The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-02
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The board Of aldermen will meet on
Friday evening.
4. w. McEwan has purchased a
large car from the Olds Company.
Thomas w. Caldwell has plans out
for an addition to his house on Elm
street.
The firm Of Titus & Shelley has
been dissolved, f. w. Titus continu-
ing the business.
The book takers who have signed
the Morristown Library cards now
number about 1,400.
The telegraph rates on business out
side of local traffic have been adj
ganced twenty per cent.
Mr.. and Mrs Lenox Rose are at
present in Rome. They expect TO re-
turn to their home on Park avenue,
Madison, on May 3.
a. stone drain will be laid on the
Spring street hill to care for the water
which recently caused the bottom of
the road to fall.
The older pupils of the public school
are practicing five choruSes under the
direction of E. M Young to be given
on commencement day.
The fair for the benefit of the Hill
side school piano fund held in the hall
of the Chronicle building last Satur-
day afternoon netted about S27.
The board of education has reOrgan.
lied by the election of E. O. Peck,
president; Or. Stephen2Pierson, vice
president; Fl A. Freeman, clerk.
The Humane Engine Co., No. 2,
hold their 25th annual ball Easter
Tuesday night. Grand march $50.
John J. Gill has rented the old Cas-
key mill in the rear of Morris street
for a Storehouse and has engaged in
the paper and paper stock business.
The Dalrymple- Hastings Co., has
moved the little Office building from
the stone yard at Morris Plains to Elm
street, where Frank Cihlar will use it
for shoemaking shop.
Charles Fl. Davis has sold his prop
ertp on Water street comprising lot
with two houses to John Ricca. Mr.
and Mrs. Davis will start a boarding
house at Asbnry Park
The First Ward Hose Co., has ac-
cepted an invitation to participate in
the Milburn township celebration on
April 18th, and has hired the Drum
Corps to accompany the party.
The fireplace in the freeholders
room is being torn out and a higher
one Of red brick substituted to make
room for the new safe which has been
nPf}0rpd for thn (lnI1ntu (NOIlootnr
Street Commissioner Dickson is
working to get the sidewalk on Morris
street raised between the Lackawanna
station and Spring street and also to
secure improvements on other streets.
Somebody ate not cross puns last
Friday W. f Day baked 2, l31 dozen
or 25,572, while Wise baked 1000, a
total OF over &c, 600 or three buns for
every man, woman and child living in
MOrriStown.
There was lively forest fire onWat-
nong Mountain in the rear OF the form
er residence of r. A. McCurdy which
lasted through Saturday and Sunday
but was extinguished by the snow of
Monday morning.
LIH1 WIupOlll 10 d. WOIh StdQ1uR
Lakeside place from Speedwell avenue
to P0cahontaS Lake and plans to erect
a house on one of his lots. Henry Jor.
genSen has started work on his second
house on that street.
The New Jersey Motor Club has ar
ranged for three endurance tests, the
first one on May 30th going via Cald-
well, Parsippany Whippany, Morris
town, Mendham to Washington and
return via Piainfield
The Governor has reappointed and
the Senate confirmed The appoint
ment Of T. O'Connor Sloan, Edward
Russ and Charles e. Surdam as mem
beers of the State Board oil Education,
for terms of five years
Edgar Carr, boy of about thirteen,
is lead as the result Of a fight with a
Sisco boy of about the same age. Carr
was hit hit in the face and conclusion
of the brain ensued. He had been I'M
conscious for several days.
The choir of st. Peters Church, j.
S. Matthews, director, rendered the
cantata From Olivet to Calvary on
Thursday evening to the great enjoy
aaent Of large congregation assem-
bled. The solos were of special
Naerit
The members of Independent Hose
Co, at a special meeting held on Mon
day evening decided to accept the in
vitation to participate in the centen-
nial celebration of Millburn township
to be observed on Saturday afternoon,
April ID.
On Thursday of last week Mr.. and
Mrs. II. Fl, Aschenback gave dinner
of twenty-four covers at their country
place " Mountain Lodge, near Morris
Plains. The guests were from New
ark, New York, Morristown and Nor
ris Plains.
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