The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-08-08

a new lJOG
The double track to Morris Plains
will be completed the first of next
week.
A ping pong table has been pur-
chased by Independent Hose Com
pany.
The Board of Chosen Freeholders
meet in Freeholders Hall next We'd
nesday.
George E. VOORHEES, conducted the
Sunday evening.
Steps are being taken to organize a
Booklovers circle, and a goodly
number will join.
Katy-dids were heard Monday even
ing. According to the old prophecy
frost is but six week off.
The regular meeting of the W. Q.
T. U. will be held in the Y. M, @.
A. building next Tuesday.
District Attorney William T.
Jerome, of New York was recent
guest at the Somerset Inn.
ConstableSPierson who was recently
critically i'll at the Memorial Hospl-
tai is again able to be about.
The contract for the concrete work
on the South side of the green has
been awarded to Schuyler, of Newark.
Four thousand excursionists were
at Cranberry Lake on Sunday. About
8, 500 has been the average number
during the summer.
The MorristoWn Library will close
for a thorough cleaning August IS,
1902. All books must be returned on
or before August 16, 1909.
The proposed new lodge Of I. o.
o. T. at Bernardsville will be proper
" instituted there on Tuesday August
10. Over fifty members have Joined
the body.
A new driveway running from the
lower part of the Miller road to Rob-
ert D. Foote'S farm is being built.
This entrance will be more accessible
than the James street gate.
Rev. NJ Matthieson, of Scorro,
New Mexico, will speak from the
gospel wagon, on Park Place on Sun
day at 415 p. m.. and in the Market
Street Mission at 7.30 p. m.
The prize list of the Morristown
Field Club Horse Show which will be
held at the Driving Park October 8,
8, 10 and II is being prepared and
will soon be ready for distribution.
The invitation team of Loantaha
Council, Royal Arcanum, went to
Rookaway last evening where several
APPLICANTS to the council of that place
were obliged to walk the "hot
sands. -
The cost of the family ticket issued
to A. r. Whitney by the Lackawan-
ma for his summer tour was about
81, 400 Last year when the trip en-
braced the far west the ticket cost
over 50, 200.
The Morristown Field Clubs next
game in the East Jersey Golf
League schedule will take place Sep
TENDER 6 when the Colonia Club of
Railway will try for honors on the
local links.
Mounted Patrolman Osborne is now
seen upon the street seated upon a
handsome brown mare. Jim" saws
the horse is a speeder and that It will
take a lively scorcher to get away
from him now.
The Mount Tabor Field Club and
the Rockaway A. A. will clash on
the former S diamond tomorrow after
noon. The game is the final of a
series of three of which each team
has captured one.
Henry Warren, who has been for
many years with the Union Pacific
Tea Co., has secured position as
travelling salesman for wholesale
tea house in st. Paul, Mimi, he
leaves for that city on Monday morn
ing.
Grass or Upland plover dove may
be shot during the months of August
and September. The season for shoot
ing reedbird, gray, English or Will
son snipe opens Monday, August 25
and the season for shooting railbird,
marsh hen or mud hen opens Septem-
Der 1st.
The Mount Tabor Camp meeting
(proper) commences tomorrow even
ing The meeting of Tuesday which
was the first of the series was de-
voted to the Woman's Christian
Temnerauoe Union and on Wednes-
day The Women s Foreign Missionary
Society was in session.
The reports fnal Of Princeton Col
lege for the last year based on May
and June examinations show that
about fifty students will be dropped
from their respective classes The
majority of the students sent back are
among the leading base, and foot ball
players and athletes in general.
Tonight at Mt. Tabor will be cele-
brated the auniversa1 OF the Ep-
worth League. The oratorio 1.-The
Holy City will be rendered by the
Mount Tabor Festival Chorus COM
posed OF seventy-fve voices. a
special train will leave the camp
glound for New York and intermedi-
ate stations at 10. 40.
On Friday evening many members
of the Christian Endeavor Society
of the First Presbyterian Church as
sembled at the residence of Miss May
Toms on Atno avenue, where a
pleasant social hour was spent.
Croquet aud other games were played
upon the lawn after which refresh
ments were passed.
There has been rapid increase IN
the sale of "foreign" tickets at the
LackaWanna station in Morristown-
the direct result of the judicious ad-
vertising of a good thing. The in.
crease thus far this year amounts to
over 81, 600. The net receipts of the
Morristown ticket office for July
were about SIS, 900, a substantial
gain over previous years.
During one of the heavy showers
recently in this locality lightning
struck the office of the Morris County
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