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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
Fred Spear Brings Suit.

Fred Spear, formerly of this town,
has brought suit against Joseph
Wachtel, of New York, for $4,000
damages for defamation of character
Spear was in the livery business in
Morristown and Wachtel had Spear
held for the grand jury on a warrant
charging him with appropriating to
his own uses horse belonging to
Wachtel. The grand jury failed to in
dict Spear and the suit is brought as
a result.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
BAND CONCERT TONIGHT.
First of Series by Morristown Band
to be Given in Evening.

The first of the series of band con
certs will be given this even
ing. The Morristown band of twenty
pieces will be under the direction OF
Prof. Giosue Rossi. John Roman
who is managing the concerts for the
band, has arranged for a vocalist
from the F. B. Hayiland Co., OF New
York.
The town has made an appropria.
tion of 5000 and several small contri-
buttons have been received but if the
full series of eleven concerts is to
be played considerable more money
will have to be given Mr.. Roman
will be pleased to receive contribu-
tions, no matter how small
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
A HIqh School site.

In addition to the high school sites
already suggested several have mem
toned the property on the corner OF
Speedwell avenue and Spring street,
now occupied by the West End hotel,
Sire's stables and Lounsbury prop
erty adjoining. The location is cen
tral, of easy access from all parts of
town, convenient for the railway sta
ton, in slightly location and right
on the trolley line. The suggestion
is worthy of consideration.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
Free kindemarten CLOSES.

The closing exercises of the Nor
ristown Free kindergarten, with an
exhibit of the work by each little
one, will be held in the rooms, Mer-
chants block, on next Wednesday,
June 18th, at 10 a. m.
All are cordially invited to be pres
ent. On the following day, the chill
dren will take their work home.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
semi-AnnuaI Dividend Notice.

The Morris County Savings bank is
publishing in this issue its seventy
seventh semi-annual dividend notice.
The managers of the bank have or
dered paid to the depositors entitled
to it, semi-annual interest dividend
of four per cent. per annum on all ac-
counts of IS to $1,000 and on the
first 81, 1000 of larger accounts; and
at the rate of three per cent. per
annum on the excess of $1,000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
jeremiah J. Callahan.

jeremiah ]. Callahan died Wednes-
day morning in All Souls hospital af-
ter a long illness. He entered the
hospital ten days previous to his
death for an operation but did not
get the desired relief. He was born
in Morristown forty-six years. ago and
for several years past had conducted
a grocery store on Macculloch av-
enue. He leaves widow and three
children, Harry. Anne and Albert Cal
lahan.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
Improvino Morris plains.

The Morris Plains Improvement as
sociation has initiated movement to
raise funds for a new flagpole for
the depot square and has appointed a
committee to ask the railroad COM
pany to beautify the grounds about
the station. The Morris Plains band
has volunteered to give a free con-
cert on June 28th.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
BONDS BRING 1o2. 1925.
Freeholders Award Issue for Tuber-
cuIosis Hospital Building.

The board of freeholders on Mon
day awarded the issue of $4,000
tuberculosis hospital four and one
half per cent. bonds, due in 1912, op-
tional in 1922, to John d. Everitt &
Co., of New York, on their bid of
102.125. The bid secures a premium
to the county of STAB and nets the
bond house trifle more than four
and one-quarter per cent. There
were five other bidders, the lowest
being 101 for portion of the issue.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
Rax Views Saturday.

Rain spoiled the sport of the base
ball fans last Saturday, Manager
Todd calling off the game. The Bay
View Wheelmen, of Newark, will be
the attraction at Speedwell field this
coming Saturday.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
june session Of Presbxtex.

The Presbytery of Morris and Or
ange will hold its June meeting in
the First Presbyterian church. of this
town, to-day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
Fire Ennine Tested.

Not having been out for several
months Chief Day ordered out the
Washington steamer Wednesday night
for test. It was found to be in
good working order.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
Liouor Licenses GRAINED.

The board of excise at its June
meeting granted a renewal of the
saloon license to Frank Piper and
wholesale license to Frank e. Lipp-
man.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18

David Huff, one of Morristowns s
oldest colored residents, died at his
night after long illness incidental
to advancing years. He was a Civil
war veteran. A daughter survives
him.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
DR.. EauIks the Preacher.

The Rev. j. b. Faulks. d. D.. was
the preacher at the Methodist Epis-
'copal church Sunday morning. DIR
Faulks was pastor of the church from
1882 to 1884.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
LACK of rnternrIsa

Generally the trouble with a man
who doesn't get anywhere is that he
has not enough confidence in his judg.
ment to bet anything on It.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
court,s Weakly sessions

During July and August the First
District court will hold sessions only
on Thursdays. according to an an
|nouncement by Judge Oliver X. Day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
BERKELEY HALL,


Morristown A. A. 0 O o OOO1 o.
Two base hits, Brown, Reubert: hit
OH Welsh 6; sacrifice hits, Hartman.
west; stolen bases, Brown. Bretana:
double plays, Feeney to Collins; Col
lins to Hillock; left on bases, Norris
town a; Berkeley Hall 7 bases on
balls, off Hartman |, off Welsh off
Peploski Q; struck out by Hartman 2.
by Welsh 4, by Peploski 8.
Time, l hour so minutes. Umpire
Hood.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
Lacey Quits Ball Team.

George Lacey has left the Norris
town A. A. and has signed up with
the Hackettstown team.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18
MATINEE RACING.
Bad Weather Does Not Deter Horse
men from Afternoons Sport.

Rain interfered with the matinee
races Saturday afternoon of the Nor
ris County Road Drivers association
at the Morristown driving park but
those who did brave the threatening
weather saw two good races There
was a free-for-all, won by Henry w
Armstrong; Johnnie Harvard, local
horse; and colt race won by Seth H
Ely's Merna, from Dover. A feature
of the afternoon was an exhibition
half mile by Merry Jane driven by
her owner, Miss Dora Voigt, of Green
Village, in 2.55.
The judges were William e. Drag.
goo and Sylvester Mitchell; starter
Bert M. Tunis; timers. Charles Nc
Collum and Dayton Baldwin.
The summary
Free-For-AH.
Johnnie Harvard, s.g. H. w.
Armstrong ...................1 /
Bourbon F., r. g. Joe York. q 2
Time, 2.34, 2.371s, 2.29.
Colt Race.
Merna, b. f. Seth Ely ..........l l
Rastus, blk. g. s. v. Badgley q 2
Ray Lancewood, g. g. S. Mitchell...3 3
Hiram Brook, b. G. A. M. Guerin. A A
Time, ESQ, 2.45.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Indians Get a Boost

All Indians who have not received
more than 160 &cres of land, and are Is
years of age on March /, next, are
signing the rolls at Wakapala and will
receive an additional allotment of 100
acres. a team of mares. wagon, har-
ness, plows. harrows, two COWS and
calves, and $50 in cash.
Taking into account the large amount
of Indian children yet to be allotted,
and the additional lands to be given to
those coming of age, Indian officials do
not think there will be much, if any,
surplus lands to be thrown open under
the act which recently passed the SEN
ate.
Indian Inspector Norris has returned
to Washington, having completed his
investigation OF charges preferred
against Wakapala Indian officials. The
inquiry involved questions of personal
conduct only; there was no question of
graft or wrong doing with Indians.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
Items of interest From All Parts Of the State.
Who Will Win

Hans Lien and Geo. w. Veins, well
known farmers living some miles from
Sioux Falls, have been made the
defendants in what are among the
most peculiar damage suits ever insti-
tuted in the state circuit court IN Sioux
Falls. The plaintiffs are Mr.. and Mrs.
W.. d. Knapp, who live near Veins and
Lien. 1t is set forth in the complaint
that while Mrs. Knapp was in a chicken
house near some haystacks at night.
and vas earring a lamp to give her the
necessary light while caring for her
chickens, thirteen head of horses
belonging to Lien and Wiens charged
upon her, upsetting the shed, striking
her and breaking the lamp, causing the
hay and shed to be set on fire and con-
sumed. Mr.. Knapp has instituted
damage suits against both the deferd-
ants, and Mrs. Knapp has instituted
against both for alleged external
and internal injuries received as the
result of the wild charge of the stray
C%ontributory negligence
promises TO cut considerable figure
when the suits are tried.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22

The champion ear of corn was not an
accident. There can be no greater les
son in the value of careful study and
painstaking selection of seed and breed
ing than the experiences of this same
Palm The farmer who thinks he
stands a chance to go into his corn
field and by a piece of luck pick out an
ear which Nature has fashioned even
more perfectly and with it wrest the
honors from this Indiana man, cannot
do better to disabuse his mind of this
fallacious notion than to read the story
of Palm and his champion ear.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
THE VALUABLE ANG0RA.
American Demand For Mohair Greatly
Exceeds the Supply.

In the mountainous regions Of Asiat.
ic Turkey is the ancient city Of Ango.
ia, celebrated for the long haired goats
bred in that vicinity. Here Angoras,
the most valuable of all breeds of
goats, reaches its perfection. The fine.
ness Of its hair and the remarkable
fact that many other animals in that
region possess long. silky hair has been
ascribed by some authorities to some
popularity in the atmosphere. the ALI
tude or soil.
At the present time there are In the
United States between 100000 and 400
600 Angoras of pure blood or hich
strain, and yet the domestic product of
mohair does not equal the home de-
mand by a large amount Many do
lars worth Of mohair is imported an
nually into the United States, and still
In Texas alone there is sufficient noun.
tain land to raise not only all the mo.
hair now imported. but enough to ex-
port several million dollars worth an
nually. says Farm and Ranch.
There are four prodts to the Ango-
ra-the mohair. the increase. the fer
dlizer and the land they free from
brush and weeds. There is a wide
difference between the shearing weight
and the shearing value of goats.
Some will shear as much as fifteen
pounds Of mohair per year, but the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
South Dakota Cash

The state treasury has made a call
for $40, 900 of outstanding general
fund state warrants, calling up to regis
ter number 26, 1872.
The report of state finances as shown
by the report Of the treasurer for the
close of business January 81, shows
cash in all funds of 1868, 908, and of
this the general fund carried 1854, $40.
The Irvine plant carried $24, 944; and
the permanent school fund $50, Sal,
which is the highest point for that fund
for some time, this on account of
receipts from the government of cash
whice goes into that fund, but with the
demand that will not remain in there
for any great length of time. The
game fund is up to $32 coo, and will be
in good shape for the propagation of
game in the state wi en- the law is
fixed to allow the use of this fund for
the purpose for which it was intended.
The disbursements of the treasury for
the month of January were S4SS, l02.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
o-s oWf%noN caa

Just a countryman that's all" is
the way the grower of this remarksI lie
ear of corn. Mr.. Fred {. Palih. styl,s
himself. Though he is admitted to be
one of the leading corn experts in the
country-one whose services are greatly
in demand as a judge of corn exhibits,
Mr.. Palm asks for no greater honor or
distinction than to be known as a plain
Hoosier farmer, and while he openly
processes a reasonable pride in the
achievement of growing the famous
ear of corr which was ~adjudged the
most perfect ever grown. it is without
a shadow of ostentation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
A Long Time IN Their Emplo,

Conductor John Iverson, who has
been on the Yankton. Centerville run of
the Northwestern line for a good many
years, IS the possessor of eight
stripes or armbands, each repre-.
senting five years of service for that
railroad. Conductor Iverson also has a
two-year start on another five-year
period, and has no intention Of throw
ing up his job until he has attained at
least one more. He first entered the
service of the company about forty-two
years ago, in Chicago, and has been on
the job ever since. He has an easy
run between Yankton and Centerville.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
H POLE STAR.
Some of the Wonders Of This Great
Beacon of the North.

Beacon of the North.
Most people, If they know nothing
else Of astronomy, at any rate know
the pole star, the one star which seems
to keep its place in the heavens with
out movement of any kind. There are
a great many, however, who do not
know what a wonderful thing it is. In
the first place. it can be seen when
looked at through a good telescope to
be two stars and not one. There Is one
fairly bright one. Of what is known as
the second magnitude, and another OF
the ninth magnitude close to it.
But that is not all. The brighter OF
the two is really three stars revolving
round one another. or rather round
their common center Of gravity, like
three children playing ring a ring o
roses" This secret Is revealed to US
by what Is perhaps the most astonish.
ing OF all scientific Instruments, the
sp~ectroscope. 1t net only tells us what
the stars are made of, but whether
they are moving toward us or away
from as.
When you stand facing the star you
are always facing north. The reason
that it does not appear to nov as the
others do is because it Is nearly in line
with the axis of the earth. Its distance
from us Is enormous. This can be
judged from the fact that although the
earth in it's journey round the sun is
today about ~19O.OO0.000 miles from
where it was six months ago., that
makes no appreciate difference to its
distance from the pole star. 1t must
therefore be many times 190,000,000
miles away.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Mccoy Turns Up

Word has been received in Belle
Fourche, from Canada, from Garfield
Mccoy, the sheepman north of there
who last month turned his sheen loose
on the range and disappeared. 1t was
thought at the time that Mccoy was
insane, but it appears that he had noti-
fed the mortgages of the sheep that
he was unable t stand the severe
winter any longer and vas forced to
turn the animals loose and look for a
new location. He gave nearly all his
money to his wife and set out on horse
back, and on reaching Canada filed on
800 acres of land and expects to do well
there.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Very Narrow Escape

Grace Strict, aged IL, had the most
narrow escape from death recorded in
Sioux Falls for some time. She was
crossing the tracks in the Rock Island
railroad yards when she noticed a
switch engine bearing down upon her.
She jumped but slipped and fell and
the wheels of the engine caught the
projecting portion of the sole of one of
her shoes and cut it off as neatly as
could have been done with a knife.
Beyond pinching her toes when the
leather was contracted by the cutting
off of the front part of the sole she
escaped without injury.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Burke in ONCE Again

Former Register John l.. Burke, of
the Rapid City United States land
Office, il to be the successor of Judge
LOOMS S. Gull, who resigned to enter
tine republican race for governor. Mr..
Burke has been notified by Senator
Gamble that he may expect his confir-
nation in the senate before March 1,
the date when Mr.. Cults resignation
takes effect. Mr.. Burke is one of the
best known republicans in the state
and was receiver of the land office
there from 1903 to 1908, when he
became register, and a year later
resigned on account of his health.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Ole Unique Story Gifts Discovery
nc wNsEuose moS'N

the trophy winner in my hand. So
much so that when | left for Omaha TO
exhibit the ear. / took it out of my
grip and show. d it to the station agent
with the words. That's the 2 I'm
going to win the 81. 900. trophy with. y
So there's II e story of the champion
ear as Palm told il himself. And on
the strength Of il who will say that
Fred C. Palm doesn't justly merit the
title, 1.-THE Man who Knows Corn?
But that's not all of Palms story.
He tells it willingly, though modestly,
for he knows that his story whenever
told is a source of great encouragement
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Shot up the House

Lee Hall, a colored porter at the
Padley hotel at Geedes Monday came
near shooting the landlord and several
of the guests. Hall had been drinking
ard started a fight with another colored
employee of the hotel. They were
separated, but Hall went TOT hardware
and purchased a revolver and returned
to the hotel. He encountered Dan
baum, the landlord, and threatened to
shoot him.
Danbaum grappled with the drunken
negro ana they rolled down stairs. The
negro got up first and the landlord
leaped upon his back. The black then
tore up the stairs with Danbaum on
his back. At the top of the stairs he
emptied his revolver IN every direction
narrowly missing several guests. Hall
was then overpowered and the city
marshall placed him under arrest.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22

was offered to be awarded IN annual
competition for the best single ear OF
corn until won twice by the same pro-
Queer. The fact that the Kellogg pro-
duet is made only from selected whi'e
corn. while the winning ear was OF a
pronounced yellow type, was a peculiar
feature.
The kellogg trophy was Won in 1910
at Columbus, Ohio, by r. A. James, OF
Charleston, ILL.,, with a magnificent ear
of Reds Yellow Dent, but not so per-
feet an ear as that which originally
won the trophy and which has become
known as 1.-THE best ear of corn e
grown"
The next award of this trophy will be
made at the next National Corn Expo
sition, which will be held in February,
1913, at Columbia, S. c. 1t is planned
to make this exposition much broader
in scope than any held in the past, and
consequently a longer time will be
required for preparation. Special
buildings are being erected for the
exposition, the main building to be 400
by 167 feet, ground measurements.
The show will last ten days. The state
of South Carolina has appropriated
$40, 900 for the expenses of the exposi-
tion and the prospect is that Dixie will
''do herself proud" in an effort to
make this exposition the greatest of
its kind ever held.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22

At the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Savage, residing two and one
half miles southwest of Sioux Falls,
Feb. 16. was celebrated the fifty
eighth anniversary Of the marriage of
this popular couple. A number Of
children and grandchildren and some Of
the neighbors assisted them in cele-
brating this notable event, about forty
guests being present. Three Of their
five children now are living.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
The Rulinu Shirt.

Sitting at a cafe in Paris one even.
ing, l heard a woman's idea OF war.
An affectionate young couple were au.
d~aciously making love over some ba.
varoise au chocolat. The girl was
telling machere all manner OF pretty
things that ran something like this:
What a pity there will be no war aft
er all! You would have been wounded,
and l should have gone out to nurse
you in such a pretty costume d'infr-
miere!"-London Black and White.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22

In the first place, Palm knows corn.
If there We're no more proof of this
fact thar the bare story of the devel-
opment and discovery of the champion
ear, it would be enough. And in proof
of this fact, here is the story as he
told it himself:
1T was in November, 1910, and we
were just harvesting our crop. The
weather had been good, but we were a
little late with the harvest. The men
were going through the fields with the
wagon in the usual way gathering the
corn, and the harvest was a promising
me-.
I'VE have a sort of corn show at my
farm all the time, and there is always
an award for exceptionally good ears
of corn-ears sufficiently true to type
to permit of their being exhibited.
There is a small box on every corr
wagon in which the most perfect ears
are thrown. These, when properly
selected, constitute the seed corn, and
among these more perfect ears we
occasionally find an ear that we are
willing to exhibit in a contest.
On the day the champion ear was
found. 1 was at the house and at dinner
time one of the men brought it in and
laid 1t, with a number of other ears,
upon the window sill in the well room
for me to take and put away in the
seed house.
Well | said, do you think you've
got a good ear there?'
1t looks to me like a good ear
he said. What do you think Of it?'
picked it up and looked it over.
Well ! said finally, I think it is the
most perfect ear of corn / v E saw.
It's good enough to win the w. X.
Kellogg $1,000 trophy this year al
Omaha
"And ! was confident the moment |
saw Il, and looked II over, that I held
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Richter's Criticism.

On one occasion Hans Richter was
present at a concert given by a brother
composer at which the latter per-
formed a long and not particularly IN
teresting work of his own. When the
composition came to an end Richter
expressed his criticism In a very few
words. WELL" he said, 81. too, haf
written compositions to make a pile so
high" raising his hand three feet from
the ground. "but / hat burned them!"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
The Bull To Buv.

A poor bull is an extravaganza tbs
dairy herd cannot afford. Buy a good
bull. The price will not be prohibitive.
He should have a good dam. Look into
her record. Keep him long enough
to know whether or not his heifers are
good mixers. Ii they are keep The
bull. Breed the best Of his own grade
heifers to him. A great many bulls.
worth a fortune, go to the shambIes
before their real worth Is known
Kansas Farmer.