The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-01-29
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still on.
Eel-fishing along Barnegat Bay nets
the fisherman 90 day.
Last wear the number Of marriages
In Madisonwere 8; births, 10; deaths,
/. 10.
"Cider joints" in Plainfield must
cease operations, or there will be trou-
BILE.
A number of deer have been lib
Grated in the southern part Of the
State.
John Lyons, convicted Of murder,
will be sentenced by Judge Pitney on
February 8.
Somerville demands that the tele-
phone company shall put Its wires
j underground.
The Ashley Silk Manufacturing
Company has been organized at Hack
ettstown with $50, 600 capital
The Presbyterian Church authorities
Of Mt. Holley were fined last week for
not keeping the walk in front OF the
church free of ice.
The statement that the life-saving
crew at Harvey Cedars on Barnegat
Bay had been converted to religion by
telephone is now denied.
John Hart, of Princeton, the great
grandson Of John Hart, a signer OF the
Declaration Of Independence, died a
few days ago in Philadelphia.
A consignment of catfish and yellow
perch has been dumped into Cranberry
Lake. "Long may they live and pros
per- as genial Rip Van Wrinkle would
say.
Percy M. Using, OF Plainfeld, has
been awarded $4,000 damages for
injuries received in the wreck on the
N. J. Central near Westfield a year
ago.
Paterson is overrun by tramps,
hoboes, panhandlers and sneak
thieves. The police have been in
structed to round up all suspicious
characters.
Lillian Bruen, young woman Of
Paterson, called to several young men
to come and see her die. Then she
drank two ounces of carbolic acid and
died shortly afterward.
DR.. James M. Green, in his annual
report as superintendent Of the State
schools, states that there are POI
students In the Normal school and
1923 in the Model school.
John Kister was struck by a To-
connective on the Rockaway Valley
Railroad on Thursday night of last
week, near Bernardsville. His body
was found next morning.
Stanhope had mad-dog scare last
week. Afox terrier got into scrim-
mage with several other CANNES and
pinched them good and deep. Then
he was shot for getting s'his mad mp"
The demand for "creauture COM
forts is evidently on the increase.
Three men of the Cumberland Glass
Works at Br5agSson made 703 dozen
half-pint TASKS ksingle night this
week.
Montclair commuters have become
disgruntled over the Erie Railway
service, and threaten to take the
Lackawanna when the month is up.
This means monthly loss of 1926 to
the Erie.
The Plainfeld papers give the Pub
lie Service Corporation of New Jersey
particular fits" 1t is the only way
to keep these public franchise-holders
hewing to the line of promise often
unfultilled. al tt
Plainfield has fisherman who
caught three suckers through the ice.
A Morristown sucker went to New
York fortnight or so ago and it took
three booksellers and several police
men to frost him. ,,s, .t.r -
Dumont v Frelinghuysen, one Of
Somerset county's oldest and most
successful lawyers. died at his home
in Someryille on Thursday of last
week, aged 81 years. He was the
Oldest living member of the noted
Frelinghuysen family.
The SURVIVING members of the Ninth
New Jersey Volunteers in. the, Civil
WAL Will HIGoSftV " ~ Jill W UiAV LCBlO-
lature at this, session for the erection
of State monument in the plot in the
National Cemetery at Newberne, N.
c., where THE dust of twenty-five
members Of THE regiment reposes.
So fAuch oBjecviona has been raised
by the,faffnefsiof Orange county, N
Y, .,agaiAst the plan to have the
govegnmentt, MILITARY operations take
place 0nthe RECENTLY selected territory
covering a;p0rhiOn of efiabcounty and
Sussex, that ifq has been given up and
groundvSf1R} the The =, Vicinity cin Of Homestead,
L. l., secured. rlons cop*o''3 q :
Four hundred New Jersey Y. M. G.
A. workers, representing all the as
sociations in the State, will assemble
in Trenton next month on the oc.
casion of the thirty-third convention
The convention Will be held in AS,
ISOLATION. HAM, Will open Thursday
February II and will last until Sun
day evenings FebrHaryl+ Nsf@gAa
The Author OF s'Lux Crucis''
Samuel Nj Gardenhire, author Of