The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-18
COUNTY AND VICINITY.


S. B. Libby has rendered his resigna-
| tion as the superintendent of the Rock
away Electric Light and improvement
Company.
Rev. Alfred Evans has resigned the
pastorate of the Netcong Methodist
Church to accept an appointment to
st. Marks Church, Staten Island.
The plant of the Iron Works at Mad
ison is to be housed in new tireproof
structure 7Sx132 feet in size two stories
high. Modern power and machinery
will be installed.
DIR. Adsit, of Succasunna, is being
| treated at the Pasteur Institute in
New York for dog bite. The doctor
was bitten by a stray cur and is taking
the treatment as precauUion.
The Gould-Gibraltar Paint Company
has selected SuccaSunna as the place
at which they intend to locate a fac
tory Negotiations have been pending
and practically all the details arear-
ranged.
The j. w. Smith Trucking Company
will in few days start freight route
by wagon between Dover and Newark.
The trip will be made two or three
times week.
Unless the Lebanon Telephone Co.
improves it's service, the business men
of High Bridge propose to establish a
central office there, purchase their own
phones, and make connections with
the long distance line at Washington.
The personal valuations in Mont
clair this year reach the total OF 3d.
S29, 900, as against S2,626,000 last year,
an increase Of $203, 900. The total val
uation for 1907-1908 is 1913, 1874, 500, as
against $26, 9l5, 100 for the preceding
year
Carpenters, plumbers, paperh4ngers
and other artisans are busy remodel
ing the Richard George property at
|Dover. One report has it that sani-
tarium is to be established there, while
another rumor has 1T that it is to be a
club house.
A catfish, little over two feet long,
and weighing ten pounds was caught
lst week at Lake Hopatcong. 1t is
known as a channel catfish and is not
found in the fresh water ponds and
streams. Some years ago number
were placed in the lake.
The old bicycle factory buildings at
Rockaway, now owned by the High
Standard Steel Company, are being re-
paired. There will be general over
hauling and remodeling, it is said, pre-
paratory to the beginning OF operations
in the factory, which, it is alleged,
will be used for the manufacture of
German steel ball bearing to save the
import duty Of forty per cent. ad
valorem.
The Keteham place, ad JOINING
Liondale Park, Rockaway and compris-
ing Seyenty-Seven acres, has been sold
by DickersOn & Gill to Herman Moller
of Dover Mr.. Moller is now having
the low lands cleared of brush, and
will erect dam which will overflow
about twenty acres with pure spring
water. Those familiar with the lands
on which the lake will be formed, claim
it will be one Of the handsomeSt lakes
in Morris county.
The Rockaway Township Sunday
school Association, which embraces
the Sunday schools of Union, Mt. Hope,
Teabo, Hibernia, Denville and Rock.
away, will have picnic at Beach Glen,
on Labor Day. The program for the
day has just been published. The
pupils will march upon the grounds
and sing America" Then follows
an address, a baseball game by boys
Under fifteen years, dinner, sports and
games, election of officers, another adj
dress and division OF the prize moneys.
Only schools marching With banners
will be entitled TO share