The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-25
COUNTY AND VICINITY.

The Hackettstown tax rate for this
| year will be S1.40.
The corner stone Of the Fountain
Baptist Church Of Summit, was laid
on Sunday.
The Madison Athletic Association
have decided to abandon the idea OF
giving dog show this season.
A filtering plant is being constructed
at Boonton at the inlet of the pipes
which carry the water to Jersey City.
The Basking Ridge Fire Company
will hold it's first annual excursion on
Thursday, August 9th, to Cranberry
Lake.
On and after October first the first
class postage TO Great Britain and
Ireland will be two cents for each
ounce or fraction thereof.
Plans are out for handsome house
42xll5 feet in size which Daniel K.
| Moran proposes to erect at Mendham.
| r. G. Walsh is the erchitect.
Lewis d. Award will put up con-
crete block buildingson East Blackwell
lstreet, Dover, which he will use as a
garage.
The Summit Presbyterian Church is
strenuously ohjecting to the proposed
/ location of the new public school op-
posite the church property.
Next Friday, August 18th the ex-
lcursion of Summit tiremen to Asbury
| Park will be conducted The trip will
be made over the Railway Valley Rail-
road.
Charles Starr, who was editor OF the
/ East Orange Gazette for twenty-five
years, has given up peach growing at
/ Cornelia, Ca, and has come north to
live once more.
| Three inside men were laid off in the
MorristOwn district of the N. Y. & n.
~. Telephone Co. last week. One in
Morristown, one in Dover and the
third in Bernardsville.
August Molitor has the contract for
building new street through the FL
lett and Blair properties, opposite
Hillside avenue, Chatham. Fronting
on this street lots have been laid out.
Thomas H. Hoagland has force of
men grading his property about White
MeaGow Lake, and it is reported that
he intends to have road built around
the lake, a distance of five orsix miles.
The Society Of Blessed Virgin Mary
of Madison, will hold it's fifteenth an
lnual celebration and festival on the
Madison Athletic Association grounds,
Monday and Tuesday, September 7th
and 8th.
The postoffice at Nolan'S Point, Lake
Hopatcong, was burglarized Wednes-
day night, the burglars securing sew
eral dollars worth of stamps. In I'll e
morning window was found open the
safe door off it's hinges and the office
wrecked.
A meeting was held recently to push
the project for reclaimiDg portion OF
the Troy meadows. The following
committee was appointed to further
} ohe project: r. d. Foote, John j..
MITCHELL John W. Decker and A. B.
Paulmier.
Harry Mclean, who was found
guilty Of burglary in Hibernia, has
fed from Railway Reformatory, in
which he was serving term. 1t is
Thought Mclean is hiding near Rocka-
way A reward for his capture has
been offered.
!. At the meeting of the Somerset
County Road Horse Association at
Bernardsville on Wednesday, H. w.
Armstrong's Toby was third in apace
and his Trilby first in trot. A. M.
. Guerin's Thornton also secured a first
did also his Shylo Boy.
The marriage of Miss Eleanor Tu-
niSon, of Bernardsyille, to Robert Ro'
maine, of Dover took place Saturday
afternoon. Rev. G. FL. Won Claim, Of
J Hackensack, performing the ceremony.
The honeymoon will be spent at Nj
/ agara Falls and Canada.
Pompton Plains has organized an
improvement association w b ic h al
ready has an enrolled membership of
: 107 The OBJECT of the association is
! to secure better roads and school ia
: cilities, street lighting, fire protection,
: better railroad service and telephof e
, facilities.
Thirteen of the twenty-five men en-
ployed in the kitchen of the main
building at the Morris Plains Hospital
| left work in body on Saturday after
, noon. Other men were secured to fill
their places. David Watt, the fore
man OF the kitchen, left with the men
, who quit.
} The repairs at the Wharton Steel
: COmpany'S furnace No. / are COM
, peted and everything is in readine s
to put the furnace in blast, which wi
probably be done during the next few
! days When this is done the force Of
employees at this plant will be con-
siderably increased.
The plans for the proposed four room
addition to the Boonton public school
have been approved by the state aC-
thoritieS. A special election has been
called for Wednesday evening, Septem-
Der End, to decide the matter. Collins
Weir is the architect and the addition
will cost about $4,000.
Eight coal cars on a fast eastbound
freight were wrecked on the Lacka-
wanna Railroad at Passaic, on Friday
afternoon. The king bolt in one of the
cars broke and the truck left the
track. For more than city block the
east and west bound tracks were bur-
led in anthracite. No one was hurt.
The Warren county board of free
holders has already appointed a special
committee in the matter OF arranging
for the boarding of prisoners and care
OF things about the jail after the cor
ing election. Sheriffs elected this fail
will oe on salary basis and the county
will have to provide the food, etc., for
the prisoners.