The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-02
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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The board of aldermen will meet on
Friday evening.
There will be dance at the Golf
Club on Wednesday evening.
The Sanderson house on Pine street
has been rented to Charles Gillem.
The D. L. & w. r. r. has reopened
negotiations for track changes through
East Orange.
The freeholders are having the trees
in the court house yard trimmed by
professional trimmers.
The carpenters started work placing
the beams for the first story OF the
police building on Monday.
f. D. Baldwin has sold for Peter A.
Irving his house and lot, 10 Sussex
avenue to Charles f. Cleary.
Roxiticus Lodge, /. 0. O. F. con-
ferred the third degree on three candi-
dates at the meeting on Wednesday
evening.
The closing exercises of the Junior
Christian Endeavor Society OF the
Baptist Church were held on Monday
evening.
The Morristown Trust Co., has paid
to depositorS since organization on
December Is, 1892, 81, 314, 1885 in in
terest on deposits.
The remains of Emil Eisenschmidt,
the oldest son of the late Cnarles Eli
sensehmidt, were brought to Morris
town for interment on Monday.
The scho6ley's Mountain hill climb
ing contest has been postponed from
July Attn to July 9Th on account OF the
progress Of the repairs of the hill.
The conduit layers have completed
the ditch ON South street and trans
ferred operation to Morris street, start
ing from the Park,~
Plans are out for an addition to the
Winsfsip house on zBoykln street, re-
Gently purchased by +. K. Suits. H..
G. Walsh is the architect.
TheMMethodists Sunday School has
suspended the sessions of the primary
department of the school for the
months of July and August.
John Grunewald, gardener for w. e.
Wheelock, is picking ripe tomatoes
from his vines. He thinks he has
broken the record for this section this
year. 40 49,.
Nicholas Marinaro has purchased a
tract about two hundred feet square
fronting on Race street and including
the old soap factory. The price was
$4,000. 80 rs
The old soap factory building along
the Whippany river has been rented
for a boarding house for the Italian
laborers expected here to work on the
sewers. -ss
Several parties have visited Smith
e. H0ffv to examine The effects OF the
man, found. drowned in the Jaqui's
pond, but no Identification has as yet
been made, Ia
The excursion of the st. Peters and
Church of the Redeemer sunday
Schools to Cranberry Lake set for SAT-
urday was postponed to Tuesday, ION
account of the rain.
1t is expected that work will be
started on the new electric light
plant this week. The organization
Of the Morris & Somerset Electric Go.
is about completed. ~
During the heavy shower onWednes-
day afternoon lightning struck large
locust tree in front OF the reSldencetoI
MRS. John Burns on Mt. Kemble ave-
nue.. splintering it badly
The Society of the Alumni and Al
umna of the Bayley School held It's
second annual banquet in the Bayley
Hall on Tuesday evening. After the
dinner there was dancing.
Work on the coping of the new park
steadily continues. On MONDAY the
work Of concreting behind the coping
was started and the plot Will soon be
raised and prepared for seeding.
The Morristown & Erie r. r. has
torn down the SAMSON Stone Co.
building to.make more room about the
station. The lumber will he used in
the construction Of round house.
On Sunday afternoon I. D. Pierson
was publicly presented with a gold
watch fob in recognition OF twenty
seven years Of continuous service as
secretary of the Baptist Sunday school.
RAYMOND Huff had gypsy and his
wife arrested on Saturday night on a
charge Of highway robbery. The gyp-
sizes denied their guilt and had an en-
tiFely different version OF the trouble.
The route agent of the Y. s. Express
Co. for this section has resigned, also
the agent at Orange while the New
ark agent and station man have also
been let out OF the company's employ.
The use Of oil on the streets about
Morristown is rapidly spreading. Near
II all the principal streets are now
oiled, in some portions extending out
for considerable distance in the coun-
Try.
Mrs. Emma ID. Carter, wife Of the
Rev. Samuel T. Carter, formerly OF
Huntington, L. l., died at her home
in East Orange. on Thursday. She Is
a sister-in-law of Robert Carter, OF
MorriStoWn.
The Ten Busy Girls Club Of Wet
more avenue cleared S42 at sale on
Wednesday, for the benefit Of the
children's ward in Memorial Hospital.
Last year the club realized about e38
for the same object.
The new road froms NOrmandie
Heights to the Whippany road is max
ing good progress and ia the course Of
The next two weeks 1t will probably be
far enough along for vehicles to pass
over fjne whole extent of the new road.