The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-23
LOCAL BREvITlES.
Interesting Bits of News Gathered from
various Sources

DIR. v. d. Rood has had a telephone
located in his Office. The number is
38Sa.
Sheriff Baker will draw the jurors
for the May term of court on April
first
Contractor Malley has about two
thirds of the plastering at the new
almshouse finished,
The Fire Committee is having the
roof of the engine house on Speed
we'll avenue repaired this week.
The holding of the Sutton inquest
at Netcong has again been postponed
by Prosecutor Mills until next Thurs
day.
At the meeting of Phoenix Camp,
Grand Fraternity Monday night, two
members were initiated and three
were elected.
The basket ball game between the
team from the Morristown Y. M. O..
A. and Summit has been postponed
for two weeks.
Friday night kerosene lamp ex-
ploded in the residence of Sidney
Grove on Atno avenue. The flames
were subdued before serious damage
resulted.
This Friday afternoon, Miss S. O..
Very will give the fourth of her mus
ical lectures at the home of Mrs.
Frank Marsh. The topic will be
London.
William Hammel, of Washington,
d. c., has succeeded Fl. Skellenger as
assistant superintendent of the local
branch of the Prudential Insurance
Company.
In ST. Peter S Church next Wednes-
day evening, Rev. Henry G. Swent-
eel will deliver the fifth of his Lenten
lectures. His subject will be ''The
Forgiveness of Sins. y
The fourth in the series of Mrs
Coles parlor readings will be given
at the home of Mrs William Watts
next Tuesday afternoon. The topic
will be "'Women as Humorists .
Presiding Elder of the New Haven
District, Rev. J. E. Adams who was
former pastor of the Methodist
Church of this city, occupied the pull
pit in that church Sunday evening.
The annual meeting and election
of officers of the Junior department
of the Y. M. c. A., was held Satur-
day evening The officers elected were
Henry Carroll, president; W. w. Out
Tiger, secretary and Leroy Haven,
treasurer
The italian colony in Flagler street
was the scene of disturbance Friday
when two of its inhabitants, Gabriel
Pignone and Michael Charalli became
involved in dispute. The former
got the best of the argument and
Charalli caused the arrest of his adj
versary on charge of assault and
battery. Pignone furnished his
Jury
Five children, four boys and one
girlsmade their advent in Mendham
last Thursday night. Two boys ar
rived at the home of Mrs. j. w. Gar
rabrant; little later the home of the
formers sister, Mrs. Charles Free
man was occupied by pair of boys
and still later little girl was num-
bered among the household of Mrs
Fred Guerin. another sister.
The announcement to his relatives
Jewet, U. S. N. had died in San
Francisco from an operation for ap-
pendicitis, was found to have been in
correct. Later dispatches confirm
the death as that of his nine-year-
old son, who succumbed to the opera
ton. The parents, who are we'll known
hereabouts, have the sympathy of the
community.
Chief of Police Holloway last week
received letter and two papers pub
lished at Manila, from his nephew,
Frank Holloway, who is member of
the Fourth U. S. Infantry, stationed
at Ismus, Philippine Islands. In his
letter, Holloway stated that his regi-
ment is brigaded with the Twenty
eighth Infantry and he has met Benja-
min Sayre. Victor Brown and Joseph
Corosa. three Morristown boys who
belong to that regiment He reports
all in good health. Holloway was by
the side of George Cook, when the
latter was shot in the forehead.
The local corps of mail carriers
have ordered new uniforms, which
they will don with the arrival of
spring. The use of stripes on the
carriers coats to denote the length of
service on the new uniforms will
be abolished and as a substitute, stars
will be worn on the sleeves as follows /:
five years, one black star; ten years,
two stars; fifteen years, one red star
twenty years, two red stars; twenty
five years, one silver star; thirty
years, two silver stars; thirty five
years, one gold star; forty years, two
gold stars. Among the local carriers
who will be entitled to wear one
black star. showing five years of SER
vice will be Messrs. Hutchings,
Beach, DeGroot, Pierson and Ambrose.
The substitute carriers will be desig-
mated by black bar on the sleeve of
the coat.
The will of the late John Capstick,
of Montville, was this week entered
for probate at the Office of Surrogate
Young. 1t provides that the funds
derived from fraternal societies be
divided equally among his four Gill
dren. j. H. Capstick, Thomas Cap
stick, Mrs. Mary Stafford and Eliza
beth Capstick or their heirs To his
daughter, Mrs. Mary Stafford, of
Lawrence, Mass, he leaves, all his
shares in the Boonton Building and
Loan Association and one-half of the
moneys in savings institutions and
one-half of mortgages, railroad and
other bonds, and to his daughter
Elizabeth, the remaining half of same.
The rest of his entire estate he leaves