The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-20

COUNTY AND VICINITY.
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ed Postmaster at New Bridge.
Scarlet fever is epidemic in Butler,
several cases having been reported.
J. HI. Willett, of Somerville, has
leased Hotel DeCamp at Succasunna.
A new camp of the P. 0. S. of A.
week.
A widows pension of So a month
has been granted to Harriet A. Morse
of Bloomingdale.
In Carpenterville, Warren County,
an excellent quality of hematite ore
has been discovered.
The Forman Stone Company is get
ting it's plant in readiness to crush
stone at the Hurd NINE
The company which recently pur-
chased the rolling and merchant mills
at Oxford, will begin operations next
week.
1t is reported that superintendent
J. B. Tonkin, of the furnace at Frank
lin, will erect fifty new dwelling
houses at that place.
The new Catholic Church in Ber-
nardsville is nearing completion and
will be formally opened for services
the first Sunday in May.
From all parts of the county come
stories of dog poisoning. In Califon
and Clinton especially a number of
CANNES have met death by this means
The foundation is being laid for the
erection of the Soldiers Monument in
Sparta, the gift of j. B. Titman,
resident of that village. 1t will cost
81, O00
A strike is on at Pelgram & Myers
silk mill in Boonton. The cause of
the trouble is the refusal of the deck
ers to teach several Hungarians the
business.
The memories at Stirling have
suffered much from the visitation of
chicken thieves recently. Last week
three hundred fowls were reported
missing.
J. w. Dwyer, formerly of Madison,
has opened the American House at
Port Dram. The hostelry was re-
furnished by Lyon and Bond of Nor
ristown.
The contract for the rebuilding of
the ice houses at Lake Hopatcong, has
been awarded to George W. Smith, of
Hackettstown. The contract price is
about $50, 600.
The new bank organized at High
Bridge with capital stock of $50, 600
will soon be opened. L. H. Trimmer,
of Middle Valley, has been elected to
the Board of Directors.
The Northern New Jersey Chris
tian Endeavor Local Union met
in Pompton Plains Tuesday. Rev.
James M. Farrer, D. D., of Brooklyn,
delivered the address.
Work on the switch from the Cen
trail Railroad at Hibernia to the Beach
Glen Mine has been suspended, owing
to an injunction issued by the. courts
against further operations.
A spark from a locomotive on the
High Bridge Branch of the Central
Railroad last week, started a forest
fire in Califon, which burned over
forty acres of valuable timber land.
Since the election in Warren County
last week, the Board of Freeholders
has it's usual Democratic majority,
the Republicans having but nine
members to the Democratic eleven.
The Building Committee of the
Hackettstown Institute are preparing
for the removal of the debris of the
burned buildings The new Institute
will consist of six imposing structures.
In Rockaway there is an epidemic
of measles and scarcely child in the
borough has escaped the disease. One
case is reported of man 10 years old
who is affected with both measles and
humps.
On Thursday morning of last week
Mrs. Elizabeth VanBlarcom, q widow
30 years of age, living in Sparta, com
mitted suicide by drowning herself in
cistern. No cause can be assingned
for the woman S act
In order to gain trade, several Net
cong and Stanhope business men have
formed an agreement to pay the hack
fare of the people in Port Morris as
an inducement for them to do their
trading in those boroughs.
The buildings of the Kishpaugh
mines in Warren County were totally
destroyed by fire Thursday morning
Machinery was destroyed which will
cause long delay before mining
operations will be resumed.
President Mccormick, of the Hack
ettstown Institute, has partially made
up the faculty for the coming year.
He has engaged Prof. Hammond, Miss
Hoag, the preceptress; Prof. Schlieder,
Miss Baldwin and Miss Day.
At the charter election in Hacketts-
town last week it was decided to
bond the town in sum not exceeding
So, 600, for the building and furnishing
of town hall and for the better
equipment of the fire department..
The American Forcite Powder
Works at Landing, Lake Hopatcong,
have resumed operations after a
month shut down. A large force of
men are employed and before long the
plant will be running to its full
capacity.
John O. Bissell, a Stanhope mer-
chant, was arrested Thursday on the
complaint of Dairy Inspector Van
Druff, of Deckertown, who charged
him with illegally selling oleomarga-
rine. He was fined 500. 90, He will
appeal.