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at amt as bad as that, is it,"
asked the old man.
Then Mrs Billinger began moving
her head slowly around like an owl
on a tree. Then she moved it the
other way. When she saw she could
move it without a creak she pushed
the swing frame back, crawled from
under the ropes and got to her feet
without assistance, waving Mr.. Bill
niger aside as he attempted to aid
her.
Don't you dare touch me, you old
lunatic! You haven't got enough
sense to lead blind horse to water
You need to be classed with the sim
pies. You've got softening of the
brain and should have died long ago
of peresis. You are an old
But, my dear" Mr.. Billinger
tried to interrupt her with an ex
PLANTATION.
Don't you dare my dear me, you
old lobsterr' her eyes glaring.
How did it all happen?" he asked.
How did what happen? Can't you
see how it happened? Can't you see
that the rotten old hook broke in
two?
Well, that wasn't my fault,
yOu=
Wasn't your fault? Wasn't your
fault? Was it miner" asked his wife,
now mad clean through and getting
madden every minute. well, whose
fault was it? Can't you see when
you buy a hook. You knew it would
break when you put it up! Why didn't
you look what you were doing, you
soft-headed old gray-headed, wrin-
kled-faced babboon YOU"
And try as he would Mr.. Billinger
was never able to explain that the
hook didn't break, it just pulled out.
She was too heavy
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PALISADIAN

no doubt more than two. I thought
they were two Scotch musicians on
bagpipes. That's what walked me
up"
DR.. r. Burton-Opitz came along
just then.
you look guilty" said one of the
party to the handsome town-marshal-
recorder board-of-hea1th man.
Guilty of what?" he asked, with a
sheepish look.
why, billboardsp shouted the
whole crowd with laugh
That's one on me-" the doctor
replied, but I don't know anything
about bill boards, except that the
men who did it didn't finish the job"
81 should think the Guineas would
need that pile of junk" suggested
some one. And it was almost pro-
phetic, for the next morning there
wasn't stick of the pile left.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1910-06-01
THE NEIGHBORS TALK.
Party Gets Together and Discusses
Sign Boards, ct al.

The Sunday morning after the bill
boards at the Junction had been
kicked over by the swishing of the
comets tail, party of villagers gath
cred around the wreck and exchang-
ed passing glances and not few
remarks. 1t was the most innocent
lot of faces one ever saw. r. r.
Brown, whose home was Swallowed
by the sign that bit the dust, made
this significant remark:
Gentlemen, that sign board mys-
terry has got my goat I'll make an
alfred-david that the signs were all
on deck at twelve o'clock, for | was
up and saw them
We'll, whoever did it was pressed
for time" added Paul T. Brady, ''for
you can see from the saw marks they
were nervous about something"
so far as the saw marks are CON
cerned," put in Garfield May, they
show clearly to my mind that only
about twenty strokes of the saw were
used on each post, so that would
make less than one minute to post,
and there are posts, so it proves
that Mr. Brady is right. They were
in a hurry, no doubt of that Why,
| couldn't. take the best Guinea
WOOD savers We got Oh inc prop
erty and do this job in sixteen min
utes. | think these fellows must a
heard Carney coming down Bluff
road; that's what put EN- in hurry"
Yes, they must have been inter
rupted," suggested w. J. Foepel, who
runs an Italian vegetable garden on
his rear premises, "for | know | and
my family stood at the window lis
tening to the music of the saws.
never heard anything I liked better
except onions. All of sudden |
heard the crash. and looking through
my opera glasses, beheld the sign
topple, then it fell | yelled so loud
Good! Goodr l must have fright
ened the men away"
well, Mr. Foeppel, if you had to
answer in court how many did you
count around the boards"
who, me? / never saw perhaps
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Principally because she let him have
his way when she felt like it, and
generally had hers herself anyway.
One Sunday afternoon in middle
Nay while Mr.. Billinger was over
across the street visiting a neighbor
ne heard terrible scream from his
own front porch and hurried back to
see what the trouble was. There,
spFaWled on the floor of the porch,
Sas Mrs. Billinger, the heavy porch
iSmg' an oak seat that weighed at
,aI hundred pounds, on top of her
'n an, ner lap full of broken rope.
what IN the world is the matter?"
asHeu ;. Mr. Billinger, noticing that his
wife did not move.
II. Cant you tell me what's the trou-
w deane" he asked again.
~. 4 nelghbor's daughter stood by,
1 !, ~ volunteered the information that
or. "oked like the hook had pulled
H Dn. u the ceiling and let Mrs. Bill
sI @o and herself down on the hard
5 oU. win bump that shook the
sr 1rss, lor Mrs Billinger is no feath-
,,t now did it all happen?" again
onr eu Mt Billinger, without ever
riif VIE having ventured to help his
NJ u P:u Before he looked for it,
sn,n 4 niIllnger spoke, and with a
ngi p 70 her voice like a whip crack
hls~r,Gdn Mr.. Billinger, if the fool
Of ONE come along now he'd be sure
ioD, t"e victim. Why in the world
@0bS you help me up from here?"
! n lscoyer from the shock. You know
sv Bbison ought to always sit still
uD @@''e after a fall. Oh. I'll help you
Ii va du; :; added Mr.. Billinger, and
under In ~ the act of putting his hands
tic sc net arms when she gave a ter
broksnSn don't touch me. Ny neck's
-l know it isr' she said.
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up RILLINGER IN BAD.
IT,. Billinger Has a Fall and Blames
EMrS' D-'' Her Husband.

Having unsavory memories about
occident with his glass of butter
n which he overturned at the din
fable on his new spring suit some
E.eks before, Mr.. Billinger for over
month had been particularly careful
.,ouod the house. He did his chores
|r;th amazing regularity, a thing un-
Looun to him in previous years. He
leaned out the cellar himself one
Saturday, afternoon, a task which had
for long time fallen to the hired
|man who spent one day a week pid-
ding around and keeping the place
Cleaned up. Mrs Billinger had made
mental note of all these things, and
had remarked to Mrs. Brown, a near
|neghbor, one day:
DO you know | never saw such a
rood husband as my old man? I de-
Clare to goodness, he's the beatin'est
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HAL lOl WOl N
| ever saw.
He's worth his
weight in gold.
Many 5 t h e
girl had her
cap set for
him fore we
were married
40 years ago,
but he'd been
spoke for, he
had, and I've
been blest ever
since"
The old lady
S p o k e a 5
t h o II G h she
meant every
word of it, too.
She and Mr..
Billinger had
not been COO
ing doves, but
they got along
we'll together
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PERSONAL ITEMS.

willis Dutt0n, jr., is confined to his
home on Western avenue by illness.
Mrs. Leslie Van Gassbeek and Mrs
Edward Lucas are in Atlantic City.
Miss Mabel Conkling, of New York,
is visiting her father, John N Conk
ling.
j. H. Henderson, has sold his house
and lot No IS Water street TO Kaolo
Chrisdo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sullivan, of Roseville
spent Sunday as the guests of DR.. anc
Mrs Ray WEIGH.
Miss Katherine Lines, of Evergreen
avenue, is in All Souls hospital i'll
with appendicitis.
Truman Fl. Scott and son, Truman
a., have moved from 26 Court street
to 30 Wetmore avenue.
Mrs. @. M. Smith, of Mt Kemblt
avenue, is spending week visiting
friends in East Orange.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Williamson, Of
Weste n avenue, are rejoicing over the
birth TO them of baby girl.
Addison o. Boniface, of Chicago. is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
John K. Bonitace, OF King street.
Mrs Joseph Kronenberg, of Der
nardsville, is visiting her brother ano
sister-in-law, DR.. and Mrs. Ray w
WEIGH, Of South street.
John Bache Ayers has left the EN-.
ploy of Lawrence g. Co., in New York
and is now in the office of his father,
John B. Ayers, in the Farrelly build.
ing.
Former Assemblynan James A.
Lyon, manager of the bond depart
ment of the Fidelity Trust Co., Of
Newark, was a visitor in Morristown
on Thursday.
j. Harvey Tudor, of Pittsburg, has
been engaged by the engineering de-
partmenU of the Morris County Trac-
tion Co. Chief Engineer Perley X.
Boomer now has twelve men under
his direction.
Mrs A. Vance Pierson entertained
the members of her class in the First
Baptist Sunday school at her home
No. IS Western avenue, Monday even.
log. A social time, with games and
refreshments, was enjoyed.
William R. Eadie, for many years
a resident of MorriStowl and record
i g secretary of the MorristoMn
Young Mems Christian association.
but VINO is now living in Bayonne, was
a visitor in town Saturday.
Oscar FL. Hawley, a former Morris
town newspaper man, but now a resi-.
dent of Minneapolis, is making four
months trip through the west in the
interest of the Musical Courier
Mr.. Hawley will come to New York
in the winter and assume the manage
ment of the publication, probably
making his home in Morrisuown OF
some other suburb.
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SOCIETY EVENTS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Powell and
Gideon Powell have left DeLand, Fla,
and are now at Hotel Park-in-the-
Pines, Aiken, s. @. Later they will go
to Pinehurst, N. c., stopping atsthe
Holly Inn hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Emilius Outer
bridge have given up their apartment
! at No. ITO West 59Jh street, New
York. and are back in their home,
On7the-HilL on Lake road.
A marriage to be solennized in June
will be that of Miss Elizabeth Boswell,
daughter of Mrs. John FL. Boswell, OF
Elm street, and Barlow Croker, OF
Fitchburg, Mas.
Another June bride will be Miss
M trgaret Walsh, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert G. Walsh, of Headley
road, who will be married to Fielding
Simmons, Of New York.
Mrs. John Camp William and Miss
Carolyn Williams have steamed for
Europe. They will spend two months
abroad.
Mrs. Arthur H. Hayes and Miss
GLADYS Elizabeth Hayes are spending
hotel, Hamilton, Bermuda.
Miss Louise Shelton has returned
from a weeks visit to New York.
Mrs. Willard w. Cutler has returned
home from Washington where she had
been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Charles Marsh.
Mrs. Leon S. Freeman entertained
the debutanteS at bridge Friday after
noon.
Miss Montgomery, of Rochester, n.
Y, is visiting Mrs. j. Cummings Vail.
Mrs Henry B. McCarroll is visiting
Mrs. Buckingham for a few days at
Waterbury, Conn, while en- route for
WATERFOWL, Conn.
Miss Ellie Douglas has gone to
Brooklyn on weeks visit.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Daniel Moran have re-
turned from three weeks trip to
Mexico.
Miss Edith Macculloch Miller, who
has been visiting friends in Newport,
now in New York
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Gordon Douglass
have gone to Aiken, s. Q.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Macculloch
Miller returned to New York from
Washington Saturday.
The Lenten sewing class for the
Speedwel Society net last week az
the home Of Mrs. Emlen P. Franklin
on Franklin street.
Mrs. Robert D. Foote entertained a
small party at bridge on Tuesday aft
ernoon in connection with the sewing
NH ah 70 u a T. h0IlCA
for the benefit of All Souls hospital.
Donations of groceries filled the pan
try of the Old Ladies home on We'd
nesday afternoon when the annual
pound party was held. Nearly every
one in Mortistown society attended
the affair.
Willard V. King, of Kitchell ave-
nue., is on trip to Cuba.
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Observation-Disclosures.
, Strikes and Put Outs
on LOCAL DIAMONDS

The Alert Athletic club, of this
town, will be represented on the base
base field this season by a strong first
class amateur team managed by Vim
cent Roache and captained by Harry
@. Callahan. The Alerts made their
first appearance as base ball players
last season and had most successful
season, winning twenty out of twenty
five games played. By defeating all
amateur teams they won the title of
4" Amateur Champions of Morris
county"
The manager is already booking
games with some of the fastest of the
amateur teams in New Jersey. All
tirst-class amateur teams, having
grounds and Offering reasonable in
ducements, who desire games with the
Alerts should write to Mr.. Roache,
No. 102 Maple avenue, Morristown, N.
J. Being unable to secure suitable
grounds the team this year will be a
travelling one.
The lineup will be practically the
same as last year. The probable line
up will be as follows knight, pitch
.er; Conway, catcher; Quinlan, first
base Callahan, second base; Roache
or Naughton, third base; Murphy,
short stop; Fred Miller, left field
Welsh or Murphy, center field; Glen
non or Dowd, right field.
Robert Hillock will play left field
on this seasons's Seton Hall college
team.
The Parksides are invited to arrange
game with the Bay View Wheelmen
team, Of Newark, by its manager
Joseph Burke, No. As Hunterdon
street.
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MoRRISTowN SCHOOL NOTES

The base ball team of the Morris
town school has been practicing out.
doors for two weeks and is rapidly
rounding into shape. Captain Harris
will be seen in the box again this year,
while G. S. Day will again be End
string pitcher. Hopkins, last year. {
sub-catcher. will be behind the bat,
Cunningham at third base, and Moore
at second base are the only other vet
Grams in the squad. Ten new men are
trying for the remaining positions.
The daily walk across country are a
good feature of the school life. On
Wednesday some thirty boys accom-
panied Mr.. Bellamy to the top of Mt.
Freedom, prepared supper there, had
camp fires and returned at 8:30p. m.
Mr.. Brownies lecture at the Monroe
chapel on Countries of South Amer
lea" has been postponed until Friday,
March 18th, at eight o'clock.
The monthly meeting of the trustees
was held at the home of Grinnell Will
lis on Tuesday evening last.
The cross country walks are develop
ing considerable interest in the sur
rounding country. On Wednesday an
excursion went to The top of Mt. Free
dom with supper and campfire.
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DOVER, N. j., March IL, 1915

DOVER, n. j., March IL, 1910.
To'Members of Boards of Education of
Morris County:
The regular spring meeting of the
Morris County School Board associa-
tion will be held in the dining room of
Hotel Dover, Dover, on Saturday aft
ernoon, March 26, 1910, beginning at
two O'Clock.
A special dinner will be served dur
ing the meeting at cost of one dollar
per plate.
As principal speaker of the occasion
we have been fortunate in securing
Mr.. II. Brewster Willis, county super
intendent of Middlesex county. Mid
dleseX county is one of the best organ
lied counties of the state and Super
intendent Willis will be able TO give
profitable suggestions looking toward
better organization and efficiency in
the educational work Of the county.
There will be other short addresses,
opportunity given for remarks, ex-
changes Of opinion, transaction of bust
ness, etc.
All members of boards of education
are urged TO attend this meeting. Ii
is especially DESTROYS that every board
be represented, by at least two dele
gates 1t would be proper for boards
TO appoint delegates to the meeting
and pay their expenses from the Incl
d-ntal funds Of the board.
H. w. KICE, President.
j. HOWARD HULsART, Secretary.
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MENDHAM.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Freem an are
entertaining Mr.. Freeman's mother
from Orange.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Osmun, OF
Newark, have been visiting Mrs. Os-
nuns parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Menagh.
Miss Mabel Nuber, of Brooklyn, is
the guest of her father.
Among those on the sick list are
Mr.. and Mrs. ROBERT Lowery, Carl
Zanders. Matilda Park and George
Mlllen.
Mrs. Harry Hunting. Of Brooklyn, is
the guest OF her parents. Rev. and
Mrs. Levi Johnston, OF the Episcopal
rectOry.
The Carpenters union has installed
the following officers President, John
Quimby Yice-p president, Clarence Nc
Murtry; financial secretary, Jasper
Gray recording secretary, Albert Tay-
lOr: treasurer, A. harrison: conductor,
Lewis Horton; warden, Walter Cramer,
William Ramon has purchased the
A. BUckoven place in the village, con-
sideration $4,000.
Edwin Watkins has bought the
Theo. Quimby estate, consideration
SO 900.
This community was saddened on
Thursday morning TO hear Of the
death OF Mrs. John Hoffman. Mrs.
Hoffman was in her forty second year
and had been confined to her room for
two weeks, but her death was not ex-
pected. She leaves her husband, two
daughters, TWO sisters and brother
who mourn the loss of loving wife
and mother, while her presence will
be missed by all who knew and loved
her. The funeral services were held
at her late home on Sunday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock, conducted by her late and
present pastors, Revs. Perry Murdick
and Hoyt. Interment at the Hill Top.
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Florida Wonders.

within two miles of Crystal River
there is sulphur spring 1900 feet
deep, hot as one could bear to battle
in, gushing through pipe. leaving
prismatic colors all about. At this
place company was boring for oil
and after striking several springs
with more or less sulphur which II
despised and passed. it came upon
this one and had stopped work fol-
the time being. This is most inter
esting place to visit. and on the way
one can stop at the wishing Well
and drink the wonderfully clear water
while wishing ones dearest wish. II
is quite as efficacious as the famous
barney stone. If not more so.-Crys-
tai RI yer (lFla) News.
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A beautiful woman also studies the har-
mony of painting well kept home; takes
care to have the house painted with paint
that will continue to look bright, clean and
fresh looking. The L. & M never becomes
dingy, because only chemically pure colors
are used; only the finest White Oxide made
from metal; only the finest White Lead; only
the purest Linseed Oil; only expert paint
makers produce it with machinery thou
sand gallons at a time. Contrast this with
the costly and crude production of White
Lead Paint made by hand labor with a stick
in pot-a few gallons at time. L & NJ.
is sold by:
Phillips & Day, Morristown; P. c. Henry
Co., Basking Ridge; w. Wilson, Whip
pany; J. R. Meade & Son, Hanover.
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ODE 70 M0RRISTOWN.
Arranged for the Use of the Junior
CitIzens' League.

Arranged for the Use of the Junior
Citizens League.
Tune The Old Oaken Bucket"
How dear to our hearts are the charms that
enfoid thee.
As in pride Of possession we call thee our
own;
A true gen of nature we daily behold thee
With all thy loved haunts which our
childhood has known.
rhy emerald hill tops, thy wide-spreading
valleys,
Thy trees with green branches protect
ing the town.
Thy yerdare-clad park, where the'sun ever
dailies.
And nature so rarely INDUCES a frown,
Our beautiful city, our well beloved
city,
We sing Of thy praises
Our own Morristown.
We Loyalty pledge TO forever maintain thee,
With order and cleanliness holding full
sway,
No blight shall e'er mar thee, nor careless
ness stain thee,
For the man of the future is the child of
to day.
Our schools and onr Fairgrounds, our ave
nues stately,
The homes that we dwell in, Of worthy
renown,
The churches we love, where we worship
sedately.
will unite in their beauty our efforts to
crown
Our beautiful city, our well-beloved
city.
We Loyalty pledge thee
Our own Morristown
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OBITUARY.
RICHARD J. COLLINS.

Richard j. Collins died at his home
on Morris street. Saturday morning
after an illness of a few days with
heart trouble. He was tifty-eight
years old. Mr.. Collins was born in
Rockaway and for many years lived in
that town and for years was employed
in the Rockaway Rolling mill.
OF late years Mr.. Collins has lived
in Morristown and was the local repre-
sentative of the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Co. He is survived by widow
and two daughters.
Funeral services will be held at his
late residence this afternoon and in
terment will be in Evergreen GENE.
terry
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-22
COMMUNICATIONS.
March Ii, 1910.

MdlCl Ii, l0lU.
EDITOR THE CHRONICLE:
have heard good deal, of late, of
Beautiful Morristown, and desire to
call attention to few of its beauties
in or near our former Beautiful
Green"
1st. The municipal and adjourning
buildings, with two old barrels and a
dilapidated plank forming barrier
for its beautiful" new, incomplete
sidewalk,
End. Beautiful" Speedwell avenue
with it's many noble buildings.
3rd. Beautiful" Morris street lined
with slightly mansions from Spring
street to the Park
18th. Beautiful Bank and Market
streets, joys for all those who have to
use them.
5th. The lovely, ornamental bnild-
ings on the Park, between the First
National Bank building and Market
street, and the one next the Method
list parsonage.
9Th. The beautiful" ruin on South
street opposite the Savings Bank.
I reserve for future consideration
many other beauties which can be
seen by appreciative citizens, by grad
ually extending their walks little
further from the Park.
That this letter may not seem to be
written by an outsider, would say |
am native, as were my ancestors for
at least four generations back.
Yours sincerely,
A LOVER OF THE BEAUTIFUL
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$50 Reward.

The above reward will be paid for
the apprehension and conviction OF
any person or persons wilfully and ma
liciously committing any damage or
injury to or upon any real or personal
property within this cemetery.
Dated March 18th, 1910.
The Evergreen Cemetery.
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Paved the Way.

The Father--It was a noble deed,
young man, to plunge into the raging
waters after my daughter. suppose
you realized the awful risk that you
were running?
The Hero (modestlyl-Ye Yes. sir; did
The Father-Good. Then you will
readily appreciate the necessity of hav-
ing policy In the Skinem Life In
surance company. for which / am the
chief solicitor. Puck.
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The Spider as an Aaue Cure.

In some parts of England the spider
was formerly believed to be an eff
cient cure for ague. A Somersetshire
vicar remarks: zone of my parishion-
ers suffering from ague was advised
TO catch large spider and shut him
up in box. As he pines away the
disease is supposed to wear itself out"
In the south CT Ireland large house
spider enveloped in treacle or preserve
was used for the same complaint.
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Hawkins How's Henpeck getting
on since his marriage? He used to
vow that no woman could ever get
ahead of him.
Hagg-Oh, he's still leading, | sup
pose, but she's behind holding the
reins.-Exchange.
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uOTis County Property
We Want Morris County
Property to Sell or Rent

Being about to reopen our New
York office, making specially of
property in Morris County, it is to
the advantage of Morris County
property owners to list what real
estate they would dispose of with
us. Farms, country estates, and
summer homes at fair prices are in
great demand by New York people,
at least we find it so.
Being residents of this locality, we
are always able to give a more ac-
curate description of the property
we handle than New York agents.
Write for our listing application at
the earliest possible date so as to
give us plenty of time to properly
list your property. We make a
personal inspection or get an ac-
curate description of property listed
before advertising.