The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
COUNTY AND VICINITY.
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announce that ducks and geese are
very plentiful.
The pension of Samuel Sickles, of
New Village, has been increased from
So to $40 per month.
The opening of the Morris Canal
next month will mark the fifty-fif
year of its existence.
W. w. McEwan, of Whippany, has
been granted patent for the manu-
featuring of articles from pulp.
The public school at Califon has
been closed on account of the preva-
lence of diphtheria in that village.
The officials of the Borough of
Rockaway will be asked to prohibit
the operation of slot machines in that
town.
At the Dover Car shops last week,
it is said, on account of the scarcity of
work.
Word has been received that Archie
Mum, former resident of Boonton,
committed suicide in hotel at North
Carolina.
The voters of Hackettstown will at
their next charter election, decide
whether or not they will erect build
ing to be used for public business.
The family of James Furman of
Washington, was increased by young
son Monday. This makes Furman
the father of twentysix children.
The Dover Electric Light Company
have been awarded the contract to
equip the new Ross silk mill at Port
Dram with an electric plant at cost
of $4,000.
Myron H. Cook and John A O'Brien,
of Dover. are entered as contestants
in the Granu American Handicap
which is being held at Queens, L. l.,
this week.
The pattern shop of the Hoagland
foundry at Rockaway, which was re-
Gently destroyed by fire, is being re-
placed by larger and more modern
structure.
The members of the Boonton Fire
to purchase new uniforms before the
dedication of the Firemen's Home at
that place.
Residents of Randolph Township are
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of using
81, 900 of the SO, 600 left in the treasury
last year to construct new town hall
at Center Grove.
Last Thursday morning, James Nc
Cormick, an employee of the Union
Foundry. at Rockaway, had his left
foot seriously injured by a heavy
niece of iron falling on it.
The Board of Education of Rocka-
way Township has been organized.
J. Andrew Casterline, of Union, was
elected president, and Chas. R. De-
Hart, of Rockaway, clerk.
On complaint of his wife on
charge Of assault and battery Frank
Beach, of Hibernia, was on Tues
day placed under $400 bail to await
the action of the Grand Jury.
At a school meeting in Boonton
Melvin S. Condit and Edwin A. Fish
er were elected school commissioners.
1t was also voted to raise SIS, $50 for
the educational expenses for the COM
ing year.
An effort will be made to enforce
the curfew law in Rockaway in order
that children under certain age may
be kept off the streets after specified
hour, unless accompanied by a
guardian.
Rev. p r. Ferris, former pastor of
the Methodist Church at Lake Hopat-
cong and graduate of the Hacketts-
town Institute, has left the Methodist
denomination and espoused the Bap-
fist faith.
Mumps and chickenpox are preva-
lent in and around Dover. Many
cases of measles have also been re-
ported. Fortunately neither of the
above ailments require the patients to
be placed under quarantine.
At the meeting of the directors of
the Morris Canal Monday night, no
action was taken in reference to the
proposed abandonment of further
navigation over that waterway, al
though the subject is still under con-
sideration.
William Gingles, a farmer living
near Washington, was tearing down
an old house on his farm last week
when he discovered an iron box tucked
snugly away in hole in the chimney.
T1G IOunu bll6 DOA COuUdlu6u SOlu COluS
to the amount Of 5000.
The Borough of Rockaway has not
had path of roses in getting some of
it's citizens to accept nominations for
local Offices E. S. Arnold, who was
recently elected to the recordership,
informed the council last week that
he would not qualify for that Office
unless that body promised him all
their legal business.
The chapel of st. James Church at
Hackettstown was dedicated Friday
night. Archdeacon Mann conducted
the services. ST. James Chapel is
an Episcopal edifice, the congregation
of which was forced on account of the
lack of support some time ago, to
abandon the work in Hackettstown.
Many residents of Washington are
now wiser in a degree. Last week a
local stock exchange closed it's doors,
and it was then found that the
change was an ordinary bucket shop.
The brokers also left town and their
customers are bemoaning their losses
of sums ranging from $40 to 81, 200.
r. A. Cole, of Hackettstown, a trus-
tee of the Institute, is trying to raise
IS, 600 by private subscriptions from
the citizens of that town with which
to erect home for the president.
This is the only request that has been
made to the Hackettstown people
towards the rebuilding of the Insti-
meeting with liberal response.