The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-06-27
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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Sunday.
The closing exercises Of the Hillside
public school were held on Friday al
ternoon.
Workmen are busily employed erect
ing the iron outside stairway au the
Lyceum.
Rev, Charles II. Hayes, of Madison,
ofticiated at st. Peters Church on
Sunday.
The closing exercises of the Bayley
school were held in the Lyceum on
Monday night.
The salary Of the postmaster at
Morristown has been decreased from
So, 100 to $1,000.
Plans are out for a large addition to
the piazza of John l. Waterbury S
house, on Glen road.
The attraction at the Whippany
River Club on Saturday will be a horse.
show with fifteen classes.
This is the season when kind horse
owners put fly nets on their horses eS-
pecially those compelled to stand.
The board of freeholders will erect a.
high fence in. front Of jail structure to
shut out the view Of Western avenue.
The engagement is announced Of
Frederick Morgan Day and Miss May
Sinclair, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Sinclair.
The Junior Christian Endeayor So
ciety of the First Baptist Church will
hold graduating exercises on Friday
evening when three will graduate into
the senior society.
Nineteen arrests were made by the
police during the week ending Sunday
night. most of them for drunkenness
and diSOrdeTly. One man was arrested
and fined for defacing one OF the Park
seats.
The closing exercises OF the chill
dren'S meeting Of the Market Street
Mission were held on Tuesday after
noon and repeated "Wednesday even
ing. The exercises were very pleas
ing to the audience assembled.
The closing exercises of the Free
Kindergarten were held on Wednes-
day afternoon large audience being
present. After the recitation of texts
singing and kindergarten plays there
was an exhibition Of the work of the
children.
The annual banquet of the Gamma
Sigma Debating Club was held at
Days on Wednesday evening. The
officers are: president, John a. Rose
wear, Jr.; vice president, r. Flagg
Vogt; secretary, Edwin S. Ford; trea-
surer, Clarence d. Wells.
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review Of the First Baptist Church
Sunday School and preached Sunday
evening: 1t was the second Sunday he
had spent in MorriStOWn since he re-
signed the passionate of the First Bap-
fist Church fifteen years ago.
Patriotic services will be held at the
First Baptist Church next Sunday In
the morning Rev. Howard B. Grose
will preach on g Present Condition of
our National Life and our Relation as
Christians to that Life In the even
ing there will be patriotic song SER
vice.
Miss Emma PierSOn gave lawn
party to her Sunday school class at her
home on Normandie Heights on Sat
urday afternoon. Croquet and other
games were enjoyed by the girls and
at five O'Clock refreshments were
served from a very pretty and daintily
arranged table.
Miss Edna During has a remarkable
record for school attendance. Nine
years ago she started in school at the
SpeedWell avenue building and has
not been absent nor tardy since them
She finished at Speedwell avenue last
June and since then has been at the
Maple avenue school.
Vanatta Council, No. 1913, Jr. 0. u.
A.. NJ, elected the following officers on
Monday evening Councillor, L. G.
Meeker; vice councillor, S. ID. Begans
Jr. past councillor, w. III Mullin: re-
cording. secretary, G. w. Hill assistant
recording secretary, G. H. Marshall
financial secretary, FL. e. Mullin; treas
urer, James Hill; conductor. Edward
Garrabrant; warden, j. A. Abers; IN
side sentinel, G. Keltch; outside SEN
tinel, A. f. Hand trustee, W. Fl.
Mullin.
The students of Sidney A. Baldwin's
MOrriStOwn class will give their an
nual recital in the Y M. O. A. Hall
on Wednesday evening next, June 2S,
at 8.l5 o'clock. The program will be
made up of pleasing numbers and will
be rendered by the advanced students
only. Friends of the students are cor
daily invited. Admission free to all.
Mr.. Baldwin will remain in town until
August LIST, having resigned his posi-
tiOn as instructor in the Bloomfield,
Conn. summer school of music.
Freebooter John ID. SmlUn mas had
the matter looked up and finds on re-
cord that in 1870 when the late VIM.
Mott and Jacob VanWinkle were
FreehOlders Of Rockaway Township
an agreement was entered into where
by the Morris Canal Company agreed
to take charge of the side walls and
abutments Of the Main street bridge
and the County the superstructure.
1t will therefore fall upon the Canal
Company to have the wall of the
bridge which fell at Rockaway re-
paired
To Check speeding.
Spencer Weart, formerly corporation