The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-09-15
NEWSY NOTES FROM
SUBURBAN TOWNS

llGlnS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
Our N8jghbOrs' DOings.
! While most of the male population
was at a fire III the barn at the
| Standard Oil company's plant at
Rockaway, which did several hundred
dollars damage, two burglars Werel
busy in the borough, and escaped on-l
| ly after shooting at their would-be
captor running down the railroad
tracks and leaving in the direction
of Dover, on 4 Laekawanna handcar.
| When the firemen were on their way
back about LAB O'Clock they were
called tc John Stephani's house I'M
Harris row, where it was said that
two burglars were hiding. One of tn
men fired two shots with pistol at
the tenant as he entered the cellar,
then dodged through door. The
/ tenant slammed the door, and the in
truder's hand that held the pistol be-
came caught in it. With a yell he
dropped the weapon, jerked his hand
through and he and his companion got
out CT a window and escaped by run
ming along the Central of New Jersey
tracks, and were lost in the dark
ness. So far as known, nothing of
much value was taken. The men
stole a Central handcar and went 20
ward Dover leaving the car near that
place.
Rev Joseph Walsh has succeeded
in working out plan to serve both
the Presbyterian and Methodist
churches of WhipIany while at the
same time maintaining their separ-
ate identity He was chosen as pas
tor of the Presbyterian church some
time ago, although an adherent OF
the Methodist denomination. Both
churches are compaT atlyely small, and
nov Mr. Walsh has been chosen also
temporarily as pastor of the Metho-
dist church. 1t is planned TO have a
service in the Presbyterian church in
the morning and in the Methodist ed
ifice in the evening, the same pastor
officiating at both services, and sol
4 wing at least part of the problem
OF the country church.
Articles of incorporation of the Cul-
ver's Lake Country club were filed
in the Sussex county clerks office.
The following ARE named as incorpor-
ators: George A. Buchanan, Branch
4 Vile; Henry G. Hunt, Sussex; James
l.. Robertson, Bayonne; George r..
| Weber, H. G. c. Osmun, Newark;
Ben Aldrich Curtis, Patrick II. BEEN
er, New York; George w. Sinclair,
Morristown. The trustees named are
Percy ID. Wright, of Brooklyn; Mr.
10I,A
| Harms, Jersey City; Mr.. Sinclair.
4 The request OF the Denville board
of education for permission to use the
town hall, formerly the old school
house, for school purposes, because of
the overcrowded condition of the
Denville schoolhouse, has been de-
MED. Half of the primary class will
be taught four hours in the forenoon
and the other half four hours in the
afternoon because no suitable room
can be found.
Division of opinion as to settling
4 Roekaway's pressing water problem
was expressed at meeting of the
mayor ami borough council and its
solution was held in abeyance until
an investigation could be made OF
the cost and feasibility of the storage
reservoir plan. 1t was also decided
to hold referendum on the public
library project.
Some potatoes OF unusual size are
on exhibit in Hezekiah Smiths store
in Flanders The largest OF three,
grown by George Wack, of Flanders,
without any cultivation, weighs one
pound and six ounces. One hill of
the tubers on River Edge farm, Mt
Olive, the home of Charles A..
Stephens, yielded five, the aggregate
weight of which is seven and one
half pounds.
Largely signed petitions addressed
4 to State Road Commissioner E. H.
Stevens and the joint appropriations
committee OF the legislature are be-
ing prepared at Hackettstown. The
petitions ask for the matchmaking of
the Hackettstown-W Waterloo highway
4 by state aid, and set forth half doz-
Zen reasons why this much-traveled
road should be improved
The special committee on water
! pressure at Madison will go over the
books of the borough and ascertain
il the water plant is a paying invest
ment. and what means can be devised
to give. more pressure in the higher
sections of Madison The work will
he under the supervision Of the board
OF public improvement.
That the Lackawanna officials and
the borough council of Madison will
reach satisfactory conclusion in thel
elimination of the grade CROSSINGS I'M
Madison and the erection of new
station is now assured A few minort
details will be arranged this week,
and then it is thought the work will
commence in earnest.
Efforts are being made to turn thei
proposed Business Mems club at Mad.l
ison, into an EllS's organization |
There are enough Elks to permit CT