The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-05-19
LOCAL BREvITIES
Interesting Bits of News Gathered from
Various Sources.

i6tlC5 at DdS6 DAIl by score OF 10 TO D.
The debris has been cleared away from
the scene Of the Reed fire on South street
and the lot has been enclosed by a new
board fence.
Commissioner Thomas H. Meskill had
a large force of men employed in clear
ing up and generally improving the
streets during the past week.
A strawberry festival is to be held in
the First Presbyterian Chapel next Tues
day evening under the auspices of the
Christian Endeavor Society.
A barrel Of goods valued at SIG was
recently sent the Deaconess' Home at
Jersey City by the Epworth League of
the local Methodist Church,
The Morristown Field Club base ball
team fell easy victims to the Yale Fresh
mems superior aggregation on Saturday
last, the score being Is to 2.
The Juniors of the First Presbyterian
Church will have an outing to: morrow
afternoon when they will go to Parsip-
pany in carriages. Mrs. Charles Carlson
will have charge of the party.
G.. Fl. Randolph who lost considerable
by the Folly" fire has leased shop at
No. 70 Speedwell avenue, where as ad-
vertised he is prepared to do all kinds
of chair Gaming promptly at low prices.
A meeting of special interest was held
by the Loantaka Council, Royal Arcan-
um on Tuesday evening. Rev. George
p. Noble of Mendham was initiated into
the mysteries of the order and Rev. Mr..
Zabriskie of Bernardsville made an ad-
dress.
An additional passenger train, running
CD "a Id -. fLa Ao1~
day. 1t leaves Morristown at s 80 max
ing the intermediate stops to Summit,
from which place it is run as an express
to Newark only, reaching that station
at 9. IS.
This week witnesses the first appear
ance of the sprinkler on Madison avenue.
This beautiful drive is to be sprinkled
during the summer from Morristown to
Madison. The water will be supplied
by j. d. Garfield and the Morris County
Golf Club and Madison avenue residents
will pay for the sprinkling.
Mrs. T. P. Frost, Mrs. Barkolew and
Mrs W. F. Day of Morristown were ap-
pointed committee by the Conference
Board of the Woman's Home Missionary
Society of the Newark Conference to
look for site for the deaconess work in
Newark and II Vesey street has been
chosen as the place.
Charles S. Douglas has been promoted
to the United States Deputy Collector
ship for the counties of Morris and
Sussex which hereafter will be known
as the seventh district. Revenue In
Inspectors who have been looking over
the district speak in the highest terms of
the work done by Deputy Douglas.
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Pharmaceutical Association will be held
at Atlantic City on Wednesday and
Thursday of next week. Druggist w.
T. Brown of Morristown and Madison is
President of the Association which is
doing excellent work throughout the
state In addition to the President
Henry M. Smith will represent Norris
town.
The annual meeting of the Teachers
Association of Morris county will be held
at Dover tomorrow. The morning
session will convene at $50, the after
noon at 80. An attractive program
has been prepared in which those who
are to participate are prominent in
educational affairs. Miss Clara Brown
of this city is on the committee on
nominations.
A second member of the Skinner
family of Chester has given his life in
the service of his country. Louis was a
member of the Seventy First New York
Volunteers and was killed in the battle
of San Juan, Cuba on July /. 1885,
Word was received recently of a similar
fate Detailing his brother William K.
Skinner who was killed in action near
Manila The latter was member of
the Fourth California Volunteers.
Workmen in the employ of J. Crane
set fire on Tuesday morning to the debris
of the Folly building. The flames soon
got beyond control and the house next
door was in danger Resolute Trucks
Supply wagon and Independent Hose
Company's apparatus were at the blaze
but Washington's carriage arrived later
and with plug stream extinguished the
blaze.
A special patriotic meeting, under the
auspices of the Morristown Local Chris
tian Endeavor Union, which now in
cludes eighteen societies in town and
vicinity, is being arranged for May goth,
the evening before Memorial Day.
Addresses will be made by Rev Chas.
HI. Jones, chaplain of Second N. j. Vols
in war with Spain and by Rev. E. Clarke
Cline, chaplain of Eleventh N. j. Vols.
in Civil War; also other patriotic exer-
cises.
Messrs. George Green & Son probably
furnish more awnings than any concern
Z in Northern New Jersey. Long expert
ence, good material and promptness
is evidently appreciated by the public.
The awnings at the Market Street Mis-
sion have just been finished, and in ad
dition numerous orders are under way
for business firms, and individuals in
Morristown and elsewhere throughout
the county. Messrs. Green & Son adver-
tise elsewhere an attractive line of flags,
tents, trunks and seasonable articles.
If interested in the use of gas appli-
ances for cooking and heating, a call at
the office of the Morristown Gas Co.,
Savings Bank building will be ad-
vantageous.
Governor Roosevelt has signed the
bill which stamps out six-day races.
The bill forbids any man from riding
more than 10 hours out of "a, after
having ridden "a hours, thus making a
SO hour-race the longest kind practicable.
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