The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-08
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Or. Vaughan has been doing clint
cal work ia the Post Graduate Hos
pital. New York, this summer.
Thornton Lynne, of Bernardsville,
was arrested by Officer Osborne and
fined 81 and costs for speeding his au-
tomObile.
The board of education is having a
concrete walk laid from the main en-
trance of the Liberty street school to
the side entrance,
Dempsey & Murphy are painting the
Ridgedale avenue bridge. Inc sbruc-
ture has been given coat OF red lead
and will be given two coats OF WhlUe'
Search made near where a portion
of the Hurting silyerWare was found
few DAYS ago revealed the rest OF the
silver taken from Mr.. Hurtzig'S house.
Mrs. HughSon is having the brick
stable building on her Clinton place
property torn down preparatory to the
erection Of brick building for SIX
families.
Handsome monuments of cross de-
sign have recently been erected IN
Evergreen Cemetery by H. X. Nor
gan, Jr., and. Mrs. Charles S. Ward on
their plots.
The twenty-ninth annual reunion OF
she Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey
Volunteers will be held at the Coch-
ran House, Newton, on thursday sep
TENDER 18th.
In the round for the presidents
cup at the Golf Club on saturday,
Alfred Macy up was first, +. Il ,
Williams was second, and ID. I'll. NC
Alpin, third.
Linemen for the Postal Telegraph
GO. have been raising the wires at
Morris Plains to get them above, the
trees. In some places a raise OF SIX
teen feet was made.
The Public Service Corporation has
a force of men packing and shipping
to Newark the stock OF transformers
and other materials stored in the store
houses on Coal avenue.
John Smith, of Dover, is in the
Memorial Memorial suffering from a
broken leg. received by the slipping Of
a cant hook, while he was loading logs
at Mt. Freedom, last Tuesday
The italian American Citizens Club
has elected the following officers =
President. Louis Tremallo; vice. presi-
dent, f. Lucia secretary, L. Carna-
vale; treasurer, Leonardo Verllla.
Edwin T. Weeks will be the Repub-
lican candidate for freeholder from
Mt. Olive township and Netcong bor-
ough. He started the electric light
company in Netcong and Stanhope.
An auction sale was held on Thurs
day afternoon of the grocery stock
wagons, etc., used in the business coz
Quoted by James B. Seldom on Morris
street he having gone into bankruptcy
Canned speeches have aIread y
reached Morristown and W. K. Much
more has been giving some OF his Gus
toners the opportunity to hear WhaG
Candidate Taft has to say on national
issues.
A. Miller Anderson has retired from
the position of local agent of the. Nor
ristown & Erie r. r. Company and is
now employed by the McEwan Bros.
After this week he will be in the New
York office.
MI. OlGuOdIllclS 1OIlHCIlJ lllHi4u uACh-
ct agent at the Lackawanna station,
has been transferred from the Hobo
ken ticket Office to the position of
passenger solicitor in the Newark city
office. He assumed his new duties on
Tuesday.
An aut omobile carnival, such as was
held at Montclair short time ago, is
being arranged by representatives OF
the Young Mems Christian ASSocia-
tions of Morristown and Madison and
Chatham club. 1t will be held early
in October.
The Socialist party has nominated
George Hirchman for county clerk;
Emil Hoagland, Of Dover, for sheriff !;
A. T. Stephens, of Port Morris, and
j. Francis Harvey, of R0ckaway, for
aSSemblymen. The party has nOmin-
ated local ticket in Dover.
Sewer work in progress on the 81
phonS under streams at Water street
and Washington street, on the Madi-
son avenue deep cut, on the private
right of way near Howell's lane and
across lots in the rear OF Western
avenue beyond Miller street.
Thomas H. Hoagland and S. B. Car
son had a successful afternoons fish
ing at White Meadow on Wednesday at.
ternoon Mr.. Hoagland made the re-
cord catch a bass weighing five pounds
while the total catch OF both fisher
men weighed twenty six and a half
pounds.
A water main connecting the old
and new mains and hydrant III front
Of B. f. Evans house on Madison
avenue broke on Wednesday night
filling an electric manhole with water
and pouring out generally until the
break was located and the supply
turned Off.
Leon EmmonS. who was injured in
the wreck on the PaSsaic & Delaware
branch of the Lackawanna, on June
5th, has so far recovered that he has
left the Overlook Hospital. at Sum-
nit, and returned to his home at
Gladstone, where he is still under the
care of physicians.
Mrs. f. A. Lee in looking over her
potato patch on Western avenue on
Saturday came across a freak wine
which had about dozen small
potatoes growing on the stalk out Of
the ground, while there were no po-
tatoeS under the ground where they
would naturally be expected
The steam roller frightened horse
driven by Eugene Cook, of Madison,
IN SOuth street on "Wednesday with