The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-01-01
The Church Club will keep open
house all day New Years Day, with
entertainment and refreshments.

The Church Club will keep open
house all day New Years Day, with
entertainment and refreshments.
The National Iron Bank has de-
clared a semi-annual dividend of three
per cent. and an additional dividend
of two per cent. or ten per cent year.
The painters union, in presenting a
schedule of prices for wages after April
l, 1907 has fixed the daily rate at So. 40
which is an increase of about seventy
cents a week. Besides this, the paint
erS make the stipulation for double
pay on holidays or for night work, and
ask for a half-holiday on Saturday.
DR.. b. d. Evans, medical director of
the State Hospital at Morris Plains
was presented with handsome gold
watch on Christmas Day by those con-
nected with him in the management
of the institution, in commemoration
of fifteen years of service at that insti-
tuition. The presentation address was
made by DIR. p. S Mallon.
A Bible class for the study Of the
international lessons will be held every
Saturday afternoon, at four o'clock,
conducted by Rev. f. b. Dwight
During the month of January these
classes will be held in the parlor of the
South Street Presbyterian Church.
Sunday School teachers Of all the
churches are invited to be present.
Professor Austin G. Apgar and Miss
Sarah Y. Ely have each just rounded
at the State Schools, Trenton, and the
nf on mir n frixr
them a mplimentary dinner some
Apgar delivered series of addresses
at the recent teachers institute held
in MQrristown.
John r. Piper is anxlously looking
for information relative to horse he
hired out to a woman giving the name
of Mrs. Spettigue back on October 81.
She had had horse from the stable
for several days at time before and
this time wanted it for two weeks.
She kept him informed as to her
whereabouts for some time but finally
he lost track of her and is fearful that
she has made off with the horse and
top buggy.
The custom of singing the Waits,
which was started in MOlriStoWn some
years ago by Rev. w. p Taylor, was
continued on Monday night, party
of six young men visiting the two hos
pitfalls. the Old Ladies Home, the resi-
dences of R. d. Foote, f. E. Stults,
the ministers, and ending at DR.. Doug
las residence, according to custom.
AT three calls the party was treated
to refreshments.
Alderman Thompson had six young
men arrested on Wednesday night for
malicious m isc h ie f on PocahOntaS
Lake. They, according to report, tore
down considerable fence near the pond
for firewood and commenced to tear
down the Dargayel bridge. They were
Frank Osborne, Frank Stouter, Frank
Williams, James Dixon, Mike Brown
and Thomas Cody Justice Condor
committed them to await the action
of the grand jury.
The police have caused the arrest of
two Callahan boys and a Linnehan
boy, aged respectively eight and nine
years for larceny. They have been re-
manded to the custody of their mothers
for action of the grand jury. The inn
mediate charges under which they
were apprehended was the theft OF a
bottle OF whiskey and one Of milk from
a delivery wagon ami bantam buff
cochin rooster from private house.
They have confessed several theftS and
are suspected of taking at least two BIZ
cycles, any number of fowls and many
other things.