The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-16
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


a fine cement walk has been laid in
frontof the Chambers properties on
South streeB
The rainfall for the month Of Sep
TENDER as recorded by w. a. Dunn
was 2.S5 inches.
Gordon E. Sherman is conducting a
!class in constitutional law at Yale
College on Thursday afternoons.
A movement is on foot to hold a.
large poultry show in MorristoWn dur
ing the coming winter.
The VanHouten place on Ridgedale
avenue was sold at masters sale on
Monday for S1,025, the purchaser be-
ing Daniel Price.
DR.. Schauffier addressed the first
meeting of the Mems Club OF the
First Presbyterian Church held on
Monday evening.
I; III. w. Buxton was called east on
Sunday by the conditions Of his sister,
who has been i'll there for some time
and suffered a relapse.
The hunt meet on Saturday will be
at the Park. Before the hunt a dim
ner will be given by B. NIcoll az The
Whippany River Club.
r. w. Caldwell and @. w. Ennis
have improved their Elm street prop
critics by laying cement walks IN 'front.'
from fence line TO curb.
There were several dinners given at
the Whippany River Club after the
K games on Saturday, the largest being
given by Philip Kearney.
Resolute Hook 81 Ladder Company
will have banquet at Days On We'd
nesday evening to celebrate the blue
ribbon won at the horse show.
The United Box Board and Paper
Co. have started repairs to the big
Hanover Mill at Whippany, prepare
cory to starting the machinery.
Alfred Bell has been elected presi
dent and Walter Coghlan, secretary
and treasurer of Glass Sc Of the South
Street Presbyterian Sunday School,
The local Christian Science room in
the Babbitt Building will be open
hereafter every night from seven
thirty, in charge Of William z. Par
sons.
The eleventh annual show of the
Morris County Florists and Garden
er's Society will be held in the Assem-
bly, rooms, Madison, on November LIST
and End.
Candidate MARITIME was in town on
Saturday and Sunday arranging for a
public meeting and incidentally dis
tributing cards bearing his picture
and name.
John d. Collins plans to build a
house fronting on the lane running in
from Miller street on the lot which he
recently purchased from A. r. Pier
son, being the rear Of IS Western ave.
At the eight annual meeting of the
Tri-County Medical Association held
last Tuesday at Newton, DIR. A. A.
Lewis read paper and later on was
elected president of the association.
The board of excise on Wednesday
evening granted a hotel license TO X.
r. johnson for the Washington Hotel,
a saloon license to e. f.. COOney and
wholesale license to f. L. Lippman.
A class OF about thirty ladies has
been organized to sing under the di-
rection of j S. Matthews 1t will be
known as Mr.. Matthews ladies class
and will meet in the South Street
Church.
The Young Women's Christian I'm
ion resumed its work for the season
on Monday night when classes in en-
brOidery, dresS-making, bookkeeping
and physical culture were started at
the Market Street Mission.
w. f. Barkman is putting down
cement walk in front of the lot on
Speedwell avenue which he recently
purchased. The paving stones which
were laid there will be relaid on the
Henry street front OF the lot.
A stag was held at the Y ] NJ. @. A.
last Wednesday evening Entertain
ment was provided by Fanford q
Humphries, monologist and oanj6ist,
and piano music by MeSSrS. Harlem
slime, Stocks and Mills Refresh
ments were served later in the evening
The Morristown Fife and Drum
Corps participated in the tiremen'spar-
ade at Elizabeth on Thursday BoOnton
and Rockaway departments were rep
resented, but MorristOwn had only
spectators to represent the town The
parade is said TO be the largest ever
held Ia New Jersey.
The fftieth regular meeting ofsthe
Friday Evening Club will be held on
Friday evening and be addressed by
II. S. Dellenbaugh, on the The Can
yOn of the Colorado" The speaker
was one OF the first TO explore this re-
giOn and the lecture will be ILLUSTRATE
ed with stereopticon views.
There were two rows ia the F'lagler
street section. One onSaturday night
started over the purchase Of some
grapes and in the melee, Martin Farino
was stabbed in one of his wrists. On
Sunday the same question started an
other racket Ia which shots we're
fired, but nobody hurt. Arrests were
made.
MesSrs. Elmer King and D. +. bark
man. counsel for Henry Stevensi H.
dicted for murder had three physi.
clans, Doctors Thayer Flagg and
OaShea examine the prisoner on Mon
day. 1t is claimed that Stevens. has
suffered from epileptic fits since boy
hood and was not responsible for his
acts.
DR.. McAlpin has commenced the
erection of a new table on his Little
ton place The central structure will
be f0rty-six feet square and Two stories
high and there will be two wings each
35x524 feet in size. In one wing there
will be accommodation for twenty
four cows, while In the other, wing
viii be a number Of box stalls. In the
naAfFa1 huiIdfno will he shelter for