The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-01
COUNTY AND VICINITY.
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The April meeting of the Presbytery
of Morris and Orange will be held in
Dover.
The Summit Fire Department has
received new hook and ladder truck.
weighing 2,700 pounds. 1t cost
81, 800.
The Township Committee has al
lowed all of the money collected in
Stirling for poll tax to be expended on
the main street from the foot OF Long
Hill to the valley road.
Last week certain Butler man put
on an OLD vest and found roll of
bills IN one of the pockets amounting
to $120, which he had forgotten. P.S.
None of them were receipted.
Owen kearney of Chatham, has sold
his hotel business to Westfeld man,
who has rented the building and fix
lures 1t is stated that So, 600 was
the purchase price, with a monthly
rental of $50.
AT special meeting of the board
of health of Rockaway to take pre-
cautionary measures in regard to the
diptheria cases now existing there it
was decided to purchase disinfecting
generator.
Simon Charles, of Newark, has
rented the hotel in German Valley
and will take charge on April l. He
was lately a conductor on the D.. L.
& W. railroad Mrs. Cook will return
to Hackettstown.
| The exemplified copy of the will of
the late Edward V. Holland was filed
for probate in the Surrogate's Office
on Monday. The estate. which is
valued at 5000, 600, is divided equally
between the six children.
The affairs of the old M. E. Church
at Butler, have at last been settled
The mortgage which the Trustees held
on the property was paid in full on
the 12inst, and after the legal ex-
penses of the suit are paid will be
duly applied on the bonded debt of
the Tabernacle premises.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Boonton Iron and Steel
company, was held recently and the
following officers were elected: Presi-
Dent, Charles Brock; VicePresident,
Richard A. Anthony; Secretary,
Frederick A. Anthony; Treasurer,
Albert P. Smith.
State School superintendent Charles
J. Baxter in his annual report makes
plea for the more adequate recogni-
ton of the college diploma in the
public schools of the State. Mr..
Baxter is firm believer in the ability
of the college graduate. and believes
that to him should be accorded the
same standing as the graduates of the
State Normal School.
A special meeting of the South
Boonton Volunteer Fire Company
was held last week and it was voted
to purchase q modern four-wheel hose
wagon from the Paterson Wagon
Manufacturing Company, to cost 5000.
This firm has the reputation of turning
out some fine work, and the Paterson
Fire Department has some splendid
vehicles made by them.
| Not long ago Representative Howell
received a pressing invitation from q
farmer who wrote that he had pur-
chased a sixty acre farm, to send him
sufficient seed and grain with which
to stock the whole farm. The appli-
can't eviently did not know that the
capacity of a Congressman to give
away seeds is limited to garden and
| flower seeds, while the quantity is
| limited as we'll.
Our reporter asked an old Denville
resident why that place with Its many
convenient and admirable features
had not grown more rapidly. His reply
was "All of Denville is owned by
few, and they ask so much for their
property that it is impossible to buy.
| Why one man here wants 81, 900 for q
piece of swamp land. Our people are
almost as bad kickers as some in
Dover who are opposing the new
depot. Index.
The ladies of Chatham and Summit
have combined in their efforts to hear
of methods for the possible extermi-
nation of the mosquito. Mrs. Geo.
H. Hodenpyl, of Summit, told of the
success of oil on the ponds and pools
of Summit last summer, which was
only limited by lack of money to carry
on the work thorouhgly. A commit
tee was appointed to discuss a plan
whereby both towns may be relieved
curing buo COLuluS SuH'nol.
| New Jersey has five centenarians
who are still in good physical and
mental condition. Moan Raby was
born April /. 1772. He served in the
U. s. Navy for four years prior to
1909 when he was honorably dis
charged. He is now blind, toothless
and rheumatic, and has been in the
almshouse since 1868. He says at one
time he resided at Rockaway. Caleb
Baldwin of Newark was born Novem-
Der 30, 1899. Sarah Allen, of Elizabeth
was born January l. 1900. Ann
Barlow, born in New Brunswick, N.
j., where she has resided all her life
time, celebrated the one hundred and
fourth anniversary of her birth re-
Gently. She married twice, both of
her husbands dying many years ago
She is still in remarkable state of
preservation and good health. Preston
Garland, who resides in Morristown,
is 102 years old AMI still able to do
| light work. as