The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-07
LOCAL BREvlTIES

Township elections next Tuesday.
Black ducks are reported to be-
plentiful on Barnegat Bay,
Duck shooting on the Troy and Co
Inmbia meadows is reported good.
The season for catching the willy
brook trout will open Tuesday, April
i
DR.. ii. W. Dustan has purchased a
handsome brown six-year-old geld
ing.
Letter Carrier ". r. Taylor who
was i'll for several days is again back
at work.
The Board of Aldermen meet tonight
and the Board Of Excise next Wednes-
day night.
The Board of Chosen Freaholders
will meet in Freeholders' Hall next
Wednesday.
The Independent Hose Company
will visit Chief Muchmore at Sum
NIT this evening.
Gunnsrs say that the recent heavy
snow killed as many quail as were
shot last season.
The front Of Fl. G. Emmell g sta
tionery Store on South street is re-
ceiving fresh coat Of paint.
The spring like weather during the
past week has brought ont many
bicyclists and automobiles.
j. Fred Runyon has recovered
twenty four solidf silver spoons from
the ruins Of the Trimmer fire.
Price g. Guerin have sold to J. N.
Willis, of Plainfeld, handsome bay
team, the price paid being $500.
The Short Hills High School was
closed last week on account of the
illness Of several Of the teachers.
Henry P. Phipps has removed his
real estate office from the Trust Com
pany Building to the Bell Building.
@. O. Zeek, who formerly rented
store in the Trimmer Building will
occupy store in the Becker Building
April 4
The Rockaway Ice Company has
just completed filling its house at
Shawgers Pond with ice twenty
inches in thickness.
March came in very lamblikA
style. AS there are exceptions to all
rules it is hoped that this time it will
nor go out like lion.
Al raccoon weighing twenty seven
pounds was caught by an employee
of George G. Frelinghuysen on the
Whippany road Saturday afternoon.
Two burglars attempted to break
into the house of John Gleason on
Mechanic street Monday evening, but
were frightened away by the barking
of dog
The handsome summer home Of
Henry Cochran, at Belmar, together
with his stable, was destroyed by fire
on Tuesday night, shortly after ten
O'Clock.
A petition from the Board Of Trade
will be read at the meeting of the
Aldermen this evening requesting the.
placing of larger mains throughout
the town.
All Of the stores belonging to the
estate Of d. Fl. MoAlpin have been
rented for the coming year to the
same tenants who have occupied:them
in the past.
The plate glass windows in the
Schmidt and Dodge B1ildings which
were broken from the intense heat of
the Trimmer fire have been replaced
with new ones.
"a Ramble down the Rhine, was
the subject OF an interesting illustra-
ted lecture given in the Market Street
Mission Wednesday evening by Rev.
i'll. Hurlbut.
Robert A. Price. of the firm of
Price & Guerin, will return from
Friend, Neb., with two car loads of
horses about the 18th inst. One car
load is for his brother, W. d. Price,
Of Branchville, N J.
Arrangements are being made at
Washington, d. O., for the official test
of the new mail box recently invented
and patented by Letter Carrier
DeGroot of this city. The test will be
made on Tuesday, April |.
AS d result of the heavy snow and
rain storms Days dam at Brookside,
broke Friday evening causing the
WhIppany River to overflow its
banks. Considerable damage was
done around the lower part Of Water
street.
In an exchange from Eustis, Fla,
we note the following advertisement:
WANTEDi R1
One million pounds soft-shelled turtle
and catfish. Cash paid for them at
J. ". Brown's Fish House. Enstis, Fla.
Bulletin. No. 155, recently issued
by the New Jersey Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station and entitled 1.-The
chronological Experiment Station, =
Is we'll worth careful perusal by all
interested in fruit and berries. I'll
may be had upon application at the
Chronicle Office.
An instrument to be used when q
still alarm comes in is being placed
Ia the independent Hose House by
City Electrician Frank Pierson. The
device will indicate by taps upon q
small bell the street where the fire is
ana Will be particularly useful to the
members having private alarms in
their homes.
During all Of March, the sun is
coming farther north. About the Goth
it shines directly Oh the equator. ana
the day is Just as long as the night.
The time of the Old Jewish Passover.
and hence our Easter depends on iris
date. This latter always comes On