The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-30
COUNTY AND VICINITY.

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J. NJ Adams, of Deckertown, has
been granted patent on a gate.
Ex- Mayor Strong, of New York,
will reside in Bernardsville this sum
mer.
The recently elected officers of the
different townships entered upon theil
duties Saturday.
Robert Richards, of Dover, has beer
re-appointed Game and Fish Warden
for Morris County
The Prohibitionists of Morris
County will hold a convention il
Dover next Saturday.
A trolley line from Somerville tc
Peapack seems to be an assured thing
in the very near future.
Efforts are being made by trolley
company to obtain a right of way
through Port Dram borough
The voters of Port Dram will hold
an election to vote on the project OF
erecting new school building.
The Andover Iron Company with
mines at Hibernia. are shipping daily
from twelve to seventeen tons of ore.
The Rockaway Valley Railroad
Company expect to replace twenty five
small bridges along its route this
spring.
The Boonton Water Company plant
has been transferred to parties in
Scranton The price paid is said to
have been $3.50, 600.
A large factory for the manufacture
of peach baskets has been built at
Califon. 1t will give employment to
about fifty persons.
While David Slack and family were
absent from their home at Sparta
Sunday afternoon, the building caught
fire and was totally destroyed.
DIR. F. W. Flagge, of Rockaway,
has emphatically refused to accept an
appointment as a member of the
Board of Health of that borough.
Work OH the spur from the Central
Railroad at Hibernia to the mine al
Beach Glen is about completed. The
mine is running to its full capacity.
The Phillipsburg Horse Car Com
pany has been granted the right OF
way to build and operate an electric
railway through Washington Town
ship.
At the recent quarterly conference
of the Methodist Church at Mt. Fern,
the congregation asked the return of
their pastor, Rev. W. Fl. Mccormick,
for the seventh term.
The warps and looms are being
placed in the new silk mill, which
will soon be started by the E. J. Ross
Manufacturing Company at Port
Dram.
E. j. Neighbour has his new stone
crusher in operation at the German
Valley quarries and is shipping about
300 tons of stone day beside large
quantity of lime.
Probably one of the largest pay rolls
of any firm in this vicinity, is that of
the Taylor Iron and Steel Works at
High Bridge, the total weekly sum of
which is nearly $8,
Large carloads of stone have arrived
at Bernardsville to be used in the con-
struction of the new depot at that
place. A large force of men are work
ing rapidly to complete the job.
Prior to the resuming of operations
at the Edison Concentrating Works at
Edison next month, large force of
carpenters are kept busily engaged in
erecting dwellings to accommodate the
inf1ux of families
Early Friday morning, Drake S
Opera House, at Stanhope. was COM
pletely destroyed by fire. The build
ing was valued at $13, 900 and was in
sured for $1,000. The origin of the
fire is not known
The large horizontal engine which
was used at the Mt. Pleasant Mine,
before the buildings were destroyed
by fire, is being removed to Newark.
1t was an immense piece of machinery
and was but little damaged.
The Cooper-Lord property at Port
Dram, which the iron magnate,
Joseph Wharton has been trying to
purchase, it is said, will be sold to
q John Rockefeller concern, which
intends to locate on it an extensive
steel plant.
The Empire Steel and Iron Company
has about concluded negotiations for
the sale of its rolling mill at Oxford.
The sale has been made to Jensen
Brothers of Pennsylvania. The plant
covers about six acres and when oper-
ated employs about 300 men.
The farmers in the vicinity of Mt.
Olive have been made to suffer the
loss of several fowls and injury to
their cattle, by pack of dogs which
roam in the surrounding mountains.
Several attempts to rid the neighbor-
hood of the CANNES have failed.
Seven car loads of shells were
shipped to the Government naval
magazine at Piccatinny, near Lake
Denmark, Friday. The shells were
made at the Taylor Steel Works at
High Bridge. In the lot were 1873 long
twelve inch and 1865 short twelve inch
mortar shells and 21S six inch shells.
Sheriff Baker has served summons
on several Boonton people to whom
the late Mrs. John Hill, of that place.
had left legacies to appear before the
Court of Chancery. The appraise-
ment of Mrs. Hills property was made
last week and the will admitted to
probate. On account of the dissatis-
faction of some of the heirs, the mat
ter will be settled in the courts
There are two plans under consider
alton for the rebuilding of the storage
houses of the POcOnO Ice COmpany