The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-06-19
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The letter boxes are being painted
green, the new standard coior-
Mrs. George f. Stone has purchased
an additional three acres Of the Ohm
sted tract.
DR.. ID. Nj. Sabatar has opened an
office in the new Miller Building on
South street.
Patrick Kilkenney has sold his prop
erty on the s. Cory road to James 5.
Osborne for 5000
The Epworth League Of the Metho-
dist Church will give its Juae social
tomorrow night.
The Church Club will have a smoker
and entertainment in the club rooms
on Thursday evening.
The ire insurance rates for Morris
county have been raised ten cents per
hundred dollars per year.
On account of the weather the x.
M. G. "A. athletic contests we're post
pOned until next Saturday.
Children's Day exercises Of Trinity
Baptist Church and the Collinsville
Chapel were held on Sunday.
The Alexander house on Atno ave
nue. has been sold to George s. Dick1e
through Fl. j. Genung's agency.
Excavation is under way for the
tower Of st. Peters Church. Concrete
work will be started next week.
a ball will be given at the GARNER
Inn, Deuyille, this Friday evening,
with good music and other attrac-
tiOnS.
The street department. will finish
the Improvement of Olyphant place
this week, then plan to go to Water
street.
The prizes for the Y. M. G. "a. closed
athletic contests are being displayed
in window OF the Dodge building on
South street.
Prof. and Mrs. z. M. Young gave
their last concert of the season last
Friday evening in their studio in the
Parker building.
PatrOlmen e. L. Brennan and j #.
Young, of the local police force, have
designed and applied for patent on a
music page turner.
The silver medal awarded the Nor
riStOwn public school for the work exr
1libited at the ST. Louis exhibition has
arrived at the school.
A store is being erected on Flagler
street adjoining the old POcohontas
mill house, which latter structure is
also undergoing alterations.
The senior class of the Morristown
High School has presented a mission
chair for the use of Mr.. Haven in the
chapel Of the Maple avenue school.
The heavy blasting heard during the
past few days has been at the old Po-
cohontaS mill, where wOrkmen have
been breaking up the old water wheel.
Geo. Nickerson has succeeded James
Hill as driver for the Well-Fargo Ex-
press Co. The former driver has taken
position on the MOrristown & Erie
r. r.
The G. e. Society of the First Pres
bvter;an Church entertained the mem
hers of the home department. OF the
Sunday school in the chapel on Friday
evening.
The Morristown Gas Co.. is rebuild
ing two benches of retOrts, building
brick house oyer the tar well at the
works and putting in new water gss
apparatus.
Rev. Thornton K. Tyson, a district
home missionary of Alvas Oklahoma,
spoke at the First Baptist Church on
Sunday morning relative to the work
in that new country.
I Miss Maria #. Tying, of Short Hills,
N. IT,, has rented her cottage, IA Far
ragut place, through E. D. Baldwin,
TO William M. Dayidge, of New York
city, for term Of years.
The new main mast for the liberty
pole arrived in town Monday night
THE stick is eighty-fve feet long and
squares eleven inches at the top
The board Of excise on Wednesday
evening granted renewal to FL. p
Piper, and a wholesale license to Lipp-
man & Tefft. A. p. Conway Withdrew
his application for a wholesale license.
r. @. Sheldon has returned to Mont
clair where he will be in charge of the
military academy during the vacation.
Mr.. Sheldon has been assisting James
Barber in opening the Morristown Inn.
The Malapardis train on the Nor
ristown & Erie r. r. had to an unuSu-
oil SbDH I'll 4 4QloO0y LIZ lAV ny AOns,Ot1 Va
friSky old horse taking the track
near Ridgedale ave. as an exercising
course,
Humane Steamer Co. has accepted
an invitation to participate in the lire
department parade at Railway on Oc-
tober 3. Until that date the company
will drill twice a week under the direc-
tion Of 3. J. Bradley.
Edward Wright, of this town, hrs
been appointed assistant snperinten-
dent for the Boonton Office of the Met
ropolitan Insurance Company and
took charge OF the Office June 18th.
Mr.. Wright has been with the com
pany in Morrist0wn nine months.
W.B. Blackwell he's purchq sed about
thirty acres Of the BoclOven property
on Mt. Kemble avenue. The tract
gives him a frontage on Mt. Kemble
avenue Of six or eight hundred feet
and runs back Of his present farm Civ
ing the opportunity TO build a private
road from the house to the avenue.
In special sessions on Monday, Judge
Mills sentenced John Barnish accused
Of assaulting Policeman Gilmartinl of
Boonton, to the Railway Ref0rmatory
and Frank Fl. Collins, charged with
robbing Wells A. Seward, Of Mt. Olive
township, also to the refornaato
The Morristown 8 Erie r. r. has
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