The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-08-07
THE LOCAL
HAPPENINGS
Noteworthy Occurrences in and
About the Vicinity Of
MorriStown
BRIEFLY AND TERSELY TOLD

next Wednesday.
Mrs. H. Mckay Twombly has given
$1,000 to the endowment fund of
Memorial Hospital.
The annual meeting of the State
Firemen's Relief Association will be
held at Atlantic City on September g..
Rev. w. H. Morgan, D. D., pastor of
Central Church, Newark, will preach
in the Methodist Episcopal Church of
this city next Sunday, August 8.
The Juniors of the local Y. M. @. A.
went to Summit Tuesday and joined
the Juniors of the Summit branch in
an outing along the Passaic river.
At Willett's Point, L. l., the Fire
Wardens will go on their annual ex-
cursion August 26th. 1t will be fine
trip, and everyone who goes cannot
help enjoying the outing.
Messrs. Frederick Muchmore and
John Roman have purchased lots at
Culver's Lake, Sussex county. Mr..
Muchmore is having plans drawn for a
handsome cottage to be erected on his
property.
Rev. Samuel T. Batten delivered an
address before the annual conference
of the Brotherhood of the Kingdom at
Marlborough-on-th Hudson yes t er-
day. His subject was "The Program
of the Kingdom"
The Common Council of Summit
last Tuesday night adopted resolu-
tion giving the finance committee
power to conduct negotiations for the
sale of the $125,000 bond issue for the
city's sewers.
Owing to an engagement made at
Atlantic City, Dockstader's Minstrels
will not play in Lyceum Hall on the
9th, as previously announced. 1t is
expected they will be here the latter
part of next month.
The local branch of the w. G. t. u.
held meeting last Tuesday afternoon
to make definite plans for the enter
tanning of the State convention which
will be held in the First Presbyterian
Church sometime in October.
William Waters, of Madison, was SEN
fenced by Judge Mills in the Court of
Special Sessions last Friday, to the
Railway Reformatory for stealing
knives, ETC., to the amount of $3.50
from Frank r. Fay, of Madison.
The Drum Corps accompanied the
First Ward Hose Company to Caldwell
last Saturday night. 1t is said the
musicians played SO we'll and looked so
fine that the applause they received
nearly drowned the noise they made.
While driving from Newton last Sat
urday afternoon, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Aldred were thrown from their car
riage The bride on the horse broke,
causing the animal to become unman-
ageable. Neither was seriously hurt.
The members of the First Ward
Hose Company and Humane Engine
Company report having glorious
time at Caldwell last Saturday night,
where they participated in fremen's
parade. They did not reach home I'M
til early Sunday morning.
Clarence Compton, Augustus Ruser,
Chester Fighter, Arthur Smith, An
gelo Bennell, Frank Abel, G. Smith,
Fred Coriell, w. Buckle, Ernest Tiger
and Paul jameson have established a
camp at Silver Bay, on Lake Hopat-
cong, for the present month.
Since the Chronicle has gone topress
with it's first forms City Collector An
drew has received the amount of taxes
advertised as due from the following
persons: George Fl. Brown, Charles
Douglass, estate Aaron Johnston, Rev.
James j. Mulhall, DR.. Mosedale and
John Ii. Youngblood.
The Baptist G. E. society go to
Shongum Lake next Tuesday. The
committee in charge are Miss Blanche
Beach, Dr. Harry A. Vaughn, Miss
Title Bullwinkle, Miss Fl. Smith and
Mr.. Addison Boniface. Stages have
been secured and win leave the church
at $50. A delightful time is expected
and every one who can should 60
Hose Company No. and the
Chemical Engine Company, of Sum
nit, are preparing for an amateur
circus to be given August ID, IA and
Is under the direction of a professional
circus man. There will be forty
prominent amateurs from the two
fire companies under whose auspices
it will be given, supplemented by
forty professional circus performers.
A company has been organized in
New York, and formal notice of the
organization made public, to build
summer hotel at Budd Lake. 1t is I'M
derstood that if the hotel is built it
will be for the accommodation of He
brews, who have to large extent been
denied accommodation at the other
houses. The land in view is either of
the corners at the junction Of the Stan
hope road on the north side of the
lake.
Clifford Walcott, a fve-year-old Mont
clair boy, disappeared late Satur-
day afternoon and his parents becom-
ing alarmed at his absence notified the
police and aroused the neighborhood.
The search was kept up for several
hours and neighboring towns were no
titled. The searchers looked every
where except under the piano in the
Walcott parlor, under which the lad
had crept and gone to sleep, and from
whence he emerged when his nap was
over.
A meeting of the Prohibition ALI
as, L - 49,