The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-01-22
STATE AND
COUNTY NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs Of Import
ant and Interesting Events
m New Jersey
PLEASANT FOR MANY READERS

The car shops force in Dover is
working on eight-hour time.
Coasting on the streets of Orange
has been absolutely prohibited
There are II cases of smallpox in
Trenton and the pestilence is increas-
ing.
| The Boonton authorities have pro-
hibited coasting on Main street in
that town.
! OF the 81 members of the New Jer-
sey Legislature 60 are native born
Jerseymen.
Paterson authorities have decided
to put stop to coasting on certain
streets in that city.
Miss Mary f. Van Leer, of Garfield,
Essex county, has been appointed a
deputy factory inspector.
Police Justice Frederick p. Rees
will be the next Grand Sachem of
Imp. 0. r. M. of New Jersey.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics
reports that New Jersey leads all
other States in silk production.
The net valuation of Passaic city
amounts to SIS, 1856, 100 real and 81, 720,-
1876 personals: a total of $11 ,4l6, OPS.
A fire at Hinchliffe's brewery in
| Paterson caused loss of 5000, 900.
Three firemen were severely injured.
The Rev. w. A. Keyes, of Jersey
City has been appointed to the rector
ship of st. Patrick's Church at Chat
ham.
Horace Stetson was last week re-
elected secretary of the Orange board
of education for the thirty-seventh
time.
According to an official statement
Trenton has means of fire protection
barely adequate for city one-seventh
its size.
George Udell, of Passaic was ia
years old on Monday Although old
enough to know better, he desires to
marry again.
The trial of George Jaggers for
the alleged murder of Mrs. Victor e.
Bevans in Sussex county has been
postponed to February s.
The proposed ordinance presented
in the Newark Common Council will
close all the playhouses in that city
until new ones can be built.
High street in Somerville appears to
have been converted into a trotting
course and the householders along the
street are kicking" over it.
The Lackawanna cases relative to
selling liquor at Cranberry Lake in
1902 will not come before the court at
Newton until some time in February.
One case of smallpox and fifteen
cases of diphtheria are reported at
Kingston, five miles from Somerville.
The schools are closed on account OF
the epidemic.
The Orange papers are flashing the
police over "the disgraceful condition
of the sidewalks and crosswalks after
each snowfall" There are other
places beside Orange.
The Iroquois Theatre fire seems tC
have awakened many city and town
officials to the negligence shown in
not erecting fire escapes where they
are legally supposed to be.
The Orange Y. M. G. A. is excited
over fake report published in the
New York papers alleging that funeral
services were held over the body of a
bulldog in the Association building
Plainfield is agitated over the mat.
ter of paid fire department. Some
of the officials believe that a paid de-
partment would be cheaper in the
long run than volunteer department
At Washington, Warren county, il
is proposed to publish the names of al
who do not keep their sidewalks cleal
of ice and snow. 1t is thought this
will be more effective than threatened
fines.
Peter S. Tiger, a wealthy sheer
farmer of Bedminster township, Som
erset county, is losing his flock from
rabies. Constant watch is kept or
the sheep and as soon as one shows
signs of the disease it is killed.
Mrs. Walter E. Smith, of Orange
has recovered needle that has beer
travelling about her person for sixteen
years, having travelled from her hip &c
her ankle in that time. And the poor
woman thought she had rheumatism
all the time.
The New Jersey State Teachers
Association, at the conclusion of its
recent annual session passed a resolu.
tion requesting that the Legislature
provide for the management of the
teachers retirement fund at the ex-
pense of the State, and that the fund
be reimbursed for previous expendi-
lures for this purpose.
A Caldwell man, according to an
advertisement in the Dover Index,
has string of wants, which if sup
piled, will undoubtedly make him
happy. He wants to get 'acquaint-
ance with a farmers daughter of a
good disposition and households; a fair
education in mathematics and under
stands string instruments and church
organ; Warren or Sussex COMMITTEES; or a
school teacher or rich widow: saving.
Object, matrimony."
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