The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-03-06
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

SbdUG UlI6CJOE VI AdliAOu1o.
r. f. Sands has purchased the Cogh-
Ian house and lot on Centre avenue.
The Morristown Gas 90. has its new
trestle filled with coal and is storing
more coal on the railroad bank.
Elmer Voorhees,, late with Arnold
Bros, has gone on the road as sales
man for G. M. Bailey, Of Newark.
On and after March 1st, the local
pay station rate Of the telephone COM
Dany in MOrristOWn will be i've cents.
The executors Of the estate Of the
late w. 3. Skidmore have sold the
tract OF land On the Park through a
broker for $40, 900,
Dr. n. S. Wheeler entertained the
Morristown Medical CLUB on WedneS-
day evening. DR.. Wheeler read a pa
per on +" Diabetes
Mrs. Thomas McGrane, of 81 Ridge
dale avenue, announces the marriage
OF her daughter Katherine to Charles
w EarleS, of this town.
The regular meeting Of the Wo-
mems Auxiliary Of the Y. NJ. q. A..
will be held in the Association parlor
Wednesday, March 7th, at 3.3O p. M.
The spring reunion and luncheon Of
the New York and New Jersey Section
of the Alumn8 Association OF Miss
Dana's school, win be held at the
school next Saturday.
Samuel Munich, the Montyille MUIR
derer, was moved from Memorial Hos
pital to the county jail Thursday at
ternoon. Justice GarretSOn will not
be able to try the case before May.
A joint pool and billiard tournament
for a cup to be presented by George u.
Kip will be played at the MorrlstoWn
Club commencing Saturday evening,
March 10. Entries close on E'rlday.
James B. Seldom has sold his two
houses and lots on Centre street to
Philip Jaqui and has purchased the
Bowen house on Ridgedale avenue. he
will remove to his new purchased place
this this week.
Victor A. Wiss has purchased two
lots of forty feet front on Pine street
Just below r. A. Price s stable and will
erect thereon brick garage 30 $50
feet in size. Plans are by George w.
4JOW q ~ iJOt3s
! The Mozart Society has engaged
Miss Helen Kirschncr, known on the
stage as Miss Graham, as director OF
the society. She assumed her duties
OH Monday evening. The society
plans to take up the !" Mikado'"
Work has been started on the west
side of Bergen Hill on the second tun-
mel of the Lackawanna. Arrange
ments are being made to sink shaft
and lay a switch. The tunnel is to be
completed in twenty-five months.
The Shelley Ice Co. is erecting a
frame store house in which to store the
surplus product Of their ice factory for
the few weeks remaining until hot
weather, on Water street and the rail-
road. 1t will have capacity Of about
four hundred tons.
North College of Wesleyan Uniyer-
Sity, Middletown, Conn.,, burned We'd
nesday night Two MOrrist0wn boys
rOomed in the building, John Day
telegraphed that he saved his effects,
while Clarence Day happened to be
out Of town for the night.
President Smith has appointed the
following executive committee for the
M0rriStown Business Mems ASS0cla-
tiOn John SimminS, George l.. Clarke,
George E. VOORHEES,, Ii. M. Smith, @.
w. Ennis, Patrick Welsh, d. 4. Stur-
gis, G, f. Axtell, George A. Mills.
Bockoyen s. Day have given out
contracts as follows for the erection
of three story brick storage house
with Stag roof to be erected on Budd
street carpenters, Wilson & Griffith !;
masOns, Mooney & Lyons; iron work,
Dover Boiler Works. Collins Weir is
the architect.
Collins Weir is drawing plans for adj
ditiOns and alterations to the Colonial
House on South street, which will af-
ford seven new bath rooms. The
changes will also make several suites
of rooms with private baths. A new
porte cochere will be erected and a
new ceiling put in the dining room,
besides many minor changes.
At all the masses at both the Church
of the Assumption and st. Margaret's
Church on Sunday, reference was
made to the excise bills now pending
before the New Jersey Legislature,
and the parishioners were urged to
use their best endeavors to secure the
passage Of a bill to remedy the present
excise situation.
Lewis G. Meeler, who has just UNI
dergone an operation for the removal
Of cataractS FROM his eyes, is about
again The operation was performed
at Memorial Hospital by DR.. Mial and
was satisfactory in every respect. Mr..
Meeker speaks very highly of the treat
ment he received by the physicians
and and nurses at the hospital and Of
course is grateful for having his eye
sight restored.
Hamilton Wright Mabie will ad-
dress the members of the MOrriSt0wn
High School and the highest grammar
grade and friends at ESQ on Friday
afternoon, March Is in the chapel Of
the Maple Avenue School There will
be seating capacity for large number
Of persons and an invitation is extend
ed to the general public TO attend the
lecture.
&. j.. Thatcher, J ]. Price, Practi
cal Painters.
Don't pay cents per pound for
wood.
II you buy 100 pounds Of White
Lead In kegs you get 81 pounds OF
White Lead and IL pounds Of Wood.
When You buy Il. & M. Paint you
get full gallon Of paint that won't
wear on for l0or Is years, because u.
s. NJ Zinc hardenS the l.. 81 M. White
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