The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-10-18
The business of Babbitt & Bay will be
continued by L. Dayton Babbitt.

continued by l.. Dayton Babbitt.
A number Of the young ladies of the
town are forming a class in physical
culture.
| On Monday night thieves broke into
the barn of Harvey Sickle at Boonton
and made off with horse, wagon and
several blankets.
| The Morristown School football team
play the Leal School of Plainfield to
morrow afternoon at o'clock on the
formers grounds.
The enrolment in the public schools
OF Morristown on October / was about
1900 The increased number of scholars
requires an additional room each year.
E. j. Bowen and a party of hunters
expect to spend the first week of Novem-
Der in Pennsylvania, where their head
quarters will be at Greedy, Pike County
The Daughters of America concluded
their annual session yesterday morning.
The first Tuesday in October, 1902, was
named as the date for the next state
convention.
The SQUASH court of the Morristown
Club has been reopened for the winter
and many of the members are practicing
daily for a tournament which will be
arranged later.
The new docks of the Lackawanna
Railroad Company in Jersey City are
about completed at cost of 50 5000, 900.
The length is over 1900 feet while the
dockage is $4,000 feet
Boniface the market man is receiving
daily, smelts, blue fish, sea bass, hall
but, choice oysters and CLANS, In ad
dition he has full line of game in
season, including woodcock, snipe,
SQUAD and duck.
The Young Mems Catholic Association,
the Knights of Columbus and the Catho-
lie Benevolent Legion will enjoy tar
get excursion to Newton Thursday, the
gath inst. They will be accompanied
by Voss' band of Newark.
At the annual inspection of the Nor
ristown Fire Department on October 9,
the fast records made last year were
eclipsed, proving that there are few, if
any, volunteer fire departments that
excel it in efficiency, and none in esprit
de corps. Sussex Register.
The first victim of the foot ball sea-
son of 1901 is bright young man nam
ed Edwin Longenecker, of Philadel
phia. He was thrown in a practice
game, and his neck was broken. Moth
ing more serious than dislocated jaw
has been reported in Morristown.
John Reed of Port Dram who has
been confined in the county Jail for try
ing to burn his house in which his wife
and children were sleeping cut his
throat from ear to ear Saturday after
noon. Reed secured the razor from
another prisoner who had been shaving
few minutes before.
The Lackawanna Railroad offers a
special rate of So good to Buffalo and
return from any station east of Moscow,
Pa, good going on October IS, 25 and
3d. These tickets are good going on the
day of sale, and are limited to three
days. They will not be received on
Pullman cars nor on trains and 6.
The annual inspection of the Newton
Fire Department will be held tomorrow
program will recognize the work of
some of the ''old timers" in the an
nouncement that the sDarktown Brass
Darktown Fire Brigale" with all neceg-
of the inspection.
The following officers were elected at
the reunion of the 9th Regiment N. J.
Volunteers held in Dover last week.
President, Charles j. Baxter; first vice.
president, O. A. Crissey; second vice.
president, Thomas Oliver; recording
secretary, Jonn A. Lyon financial Sec
rotary, Henry Salmon; treasurer. f. V.
Wolfe; chaplin, Rev. W. Fl. Mccormick.
Colonel Mindil was made honorary
president.
New Jersey received the only gold
medal awarded at the Pan American
for school exhibits. R. K. Jenkinson,
president of the New Jersey commits
sion at Buffalo, on Wednesday received
a telegam from the superintendent of
the department of education there, con-
veying the good news that the exhibit
from New Jersey had been declared by
competent critics to have been the best
of all State exhibitions.
Louis zimmerman of this city was
arrested Saturday charged by DIR. q. l..
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found later that zimmerman was short
in his accounts with the Morristown
Separate Company, of which he was
treasurer, and with the Colonial Insur-
ance Company, for which he had been
working for some time. On Wednesday
he entered plea of not guilty and was
released pending trial, under $500 bond.