The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-02-11
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

until IL O'Clock.
,Fke board Of freeholders win meet
tomorrow morning and the board OF
excise In the evening.
tbs expected that the masons will
finish the brick lining Of the st.
Peters tower this week.
George Cobbett has sold his house
and lot at 80 Mills street to A. e.
PierSon. Joseph Yawger will continue
to occupy the house.
Mrs. Lucy Moodey, the widow of the
late christopher MoOdey, died at her
home at Washington Valley Wednes-
day, aged eighty-fve years.
The chemical engine was called to
the residence of MRS. III. A. FanShaW
ION Elm street on Saturday by CHM
ney fire which was soon extinguished.
Rev. Burt G. Chandler, of Omaha,
Neb., has been secured as curate OF st.
Peters Church. He is graduate OF
the General Theological Seminary OF
the class of 1905.
The Hanover township board OF
health has passed an ordinance forDld-
ding the erection or operation OF sew
age disposal works in the township
under penalty of 800 per day.
The Junior Christian Endeayor So
ciety of the Baptist Church will have
a sale of cake, candy and bread in the
BOYS Brigade room of the church on
Saturday afternoon from three O'Clock.
The Women's Baptist Foreign Mis-
Sionary Societies of the churches OF
Milburn, Summit, Millington and Nor
riStOwn, will have joint meeting for
prayer followed by tea on Friday af-
ternO0n.
The chemical engine was called to
the residence of Mrs. Boswell, on Elm
street, on Wednesday morning by a
still alarm. A fire in fireplace was
sending out black cinders causing APP
prehension as to the safety of the
house.
The local ice harvest is we'll under
way, ice being cut from the reservoirs
of the Morris aqueducb and other
ponds in the vicinity, about seven
Inches thick. Some of the residents
of the town are having fifteen inch ice
from the Tobyhanna. district put into
their ice houses.
A twelve-hour continuous team bowl
ing match was the attraction at the
Tapkaow Club on Thursday when
twenty men paired off and kept the
alleys hot for the appointed time. The
conteStwas won by Q. S. Rutan and
Edward Clarke, with S. S. CnildS and
Maynard Day second and John Roman
and e. A. Carpenter third.
Mrs. r. D. Jillson, who so success
A,,1l +ad &C n ~ Ylf1 no - n
r." Samantha in the JoneSville Choir, J"
before large audience last winter,
and also gave an evening of dialect
reading in the spring, will give an
evening of dialect story telling in the
chapel of the Maple avenue school this
evening, at s o'clock, under the aus
pices Of the Senior Glass.
Nelson Wright, of Mt. Freedom,
was shot through the body in that
village last Saturday by Amzi Odell
during a quarrel, both men having
been drinking. Wrights condition
became serious on Sunday and the
sheriff was sent for. On Monday Con-
lodged him in jail to await the result
of the Injuries to Wright.
Arrangements for a dinner to for
mer Chancellor Magic were made at a
meeting at Newark on Saturday, at
which e. @. Keasbey presided. Ed
ward A. Day was appointed a member
of the committee on speakers and
toasts, and John b. Vreeland was
made the head of local committee
for Morris county. The dinner will
probably be held at the Waldorf AS
toria on February 20.
In connection with the new roller
skating rink in the Merchants Block,
a club is being organized which will
have the exclusive rights to the rink
on Fridays when there will be special
music and afternoon tea will be served.
The patronesses for the club are Miss
Bryce, Mrs. George Dadmun, Mrs.
George C. Fraser, Mrs. f. E. Merrell,
Mrs. Stowe Phelps, Mrs. Alexander
Harvey Tiers and Mrs. John l. Water
bury.
The Morristown Glee Clubs con-
cert, which was postponed last month,
will be given on Friday evening, Feb
rllary 18th, in the Lyceum Hall. The
Club will have the assistance of two
artists Of the highest standing, Miss
Maude Z, Klotz, soprano, of Brooklyn,
and Mrs. Vera III. Fonaroff, yiolinist,
of New Y ork. Geo. FL. Sherman, who
was. working with the Club for the
January concert, has been elected a
member to take the place of Irving E.
Salmon.
An additionol speaker has been Sc
cured for the February meeting of the
Friday Evening Club in the person of
General James Grant Wilson who will
speak on "reminiscences OF Washing
ton Grant and Lincoln. AS prev
iously announced, William Webster
Ellsworth will speak on the topic,
The Personal George Washington.
The meeting will be held on February
81. At the March meeting to be held
on the thirteenth, Owen Lovejoy will
speak on "Child Labor, Problem of
the Time"
The Prohibition League was enter
tafned last Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Amanda Smith when an
address was delivered by Rev. Samuel
Jones, of Dover, on "Avarice as the
underlying cause of governmental
wrong" DIR. Owen read paper on
the progress of Prohibition and Mrs.
Prgsley one on Triumphs of Prohi-
bitIon in 1907. Resolutions were
adopted requesting the Morris County
members of the Legislature ito vote
for the local option bill introduced
in the Legislature this week.