The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-07-13

Meetings nightly st the Market
Street mission.
/ volume twenty four Of the Chronicle
ends with this issue.
The daily thunder storm put in an
appearance yesterday.
| The Knights Of Columbus have an
excursion to Glen Island July a.
Morris Lodge, I. o. o. f., will
have big excursion to Coney Island,
July 25.
H. b.. Prentice, cf Monmouth
Beach, was fined % for riding on the
sidewalk, Morris avenue, Tuesday
Awnings now make covered walk
lon Washington street from the
Chronicle Office to Andrews drug
store
Babbitt is running free bus line
from his old stand to the new store
on South street. Mr.. Babbitt is a
hustler.
Leon Stern, dealer in oriental ware
and tapestries. has rented the second
floor of the Babbitt building until
September /.
Carl vogt, while fishing at Hopat-
cong, Wednesday, caught seven fine
bass, the largest of which weighed
four pounds.
The barn of Daniel Burns, on the
Green Village road, was struck by
lightning last Friday and burned to
the ground.
During the heavy thunderstorm
last Friday many houses In Norris
town were struck, but no serious
damage was done.
The officials of the Trowbridge ten
mile road race will meet tonigh to
decide whether Louis Richman won
the race on the Fourth
J. & 9. Kahn, No. 20 Speedwell
avenue, advertise elsewhere big
drives in furniture at prices 25 per
cent lower than elsewhere.
The library at the Jail has been re-
plenished and catalogued, and now
contains 100 volumes, presented by
well-known Morristown people.
A gospel wagon meeting will be
held on Mt. Kemble avenue at the
corner of the New Vernon road just
beyond the brickyard Sunday at 4,2O
p. m.
Members of Humane Engine Com
pany have sent large trunk of
wearing apparel, books, periodicals,
ETC., to the Morristown soldiers now
in Manila.
Miss Gladys Muchmore, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Muchmore, Of Wet
more avenue, entertained many of her
friends Tuesday afternoon at a lawn
party, the occasion being her seventh
birthday.
1t might be just as well for people
in this vicinity to bear in mind that
fraud has been engaged for some
time past in Plainfield and elsewhere
securing subscriptions for the Ledger
Monthly.
The members of Torbet Post, G. A.
R. will have an excursion to Rock
away Beach, July IS. The proceeds
of the excursion will go to the relief
fund for sick and disabled soldiers of
the civil war.
Rev. James NJ. Buckley, d. D., of
this city, has paper in the cur
rent number Of Century on How to
Safe guard Ones Sanity" DR.. Buck
ley is a member of the Board of Man
ayers of the Morris Plains Hospital.
The Board of Managers of the State
Hospital at Morris Plains has awarded
contracts to A. ]. Simpson, of
Newark, the Storms Manufacturing
Company of New York and J. A.
Roebling g. Sons for improvements
throughout the building to cost
$l2, OOO
The following members of the Y M.
@. A. are camping at Greenpond /:
Frederick Beach, W. S. Halliday. A.
w. Lunbeck, Edward Lacey, Stephen
Grifiths, Raymond Shelley, Claude
Armstrong, and David Burr. Frank
Allen is taking Mr. Lubbock place as
secretary of the Y. M. GA. while the
former is away.
q Manager Madigan, of the Western
Union Telegraph Co., reports that
business is somewhat in excess of
last year Perry Ostrom. manager OF
the Postal Telegraph and Gable Co.,
also reports an increase of business as
compared with last season, The adj
vent of summer guests in Morristown
adds greatly to the business of both
telegraph and telephone companies.
The Rockaway Valley Railroad Co.
has corps of engineers at work be
tween White House and Gladstone,
grading and relaying track Another
corps is working on the terminals ad-
joining the Lackawanna railroad at
Speedwell Lake. The road along the
side of Speedwell Lake is being built,
a pile driver being used for driving
the foundation bridge piles. Another
corps is working from Little Falls
towards Morristown.