The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-04-11
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

LVLAL HACr ENlEN19s
Governor Stokes has designated April
IA as Arbor Day.
The gas company is delivering gas
pipes on Market street preparatory to
laying a new main on that street.
Judge Cross took the oath of Office as
"a Judge of the Federal Court yester-
day morning and holds courts to-day
at Newark.
The board of freeholderS will meet
next Wednesday morning and the
board of excise next "Wednesday even
ing.
The Truck Company's red wagon
was called to the residence OF Hobart
Garfield on Saturday afternoon to put
out a brush fire which had set fire to
a fence.
A meeting was neld in Summit last
week to discuss the advisability OF Or
.ganizing a hospital association in that
town with the ultimate idea Of estab-
fishing hospital.
Hafght's milk team from Whippany
ran away yesterday morning on Spring
street and spilled the contents of about
ten milk cans, besides breaking the
rear axle Of the wagon.
The Morris and Essex Women's Bap-
fist Home Mission Anniversary will
be held at the Morristown Baptist
Church, on Friday, April IA. Services
at 1870 a. m. and ZOO p. m.
An accident to locomotive bound
east at Newark on Monday morning
delayed east-bOund traffic for some
time. Conductor Dargavel's train was
held up for fifty minutes.
In the red and blue athletic meet at
theYoung Mems Christian Association
on Monday night the reds defeated
the blues by thirty-Six points. A large
audience witnessed the contest
The Prohibition Alliance has elected
the following officers president, Cyrus
Loree: vice president, VIM. Quimby
secretary, Wesley Logan; treasurer,
Hubert Nixon chaplain, Philip Stone.
The advance agent Of the Frank A.
Robbins Circus has been in town try
ing to arrange for an exhibition here
on May 1st. If it comes, the show
will arrive over the MorristOwn & Erie
Railroad.
The concert by Ireland'S Town"
Band on Tuesday evening drew hearers
from many surrounding towns and
villages. Two men drove through the
rain from Hibernia, in order TO hear
the concert.
The office of the Morris Feed Go. has
heen removed from the Trust Go.
building to the Merchants block where
S. 6. Griffith is in charge. Orders,
however, will still be taken at I'll. +.
Whites office.
The Morris Aqueduct is laying new
I large main connecting the large main
on Elm street with the old main OH
Morris street between the depot and
Park to improve the service in that
section of the town.
The new club house for the Morris
County Golf Club is being pushed.
The building is enclosed, the maSons
are plaStering the interior and cleo
tricians are wiring, while the carpen-
tiers are pushing the exterior work.
Frank H. Black has opened a laundry
at 20 Washington street, to be known
as the Union Hand Laundry, where
all the laundering will be done entirely
by hand. Mr.. Black has been resi-
dent of Morristown for number Of
years.
II you anticipate erecting monu-
ment on your cemetery plot or in need
of markers or posts, send word to i. Y.
Ward & Co. Their work recommends
itself. Prices will surprise you. Our
business card will be found on this
page.
The Christian Endeavor Society OF
the First Baptist Church has elected
the following officers; president, A.
Vance PiersOn; vice1preSident, Miss
Minnie Lane; recording secretary, Miss
Mary Boniface; treasurer, Frederick
F. Boniface.
George Ayers had one Of his legs
broken by pole falling on it yeSter-
day afternoon. He was helping to UNI
load pole from wagon along the
Morristown s. Erie Railroad, where lie
has been employed in putting up the
telephone line.
The Iron Era says: "The Morris
County Traction Company from July
% up to Saturday night about 10
O'Clock carried between Dover and
Wharton 100000 passengers. The
Wharton people surely make good use
Of their means of transportation.
Pine Brook is to have a town hall
and clubhouse. The size of the build
ing is to be 26x50 feet, and to have
modern Improvements. The newly
organized athletic and field club win
occupy the building. e. j. Chapen
was elected president.
The sacred cantata "Olivet to Cal
vary" by j. III. Mausder is to be. given
on Thursday evening, April IS, at
eight O'Clock at st. Peters Church.
The choir win number thirty voices,
with ]. Sebastian Metthews at the Or
gan. The solos are written for tenor
and baritone voices, and will be taken
by j. l.. Janeski and D. G. Beeching