The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-31
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Frank S. Burnett has purchased DIle
.Caskey house and lot at l43 Speedwel
avenue.
The annual parish meeting OF the
Baptist Church will be held Ga Inurs-
day mig.
<, The Morris Academy closes Thurs
day for the usual spring vacation re-
opening April 18th.
Edward Landregan has purchased
the Cody place on Madison street near
Macculloch avenue.
The cake sale given by the ladies OF
the Morris Plains Presbyterian Church
on March 18th, netted S26.
Arthur Van Wrinkle has purchased
two lots on SpeedWell avenue, MOTHS
Plains, part of the Keenan, tract.
Willis Riker is the purchaser of the
property corner OF washington sbreeC
and Cobb place, sold few days ago. '
Loantaka Council, Royal Arcanum,
will have a ladies night entertainment
in the new lodge room this evening.
W. q. Van Doren is drawing plans
for chapel for the New Vernon PreS-
,byterian Church, to cost about S5,0oo.
The Presbytery of Morris and Orange
will meet in the South Street Presby-
terrain Church on Tuesday, April l46n.
The Market Street Mission has Sc
cured the firewood from the trees
which have been taken from the Park.
DR.. d. III. McAlpin is tearing down
some of the old'barns on his Llttleton
estate and has in mind the erection OF
some new farm buildings.
The street committeekof the board
of aldermen plan to make systematic
campaign for improved sidewalks, be-
ginning at once.
The New Vernon Junior Christian
Endeavor Society will visit the junior
society Of the Morristown Baptist
Church on Saturday.
Gordon Alexander has sold the
Dolan property on the southeast cor
ner of Macculloch avenue and Madison
street to Carr & Griffin.
The Hancock (Michigan) Evening
Journal /" comes to hand with the
name of H. G. Rowell as vice-president
and general manager
The Hillside public school will omit
the usual spring vacation and close the
school tone week earlier than would
otherwise be possible.
Nicholas Marinaro has graded Mich
olaS. avenue through from Flagler
street to his line and put the lots
opened up on the market.
Torbert Post g. A. r. will hold a
meeting tonight to arrange for the
funeral of the late MaItby 6. Pierson
to be held tomorrow afternoon.
A delegation from the local lodge
Degree of Pocahontas went to Dover
last Friday evening to assist in the or
ganization Of degree team for lodge
there.
D. P. Mcclellan has had garage
built on his Macculloch avenue prop
erty to house the new Studebaker
automobile, which he has just re-
ceived.
Peter v. Stryker, who has resigned
as manager for the BernardS Water
Company, is succeeded by Elmer Van
Arsdale, who has been second in COM
mand' for years.
MISS AI1ulG l1do lCOOAIOtJ
purchased the double house on Wash
Ington street, formerly owned by the
late William Hibler. The price re-
ported is $500.
Rev. Madison Q. Peters, of Newly ork
City, will deliver lecture subject.
Mission of Masonry" at the First
Baptist Church this Friday evening,
April 3rd, to which the publicsare cor
daily invited.
The steel stack of the Shelley Ice Co.
was raised by III. L. Prudden on We'd
nesday afternoon. 1t stands on the
top of the boiler house and the top OF
the stack is one-hundred and ten feet
from tile ground.
Collins Weir is drawing plans for an
addition on the front and alterations
to the house Of L. Terrerri on Water
street near George street. There will
be two stores in the building after the
changes are completed.
Town Electrician Pierson started
the WORK Of putting the fire alarm
wires around the Park and on South
street underground. The wires go
through the telephone ducts to Water
street, where they are run into the
Slush house.
Donate Nocera has w. B. Pierson
drawing plans for brick building
which he proposes to erect at the cor
ner of Flagler and Race streets. The
structure will contain two stores
and sixteen apartments and will cost
about $4,000.
The Rev. DR.. Charles Cuthbert Hall,
president Of Union Theological Sem
inary and one of the best known Pres
byterian clergymen in the world, died
at the Presbyterian Hospital early
Wednesday morning, after an illness
of eleven months.
The Woman's Union prayermeeting
will be held through the month of
April in the lecture room of the Bap-
tist church every Thursday morning
at half past ten O'Clock. The women
of all the churches are cordially invit-
ed to attend this meeting.
A still alarm called the chemical en-
CINE to the lot on Morris street oppos-
tie Ford avenue last Friday afternoon.
A fire had been started to clean up the
lot and it was feared that it would set
fire to the fence along the Ford prop
erty. The blaze was put out in a very
few minutes.
The chemical engine had long run
on Sunday TO the Shipper house at