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From: Lisa <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Clippings
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:04:25 -0500


PLEASE NOTE - The following newspaper clippings are from a collection found
after my great Aunt passed away. She unfortunately made no note of what paper
they came from or the date. I felt they may still provide important clues for
somebody and other listers agreed so I have been posting them regardless.



Dies on Visit in West

Califon- Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Melessia LUTES, eighty-nine years old, of Califon, widow of Jacob LUTES, at the home of her son, Edward LUTES, in Oklahoma. She left Califon in September to spend the winter in the West.

Burial will be in Fairmont [Fairmount?]Methodist Cemetery. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Anna JACQUIS of Fairmont, and three other sons, Steward and Horace LUTES of Oklahoma and Johnson LUTES of Nebraska; four brothers, Harmon SUTTON of Califon, Albert SUTTON of Missouri, Ebenezer SUTTON of Chester and Silas SUTTON of Illinois; and a sister, Mrs. John BARKMAN of Long Valley.



Beating His Wife His Chief Pastime

Harry Kenneth BURD, 23, of the Farmersville section, was arraigned Friday evening before Justice COSS at Annandale on complaint of his wife, Mrs. Dorothy BURD, 19, who charged him with assault and battery and desertion. His wife claimed that he kicked her and put her out the front door. The BURDS have two children, Mary, two months, and Harry Jr., two years old.

BURD admitted "drinking a little hard cider." He pleaded with his wife to drop the charge but she refused in view of the fact that she has been beaten several times before this affair and that is was almost a habit with BURD.

Justice COSS committed BURD to the county jail in default of $1,000 bail, to await the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of assault and battery. COSS took BURD to Flemington in his automobile. The arrest was made by Trooper J.J. HARRIS of the Flemington barracks and Constable Charles STONE of High Bridge.

Saturday morning BURD was released when bail was put up by Elmer APGAR of Califon. BURD served a sentence last year for assaulting his father-in-law.



A Death at Fairmount

Mrs. Sadie FARLEY, 58, died at her home in Fairmount Monday after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Fairmount Presbyterian Church. Rev. Frank DE PUE will officiate and interment will be made in the family plot at the Fairmount cemetery.

Mrs. FARLEY'S parents were the late Benjamin and Ann APGAR of Fairmount. Her husband, George FARLEY, died 15 years ago. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Sadie CROTSLEY and Mary FARLEY, and one son, Benjamin, all of Fairmount. One son, Bernard, who went overseas during the World War, was never heard from after he left the United States.

Two brothers, George APGAR of Fairmount and Cleveland APGAR of Far Hills, and one sister, Mrs. Louise APGAR of Rockaway, also survive.


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