The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-09-06
HAPPENINGS ABOUT
THE COUNTY.

John p. Force win erect q .tMc
story brick, livery stable 41x74 feet,
near the Lac kawanha depot at Dover.
The Pelgranf & Meyer SILK company
has leased a factory building in Rock
away and expect to- employ about
fifty girls there.
A new ruralfree delivery from Boon
ton, number 2, went, into effect on
Thursday. The route is 24A miles
long, patrons served 100.
a board Of fire wardens has been Or
gained in Wharton with William J.
Champion, foreman, and William
Withan, assistant foreman.
Mrs. George r. Mosele, at present a
resident of Gladstone, has opened a
public tennis court for the villages Of
Peapack and Gladstone. providing a
man to care for it. 4
The State Committee Of the Young
Mems Christian Association will have
special tents with secretaries in charge
at the Interstate shooting tourna-
ment of the National Rife Association
of America and the New Jersey Rifle
Association at Sea Grit.
Professor Al. #. Stauffer, supervising
principal Of the Madison public schools
has been engaged as principal of School
No. % Of Jersey City. The Madison
Board Of Education released Mr..
Stauffer at specialmeeting held We'd
neSday and he will commence his
duties on Monday, September u.
a new rural free delivery route has
been established, to start from the
Dover postotfice, to be known as route
No. 2, service upon which will COM
mence October LIST. An examination
for carrier for this route was held in
M0rriStOWn on August 9th. The
route covers Mine HilA Mt. Freedom
etc.
The High bridge Gazette says;
The shipments OF ice from Lake HO-
patcong this summer are exceedingly
heavy over the High Bridge Branch.
A train consisting of thirty to thirty
i've cars arrives here every evening
except Sunday and az the average,
weight Of the ice in each car is thirty
tons, the train consists of about 1000
tons Of frozen cakes.
The Sussex In dope ndent says:
There is only one applejack distillery
left In Warren county, and that is at
Jacksonburg, the property of Isaac
K. Reed. He expects this year to do a
large business. The stills" are grow
ing scarcer each year, the poorest
kind OF rum is on the increase, and we
presume will be as long as hotels and
saloons are permitted to sell their
fion DC n Gary, I" M ~ = i'ii''no iiSf's
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The Grand Army of the Republic
still has membership of 1921, but
its number declined 1929 last year,
and the number of posts fell from
6,426 to 6,149. The annual loss by
death grows rapidly. A man who
enlisted at 20 at the beginning of the
war would now be over go years old.
Not many will be able to take part in
the parade ten years hence; and the
fact that they can now all get pen
sionS, if needed, is a consolation to
the nation.
The State Board of Health is in
vestigating the sources of supplv Of
milk handled by New Jersey retailers.
This work Is now confined to North
Jersey, but the campaign is a general
one. At the conclusion Of Che in
spections reports are made to local
health boards. An idea of the amount
of work in this crusade can be had
from the fact that Chief Inspector
Mcguire found one retailer in Jersey
City who receives his supply from
seventy-two different sources.
Edward shea who livas WITH b;s
family IN the Elkwnod station M nf t he
Tackswanna railroad With an Z, I,a
an ninvaa cot. If tba raiirnad ~ ~ T Teu
morninU fonnd . male nal infant wr r1 nna5
in . neySsnaner dated 4 l,g,,st % VIZ p?oo =
alongside the westNhound7 t fra iyrrp bse
child apnarently was onlv few
hours old II WAS sin alive whom
nicked IN Inv Mr. Shea h,,t diad ba.
fore fore If conid be taken II the Snnan,i T
notice station Tic mani ~ was u'i na y
fectly formed and the mnIica h ha,lReva