The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-26

/ w. Ell. Bailey, who has been freight
trainmaSter on this division Of the
Lackawanna, will retire on jude lst,
and expects to embark in the coal
business with former assistant super
intendent SickleS in Newark.
Rev. Andrew NJ. Sherman, of this
city. is indebted to the Hon. Charles
/ N. Fowler, Congressman from this
| district, for a bound copy OF the eulogy
pronoun ed upon President William
Mckinley, by the Hon. John Hay.
A new timetable will 90 into effect
on. the Lackawanna on Sunday when
the usual summer additions will be
made to the schedule. 1t is reported
that some runs between HObOken
and RoSeville will be added to relieve
the through trains Of Newark work.
An axle of the locomotive of the N.
J. & Pa. r. r. broke while near SUIT
ton on the return trip to WhitehOuse
on Thursday morning, consequently
there was no afternoon trip made. AS
a result the pupils from up that road
who attend the High School, had to
remain in town over night.
The residence of Norrie Sellar on
O'Clock on Sunday morning through a
window which had been left open and
some jewelry and other things were
stolen. The house is outside the cor
poration and Sheriff Shaw was noti
| fed and is making a search for the
| thieves.
James Hamilton, Of Morris Plains,
was gathered in last Monday afternoon
! for doing stunts on the Park which
would have discouraged professional
athlete. When on his way to jail it
was found that in addition to being
/ filled up with fire water, he had gen.
erous sized package of Paris green
with him.
The Decorative Art Shop has re-
moved from the Bell Building to the
Dodge Building, corner OF South and
DeHart streets, where with several
new lines added it will reopen on Mon
day, under the name of The Gift Shop
The Baltimore Art Needlework So
ciety will have an exhibit and sale on
the opening day.
Some of the furniture for the new
part of the Memorial Hospital has al
rived. One room has been fitted up
I
in white enamel including single bed
stead. wardrobe, glass topped stand,
wash stand and chair. The doors have
been set between the old and new parts
of tie structure.
1t is understood that the tract of
thirty-eight acres which General e. +.
Meany purchased recently will be de-
veloped by syndicate, road being
cut from Madison avenue at General
Meany's residence through to Wood.
land avenue and possibly be continued
to the Green Village road, opening up
some fine building sites.
The regular quarterly meeting of
the MOrriStown McAll Auxiliary will
be held on Tuesday. June End, at half
past three O'Clock, in the parlor of the
South Street Church. A report OF the
recent annual meeting of the Ameri-
can McAll Association, held in Phila-
delphia, will be presented by the sec
Rotary. All are cordially welcome.
Parker & VanCleve have secured the
services of an expert matchmaker in
the person of Charles Noegeli, who
has worked in the factory of Patek-
Phillip in Switzerland and for the
| Waltham Watch Co., in this country
Mr.. VOegeli has rented the house cor
ner of Linden and Liberty streets, re-
moving his family there from Brook
Ign.
The filling about the new Mills
street school is about finished. The
board of education thought that sew
eral hundred dollars could be saved the
town by getting surplus dirt from the
sewers dumped on the lot, but the
committee only succeeded in getting
about forty loads and then hired teams
and secured dirt wherever it could be
found.
The following Morristown residents
gave an entertainment at Mt. Free
dom on Thursday evening for the ben
eft Of the Christian Endeavor Society
Miss Slater, Miss Viva Gordon, Mrs.
A. S. Young. Miss Clara Leek, Mrs.
John Gill, Miss Eta Brown, Miss
Quimby, Rev. o. @. Horsman, Harold
Blackford, Elmer Applegit and Udall's
Orchestra.
w. E. McGuirk, of New York, with
four companions, were hailed before
! Justice Howard On Monday afternoon
| By Mounted Officer Osborne charged
with fast running of their automobile
and also with having more than one
number on the machine. They plead
| ignorance of the law and were allowed
TO go on payment of McGuirk's fine of
s. and costs, $S.15 in all
The Evergreen Cemetery Associa-
tion is having the water works system
at the cemetery extended to include
the portion of the cemetery recently
graded near Ridgedale avenue. There
will be about six hundred feet Of four
inch main laid with number of
branches and MIGRANTS, SO that all
parts of the. grounds may be reached
with hose.