Name/Title
Flanagan Scrapbook: Millburn Free Reading Rooms, Temperance Meeting, Diphtheria, 1897Entry/Object ID
2023.246.008Description
Newspaper clippings from page 8 of the scrapbook belonging to the Flanagan family (44 Mechanic Street, Millburn). Topics include: A large attendance at the Millburn Free Reading Rooms, temperance meetings, resignation of Millburn High School teacher Edith Van Dusen, Five cases of Diphtheria reported in Millburn.
Transcription of the articles as follows:
Millburn and Vicinity (Feb 8, 1887)
A large attendance was present in the Millburn free reading-rooms yesterday afternoon at the gospel temperance meeting held under the auspices of the Millburn W. C. T. U. The principal speaker was J. D. Van Cise, of Summit.
The Coach and Liverymen Association of Short Hills will give an invitation party and dance at the residence of Thomas Doyle next Wednesday night.
Horace De Hart, of Mechanic street, Millburn, who was severely injured by a fall while at work on a building at Short Hills, is improving.
The Springfield Board of Health at its meeting Saturday night, decided to continue the quarantine established on the Branch Mills School, owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever in the district, and to keep the school closed until the Health Physician recommends that it be opened. Within the past week two more cases have broken out in the family of Antone Ganski, making six of Mr. Ganski’s children sick with the disease. One of the children is dangerously ill.
Springfield and Millburn (Newark Evening News, February 7, 1897)
A meeting of the men and women of Millburn and Springfield townships, interested in the cause of temperance, will be held to-night at the Methodist personage at Springfield, to organize a Prohibition club.
Miss Phillippa Pitcher, of Short Hills, is visiting at Little Rock, Ark.
Success Council No. 171, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Millburn, is arranging for a smoker to be held in their lodgerooms on the night of Washington’s Birthday.
Rev. Dr. George R. Van De Water, rector of St. Andrew’s Church, Harlem, will preach at a special service to be held at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Millburn, on Wednesday night, under the direction of the men’s Bible class.
Millburn and Springfield (Newark Sunday Call, June 6, 1897)
Miss Edith Van Dusen, a teacher in the Millburn High School, has tendered her resignation to the Board of Education and will accept a situation in the Rutherford schools.
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Palmer, of Valley road, Old Short Hills, gave a birthday party for their daughter yesterday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Vernon, of Short Hills, are staying at Plainfield.
Miss Bessie Pitcher, of Short Hills, is sojourning at Orange.
Miss Carrie Jeakens, of Martinsville, is visiting her brother, David Jeakens, at Springfield.
The Springfield base ball team will play the Ariels of Newark on the Springfield [illegible] Saturday afternoon.
Millburn and Springfield (Newark Evening News, March 20, 1897)
Charles H. Smith, of Millburn, former proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, is ill.
The Misses Deiner, of Springfield, gave a reception to a number of young people at their residence last night.
A special meeting of the American Volunteers will be held in the Springfield Town Hall, to-morrow afternoon, at 3 o’clock. Captain Handicott will speak.
Ethel, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Palmer, of Springfield, died yesterday morning with scarlet fever and was buried this afternoon. Two younger children in that family have the disease.
The Springfield Christian Endeavor Society will give an entertainment in the chapel of the Presbyterian church near Tuesday night.
The birthday of Neal Dow will be celebrated by the Millburn Auxiliary of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union tomorrow afternoon with a special service in the Millburn free reading-room.
The fourth monthly service of the men’s bible class connected with St. Stephen’s parish, Millburn, will be held in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, to-morrow night. Rev. Dr. James B. Wasson, assistant rector of ‘All Souls’ Church, New York, and formerly of Millburn, will preach. A special musical progamme will be given.
The clipping party which is to be given by Pride of Success Council. Daughters of Liberty, of Millburn, will be held in Bailey's Hall, on the night of March [21?], instead of March 24, as has been stated.
KATIE CONNELLY FOUND (Newark Evening News, August 8. 1899)
Springfield Girl Located in Westfield, Where She Had Weaved a Romance.
Fourteen-year-old Katie Connelly, who disappeared from her home at Springfield last Saturday night, as told in the NEWS, was found by her father in Westfield yesterday. The girl had simply run away from home.
After leaving her home the girl says she walked as far as Mountainside. There she met a woman with a horse and carriage, and asked her for a ride. The woman took her as far as the Westfield Depot. At the station the Connelly girl accosted Jennie Tobin, a Westfield girl of her own age, and asked her where she could get work. She said her name was Mary Daly, and she told a story of having been taken from New York to Summit to work, and of alleged ill-treatment at the latter place, which prompted her to run away. She added that she had walked from Summit to Westfield.
The Tobin girl referred the newcomer to Patrolman Todd and Treasurer Harden, of the Westfield Township Committee, and the latter found a place for the Connelly girl and tried to get employment for her.
Late yesterday afternoon, James Connelly the girl’s father, went to Westfield inquiring for his daughter, who, he said, had run away from home. He was brought to the supposed “Mary Daly,” and immediately identified his girl and took her in charge.
DEATH OF MARTIN J. COONEY (Newark Evening News, November 22, 1898)
A Stroke of Paralysis Which Occurred a Year Ago Results Fatally.
Martin J. Cooney, the undertaker, died at his home, 36 Wallace place, at an early hour this morning. He had a partial stroke of paralysis about a year ago, and while able to move about, kept gradually sinking until a month ago, when he was forced to take to his bed. Mr. Cooney was born in this city thirty-five years ago, and after graduating from St. Benedict’s College he became a clerk in the Tax Office. He had been a member of the volunteer fire department, and resigned his clerkship to become a member of the Salvage Corps. Twelve years ago he started in the undertaking line with M. J. Sweet, under the firm name of Sweet & Cooney. About a year later this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Cooney formed a new one with his uncle, former Alderman John Hogan, who has continued the business since Mr. Cooney was stricken.
Deceased was a member and one of the organizers of Newark Lodge No. 21, B. P. O. Elks, of Father Dalton Council, C. B. L., Jeffersonian Club, Joel Parker Association and other social and political organizations. He was married about three years ago, and leaves a widow and one child.
“ALL SMITHS LOOK ALIKE” TO HIM (Newark Evening News, November 22, 1898)
Husband’s Remark, However, Caused Trouble in the Family.
George F. Smith appeared before Judge Schalk in the Fourth Precinct Police Court yesterday afternoon to answer a complaint made by his wife. The couple live on Wilsey street. Mrs. Smith declared that her husband had struck her in the face.
“When I hit her,” Smith put in, “It was done through great provocation. She asked me if she looked like the rest of her family and I answered. ‘Oh, all Smiths look alike to me.’ Then she called me a liar, and I couldn’t control myself.”
“It’s the way he said it, Judge,” Mrs. Smith interrupted, “and he did lie, too.”
The couple had more words in the courtroom and the Judge ordered them to keep quiet and go home and try to live peaceably.
Peddler Joseph Miller, an Arabian, was brutally beaten near the summit of Springfield Mountain, near Springfield, late yesterday by an unknown colored man. Miller is now at his lodgings at Millburn in a serious condition.
Dullness of trade in Millburn and Springfield prompted Miller to tramp over the snowblocked road to Springfield Mountain—four miles away—yesterday afternoon. He expected to sell a big bill to the colored families on the mountain, as they were almost cut off from communication with the nearby towns.
With his pack strapped to his pack Miller reached this colored settlement at about 4 o’clock. While standing in the road in front of the residence of Thomas Lamb, one of the largest dwellings in the vicinity, a big colored man employed by Lamb opened the door and invited the peddler in. Miller does not know the employee’s name, but from the description given the Millburn police authorities believe he is William Kennedy. Besides this man, who did all the talking, several colored men and women sat about the room.
The man asked Miller to show him a watch-key. Miller had one, and he asked ten cents for it. As he would not sell it for five cents it was returned to him. A heated argument preceded the surrender of the key. Miller was seated on a low chair, and bent his head over his box, arranging his stock preparatory to leaving. While in this position the man believed to be Kennedy struck him a terrific blow above the right eye with some blunt and heavy instrument. The blow, besides knocking Miller unconscious for a few minutes, inflicted a long, deep cut on the forehead, from which the blood flowed freely.
Before Miller recovered from the effects of the first blow his assailant continued beating him on the head and body. The other occupants of the house took no hand in the fray.
As soon as possible Miller gathered together his stock and started for home. It was now growing dark and, wishing to reach Springfield before nightfall, the peddler took a short cut over the mountain near Hartshorn’s stone quarry. He lost his way, and it was two hours later when, almost exhausted, he reached the residence of the Sisters of Charity connected with St. Rose of Lima’s Roman Catholic Church at Short Hills avenue, Short Hills.
After listening to Miller’s story the sisters bandaged his head, and taking charge of his pack, directed him to Springfield to see a Justice of the Peace. The peddler could not find a Justice and went to Millburn where he remained over night. This morning he made a complaint, and the officers of Millburn and Springfield are now searching for Kennedy, who, it is feared, has escaped.
Diphtheria Cases in Millburn (Newark Evening News, July 26, 1898)
Five cases of diphtheria, reported to the Millburn Board of Health since Thursday of last week, have caused the authorities to improve the sanitary conditions of certain sections of the village. The first case brought to public notice was that of Morris Lonergan, the ten-year-old son of John Lonergan, of Spring street. Young Lonergan died yesterday morning, but in the meantime his brother Edward had been attacked with the disease. Yesterday three cases were reported, the victims in each instance being children of Italian parents living on Spring and Church streets. Health Inspector Magee ordered the yards and gutters around the Italian tenement thoroughly cleaned and the rank growth cut down and cleared away.Collection
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