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ESTABLISHED 1818 AS THE “STAR.” FREEHOLD, N. J., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1925. VOL LXY, NO. 25
FREEHOLD
Joseph Sirutis caught a 4$ pound
bas« in Lake Topaneuius on ISaturday.
On Monday he caught two other large
bass.
Mai. Frank Dearing, an instructor
in the Virginia Military Institute at
Lexington, spent Sunday with his
father, D. W. Dearing. He will
spend the Summer at Camp Meade.
Orders Bave been issued calling the
officers and non-commissioned officers
of the 309th Regiment Reserves to
Camp Dix for fifteen days, June 14th
to 28. Officers in this section are
Charles Dittmar, Harry Burke and
Francis Vahderveer.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hartwhome
have issued invitations to the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Anna i f aight
Hartshorne to Arthur Norwood Gor
ham of Boston. The ceremony will be
performed on Wednesday, July 1st, at
St. Peter’s church.
Miss Annie P: Perrine attended the
70th anniversary of the State Normal
and Model Schools at Trenton last
a s one of the representatives or
the clasBlof 1875, with which? she
graduated after leaving the Freehold
Young Ladles’ Seminary.
Mrs. John R. DuBois, of'"'Brooklyn,
formerly of Freehold, is visiting rela
tives.
Mrs. Wiliiiam S. Throckmorton is
visiting Mr. and Mrs Willard Throck
morton.
Balt. Black Sox
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Stop Freeholders
The Freehold baseball club, play
ing at Mr. Holly, ran up against a
strong combination when they tack
led the Baltimore Black Sox for the
County-Seaters were on the short end
of a 13 to 4 score when hostilities
ceased. The v sitors annexed a to
tal of 18 hits off Y ung. They start
ed with a quartet of runs in the . pen
ing frame a ded a pair in the second
and scored thrice in the fifth and
sixth innings with another in the ninth
for good measure.
Three home runs featured the.con
test, Myers for Freehold-Mt Holly
getting one and Hall and J. Jefferies
getting the others. Thee triples al
so featured. Reiger , Beckwith the
flashy shortstop of the Black Sox and
Wilson getting the others. Beckwith
algo crashed out a double. Five er
rors by Vanderveer’s men aided the
visitors in their scoring. A big crowd
witnessed the contest.
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Tea Tax Stamp That
Led to Revolution
The tea tax stamp which was one
of the causes of the American Revo
lution. It Is the exceptional property
of C. Prederle Heyerman, Detroit col
lector and president of the American
Philatelic association. The stamp is
embossed, Is blue in color and came
Into use when England passed the I
stamp act tax In 1765. Very few of 1
the stamps have survived the years.
"Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks" Is
the translation of the words In the
Inner oval. ,
Lafayette's Pride in
American Citizenship
The following anecdotes of Lafay
ette appeared In the National Gazette
of August 28. 1824:
As Lafayette passed the house of
the late John Hancock In Boston, the
mayor said to. him: “There sits the
widow of your deceased friend.” He
Immediately caught her eye, and In
the most enthusiastic manner pressed
Ida hand upon his heart. She burst
tears and exclaimed: “I have now
lived long enough 1”
A while In conversation with
Lafayette, observed he spoke the Eng
lish language remarkably well: “And
why should I not,” he replied, “being
an American Just returned from a long
, visit to Europe?”
When we took a glass df wine In
company with several other men with
the general, previous to Ms landing at
the gtuumtlne ground frprn the Cad
mus, onffrf the party addressed1 him
both as toarquls and general, and then
asked him which he preferred. He un
hesitatingly and emphatically replied:
"I am an American general.”
“Police dogs, Chows, Bostons, Air
dales. Fox Terriers, and Great Danes
A few very exceptional puppies given
to reliable people on breeding basis,
police dogs trained by noted German
trainer at reasouabl fees. Strongheart
Kennels, Easton Ave. New Brunswick
S, J-'i
Tuesday’s Primary
| Returns Irom the New Jersey Re
publican primaries show over 30,000
i plural ty for Arthur Whitney, “dry”
and anti-Edge candidate for the Guber
natorial nomination.
With 148 of the 2776 districts
missing Whitney apparently polled
144,669 aginst Thomas P. McCran,
who got only 113,827 as the choice
of Senator Edge and the “wets.”
.Cornelius Doremus another “dry.”
! received 55,030,
| Thus the combined “dry” vote
exceeded that of the “wets” by more
than 80.000.
Stewart Appleby was nominated by
an overwhemitig vote as the Republi
can Congressional nominee.
Mr. Appleby, who sought the nomi
nation to fill the unexpired term of his
father, the late Congressman-elect %
Frank Appleby, made the following
statement:
“On the face of the incomplete returns
I have been elected to represent theBe
publiean party in the November elec
tion in the fight for congress.
“ I wish to sincerely thank those who
supported me so heartily in the primary
campaign, and at the same time solicit
the r continued support in the campaign
that is coming.”
J. Lyle Kinmonth, unopposed for the
Democratic nomination for congress,
recived a heavy complimentary vote!
Stephen C. Thompson, with 125 out
of 131 Monmouth districts reporting
Jiad a lead of 800 over Jacob G.
Campbell who sought reelection in
the freeholder race. Charles X. Craw
ford was trailing the field 800 votes
behind Campbell.
Mrs. Geraldine L. Thompson over
whelmingly defeated Mrs. Viola
Aguero for state ocmmitteewoman.
Returns at noon gave her 9,042 as
against Mrs. Aguero’s 1,808.
The defeat of Glenn H. Berry by
Elmer H. Geran former eongress
an was equally as decisive Ger
an was leading Berry by about 1,050.
With but two Ocean county dis
tricts missing, State Senator Thomas
Mathis had an unbeatable lead of
about 1 500 over his opponent Mrs.
Lila W. Thompson, assemblywoman.
Hock for Ocean assemblyman, was
leading R. A. Pettit by 400 and U.
S. Grant seeking the Ocean free
holder nomination, on the Republi
can ticket, led his field by 500.
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Tennent Chapter’s
Flag Day Celebration
On Saturday, June 13th, Tennent
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, made their annual pil
grimage to Old Tennent Church, and
held their Flag Day meeting. Mon
mouth Chapter S. A. R., Westfield
Chapter S. A. R., Monmouth Chap
ter, D. A. R., and Monmouth Court
House Chapter D. A. R., were guests
of Tennent Chapter as well as a number
of people frc m Freehold and near by
towns.
The members of Tennent Chapter,
with their guests, marched up the aisle
of the church to the strains of “Tenting
to-night on the old Camp Ground.”
Mrs. Harold Warren at the organ.
Mrs. W. F. Dav proceeded the pro
cession, bearing the American Flag.
Invocation by the Rev. John Love.
The Regent, Mrs. Jos. A. Reid,
opened the meeting with a selection
from the D. A R ritual.
The Rev. John Love read an
original poem “A tribute to our Flag.”
The Salute to the Flag was led
by Mrs. Henry S. While, who is the
author of the salute used at our
D. A. R. meetings.
Miss Alice MacLean sang “Columbia
the gem of the Ocean.”
Judge Walter Taylor gave greetings
from the S. A. R., to which the Regent
responded.
Judge Rulif V, Lawrence made a
very fine address stressing the necessity
of the S. A. R’s and D. A. R.’s doing
their bit to help those of Foreign birth.
The Daughters have and are doing a
wonderful work in Americanization
both at Ellis Island and Angel Island on
the Pacific coast as well as locally.
Dr. Thomas Pratt, President protein
of the S. A. R., gave a short talk and
pledged co-operation with the D. A. R’s
Miss McLean sang a group of songs.
The audience sang “The Star
Spangled Banner.’;
Dr. Love pronounced the benedic
tion and the Flag Day Meeting came
to an end.
Big Auto Races at Freehold
Fourth of July
The Atlantic Coa«t Auto Racing As
sociation has just secured the new half
mile speedway auto racing track at
Freehold, N. J. This track has been
hanked high and is in first class coudi
ti' n for automobile speed races.
Mr. <Jay Nichols, director of the
Atlantic Coast Auto Racing Association,
was in Freehold last week to secure the
track. Auto racing fans of this state
should be pleased that such a well
known promoter has secured the track
for its initial race. He is known as pro
ducing only American s leading dare
idevil dirt track drivers and the day of
thrills will be on Independence Day
at the new speedway at Freehold,
N. J. ‘
These races are run under the
rules and with the sanction of the
American Automobile Association.
i WAMPUM, INDIAN
MONEY AND THE FAKE.
How to Distinguish them.
Carved Wampum in Museums.
So much ba8 been lately written
about Wampum, the very early Indi
an commodity of trade which leaves
the reader with a ci nfused imprest km
as to the real old-made by Indians and
the counterfeit made by enterprising
white manufacturers with rapidly re
volving tools, that we venture a-.few
words which we hope will enable our
readers to form their own conclusion.
A recent article we read telling of the
manufacture of wampum by machinery
by white men, is certainly very unfair
to the native shrewdness of these Lords
of the Land for they had slopped to
use it as money as soon as they de
tected the substitutes, now mostly
shown in museums, many of which
were undoubtedly made by machinery
by their skilled white brethren, which
was of course done very soon after they
found out that wampum was only a
shell that by machinery could be easily
converted into some semblance of the
original.
Owing to Indians soon acquired distrust
of the whites, we do not believe many
red men were ever cheated by the ma
chine made article unless they had first
imbibed freely of the fire-water furnish
ed by white brethren.
Beautiful colored clams and pure
white muscles were used by Indians
when they made wampum and the pro
duct made by them was never plenti
ful.
As early as 1050 the Indians were in
formed by Roger Williams, of New Eng
land, of the counterfeit machine rnanu
, fac.tured wampum clam shells. Before
this warning however, about 1620, the
Indians had stopped the manufacture
of wampum as money, but still con
tinued to manufacture wampum belts,
head scarfs or necklaces, scoops, shov
els, horns to blow, fish hooks, needles,
whistles, armlets, anklets, &«. The
wampum belts and head necklaces
were used in peace treaties, a wampum
belr, still in existence, having been giv
en in 1682 to bind the Win. Penn treaty.
The black, red and blue part of the
inside clam-shell they used was consid
ered the most valuable, while the white
which was found in almost any clam
shell, was used for edgings and a con
trast of coloring in making the design,
generally elongated squares, diamond,
shaped, circles, &e., the different ciST
ored beads used in rotation, making a
pretty pieoe. A stone or flint awl or
implement was first used to break out
the part near the wan tad size.
The hole in the wampum was drilled
by a stone or flint awl attached to a
stick revolved in a cross-piece stick
held in the hand. The revolving stick
had a thong of raw hide or anything
that would answer for a string, which
winds or unwinds as it is pulled in op
posite directions. The top cross-piece
being pressed at the same time the
string was pulled the stone awl slowly;
bored a hole through the piece of shell, :
when part through, the shell would he
turned around and the hole completed.
After iron ore was found in America
the Indians generally used a nail in
stead of stone awl, but still left the
hole jagged, which is also a means to
tell whether Indian made.
By this process it will be seen that
the finished wampum would be crude’
of different sizes, of an uneven round*
ness and the cylinders not symmetrical
and this is the surest method of telling
those Indian made. The white broth
er made the cylinders and beads of an
almost even size and with an unusual
lustrous polish done by machinery
then unknown to the Indians.
To test whether made by pale-face
machinery or genuine Indian them
wampum the Indian rubbed made
slowly back and forth across the nose to
detect their unevenness and peculiar
ridges. If smooth and regularly made
they would not barter anything for it.
The value of genuine Indian-made
wampum when it was used as money
was calculated by the length of the
string, the size and le'ngth of the single
bead or cylinder and also its proximity
to the seashore. The reason why wam
pum was never plentiful among the In
dians was on account of its manufac
ture being very laborious and hence be
neath the dignity of the noble red war
rior and he generally let his squaw do
the drudging labor while he contented
himself with pi oviding game and fish
for his family,
Picture an Indian brave, or his
'drudging squaw, wasting any unusual
labor on anything bat wood and
as they conclusively thought, the
ever-enduring stone. Their rude carv
ings on these will convince anyone they
did not make any articles of highly
polished and beautifully carved wam
pum.
Lo! the untutored American Indian,
He fought, gamed and fished;
The world was his, why be a drudge?
He let. his squaw do all she wished.
Bow, arrow and spear made him brave,
He conqured and many scalps did take
But the pale-face came; alas! for him,
His wampum money they quickly faked
Two Indiafa face masks from the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D. C.. are among the scarce articles on
exhibition, as are Indian wampum
head necklace, wampum money, ban
ner-stone, 2 holed stone tablets or
charm stones, a stone image, petri
fied briar-wood pipe and axe taken
from Indian Mingo’s grave near Smith
burg; stone animal skinners, axes,
spears,, tomahawks, different colored
stone and flint arrowheads, &c., except
the masks never before on public view, j
as they came from the local Indian tribe.
A good lind in Freehold was also one of
the rare medals given by George III to
; Indians for bravery.
A visit to this exhibition and enter
tainment cannot fail but to be pleasant
and educational.
Corrected
The Navesink Libary Association
will present Two Exhibits at the Li
brary on Thursday and Friday, June
18tli and 19th. Afternoons from 2.30
lentil 6:30. Evenings from 7:00 until
10.00.
; Handicraft Exhibit. Articles made by
members of the Association. This ex
hibit will continue for one wTeek.
Indian Relics found in Monmouth
County and throughout New Jersey.
These are selected from the best col
lections in the State.
Indian Entertainment Friday even
ing with songs by a native Indian.
Old Colonial Records
The Public Record office at Trenton,
through Dr. Carlos E. Godfrey, its
Director, has recently proc ured from the
State of New York, thirty photostallic
pages of the original manuscript. Pro
ceedings and laws of th« Colony of
East New Jersey during its legislative
sesssion l\eld at Elizabeth from the
2d to the 12th of June in 1C80. The
dhcovery and retrievement of those
records are regarded by lawyers and
historians generally of the uutbst im
portance to the history of the Statejpar
I ticularly when the existance of this as
sembly has hitherto been unknown,
|and likewise unknown to Learning and
Spicer in 1752 when they officially
published the “Grants and Concessions
of New Jersey.”
The recovery of these papers, to
! geiher with those of the General As
sembly of West New Jersey fr m
March 12-15,, 1586, discovered by Dr.
Godfre- less than three years ago,
shows that the records of at least two
assemblies are omitted from the work of
Learning and Spicer. The recovery of
the proceedings of the last mentioned
assembly, particularly were extremely
valuable for the reason that these rec
ords were the only ones in existence to
show that Gloucester County was origi
nally es'ablisned by legislative author
ity. This fa'ct was only pointed out
by Dr Godfrey in The New Jersey
Law Journal for November, 1922, but
he therein illustrated many errors and
omissions which he had casually found
in Learning and Spicer’s “Grants and I
Concessions,” and declared that these
conditions not only impaired the value
of that work, but suggested the im
perative necessity for its revision un
der competent supervision.
Monmouth County Courts.
Edward Voorhees, Samuel Craig
and Charles VanMerebeke, who waiv
ed indictment and plead guilty to
breaking and entering the freight
station at Farmingdale and a series
of other robberies, were arraigned for
sentence in Freehold court.
Voorhees. the youngest of the trio,
was sentenced to the Kahvvay refor
matory, VanMerebeke was sentenced
from 18 months to 7 year- in the
State prison. Craig, who seems to
be the leading spirit in committing
the depredations, was sentenced for
both the Farmingdale robbery and
the one at Marlboro. He waived
indictment on both charges. He
was sentenced to State ' prison for 18
months to 7 years on the Furming
dale charge and a similar sentence
was meted out for the Marlboro of
fense.
In Freehold Raids
Local police and 15 State Troopers
from the local and Trenton posts de
scended in raids on Freehold's estab
lishments Saturday night which netted
two truck loads of I eer and liquor and
tines of $600.
■Frand Federici, proprietor of the
Wolcott House, Joseph Murphy, whole
sale bottler, and Harry N. Forman vrere
arraigned before Mayor W. S. Holmes
and fined $2u0 each, after pleading guil
ty.' James Conover, colored, whose
home on Avenue A was raided, was
given 30 days in county jail after his in
ability to pa v a $200 fine. ^
An establishment known as the
Spaghetti restaurant, on Main street,
was raided on a John Doe warrant. The
proprietor, however, was not on the
premises and no arrests were made. The
American hotel also raided was found
without any intoxicants on the premises
nor was the proprietor around.
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My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills,
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze
And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom’s song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our Father's God, to thee,
Author of Liberty,
To thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King.
Dinner to Lafayette
Marked by Hilarity
A subscription dinner was, on Tues
day, given at Matthew Wilson's hotel
by a number of the members of the
legislature to General Lafayette, pur
suant to arrangements previously
made by Dr. Kitchen of the senate
and Messrs. Gilleland at»d Meredith of
the house of representatives, the com
mittee appointed for that purpose by
the subscribers. His excellency, the
governor, General Lafayette, the heads
of departments, Judge Gibson, Mr. G.
W. Lafayette, Mr. Levaseur, the com
mittee from New York In attendance
upon the general and a few veterans
of the Revolution, residents of this
place, were present as guests. Mr.
Speaker Marks presided and was as
sisted by Mr. Speaker Sutherland and
Mr. Roberts of the house of representa
tives. About 120 gentlemen sat down
to the dinner, which was served at a
little after four o’clock. The dinner
was an excellent one, says a report In
the Harrisburg Chronicle, February 8,
1825.
The most cordial hilarity prevailed
throughout the whole entertainment,
in the course of which, at the particu
lar and repeated request of the gen
eral, "Hall Columbia” was sung by
himself and the whole company stand
ing. The governor and General La
fayette retired at about eight o’clock
and the company broke up shortly
afterwards. At 11 o’clock on Wednes
day General Lafayette took his depar
ture for York.
Momentous Meeting
The first session of the Continental
congress was heir) In Carpenter’s hall,
Philadelphia, September 5, 1774, with
44 members present; all the colonies
were represented except Georgia and
North Carolina. Peyton Randolph of
Virgir.ia was president, and Charles
Thomson was secretary.
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. Obituary
MRS. CATHERINE K. ALLKK
83, of Allen wood, Jnne6tb, at the home
I of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Algor in
i Philadelphia. Besides Mrs. Algor, she
i is survived by another daughter, Miss
; Sadie Allen and two sons. Thomas Al
len and William M. Allen all of Allen
wood. Funeral services were held
in the Allenwood M. P. church follow
ing Tuesday afternoon, with Rev.
J. C. Cody, pastor, officiating. Inter
ment was made in the Allenwood
cemetery.
Matrimonial
EMMONS —LAYTON.
On Friday evening, June 5th, at
8.30, Miss Mildred Layton of Freehold,
was uuited in marriage to Mr. Nelson
! Emmons of Asbury Park, at the par
sonage of the Freehold Reformed
| f'hurch. They were accompanied by
; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hempbill, and some
t other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Em
mons will reside in Asbury Park.
YOUNG — GRIGGS
Iris Amelia, daughter Mr. and Mrs.
Ra' mond E. Griggs of Englishtown and
l Albert C. Young, son of Mr. and Mrs.
| Voorhees Young of Mi (bridge, were
quietly married in Asbury Park on June
110, 1925. Rev. E. H. Cloud performing
j the ceremony. They were attended by
! their parents.
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HONOR PATRIOTS
OF TICONDEROGA
Monument Records •Glori
ous Deed of Revolution.
Where Lake George enters Lake
Champlain, In New York state, the
French In 1756 set up a post which
they named Fort Carillon. This be
came a concentration point (or French
expeditions under Montcalm and oth
ers. In 1758 the tort was attacked
by 10,000 British under Abercrombie.
Though the French had but 4,000 men
they beat off the enemy, causing the
latter a loss of 2,000 men. A year
later Amherst with 11,000 men took
the fort after the French had retired.
By the time of the Revolution the
fort was generally known by Its Indian
name—“Tieonderoga," a corruption of
the Iroquois word "cheonderoga,”
meaning “sounding” water. On Majr
10, 1775, Ethan Allen and 88 Green
JVlountaln Boys captured the fort
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!n Memory of Frontier Fighter*.
and valuable stores. Captain Delft
plaee was In charge of the gar
rison of 48 men. He was asleep when
Allen rapped oh his door with a sword
“Your errand?” demanded the sleepy
commander. “I order you to surren
der," said Alien. “By what author
ity?" Inquired the astonished officer.
“By the authority of the Great Je
hovah and the Continental congress,"
Allen is said to have replied. Bene
dict Arnold was a member of the
American expedition.
St. Clair and 11,000 Continentals
abandoned the fort in 1777 on the ap
proach of Burgoyne with a superior
force. Colonel Brown with 600 men
tried to retake the place, but after
| capturing 300 prisoners and many
teats, besides releasing 200 Americans,
he had to retire. After the Revolu
tion Fort Tlconderoga became a pic
turesque ruin, but was restored to
something like Its original state at
the expense of Mrs. Stephen Pell of
New York in 1909. A monument to
the Continentals, shown above, who
fought in and around Tlconderoga was
recently unveiled at that historic place.
It is the gift of Horace A. Moses. The
work, executed by Charles Keck, shows
Liberty triumphant.—Pathfinder Maga
zine.
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