The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-03-25
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Former Governor George /. Werts
and Mrs. Werts are at the Park
House.
Daniel Morrison has taken position
in one of Childs restaurants, in
New York.
Mr. Walter Sharpe, telephone cen
trail Office manager, is sojouruing ir
Norfolk, Va.
Claude Armstrong, secretary of the
Y. nj. G. A. at New Rochelle is visit
ing his parents in this city
Stephen Paulmier has leased hi,
house on Franklin street to HI. A
Conant, recently of Passaic.
Miss Annie Emmons, of Mendham
has been visiting the Misses Murray
OF Madison street, the past week.
Chicken thieves are assiduously al
work. The robbery of several coop;
has been reported to the authorities
Invitations have been issued for 6
log rolling and dance by the Modern
Woodmen April ~, in Chronicle Hall
For the best composition on the
merits of trading stamps John Berry
of this city, has been awarded q
prize.
Miss Lou Wolfe entertained mum.
Der of friends from Morristown at hel
home in Morris Plains, last Friday
evening.
A dime social and clipping bee was
given by Pride of Vannatta Council in
it's rooms in the Farrelly building,
Tuesday night.
There will be Union service on the
eve of Good Friday in the lecture
room. of the South Street Presbyterian
Church, at 7:45.
The Morris County S. p. G. A. has
sent apetition to Senators Kean and
Dryden protesting against the dock
ing horses tails.
Mrs. Josephine Johnson, wife OF
William Johnson, colored, died at
Memorial Hospital Wednesday morn
ing from burns received last Decem.
ber
Members of Humane Engine Com
pany are doing their level best tC
make the annual ball on April 5, a
grand success. 1t promises to be the
best ever given.
A bill has been introduced in
the Legislature providing for the
voters of the First Ward to fill the va
cancy in the Board of Freeholders by
the death of Henry M. Dalrymple.
Postmaster Clarke has made some
beneficial changes in the deliveries of
mail. He has arranged to have four
deliveries in the business section and
two and three in the residential por-
tion.
A fire alarm for the Maple avenue
Public School has been installed in
the Police Headquarters. 1t is rung
from the headquarters by connection
with the school house. The number
is IS.
The thirty-first regular meeting of
The Friday Evening Club will be held
tonight in the Baptist Church. Rev.
DR.. Arthur Judson Brown of New
York will speak on the struggles in
the Far East.
The Rev. George Loltan, of the Bible
Training School, in New York will
give a bible reading on Wednesday
afternoon, March 30, at $50 O'Clock in
the parlors of the South Street Pres
byterian Church.
A retreat will be conducted in the
Church of the Assumption commence
ing next Sunday and continue
through the week. The sermons will
be preached by the Rev. Father
Youman of the Paulist Fathers.
The Morris Township Committee
organized last Saturday night by elect
ing Phoenix Miller, chairman and
Lewis e. Clark, Treasurer. Tuesday
evening, April II was set down for a
hearing on the trolley franchise.
The Truck Company has appointed
committee consisting of Edward j.
Bowen, B. w. Clifford, Raymond
Troxell, Irving E. Salmon, Stephen
Griffith and w. f. Day to arrange a
return entertainment to Independent
Hose Company.
Prizes for the Morris and Union
Bowling League are on exhibition.
They consist Of five silver loving cups
presented by the Union and a hand
somes moker's set given by County
Clerk Voorhees, for the highest indi-
yidual average.
Ogden Stiles Collins, son; of Sidney
Collins, editor of the Rockaway
Record, was operated upon the first OF
the week for appendicitis. The boy
is named from the late Lewis Ogden
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