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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
THOUSANDS READY
To RING OUT 1903
AND WELCOME 1910
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arranged at the Y. M. G. A. building.
A. the Orange branch there will be
athletic events, a reception in the after
oon and an illustrated lecture.
Members of the Young Mems Father
Mathew T. A. B. Society urge their
friends to remember hat their New
Years dance is to be held in the club
house, at Hudson and Hartford streets,
tonight.
The religious significance of the
birth of a new year, however, will not
be overlooked, and in many of the
churches watch-night services will be
held. Programs including social and
religious features will be carried out,
some of them lasting from early in the
night until after midnight.
At the Church of the Redeemer rent
ing of pews for the new year will oc-
cupy, the time between 8 and 8 o'clock.
From 9 to II a concert will be given.
From II on the exercises will be re-
ligious.
The watch service at the Third Pres
byterian Church will begin at $3.50
o'clock. There will be several lay
speakers and the pastor. the Rev. DR..
Robert Scott Inglis, will deliver a SER
Hull i l6It VIII JIG 6Pttioi hih9iE W
the church quartet.
The Young Peoples Society will be
in charge of exercises at the First
Congregational Church. During the
night there will be games and other
social features and tea and cake will
be served. AT la a prayer service
led by the pastor. VIII be held.
The speaker at the Central Methodist
Church will be Ferdinand Schiverea-
OF Long Island. whose subject will be
1.-THE Passing Year From 8 o'clock
to midnight thare will be an old-fash-
toned Methodist love feast"
Addresses will be bad by the Rev
DR.. Lyman Whitney Allen and the Rev
DR.. M. Y. Bovard at the watch service
OF st. Paul's Methodist Episcopa
Church. A feature of the gathering
will be the compilation Of a "Watcf
Night Album in which all present
will be invited to inscribe a bit o.
poetry and their autograph. Thu booi
will be placed in the archives of thu
church to be preserved.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
GREISENHEIM VISITORS
TO RECEIVE SOUVENIRS

Souvenir calendars will be presented
to all visitors at the Gottfried Krue-
ger G~reisenheim, Clinton place. tornor-
row and Sunday. The collection. which
was especially imported from Germany
by the management of the G~reisenheim,
contains some OF the prettiest colored
designs seen in this city. There win
be a German band in attendance all
day tomorrow and Sunday.
Every accommodation will be offered
for visitors. Stages will run from the
trolley car at Clinton place and Clinton
avenue to the park every few minutes.
The Christmas decorations which
caused so much comment from visitors
during his week are still In the hall.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31


Eeler. Frank Finlay. John Shenley. a
chemist; his boy assistant and John
sssottt all employees of the Electric
Motor and Equipment Company. When
they found themselves marooned by
the flames they made for the roof by
breaking through a skylight.
When they got to the roof the crowd
held its breath while firemen scaled
the ladders and there were cheers as
each was brought to the ground.
Told that there still were persons in
2s2. Joseph A. Barrett. of Engine Com
many No. ). and Charles Van Pelt, Of
Engine Company No. 2, CROPPED their
way through the smoke and flames
and brought out two women and four
men, whose escape had been cut OFF
nv the tongues of fire which shot up
from the cellar.
After the fire was under control there
was a cry of warning as one of the
walls of 800 were seen TO tremble and
then down it came with a crash All
the fremen did not get out in time.
Nine were caught by the falling wall,
but they were quickly dug out from
the mass of brick and mortar before
being carried through to the cellar,
which was flooded The men caught
we're members of Truck Company NO.
, and Engine Companies Z, 9 and 10.
They were Captain Parks, Lieutenant
Sotzin. Jacob Kircher, Elmer Van Ness
Jacob Zahn, Gerald Stoffs. Fred Her
man. Frank Farrell and Hugh Towey-
lieutenant Sotzin was taken TO his
home in the City Hospital ambulance.
Battalion Chief Towey and Lleuteh-
ant Hamburger. OF the Salvage Corps,
did fine work. Towey manning the lad
ders and Hamburger directing the work
Of salvage. During the crush at the
Are several women tainted. and were
cared for in n nearby drug store. MISS
Nav Forsythe, of II Merchant street,
was among those cared for. Nnen
the fire was the f~iercest Chief Ashley
learned that there was a quantity of
alcohol on the second floor of 2S2 n
ordered his men to the ground. They
had scarcely reached the ground when
there shot in the air twenty feet q
massive tongue of blue flame.
On the way TO the fire hose wagon
No. 4 ran so close to a trolley thai
fur men were caught between the wa
gon and the car. Two were thrown
against the trolley with such force thai
they required medical attention, but
were able to go home. The Salvage
Corps. on its way to the fire, had to
come to a dead stop at the Four Cor
ners, as a man stepped directly in its
path.
Losses About 100000.
The fire losses, as near as can be
estimated today, are as follows: Elec-
.-s. R5o44r E-dttinr1nnf CnmnanW VINO
occupied the entire three floors of 2S2
and the two upper floors of $50. 800, 900;
Sea Shell Moving Picture Show. on the
ground floor of go, $4,000; j. Ruckel-
haus's Sons, 22S Market street, damage
by smoke and water, $4,000 l.. stern
berg e. Co, pa Market street, loss en-
tirely by smoke and water, about
$4,000.
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DOUBT MISSING COLLECTOR
FULFILLED SUICIDE THREAT.
Carroll Disappeared When Ac-
Cused of ENLIGHTENMENT.

A letter declaring that death was
the only way out OF ms troupies, Will
ten by De Ait w. Carroll, a collector
for the Dubois Brewing
branch at 80 Jelliff avenue, VINO dlsap-
peared after he had been accused OF
embezzling hundreds of dollars OF the
FIRMS funds, has been received by MS
employers.
"Whiskey and women were the two
things to which Carroll attributes his
downfall II. c.. Smith, manager of the
Jelliff avenue branch, says thai car
rolls thefts have only been going on
for two or three months. About the
time they started, it is said, he began
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31

TRENTON. Dec. 31.-The Court OF
Pardons has granted forty-seyefi
paroles out of a total of 1873 cases, and
other cases.
Libbie Garrabrant. who was paroled
in 1905, after serving thirty years in
prison for the murder of Charles Bur
roughs, was refused an absolute par
don.
David c. Cornell, of Asbury Park,
who was convicted in 1907 with the
wrecking of the Monmouth, Trust Com
pany, was refused parole. George j.
Kerr and Walter c.. McAllister, who are
serving fifteen and thirty-year sem
fences, respectively, for the murder of
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HOSE TRUCK, ANSWERING
AN ALARM, HIT BY CAR,

While Hose Company No. 4 was DASH
ing madly toward a fire in the home of
Salvatore Nesta, at 125 Boyden street,
today, an east-bound Roseville car
collided with the truck at High and
Orange streets. One of the wheels of
the truck WAS broken and one of the
horses sustained bruises OF the hind
legs.
Firemen were called upon to eXtin-
guish a small blaze at 1856 Norfolk
street, which caused no damage.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
FUTURE DARK AS
PRISON IS OPENED
FOR MRS. BARTSCH
Continued from FIRST Page,

TIorter personally moved all of the
woman's household goods from the fiat
she had occupied and put them in
storage. He saw that her other inter-
ests were properly taken care of and
worked diligently to get signatures to a
petition to the Board of Pardons for the
woman's release. The EVENING STAR
Joined him in the crusade and their
joint efforts we're yesterday crowned
with success.
1t would be impossible for anyone
who had heard Mrs. Bartsch tell her
own story In broken English, not to
be impressed with it's patent truthful
ness. Her life up to the time when
she was drawn into the tolls of crime
to save her brother had been simple
and irre~proachable. She was, her
friends believed. a victim of fate, the
slave for the moment of her own kind
ly impulses, fand it was this belief
which lent zest to their efforts to win
her freedom.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
TRAIN CRUSHES OUT
BRAKEMAN'S LIFE.

PLAINFIELD, Dec. 31.-Lawrence
HURT, "a years old, a brakeman on
the Jersey Central, was crushed to
death between cars while working on
a drill engine in this city. He was the
son of l.. c. HURT. who was a con
Guetor on the Central running between
Elizabeth and Newark, and who fell
dead in his train while collecting
tickets, seven years ago.
He was a brother of Charles HURT,
of this city, who is one of the life
guards at Asbury Park during the sum
mer, and who holds a record for long
distance swimming.
A mother and sister survive him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
BOARD REFUSES TO- AROLE
BOSSCHIETER SLA YERS
Five Prisoners from Essex County Are Among F~orty=seyen
Who Are, Granted Release on Probation.
Many Applications Are Refused.

Jennie Bosschieter, of Paterson, in 1901,
were both refused parole.
Others whose application for elem
ency We're refused were John P. Muir
ply, of Trenton, who is serving a six
teen-year sentence for the murder of
his wife in 1902, and David Brand, also
of Trenton, who was sentenced in 1907
to seven years for setting fire to his
store in an effort to secure 'surance.
Paroles granted to Essex county pris-
oners were: Philip Biener, perjury,
two years; Edward r. Garrison, assault
and battery, two years.; Lester Gerry.
larceny, sever years; Benjamin Nc
Arthur, murder in second degree. twelve
years; Frank Moffet, bigamy, three
yo1rs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
SURROGATE GETS CLERK
HOWE'S RESIGNATION.

The resignation of ozial A. Howe,
one of the clerks in the s~urrogate's
office, was received by Surrogate Isaac
Shoenthal today. Alderman John Fin
neran. of Orange. will take his place
next Monday. according to the program
previously announced by Mr.. Sheen
thai.
The latter. as told several days ago,
decided to dispense with Mr.. Howe's
services and the resignation is the re-
suit. The position is worth 81, 200 a
year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
ROBERT M. SPURGE TAKES
OATH AS DEPUTY SHERIFF.

Robert NJ, Spurge, of Glen Ridge, APP
POINTED a special deputy sheriff by
Sheriff Harrigan. took the necessary
bath of office before Judge Davis IN the
Court or Common Pleas today.
Spurge is connected with a bonding
company in Now York. and seeks the
powers and privileges OF a deputy In
this State. where he will now do bust
ness.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
WINS FIGHT FOR DIVORCE.

TRENTON. Dec. 3~1.--Chancellor Pit
ney has signed a decree nisi in the
divorce proceedings OF Mrs. Estelia
M. Grantzow, of 739 Garfield avenue,
jersey City. against her husband, An
drew Grantzow. The couple were
in 1903.
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WANTED SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL.

Eva-But why don't YOU share Your
lot with the poet, my dear? He is so
delightfully."- romantic. He says he can
feast on a sunset.
Edna--That's just the trouble. I'd
want to feast on MISUNDERSTANDING.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31

III CuKED IN q TO IA nays
PAN0 OINTMENT is guaranteed 10 cure
~Protruding piles in to "a DAYS. or
money refunded. soc. ADV.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21
MRS. REBECCA NORMAN.
A Friend Pays Tribute TO Good Lady
Who Died Lately Al Reed.

Mrs. Rebecca Norman passed
from this earth TO the bright
world Of rest May 2nd. Through
the death Of Mrs. Norman tho
community lost one of its elst
and most helpful ladies. She
was all one might wish to be; a
kind wife, u loving mother, q
friend and help TO all who knew
her.
She had been a member Of the
Christian church since her early
age, and was q charitable lady.
She leaves a husband, children,
three brothers and O host Of
friends TO mourn her loss.
Lot US say TO the bereaved,
weep not, for your beloved ls al
rest, and is waiting for you in
tho bright beyond.
A FRIEND,
Reed, Ark.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21
JUDGE McCAL LEB
FOR GOVERNOR.
Senator Henderson Says The Judge Will
Be Candidate For Chief Executive.

"Judge j. b. McCaleb of Bates
Vile will be n candidate for
governor ut the next general
election" said u friend Of the
North Arkansas iurist yesterday,
'"and his friends arc already or
ganizng the campaign which
they are to wage for his election"
This statement was made to
q representative of the Demo-
crat yesterday afternoon by Sena-
tor Henderson Of Randolph coun-
ty, and he authorized the an
nouneement Of the campaign IN
the interest of Judge McCaleb.
"The Judges friends not only
in his own, section Of the State,
but in the whole State OF Ar
kansas, feel that he should be
vindicted from the reflection
cast upon his honored name by
being discharged from the State
Capitol Commission, which act
ion they deem was unwarranted,
unwise and served TO cast q
stigma upon tho namo of one who
10 known and loved throughout
the commonwealth as an honest,
upright, conscientious man. who
always does his duty In an up
right mannor,' said tho speaker
"rhe campaign will be waged
almost wholly upon the State
Capitol issue, tho position taken
by Governor Donaghey since his
election in planning TO complete
I the building and in his insstence
that the old State Capitol com
mission be discharged In order
that no might carry out his plans
al am informed today that The
friends Of Judge MoCaleb have
already organized for the pur.
pose Of placing his name before
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21
A perilous Hour.

The most perilous hour in a
PERSONS life IL when he is tempt-
cd to despond, The man who
loses his courage loses all. There
is no more hope for him than for
O dead man. But IL matters not
how poor he may be, how much
deserted by friends, how much
pushed by circumstances, or how
much lost TO the world, 1t he only
keeps up his courage, holds up
his head and works on with un-
oonquorublo will, determined to
DO and TO do what becomes a
man, all will be well. 1t is moth.
ing on the outside that holds q
man down, but what 10 within
that makes or unmakes the man.
-Ex.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

The Record remembers to have
predicted couple Of months he
fore the legislature adjourned
that that body would not submit
the prohibition question to vote
Of tho people, and this prediction
proved correct. The last demo-
cratic platform pledged the party
that the question Of state wide
prohibition would be submitted
to the state during this year, yet
tho legislature saw cit to disre-
gard this plain platform decIa-
ration and place the democratic
party in an unfavorable attitude
with the people.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21
Edwards
KlGI'<,. \ ~.
the people Of Arkansas at the
next general primary in oppos-
sition to Governor Donaghey.

next general primary in oppos-
sition to Governor Donaghey.
"Judge McCaleb is one Of the
best known public men in Ar
kansas. He has u record as q
lawyer and q jurist which will
bear the closest scrutiny, and he
will be o strong candidate. | do
not know that the judge has au-
thorized the use Of his name az a
candidate at this time, but the
fact that his friends at home are
organizing for the coming cam
paign would indicate that he has
sanctioned the project and will
be u candidate.
"You can safely Say that
Judge McCaleb will be u candi-
date for the office Of governor Of
Arkansas at tho noxt general
election and that the coming
primary will DO ono Of the most
interesting In the history Of the
state, "--Arkansas Democrat.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

The Little Rock papers contain
the information that Governor
Donaghey may soon call a spec
ial session of the legislature for
the consideration of several I'M
portant matters. The matter Of
financing the tax commission
bill would be one Of these mat
ters it is said, as would the ques-.
ton of abolishment OF the convict
lease system. The governor is
not pleased at the failure OF the
legislature to pass satisfactory
prohibition measure, and the
subject Of prohibition would cer-
tainly have a place in his call
for O special session.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

It is refreshing to note that at
least once in a very great while
in those great murder trials
which attract attention all over
the country the defendant does
not escape upon the plea of
temporary or emotional insan-
ity." Capt, Peter c. Hains was
convicted at Flushing, N. Y,
last week ana given twenty lone
years in the penitentiary for the
killing Of man whom Hains al
legged was some "too thick" with
Mrs Hains, The prisoner plaad
the "unwritten law" and "emo-
tonal insanity" but, for once,
these pleas failed,
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

Governor Donaghey in his
campaign for the office he now
holds solemnly warned the people
that, instead Of the state owing
Capitol Contractors Caldwell &
Drake, these contractors were in
debt to the state, yet Donaghey
asked the legislature Tor an APP
preparation Of Sl75,000, which
was made, to make settlemen,
with Caldwell d Drake. And
that's queer-if Caldwell q Drake
owed the state.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

In another column we publish
an item taken from the Arkansas
Democrat which states that
.1udqe John B. McCaleb OF Bates
vile may become a candidate
for governor before the next
democratic primaries. 1t is SAID
he will make the race on the
state capitol issue, the capitol
commissioners having been dis
charged by the legislature
The Record would like to see
Judge McCaleb governor OF the
state. but he doesn't need to
make the race for office for vim
dication. He stands vindicated
already by all who know him.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

Two amendments to the state
constitution will be submitted TO
tho voters for adoption or rejec.
ton at the next general election.
one provides for the initiative
and referendum In Arkansas.
The other provides for the OK.
emption from taxation for the
noSC ton years Of oil money that
is invested In cotton factories In
The state, tho money to be OK
empted for q period of seven
years,
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21
anced and he took his own life
by hanging himself.

We are in receipt of a propo-
sition from q medicine company
located at Russellville Offering US
the sum of three dollars to run
ten and half inches Of straight
reading matter only t h e e
months. Honest, we are listen-
inc to hear of the death Of this
company from enlarge
ment Of the heart at any time.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

Hon. James T. Robertson,
member Of the state senate from
the Fourteenth district, composed
of Lee and Phillips counties, was
elected president pro tenn of the
senate, and will have the honor
of occupying the governors
chair when the governor is alb
sent from the state.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21
Card Of Thanks.
Reed, Ark,

Through this paper we wish to
thank our neighbors and friends
for their kindness and help dur.
Ing the illness OF our beloved
wife and mother. Our loss Is ir.
reparablo, and there Ia no other
that oan fIll her place, though we
trust In Him who knows oil
things best.
j. h, NORMAN and Family,
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21
Mansfield lIaroldson, q prom

Mansfield lIaroldson, a promi-
nent planter Of Union City,
Tenn, committed suicide last
week lie was d member Of the
jury that recently convicted the
eight night riders ut Union City,
elk Of whom were sentenced to
hang, and brooded over this fact
until HE mind became unbal.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

Some of the papers think the
state will go republican with an
other session or two of such q
bum legislature as closed lately.
If the state doesn't go republi-
can it will go to the bow bows
some other route.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

Says the Arkansas Democrat:
The next legislature will prob
ably have to devote a great deal
Of its time to the devising of
ways and means to meet the OBJ
legations assumed by that which
has just closed.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

No marriage lioonsos have been
issued at the clerks Office In the
Northern District In the past two
weeks.--llardy Herald,
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

Bishop Charles B. Galloway,
one of the most prominent men
of tn e Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and for many
years one of the greatest pulpit
orators in that church, died last
week at Jackson, Miss.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

The recent Legislature made
appropriation to the amount Of
tive million dollars before calling
q halt.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

The late Legislature flagrantly
refused to carry out more than
one Of the pledges contained in
the last democratic platform.
Sharp County record., 1909-05-21

Maddox Lumber Company at
Calico Rock has been ordered
sold by the chancery court to
satisfy the claims Of creditors.
TIE five-year-old child OF
Walter Hubble, colored under
taker at Newport, died last week
from swallowing a nickle, death
resulting from choking in the
throat.
The recent frosts and heavy
hail storm did heavy damage to
the fruit crop in Randolph coun-
ty. 1t is said there will be only
about half a crop of peaches in
that county.
1t is only ten miles from Mel
bourne to Zion, yet letter mail
ed for the latter place from Mel
bourne travels almost one hum
dred miles and is on the road
four days.
1t is said that small pox has
been eradicated from the city OF
Newport. The final report OF the
city physician shows that %
patients were treated while the
disease was prevalent.
Representative j. L. Brown OF
independence county delivered a
temperance lecture in Grant
county few days ago. He IS
recognized as one OF the foremost
temperance orators in the teld
and his services are in demand.
The board of trustees of the
Mountain Home College are
making an effort to secure the
services Of Prof. b. A. Spradlin
| to conduct the next term OF that
| institution. Prof. Spradlin
taught this year at Ravenden
Springs.
ALI Bagley Of Walnut Ridge,
who has been in the state peM-
tentiary for several months for
safe keeping, charged with the
murder of Lee Ridgeway at Wal
nut Ridge last October, has been
released on bond amounting TO
$4,000. Bagley was tried Tor
murder recently, but the jury
failed to agree.
Says the Melbourne Times;
"Arrayed in the uniform OF q
Confederate Lieutenant s. IL.
Wren, familiarly known as "Un-
clio Shade" a life.long republi-
can Of this county, delivered at
the court house last Saturday q
speech in commemoration of his
S5th birthday which occurred
last Monday morning "at day.
break" to use Mr., Wren's ex-
preston. Quite u number were
present TO hear Uncle Shades
talk and all were doubtless bene-
fitted. Although very old and al
most blind, Mr.. Wren 10 active
in body and mind and bids fair
to deliver many moro birthday
anniversary addresses"