The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-08-16
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Matinee races proved an attraction
at the race track on Saturday. ALTER
noon.
Robert Moody has purchased the
milk business of the late Henry @.
Shelley.
Collins Weir is drawing plans for a
new hotel for Dwyes TO be erected at
Wharton.
Il. j. Norris has sold his stationery
and news business to g. A. Hibson, Of
New York.
Lightning struck the railroad sta
tion at Chatham on Wednesday but
did little damage.
Morristown now has forty licensed
stages and hacks. The licenses were
renewed last week.
st. Virgilius Fair will open at st.
Virgilius Hall, Five Corners on Mon
day evening, August ~.
Colored campmeeting services are
being held at the Black River Falls
Pottersyille every Sunday.
The Gus G. Helfrecht Association
went to Maplewood on Sunday where
the members had a clam bake.
The county board Of registry and
election will meet next Monday to
appoint local boards OF registry and
election.
w w. Dean has the contract for the
electric light wiring of the Summit
station. There will be about a hum
bred lights.
Recent rainfall records as kept by
w. "a. Dunn are Aug. 2, Z inches; Aug
s, 2.25 inches; Aug. 10th, 10 inches;
total, ABS inches.
The Morristown Library will close
for two weeks beginning August ~,
for the annual cleaning and vacation
of the librarians.
The famous Mount Olive fair and
festival will be held Wednesday, Au-
gust2i. The Hackettst0Wn band Will
furnish the music.
Morristown Lodge B. 2. Q. 2. has
started a campaign to increase the
membership of the lodge from l23 TO
200 by April first next.
The total assessed valuation Of the
borough Of Chatham for 1904 is S671,
900. The cancelling OF exemptions
increased valuations, $4,000.
D The dissolution Of the Sovereign's
Mercantile and Savings Association Of
Dover has been effected. Shareholders
received ffty-six cents on the dollar.
A temporary passenger station is to
be erected at Summit for use during
the next two months, with twelve
foot walk leading to it from Maple st.
Entertainments booked for the Ly-
ceum are Sept. 1st, Washburf's Uncle
Toms Cabin; Sept. Z, Quincy Adam S
Sawyer, presented by the Metropolitan
company now show ing in st. Louis.
independent Hose sent a communi-
cation to the Goshen company ex-
pressing sympathy. A reply was re-
ceiyed yesterday stating that the in
jured men we're getting along nicely.
Steamer Company, No. l, Of the
Dover Fire Department., has accepted
an invitation from Washington Stea-
mer Company, No. |, OF MorriStown,
to be their guests at the firemen s cele
bration in Morristown ON Wednesday,
September rs.
Benny MOuch, an Italian tailor on
Market street, fired a revolver at Louis
DeminziO. barber last night. He
was arrested and committed to jail on
complaint of assault with intent to
kill, as he had made threats previous
to the saooting.
1t is reported that the late George
Richards homestead, at Dover, will be
closed at the close Of the present
month, and that John Heinl, who has
acted as the family driver for nearly
fifteen years, will accept similar
position in MorristoWn.
The Newark Board of Works at a
recent meeting reported that within
the last two years the board had acr
quired upwards of 200 acres adjacent
to the watershed in Morris and Sus-
sex Counties, so as to prevent any
possible source of pollution.
Joseph Corwin the agent Of the
Sires reports that the Pocahontas mill
property, recently held in the name Of
Bennett Siegelstein, has been sold to-
man named Abel conditi0nally and
that the dam will be rebuilt and a
factory erected Efforts are being
made to negotiate loan on the tract.
Albert Titman, fourteen years of age,
disappeared from his home on Cleve-
land avenue, Collinsville, on Monday.
His father has been tracing him and
last night teleph0ned that he had
traced him to Far Hills where the boy
took a train TO Peapack
Postmaster Clarke has been deluged
with letters from all over the county
and Mayor Reed has received several,
relative to !" Washington's Elm re-
Gently cut down, which the cores
pondents enlarged into story second
only to the famous cherry tree. Many
writers want to get sections Of the
historic" old tree, whose only claim
on fame was it's size and probable age
Freeholders John Moller Al. X.
Baker and Augustus S. Bryant, re-
Gently went to Skillman, N. j., to
visit the New Jersey State Village
for Epileptics. They are on the Mis-
eellaneOus Committee and went there
IN the interest of the patients con
fined there from Morris county. They
found the four patients from the
county were well located and cared
for in this Institution.
The Passaic freeh0lders seemed to
I be much stirred over the desire Of the