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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
5
Mra Drake and son Russell visit, neighbors host gatherings at various homes, Lutheran harvest event planned, Miss Mitchell and Mrs Godfrey entertain, travel and visits noted across Newark Phillipsburg and Washington scenes, church activities and family events fill the week.
XORTUN and Nellie Crottig visit Ocean Grove while Mr and Mrs C W Gane enjoy two weeks there. Skinnner and Allentown party attend a Sunday outing. Daley Plumb of Clinton hosts a visit by Nihane Apgar and Mr and Mrs Chas Flaming. Mrs Wy Johnston attend Soldiers and Sailors event. Merle and Jennie Townsend return from grandparents in Uhjare town Pa. Mrs Willion Townsend and daughters visit Dr and Mrs Gea Ruch in Unsertown Pa. Roy Walter C Minses of Clinton to hold local option tent meeting Aug 20 21 22. M D Sunday school joins Mt Satem and Everlttstown P S for annual picnic Aug 28 at Ezra Lenfords Grove. Annie Lynch of New York, staying at the American hotel, injures foot on rusty nail. Harvest home service planned on church lawn Aug 26 with supper ice cream and refreshments. Pittstown Garnet Band to provide music. addresses by Senator William Gedhardt of Clinton and Rev W S Rachotie of Deveritts town.
Local society notes list Sunday visits by Beatty to Hackettstown and multiple family gatherings at Budds Lake and Newton. The entries mention Mrs Amos Bentt Sus eakis Geo Osman and many locals like the Langers Cochran Wooley and Hoppeth visiting relatives in Washington and Cole Brook. Churchwomen of Port Town prepare for a forthcoming event and fundraising drives.
An OCR fragment touts a Washington patent medicine claiming to cure chills fever biliousness jaundice weakness and malaria related troubles. It markets a tea mix as a full round preventive tonic with endorsements from a Dr James of Lovellan and promises stomach liver and blood benefits at five cents with a money back guarantee.
A fragmentary local notice lists numerous names including Grace Shoumacher Dan Avie and Miss Mary Fitts associated with Washington Myo Ata Sits. Other attendees include Mr. and Mrs. E P Wafrun, James, Wildiahy, and Mrs Bar Steffer at Buttaville, plus extended mentions of East Orange residents Irene Pump Roseville and Bertha Rathjen Hoboken among others.
A Vienna West Virginia testimonial credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health after years of illness. The letter from a Mrs. Bin, Winston, praises the remedy for relief from menstrual pain and related symptoms. It emphasizes no narcotics and notes numerous cures and testimonials stored at the Pinkham laboratory in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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