Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
MOrristOwn Notes

! holders at their meeting Wednesday.
| DIR. Carroll has moved to Philadel-
phia. The personnel of the board of
managers is now DR.. Henry A. Hen
riques, president; Rev. Philemon f.
| Sturges, pastor of st. Peters Church,
both of this town; Thomas D. Leon
ard, of Morris Plains. and John r.
Mulligan, of Dover.
| Contracts were awarded to the Mid
die Valley Trap Rock and Mining
Company; l. w. Workman, of this
| town; e. j. Neighbour, of Dover; F.
| w. Schmidt, of this town, and Van
Wrinkle & Case, of Parsippany, for
supplying the trap rock and crushed
stone for the roads this year in the
various localities Bids were received
for this on Tuesday. They were as
| follows: Workman $1.20 per net ton;
e. j. Neighbour, $1.25, $3.50 and s1.40
per net ton, according to the railroad
over which transported; F. w.
Schmidt, $3.50 for az inches. $40 for
IL inches, $3.50 for 81 inches and
$1.60 for n inch; Middle Valley Trap
Rock Company, s130, $1.35 and s140,
according to railroad; Van Wrinkle g.
Case, 81 per net ton.
Freebooter Mahlon X. Tharp. of
Flanders, offered resolution giving
any freeholder the power to purchase
tools and hire men to repair roads in
their vicinity when the same were
needed Mr.. Tharp In explanation of
his resolution said there were so many
miles of road that the supervisor
could not visit them often enough to
see that the necessary repairs were
made. Director S. Z. Esther said the
supervisor had been supplied with an
automobile and could now get to any
part of the county In short order.
Others of the freeholders thought 1t
was the duty of each freeholder, and
that duty was fulfilled, to report any
necessary repairs to the supervisor
and he should look after the work.
When the resolution was put to q
vote 1t was lost, thirteen voting
against 1t. After the resolution was
lost Freebooter Fancher asked that
the supervisor be instructed to repair
the Landing road.
The meeting of the board started
late and an adjournment was taken
at 1890 until 2 o'clock.
In a communication to the board
Supreme Court Justice Charles w.
Parker approved of the appointment
of Edward ID. Neighbour, of Dover,
as clerk of the jury commission. He
also recommended that the clerk and
Cobb, of Parsippany be paid a salary
of $3.50 a year as their duty entails
considerable labor The other mem
Der of the jury commission Is the
sheriff, Whitfield b. Gillen. The COM
munication was ordered spread upon
the minutes.
Foster M. Birch, of Dover, asked
permission to move the building at
West Blackwell and Warren streets,
Dover, to the opposite side of the
street. This was referred to the road
committee with power, as was the
communication of Llewellyn b. Tomp-
kins, of this town, for permission to
open South street, this town, OPP
posite the Presbyterian Church A
bond will be required of the latter to
put the street back into shape again.
Harry A. Van Glider, of Morris
street, this town, complained of the
condition of Morris street from the
Lackawanna railroad to Washing
tons headquarters and Morris ave.
nue. to the Whippany road. His COM
munication was referred to the road
committee.
Freebooter Prudden, of the aims
house committee, reported 1893 in
mates in that institution and so In
the Children's Home. DR. James B.
Griswold, the Jail physician, re-
ported two inmates of the jail sent
to the State Hospital at Morris
Plains.
The following bills were approved:
Tuberculosis hospital. s2,7464S; aims
house, $2,250.2S, of which $500 was
for the children's home; advertising
and printing, S312.1S; State Village for
Epileptics, $39S17; permanent i'm
provements at the Court House and
jail, $75.06; Court House and main
tenance, $689.24; finance, $3.645.1S;
officers salaries $60S25; fox bounty,
$44.5O; incidentals, $3SS.55; road re-
pair, $650.21; snow removal. 1898 &c,
and widows and pensions, $4S5.35.
Rutan Brothers have let the con-
tracts for the alterations to be made
in the store formerly occupied by the
0 South street, which the latter will
occupy on May 1. The American
Trust Company, which owns the
building in which Rutan Brothers are
now located, will remodel the same
for a modern bank building. Llew-
ellyn b. Tompkins has the contract
for the plumbing work, William
Horsefield & Son the painting, Ber-
nard Carroll the carpenter and ma
son work, and Robert B. Jolley the
electrical work.
Mrs. Anna r. Hickey is erecting a
frame dwelling on Main street, Mad
ison, which will cost $500. George
J. Collins, of that place. is the con-
tractor.
Chief OF Police j. Frank Holloway
was in Bridgeport, Conn, Wednes-
day attending the funeral of his
aunt.
A two-seated carriage driven by
William Mcbride, of Whippany road
was damaged Tuesday night at the
northwest corner of the park when
the right forewheel caught In the
trolley tracks. The wheel was broken
Four people were In the wagon at
the time.
An inventory of the estate of the
late Mrs. Mary b. H. Willis, of this
town, has been recorded in the sur
rogate's office. The estate amounts
to $26,6sS.65, including number of
shares of stock and bank deposits.
Charles kopeck, of Mt. Hope, was
brought before Judge Joshua r. SAL
mon Wednesday for not sending his
son, Charles, to school. According to
the testimony of the county super
intendent of schools the boy had been
in school only fifty-one and a half
days out of hundred and forty
school days this year. Kopeck was
severely reprimanded by Judge Sal
mon and instructed to keep his son
in school in the future.
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Morristown Building and
Loan Association last night Lewis ID.
Kay, cashier of the National Iron
Bank, was elected secretary of the
] association to succeed the late Isaac
/ n piarcnI, who had been eeprata ~