The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-04-17
COUNTY AND VICINITY.

Miss Emma A. Dambmann, contral-
to, aided by numerous other sOlOistS,
will give concert at AeOlian Hall,
New York, this evening.
The American Saw Mill Machinery
Co., of Hackettstown will extend it's
woodworking department hundred
feet and also enlarge the foundry.
Telegraph instruments have been
placed in the stations on the Morris
town & Erie r. r. the telephone line
being used for connection at Essex
FellS.
Fighter s. Barton have purchased
the farm OF B. E. Knapp at FlOrham
Park, and have broken ground for their
new greenhouses. They will erect
four, each 250 feet.
The Peduest furnace, at PequeSt,
was put into blast last week and UNI
less hampered by coal strike many
additional workmen will be employed
to I'LL large orders.
The furnace of the pig iron depart
ment Of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company at Stanhope, which has been
out for repairs since December, was
blown in last Monday.
The plant of the defunct Franklin
Lumber Co., at HackettStOwn has
been sold to the Colonial Column Co.,
of New York. 1t will employ from
thirty to, fifty skilled workman.
f. H. Jacobs, the noted Sunday
School worker and evangelist, has been
engaged TO sing at the Morris County
Christian Endeavor Unions cOnven-
tion at Chatham, Tuesday, May 22nd.
The Kelley tract on Morris avenue,
Summit, purchased by the Morris
County Traction Company, through
which the trolley will go, has been di-
vided into twenty-four lots, five of
which have already been sold.
The big furnace at Oxford owned by
the Empire Iron and Steel Company
has been shut down because OF the
scarcity of coal, and 100 employees are
out of work. The furnace was idle
two years. and was placed in blast
only few weeks ago.
Beware Of any stranger who offers
to sell you seed corn from any State
Experiment Station. He is fraud,
as such seeds are not sold. A slick ar
ticle has sold a lot Of seed to Orange
county farmers at 81 per bushel.
The Visiting Nurses Association Of
Bernardsville has purchased through
Post & Reese two lots on Wolfe ave-
nue., and have begun the erection of a
dwelling to be occupied when COM
pleted as the home Of the visiting
nurse.
Henry w. Whipple, assistant cashier
of the National Union Bank, of DOYer,
has been elected cashier of the Hack
ettstown National Bank, to succeed
Robert A.&Cole, who resigned April
LIST. The new cashier has had sixteen
years experience in banking in Eliza
beth, New York and Dover.
The Rockaway g Record 2 says -
1T seems reasonably sure that the
Morris County Traction Company will
acquire private right OF way between
Rockaway and Mount Tabor along the
mecadam road The company is yet
lacking a number of consents to set
poles for the wires on Main street,
which will soon be needed.
Post 50 Reese have sold to Herbert
II. 1dl6t Vi NEW yin Oluy3 OAAC Adt III
owned by David 9. Lance, near Lo-
gansyille. Mr.. Hale is an architect Of
considerable note, and it is expected
he will make extensive improvements
upon his newly acquired property. An
old fashioned mill and other features
of colonial days make the property
one of interest.
The Belvidere correspondent of the
Washington STAR SAYS: Those
balls and chains invested in by the
freeholders seem to be dead loss a
sort of dead weight. We do not be-
lieve that they have been used at all,
either to enforce seryile labor or as
ornaments for tile professional tramps.
The ones assigned to Belyidere are
still at the freight depot, where they
will probably stay for an indefinite