The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-08-25
NEWSY NOTES FROM
SUBURBAN TOWNS
Items Of interest Concerning
Our N8ighbOrs' DOings.

The Rockaway borough board of ed
ucation has fixed the date for the
topening of the borough public schools
as September 9th, and has engaged
the following corps of teachers for
the ensuing term: Supervising prin-
cipal, C. Herbert Walling; high school
| teachers, Miss Edith M. Jackson, of
Westchester, Pa; Miss Ruth Marshal
| Of Kenneth Square, Pa; Miss Miriam
Shivers, of Haddonfield; grammar
school and primary teachers, Misses
| Helen Printz and May H. Speicher, of
Reading; Miss Marguerite Sherrick,
of Shippenburg, Pa; Miss Muriel
| Benedict, of Buffalo, N. Y; Miss
Hilda Hosking, of Dover; Miss Blanch
L. Guy, of Plattsburg, N. Y; Miss
Edith Myers, of Denville; Miss Lucy
G. Hubert, of Ironia, and Misses Hill
da johnson, Thalia Dearborn and
| Bertha NJ Winterschied, of Rockaway
Following an investigation of the
accident on the Lackawanna railroad
| in which r. j. Mines was killed, at
J, Dover, March 18th last, the board of
public utility commissioners has rec
commended that the railroad insist up
on the literal observance of rule
which was disregarded when the ac-
cident happened, or that the rule be
changed SO as to make its enforce
ment practical. The rule, which had
admittedly become obsolete, provides
that on the double track train must
not run into or pass a station at
signaled by the conductor of the
ls.fr, ~ Jr..rr f<. do oil rArsn
vides that q passenger train must not
approach the station when the pas
senger train on the opposite track is
scheduled not to stop is approaching.
Prohibitive prices asked by some
of the landowners for land for chang
ing the route of the proposed New
! ton-Sparta macadam road will hold
up the improvement for a time at
least, and MAY cause the board of
! freeholders of Sussex county to
/ abandon the attempt to improve that
highway. The county has agreed
with three property owners for the
necessary land and has deeds for
those tracts The total cost of the
owners want a total of $2,975 from
the farms running from less than
one acre to two and one1half acres.
Whether or not to declare forfeited
the bail of a man now in the state
Hospital for the Insane in Morris
Plains is a question before Recorder
Felix McGee, of Millburn. G. Lee
Stout, jr., of Green Village, WAS to
have appeared to answer a charge of
! driving an automobile while intoxicat-
J cd. He did not, because he is in
| the hospital Stout had been arrested
2nd was released on bail of $l0O.
| His counsel, Halsey M. Barrett, OBJ
tanned delay of week. The fol-
lowing day Stout was committed to
the hospital on finding that he was
suffering from alcoholism.
Trustees of the Overlook Hospital
association, of Summit, have received
$4,000 of the $125,000 pledged in the
recent campaign for the purchase of
! the institution from DR.. William H.
Lawrence, jr. That amount has been
accepted as part payment for the pro-
perty. James Ely has resigned as
secretary of the board and Thomas
| B. Adams, a new member, has been
selected to succeed him.
j The labor unions of Dover are ar
ranging to hold an all-day celebration
Labor day in Clark's Grove, Mt. Hope
avenue. A street parade will be held
beginning at one O'Clock. The Ger
man Choral society will furnish enter
tainment at the grove, which will be
supplemented by a band concert in
the evening There will be outdoor
sports throughout the day.
It has been decided by the vestry
of Grace Episcopal church, of Madi-
son, to remove it's low wall fronting
Madison avenue, which Borough En-
gineer Arthur j. Jones declared to
be an enroachment upon the street
line. The wall was constructed when
the church was built in the year 1857
The grounds wild be turned back to
the church.
The Mendham board of education
awarded contract for a three-room
school building to Aaron v. Apgar on
pleted January list. Herbert Bockover
IGSClFGu lnC NOhtA CIV lOA SAeehSROA ~A%A .
about thirty pupils from the town
ship and borough to the local school.
His bid was SIS a month.
| To recover damages for injuries he
says were inflicted on his five-year-
lold son by dog owned by John
Harris, of Rockaway, Martin Parli-
meat, of that borough, has instituted
suit in the Court of Common Pleas
for $4,000. The boy is i'll at his HON
He was bitten on the hand and leg.
The barn of Baldwin Thompson at
Mendham was struck by lightning
and destroyed by fire with all the
contents. Twenty-Five tons of hay,
400 bushels of oats, a quantity of rye
and wagons and harness were lost.
| The loss is estimated at about $4,000,
lpartially covered by insurance.
| One of the spires on the Presby-
terian church steeple at Rockaway
was knocked off and another partly
shattered by lightning, which also en-
Itered Abraham Kaufman's place and
E. Doland's store in Wall street,
burning out parts of the electric light
equipments.
A suit for 5000 damages has been
started by Cooper r. Smith, of Upper