
ing in Morristown and proposals for a
site are asked for. This is matter
of Importance to the town and should
arouse enthusiasm. The location of
the building should be such as to be
convenient for business and add to the
prestige of the town. The size and
conditions of the lot required practi-
cally compel the location of the build
ing away from the business section I'M
less the owners of two or more proper
ties combine and agree upon reason
able price. Morristown real estate
averages much higher than towns of
similar size and character and what
would be considered a reasonable price
here would probably strike the postal
authorities as abnormally high. An
agent of the department said awhile
ago that with the delivery system the
location of post Office was inmate
rial, and in Elizabeth the new post Of
flee is located in a residential and not
in business section. In other towns
this matter is taken up by the munic-
ipal and commercial organizations and
measures taken to secure a site in a
suitable location at a reasonable price.
The Moyor has appointed a commits
sion to take up this matter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
SORGHUM, Good Hoo Pasture.

81 have had no experience with sor-
ghum as pasture for stock except for
hogs" says a Dakota man in Farm
Progress. Hogs relish it and seem to
do as well on it as on any other pas
ture. AS to whether it win produce
bloat in cattle or sheep, do not know.
but 1t would probably act the sane
as any green, succulent feed il they
were allowed to Eat it when hungry
or while it was wet with dew or rain. Z
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
General Markets.

BUTTER Creamery, specials, Ac.; ex-
tras 2S55c.; tirsts. 221sa2Sc.; state dairy
good to finest, 2l1sa2sc.; process, specials,
211kc.; extras. 2O1aa2c.; ladies' firsts, 1870;
packing stock No. /, 100.
CHEESE-Full cream, old, specials, 15o. !;
state, full cream, small, white, fancy
14Ac; small. colored, fancy, 141sc.; large.
colored fancy. 142c.; fair to prime, LIZA
1Sc; common, SaS5ac.; new, specials. 11Aa
12Ac.; fancy, lie; skins, III pound spe-
Gals. SIZE; fine 61sa71sc.
nGGS-Fresh gathered, extras, 19c.; ex-
ira firsts, 17a1714c.; firsts, f6a161sc.; sec
onds. 14lsa15l9c.; dirties, fresh gathered.
No. l, 1S1ka14c. No. 2, 111Aa121zc.; checks,
111aa121ac.
POTATOES Firm and in good demand:
choice, new, per barrel, $SaS50; fair to
good per barrel $1a2.25.
LIVE POULTRY = Quiet but steadyI
fowls, 1S1aa14c.; old ROSTERS, 914a10i
spring chickens, 5a3Oc
DRESSED POULTRY-Steady and in
fair demand; fresh killed fowls, choice,
ls1ha14c.; do, fair to good, 121ka1Sc; old
ROSTERS, 1O15c.; nearby broilers, SoaS6c.
western broilers, 2Sa32c.
MILK-The wholesale price is N.1 per
40 quart can.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
THE Newark News gives some of i,

THE Newark News gives some of its
valuable space to an editorial on To-
cal celebrity, Simmer Cook. 1t is
quite romance in some respects, but
from literary point of view is rank
failure, The language is too common
place for the subject. If Skinner =
should happen to read it he would
withhold his favorite communication
"I'll fight under his banner for he's a
piece Of work"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
SEALED BIDS.

Sealed proposals will be received Of the
FreehoIders' room, Morris County Court
House. Morristown. N. j., on Saturday
morning, June 18Th. 1908. at 1890 A. M ,
for the remodeling of the furnace room in
the Court House building.
Plans and specifications can be seen at
any time at the Office of Collins Weir,
Supervising Architect, 10 Washington ST,
Morristown. N, j.
Court House and Jail Committee OF
the Board of Chosen .Freeholders
of the County of Morris.
r. H. BurchelI. Chairman.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

The state socialistic convention con-
demned Mayor Mcbride for suppress
ing anarchistlc meetings in the streets
in Paterson. Is this not another proof
of the fact that the dividing line be-
tween socialism and anarchism is very
indefinite Our mayor is to be con-
graduated on the enemies he makes.
The commentator of such a gather
ing would have been disgrace. -
=" Paterson Call"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

No mistake has been made by the
trustees of the Stanford University, at
Palo Alto, California, in empowering
the students affairs committee to en-
force prohibition. The use Of beer,
wine and whiskey has been prohibited
in student boarding houses, and even
in the fraternity houses it will not be
permitted to serve such drinks to the
students themselves or to outside visi-
tors.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

THE Compulsory Education Law as
recently amended requires daily atten-
dance at school from seven up to the
age of seventeen years, excepting in
the cases of children who are more
than fifteen years old who have COM
pleted the grammar school course pre-
scribed by the State Board of Educa-
tion and who are regularly employed
in some lawful and useful service. In
case a child between the ages of fifteen
and seventeen has completed the gram
mar course and is not regularly en-
ployed he or she is required to attend
a high school or manual training
school, and if there is no such school
in the place where the child lives he
or she shall be transported at public
expense to the nearest one in another
place.
The change was made without the
advice or approval of the school author
titles of the state but at the request of
some humane society to keep children
from idleness. The intent was good
but under present conditions it is inn
practicable. Some children must leave
school without completing the ele-
mentary course and compulsory high
school training would be farce. &
The intention may have been to
initiate the German continuation
schools" but handicraft schools in
Germany are quite unlike the so-called
manual training schools of this coun-
fry
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

SOME of former Governor Stokes
friends tried to revive his moribund
yice-presidential boom, but he has
come out with statement that he is
not a candidate. This is unnecessary
labor as former Governor Murphy has
a strong hold on the nomination if it
can be landed by New Jersey.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

The Brant Hentz Flower Co. has
been incorporated by Elwood Brant,
Henry Hentz, Jr., Of Madison, and
Bankson 4. Morgan. Of New York.
with an authorized capital stock Of
s., 900, Of which 81 900 is paid in.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

THE proceedings of the Republican
national convention practically COM
mence to-day as the National Commit
tee meets in Chicago to take up the
matter Of contesting delegations.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
Live Stock Markets.

New York, June g.
CATTLE-Supply fair; market higher;
choice. $7.10a740 prime $6.75a71o; veal
calves. $6.50a7.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Supply fair;
market higher on shocp and lower on
lambs; prime wethers, )$4.65a4.75; culls and
common, $2aS; lambs, $S.50a5.65.
HOGS-Receipts fair; market higher:
prime heavies, mediums and heavy York
ers, $5.75a5.S0; light Workers, s550a5.60;
pigs, $5a51O; roughs $4.5oa49o.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

FROM the mild comments that have
come to US in regard to our article on
the political situation in Morris coun-
ty we are forced to the conclusion that
people generally think it is too early
to get in much of ferment over poll
ties
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
Morris Circuit Court.
( On Contract.
In Attachment.
vs..
Parmly s. Clapp.

vs.. .eat Nou.
Parmly s. Clapp. - 1A''aoniuens.
Notice Is hereby given that writ OF at
tachment at the suit OF Daniel M. Mer-
chant against the rights and credits.
monies and effects, goods and chattels'
lands ana tenements of Parmly S. Clapp.
nom PRESIDENT debtor for the sum of four
hundred and sixty dollars Issued out Of
said court on the Twenty fifth day Of April.
A. d. nineteen hundred and eight and re-
turned into court duly executed by the
Sheriff Of the County Of Morris, in the
State Of New Jersey, on she Twenty. ninth
day OF April. nineteen hundred and eiQhk.
Dated May 6. 1908
DANIEL s. VOORHEES,. Clerk.
NATHANIEL g, Toms, Attorney. 66
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

SAVE YOUR OLD CARPETs-We make
handsome reversible rugs out of them.
Send for psmpnies giving I'M par.iculaTs
r. Women agents can earn good money.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
SEALED BIDS.

Sealed proposals will be received at the
Freeholders room, Morris County Court
House, Morristown, N. j.. on Saturday
morning, June 18th, 1908. at 1880 A. M,
for the Installing of new furnaces in the
county building.
Plans and specifications can be seen at
any time at the office of Collins Weir,
Supervising Architect, 16 Washington ST.,
Morristown, N. j.
Court House and Jail Committee of
the Board of Chosen Freeholders
of the County of Morris.
r. H. Burchell. Chairman.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
DIED.

BIRD AT Bernardsville, N. j., on
Thursday, June 4th, 1908, Mrs Han
nah Bird, mother of Charles and
Eugene McCollum.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09
=ccs ron HATcH,NG

From my swimming Silver Wyan-
dottes--6 fret prizes and a special this
season. 81 90 per setting. Judson A
Davis, Morristown, N. j.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

To look after our interest in Morris
and adjacent counties. Salary OK
Commission. Address The Harvey
OIL Co. Cleveland. Ohio.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-09

About q deg. warmer THAN las
year. Rainfall twice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-07

in the pure food movement, and when
100000 women back up governmental
proposition like this it means some
| thing.
Believing thoroughly in the need of
open air for children, club women have
urged cities to build parks and play
grounds and in many instances have
! done it at their own expense. In To-
ledo, Ohio, one of the club women may
| be found every day in the school gar
dens, taking turns with her coworkers
| The women S clubs of Columbus, Ohio,
keep eight Fairgrounds, and in Du-
buque, Iowa, they have purchased a
| bluff for park. Keenly interested in
the weak and oppressed they have
gone after reform in almshouse nurs-
ing, the State Federation of Michigan
and the Association of Nurses in that
State leading with twenty three States
following closely on their heels.
The immigrant has come in for a
| goodly share of attention among the
women s clubs. The Woman 5 Munich
| pal League and Welfare Committee of
| the National Civic Federation had two
laws enacted in New York last Sep
TENDER protecting immigrant girls from
q
cational and Industrial Union of Bos-
| ton, the Research and Protective Asso-
citation in Philadelphia, the Women s
Trade Union League in Chicago, and
the Council of Jewish Women are of
fering advice and protection and help
to the newcomers who receive no gov
| eminent aid after leaving Ellis Island.
Education in good citizenship is offered
70 Ic Of
ers through various patriotic and civic
clubs composed of women.
In the conservation of the nation S
natural resources the woman 5 clubs are
lending a helping hand. They had
their representatives at the meeting of
the governors, they have their depart
ment of forestry, and in some States
have established regular classes in for
estry. There is no Carnegie among the
women. but the travelling libraries, a
score of good books in their small
boxes, have penetrated mountain fast
nesses, and gone to remote prairie
towns that never would otherwise know
of bookland. Colorado alone has 5000
volumes always on the road and this
is not much of an 0verestimate for
each Of the other forty-fve State Fed
erations.
Through the work Of club women
California IS missions viii be preserved,
the Indian Mounds of Wisconsin are
being protected, the Cliff Dwellings of
Colorado and Arizona have been placed
under national protection, the desecra-
tion of the Palisades of the Hudson
and the threatened destruction of Nj
agara Falls have been brought before
the public, the homes of Washington
and Andrew Jackson have been pre-
served, and the Alamo purchased as a
perpetual monument to Texan vai9r.
Through the Oregon women a statue
has been erected to Sacaiawea the In
dian maid of Lewis and Clark : expe-
dition; the women of Colorado have
kept Judge Lindsey in office for the
good of the delinquent children of the
State. and the South Carolina Fedora
tion is trying to secure a State indus
trial school for bows. They are work |
ing along many lines. some for suf-
frage, some for revision of State laws
on various subjects, but all with the
same end-te better the nation. They
seem to have taken Amiel s advice:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-07

children in the United States, and clut
women of the country know that when
the fall term opens there will be 5000,
900 or more children who will not en-
ter the schools. To the women has
come the momentous question of finding
out why they will not enter and a cure
for the reason. Of these children A.,
100000 will be at work earning thei1
own living and that of others, and from
them will come the plea that the
schools of the land are not giving them
training that will fit them for earn,
ing a living with their hands, and that
they must go into factories to learn
how. Less than 600 cities in the Uni,
ted States have manual training in
their schools, and in only a small per.
education of any kind compulsory. How
to place education of the needed kind
in reach of these 10000 children and
make them take advantage of it is one
of the biggest problems with which the
women of the nation are now wrestling.
The Federation and it's clubs have
not been idle in doing the work that
lies nearest in educational lines. The
Federation itself maintains scholar
ship for American girls at an English
university. The Michigan State Fed
Grafton has a $4,000 fund for the us.,
of worthy girls. Texas has twenty
scholarships, Utah two, Colorado nine
teen, and Kansas eighteen, while dur
ing the past year the New Hampshire
State Federation educated four girls
and that of Mississippi sent eight to
school.
The old theory that women need
have no training for home life has been
swept to the wall by the club woman
of today. In Illinois, where there was
established at the State university in
1870 the first domestic science school
in the world, the club women have been
active in such education. The School
of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Chi
cagO had last year an attendance Of
llUO students and added kindergarten
work and the care of children to it's
curriculum. The Women s Educational
and Industrial Union of Boston has
for three years conducted classes FOR
saleswomen with remarkable success.
The State Federation of Vermont clubs
conducted last year a successful arts
and crafts exhibit. and through rhe
work of club women one Massachusetts
and three North Carolina towns have
revived Old hand industries and have
materially prospered.
Loving housekeeping because they
are intensely domestic, the club women
of today, through the Civics Commits
sion of the General Federation, have
asked for big municipal house-clean-
ing day that shall become national. and
have already inaugurated it in many
cities and towns. Through this de-
partment of civics they ask for an
intelligent and economical disposition
of garbage and refuse that would sup
ply each town with its electrical power
and incidentally bring in revenue in
stead of becoming dead expense. They
have offered endorsement and coopera-
ton to the Department of Agriculture
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-07
INFANTILE CHOLERA

Any unusual looseness of a child's
bowels during the hot weather should
be warning to mothers. Infantile
cholera may develop & a few hours,
and prompt action should be taken to
avoid it. Chamberlains Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, followed by a
dose of castor oil. will check the dis
ease in its insipiency, and all danger
may be avoided. For sale by Benson.
Smith & Co. Ltd. agents for H L
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-07

TO be patient, sympathetic, tender;
to look for the budding flower and the
opening heart; to hope always
The Marshall republican., 1908-08-28
WANNAMAKER

j. Il. Fletcher and wife o
Sunday guests at G. Il. Bridge
waters.
s. NJ. Walker anl family spent
from Friday until Sunday In
Nelson neighborhoo1.
Mrs. Harriet John on AMI
daughters Vlsited at Leslie John
sons Tuesday,
There was a basket dinner held
at Bethlehem church Sunday ami
wa3 largely ATTENDED.
j. NJ. walker made a business
trip to Sedalia Thursday.
j. l.. Lynch cal.ci Mt G. r.
Br.dgewater's Saturday.
When through reading this pa
per hand 1t to your neighbor.