The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21

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Practically all the additional incan-
descent lamps ordered for street light.
ing have been put in. Franklin avenue
land Jefferson avenue are now lighted,
two have been located on Budd street
and one at the corner of George and
Lincoln streets.
Argento Romeno was tried before
i Judge Mills in special session on
Thursday on charge of atrociouS as
Sault and battery. He was convicted
of simple assault and battery and re-
manded for sentence.
The march of improvement has
struck Phoenix avenue where at least
a half dozen houses in the vicinity of
the corner of Miller street have been
! freshly painted and other improve
mems made adding to the attractive
ness of that section.
The subscribers, executors of the
estate of Ezra G. Garrabrant's, deeeas-
ed, will sell on the premises known as
Garrabrant'S lumber and coal yard,
near the village of Mendham, Thurs
day, April 30th, at o'clock sharp, all
his personal property, e. S. Day, auc-
tioneer. III
Mrs. Phelps has purchased an OrcheS-
trion of good size for the Morristown
Roller Rink. 1t is expected in town
to-day and will require two or three
days to setit up. 1t is reasonably GER
tain however, that it will be ready to
supply music for the carnival on Fri
day evening.
The Morristown Tire BILE Clef
Club, which now numbers forty
of the leading vocalists of MorriStown,
under the direction of j. Sebastian
Mathews, will give the annual May
concert on Tuesday evening, May 18th.
The club will be assisted by inStru-
mental and vocal artists.
In order to accommodate the new
chorus choir the pulpit of the South
| Street Presbyterian Church will be
moved forward five feet and a choir
| loft built between the pulpit and the
organ. Several pewS will be taken
out in the center of the church to
make room for the changes.
John Freeman, colored, was arrested
| on Monday, charged with begging.
He had a paper claiming that he had
child dead at Collinsville and had
succeeded in getting 1915, when the
police captured him and the Justice
took it all for fines and costs. The
man hailed from New York State.
Thomas f. Dunn and Miss Mary e.
Curran were married at the Church of
the Assumption this morning, Rev.
/ William Dunn, brother of the groom
performing the ceremony, while his
brother, Joseph Dunn was the best
man. The bride is graduate Of the
Memorial Hospital Training School.
The Rev. A. r. Mansfield. of the Sea-
mems Church Institute, New York
City, preached at the Morristown
School on Easter Sunday. He gave an
| interesting account of the practical
help given to the deep seamen when
they are in port. On Sunday, April
26, the Rev. Ralph B. Urmy will preach
at the school,
A reason for the twenty per cent
advance made by the U. s. Express
Co. on all matter between New York
and Lackawanna towns, which went
into effect on April first, may be found
in the fact that in Nebraska the COM
pany has made twenty-five per cent
reduction in rates because Of a law re-
Gently enacted, regulating such mat
tiers.
The sixty-fourth regular meeting of
the Friday Evening Club will be held
on Friday evening, April "a, when O..
t. Copeland, lecturer in English liter
allure in Harvard University, will
speak on Kipling in prose and verse,
and at the May meeting Mrs. Foote,
of New York, will give lecture re-
cital on " Composers of the present
day."
Chief Runyon pulled still alarm
on Saturday afternoon and as a result
| the Truck Company went to Tony
Farino's place on Speedwell avenue
and speedily demolished an addition
which the Chief had ordered down
week before. 1t was of light frame
and so close to chimney that the
boards we're charred when the hremen
arrived.
AS a result of charges of insubordi-
nation brought against her by Super
visor Constantine, Miss Ethel Mark
ham, the primary teacher OF the Brook
side Public School, near here, has re-
signed. Principal Hill, claiming that
the Board of Education had not done
it's duty in failing to sustain Miss
Markham, Immediately sent in his
resignation.
Easter was marked by extra services
in the local churches all being prettily
decorated for the occasion. At st.
Peters Church cello added to the
music while the choirs of the Church
of the Redeemer and the Baptist
Church were augmented for the oc-
casion by extra singers and in the lat
ter church by three yiolins. The SER
vices were all greatly enjoyed.
The official report gives New Jersey
269 rural carriers, who travel daily
2,262 miles, of which 1874 miles, or one
third, are macadamized. New York's
L. 1893 rural carriers travel Al JIG miles !;
only about One-thirtieth of which are
macadamized. According to the figures
given out New Jersey leads all states
| in macadamized roads for rural mail