The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-08-22
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LOCAL BREVITIEs

The fall term of the Morristown
Business College will open September
and, 1902. E. G. DIR, Princial.
Among the local horses entered in
the race meet at Hackettstown next
Tuesday is S. Mitchell's Lance
wood. "
ILL.,, will preach in the First Presby-
p. M, on Sunday.
A weather prophet predicts the
warmest weather of the season in
September. But then cool weather
will not be far off.
Rev. J. Il. Riggs, D. D., will preach
at both the morning and evening SER
vice in the South Street Presbyterian
Church on Sunday.
The Mt. Tabor Camp Meeting close
with appropriate services Monday
morning. The series of meetings this
year have been unusually successful
and well attended.
Beginning September 1st meetings
of the A. A. Torbert Post, G. A. r.
will be held once every week. Dur
ing the summer, the members have
gathered together but once every
month.
The union open air meeting of the
Y. P. S. @. E. will be held on the
lawn OF the A. M. e. Church, Spring
street. on Sunday evening at G. 3d. II
stormy the meeting be Will IN the
church.
Hereafter persons summoned on
U. S. grand or petit juries will re-
ceive So per day for their services.
The rate heretofore has been So per
day but the increase was authorized
by the last Congress.
The annual meeting for the cleo
ton of officers of the Woman S Chris
tian Temperance Union will be held
in their rooms at Y. M. 9. A. Tues
day, September End, at 3 p. M. A full
attendance is desired.
Chas. Egarson, of Phillipsburg, a
fireman on the engine drawing train
No. 1856 and due here g. SO, Sundays
only was killed Sunday Egarson
struck against a bridge which he fail
ed to see just this side of Summit.
The secret of successful canning
lies in having the fruit in perfect
condition-fresh and not too ripe
in quick handling and entire exclusion
of air from cans. Fruit that is
boiled quickly retains the flavor and
color best.
The employees Of the local tele-
phone Co., played ball ga me on the
Field Club diamond Saturday.
against a team from the Newark
Telephone Go. But five innings were
played Morristown scoring n runs
against the visitors one.
All the bodies washed away from
Hillside Cemetery, at Madison, by
the flood.recently, have been recovered
and reburied, and terrible traces of
horror effaced with the exception of
the chasm or channel made by the
torrent of water through the cen e.
terry.
The scheme to charge for carrying
baby carriages on baggage cars is
general with all the railroads, and
the Lehigh Valley, New Jersey Cen
trail ana the Pennsylvania Railroads
have all sent out notices that such
charge will hereafter be made.
Bids for the new bridge on Wood
land avenue were opened yesterday
afternoon and the contract was
awarded to A. P. Soaring, his price
being $3.50 per yard. The bridge
measures about 30 yards SO that the
total amount will aggregate about
1929.
All driveways which extend over
the cutters on Main street i'll Chath-
am have been ordered removed by
the Board of Freeholders. Owing to
these the cutters were unable to
carry the heavy rainfall of last Sun
day, and the result was that in
several places the roads were badly
washed.
Tomorrow circuit meet at Walls
burg promises to be about the best
this season. It provides six events,
three amateur and three profess
sional There is no doubt that the
meeting between Kramer and Taylor
in the quarter mile national cham.
pionship race will prove the drawing
card of the day.
A special meeting of A. T. A. Tor
bert Post, G. A. r., will be held in
the Post rooms over Bakers Drug
Store on Washington street next Tues
day evening. All members are re-
quested to be present as arrangements
will be completed at that time for the
reunion of the 18th Regiment N. j.
Vols which takes place on September
10Th.
Great excitement was occasioned in
front of the National Iron Bank
building yesterday afternoon. A
horse belonging to O. Mast 50 Co..
butchers, OF Bernardsville, became
frightened at Leopold Stiner's auto
mobile and attempted to run away
The animal finally threw itself upon
the ground where it was held until
the auto passed by
New uniforms have been ordered
for the Morristown Flute and Drum
Corps which will be completed for
use on Labor Day. The suits are to
be made of a dark blue material
trimmed with gold braid. The drum
CORPS on the morning of Labor Day
will assist in the local labor parade
and in the afternoon will go to Sum-
nit where a similar engagement is to
be filed.
Next Wednesday at Peapack, the
annual reunion of the Smith family
will be held. Should the weather
prove favorable there will, no doubt,
be a greater number of "Smiths'
in attendance than in any of the pre-
vious years. The Dover Concert Band,
which has been rendering concerts
in the Park will furnish the music
Congressman Flanagan is among the
politicians who have accepted an invi-
tation to speak.
Considerable discussion has arisen
among the citizens of Basking Ridge