The Morris County chronicle., 1905-04-04
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The Free kindergarten is CLOSED
this week and win reopen next Mon
day
Sheriff Ryerson took Charles Brown
of Rockaway to the Railway Reforma
tory Friday morning
Rev. Philemon Sturgis will preach
at st. Bernard'S Church, Bernards
vile, next Sunday evening"
Tiger & Stiles have assumed pos
session OF the Martin feed business
recently purchased by them,
George w. Bower s. Son are drawing
plans for new house to be erected at
Bernardsville for Ezra Dayton.
The Hazen School base ball team
defeated the second team of the Nor
ris Academy on Monday morning
Alfred Mills lis having the barn
which stood on Perry street moved back
from the street to the rear Of the lot.
The chemical engine was called out
on Monday afternoon to extinguiSh a
brush fire on the Swan place, Egbert
Hill. Yf m aeng*
w. A. Heath is remodelling his
house on Albeit avenue and putting
ID improvements, prior to occupying
the place.
The sprinkling wagons began work
on Wednesday, and their coming
proved a boon as the streets were
very dusty.
William Dixon who lives back OF
Morris Plains has been Implicated IN
the thefts of Albert Jones and was ar
rested on Saturday
Losey s. Gregory is the name of a
new firm of ice dealers. Both MEM
,bers of the firm formerly worked for
the Spring Lake Co.
The Morristown board OF education
organized on Friday evening by the
election of E. O. Peck, president, and
FL. A. Freeman, secretary.
The Truck Co. IS red wagon went to
Farrelly's woods on Washington ave-
nue. on Wednesday afternoon to ex-
tinguish leaf and brush ire.
John f. Kinds has sold his property
5Ox IIO feet on Wetmore avenue below
Do lghty street to Margaret McGin-
ness. Consideration private.
We understand that arrangements
have been made to promptly complete
the additional exit at the. Lyceum ac-
cording to plans approved last fall.
A branch meeting of St. Patrick's
Alliance was held in Morristown on
Sunday. The state convention OF the
order will be held here next January.
The regular meeting of the Women s
Auxiliary of the T. M. Y. A. Will pe
held in the Association parlor wed
nesday, April 5th, at $50 p. m.
The chemical engine was called to
the johnson place on Western avenue
on Tuesday afternoon, to put out a
grass fire which threatened the build
ings.
Timothy Hart, of Hibernia, died at
All Souls Hospital on Saturday, as
the result Of a fracture of the skull,
resulting from rock falling on his
head.
d. p. Mcclellan is moving his goods
to his new location next TO the Flrsb
National Bank. The store house he is
erecting on Macculloch avenue will be
under roof by tonight.
The Woman's Union prayer-meeting
will be held through the month OF
April in the chapel of the First Pres
byterian Church, every Thursday
morning at 1870 O'clock.
Builders are figuring on the plans
for the grand stand to be erected for
the BAH ground on Franklin avenue.
Fencing material is already on the
ground and work will soon be started
The Office of the Morris Feed Co. has
been removed from the Trust 20.
building to the Merchants block where
S. G. Griffith is in charge. Orders.
however, win still be taken at Il. +.
Whites office.
The warm dry weather was respon-
sible for a large number of woods fires
during the past week or so. Fires are
reported from all directions, some OF
them requiring hard work to subdue
and protect buildings.
The directors of the MorriStown
Library & Lyceum at meeting on
Friday evening elected John Edward
Taylor, president, to succeed the late
John Whitehead and Admiral Phillip
III. Cooper, vice-president.
The Morris County School Board
Association met at the Maple avenue
school last Saturday and listened to
an address by Assistant Superinten-
dent ] j. B. Belts, who urged the beau
tifying the surroundings of the school
houses.
The weather made a quick jump
from winter to summer, thermometers
on Wednesday registering in the eigh-
ties in the shade. The change was
welcome to movers, as it permitted
the opening of houses for the removal
of furniture without the discomfort
of cold or storm.
The annual parish meeting Of theBap-
fist ChurchwaS held Wednesday night.
Messrs. G. A. Reed f. S. Burnett and
G. r. Gordon were elected members of
the board of trustees and t.. d. Pier
son, a deacon. Joseph f. r. Boniface
was. reelected treasurer of benevolent
contributions and Miss Louise Baird,
a manager Of the Baptist Home for
the Aged at ROsevile.
A Fatal Runaway Accident.
Philadelphia, April Mrs. Caroline
Muller, wife of Gustavus A. Muller
president Of the Bergner & Engle
Brewing company, was killed in a