The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-01-29
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The Chatham bowlers defeated the
TapkaOw bowlers Thursday night two
games out of three.
All the regular policemen are now
on duty and Chanceman Meeker is
taking his turn at illness.
The fire committee of the board of
aldermen has ordered thousand feet
of nose for the department.
The attendance at the night school
is not as great as at first, the present
attendance being about thirty.
The interments in Evergreen Gene
terry passed the 5000 mark last week.
The cemetery was opened in 1857.
The Tapkaows won two out of three
in the bowling contest with the Wav-
erlys of Madison on Monday evening.
A hundred members of the Tapkaow
Club have signified their intention of
attending the banquet planned for
February II.
A still alarm called the Chemical
engine to the Colgate house on We'd
snesday night to extinguish a stubborn
sschimney fire.
Fifty-six members were taken into
the Methodist Church on probation on
Sunday. Most of them were children
from the Sunday School.
Chief Engineer Runyon has had
racks prepared to hold the fire alarm
box numbers and locations for use in
the fire houses instead of the present
printed card system.
The A. J. A. Bennell house on Cobb
place has been sold through A @.
Price, real estate agent. to Mrs. Mar
garet Tiele, of Pine street, who takes
possession the first of April.
William McAdoo has found it i'm
possible to be at the Washington As
ISOLATION on Washington'S Birthday
and in his place Rear Admiral Caspar
It. Goodrich will make an address.
A meeting of the Morris County
Medical Society will be held in the
. Council chamber, this city, on Satur-
day afternoon, February End, at $50
O'Clock, at which time DR.. Mccormick,
of Kentucky. will be present and de-
liver an address.
The Erie r. r. has restored the
special despatch freight between New
York and Morristown closing at
Duane street after the business day
and delivered in Morristown the next
morning. Special cars have been
provided for the service.
Robert A. Price was obliged to kill
his bull dog this morning because of
the fear that the dog had become mad.
The animal bit one or two other dogs
and care is being taken to secure and
care for them so that the trouble If
any there was may not spread.
The Mary Heating estate has been
still further involved by the appear
ance in the case of daughter of the
late Charles Kilkenny of whose estate
Mrs. Heating was the administrator.
The daughter demands the money
which she says her father left.
The first eleven games in the series
of the twenty-five games, in the match
between Fred Shelly, of this place, and
Frederick W. Bardon, of Madison, for
the championship of Morris County,
were rolled Tuesday night on Rubin
skis alleys, Shelley winning eight OF
the eleven contests.
William Nicoll and boy were
thrown from wagon and the latter
was broken up last Thursday after
noon in collision on Madison avenue
with the automobile of George z.
Eadmun in charge of Chauffeur Alfred
Pagdon. Fortunately both man and
boy escaped injury.
Miss Allen, a graduate of the Post
Graduate Hospital, of New York, has
been secured as matron of the Norris
town Memorial Hospital and Miss
Garland of the same institution, as
assistant to Miss SiInms, who is in
charge of the nursing department.
Both have assumed their positions.
Extensive improvements have been
started on the Hill & Carson store, the
window on the Speedwell avenue front
will be changed, new metal ceiling
will be put on the main store and the
basement will be considerably altered.
New lighting fixtures will also be
placed and the store generally i'm
proved.
Collector Garrabrant, of Mendham
borough took strenuous measures to
collect the poll tax from one individ-
ual who happened to be serving on
the present panel of jurors. He had
asked for the tax several times and
when he had him in Morristown took
him before the sheriff as the law al
lows. Sheriff Shaw advanced the
S1.5O necessary from the mans pay
saving him from jail.
Otto III. Rey, of Brooklyn, N. Y, has
been secured to teach mathematics
and English in Morris Academy. Mr..
Rey has received the degree Of A. M.
from Columbia University. He has
taught one year at Iowa College. Dur
ing the past year he. has been at the
head of the educational department OF
the Prospect Park branch of the Brook
lyn Y. M. c. A., which position he has
resigned to enter upon his work here.
A sudden change in the weather
sent the thermometer down to around
the zero point on Wednesday morning
and still lower on Thursday when the
mercury was reported as two and
even four below. AS result skating
was resumed although almost too
cold for enjoyment. Pocahontas
pond is frozen over completely and
this time the weeds which were a
trouble before the pond was drawn of
are all gOhe. Ice cutting has also
been resumed, wagons loaded with
ice passing through the streets on
Thursday.
The annual meeting of the Brother
hood of the South Street Presbyterian
Church was held on Monday evening
when the following officers were elect