The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-09-11
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The Free kindergarten opened on
Monday.
Miss Dana's School will reopen on
September 26.
The remains Of the late Charles Fl /.
Mellon were brought to MorristoWn
last night.
The PreSbytery Of Morris and Orange
will meet at the Hill Top Church,
Mendhanl, on September IS.
Salny Bros. are preparing to lay a
cement sidewalk in front Of their new
building on Speedwell avenue.
Max 3. Schmidt has removed to his
new house on Madison avenue opposite
the Morris County Golf Club.
Charles Jennings will build a house
on Water street near Hillary avenue.
S. u. Bower is drawing the plans.
A stalk of corn thirteen feet high
raised on the farm of e. P. Thebaud
has been on exhibition at the store Of
Geo. 3. Voorhees,.
The State Board Of Health has is
sued a bulletin for August, showing
the total number Of deaths IN the
month to have been 1928.
The boxes for the Morristown Field
Club horse show will be sold in the
grill room of the club house on the
evening Of September "a.
The store in the Dalrymple building
on Washington street has been rented
to firm and will be opened as a con-
fectiOnery and fruit store.
General e. p. Meeney is to have tur-
rets erected at the front corners of his
home on Madison avenue and is also
adding to the rear of the house.
John Gill has resigned his position
with the United Box Board and Paper
Co. at the Whippany mills and has
secured position as salesman in New
York.
Ebert Egbert has rented the little
store in the Timmons Building on
Washington street, and will open
there ia the photography business on
the fifteenth.
Rev. A. w. Wishart, of Trenton,
who has spoken in MOrristoWn on sew
eral occasions has accepted call to
the Fountain Avenue Baptist Church
OF Grand Rapids. Mich.
HOPPER & Grimes have the contract
and have large force of carpenters
at work on the new ice factory of w.
T.. Mills on Albeit avenue. The ma
chinery is already on the ground.
The enrolment at the Public Schools
are as follows: Maple avenue, $40;
\ SpeedWell avenue, 419; Liberty street,
1853 total, 1,4l6 The enrolment is al
most the same as for the month of
September year ago.
The Board Of Fire Wardens had its
annual outing at Glenwood, L. l., on
Monday. There was a good attend
ance of members and guests and a
pleasant day was spent. There were
no shooting or other events
Plans are out by w. B. Pierson for a
two and a half story brick building
33x4O feet. to be erected by J. G. Layer
at Morris Plains on the site Of the old
Franklin Fairchild house, which will
be moved to the rear of the lot.
J. P. Maher has resigned his position
as station agent for the MorriStown &
Erie r. r. and taken the position of
chief clerk to the Erie dispatcher at
the Jersey City offices. A. Miller An
derSon succeeds to the position Of
agent.
Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin
will be In New Jersey during the week
speak at an open air meeting in Nor
day, September 10Th, also at Dover
and Boonton.
The dinner In celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the found
ing of the Young Mems Catholic AS
SOciatiOn will be held on November 10,
it being found by the committee that
the association started in November,
rather than September as thought
Harry Morgan, fourteen years old OF
18th street aud William Powers ff-
teen years Of Willis avenue, New Y ork,
were arrested on Saturday. They beat
their way out from New York on a
train on Friday night, being about the
station all night and stole some candy
from the Union News Stand. They
were returned to their parents on Sum
day.
There were about a hundred mem
berS of the board of freeholderS and
guests at the clambake at the West
mOreland Hotel at Lake Hopatc0ng
last Friday. The bake was served
promptly at one O'Clock and proved of
exceptional appetizing qualities. In
Strumental music was furnished by a.
string quartet and the day was pleas
antly spent.
The corner stone of the new chapel
which James j. Hill is building for
st. Elizabeth's Academy at Convent
station was laid on Saturday afternoon
by Bishap O'Connor Of the Newark
Diocese. A number OF the sisters
were in attendance but very few others
and there was no speaking. A metal
box containing records, etc, was placed
in the stone and masoned in.
Peter Mowery has had plans drawn
for altering the barn on his premises
on Water street into a six room house
facing on Mt.AiTy place. Collins Weir
the architect. The same architect
has drawn plans for extensive changes
to the one story house of Eugene
Sweeney on Atno avenue. The pres
sent house will be raised a story and
also moved back. Piazzas will be add
ed and improvements.
The Morristown Manufacturing Co.
is the name of a new manufacturing
concern which starts in the manufac-
ture of cherOots in the McIlravy build
ing on Speedwell avenue to-day The
concern has moved out from NewY0 rk
bringing along number of machines
and other apparatus for the manufac-
turing and the manager states that If
tho oon1narlv can QpnI1ra holm . ro.