The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-07-25
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Bank are being reprinted.
The Wells, Fargo & Co. express be-
gins operating in MorrlstoWn next
Tuesday.
1t is reported that Chidsey will re-
sumo deliveries in MOrristOwn again
on July rs.
The officers of Phoenix Branch, the
Grand Fraternity, were Installed on
Tuesday evening.
The First Baptist Sunday School is
planning trip to Verona Lake Park
the latter part of August.
The police have caused a number of
the old bicycle warning. signs to be
posted in various parts Of the town.
The first car of Erie coal for sale in
MOrristown arrived on Thursday morn
ing, consigned to J. w. Melick Coal
Co.
Calvary Baptist and Bethel A. M. e.
Sunday Schools will picnic at DixOE'S
Grove on the Passaic River on August
10TH
A lawn party for the benefit Of the
COllinSville chapel was held on the
lawn of Joseph Pierson, Hazel street,
on Friday evening.
There was a mix up between a horse
and carriage and automobile on Speed
well avenue on Sunday. No very SER
ious damage was done nor was any
body injured.
The iron work of the new outside
stairway at The Lyceum is nearly
finiShed.and the tinSmiths are finishing
up the metal covering. The doors at
the top are being hung.
The New York papers had Senator
w. "A. Clark sent out to MorristoWn
on Saturday. If he did come it was so
quietly that his identity was not dis
covered, nor his destination learned.
Andrew johnson, of Whippany, was
brought to AllSouls' Hospital on Sun
day suffering from tetanus. He acct
dentally shot himself in the palm of
the hand on July and tetanus devel-
oped later.
Rev. and Mrs. f. B. Dwight have in
vited the members of Glass 45 of the
South Street Presbyterian Sunday
School to take supper at their place
4. The Holt" Convent Station, We'd
nesday evening.
Collins Weir is planning three stores
for e.. j. Cahill to be erected in Boon
ton. Mr.. Cahill recently purchased
the TOoke Straker residence in Boon
ton and will erect the new building in
front of the house.
David Kramer, the twelve year old
son of S. Kramer, Of Speedwell avenue,
was injured Ia collision between his
fathers rig and carriage on Speed
well avenue on Friday. The boy was
quite severely injured.
The Morris County Golf Club has
granted the privileges of the links to
children of club members, sons be-
tween twelve and sixteen years and
daughters between twelve and four
teen years until September first.
The deed from Hazlett and wife to
Bennett e, Siegelstein for the Poca-
hontas mill property, dated March g.,
1901, has at last been put on record.
A rumor is afioat that another trans
fer has been made or soon will be.
~. The board of education is having a
new concrete sidewalk laid from Maple
avenue to the entrance of the school
house. Thos. Malley has the contract.
The walls of the lower floor rooms of
the old part of the school house are
being painted.
The Morristown Gun Club has Sc
cured new quarters on the Bauer tract
& OveT, in Hanover township near Water
street. The club house and other eff
1fc mil y. = ~ ,sk
next week. The lot formerly used by
the club has been sold and will be cut
up into building lots.
MOrriStown residents have been
Sweltering because of the hot spell of
the last few days. 1t certainly was
hot here but it is comforting to know
that many persons who went to the
mountains or coast suffered the same
discomfort. Some came home decid-
ing that Morristown suited them after
ALL
The local post office employees are
forwarding from four to six hundred
letters daily to MorristOwn people out
OF town, The summer exodus seems
to be unusually large this year and
few strangers have come to town to fill
JAlC fdCdIlU PldCGDs 1IlcIc lids Dcen
almost no demand for furnished houses
this year.
The gun clubs Of Morristown and
Dover held match shoot in the
North Jersey League series at the lat
ter place on Wednesday. The score
was MOrriStown, 81 /; Dover, So. The
next shoot will be held at Montclair
next Saturday, July 20, between the
team OF that place and the Newton
Club.
The Morris township board Of edu-
cation has given up the idea of finish
ing a third room In the Hillside public
school on account of lack of sufficient
funds, A third teacher will be secured
however and the teachers room seated
and used for recitations. Miss Tall
madge, Of Speedwell place, a Normal
graduate has been offered the position.
Lauren WaldrOn, nineteen years OF
age, the younger brother of Albert Z.
WaldrOn, who taught in the Hazen
School for two years, died at his home
in Somerville, Mass, on Tuesday. He
was a II M. Y. a. worker and preSi-
dent of the Massachusetts and Rhode
Island Conference for the present
year. Appendicitis was the cause Of
death.
The Rankin Delivery Co.'s Odds de-
livery auto caught fire while on the
way 20 Morristown on Wednesday,.