The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-04-17
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


scross buns on Good Friday.
The Epwofth League Of the Metho-
dist Church will elect officers to-nor-
row evening"
Bishop Edwin Stevens Lines will de-
liver the address at the Memorial Day
services this year.
sFhe OliveF-Drake CO., is laying a
thousand feet Of water main from
sSpeedwell avenue to the Malloy place
at Morris Plains.
The annual ball of Humane Steamer
Co.. was held in Washington Hall last
night. The attendance was large and
the affair a success.
The Morris Gun Club will have q
large shoot on Friday. At the same
time the schedule Of matches for the
shooting league will be arranged.
Mrs. Sidney Baldwin, S. A. Baldwin
and Mrs. Irving Salmon, are at;Atlan-
tic City for the week. f. ID. Balnwin
goes there tomorrow for short stay,
Geo. T. Allen has the contract for
the alteration and addition to the
residence of A. FL. Lynch, on Western
avenue. Geo. w. Bower a. Sons. arcfi-
itects.
A. H. Pierson has purchased the
Stiles house on Western avenue. 1T
will be occupied by a. Vance Pierson,
who will remove there from Court
street next week.
The sewerage commission has elect
ed Admiral Cooper, chairman, and 10.
IS. Burke, secretary. The meeting for
organization was held last Friday. w.
w. Cutler was elected counsel.
The Oliver-Drake Co. has completed
a new double cottage at Castle Rock
Park, Lake HOpatcOng. They intend
to occupy it for a part Of the season
and rent it the rest of the Time,
After a lingering illness, Miss Emma
Burnett, formerly Of this city, died at
the residence Of Mrs. Harriet Pruden,
in Newark, Friday morning. She was a
member Of the Baptist Church OF this
city.
One of the state travelling libraries
has arr. we'd in MOrristoWn and is at
the library. 1t comprises about thirty
volumes of theological works and was
secured by several clergymen about
MOrriStOwr.
Marshal Holloway went to Newark
yesterday and brought back James
Mccoy, who was indicted for forgery
last October. He was in the Newark
Jail under an assumed name charged
with disorderly conduct.
ST. Peters Church raised $1,000 for
the tower fund by the collection on
Sunday. The amount was gratifying
considering the weather and it is GER
tain that more will be added by those
unable to be present on Sunday.
An ACQUISITION has been placed in
the First Presbyterian Church. Sew
eral telephone transmitters are located
in a case on the desk, while wires run
from them to receivers in the pews.
At present there are three inStru-
ments in use, but any number can be
added.
At a recent meeting of local labor
union one of the members arose and
said " Mr.. Chairman, | move that we
buy chandeliers for the union room. J"
Another member forWith arose, threw
his hat on the floor and said : / object,
there amt a d one Of the members
of the union can play them.
The board Of excise met on Wednes-
day evening. Hotel licen ses were
granted A. e. Voorhees, for the United
States Hotel and Piper Bros, for
Piper's Hotel. The application Of
Louis TremallO for saloon license
for his place on Flagler street was
laid over for month under the rule.
Over a hundred men gathered in the
First Presbyterian Church on Monday
evening to listen to George I'll. StrObell
of Newark, who spoke on the subject
" Christian View of Socialism, under
the auspices of the Mems Club of the
First Presbyterian Church. Follow
ing the address There was a discussion
lasting half hour or more.
Plans are out by w. @. Van Doren
for changes in the Johnson pharmacy
by which the open court on the corner
will be added to the store doors, being
provided on both Park place and Wash
ington street. ]. A. Antony, proprie-
tor Of the pharmacy, has rented the
old Stiles pharmacy on Washington
street adjoining and will use it as a
laboratory cutting door through from
the present store.
Another Of the large cars made by
the Mack Brothers Motor Car Co., Of
Allentown, Pa, passed through town
on Monday. This one was of sixty
horse power with capacity for twenty
four passengers. The company has
been shipping number of them to
Cuba, where they are used as street
cars. They run over the roads from
the factory to New York, where they
are nut on the steamers