The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The late Mrs jeremiah Stalter left
$500 tothe Morristown Baptist Church.
A civil service examination for clerk
and carrier will be held at the post
office on April 4th.
Louis Monaco is remodelling his
frame building on Flagler street, add
ing third story to it.
Plans are out by Jardine, Kent and
.Jardine for a house which Dudley H.
Cook proposes to build in Olyphant
Park.
Mrs. Samuel Cochran addressed the
Sunday School of the Baptist Church
on China at the session last Sunday
afternoon.
Joshua r. Salmon, of Boonton will
occupy the offices of his brother, the
late Irving E. Salmon, continuing his
Boonton offices at well.
Every afternoon, excepting Saturday,
a half hour service will be held in the
chapel of the First Presbyterian
Church, beginning at 4.45.
The firm of Coe, Mitchell & Co., has
been dissolved, the firm being sue
sceeded by Edward and Sylvester
Mitchell, trading uEder the name OF
Mitchell Bros.
Mrs. Catherine Mitchell slipped on
the ice near the Methodist Church on
Sunday and injured one Of her hips SO
badly that it was found necessary to
remove her to Memorial Hospital.
Nicholas Arrowsmith and Fred s.
BreeSe have formed partnership and
roo1 nCfofn and
insurance business. They have opened
an Office at Room 35, Babbitt Building.
Nicholas Marinaro will build an
other building on Flagler street, adj
Joining James RiSSO's building. The
new Structure will be of brick, with
accommodations for six families but
no stOres.
1t is expected that there will be
about a hundred and fifty men at the
dinner of the Morris County Road
Drivers Association to be held in the
hall in the Miller Building on Wednes-
day evening.
In the description of the Morris &
Somerset plant two weeks ago. mis-
take was made in the name of the ar
.chitect. He is Walter B. Pierson and
not the Pierson men toned in the
original article.
The upper room in the tower of the
police building has been wired for in
candeScent lamps with switch at the
Sergeant's desk in the main office SO
y that it is possible to illuminate the
tower at any time.
The woman's union prayer meeting
will be held through the month of
March in the parlOr of the South St.
Presbyterian Church every Thursday
morning at 10 80 O'Clock. The women
of all the churches are cordially in
vited.
Frank Piper has retired from the
firm ofPiper Bros and has taken the
business Of his brother, HarryP. Piper,
on Speedwell avenue. Bertram and
Fred Piper continue the hotel and
wholesale liquor business on Market
street.
A play is to be given by the boys and
masters of the Morristown School this
month in aid of the proposed swim
ming pool. The boys have already
raised for this building two thousand,
approximately, of the needed ten thou
sand dollars.
Robert Meninger, the eighteen year
old boy who stabbed Robert Kline
dinst few weeks ago ON Maple ave-
nue., has been declared insane by DR..
Gfiswold and Dr. Mills and has been
taken to the State Hospital at Morris
Plains on the order of Judge Mills.
The Morris Aqueduct is moving the
fittings of the office to the rooms in
the Sayings Bank Building, which
they will soon occupy. The walls of
the room have been tinted in yellow
instead of the ftmiiar green of the
board room, and other improvements
made.
The graduates of the j unior Society
of Christian EndeavOr of the Baptist
Church gave an entertainment OF
music and recitationS in the Sunday
Sch0el. room of the church last Friday
y evening, the program being followed
by refreshments served in the base
ment.
The Park trustees went over the
plans for the proposed improvement
on the ground on Thursday morning,
ratifying Mr. Brinley's selection OF
trees to be removed. 1t is expected
that the work Of improvement will be
started as soon as the weather per-
mltS.
Charles Moore, driver for Bowman,
the newSman, was injured on Sunday
morning. The horse in his care start
ed to run while Moore was out Of the
wagon, and Moore slipped as he jumped
to stop the animal and fell, being run
over by the wagon. He will probably
be around again in few days.
The Young Ladies Missionary So
ciety of the South Street Presbyterian
Church has elected the following Of
tcers Miss Sarah f. Randolph, presi
dent; Mrs. Samuel Haven, vice-presi-
dent: Miss Davidson, secretary Miss
Isabel Sutphen, corresponding secre-
tary Miss Elizabeth K. Ayres, treas
urer.
The borrowers of the MorriStown
Library now number over two thou
= sand, the two thousand and fifth card
having been signed on Thursday. "he
circulation is between two and three
hundred volumes day, both enroll
ment and circulation being larger
than is usually the case in places Of
this size.
A: state conference of officers and
members of The Mason's and Brick
LAYERS international Union was held
in the rooms of the local lodge On
Sunday, when various matters came