The Morris County chronicle., 1908-08-25
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Hotel.
Gilbert D. Young is having an adj
dition built to his residence on Ph@nlx
avenue.
The Board of Fire Wardens have ar
ranged for an outing TO WnlteS6one,
L. L, on September l6.
DIR. Dodge is having small addi-
tion built on his building corner of
South and DeHart streets.
Vice-Chancellor Stevens has granted
o. N. HughSon divorce from his wife
on the ground of desertion.
Samuel Clark, of Philadelphia, ad-
dressed an open air Socialist meeting
on the Park, on Monday evening.
Bishop ]. w. Gaines, Of the A. M. 2.
Church, preached in Bethel Churcn,
Spring street, on Sunday morning.
William Hambright, of the Morris
& Somerset Electric Co., has rented
and moved into the Youngs house on
Liberty street.
FA. Trowbridge has sold his vacant
lot on Wetmore avenue to Mattlson
L. Toms, who plans to erect double
house on the site.
The Boys Brigade will have field
day at Mt. Freedom on "Wednesday.
The brigade went to Summit. laso
Thursday evening.
County Detective e. Il. Brennan is
out again after being confined 20 ms
home for some days by an aU6acK OF
dysentary and chills.
William Shelley Is having small
addition built to his residence on Early
street and the porch on the mouse
nearly doubled in size.
aShinner Cook was committed TO
iail on the usual charge this morning
for the usual four days and cost. The
commitment was Cooks l79th.
The work of filling the Park has
been completed, the manuring tlnlsned
and most of the spading done. A tree
which has died will be removed.
The Morris County Traction Com
pany carried 5000 people on Saturday,
August Is, it being the record day for
fares in theshistory OF the company.
A distributing station of the Ar
rowSmith Company will be established
in the far west, a representative OF the
company having left for California FOR
that purpose.
Hillside residents have been debarred
mail on account of the sewer work on
Budd street and Fairview place which
prevented the mounted carrier from
getting through readily.
James Hazen is working as extra
substitute letter carrier, carrying the
route of Frank Stilwell, who was in
iured at the baseball field, so as not to
disarrange the schedule OF vacations.
w. M. Sheehan met with severe
accident while travelling in New York
state last week. A car window dropped
on his right thumb, catching the lower
Joint in such a way that 1t had to am
putated.
Sturgis Brothers will build a con-
crete wall five feet high and eighty
five feet long to protect the new gas
holder under construction on Centre
street for the Morristown Gas Light
Company.
The house at IA Farragut place at
!. present .unoccupied was entered by
burglars last Friday night. There was
nothing inside the building that could
be stolen. Entrance was made through
the back door.
Superintendent e. e. Hawk of the
Kountze place resigned his position on
the first Of July and has bought tine
farm of 120 acres on the Delaware rlv-
er Just out of Lambertville, where ne
will start a stock farm
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The Sanders house on Morris street
was pulled off the old foundation on
Monday.
Joseph Garner started this morning
to remove the old foundation and will
excavate the new cellar.
A four pony team drawing wagon,
carrying another vehicle, accompanied
by three large dogs, two other ponies
and donkey, probably part OF an
Uncle Toms Cabin Show, passed
through town on Monday morning.
The Lyceum Bureaus announce for
the season new lecture by the Rev.
D. Buckley, entitled "Self Unmade
Men. His other lectures are 'Peculi
arities of Great Orators and The
Art and Value of Prolonging Life
The chemical engine was called to
the store of James Bufano at As Nor
ris street early this morning. The
back door was burning briskly and a
lively fire might have resulted except
for the discovery OF the blaze. Bufano
was in Dover
Collins Weir is drawing plans for a
three story brick apartment house
forty tWob by fifty six feet in size which
Mrs. O. N. HughSon plans to erect on
Clinton place on the site of the pres
ent brick barn. The building will ac-
commOdate six families.
The entire fire department was called
to the residence of Charles Stilwell on
Gutter street on Thursday morning.
1t was found that bed in the attic
was on fire, causing great smoke and
considerable alarm. Firemen threw
the burning articles out of the window
and the trouble was over.
The differences between the road
committee and the Morris County
Traction Company, over the size and
quality Of the ties and track used in
the construction of the trolley line to
Maplewood, were settled last week,
and the contractor, Louis Bait, is now
pushing the work along rapidly.