The Morris County chronicle., 1903-04-17
DOVER.

Miss Olive Soaring of Orchard street. il
visiting friends at Ossining, N. Y.
Oscar Bray left town last Thursday fol
Nevada, where he will make his home.
Mrs. Joseph Leighton of Lincoln ave
nue., has been visiting relatives at Newark
the past week.
Julius Hairhouse is having an addition
built to the southwest corner of his resi-
dence on Morris street.
William s. White of Sanford street, has
had new hard wood floors laid in his resi-
dence during the past week.
William MCCARTHY has gone to Tren
ton. where he has accepted a position with
his brother James in the pipe fitting bust
ness.
The management of the Dover Land
and Driving Park Association are making
preparations for gala time on Decoration
day.
On Saturday of this week the Meleo base
ball team will open the ball season. Their
opponents will be the Pastime Club of
! Morristown.
Harry Van Orden of West Blackwell
street, Is suffering FROM an affLiction to his
eyes that makes grave the chances of saw
| ing bis sight.
! The congregation of the First M e.
Church gave pastor EakinS and wife re.
ception in the parlors of the church on
Wednesday evening.
George Richards left Saturday on trip
to Porto Rico on the steamship Coamo.
His first stop will be San Juan. He ex-
poets TO return about May 1st.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Anna Qninlan of Central avenue, to Mr..
l - sAL L As-. AZ
! Smith was a former Dover boy.
Herman D. Moller has purchased the
Mase lot situated on East Blackwell street
between the blacksmith shop of Robert +.
Jenkins and G. T. Clark & Son.
John T. Lawrence, wife and daughter.
of Academy street, who have been spend
ing the winter months in New York city,
have returned to their Dover home.
The Easter ball of Vigilant Engine Co.
No. 2, which was held on Monday evening
was largely attended and was a great
success, both socially and financially.
The churches of the town united in a
union service on Good Friday night in the
First M. Il. Church. The pastors from
the various churches made short addresses
James a Goodale, the druggist, is re-
covering from fall he received last Fri
which he is having erected on his property
on Front street.
Pride of Morris Council. No 81, Daugh-
ters of Liberty, gave an entertainment in
Odd Fellows Hall on Thursday evening,
10th inst. After the entertainment ice
cream and cake was served
The Dover Camera Club, flourishing
society of young lady and gentlemen anna
teur photographers, will meet at the home
of Oliver Vought, 8 Fairview avenue, on
Friday evening of next week.
A theatre party went to New York on
Wednesday evening to take in the big
circus at Madison Square Garden. The
party numbered some fifty or sixty peo.
pie. They returned on q special train
which left Hoboken at IL o'clock
John Dahlen of "a Madison street,
molder at the Richardson & Boynton
Furnace and Range Works, while carry
ing ladle of molten iron last Thursday
fell and dropped the ladle He was badly
burned about the face, shoulders and
arms.
While stating the roof of Mrs Ander-
sons house at Mount Freedom one day
last week Charles Mase fell from the roof
distance of thirty feet, breaking his left
arm just above the elbow. Besides break
ing the limb the flesh was laoerated and
bne nuSCl6S UOTn.
When the recent school entertainment
was decided upon the announcement was
made that the two pupils selling the
highest number of tickets would receive a
prize. The winners were Danny KanOuse
who received watch, and Marion Turner
was awarded sewing machine.
The Home Department. of the Presby
terrain Memorial Church has secured DR.
S. Parker Cadman of Brooklyn, in his
lecture. 1.-The Twentieth Century SUNDAY
School, for next Monday evening. For
half hour preceding the lecture an attrac
tive musical program will be given.
Chicken thieves are again making their
rounds. The roost in Samuel Dow's hen
house on Spring street was relieved of six
fine fowls one night last week. Later he
found them alive In the yard of bust
ness man in town. The business man
claims that he does not know who put
them there
The new bell on St. Johns Episcopalian
Church, which rang for the first time on
Easter Sunday morning at O'Clock, was
presented to the parish by the rector's
wife in memoriam to her brother, Rev
William Balmer. deceased, who for a
number of years was priest in parish
at Troy. N Y.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Education held last Tuesday
evening the following committees were
appointed. Teachers. Messrs. Lynd,
Crabbe and keifel: building and repair,
Plerson. Nancy and Singleton; supplies,
Berry, Keifel and Singleton; finance,
Crabbe, Berry and MacFall.
Alonzo Parks, driver for f. f. Birch,
met with painful accident on Monday.
While he was busy loading the wagon the
team started TO run away. Parks at
tempted to jump In the rear end of the
wagon to stop the team, when large iron
pipe that was In the wagon rolled over on
his right hand mashing 1t quite badly.
The Easter services In the various
churches about town were more elaborate
this year than ever before The churches
were veritable flower gardens, and the
exercises given by the Sunday School
children were both pleasing and instruc-
solos and anthems were also features of
attraction.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas H. Whitford of
SS North Sussex street, contemplate NOV
ing to Camden in June, where they will
live with their son Harry. Mr.. Whitford
has not fully recovered from the accident
he met with some five months ago while
at his work in the Morris County Machine
Iron Company's shops, and is therefore,
unable to take up his former position as
engineer.
Miss Jessie K. Drake, aged 10 years, died
at her home. IL East Blackwell sereet last
Sunday morning at 2 80 o'clock after an
illness of thirteen weeks, from hearb dis
ease and dropsy. The funeral services
were held Tuesday evening at her late
home at s O'Clock. Rev. Eakins, Gibbs
and Mccormick officiated. The inter
ment was made at Tranquility on Wed