The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-12-21
COUNTY AND VICINITY.
Items Cleaned from Different
Sources Condensed fer Busy
Reaoers.

HeaoeFS.
The Chatham Fish and Game Pro-
fective Association has added 3
shooting gallery to its attractions.
Thomas Norman, Of Milton, Morris
! County, was recently fined $40 and
cost for killing two rabbits last
October.
| Matawan has blind newsboy named
Walter Thompson. During the latter
part of this month, concert il to be
given for his benefit.
j Carl Phelps farm hand won q
turkey at rattle the other day. Ii
cleaning the bird, Mrs, Phelps found
a plain gold ring in its crop.
AS result Of being attacked by a
dog several months ago, number OF
COWS ON the farm of Abraham Eye
near Jobstown have hydrophobia.
Lackawanna worknen are con
structing a third track from Morris
avenue to High street, Summit, a
distance Of about 1000 feet to be used
as siding.
The Board of Education of North
Plain6eld has decided to engage tea
cheers for manual training. There
will be instruction in cooking, car
Ipenter work and other branches.
Italian bootblacks and their chairs
are no logger allowed to blockade the
side walks in Bloomfield. lhey were
ordered to dispense on Sunday last.
Hereafter they will be required to tane
4 out license.
@. p. Hillman, who for the past
| five months, has been foreman of the
| North Plainfield Review, forged the
name of the proprietor to check for
$50 last Saturday night and left for
parts unknown.
/ Benjamin +. Conklin, after an
absence OF seventeen years spent in
Kansas and Oklahoma, returned to
Chatham on Wednesday to see his old
home once more His wife and child
accompanied him.
The American Street Railway
Generating and Power Company,
capital 81, 500, 600, and the United
States and Porto Rico Navigation
Company, capital So, 1000, 000 have
been incorporated at Trenton.
Mrs. Henrietta Scott, wife Of a
Jersey City policeman, has entered
suit for $4,000 damages against City
Physician Everitt of that place. She
was riding a bicycle on the
boulevard Sept. 5, and was run down
and seriously hurt by horse dsiven
by DR.. Everitt,
Ex-Sheriff Henry Doremus, OF
Newark, has presented to the masonic
fraternity Of New Jersey, q COM
modious and convenient hospital
annex which he has had built ad1oin-
ing the Masonic Home at Burlington
The building is a memorial to Mr..
Doremus's deceased son.
Rev. Percy r. Ferris. formerly n
resident of Chatham, has been UNI
animously chosen as pastor of the
First Baptist Church, of Perth Am
| boy. He has not been ordained He
will be ordained and begin his charge
Immediately, however, going to New
York TO complete his studies, which
he will do next June.
The Standard Oil Company has two
70, 900 barrel storage tanks near
1NVW ctCIl VI WlilCu ~ ~
! feet III diaemter and 80 feet high.
10 drive the pumps, eight 80 horse
power boilers are required which
consume nearly two tons of coal every
twenty four hours. The monthly
pay roll of the plant is about 5000
Application for the establis hment
| of National Bank at Bernardsville
was filed with the Comptroller of the
| Currency on Wednesday, the 9th inst.
The capital of the bank will be
$50, 600 The organizers of the bank
are Luther Childs, Samuel S. Childs,
T. 9. Henry, Jesse l.. Hedden and w.
X. Bromefeld. The application was
Endorsed by Congressman Howell.
The original monument over the
grave Of Rev. John b I'd, in Old Scot &
Cemetery, near Freehold, has been
removed to Philadelphia and placed IN
the rooms of the Presby terrain His
to;ical Society. 1t is of rough hewn
brownstone. Rev. John Boyd was the
first Presbyterian minitter ordained
in America. Last spring new monu-
ment was unveiled over his grave.
The report Ct the state board of
taxation shows that New Jersey has
STA, 9S5, 571 III real estate values
$14S, 425, $50 i'll personal property,
showing net increase of $26, 720, 1850
| The total increase of percent, Unreal
estate in one year is 49, and for
personal property l6.1. The deduc-
tions for debt allowed in the entire
personal state was $50 405, 20 as
against SS5, ia, TIA last year.
Freight cars will soon be run over
the South Orarge and Maplewood
traction road The line was built with
/ that object, the tracks being laid with
heavy, eighty-pound steel rails, and
the track heavily ballasted with
broken stone. The road has Just ac.
quired new 105-horse power motor,
designed to haul heavy freight cars
and the finishing touches are now
being put en- in the shops Of the road.
Ocean Grove has attained the dis
tinction of being exploited in the
World Wide Magazine, an English
publication, under the title, "Thc
Strange Holy City of New Jersey. .
The author is Charles Sidney Clark,
who ella ms he has been on the ground.
The writer deals with the peculiar
customs and rules which prevail
within the territory known as Ocean
Grove, and uses half tone cuts tC