The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-20


Court House has shed its winter coat
and Sheriff Baker has had it cleaned
and rolled.
George W. Green and John
Chapman conducted a meeting at
Dover in the Volunteers Headquarters
Sunday last.
An advertisement in another part
of the paper calls attention to a
Humber bicycle which can be bought
at bargain.
Lackawanna surveyors have staked
out the course of the double track
which is to be laid from Morristown
to Morris Plains
The meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Y. M. @. A., which was
postponed from last Friday night, will
be held this evening
The receiver sale of the Whippany
Paper Box Co.. which was to have
been held in the Court House Monday
has been adjourned for two weeks.
At a meeting of the Morristown
Memorial Association held at the resi-
dence Of DR.. Pierson, Col. Dobbins
was elected president Paul Re-
we're treasurer and DR.. Pierson secre-
tary.
Rev. W. M. Hughes was unable to
officiate at the services in the Church
of the Redeemer last Sunday. Rev.
DR.. Guilym, of New York, who con-
Quoted the services will also officiate
next Sunday.
Loantaka Council, Royal Arcanum,
held Spelling Bee Tuesday evening.
David FL. Rodney and John K Boni-
face tied for last honors, but eventual
ly Mr.. Boniface won out, thus win
ming the prize, fine Arcanum badge.
Volney Gushing, the scholarly ora
tor from Maine, will speak under the
auspices of the O. e. Society in the
Baptist Church Wednesday evening,
April Goth, at 7.45, subj ect, "The
Dissertation of the Temple admis-
sion free-collection.
Mrs. M. E. Dennison, of Richmond,
Indiana, passed away on Monday the
18th. Mrs. Dennison was the eldest
child of. the late John f. Voorhees,
and sister of George E. and James
R. Voorhees, of this city. She was rs
years old.
Harry Nichols, of Water street, who
was a number of years employed as
fireman on Conductor Abram Aver S
train, which struck and killed Stephen
Lawrence at Sneeden's crossing, has
been suspended. Nichols was afflicted
with deafness and to this is attributed
the cause of his suspension.
Captain and Mrs. Williams of the
American Volunteers, formerly sta
toned at Milburn, have been assigned
to the charge of the Morristown Post.
Captain and Mrs. Williams were mar
ried in Milburn Monday night by Col
j. j. Keppel, of the Volunteers.
Policeman Joseph B. Callahan has
decided to join the army of benedicts
next Wednesday when he will be
united in marriage to Miss Mary Mad
den, of Morris street. The ceremony
will be performed in the Church of
the Assumption in the morning at
8. 30.
Alderman Donnelly, who for many
years past has been in the employ of
the N. Y. & N. J. Telephone Co.,
and well known in this city, is re-
ceiving numerous congratulations
upon the result of his campaign in
the Fifth Ward, Newark, as his ma
jority was about 600, something
phenomenal in that ward for Demo
cratic candidate.
The Morristown School base ball
team this season is composed of the
following players: Deem, catcher
Mackenzie, pitcher; Taintor, first
base; Kobbe, captain and second base
Chace, shortstop; Weekes, third base
Morris, left field; Knapp, center field /;
Behr, right field Shepard, substitute
Next Wednesday the team will play
the Trinity Club of New York
1t is the intention if the weather
permits, to open the tennis courts at
the Morristown Field Club Saturday.
The courts have been rolled and
placed in excellent condition. The
ball ground has been put in proper
condition. This year the right fielder
will have an easier time in covering
that quarter as the workmen are at
present engaged in filling it in with
dirt, thus bringing it more on a level
with the rest of the field.
Tue annual election of officers of
st. Peters Church Monday evening
resulted as follows: wardens, Alfred
Mills, Henry W. Miller; vestrymen,
John d. Guerin, George B. Raymond,
R. FL. Thomas, Edward L. Nichols,
W. Allston Flagg, Eugene A. Carroll,
Hobart Garfield w G. Van T. SUIT
phen delegates to Diocesan Conven-
ton, Alfred Mills, Henry W. Miller,
Edward Q. Keasbey; alternates, Hen
ry K. Morgan, Chas #. Axtell, Clay
ton Platt
Clayton Chew. of this city, who
represents an extensive wholesale
lumber concern, narrowly escaped
what might have been serious ac-
cident in the yards of the Runyon
Lumber Co., Plainfield 1t appears
that two members of the concern
preceded him down pair of steps
leading from a high shed, which
broke down just as he was about to
place his foot on the upper step. The
stringers gave way throwing the men
TO the ground. Consequently one has
since died, the result of shock and
internal injury and the other is criti-
cally i'll.
Because of the union service to be
held in the First Presbyterian Church
at four O'Clock on Sunday afternoon
in the interests of evangelistic work
in France, the evening service in the
South Street Church will be omitted.
Rev, r. B. Rossiter, D. D., of New
York City, will also occupy DR., Erd-
mans pulpit in the morning The
managers of the Morristown McAll