The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-27
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W. G. T. IT, Of Morris County, will
be held in this city next Friday.
Hon. John B. vreeland will speak
at the convention of the Christian
Endeavor Society at Succasunna next
month.
The Morris County Board of Elec-
tion sat Thursday to add names to the
registry lists. 1t will sit again Satur-
day.
Secretary Lumbeck, of the Y. M. @.
A., was in attendance at the Northern
New Jersey Conference Of Secretaries
in Summit, Monday.
The first thunder storm of the season
broke over Morristown Monday
Heavy thunder was accompanied by
sharp flashes of lightning and an
abundance of rain.
The regular meeting of the Morris
County Branch of the State Charities
Aid Association will be held in the
X M. @. A. parlors on Wednesday,
May 2 at 80 p. m.
The State convention of the Women s
Christian Temperance Union. which
was to have been held in the Y NC.
A. Wednesday, has been postponed un-
til Friday, May A.
William Rickley. of Grant street,
who is employed in the Lackawanna
shops at Hoboken while running q
planer Monday, had three fingers of
his left hand cut off. G@
At a recent meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Dover Iron Company
in New York, Hon. Mahlon Pitney
was elected president of the company,
vice George Richards, deceased.
The next public school teachers ex-
animation will be held in Dover, on
Friday and Saturday, May and 5
and the County Teachers Association
will meet at the same place Saturday
May 26.
Robert Trowbridge, who was last
and came home for brief vacation,
returned again to Matanzas Saturday,
where he has secured position with
the United States Commissary De-
partment.
At the meeting of Mohuscowungie
Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men in
Morristown Tuesday evening, the
adoption degree was worked by a team
of pale faces of Hopicon Tribe from
Port Dram. Following the meeting
a collation. was served.
A residence 4Ox35 feet will be
erected by DR.. c. w. Cutler at the
corner of Speedwell avenue and Gut
Ter street to cost between six andsseven
thousand dollars. The contracts are
held by Robert Dalglish, W. H. Mess
lar and W. 7. Coghlan.
The ball tossers of the Morristown
School redeemed themselves Wednes-
day, when they defeated the Trinity
School Team of New York, in one
sided contest. The game thoroughout
proved to be a grand batting matinee,
the Morristown boys winning out by
a score of 90 to 8.
The annual "thank Offering which
is to be added to the Twentieth Gen.
fury Thank Offering of the New York
Branch of the W. f M. S., Metho-
dist Episcopal Church will be held
at the residence of Mrs. P M. Hall,
% Wetmore avenue, May II.
At recent meeting the following
gentlemen were elected directors of
the Morris County Insurance Com
pany; H. G. Emmell, J.H. VanDoren,
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Beach, G. W. Jenkins, J. R. Voor-
hees, G. W. Sickle, M. T. Welsh, g.
E. Voorhees,, E. A. Backer, j. e.
Parker and E. L. Cook, the latter to
succeed the late O. E. Noble.
Policeman Joseph Callahan is re-
ceiying congratulations from his fell
low officers over an important epoch
i'll his life which occurred Wednesday
morning in the Church of the Assump-
tion at s. 30 when he was united in
marriage to Miss Mary Madden;
After a brief honeymoon, Mr.. and
Mrs. Callahan returned and took up
their abode on Madison street.
The ball team of the Morristown
School played it's first game of the
season with the Hasbrouck Institute
nine, of Hoboken, Saturday and was
defeated by score of to /. The
Morristown boys made the first run in
the third inning. In the fifth the
visitors scored one and two in the
twirler was too much for the home
team hence the scarcity of hits ana
runs.
For some time past the bootblacks,
two in particular, have been acting
disorderly on the street. causing much
annoyance to the officers Although
reprimanded several times Parick
Russo and Antonio Gervassio paid
but little heed to Sergeant Morrison S
warnings, so to teach them a lesson,
he took them before Justice Cliff
Wednesday. He committed them to
Jail for day and imposed fine on
each.
Harry Mullen, (colored), who was
employed doing odd jobs in Brown s
drug store on Speedwell avenue, was
arrested in Newark Tuesday on a
charge of petty larceny preferred by
Mr.. Brown. Last week Mullen
borrowed his employers overcoat to
wear at cake walk. He failed to
put in appearance and Mr.. Brown
suspected that he went to Newark
In company with Sergeant Morrison,
Tuesday, he went to that city and
placed detectives on the case. When
walking down Broad street little
later, Morrison met his man and held
him while Brown went for police
man, who placed him under arrest.
Mullen was brought to Morristown and
furnished bail to await the action of
the Grand Jury.
A disgraceful scrap occurred in
Finegar's restaurant, questionable
resort on Morris street, Tuesday after
noon which necessitated action on
the part of Sergeant Morrison and