The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-21
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Rev. Mr.. Wilkins has been secured
as curate of st. Peters Church, his
duties beginning en- June lst,
\ The Morris Academy defeated the
New York University Freshman on
Saturday by the score OF 8 to o.
Contracts for the new police build
ing were at last signed on THURSDAY
and work will probably be started soon.
The Lauter Company has rented the
store in the new Tomlinson Building,
for branch of their Newark piano
sstore.
Mrs. Ames has rented her house cor
ner of Madison avenue and Franklin
street to George Dadmun for three
years.
CLYDE Potts, of the firm Of Williams
> Proctor & Potts, has rented the Hibler
houseon Western avenue and will soon
occupy it. 4sse
George A. Squier was elected preSi-
dent Of the Board of Commissioners of
the New Jersey State Reformatory
last week.
w. C.Van Doren is making sketches
fer new residence which Guy Minton
is planning to erect on Main street,
Chatham.
TIE subscribers to the Morristown
Library now numbers IDA, with an
average distribution of about 250
books day.
The United Electric Co., is having
some of the armatureS of the dynamOS
in the local plant rewound and some
new coils put in.
Putnam A. Bates has force of men
grading the drive from Madison ave-
nue. along the Ward tract to the site
of his proposed house.
The Miller carnival will open in
Morristown this Wednesday, May %,
continuing until June 1st, for the bene-
fit of tie two hospitals.
Charles Stilwell's auto met with a
mishap near Dover on Friday evening
and as a result Mahlon Clarke was
thrown out and bruised.
HI. S. Loud and Kinsley Twining
. have declined to accept the office OF
directors of the local Y. M. Q. A. TO
which-they we're elected last week.
Frank Trussell, who was injured in
a collision with a trolley car at Dover
on May IL, died at All Souls Hospital.
His remains were taken TO Whippany
for interment.
r Mr.. and Mrs. William Dalton have
issued invitations for the marriage of
their daughter Minnie and Joseph
Smith at the Church of the Assump-
.tion on June 10.
The publication of the St. Peters
Record has been resumed, the tlrSt
number appearing last Sunday and
containing much interesting matter
about the parish.
The chemical engine was called at
the residence of E. P. Ford on Wash
ington street on Monday noon, where
an oyerheated chimney threatened
danger to the house.
L. Crist Delmonico has rented
through the agency of w. j. Romano,
the Bushnell property on, Elm street
recently occupied by Louis b. Adams,
for a term of three years.
A. B. Louder will deliver lecture
on Bridge Building in Africa" Illus
trated by views taken by himself, in
the ". M. @. A. Hall this Wednesday
evening. The Schumann Trio will rem
der music.
Paurolmen Meslar and Naughtan
have purchased the old police head
quarters and will tear it down and re-
move the lumber to their premises,
where both intend increasing the size
of their stables.
DR.. and Mrs. Erdman start on May
Both on their trip to Honolulu. On
the way across the continent they VIII
stop in Des Moines to see their son
Carl, then go on to the Grand Canyon,
sailing on June IL.
The sidewalks of the new chapel at
st. Ehzabeth's Academy are about up
Ito the roof level. The tower which
will be a hundred and forty feet high
will require the attention OF the ma
sons probably all summer.
The Delta Theta Tau Fraternity
has been Incorporated as an organlza
ton, not for profit, with Office at Con-
vent Station. The incorporators
named all have their addresses at the
Prudential Building, Newark.
The only change in the strike situa-
tion is in the carpenter branch In
which the Geo A. Mills Woodworking
Co, w. f. Barkman, Mooreland &
Torrance and Gates B. Parsons have
acceeded to the demands OF the men.
John d. Collins has signed the con-
tract for the construction of con-
crete cellar 60X40 for tile house and
one 30x35 for stables for Putnam
Bates to be erected on his property on
Treadwell avenue, just off of Madison
avenue.
Mendham Borough is planning to
put in borough water supply. Ii is
estimated that SIS, 900 viii pe required
and a referendum will be held ia July.
The supply will be taken from near
the residence Of David o Keeie Oh the
mountain.
The New Jersey Automobile Co.'S,
first endurance test passes through
Morristown on the morning of May
30, coming via Denville and leaving
town via Washington street and
Mepdham. The first control will be
at Morrisrown Green.
William HI. Baker, man twenty
five years of age, seven feet, seven in
ches Tall and weighing two hundred
and twelve pounds attracted consider
able attention on the streets on
Thursday. He is an agent for the
jamestown Exposition.
The open season for catching black
bass, calico bass, white bass, pike and
pickeral began on Monday, May 10th,