The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-02-09
COUNTY AND VICINITY.
Items of Interest Gathered From Different
Sources for the Busy Reader.

Sources for the Busy Reader.
A free mail delivery system will be
established i'll Somerville May first.
People in Summit are agitating the
question of forming military com
pany in that place.
A small army of men are engaged
on Estling Lake near Denville. har-
vesting the ice crop.
1t is said that quite number of
Dover merchants have been spotted :"
selling oleomargarine.
The annual State Convention of the
| Associations of Exempt Firemen, will
be held in Dover next May.
The Morris County Machine and
Iron Company has erected several ele-
yators in the icehouses at Hurdtown.
The late Mrs. John Hill, of Boon
! ton left bequest of $500 to the Pres
byterian Sunday School of that town.
Lottie Hart, a Paterson girl, has
been committed to the State Hospital
at Morris Plains, pending adjudica-
tion.
From the Wharton Mine at Hibernia
about 400 tons of ore are being shipped
daily over the Morris County Rail
road.
Margaret Mcconnell, a young woman
residing near Dover, was committed
to the Hospital at Morris Plains last
week.
A Soldiers Monument is to be
erected at Sparta. 1t is the gift of one
of their oldest citizens, James B.
Titman.
A WE'LL dress, refined loking woman
is going the rounds fraudulently col
Letting money for Babies Hospital
in Newark.
The Lackawanna Railroad Company
is preparing to rebuild two bridges at
Boonton over the Morris Canal and
Rockaway river.
The borough of Port Dram, after
waiting for several years is to have a
new station on the Lackawanna route.
1t will be 25x53 feet
The Robert Blake Farm at Florham
Park is said to have been sold to
N6OISt OOnAoOlj VI 4NOW VI ~ O1pJ5
who will establish stock farm.
Peter Smith, an aged resident of
Harmony, attempted to commit sui
eide recently while deranged He
has been sent to the State Asylum.
The Ladies' Auxiliary, of the Madi-
son Y. M. G. A. are arranging to give
a colonial supper in the Madison AS
sembly rooms, on Washington s birth
day.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the Summit Methodist Church, at a
social meeting recently completed a
subscription of 81, 600 to thechapel
fund.
The route for the proposed trolley
line from Easton to Lake Hopatcong
has been surveyed as far as Washing
ton. 1t is expected that the line will
be extended as far as Dover.
The annual harvesting of ice from
Lake Hopatcong was begun this week.
The ice is over ten inches thick and
of fine quality. The work affords en-
ployment for nearly 200 men.
The sitting of the coroner's inquest
into the cause of SutUon's death at
/ Netcong, which was to have been re-
sumed on Thursday of last week, has
been postponed until Wednesday,
February A.
Charles A. Johnson, of New Provi-
dence, has been elected member of
the Chatham Township Republican
Committee, thus emitting him to a
seat with the Morris County Republi-
can Committee.
Mrs. Andrew Addaman, of Parsip-
pany was severely injured in runa-
way last Friday. She was driving
over the railroad bridge at Boonton,
when the horse took fright, causing
the carriage to upset.
Freebooter BARLEY, of Mt. Olive
Township, has taken the property
owners of that district under his
wing by directing them to secure
State aid in matchmaking the road
from Netcong to Budd's Lake.
Timothy Vanderhoot, a Denville
teamster, narrowly escaped serious in
jury at Mt Tabor crossing Friday
A passenger train struck the rear end
of his wagon and Vanderhoof was
thrown distance of several feet, sus-
tanning slight bruises
Thomas Scanton, of Hibernia who
was last week discharged from Sheriff
Bakers care because his sweetheart
Luella Trevorrow withdrew her charge
of assault, was married to the young
lady in ST. Cecilia's Roman Catholic
Church at Roclkaway, Friday.
Carmencita Didata and Francis
Socloiwiki, two Italians, who were
under a twenty years sentence in
States Prison for murder in the
second degree, have been adjudged
insane and have been committed to
the State Hospital at Morris Plains
Hazel Riggot, is years old, of
Rockaway, mistook bottle contain
ing poison lotion for medicine Fri
day night. She took small quantity
and discovered her mistake at once.
Medical aid was summoned and ar
rived in time to save the girl S life.
In accordance with an application
made by the Summit Common Council,
Inspector Snow of the Post Office de-
partment made an examination of the
city last week prior to the establish
ment of free mail delivery system
there, which it is expected will be in
operation within six months.
A Hungarian miner named Michael
Obrenskie employed in the Andover
Mine at Hibernia, was instantly killed
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