The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-30
LOCAL BREW1lEs.
Interesting BITS OF News Gathered from
Various sources

Hotel property at Kenyil to Mrs.
Mary Willet, of Somerville
Fred and Harry Hays have formed
partnership and will carry on a
general carpentering business
Prof. Schmidt will give an organ
recital in the First Presbyterian
Church next Wednesday evening.
The W. v. v. Lidgerwood building on
South street will be enlarged by the
erection of an addition 1920 feet.
Plans have been drawn for a
residence to be erected on Mt
Kemble avenue for James Purdy.
]. P. Salmon expects to erect a
three story brick building on Morris
street, on the P. A. Welsh property
The regular meetings of Independent
Hose Company and Humane Engine
Company will be held Monday even
ing.
Sherman s. Rogers, father of Mrs.
Chas. H. McVeagh, of this city, died
at Santa Barbara, CAL, Friday after
noon.
The Lyceum will be re-opened to
the public next Tuesday evening,
with Germans Ministries as the at
traction.
The thirty third commencement
exercises of Drew Theological Semi
nary at Madison, will be held Thurs
day April 26.
In changing their address, this
spring, it is desirable that our sub
scribers notify us, giving both old
and new addresses.
Miss Lucy Shaw has changed the
location of her school from the Parker
Building to the Blachley House on
South street
On complaint of his brother Peter,
Saturday night Charles Kahn was
arrested for disorderly conduct and
fined So and costs by Justice Cliff.
On April second, the basket ball
team of the Summit Y M GA. will
contest in game with a team from
the Morristown Y. M. G. A.
The last service in the Congrega-
tional Church will be held next Sun
day. Rev. VIM Kershaw and
family expect to remove to Brooklyn.
This afternoon, Miss S. G. Very
will give the last of her illus
trated musical lectures at Mrs.
March's. Her subject will be New
Y ork -
Next Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. COLES
will give the fifth of her parlor read
.ings at the home of the Misses Mills
on Macculloch avenue. The subject
will be Current Topics .
Mrs. Lillian Nixon, of this city,
has been served with papers for q
divorce by her husband through his
attorney, Chas. Stilwell, Jr. The
hearing will be held April II.
Counsellor Charles Axtell, as
receiver for the defunct Folding Paper
Box Company, of Whippany, will
settle the affairs of that company
at a receivers sale April Is.
In Dover last week the voters at a
school meeting elected new Board
of Education, ON which are all the
members who compose the Board of
Excise Commissioners.
A Morristown youth on Friday went
into Little's baker shop Speedwell
avenue and stole change amounting
to 81. 80 from the cash drawer. Little
notified the police, but later failed
10 make a charge.
At the meeting of the Board of
Health Friday night only routine
business was transacted which call
ed for the payment of several bills
Another meeting of the Board will
be held this evening.
Tuesday evening game of dupli-
cate whist was played in the rooms of
the Tapkaow club between @. Franklin
Wilson and J. Fred Runyon against DR..
F. W. Flagge and Bert Mott, the lat
ter two of Rockaway. Twenty boards
were played each team winning twelve
points.
A wreck that required nine hours to
clear up, occurred on the Whippany
River Railroad, near the sand pit
Monday noon. One of the cars in
the train jumped the track, throwing
four others down q steep enbank-
ment A wrecking crew from the
Dover car shops cleared the demo-
lished box cars away.
The Missionary Society of the Sun
day School of the South Street Pres
byterian Church held it's annual meet
ing Sunday afternoon and elected the
following officers to serve during the
OnSu1uS year GT0Slu6uJ hOD6TU
Carter; vice president, Joseph Ran
dolph; treasurer, A. w. Bell; record
ing secretary, Howard milford cores
pondiug secretary, home missions,
John 1'almadge; corresponding secre-
tary, foreign missions. Joseph Witt
mann. Executive committee-Mr
Albert Erdmans Mrs. L. o. Stiles,
Miss E. @. White, Mrs. w. L. r. Ha-
ven, Mrs H. B. Hoffman. Follow
ing the election Paul Erdman gave
an interesting and instructive address
on Corea.
Mr.. w. r. Moody, who has in his
possession all of his fathers papers,
and is preparing a very complete life
of the great preacher, has consented
to write especially for The Saturday
Evening Post series of anecdotal
papers on his fathers life and work,
profusely illustrated with hitherto
unpublished photographs. The first
of these papers entitled Moody as Boy
and Business Man, will appear in the
April number of The Saturday Even
ing Post.
George Tyson. of Ridgedale avenue,
and Mrs. Martin of Chestnut street,
have been notified of the death of an
uncle, James Tyson, in Australia,
whose entire estate valued in the
millions, has been left in the hands of
Wilson, Lawrence g. Wilson an Aus
tralian law firm, for settlement with