The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-08-23
LOCAL BREvITlES

The Courts of Morris County have
closed until September 9th.
The public schools of the city will
open Tuesday, September Sd.
Smith reunion and picnic near Pea
pack, Wednesday, the 2Sth inst.
D. Wolff and Co. have moved from
Washington street to 1902 Speedwell
avenue.
The Parkside A. G. will give an en-
tertainment and dance in Lippman Hall
on September 2.
Next Wednesday afternoon the locals
will meet the Orange A. z. on the Hos
pitaI diamond. This will probably be
the best game of the season.
Atno avenue and the one block re-
manning unpaved on Maple avenue are
receiving Street Commissioner Meskill's
attention at the present time.
About two hundred young people
from the First Church Sunday School
enjoyed an outing Wednesday at Glen
Alpin on Mt. Kemble avenue.
At the annual session of the P. o. S.
of A, held in Phillipsburg, the seventy
camps of the tate were represented.
The membership is 5000, while the sur
plus is s., 200.
On Tuesday night horse and buggy
belonging to James Doyle on james
street was stolen ftom his barn. The
rig was found later near Silver Lake,
Green Village.
The members of Martha Washington
Co-.A n will oiva an entertain
ment and dance on Thursday evening,
September 5, in their rooms in the
Schmidt building.
The Asbury Park annual baby parade
on Wednesday afternoon, was it Is said,
witnessed y rs, 900 people. The visitors
from Morristown were numerous. 600
babies participated.
Albert Howell, of Naughbright jumped
while riding a merry go-round at Coney
Island Monday and was so seriously in
iured died at the Presbyterian Hospital
in New York Wednesday,
A match for $500 a side between a
bay road mare owned by Morris Davis,
of Deckertown, and the sorrell mare
s'Richfield Belle owned by B. F. Ward
also of Deckertowp, has been arranged
for Monday next.
Dover seems a fine field for horse
thieves. On Tuesday evening horse
and wagon were stolen from Samuel A.
Cooper's barn, two from Mr.. Pruden,
and two buggies and a horse from
William I'll. Casterline.
At special session of Morris County
Court held Wednesday, Judge Vreeland
sentenced Cecilia Duckworth to be sent
to the State Industrial School for Girls
at Trenton. Sadie Hall, who was also
Dover girl, preceded her.
sit was bad enough to name Friday,
September 10, as Jersey day at Buffalo,
but now comes a prophet of Adventist
order, who says the world will come to
an end on that day. What are you
going to do about it p asks the Sussex
Register.
The Tennis Club of Mendham will
present on Saturday evening, August
81, the laughable comedy, 1.-The Deacon's
Tribulations," in Mendham township
hall. The cast is composed of bright
amateurs and the production promises
to be most amusing.
The Plainfield Driving Club shows an
interesting program of races for Labor
Day. They consist of three classes; viz
2.25 class trotting and pacing. purse
$3.50; 2 80 class, trotting and pacing,
purse, 500; $40, trotting and pacing,
purse, 800. Entries close August Goth.
A chemical engine has been added to
the Somerville fire department at a cost
of 81 ,976. 1t has two tanks with a
capacity of 70 gallons, and two streams
L. Exr+nr Ind
placed on one side, and door-opener.
crowbar, respirators, etc., on the other.
A fair-sised crowd attended the min
strel entertainment given by Culhane,
Chase & Weston's MINISTRIES in the Ly-
ceum last Monday night. The perform
ance, as a whole, was not extraordnar.
ly good, the absence of the St. Felix
sisters making big gap. The only ex-
poneutS of black face comedy who were
above the mediocre are James A. Bats
ley and the Miller brothers and they
managed to receive merited applause.
DR.. Clifford Mills, Louis LIE PROM
and Harvey Mills, caught 10 pounds of
pickerel and black bass at Denmark on
Saturday. 1t is said that new kind of
bait, the 'jug" variety was used. That
the party had great trip can be i'm
agined, when in addition to the above
fish, the members, severally and indi-
vidually are ready to make affidavit
that the catch included Is pound
muscalonge.
An interesting point was recently
raised in the police court at Atlantic
City when Lawyer w. Prescott William
son of Washington, d. c., commended
that the city authorities had no control
of bathers action over the riparian
line A. H. Hugh, visitor from the
capital, had been arrested by guard for
disorderly conduct on the beach, the
guard testifying that Mr.. Hugh had on
several occasions swan out beyond the
safety line and had to be ordered in
The court suspended sentence
The business men of Newton are very
much in earnest in their endeavor to Sc
cure the location of an automobile COM
pany in that town. The concern want
a subscription of $4,000 as an induce
ment for locating there. IL is said that
$50 skilled mechanics, in addition to
other labor. will be required. Sub
seriptions have already been made as
follows: Newton Gas q Electric Co.
$4,000 Hopkins & Williams Co., 81, 500;
S. H. Hopkins So 500; w. D. Ackerson,
$4,000; Hart & Tiff $4,000; R. f.
Goodman, 81, 900; W. F. Howell, $500;
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