The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-09-20
HEARD AND SEEN AROUND THE
GREEN.

GREEN.
Is Morristown to be congratulated
upon the purity of it's elections on
Tuesday? There were all sorts OF
rumors about the amount of money to
be expended, then came the notifica-
tions of the employment Of detectives
and on election day certain strange
and mysterious characters followed
certain individuals about town. AS
there were no complaints or arrests it
is fair to presume that there was no.
thing doing. 1t reminded some of the
old residents of the time some years
ago when there was great purtubation
in the first ward over the appearance
of strange man there on election
day. standing about and looking inter
ested. The attention of one of the
workers was called to this Individual
and he proceeded to investigate in a
cautious manner. He soon found out
and reported in disguised tones -:
"Oh, thunder THAT'S nobody but Tom
Meskill with new hat"
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An old resident with his wife, who
are respectively an S. A. r. and D. A.
R., had occasion a few days ago to
show friend about town and en-
ployed hackman on the green, evil
dent from his talk a recent importa-
tion from the land O. cakes. 1t was
soon discovered that he was full of mis-
information and was encouraged to
talk by questioning. Nearing the golf
grounds the listeners were astonished
to be informed that there was a large
hole in the ground there called the
"punch bowl, " where the last fight in
the Revolutionary war was fought.
The narrator said that the American
soldiers worked themselves nearly to
death in throwing out the dirt and
then got in the hole. The British
surrounded them and while trying to
shoot the men in the hole shot each
other and with the volleys comir &
from the Americans resulted in great
slaughter which compelled the British
to surrender and thus ended the war.
He also paid his respects to Lake
Hopatcong by saying that it was
small lake about waist deep.
Representative Fowler said the eyes
of the country were centered upon
New Jersey to see if Uncle Joe Can
non is going to get the hook" He
didn't.
A group of physicians and laymen
we're taking recently about operations
at the hospitals and the dread of them
by people in general, when one of the
doctors remarked that it was thor
oughly unreasonable, as with the pres.
ent facilities for operations the danger
from thai source was almost entirely
eliminated, not one case ia a thousand
resulting fatally in itself. If there was
no cause there would be no o )eration
and with the cause there was natural
ly more or less complications. 1t was
jokingly remarked bv listener that
The cause was sometimes thought to
be the desire of the surgeon to oper
ate. At this the speaker, one of the
skillful surgeons of the town, grew
indignant and said "There is no class
of men in the country who do more
without compensation, and who put
more thought and nervous force in
their profession than the doctors. Per-
Sonally, If ! have bad case it gets on
my nerves to that extent that have
to 60 away from my business for a
week ia order to get stralahtened out
and be fit for my work. AS for adviS-
ing operations, scarcely a physician in
the country but what has had deS
perate illness in his own home and
knows too we'll what il means to go in
to family and create needless alarm.
If anything, the doctors delay counsel
ling an operation oftentimeS until it
is too late to be of any use. Take it
from me, no reputable physician is
ever found needlessly advising any
thing that he does not cOnscientiously
believe absolutely necessary, especially
if il is Of a nature TO cause alarm and
Distress"
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