The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-25

August 14-Loantaka Council, R.
A. c., to West Point.
Whether you spend the summer or
vour vacation at the seashore, coun-
try or mountains you should let the
Chronicle follow and know what s
going on at home. Mail postal with
change of address and paper will be
cheerfully forwarded.
Mckinley postal cards are now on
sale at the local postoffice.
Over two hundred guests are now
registered at Somerset Inn, Demands
Vile
Work is progressing rapidly on
the New Vernon road which will
probably be completed in six weeks.
On Sunday the pulpit of the First
Presbyterian Church will be occupied
by the Rev. E. R. Murgatroyd, of
New Vernon
A steam launch will be placed on
, Split Rock pond next week. 1t will
be in charge of George Francis the
overseer of the place who will take
parties around the pond.
Next Tuesday evening, an import
ant meeting of the Morristown Ath-
letic Association will be held in
Carl V. Vogt's law office in the Bah
bltt Building, when further definite
arrangements will be made.
The union open air meeting of the
Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor will take place Sun
day evening on the lawn of the A.
M. E. Church on Spring street at
$50. If stormy in the Church.
The second mi-monthly band
concert under the auspices of the
of Board Trade will be held in the
park next Wednesday evening. Light
and popular music is to be discoursed
by the Citizens Band of Dover, at
this concert.
A dog catcher has been appoi' ted
by the Township Committee of Som
erville and all dogs roaming at large
not properly tagged will be summari-
ly dealt with. Why not the same
in Morristown? Certainly there are
enough worthless CANNES running
about our streets to warrant dog
catcher.
A careful survey of the various
boys in the southern part of the state
has caused the cranberry growers to
make the statement that there will
only be about one third of crop this
year. The damage by the late spring
frosts will cause a loss of many
thousand dollars.
The directors of the Prudential In
surance Company of America, which
has branch office in the Babbitt
Building have elected Edward
Kanouse, treasurer. to succeed Horace
Alling deceased; Wilbur S. johnson,
director in the place of Mr.. Alling.
and Uzal H. McCarter, president of
the Fidelity Trust Company, chair
man of the finance committee, to sue
ceed Mr.. Kannouse, who resigned to
be treasurer.
At Kronenberg's market on Wash
ington street, Wednesday, was on
exhibition the finest specimen of an
Oswego bass that has been seen in the
vicinity this season. The fish was
bouncer tipping the scales at exactly
six pounds and was lured from his
watery home in Lake Denmark on
Tuesday morning by w. E. Draggoo,
employed in McCollum's stable A
small frog fastened to an ordinary
spoon troll did the trick.
The Morristown Business College
will reopen on August 18th, with in
creased facilities for thorough in
struction in stenography, bookkeep-
ing, typewriting and the other
essentials necessary for first class
business educationt. The work done
at this college, is systematic, afford
ing students an opportunity to tran
sact business as it is really done in
the commercial world Professor
DIR has had an extended experience
along the lines of preparing students
for real business life, and his
success in the past, assisted as he will
be by competent corps of instructors
bespeaks a busy successful year
for the college.
The official announcement has been
made of the retirement of John Willis
Baer as secretary of the United So
ciety of Christian Endeavor to become
one of the assistant secretaries of the
Presbyterian Board of Home Mis-
sions. A new position has been
created for Mr. Baer, and it is under
stood that he will be expected to ad-
vance three phases of Presbyterian
Hon Mission work. One of these
will be increased interest i'll missions,
especially home missions, on the part
of the young people, in and out of
Christian Endeavor. A second is to
emphasize the need for active lay
effort to advance church interest and
the third is, it is said to increase the
amount of contributions to home mis-
sions, within and without the Presby-
terian Church. Mr.. Baer retires from
Christian Endeavor almost at once,
desiring to take rest and will begin
work with the Board of Home Mis-
sions in New York on October 1st.