The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-09
COUNTY AND VICINITY.
Items Cleaned From Different Sources
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March 10 and 81 are the dates on
which the Boards of Registry and
Election will sit throughout the
county.
The Stanhope blast furnace, which
has been idle for considerable time,
will be put in blast by the first of
next month.
A corporation has been formed which
will be known as the Lake Hopatcong
Park Association with capital stock
of $25, 000
A no license ticket will be placed in
the field at the borough election in
Rockaway next month.
Ralph H. Philhower, Of Califon,
has been granted an increase of pen
sion from So to $40.
The friends of Noah Freeman in
Rockaway are working hard to have
him succeed William Gill, as postmas-
ter. They have circulated petition
to that effect.
William r. Clawsen, of Hacketts-
town, has been granted pension of
$6 a month.
1t is believed that the coming census
will show the town of Boonton to
have population of between four and
five thousand inhabitants.
The contract for the daily delivery
of the mail from the postoffice to the
Stanhope station has been awarded to
A. M. Jones, of that town. He will
have to make four trips day for
which he will receive $75 per year.
The former carriers received $125 and
800 year.
The Pocono Ice Company's storage
houses at Lake Hopatcong were de-
stroyed by fire Monday morning. A
crop of this winters ice had been
stored in the buildings.
Rev. W. P Ferguson, who recently
resigned as president of the Hacketts-
town Institute, has accepted call to
the passionate of the Methodist Church
at Freeport, L. |.
Rockaway officials find it good
scheme to have bids offered for the
Office of marshalship. the lowest bid
der to get the office, provided he is
competent. At the last meeting of
the Council, six bids were sent in for
the position, which was awarded to
Henry R. Dobbins.
In order to have the waterway ready
for navigation next month, large
force of men have been put to work,
repairing the locks, planes and banks
of the Morris Canal.
The Board of Bishops of the Metho-
dist Church has issued general APP
peal to the churches throughout the
country to observe from March 25 to
April 1st as week of abstinence and
prayer, in order that the church in
general may be awakened from its
spiritual slumbers.
The annual State Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic of
the Posts of New Jersey will be held
at Vineland in May.
A new silk mill will be put in oper-
alton at Port Dram in short time.
The Mount Arlington Hotel and
at Lake Hopatcong has been
sold for $lS, 500. A few years ago the
owner of the property refused 500, 600,
and three years ago the receivers sold
it for $21. 500.
1t is estimated that about $40, 600
less was paid out i'll wages at the
Dover car shops the past year than
the year previous.
Last week there were thirty two
men laid off from work at the car
shops in Dover
AS memoriam of the late George
l. Seney and Thomas Bird. two
windows have been placed
in the Methodist Church at Bernards-
vile.
Jacob w. Snyder, a Dover liveryman,
it is said, will start an underwear
factory at Oxford.
The Pleasant Grove public school is
closed on account of diphtheria.
Bernardsville is experiencing
building boom. At present three stores
and four cottages are being erected.
The heavy rains of late have swollen
the Rockaway river into good sized
stream, which has interfered consider
ably with the work being done at the
site of the dam for the Jersey City
reservoir, near Boonton. Work on
their big dam will soon begin in earn
est and hundreds of men will be en-
ployed. The new railroad known as
the Montville and Rockaway River
Railroad, which runs from the quarry
on Hog mountain to the dam is about
completed,
John H. Buckley, of Dover, has pur-
chased an automobile.
Miss Sarah Petit, of Pennington,
celebrated the hundredth anniversary
of her birthday on Monday. She was
born near that town on March s.
1900.