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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1904
Page
2
A stream of items from Hackettstown, Belvidere, and surrounding towns covers council salary changes, a hospital misadventure, and upcoming commencements. Notable mentions include Hackettstown officials cutting the town clerk’s pay, the Edison Port and Centent Co. directors, a pastor’s new assignment at Gwodenborn, and a 70th birthday milestone for Theodore Neighbor.
Double tracks are being laid on the Lehigh and Hudson and a work crew operates through Great Meadows. An excursion to Lake Hopatcong is planned for May 20 with the season opening of the basa aeagun, plus a May 3 excursion. The Lackawanna’s new ferry house on Twenty third Street will finish late next fall. The Central Railroad of New Jersey plans a Sandy to Lake Hopatcong excursion from January 5 to September 26, with a fatal accident near Elizabeth and a worker killed on a Pennsylvan railroad line. The Dover to Kingsland plant will be removed, and trains radiating from Jersey City report vandalism and beer-car intrusions. The Central Railroad of New Jersey officials attended Lake Hopatcong to arrange an excursion for editors on June 7, with about 260 expected attendees. Hopatcong’s double deck steamer and Allen’s Pavilion boats will serve diners provided by the railroad.
Governor Murphy poised to return from Europe by January 1 exhibition game for Muhlenberg Hospital fundraiser. John A Hall longtime New Jersey aide dies in Trenton at age 59. Debates on marriage request law amid concerns of insanity and embarrassment. Frost damages crops across the state as coal shortages loom. Reservoir plan valued over 1 million dollars linked to a grand mansion project. Rob rosen near Rirtan slated water project. Railroad disruptions strand thousands of Methodist ministers in Grand Canyon trip causing hours of delay and improvised labor on site.
A fragmented list details local and county items from Hunterdon, Morris and Warren areas. It notes the Flemington Driving Club fret meeting on June 18, various municipal and county actions, library ownership changes, editor appointments, and infrastructure plans including courthouse expansion and telegraph lines.
Phillipsburg notices report explosions injuring a man, a foreman hurt on a construction job, a fatality from illness, and local officials planning furnace blast and school funding. Municipal acts include a church edifice purchase, marriage notices, deaths, and health department funding. also a feature on The Century Summer Campaign and Western-focused content.
An old advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion as the right food for soft bones in childhood. It claims that proper nourishment cures rickets, strengthens joints, and improves growth in children, offering a free sample and urging readers to buy at druggists.
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