The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-04-10
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


ordinance at the meeting held on Mon
day evening.
The retail price Of ice in MorristoWn
advanced to fifty cents per hundred
pounds on April LIST.
Bishop Lines confirmed clacs Of
ten at the Church of the Redeemer on
Sunday and afterward preached.
John X. Boniface has resigned as an
active member Of Humane Steamer
Co. after a service Of about twenty
four years.
Laggren Bros. of Elizabeth, have had
a force Of men at work for several days
erecting new awnings for local busi-
ness places.
The Shelley Ice Co. has filed its new
store house on Water street with ice
made in the factory as reserve against
summer demands.
It's believed that there were more
automobiles seen on the streets OF
Morristown on Sunday than on any
one day previous.
An exhibition of drawings by A. 3.
Frost and Mrs. Kate Rogers Newell
was opened at the Keppel Galleries,
New York, on April 5.
Residue Fl. 81 =, CO., has accepted
an invitation to participate in the hire
parade at Nutley on May is, as the
guests of AyOndale Hose Co.
The street department has provided
q little four wheeled wagon with bag
holding device, to facilitate the re-
moyal Of papers from the streets.
Telegraph instruments have been
placed in the stations on the Morris
town & Erie r. r.. the telephone line
being used for connection at Essex
Fells.
Two men we're taken over the N. J.
s. Pa. r. r. on Friday with maps,
profile, ETC., in company with J. a.
Wilbur.
Morristown Aerie, number 1911,
FraternaI Order of Eagles, will pre-
sent Daniel Sully in 1.-THE Match
maker" at the Lyceum on Monday
evening, April %.
Justice Garretson on Saturday APP
pointed the following sewerage COM
missioners for Morristown: Rear Adj
maral r. Ell. Cooper, Q. Hurting, @. ID.
M. Cole and e. 5. Burke.
The x. M. g. a. Athletic Associ-
alton has elected the following officers:
president, HoratiO Steiner; vice-presi-
dent, O. Armstrong secretary and
treasurer, Robert Sturgis.
The stores of Arnold Bros, and Ru-
tan Bros, were flooded this morning
by the carelessneSs of somebody in
leaving faucet turned in the room of
the masors union on the third floor.
Another school meeting will be held
in the chapel Of the Maple avenue pub
for the coming year. The board OF
education asks that s2S. 900 be raised.
The Parsippany Presby Church
has subscribed 81 400 toward the pur-
chased Of 81, 800 pipe organ. A COM
mittee has been appointed to raise the
balance and negotiate for the organ.
The sale of the correspondence,
sketches, ETC., Of the late ThOmas
Mast in New York. the first of the
week proved of much interest and was
attended by a number from Norris
town.
The Ayers house, So Franklin street,
has been rented through f. D. Bald
WINS agency to Robert b. PeaTsall, of
New York. Mr., Gaines, the present
occupant Of the house, returns to New
York on May lst.
The Mutual Life Insurance Co. has
filed complaints in an action against
Richard a. McCurdy and Robert FL.
McCurdy as superintendent OF the for
eign department In 1886. The Mutual
seeks to recover 81, coz, 841.
The spring institute of the Morris
County Women's Christian Temper
ance Union will be held in the Succa-
sunna M. b. Church on Wednesday,
April %. 1906 Mrs. Emma Bourne
will be the principal speaker.
Salney Bros, have given out the
carpenter contract for the alterations
to their newly purchased Speedwell
avenue property to James Granville
and the mason work to Mooney s.
Lyons; plumbing to FL. M. Salkind.
The Centenary Collegiate Institute,
of HackettStown, begins the confer
ence year free of debt, the SS0,000 OF
Indebtedness being provided for.
Treasurer E. l.. DObbins has trans
ferred the Stewart farm which he re-
Gently purchased to the institute.
The Christian Endeavor Society Of
the First Baptist Church has elected
the following officers: president, A.
Vance PierSOn; yice-p president, Rev. @.
@. Horsman; secretary, Miss Josephine
q. Lane; corresponding secretary, Miss
Minnie Lane; treasurer, Frederick +.
Boniface.
The Public Service Cooperation he's
applied for a gas franchise i'll Chatham.
Councilman Hewitt, Hopping and
Mum were appointed a special com
mittee. The Newark News" says
that it is move to reach Madison and
MOrristown. The corporation mains
extend to M,ilburn at present.
Victor Al Wiss has given out con-
tracts for the erection of a new garage
E9x1S0 feet to be located on Pine Street,
below the Price stable. 1t will be
built with solid concrete foundation
and hollow concrete block super struc-
ture. Sturgis Bros, have the mason
contract; the Mills Wood working Co.,
the carpenter work
James TimmonS has commenced
work on the alterations TO the house
corner of Washington and High
streets, which he recently purchased.
He will tear off the kitchen wing and
move it to the rear OF the lot, making