The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-15
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Rally day at the Methodist Sunday
School will be observed on OCTOBER
fourth.
Independent Hose Company will
have a minstrel show in the Lyceum
non December !.
Willis H. Dutton had his arm brok-
en- while cranking up an automobis e
at Netcong on Friday.
LA. Apgar has purchasee the Der.
nius business on Speedwell avenue
and will conduct it as a branch
The employees of the q. S. Expres s
Company will hold their annual ball
in Washington Hall on October Fl.
A granite monument weighing nine
tons has been erected in Evergreen
Cemetery in memory of the late A.W.
Theiler.
The lane alongside the Hibler Build
ing on South Street will be paved
with concrete. Sturgis Brothers have
the contract
w. Marcus Mead, brother of the
Misses Mead. of DeHart street, died
on Monday, September 7, au his home
at Chicago, Illinois.
Plans for the proposed four family
house which r. It. Dempsey plans TO
build on Macculloch avenue are In the
hands of contractors.
George Pierson has purchased the
old Johnson homestead and a lot 90 by
$50 feet in size on Western avenue
from Manual Johnson.
The South Street Presbyterian
Church has had the curling and some
of the sidewalk in front of the church
property on South Street relaid.
The semi-monthly meetings of the
Women's Missionary Society OF the
South Street Presbyterian Church
were resumed on Wednesday, Septem-
Der 9.
Eney Grupelli is laying a concrete
sidewalk along the northerly side OF
Lakeside place, and with Henry Jor-
gensen will put down walk for the
whole length of the Southerly side OF
the street.
There will be festival at the Col
linSville Chapel. on Wednesday, Sept.
10th, under the auspices of the Male
Social Club. Fancy articles and ice
cream will be for sale, also a grab bag
for the children.
Beginning Sunday, Sept. goth, the
hour of service of the Sunday School
of the First Presbyterian Church will
be changed from 10 a. m. to p. M,
and the morning service will be held
at 80 instead of II a. m.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany is continuing the work of burying
it's wires around the Park this week
Short stretches of conduit have been
laid from pole to manhole on Water
street and from ducts TO office on Park
place.
4 Hubert @. Minard has rented through
the agency of I'll. j. Genung, his house
$50 South street to George f. Johnson,
of New York, for a term of years. The
house is now undergoing repairs and
the lessee will take possession about
the fifteenth.
The Morris township board of edu-
cation is having cement walk laid
from the street to the front entrance
and from there to the rear entrance
of the Collinsville School, using the
balance of building fund raised by a.
bond issue for that school for that pur5
pose. f ~ 81 2ys- III
A small one story frame building cor,
ner of Water street and Flagler OcE
cupied as an Italian grocery caught
fire Thursday and as result of a gen.
eral alarm the whole fire department
responded. The damage was not great
and almost enJirely confined to the in
terror of the building.
Mrs. j. ShultZ resident OF Lyndhurst
was taken into custody by the police
on Saturday night. In company with
her three neiceS she made somewhat
of disturbance at the residence OF
former Vice Chancellor Pitney. She
evidently was demented and her huS-
band came for her the next morning
and took her home.
Sussex avenue residents will be glad
to know that Sturgis Brothers have
signed the contract for laying three
hundred and thirty-six feet of con-
crete sidewalk and curb in front of the
Eddy property on that street. The
same firm is finishing hundred and
thirty feet of cement curb for James
Scripture on Hillary avenue.
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