The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-02-20
NORRIS AND NEARBY COUNTIES
Brief Snappy Squibs Cleaned From
Various Places and Condensed
for Busy Readers


Various Places and Condensed
for Busy Readers.
John Gardner, ex-sheriff of Warren
county, died of paralysis at his residence
in Belvldere on Wednesday of last week
at 2.15 o'clock p. M, aged 81 years and
months.
1t is stated that all the necessary land
for the right of way for railway be-
tween New Orange and Summit has
been secured except tract in Summit,
and the several capitalists interested say
that work upon the long projected line
will be begun soon. The road will con-
meet with the Central at Roselle, and
will give practically direct route be-
tween Summit and Elizabeth
Burglars are doing lively business in
and around Bound Brook Stores, homes
and public buildings are attractive
enought for them. The average booty
seems to be about 10 cents.
The establishment of National Bank
at Stanhope in Sussex county is an as
sured thing, $4,000 having been SUBJ
scribed for that purpose.
So large quantity of water is used by
the silk mill in Newton that it has
lessened the pressure to a, point where
the water commissioners have notified
the proprietors that when an alarm of
fire sounds the use of the water must be
discontinued at once.
Consolidation is going on everywhere.
Small concerns unite into big corpora
tons, corporations combine as trusts
and the big fish gobbles up the little fish,
This applies to municipal as well as
business matters and the latest move in
that direction is contemplated in Assem-
blyman Lords bill to consolidate the
neighboring Oranges into one munici
patty to be known as Greater Orange. .
The measure provides that the Oranges,
or as many of them as CHI pose may con
solidate whenever, at any general or
charter cleo ion, a majority of the
voters of each municipality shall vote
for consolidation.
The Greater Orange has been agi-
tated for several years past, at one time
by consolidation society, which kept
up its work for three years. The court
may order an election to decide the pro-
posed aspirations to greatness whenever
fifty freeholders petition for it.
A young bootblack known as TONY, y
who formerly lived in Bernardsville, but
removed with his parents last summer to
Buffalo, made his appearance in Rer-
narosvill Sunday morning, having
walked from New York on Saturday
He claims having been lost from his
parents while en- route to Buffalo. He
found his way to New York and later to
BernardsvilIe. He claims to be on his
way to Morristown, where he has some
friends
The Hackettstown Mining Company
las succeeded in perfecting its leases to
vhat is known as the Cramer Mine, near
that town, and work of developing the
property has begun under the general
superintendent, Richard Penhale.
The session of the First Presbyterian
Church Of Newton has called congre-
sational meeting, to be held Wednesday
evening, February 18, at which meeting
the committee in the matter OF filling the
vacant pulpit of the church will present
the name of Rev. Clarence w. Rouse, of
South Sudbury, Mass. From the senti-
ment expressed by the members of the
church he will probably be called to the
pastorate.
F. P. Olcott president of the Central
Trust Company, has presented Bernards-
vile Public Library with a handsome
copy of Mills's "Historic Homes of New
Jersey and Through ireland in a
Jaunting Car"