The Morris County chronicle., 1907-09-10
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

cream social at the COlllnSyllle Cnapei
tonight.
The truck horses returned on Tues
day from their vacation and are again
ready to respond to fire alarms.
The Chatham Athletics shut out the
Parksides in game at chatham on
Saturday, the score being to 0.
The special election of Mendham
borough for the authorizing OF water
works will be held on October lst.
The board of freeholders will meet
this Wednesday morning and the
board of excise on Wednesday evening.
Builders are figuring the plans for
alterations to the frame house on the
Kountze place, known as the Living
sSton house.
The Presbytery of Morris and Orange
will meet in the Central Presbyterian
Church at Summit on Tuesday, Sep
tember 18th.
W. f. Barkman has the contract for
the bungalow which W. E. Beach will
erect on Speedwell avenue. 1t is "a
81 feet in size--
A recruiting Office, under the direc-
stion of Lieutenant Tremaine, OF the
18th Cavalry has been opened in the
Babbitt building.
Judge Mills in Orphans Court on
Friday morning handed down a de-
,cision sustaining the will OF the late
Mrs. Esther J. Cooper.
The public school building at Stirl-
ing has been condemned by the county
superintendent. The appointment OF
school moneys will be withdrawn.
The Orange Journal has made an as
signment for the benefit OF its credit
.ors and stockholders. William Card
well, of East Orange, has beenappoint-
ed receiver.
The McEwan Brothers are building
a Sedimentation tank at the Malapar-
dis mills, the purpose being TO hitter
the water used in the board mills and
use it over and over.
The Monroe school in Hanover town
ship has not been opened the pupils
except those living nearer Whippany
being conveyed to the Morris town
ship school at Collinsville.
The Morris County Medical Asso-
of aldermen to-day. DIR. II. Vaughan
read a paper on the treatment of affec-
tions of the nose and throat.
The A. w. Cutler estate has sold to
Homer Davenport tract of about
thirty acres on the side OF Watnong
mountain adjoining Mr.. Davenport's
other lands at Morris Plains.
+ The first accident due to sewer
trenches occurred last Saturday when
the wheels of a loaded hay wagon in
turning from Mt. Kemble to Maccul-
loch avenues went down to the hub in
the filed sewer trench.
Martin Farino is diging out under
the building on Speedwell avenue
which he occupies and will lay a new
floor, put in new front and cell the
interior changing the old Doyle black
smith shop into store.
The pinnacle Of the tower OF the new
chapel of st. Elizabeth Academy was
finished on Friday. 1t Is 135 feet above
the water table of the structure. The
battlementS and other stone work
were finished on Monday.
The italian band, we are informed, /,
has changed leaders, Prof. d'Agosti-
no having retired and Prof. Giuseppe
VergiliUo has been secured as leader
and the organization will be known as
Vergilito's Concert Band.
The freeholders' clam bake party to
Atlantic Highlands on Thursday,
numbered one hundred and ten men.
The only rain experienced after leav-
ing Morristown was a shower of about
five minutes duration. The dinner
was well served and the whole trip
greatly enjoyed.
An examination will be held for the
position Of clerk and carrier in the
Post Office at Morristown on NOvem-
Der 2Oth. Applications must be sent
to. and received by III. N. SaxtOn, sec
retary. End u. S. Civil Service District,
Custom House, New York, on or be-
fore October 21st.
The library reopened on Thursday
after nearly month of cleansing and
repairs. The walls have been kalso-
mined, also the halls adjacent to the
library rooms, and the floors have been
vanished. The shelves and books
have all been gone over and given a
thorough cleaning.
The firm OF Brennan u 20. mas Deen
organized with e. L. Brennan as the
active manager, to deal in paper stock
and other kinds of junk. The firm has
leased the buildings along the Erie
r. b., near Ridgedale avenue, which
were erected for the Silicate business,
and will have the switch near there
extended to the storage house.
Five boys, Peter Lise, Matthew Can
non, Frank RUBBISH, Joseph Bray and
Fred johnson, were committed to Jail
by Justice Young on Dover on Sunday
for robbing freight cars on the Lacka-
wanna between Little Falls and Lin
coin Park some time ago. RUBBISH and
Bray were before the court some time
ago on much the same charge but SEN
tence was suspended at that time.
The manufacture of cigars and Gig
arettes is one of the few factory indus
tries that are represented in every
state, :aqd 1tRg1EOry, according to a
Cansusl BufeSh bulletin just issued.
The produeriDnsTanges in value from
80, 80 for Mississippi in 1904 to $50, ,232,-
GIT for New York in the same year.
The totAl-Faltie Of the productions in
the United States in 1904 was S2l4 ,350,-
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The MA1is0n Eagle says: 1t is stated
on good Authority that the stock of the
First National Bank Of this place will
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