The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
LOCAL BREvITIES

building is nearing the second story.
Governor Voorhees, has disbanded
Company L. of the National Guard of
Newton
Robert Leek who has been suffering
some time from an abcess on his right
hand is improving rapidly.
The Y. M. Q. Wheelmen will make
run to Mt Tabor this evening. All
members of the club are invited.
The twelfth session of the state
grand lodge of the Sons of st. George
meets in Atlantic City today and
tomorrow.
| The Morristown library will be
closed Cor cleaning two weeks com
mencing August ~. All books are to
be returned by Saturday, August %.
Alfred Baker of Belleville was SEN
fenced to three years Imprisonment by
Judge Vreeland Wednesday. Baker
was convicted of being a receiver of
stolen property.
Postmaster Fennell came near
losing a finger in the stamping ma
chine ESQ he says.) How about the
electric fan? Is it as dangerous to
monkey with as the proverbial buzz
saw?
At the regular meeting of Torbet
| Post, G. A. R., Past Commander E,
A. Doty was elected to fill the unex-
pired term of the late William Becker
who was quarte1master at the time of
his death.
Easton Horsemen have made ap-
plication for charter of incorpora-
ton for the Gentlemen's Driving
Park Association, > the purpose of the
organization being to build club
house, race track and driving park.
An estimate for building the new
tower of ST. Peters church has been
presented by Sturgis Brothers, the
well-known contractors Of this city.
Official action thereon will await the
fall meeting of St. Peters vestry.
Judge Vreeland, sitting in Special
Sessions Wednesday listened to the
testimony in the case of the Hibernia
rioters. The prisoners Peter Kolchos,
John Kalich and Joseph Ostroski
were found guilty of melting riot and
were sentenced to two years imprison-
ment each.
South Jersey farmers are elated
over the reported failure of the water
melon crop of the south. The Jersey
crop will be a good one, although a
little late, and the South inability
to food the Northern markets means
much to the Northern grower. The
cantaloupe yield will also be heavy.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of the Ninth New Jersey Veteran
Volunteers will be held at Easton,
Pa, Wednesday, September 10, on
which occasion handsome granite
monument to the memory of Briga-
dier General Charles A. Hickman,
second Colonel of the Ninth will
be unveiled with appropriate cere-
monies.
There is a rumor that Kittatinny
Hose will in the near future give a
regular Rhode Island clam bake with
in the town limits, at which time the
all-pervading appetite of Sussex
people for CLANS chicken, bluefish,
potatoes, sweet corn, etc., will be given
opportunity to swamp itself Newton
Register.
Torbet Post cleared the handsome
sum of 1896. So by their recent excur-
sion to Rockaway Beach. The COM
mittee wish to thank the public for
it's generous support and the comrades
who devoted so much time to the
sale of tickets. Past Commander Major
Dalrymple was the champion in this
respect, his sales reaching $117.
Architect Poole, under whose direc-
ton the improvements at the State
House are being made, reports that
the boiler house is completed and that
the fire proofng and steel beams for
the administration building are in
shape for the rush work which will
now commence, as all the contracts
have been awarded.
The storm in Morristown on Sunday
was less severe than elsewhere about
the state and in New York City.
Electricity played some queer pranks
in Paterson, such as setting trolley
cars on fire and generally disturbing
the city. The gale which proceeded
the rain travelled at the rate of seventy
two miles an hour, the weather bureau
states.
Our police have very properly stop
ped Sunday base ball playing in the
city. 1t is now up to the township
authorities of Morris township. A
game has been carried ON ON Ridge
dale avenue just outside Of the city
limits all summer. The attendance, we
are informed on good authority,
sometimes numbers nearly one thou
sand persons. Public attention has
been called to the matter by the visit
of the gospel wagon to the game on a
recent Sunday