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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
12
Miscellaneous notes from Stewartsville and nearby: residents report typhoid cases and recovery, relatives visiting in from Rocksburg and Tiverton, church society meetings planned, and community members traveling to New York and Verona for family matters. Intermittent updates on illness, travel, and local events fill the week’s idle chatter.
A police officer's fragmentary testimony describes a patient who suffered a winter illness and bled at a drugstore event. The note mentions a cough medicine and a lung remedy advertised at a benefit sale. The speaker promotes a purported world leading product offered by druggists.
A jumble of farm gossip and social updates from Junoye and nearby areas. Topics include Mrs Edwiank Le Hurd, the Tihan event at Milford, residents visiting Newark and Phillipsburg, church activities at Greenwich Presbyterian, Christmas programs, and a serious accident on the North Delaware road where Oasmith Laubach and Clayton Harris escaped injury when a telegraph wire caused electrocution of a horse.
Local society items recount visits and gatherings at Pleasant Grove and nearby towns. Families including Sergents, H. M. Sergent, Mrs. Florence Loblinson, and Edna Hann are mentioned with Thanksgiving meals, dances, and travel between communities such as Tickettstown, Hackettstown, and Beatyestown.
Rocksburg residents attend dances and dinners with friends at Brookside Hotel. Local folks visit family in Springtown and Easton while others plan entertainments and market crops. Weather delays a citizens dance and a butcher discusses sausage grinding by engine power.
Ostir Crisman builds a new Warn Tea nearly finished. Mr and Mrs Ziba Snyder of Washington visit relatives. Rev Robert Robinson attends the funeral of Mrs Jas Martyn in Hackettstown. Nellie Spangenberg and Nellie Mann visit Belvidere. Mrs Geo Appleman of Belvidere visits with her parents Mr and Mrs C Brokaw.
Miss Rose McLeah returned from Newark and Miss Sadie Denta visits cousin Mrs Samuel Drake. Andrew Ward works on his house while William Lotvell paints. Mrs Francs and Pearl Wilet keep busy in Dover. Ladies Aid Society of the Me B church holds quilting event.
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