The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-06-05
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

B. Ogden ChiSOlm is erecting a new
green house on his Whippany road
farm
The commencement exercises of the
MorristoWn High School will be held
on Friday, June ~.
Al fine show ring is being graded on
the grounds Of the Whippany River
Club for the coming horse show.
The street department is repairing
the short section of Mills street be-
tween Sussex avenue and Cutler street.
A mad dog in the Hillside section
created considerable excitement about
noon on Saturday but was finally shot.
The annual visitation Of st. Mary's
Cemetery took place on Sunday after
noon Rev. Cornelius Clifford preach
ed the sermon.
ID e. Romine caught pickeral
measuring twenty-incles at Lake ElO-
patcong on Wednesday, besides ten
other large fish.
III. Mellon is having a cement walk
six feet wide laid along his Madison
avenue frontage. Sturges Bros. are
doing the work.
All the boys of the M0rristown
e School except those taking college en-
trance examination will return to
their homes on June 10th.
Members Of the New Jersey Auto
mobile Club had a run to Mt. Airing
ton on Sunday, many OF the cars pass
ing through MorristoWn
The latest trolley rumor is that a
line Is to be built from Hackettstown
through Chester and presumably
Mendham to MOrristOwn.
The class Of 1907 Of the Morristown
High School went on an outing to
Troy Hills on Saturday. There were
twenty in the party.
Sheriff Shaw took Joseph Vandetten
and James Moore to State Prison on
Saturday, James Mccoy was left at
the Railway Reformatory.
The Marinaro building on Flagler
street has been finished and the fifteen
apartments all rented. A butcher shop
will occupy one of the stores.
The annual meeting of the Berkshire
Industrial Farm will be held at Cana
an -Four Corners, N. ", on Tuesday,
june, 18th, at eleven o'clock.
The Lackawanna after July LIST, will.
not give free transportation to the
men who live in Dover and work in
the new shops at Kingsland.
The letter carriers convention was
held at Kearney on Wednesday. Car
rierS DeGroot and Hutchings repre-
sented the Morristown branch.
On Decoration day, f. W. Ford, the
fast baseman of the Field Club ball
team, was hit in the eye by ball and
compelled to retire from the game.
A good sized vessel passed through
Morristown last night mounted on
large truck and drawn by eight horses.
1t was on the way to Lake Hopatcong.
Road Supervisor Mitchell states aft
or trip over all the county roads
that the worst section in the county is
in Morristown, a portion of Morris
street.
a number of members Of the local
board of education and others spent a
pleasant half hour with the state
board at the Morristown Inn on Mon
day evening.
The South st. Presbyterian Church
has elected p. III. Hoffman, Z. G.
Burnham and Fl w. milford, elders;
II. b. Hoffman and j u. Tallmadge,
were elected deaconS
The street department. has laid a.
short piece of c0bble gutter on High
street, completing the cobbling OF that
thOroughfare. The curbstones have al
so been Strengthened.
A non-suit was granted in the case
of John H. VanDuyne against the
Board of Chosen Freeholders for dam
ages claimed by changing the grades
of a road.
The annual reunion of the Goth
Regt. N. j. Volunteers will be held at
Lincoln Post Room, Newark, to-day.
Information can be had Of Comrade
Tr0xell at the Mansion House.
Marinaro & Tremallo have been put
ting down concrete walk for D. r.
Romine on Cleveland street, and also
have laid or contracted two hundred
and fifty feet on Flagler street.
George SAMSON has the contract for
the limestone for the Hill Chapel in
course of erection at st. Elizabeth's,
Convent. The site Of the chapel has
been moved twenty-five feet, causing
Z. the removal OF the rectory.
Whippany and vicinity is thorough |
" photographed The Orange Camera
Club, fifty strong with private car
went to that village on Wednesday, |
spending the day there with headquar-
tiers near the Hanover Mill.
g. w. Hardness has started the work
of improvement on the Plum place on
Madison avenue. John Ritter has a
gang of men grading, etc Mr. Hark-
ness will start a residence on his re-
turn from a trip to Europe
The Hanover township committee
at meeting held on Saturday decided |
not to appoint aroad inspector for the |
township until after election. A pc
tition numer0usly signed asked che
appointment of William Magee.
James L. Hays, president of the
State Board of Education, and DR.. ].
M Green, head Of the Trenton Nor
NAL School, addressed the public |
school in the chapel of the Maple Ave- |
nue. School on Monday morning
A horse belonging to e. II. Byram
ran away on Morris avenue on Friday, |
throwing out Mrs. Byram. She was
taken to the residence of Hobart Cam
field where her injuries were attended |
to, The carriage was badly broken.