The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-28

LOCAL BREvITlES

Der business of D. w. Day G. Son, Sum.
NIT
The Public schools Of the city will be
closed next week for the Easter vaca-
ton
Joseph B. Dickson, Of Normandie
Heights is the owner Of a gasoline
touring automobile.
The annual dinner Of the Estling
Lake fishing club was held at the
Denville Hotel last evening.
A ping pong set has been purchas-
ed by Resolute Ell. g. L. Company
and is much enjoyed by the members.
Twenty-Five telephones have been in
stalled in Boonton during the past week
by the New York and New Jersey Tele-
phone Company.
The April business meeting OF the
Owen Y. w. G. T. U. will be held at
the Y. M. G. A. on Tuesday evening,
April 1st, at Z. AS o'clock.
The alarm about the destruction OF
quail in the snow seems to De ground
less in this State. No reports OF the
finding of dead birds have been heard
Florence Burns who was recently
tried for the murder of Walter Brooks
in New York, is at the Sperry Spring
House, Byram's Cove, Lake Hopatcong.
The Bernardsville News made its ap-
pearance last week in handsome cover
filled with advertisements, while the In
terror was filled with locals and news
from cover 10 cover.
The concert given at the Park House
Friday evening by the Haydn string
Quartette was successful and much
enjoyed. Over enc hundred and f1fty
guests were present.
Rev. DR.. j. r. Bryan, for four years
pastor Of the M. =. Church at
Somerville, and who has many
friends in this section, will retire
from the ministry this month.
Halsey Doty, of this city, who is en-
ployed in Burnet's hardware store at
Madison, will move to that place the
first of May, where he will occupy DR..
Scarborough's house on Wilmer avenue.
The street sprinkler came to the re-
lief of the merchants and pedestrians
Monday by making tour OF the town
and sprinkling the roads from which
clouds of dust had made travellers
miserable for week previous.
The old and broken smoke stack at
the power house of the Normandle
Heights Water Compay on the Column
bia road will be replaced by new one
next week measuring ninety feet in
length and three feet in diameter
A private telephone closet handsome
ly finished has been placed in the Nor
ristown Club on South street. Thatcher
Sc Pantaenius have the contract for
painting the front porch and touching
up other shabby places on the building
Will the gentleman who advertised a
piano for sale in the Chronicle Of March
q, under the heading of Storage and
who promised to call later at the Office
please do SO, as we have in our posses
sion several answers to the advertise
ment,
In the debate in Cambridge on We'd
nesday night between Harvard and
Princeton the latter upholding the affir
NATIVE, won. The question debated was
resolved that Mayor Low should
strictly enforce the excise law in New
York City"
The Road Commissioners Charlton
A. Reed, l.. o. Stiles and Alderman
BELLY, who were recently appointed by
the court went over the Landing road
at Lake Hopatcong yesterday to assess
the peculiar benefits to the adjoining
property owners.
Attention is called to the offer of d. P.
Mcclellan elsewhere in our columns. On
Friday and Saturday, March 28th and
Goth. three dollars worth Of stamps will
be given with every one dollars worth
of goods purchased.
Although the Insurance Under
writers have condemned the electric
wiring in many of Dover's buildings
there has never been fire since the
electric plant was started, over four
teen years ago, that could be traced
to defective wiring.
Uzal Dodd Post. g. A. r., No. 10. of
Orange, celebrated its Gath anniversary
on Wednesday. The post has made a
number Of visits to Torbet Post Of this
city The Orange post has a member
ship of 1903; forty three members have
died since its organization.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new store of w. A. Louanstein on Mar
ket street which will measure 26x45 feet.
The interior will be handsomely finish
ed, including metal ceiling. The car
penter work is in charge of George Allen
and j. d. Collins is the mason.
The trout fishing season in this
State opens next Tuesday. In Pennsyl-
vania it does not begin until April 10,
and in New York State generally the
season opens ON the same date as in
Pennsylvania, except on Long Island
where fishing begins on April l.
J. Wesley Worrill, of Washington
street, has negotiated q sale, for the
American Bible Society, Of New
York, to Mrs. Katherine L. Jaqui, of a
plot of vacant ground 89xS40 feet on
the west side of Speedwell avenue
north OF Early street part of the
Caleb I. Rowe estate.
An unsuccessful attempt to burn the
blacksmith shop OF Lewis Hendershot
on Water street was attempted Tuesday
night when pile of burning papers
saturated with tar were discovered UNI
der the rear Of the building by William
Heath. The police, up to the present
time, have no trace of the fire-bug.
The quail throughout Warren coun-
ty have suffered severely during the
past winter. When the county was
filled with the recent deep snowdrifts,
fha birds in many instances were