The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26

The late Milford a. Hopping q
Florhan Park left $500 to the HAN
over Presbyterian Church.
Soaring avenue is being nlacadam-
ized Centre avenue has also peen
stoned from Locust to Lowell avenue
Geo. Green g Son have justsshiPped
to the Morris County Traction Com
pany at Milburn nine sets OF team mar
ness.
Western avenue is now tagged on
both sides, except for about twenty
feet from Washington street TO the
city line.
The local employees of the United
States Express GO. will hold their an
nual ball In Washington Hall on Oc-H
tober 25th.
Vincent Azzarras has raised S6585
among the italian residents of Morris
town for the Red Cross movement for
the earthquake sufferers
The temporary stables for the Nor
riStOWn Field Club Horse Show have
already been erected; boxes and other
enclosures will rapidly follow.
Preparations are maturing for the
SJdUe CuTlbJidu 1IluCdfOA COllf OllulVAl
to be held in MOrriStOWn, next week
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
The regular meeting Of the Woman's
Auxiliary OF the INC. Al. will be
held in the Association parlor, We'd
nesday, october 4th, at $50 p. m.
The fire department. was called out
on Thursday afternoon on a FOOLS en-
rand-the boiling over OF a Kettle,
soaring the neighborhood near the de-
pot.
Samuel L. Berrian, Of Northport,
E. T., has rented the COLES house on
Mt. Kemble avenue, recently occupied
by W. L. r. Haven, through Cranes
agency.
Hahne & Co. had a large gasoline
motor truck in town on Wednesday.
They are trying several Varities Of
moters with the idea of substituting
them for horses on the long deliveries,
Cficfals Of Ioantaka Council, r. A.
and the Loyal Additional Benefit As
ISOLATION have paid Mrs. III. ID. ScheDck
$4,000 and $1,000 respectively the
amount of insurance on the life Of the
late I'll. D. Schenck.
Thomas III. Meskill has bought the
Heating property on Miller street in
the rear Of his Washington street
tract. The lot has Il frontage of 13l
feet giving the purchaser the oppor-
tunity I'd grade street Through his
property.
Two concerns are atpDesent cOnSid-
ering the location of manufacturing
plants in Morristown. The town has
the best freight facilities of almost any
place in the state and with the two
express companies is drawing the at
tention Of manufacturers.
The Catholic Benevolent Legion has
paid within week through St. Col
umbanus Council, No. 40, Sc, 900 to the
benefciaries of its lately deceased
comrades, James Lyons, Thomas j.
Harmon and JnO. j. Carroll. The last
claim was paid in two weeks after
death,
The annual reunion of the Seventh
New Jersey Volunteers was held in
Ba0nton on Tuesday. About fifty OF
the veterans we're in attendance. The
meeting was held in Odd Fellows Hall,
after which dinner was served at the
City Hotel. George HeSsey, OF Boon
+ ton, was elected president
The N. x. s. N. J. Telephone. Co. is
putting up a pole line along Mills
street from Washington street to SuS-
sex avenue. At present the c0npany's
wires are on the electric light poles on
the opposite curb, but as the telephone
people are getting their wires off Of the
Public Service poles wherever possible
the new line is being erected.
Route Agent Lawrence the Wells
Fargo, whose territory covered Nor
ristOwn, has been made agent at Brook
lyn. He is succeeded by George a.
Carr, who for time had been assistant
route agent at Jersey City, later soli-
citOr at Buffalo and recently. agent at
one of the larger New York cities Mr..
Carr was in town on Tuesday.
The Morristown School viii open on
Thursday with an enrolment OF about
the same as last year. A new in
structor has been secured, Mr.. Wal
lace, Yale 1913, who will teach Greek
and Latin. He succeeds Willis Wood
man. Mr.. Stanton, a graduate of
Dickinson College, will also be ad-
ded to the faculty as athletic director.
Members of the Ridgedale Sewing
Society state that THE CHRONICLE
was in error in saying that that or
ganizatiOn went on an excursion to
Verona Lake week or so ago. Some
members of the society went to Gale
well and then around via. Newark
which probably gave rise to the story,
but their expedition was personal and
not as a society.
Contracts for the storage building to
be erected by Shupe & Simmons on
Elm street have been let as follows
Dempsey & C00ney, maS0nS; Robert
Dalglish carpenter; TompkinS &W Welsh,
Plumbing and Timing The building
will have a frontage Of forty feet and
run back nearly hundred feet. 1t will
cost about $4,000. George w. Bower g
Son are the architects.
Mrs. YOungs, wife Of Patrolman ]. +.
Youngs, met with severe and pecu-
liar accident on Monday. She was
eating ice cream in Viedt's holding
her little child on her lap. The child
slipped from its mothers lap and start
ed to.explOre the store. Mrs. Youngs
ran for the child and fell to the floor,
injuring one OF her hips. She was
taken to Memorial Hospital
The street department. is at work on
a notable improvement in Washing
ton street. The street from Miller
street to the ponds Is being nacadam-
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