The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-03-18

entire building fund of ,282 had been
expended upon upon the new building.
with the exception of 81. The sum of
So 500 was voted to maintain the school
for the coming year. A resolution by
Charles Hayes that the president and
clerk of the Board of Education be placed
under bond of $4,000, was debated at
some length and finally laid upon the
table. Similar action was taken on a
resolution by r. L. Remnitz that
permission be given to rent the
assembly room Of the school for political
or other meetings. E. L. Cook and H.
n. Francis were elected members of the
Board of Education.
Street Commissioner FreDz has been
doing excellent work in opening the
cutters and distributing cracked stone
upon many of the thoroughfares.
At the meeting of the Council on Mon
day evening the oath was taken by W.
E. Redmond and A. L. Reynolds, the
newly elected councilmen, the Mayor
delivered his annual message and named
the following committees: Finance and
water-Baker, O'Donnell, Reynolds;
light Sacks, Anderson, Redmond;
street-Anderson, O'Donnell, Reynolds;
police and jail-Albright, Sacks, Red
mond. The bond of Collector McTernan
was presented and accepted and his
salary increased $3.50 per year. FL. Van
w. Meyer was appointed borough clerk
for the ensuing year at a salary of $65
per month
D. H. Hicks has resigned his position
as freight agent of the D., L. & w. Rail-
broad. For more than forty years he has
discharged the duties here and he will be
kreatly missed. He will dispose of his
interests in Madison and reside in
ewark.
The Brittin building is being pushed
pidly and when completed will be one
the handsomest in the borough. Mr..
sfittin will occupy two of the stores for
lis dry goods and boot and shoe depart
nents
Court Lathrop, l. O. F., No. 3347, gave
Nemoker and entertainment Tuesday
evening. High Court Deputy Dick was
present. The entertainment was fur
nished by Humorists Rice and Muller,
who sang, told stories and amused the
audience. Conrad Myer gave gramo-
phone entertainment and High Court
Deputy Dick recited.
S. III. Assay, commissary for Drew
Seminary, will leave at the end of the
Rev. DIR. A. B. Leonard has rented the
Burnet house on Green Village road.
Charles A. Rathbun has rented the
Baker house on Greenwood avenue now
occupied by Rev. A. G. bennett.
Mrs. Julia A. Griswold has sold her
farm at East Madison to Wilbur S. John
son of the Prudential Insurance Com
pany of Newark.
DR.. Leslie D. Ward has stocked his
game preserve with twenty-four English
pheasants, which arrived on Monday.
DR.. Arthur S. Corwin, son of FL. B.
COrwin, has been appointed fourth assis-
6ant physician on the hospital staff of
physicians at the New Jersey State Hos
pital at Morris Plains.
IA ETle Auttler has removed from the
PRINCE Goperty on Main street to one
of the Mills cottages on Convent road.
Officer Burnett also occupies one.
Rev. Arthur bennett gave stereopti-
con and gramophone entertainment to
his friends on Tuesday evening.
A. F. Davis will sever his connection
with the boys school at the close of the
term and take position in the Newark
Academy.
Frank G. Carrie will occupy one of the
stores in the Britten building to be vaca-
ted by H. J. Britten.
George Martin Lang, has returned to
Madison and is now in the employ of
Henry Steadtrath.
Fl. B. Green has rented one of the
Thebaud cottages.
James A. Webb is at Cincinnati, o.
Adjutant A. Cowan of the Salvation
Army, Morristown, will speak at the Y.
III. G. A. on Sunday afternoon at 4:15
o'clock.
J. III. Van Houten will remove to the
rooms over Browns drug store.
Howard G. Condit is spending week
in Washington, D. G.
DR.. Cadman lectured before a large
audiencein Christ M. E. Church, Mon
day evening on ssLife in London
The last entertainment of the Popular
Course will DO held next Wednesday
evening in Association hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mex. Twombly and
friends spent Sunday at Florham their
country place here.
Z Mrs. Burchard, mother of Mrs. H. B.
Green of this place, fell on Tuesday and
broke her leg.
Theodore w. Stemmler is one of the
heirs to the award of $S5, 1896 declared on
Tuesday by Justice Davy of the Supreme
Court of New York, for salary due his
father who was elected Justice of the
Seventh District Court in 1869 in New
York City, but Joseph Mcguire was de-
clared elected. Mcguire held the office
until October, 1878, when the courts
seated Stemmler. StemmIer sued Ma
guire for the salary Mcguire had drawn,
but collected nothing, and the claim lay
dormant. Stemmler died in 1875, soon
after the expiration of his term of Office. |
AS proceedings against the city were
barred by the statute of limitations, the
heirs got the Legislature to pass an act
III 1894 permitting an action against the
city to determine the claim.
That portion of Chatham township
bounded on the west by the center line Of |
Green Village road; on the south by the
center line of the turnpike; on the east