The Morris County chronicle., 1906-12-18


few days 70 business.
The Morris Academy closes for the
Christmas vacation on Friday, and
will reopen on January 8
The Theta Phi Literary Society met
at the residence Of f. M Day, Oly-
phant Park, on Wednesday.
The Christmas exercises OF most Of
the Sunday Schools will be held on the
Friday succeeding Christmas.
The night school is still holding it's
own with an enrolment Of hfty-six
The school will have q vacation for the
holidays.
The aged father Of E. a. Foster is
very i'll at his son S residence on Scar
ing avenue, as the result Of a fall a
few days ago.
r. G. Phelps Stokes addressed the
students Of Drew Seminary in the
chapel Of that institution on Wednes-
day afternoon.
The S. & H. trading stamp company
will remove January first to the va
can't store in the new Miller building
on South street.
Charles I'll. Totty was elected presi-
dent Of the New York Florists Club,
at its annual meeting, which was heiu
in New York last week.
The Christmas exercises OF the In
dustrial School which meets each SAT-
day in the Bautist Church will be held
on Wednesday, December 26,
Ticket Agent Van Buskirk, Of the
I,ackawanna. has been transferred to
the South Orange Office andraAgent
Tyac of Wharton. assigned TO Morris
town.
The public schools will close for the
Christmas vacation Oh Friday when
exercises suitable to the season will be
held The school re0pens on January
third.
The board of excise on Wednesday
evening granted a wholesale license TO
A. w. Theiler and a hotel license to
Frank Ambrose, for the West End
Hotel
e. LeClair VOgt, as executor OF his
fathers will has sold the NOgt house
and lot on Speedwell avenue running
back TO the wall TO Mrs. Cornelia J.
Pierson.
Harry w. Buxton, Junior Assembly
man eject for Morris County, Will be
quartered in Nassau Hall, his Prince
ton College Club, during the legisla-
tive term.
The Third Ward Republican Com
mittee has organized by electlng
Charles H Green, chairman George
G. Runyon, treasurer and w X. Day,
Jr., secretary.
The deed has been recorded trans
ferring the Harriet a. Evans property,
cOrnerof Miller road and COLES avenue,
to Ward Campbell The considera-
tion was $40, ,750.
The Library and Lyeeum trustees
have decided to cut doorway through
from the foot OF the the new gallery
stairs. atfording an outlet through
the outside staircase.
James Quinn was run over by a
Lackawanna train at Dover last Efl-
day. He had both legs cut off and was
brought to Memorial Hospital where
he died later from the shock.
The locomotive and three coal cars
on the Nj s. Pa. II, r.. jumped The
track near Gladstone While on the way
W H4OIiInLQWfl Okl UA01teJ1 N4NAtFJ LIS
operations until this afternoon.
DR.. Joseph H. McNIahon delivered
the third lecture in the course under
the auspices OF the Bayley School Al
umni in Bayley Hall on Tuesday even
ing, bis subject being Lourdes. z
EdgarF. Randolph has returned from
a hunting expedition to Dakota. He
killed a fine specimen OF Mountain
lOin and some other large game, but
no mountain sheep as he had hoped.
The bench and bar Of New Jersey
are arranging a banquet to be given
Vice-C Chancellor Pitney at the Wal
dorf- Astoria Hotel. New York, onthis
eightieth birthday on January 18th,
next
G. Fl. Day has sold his grist mill
property at Brookside, including the
pond. the reeidence of @. H. Lade, and
about eight acres additional to Mr..
Lade the present occupant Of the
property.
Timothy a. Deryan, who has been
ia charge of the Office at F'lorham
Farms for the last ten years, was
transferred last week to Ell. Nick
will act as confidential clerk
The Knockers basket ball team de-
feated the Spartans, OF Summit, last
Saturday evening. BY the score Of 81
to Fl. After this game, the Knockers
Second Team was defeated by the
Crescents, OF Montclair, the score be-
ing 30 to l5.
Jutice Condor fined Charles A.,
Shears0n, Of Summit, S25 and costs on
Saturday for speeding his automobile
through town on the previous Sunday
He was not caught at the time but his
number was noted and correspondence
with Trenton landed the man.
j. Sebastian Matthews gave an or
gan recital Ia ST. Peters Church on
Tuesday AFTERNOON for Miss Dana's
School, to which Miss Dana invited a
number of her friends I'he recital
supplemented the lecture given at The
school last week on organ music.
A Newark real estate concern has
purchased one hundred and eight
acres of land along the Morristown
4 Erie Railroad, near SwineiicldI
Bridge, ana laid iL out into streetsand
lots. A new town Will be started
there TO be known as Beaufort Park.
The painting of the Morris Acad-
enay on exhibition In RunyOn's win
dow Is attracting considerable atten-
zion. 1t is particularly valuable in
that the local artist has been very