19 Jul 1902
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Newspaper
Caldwell News
Location
Caldwell, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1902
Page
1
Caldwell notes weekly society items from Pine Rock to Newark. Residents like Miss Liffian Portman and Mr. Frank Young are mentioned with local events, church entertainments, a Sunshine Society meeting, and preparations for a field day by the Volunteer Fire Department.
The YOP of Verona presents a music and literary entertainment at Johnson's Hall on July 2. An orchestra of noted musicians will perform with Mer. Jobo Leicksolole and Prof. Fr. Voss as conductors and soloists. Miss Grace Correll, elocutionist and Emerson College graduate, will read selections. After the program, social festivities and refreshments will close the evening.
Amy Fyram wed Frederic W. Maule of St. Louis in a private Tuesday ceremony at Mis Katherine Vy-Dolbeer’s Caldwél home. Rev Nelson Chester officiated as relatives attended. The couple plan a Western tour via the Great Lakes to Niagara and Mackinac before settling in St. Louis.
A plan to establish a National Bank in Caldwell outlines its capital stock of 50 0000.08 and 250 shares at ten dollars each. Walter Lindsley, attorney for investors, toured Washington and reports congressional approval of a national bank for Caldwell under conservative management and no salaries until financially strong. Local subscriptions encouraged from Caldwell Venona Essex Fells Livingston Pine Island and adjacent areas with allocations by subscription order. The center Caldwell will host the bank with Delia Bond connected, and several Newark residents are noted as visiting or staying at local cottages. A tennis club formation, a straw ride fundraiser, and a lawn fete for the club are also reported along with a fatal accident to De Camp and a new Adult Bible Class meeting Sundays.
The Junior Sunbeam Society met at Miss Mildred Bond's home in Roseland on Monday afternoon. After the meeting, members wrapped and shipped boxes of books and magazines donated by friends to the Sunbeam Society in New York. The group, though newly established, has quickly done much good and brought sunshine to many homes.
Mr and Mrs Rogers intend a Monday start for a two week drive through the Catskills. They will travel with a team surveying about 200 miles, stopping at hotels and inns, tending to horses, shelter, and travel needs as they go. The trip follows prior pleasure and success.
The council discussed street usage and the renewal of an old electric contract. Proceedings on grade establishment for Wood Place and surrounding avenues drew attention to water pipe levels for a new supply. A motion urged property owners to attend next Monday night meeting.
The piece argues for more cars and longer headways on the Sandaye line to serve Caldwe Verona and nearby villages. It notes eight miles to Newark end, summer crowds from mountains, and that current service fills up with riders seeking summer use, urging additional cars and clearer schedules for workdays.
The Caldwell hotel arrivals list includes guests from Monomonock Linn New York and New Jersey towns. Names include Rev A S Tovhe Miss Moche Mrs A S Haringswon G fh Mead Miss Mead and multiple couples from Nutley South Orange and Brooklyn among others.
Transfers list Leavi A Kent et ux to EsteHa Shrump Caldwell property on Five Chains West from Ayonp Road. Charles J Mosher et ux to Israel R Mosher Livingston property at Williams land corner. Annie M Stevens to Lillie Schoonmiker Verona Newark and Pompton Turnpike corner mortgage. Robert Hawthorne land sale price 3500 to Anna Wardell et al to Charlotte Crnfield Caldwell property Washburn Place. William Baun to Dorotha Baun Livingston mortgage cows. Frederick Parkhurst Mt Pleasant Ave Livingston to Edward Moran milk mortgage 83 dollars.
Farmers report strong demand as they haul produce directly to market via wood roads, saving freight and commission. Prices are generally good, with crops expected to be large this year. Apples are in high demand, and farmers anticipate strong returns, similar to or better than last year.
At the Grover House on Saturday evening guests played progressive euchre with Mr L Wing of Brooklyn winning the gentlemen's prize. Mrs Reawick and Mrs Butler of New York won the ladies honors. A package euchre followed last evening. A gala night is planned with a pin nose tournament Figentass street to host music by a string orchestra and refreshments served.
New residents arrive at Putnog Bay as families prepare for spring. Mrs Idella Gardner and Miss Gertrude Fiiyuuib travel from Brielfe to visit. Livingston Methodist Sunday School declines a Cotin Sunday event due to schedule, while Abie Mary Bedell is praised as a pupil leader in local schools. Township hay sales continue, and a festival for Livingston Baptist Sunday School is planned on Saturday evening at Miss Lached Greani’s residence. good weather is hoped for. The township committee supports pedestrian safety and advocates auto regulation to protect riders, urging law enforcement action if drivers threaten others.
Readers are guided to identify wild bean Amphicarpoea also called bop peanut. Describes plant leaves pods and blossoms and warns of misidentifying poison ivy. Reports on New Jersey fish and game protections and plans to introduce land locked salmon and lake trout in Green Pond and Culver Lake with government support.
Mrs Harriet EB Condit beloved wife of Emmons Condit of Bloomfield avenue died at midnight July 16 after long illness. Funeral service Sunday at two from Bloomfield avenue residence with Rev Reed of First Presbyterian Ferota officiating. Interment Cauldwell Cemetery. Funeral director Fred Cook.
Editorial guidance notes that correspondents should always sign their name in each communication and use an assumed alias if one is provided. The instruction emphasizes accountability and consistency in attribution.
Verona Lake Park opens a week of entertainment starting Monday with a vaudeville lineup including Al Wilson and O Brien trapeze acts. A baseball game between clergymen is planned as a highlight along with church and Sunday school events from Newark churches and Baptist rallies.
Miss Bertha Fands visits relatives in Newark while Miss Hessie Barnet calls on Mrs. Ruse of West Orange. Several residents like Miss Lessie Condit and Miss Dessie Kiln travel between White Hall Oceanic West Orange and New York. The text notes multiple visits and a Baptist event at year’s end.
Entomologist Smith reports the seventeen year cicada has appeared, chiefly between Bound Brook and Trenton, causing notable damage near Lawrence while sparing Essex County. He notes stronger numbers in Pennsylvania this year and warns of broader forestry impact.
The Verona post station lists mail arrivals at 7:50, 10:10 a m, and 0:40 p m with close times at 7:25, 1:00, 4:20 and 7:40 p m Mails from Caldwell arrive 7:00 a m and 12:15 m with Caldwell mail closing at 4:40 a m and 5:00 p m The post office opens 7:10 a m and closes 7:30 p m.
An OCR filled page names Verena and Cedar Grove school accounts with figures such as $7,470 and $8,308, plus salaries and a note on school board matters. It references voting on a school issue, with Mr. William Bort of Greve noted as appointed at $790 yearly.
Vic. George Yurter spent Sandy with Mrs. John Mitchell and Mr. Robert Chesney. Sr. is confined to the house with malaria. Mrs. Helen Mweland at Forest Hill spent Heviay with Mrs. Le Marshall. We learn Love annts to scot but has too few tridges. Mrs. TH Weed of Throoklyna spends the summer with her mother Mrs. John M. Mitchell. Chicken hives again visited neighbor Mr. Charles Marley. The church youth spent an evening with their minister arranging his books. Friends of A. W. Miiehell are glad to see him back in business. A pie n ie is planned at Post Woods on Wed next. all members urged to attend and friends welcome. Prof. William H. Adame, popular Cedar Grove schoolmaster, resigned to go to Ada Ohio to enter college this fall.
Verona Township Committee held a special meeting at the Township Corithe rooms Verona Club House on Tuesday evening. Notices had been posted and property owners on Cedar Street Cedar Grove and Personette Avenue were not notified of objections to changing Cedar Street grade and establishing Personette Avenue grade. Profiles of the streets aligned with several owners and no objections were offered. The Pawnship Committee approved the ordinances for third and final reading and ordered printing in Ran Caldwell News.
A list of patentees from New Jersey reported by C. A. Snow & Co includes J. Albertt of Paterson with a tank valve, Brooks of Paterson with a sarrowewat toon, Brown of Montclair with musical toy, Barry of Port Republic with magneto therapeutic apparatus, Cluff of Paterson with fuel hoots at intervals, Dear of Jersey City with a paper cutting device, Gerardin of Jersey City with a rule, Lenox of Harrison with sewing machine guide, MacLean of Doverton with vending machines, Morrissey of West Orange with a button machine, Reichardt of Elizabeth with a sharpening device, Roche of Jersey City with a circuit closer, Stimpson of Plainfield with a sash lock, Van Gis sot of Newark with a gate counter, and Wiley of Newark with a cigar lighting device.
Verona extracts cover neighbors moving to Sparta for Revokes, visits from Mrs Cook in Sanquehanea, and local family news. notes record school vacancies, weddings of Amy Colbeer and Frederick Maule, and a Brookside house rental. A storm caused damage nearby while the Sunshine Society hosted a lawn festival with stalls and community leaders.
The act defines a duty of 1 cent per pound on oleomargarine colored with coloring matter and 1 cent per pound if not colored. Internal revenue offices nationwide issued preservation guidance for enforcement. The bill, titled defining batter, imposes taxes on manufacture and exportation of oleomargarine and is described as the strictest such law yet.
An aging editorial argues the home merchants must diversify and advertise beyond their town. It urges merchants to attract customers from neighboring towns and not rely solely on local trade, stressing proactive marketing and wider outreach.
The Caldwell post office schedules show mails arriving at 7 24 and 8 00 a m 2 49 and 6 19 p m and closing at 7 34 08 a m 1 12 46 and 7 44 p m.
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