The Morris County chronicle., 1899-06-23

IN the Y. M. q. A. Hall next Thursday
evening June 9th All are requested
to be present.
DR.. B. D. Evans of the State Hospital,
was the representative of the State Medi-
cal Society at the meeting of the Ameri-
can Medical Association in Columbus,
Ohio, laat week.
The school house on Mt. K emble
avenue is to be extende 1 sixteen feet and
the school trustees of Morris township
have awarded the mason contract to
William Armstrong.
William Burrett, who ives formerly
conductor on the 5.15 train hes been
transferred to the Montclair- Hacketts-
town run. William Bailey succeeds Mr..
Burrett on the 5.15 train.
A meeting of the Board Of Trustees of
the South Street Presbyterian Church.
will be held at the residence of the
president, DR.. F. S. Bradford, 36 Maple
avenue nez6 Tuesday evening.
Officers of the First Presbyterian
Church have been elected es follows:
Henry Cory, tree esurer; and B. L. r.
Lanterman, clerk; DIR. Stephen Pierson,
j. VanDoren and James Clark trustees.
OF the seventy graduates at the Law
renceville Preparatory School, forty
seven will enter Princeton fourteen Yale,
three Cornell, three Williams, two, the
= University of Pennsylvania, and one
Harvard.
Loantaka Council, Royal Arcauum,
on Wednesday paid s8 GOO to the widow
of A. H. Tompkirs. Mr.. Tompkins has
been member Of the R. A. for seven
years. His death occurred about four
weeks ago.
James Elliott, who until recently was
night ticket agent at Montclair, has es-
sumed the duties of the osition vacated
by John A. Carr, at the Morristown
station. Mr.. Elliott was at one time
aosistant at the Morris Plains station.
William Emery, the veteran horseman,
was at the Bethlehem meet this tx.
On Tuesday he drove Dewitt Flarpigars
Little Bell" and Wcdno day ',Ivanoorf"
also owne1 by Mr.. Flanr'gan. Neither
horse Yves placed.
Street Commiarioner Me 5kell has ma
cadarized Spl'rg sire et from Morris to
Centre street, end he is now at work grad
ing Saunde4, H'll, which will then be
macads piZc1. Inc ealth i4om the cut
on the bill VIII h., RS. in filing Cole
avenue ard CDnter so-ee.s.
No damage was done in this vicinity
by the wind accompanying the shower
on Tuesday night. In some. lie light
ming set fire to several barr and tene-
ment house, while the heavy dow 1fall of
rain carsed a flood in some sectors of
the town.
William Amerman and Albe1 Ayers
finished two century 1urs within 24
hours last week. They le.t Brooklyn in
the N. Y. Journal len at 6 a. m. Friday
snd frished before 6 p. IN. A half hour
of the Century Ro2d Club, and fir i7hed
in good time. The actual i.di-g in both
runs were ali out 1S hours.
ThomGs Cesey, an employe 3 of Andrew
G. Phillip while in the run to Monroeon
Wedns day night had aside collision W ith
Eddie Bradley and Gus Tiger who were
Ii6ing tandem, resulting in a bad fall
for Casey, ss we'll as damaged ma
chine. The tandem riders were also
badly shaken up and bruised--a legitimate
and to be expect result of scorching.
On Wednesday evening the semi
annual election of chiefs of Mohusco-
wungie Tribe, No. 216, Improved Order
of Red Men, resulted in the choice of
the following: Sachem, Frank E. Pier
son; senior sycamore, Albert E. May;
Junior sycamore, John B. Place prophet,
Herbert G.. Rowell; trustee Lewis P.
Wilson.
AS result of the long draught lawns
in oh ~ 81
most ruined. About the only lawn in
town - e5cars destruction ;s that in
front of the Court Horse where Keeper
Orr has worked diligently TO bring about
this result. The Park f1 rsual has been
neglected until it has Ica m to look more
like be0s ball Ci"nord than gre
plot.
The Christian Fndeavor Society os the
the Congregational Chrrch of Nor J.
town held a Law / ,,vsl at Monrt
Wednesday everirg. The tip YVES made
in stages by many snd rot a few rode
wheels. Amorg thoge in attendan
were about forty members OF the AS
sociation Wheelmen. The event was
held on the lawn of John Hu'l's place
and about SIS wa3 netted.
Harry Baker, the colored man arrested
in MorlistoWa |; It week as fugitive
from jrstice, pleaded e,'lty to a charge
of larceny before judge yreeland on
Monday. Baker he'd bl IN indicted on
complaint of his mother. The couIt inn
posed a sentence of IS months N States
Prison.
AT s o'clock Monday evening, Margaret
Morrison, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Daniel Morn eon, was marie to Frank
]. Rodler by Father Genier. Mr.. and
Mrs. Re Her lett for Niagara Falls,
where they will spend their honeymoon.
Upon their return the newly married
couple Will reside at 1877 Speedwell ave.
Superintendent Russell, of the Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Company, has announced that the
new management is preparing plans for
the erection Of a new Office building on
the pier at the river end of the station at
Hoboken. The building in which the
offices are now situated is an old frame
structure. Many threats have been made
by the railroad officials in the last ten
years to tear it down, but nothing was
ever done, and very few repairs were
made.