The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-11-10
NEWSY NOTES FROM
SUBURBAN TOWNS
Items Of Interest Concerning
Our NsjghbOrs' Doings.

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Traffic signs have been erected in
Rockaway for enforcement OF the traf-
nc ordinance recently passed by the
Borough Council Its chief provision
Is that all vehicles keep to the right
Because of an oversight of the
Boonton town clerk in not posting
notices of the special election Novem-
ber 21 to vote on the purchase of the
United Water Supply Company's
plant next year, the original resolu-
ton was rescinded and a new one
passed, postponing the election to No
vember 2S.
The Salem Charcoal Furnace Com
pany is having its furnaces at Dover
enlarged from capacity of one and
one-half tons of cold blast charcoal
pig iron per day to five tons per day.
The product is used in making auto
mobile cylinders, chilled car wheels
and chilled rolls. The material is of
the highest grade and few plants in
the United States manufacture the
product, most of the cold-blast iron
being made abroad.
The corn cribs on most of the War
ren County farms are proving too
small this year for the large crop.
Many of the farmers prefer to sell the
corn direct from the fields at seventy
cents hundred, rather than take the
trouble to handle it twice and cart it
up to the second stories of the wagon
houses and other temporary places
pressed into service when the corn
cribs are filed
Miss Lydia Thomas, of German Val
ley has shot three large weasels and
blacksnake in the last few days.
One of the weasels was in tree wait
ing to devour some of Miss Thomass
poultry. Others were near the hem
merry Miss Thomas killed them all
with a shotgun. The snake was kill
ed as 1t coiled in the dooryard.
The school district meeting of Dem
vile Township to vote on raising S175
to alter the interior of the Denville
school house, SO that the hallway
might be used as an extra classroom
to relieve overcrowded conditions, re-
suited in the defeat of the proposition.
The vote was eleven in favor and
twenty-five against it.
Despite the petition of 1000 COM
! muters and others, the Lackawanna
/ Railroad Company, according to the
new timetable, has refused the re-
quest that Train No. 6, known as the
Lackawanna Limited, stop at Dover.
The petition has been placed in the
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sioners.
Justice of the Peace Samuel A.
Blanchard, of Rockaway, gave judg-
ment for 81 and $4.75 costs in favor
of Owen Lynch, of Denmark, who had
sued his brother, Joseph Lynch, for
$50 damages alleged to have been
caused by his hogs uprooting the
fields and garden of the plaintiff.
J George Taylor, of Rockaway, has
been granted decree of absolute
divorce from Mrs. Bertha Vanderhoof
Taylor. The couple was married De-
cember %, 1911, at Boonton, and Iiv-
ed together short time Lest July
|, Taylor's counsel filed a petition chare
ing his wife with misconduct.
William Bassett has sold his, inter-
| est in a bakery in Newark and also
his home in East Orange. He will
move with his family to the Bassett
homestead at Mine Hill to manage
the farm and dairy business of his
father Richard Bassett.
The cottages of summer residents
af 11r Ias, tx.1,1. 1. i.
tectives to prevent a repetition of
in sleeping in the buildings every
night.
Denvile Township residents are
: complying with the request of the
township committee to cut and re-
move all brush growing on the town
ship roads and interfering with the
; traffic.
The members of the Protection
Hook-and-Ladder Company of Dover
were given a banquet at Hotel Dover
by Foreman William Fl. Bidgood and
:, Assistant Foreman Oron p. Cole
The executive committee of the
Dover board of trade will meet each
Thursday at the noon hour for a
round-table discussion.
After being idle several days, the
Rockaway Rolling Mill and the Lion
} dale Bleach, Print and Dye works re-
; sumed operations.
Simon p Moore of Cary's has fifty
nine pumpkins. several of which are
from forty to forty-five pounds in
weight.
If weather permits, navigation on
the Morris Canal will be kept up un-
til the last week of November.
A deer was shot and killed by
George Kentos who lives on the road
between Upper Hibernia and Mar.
celia.
After installation of additional cleo
trio equipment, work in the Mt. Hope
mines was resumed.
Searching For T. A. Tunis.
Bert Tunis, of Norris Plains, has
been unable to obtain any trace of
his father, T. A. Tunis, aged eighty
two, who wandered away from his
home at Littleton last Friday. The
| elder TuniS when last seen wore dark