But, Boonton has bigger, richer, prettier  neighbors that can’t brag of summer concerts at an old fashioned  bandstand and could never hope to pull off the kind of happy, swinging,  hoopla of a centennial celebration that Boonton enjoyed this year. And  now Boonton has a town hall tower designed for a clock with four faces.

Of  course any municipality can decorate a tower which clocks. All you have  to do is appropriate the money. In Boonton, though, contributions are  paying the price. Donations from firemen and veterans groups and  individuals, dimes from school children are buying the clock faces.  Right now, three faces have been paid for and funds are needed for the  fourth.

On December 31, when a dedication ceremony is held and  the clock is lit, people of Boonton will have more than just a new way  of telling the time. They’ll have another personal investment in the  town. And maybe that’s Boonton’s secret – there’s a personal  relationship between the people and the town that isn’t found elsewhere.