The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-01
COUNTY AND VICINITY.

A new bank to be opened in Hack
ettstown has purchased the Wade
building on Hope street.
Jacob J. Drake has purchased of the
Cutler estate the Mt. Freedom Hotel
property, which he has occupied for
the past nine years.
III. w. VanW agenen will deliver his
lecture " Canoe, Camp and Carry at
the Ogden Memorial Church, Chat
ham, on Wednesday evening.
The, annual camp meeting of the
Free Methodist Church, New York
and Philadelphia districts, will be held
at Netcong from July 4 to July II in
elusive.
The nineteenth annual convention
OF the Morris County Christian En-
deavOr union will be held in the Ogden
Memorial Presbyterian Church, Chat
ham, on Tuesday, May 22nd.
Louis w. Thurber, at one time SUI
perintendent OF Morris county schools
and for a number of years supervising
principal Of the Dover schools, has
again become resident OF Dover, hav-
ing moved there last week from Hack
ettStown.
The R0ckaWay township committee
meeting with the representatives of
the Morris County Traction Company
did not take place Thursday as plan
ned. The company notified the COM
mittee that new application for a
franchise, under the new law, would
be made at the next regular meeting
OF the committee
The Rockaway e Record says -
The poles for which the Morris Coun-
ty Traction Company requires the per-
mission OF some M ain street real estate
owners to put up, number only eigh-
teen, but they are enough to bar the
{" Poor mans coach" from passing
through that part OF Main street and
reaching the Lackawanna station.
The barns Of .. j. Rood and George
Millen were destroyed by fire last Tues
day afternoon together withSthe house,
hold goods of Samuel Wyckoff which
were stored in the latter StrucGSre.
The loss will be over $1,000, the fine
starting from a bonfire in Mr. Rood y
yard The Mendham fire department.
did yaluant sefuice in saving the near
by houses,
The Railroad " Employee" says
" Morris & Essex Division passenger
train, with engine 1909, Conductor J.
O'Neil and Engineer George Bilby, left
Hoboxen at 5. 20 p. m. on April 3, with
eight loaded cars, three minutes be-
hind their leaving time, and arrived
in Newark at $40, three minutes
ahead of their regular schedule. The
distance, ~ miles, was covered in ex-
actly eleven minutes, a remarkable
performance.
Failing in their attempts to secure
a trolley line in Railway avenue, be-
tween the city of Railway and Eliza
beth, company of citizens living
along that street have organized a COM
pany which will be Incorporated to OPP
crate an electric or gasoline automo-
bile bus line between the Elizabeth
depot and the depot in Railway and
from there to Carteret. The line will
be in operation in a few weeks. a
huge automobile has been procured
and more will be added as business in
creaSes.
The Beechwood Park Land Co. has
purchased the Jacobus tract OF about
twenty acres in the rear of the Beech
wood Hotel at Summit, and will open
it up. Streets have been laid out and
graded and will at once be provided
with sewers, water and gas mains, and
macadamiZed. Contractors are now
laying concrete walks along the entire
frontage OF 4. 400 feet The BeechW0od
stables are now being removed by
James Clark, of Morristown, TO the lot
adjoining the Park House property
There are forty-four building lots in
the tract one hundred feet front.