Sussex County, New Jersey
Community News Items
Silver Mine
The Belvidere Apollo states that Mr. Robert C. Doneman,
of Johnsonsburg, Sussex county, N.J. has discovered a mine which is pronounced by many persons who have examined
the ore and metal extracted from it to be pure silver. From about four ounces of the ore, three quarters of an
ounce of metal has been obtained.
[Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) January 25, 1826 - transcribed by N. Piper]
Farm Hand over 100 years old.
Charles Ashford Shafer, a farm hand in the employ of Abram S. Silker, tenant on the estate of Jacob A. Courson, six miles from Newton, N. J., was 100 years old last week. He was born in a log cabin at Springdale, N. J. His parents were from Germany. His father died in 1844. his mother in 1870. His teeth "broke down" early in life, but he has never worn glasses. He was never sick until 1902, when he had the grip. He has chewed tobacco since he was 22. He still shaves himself and says his prayers. For over three-quarters of a century he has worked steadily on a farm, and only last fall he won the corn husking championship of Sussex county.
[Albuquerque News, 1929 - submitted by Janice Rice]
The Miami Herald, Sept. 29, 1914
Too Good of a Cook to Lose
The Sussex (N.J.) County board of freeholders has decided not to permit Mrs. Susan BAYLES, 45 years old, cook at the County Almshouse, to leave the institution because she is too good of a cook and because the County recently spent $100 to have cataracts removed from her eye. She will be held until she has worked long enough to repay the county. [Submitted by C. Horton]
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