The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-02-23
COUNTY AND VICINITY.
Items Of Interest Ga hered From Different
sources for the Busy Reader.

The next meeting of the Morris
County Sunday School Association
will in all probability be held at
Budd Lake. This will enable the
members to enjoy the pleasures of
that summer resort after the business
meeting.
The New York and New Jersey
Telephone Company have a representa-
tive at work securing the right of
way from Basking Ridge to Milling
ton. If successful, a line will be put
up connecting Wilmington with the
adjacent villages.
Morris County is located in the third
census district and will be canvassed
by number Of the 200 enumerators
allotted to this district
The Borough of Port Dram, it is
said, will have club house with a
gymnasium attached. Robert f.
Dram, leading citizen Of that place,
is the promoter of the new project.
There are at present eighty-one in
mates i'll the County Poor House, the
lowest number in years.
The mine at Beach Glen is being
worked night and day in order to fur
nish the supply of rock ore for the
crusher and separator.
Boonton is to have a new industry.
The new firm will engage in the manu-
facture of hardware etc. About
forty hands will be employed.
The choir and official board of the
Boonton Methodist Episcopal Church
have presented their organist, Mrs
O'Brien with a gold watch and chain.
The Bernardsville Public Library
has been presented with number of
bound volumes on Cuba, China, the
Civil War and Pompeii.
Eighteen year-old George Downs of
Rockaway, while fishing at Green
Pond Monday, fell over precipice
thirty feet high and sustained several
bruises
Deputy State Dairy Commissioner
Samuel S. Vandruff, of Deckertown,
has entered complaints against New
ark grocery firm for selling oleomar-
garine to retail dealers in Butler and
Pompton. The same firm was recently
indicted on similar charge.
Marcus A. HOPPER Deputy Surrogate
of Warren County, died last Saturday.
He was 80 years old
Past Sachem George S. Gustin at
tended the Red Mems great council
as representative of Blazing Arrow
Tribe, of Rockaway at Trenton on
February %.
John Pittenger, of Boonton, while
on his way to work Saturday, slipped
on the snow and broke one of his legs
The recent variations of weather
have been source of much annoyance
to the ice contractors. at Lake Hopat-
cong. The rains covered the ice the
sunshine brought thaw and the wind
made havoc with the channels, sus-
pending work at different times.
The public school at Califon is
slimly attended at present, about four
teen of the pupils being detained from
their studies on account of the humps.
The Sussex Towel Mills at Decker
town have resumed operations after a
shutdown of ten months.
The adjourned sale of the plant of
the Boonton Water Company will be
held on March 3rd
The new furnace of the Carteret
Steel Company, at Hackettstown, is
making an output of thirty-six tons
of ore daily, employing two working
shifts.
Charles Hanson, IA years old, en-
ployed in the Cycle Component Works
at Rockaway, had the thumb of his
right hand so baldy injured by a
punching machine as to make ampu-
tation necessary.
The delinquent taxpayers of the
borough of Port Dram are being pur-
sued by the town marshal in whose
hands the unpaid tax bills were placed
for collection.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Andover Iron Company
last week, the following directors were
elected: Edward Roberts, Jr., Calvin
Pardee, Henry p Mexican, Herbert
M. Howe, James Logan Fisher
Joseph e. Alternus of Philadelphia,
and George w. Sickle of Rockaway.
The line of the new railroad from
Powersville, to be operated by the
Jersey City Water Company is COM
pleted and awaits the laying of the
steel rails. The road will connect
with the Lackawanna road at Den
vile.
In the lists of delinquent taxpayers
published Rockaway Township APP
pears to lead with total number of
1884, Randolph follows with 27S, Rox-
bury 100, Chester 49, and Mendham II.
The we'll known Workman Road
House at Kenyil is about to pass from
under the control of estate of the late
William Workman, it being now offered
for sale
A large electric light plant has been
placed in the Atlantic Dynamite
Works at Kenvil.
Rev. Herbert Welsh, of the East
New York Conference, who was ten
dered the presidency of the Hacketts-
town Collegiate Institute, has notified
the offers of that institution that he
will not accept the office.
A new water company has been
formed at Butler and Bloomingdale.
1t is called The Cold Spring Lake Co.
The Company is capitalized at $25, 900.
Herman Cruts, 16 years old, of
Hackettstown, was struck by Lacka-
wanna locomotive Friday. His left
arm was so badly crushed that at St
Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, it was
found necessary to amputate it. Cruts
was the main support of a widowed
A new organization known as the
Park Drug Company has been formed
in Madison The incornorators are