News From Colliers Mills, 1900

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New Jersey Courier 4 Oct 1900:
The seven year old daughter of Alfred Southard has been very sick with the whooping cough and pneumonia, but is somewhat better now.
There are one hundred twenty five Italians picking cranberries at this place.
Mrs. Caroline Smith of Trenton has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jennie Reynolds the past week.
Henry Lewis is suffering with a boil on his nose.
Wiliam Cawley expects to get done picking cranberries this week. He will not have more than one hundred and fifty boxes, where he generally has five to eight hundred boxes.
James Buckalew, George Vannote, and Benjamin Buckalew killed nine wood duck Saturday last.
Location: Colliers Mills Heliport, Jackson, NJ 08527, USA

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