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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1922
Page
11
A roundup of small town notes from Bear Swamp, Changewater, Charlestown, Spruce Run, and nearby locales. highlights include busy residents, a mumps scare amid diphtheria papers, Washington celebration travel, historic apple whisky tales, limited Talics Aid turnout, marriage license sightings, and cider barrel activity as women step in to harvest apples.
Sussex County grand jury returns seventeen indictments including three for liquor violations. Reports note Mrs Paulsen of Branchville as first woman charged in the county, James Gaunt near Knowlton church yielded 16 bushels of potatoes, Somerville church groups protest airplanes during services, and Stroudsburg issues over 1,600 hunting licenses. Milford names Alton B. Spoor borough collector. Coruenty quarries workers win wage raise. Clinton women push for mosquito control. Tony Turko murder trial likely to start. pumpkins stolen near Hackettstown. Hampton seniors plan Washington trip. Beatlestown seeks longer electric service. South Plainfield grocers sold. Lackawanna County Club plans Lake Lackawanna clubhouse. Budd Lake to Hackettstown rail resurfacing near completion. Parsippany arrests tied to whisky-filled auto tank.
A Flemington area column reports a July to November mix of local events. Milla sent him to Morris county jail for thirty days. American Legion post plans Arraistica Day parade on November 11 with uniformed members. a pre-event parade will visit High Bridge. Clarence Strunk injured when a stone flew from a passing car striking his leg on trolley tracks. Democratic candidates Edwards and Sizer, among others, tour Hunterdon county. Republicans visit October 28. Lebanon band and orchestra visit Belvidera October 27 for a drill and dance. Kitus Degnan, hurt riding a bicycle weeks ago, returns to Easton hospital for a broken leg recast. Worthington saw mill near Buckwood Inn ships lumber after new opening. Newton Presbyterian spire rebuilt, local papers proud bound copies atop it. Flemington enrollment drops twenty students. Car collision near Whitehouse injures none. Clarence Bodine and Kathryn Shumpanore in a wreck after cow strayed onto road.
Mt Bethel Miss Molen Vantiarn confined to her home for the week due to presumed illness. Several local residents, including Mr and Mrs Osmer and others, visited and extended well wishes. Church services scheduled for 3 pm Sunday with a serial to follow.
Pleasant Grove covers Synod attendees from Stephenshire and Atlantic City along with a note on the Presbyterians service and a women's society gathering. A New Jersey DMV list lists winter driver license examination points in Hackettstown Phillipsburg Newton Dover Merrittown and other towns. A dog attack on a chicken farm near Red Bank ends with chickens killed and a farmer injured as three dogs flee.
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