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From: "M.F. Pickell" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] More Tidbits from Hunterdon Co. Newspapers
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:15:24 -0700


WHITE HOUSE STATION JANUARY 12, 1911

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST

Adam B. Pickell, of this place is reported quite ill.

Mrs. Charles A. Meseroll is recovering from a severe attack of rheumatism.

Mrs. Alvah L. Honeyman, who has been seriously ill with heart trouble, is
improving.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Stryker enjoyed Sunday with their son, Ray C. Stryker
at Bound Brook.

Mrs. Jacob H. Dilts has returned to her home here after a visit to Mrs.
Abram S. Case in Flemington

Dr. H. H. Miller, of Lebanon, has been elected medical advisor for the
Clinton Township Committee.

Assessor Wm. T. Hoffman, of this place, is recovering from a severe attach
of inflammatory rheumatism.

Mr. and Mrs. James Gulick, of Potterstown, visited last Saturday with Mr.
and Mrs. M. B. Hoffman, at Lebanon.

Miss Mildred Howell, of Brooklyn, has been visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. John Van Dervoort, of this place.

Mrs. Eugene Hoffman, of this place, who has been suffering for a long time
from an injured knee, is reported to be much improved in health.

Mrs. David C. Lindabury and Mrs. James Smith of Centre, have been visiting
Mrs. Mervin Seals, of High Bridge, who is reported to be very ill.

Mr. and Mrs. James Gulick of Potterstown, visited last Sunday with Mrs.
Gulick's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Waldron, at North Branch.

Mrs. Sarah C. Buckley and Miss Minnie Buckley of this place, attended a
party at the home of Mrs. George W. Field, in North Branch Station on Saturday.

Miss Clara Boyd, an evangelist from Philadelphia, is conducting services
every night in the White House Methodist Church this week. Much interest
is manifested in her work.

Wm. W. Rinehart, aged 77 years, died in Washington, N. J. a few days ago of
peritonitis. A widow and seven children survive. He was a brother of
Martin V. Rinehart, of Round Valley.

W. M. Owen and family of White House left on Saturday for Bay Minette,
Ala., where he was purchased a plantation and will make his home. He is
going to conduct a dairy and hog farm.

Last Thursday, George R. Layton, of Far Hills, received $200 damages from
Bruce Kitchell, a Newark architect, for running into his "rubber-neck"
automobile, last June, and damaging it to the above amount.

James N. Pidcock, President of the First National Bank of this place,
returned Monday from a business trip of several weeks in the South and West.

Among those from this place who attended the automobile show in New York on
Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Skillman; County Engineer and Mrs.
Grant Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Dilts, Constable and Mrs. Jacob C.
Dorland, Wm. D. Reger, Harry C. Van Derveer, Arthur Burdette and Ross Burdette.

There will be a meeting of the Readington Township Board of Education in
this place this week for the purpose of appointing a principal for the
public school at the White House Station to succeed professor Theodore A.
Sutton, who has resigned to accept the principalship of the school at
Lebanon. He will end his duties here the first of the month.

Branchburg Council, Jr. O.M.A.M., of North Branch, ahs elected the
following officers: Councilor, James Mingle; vice-councilor, R. Rodman
Kline; assistant recording secretary Frank L. Lane; conductor Lemuel S.
Wood; warden, Rev. Charles E. Corwin; inside sentinel, R. V. D. Swick;
outside sentinel. W.H. Alpaugh; trustee, E. Wade Clark.

The body of Mrs. Sarah E. Van Arsdale, widow of Peter Van Arsdale, was
interred in the cemetery of the Reformed Church at Bedminster last
Friday. The funeral services were held at her home in Plainfield. She was
formerly a resident of the Bedminster section and moved from there to South
Plainfield, where she lived a number of years before going to Plainfield to
make her home.

While repairing a machine in the garage of Grant B. Schley, at Far Hills,
late last Thursday afternoon, Theodore Allen, a machinist, was burned by an
explosion of gasoline. The flames spread about the garage and the Far
Hills and Bernardsville Fire Companies were called. The garage is equipped
with extinguishers and hose and the men on the estate soon got control of
the fire.

At a recent meeting of the Readington Township Committee, D. Henry Miller,
of White House, was the new member sworn in. The committee effected
organization for the ensuring year by the election of Charles C. Huff, of
Three Bridges, as chairman, and Silas Schomp, of Stanton, as
treasurer. Drs. Frederick L. Johnson, of Stanton and Frank G. Clark, of
White House Station, were reappointed physicians for the township.

After a short illness Mrs. Mary T. Pickell, 67 years old, died last
Thursday night at the home of her son, Alvah L. Pickell, near this place.
She was the widow of B. Newton Pickell, formerly a merchant here. She
leaves two sons, Alvah L. and Frederick Pickell. Funeral services were
held at the house Sunday at 2 o'clock. Rev. Henry T. Jones
officiating. Burial was in Rural Hill Cemetery. White House by funeral
director J. R. Alpaugh.

COURT PROCEEDINGS
On Monday the trial of indictments was commenced, and two indictments
against Charles F. Finley were tried on that day. Finley was the
proprietor of the hotel at Califon, and the first indictment was for
selling intoxicating liquors on Sunday to one Ross Hoffman. It was
testified that he sold both whiskey and beer to Hoffman. On Sunday by
Finley or by his bar keeper. This was denied by the defendant guilty.

The second indictment was for selling to a minor. Alvah Stillwell
testified that he would be seventeen years old on the sixth of September
next, and that on three different occasions he brought whiskey at the
Califon hotel during the past year. Finely denied having sold to him, and
said he had never seen the boy until he saw him in court. The jury found
him guilty of the offence.

On Tuesday an indictment against James Saford was disposed of. Saford was
charged with breaking and entering the house of George F. Kline in
Readington Township on Oct. 29th, and stealing some things and money. Mrs.
Kline testified that about noon she saw two men coming up the road a little
distance form the house. One of them sat down under a tree and the other
came up the lane, she pulled down a window shade and placed herself behind
a door. The man came on the porch and tried two screen doors. Not opening
he cut the screen near the hooks, but failing to get in he pried up a
window which was fastened down with nails. Then Mrs. Kline went down in
the cellar and out an outer door and ran to a neighbor's Mr. Henze. He and
his son went over with her, and as they came near the house the defendant
came out to he cellar door and started across the yard. Young Mr. Henze
caught him and held him until an officer came from Flemington. When caught
he had some neckties and a whisk broom on him. Bureaus in the house had
been ransacked and articles thrown on the floor, and in the parlor was
found a suit of clothes that had been taken from its place and put in the
parlor. After case had been put in by the State the defendant retraced his
former plea of not guilty and plead guilty to the charge.





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