>From the Sussex Independent, Thursday, August 26, 1937 Charles W. BOOTH. Charles W. BOOTH, of Sycamore street, Sussex, a retired knife manufacturer, died early Monday morning at Greystone Park. He was in his seventy-fifth year. He was born in Orane county, N. Y., on September 8, 1862, a son of Charles and Anna Mary BOOTH, formerly of England. Mr. BOOTH served on the Sussex Borough Council several years ago. Mr. BOOTH, with his brother, operated a knife factory several years ago in the building now occupied by the Radio-Kimmel Co., pocketbook manufacturers, and before that operated a factory in Stockholm.. From here the factory was moved to Tidioute, Pa. After that Mr. BOOTH retired from the business and returned to Sussex to make his home. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Kate GILLEN, of Nutley; and Mrs. Jesse NORMAN, of Newark; and one brother, Hubert BOOTH, of Newark. Private funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the PINKEL Funeral Chapel in Main street. Rev. Ralph G. SAXE, pastor of the Sussex M. E. Church, officiating. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery. He was a member of Walkill Hose Co. and for many years took an active part in the civic affairs of the bench. Edward FLETCHER. Edward FLETCHER, World War veteran, of Wellsville, Pa., formerly of Franklin, who would have been forty-three years old next Wednesday, died Tuesday morning in Veteran's Hospital, Philadelphia, after a long illness. He was a son of Charles and Mary WHALEN FLETCHER and was born at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Most of his life was spent in Franklin. He served in the U. S. Medical Corps and was attached to a hospital train in France and was on the first hospital train to cross into Germany after the armistice was signed to remove wounded American soldiers. While at Franklin he married Marguerite KRALL, of Harrisburg, Pa., first kindergarten teacher in Franklin when the Community House was opened. Besides his wife, he is survived by one son, Robert; five brothers, Charles, of Hollywood, Calif.; Horace, Harold, and Richard, of Franklin, and Benjamin, of New York city, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary MCCARTY, of Sussex, and Clara, wife of Andrew SALVAS, of near Sussex. Funeral services will be held Friday morning in Harrisburg, Pa. Caleb J. RUDE.[partial] Caleb J. RUDE, retired carpenter and builder, of Bellville, died at 2 a. m. Tuesday at his summer home in Bloomingdale. He had been ill from heart trouble since last March. He was born February 27, 1865, at Rudetown, a son of Elizabeth STOCKMAN RUDE and the late Caleb RUDE. At the age of fourteen he went to Bloomingdale, then later to Newark and had resided in Belleville since 1919. His wife, who was Emma A. MEAD, died in 1932. Surviving are two daughters, Charlotte Eva, wife of Raymond M. ABBOTT, of Belleville, and Mrs. Naomi RUDE CARUTHERS, of Bloomingdale; a grandson Caleb J. Rude, of Belleville; his...[copy cuts off here] more to come from this day's paper another time... Kirsten -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)