The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28
SOUTH ORANGE.

Former Village President Ira A. Kip, ~,
and family, of Scotland road and Montnose
avenue, have returned from ms summer
cottage In the Thousand Islands.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Byron and family,
of South Orange avenue, have returned
from Seabright, where the spent the sum
mer In their cottage.
Miss Flora NJ. Vose, of Montrose avenue,
has been at Granliden, Lake Sunapee, N;
. H., for the past six weeks. She returned
home today.
Mrs. George Gordon Byron, of Prospect
street, has reopened her house after spend
ing the summer with her daughter, Mrs.
Henry Forbes McCreery, at Edgemore,
l.. /.
Stanley Ward, of B~ronxvilie. formerly of
South Orange, has announced his engage
ment to Miss Emily Ford, of Lleweliyn
Park, New York. Mr.. Ward IL a widower,
his wife, Miss Hester Oakley, died of
typhoid fever nearly three years ago, and
at the same time Mr.. Ward was critically
ill for several months with the same dis
ease.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Minott, Of New
York. formerly of South Orange, were to
have sailed by the White Star steamer
Adriatic from Cherbourg on Wednesday
for New York. 1t is possible that they
were passengers in the transatlantic train
which was wrecked in the Breval tunnel,
near Nantes France. Mr.. Minott's family
" not been in communication since the
accident.
E. H. Durbrow has rented his house in
Raymond avenue to T. 8. Campbell, OF
New York.
Miss Julia Schneider, Of Scotland road,
has returned from Big Indian, N. Y.
Arthur and Harold Howe, sons of Solo
mon H. Howe, of Charlton avenue, have
entered Hotchkiss School.
Howard Murchie, son of Horace B.
AMurchie, of Prospect street. and a former
SSouth Orange High School student, is
playing halfback on the Phillips's An
dover Academy football eleven.
Highland Cunning has entered Prince
ton University and Is slated to play first
base on the 1908 baseball nine.
The funeral of George Campbell, son Of
who died Thursday. took place this after
noon from the home of his sister, Mrs.
John j. Boyd, of Kinda road. The services
were conducted by the Rev. Archdeacon
Lewis Cameron in the Church of the Holy
Communion. The interment was in Rose
dale Cemetery.
The Village Trustees will make an in
~spection of the new police and fire alarm
systems Monday night. Rowland D.. Per
rine, chairman of the police committee, has
commented highly on the good work OF
Fireman Charles Searles in installing the
fire alarm system between the village jail,
the Lackawanna roundhouse and the fire
headquarters in the Village Hall.
Court Ridgewood, Foresters of America.
of South Orange. will install the following
officers at a meeting next Tuesday night:
Chief ranger, Thomas A. Conlani sub-chief
ranger, John Hogan; lecturer, George -.
Versoy: recording secretary, Louis NJ.
Picot; financial secretary, Thomas j..
O'Brien; treasurer, Richard Gushing; Sc
nior woodward, Joshua Sharp; junior
woodward James Murphy; senior beadle,
Norman Simpson; junior beadle, John
Harmon and trustees, David Sullivan,
Charles O'Brien, ST., and Peter Newman.
Among those mentioned for the position
of village treasurer, to succeed Thomas
G. Conway. whose resignation takes effect
Monday. are Village Assessor Frank Fen
ner. John f. Mills, Colonel Henry w.
Freeman. Joseph p. Arnold and Charles
O'Connell. The appointment will be made
Monday light.