The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-23
STATE NOTES.
An $4,000 brick school is being built al

An $ls.0 600 brick school is being built at
Hummonton.
Justice jacobs of Hammonton married
six Italian couples in one day.
A new brass band of thirty-hve per-
formers has Deen organized at Salem to
disorganize the community.
The Dover young people cleared S62 10
from a recent entertainment toWard Il
town clock fund.
Howell Satterthwaite of Bordentown
has shipped ten tons of turkey TO Phiia-
delphia for Christmas.
The Uniformed Rank of the Knights of
Pythias of Phillipsburg cleared s., 500 by
their recent fair.
TIE residents of Drakeville, Morris
county. have petitioned Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker to change the name to
Ledgewood.
Tie toboggan season In New Jersey
was opened Saturday night with Il fash
lionable assemblage at the grounds of
the Essex County Toboggan Club, East
Orange.
Al Atlantic City hundreds of cart loads
of beach front sand are taken away daily
for low lots. sidewalks and building pur-
poses Old ocean brings in the sand
faster than 1t is taken away.
Morristown is to have a Loan Exhibit
ton early in February. Already two
thousand relics, antiques. curios and OBJ
jects of interest have been promised for
the exhibition.
W prIvates in Company II, Third
Regiment. National Guard, of Somer-
Vile, have been dishonorably dismissed
for conduct ~prejudicial to good order and
military discipline. and four others for
neglect or duty and diobedience OF
orders.
Somerville Is to have a course OF Uni
versity Exl ension lectures, beginning on
january Z, and continuing on each
Thursday evening. Physics was chosen
as the most popular subject, and cleo
triciLy will receive particular atten-
ton.
The Somervilie Gas Company has been
lighting the streets for $1S for each lamp,
but decliue to renew the contract, as
there Is no money in IL, and lt has been
found that the rates are lower han in any
other town in the country, outside OF the
natural gas region.
The Plainfield Ice and Cold Storage
Company filed articles Of incorporation
at Elizabeth last week, with a capital OF
$50, 900. The company will make artificial
ice and erect a storage warehouse at
Plainfield for the preservation of meat,
fresh vegetables and provisions.
A new order recently announced on the
claw Lackawanna and Western
Railroad requires brakemen. on leaving
a station, to go into the cars, shut the
door. advance three or four seats. and
call ont the name OF the next station.
The new rule is very satisfactory to the
passengers.
There are Ave residents of Hope, War
rem county, who voted for William Henry
Harrison for President in 1910. they are
ex-Judge George H. Beatty. Caleb Sway
re, Asa Swayze, David Gibbs, Abram
Swisher and George b. Shipman. Elk
Judge Beatty came to Trenton to get
news of the election for his friends aud
n%eighbors.
The City council of Passaic has voted
TO vacate part of four streets, so that the
Botany Mills, which now cover over ten
acres of ground. MAJ be still increased.
The mills employ LOO hands and COM
nose the largest worsted mandatory in
the United States. They were originally
located in Germany, but were removed to
Passaic three years ago.
a strong effort will be made at The
town meeting in Morristown next spring
to secure a larger appropriation than
usual for the building of improved road
WAYS. The experimental roads laid with
Telford this year nave given such salts
faction that there will probably be no
difficulty in securing an appropriation
for several miles of new road next year.
MANY of the largest taxpayers favor bond
lug the township for 500, 600 If necessary