The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

on May fifth.
Judge Black has sent notice that he
will be ready to try Morris county
!, cases on May 6.
Miss Wilhelmina Hays is slowly con-
valescing from an attack OF int1amma-
tory rheumatism.
w. f. Day made about fifteen hun
dred dozen of hot cross buns to supply
last Fridays demands.
The LII. D., degree will be conferred
on Chancellor Pitney by Princeton
University on June 10.
The Morris County Teachers Asso-
piation will hold it's spring session IN
Dover on Saturday, the 18th inst.
>'Rey. George E. Morris will address
the Lincoln Colored Republican Asso-
citation of Madison on Friday evening.
The New Jersey State Tennis tourn-
ament will be played on the courts OF
the Morristown Field Club on Septem-
Der Is.
Good Friday was observed by the
closing of rthe banks and the public
schools. The business houses remain
ed open. raj A
The Kennedy Electric Co., which
has its headquarters in MOrriStoWn,
has applied for an electric lighting
franchise in Butler.
Rev. Philemon Sturges will preach
the annual sermon to the members OF
the G. A. r.. in st. Peters Church on
Sunday evening, May "a.
Mrs. r. w. Porter has been the
guest for few days of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. Vance. She has just returned
from visit to her daughter in the
State of Washington.
+. S. Burnett, who recently pur-
chased the CaSkey place on Speedwell
avenue will remodel the house, max
ing two family house of it.
A delegation from the local lodge of
Woodmen went to Peapack on We'd
nesday evening to assist in the insti-
tu5ion of lodge in that place.
VIM. g. Hurting will leave this week
for Northwestern Colorado to install
an electric light plant for large min
ing company, near the town OF Lay.
The weather on Sunday was not pro-
pitious for a display OF Easter clothes
and the rain prevented many from at
tending the church services as well.
The Shrubbery for the Park arrived
on Monday afternoon and was prompt
ly set in trenches ready for planting
out in the beds preparedfo for the bushes.
The first consignment of pipe for the
Mendham water works has arrived in
10 nil nd
tractor, expects to begin work this
week.
Stephano Ambrose was arrested and
fined S2.75 on Monday for riding his
bicycle on the sidewalk down Speed
we'll avenue past the police headquar-
tiers.
Jacob A. Riis has been engaged to
address a public meeting in the First
Presbyterian Church on May 9Th, I'M
der the auspices of the Mems Club OF
the Church.
The metal filing cases for the vault
in the town building have at last ar
rived and will be at once set up, af-
fording facilities for storing books and
papers in safe place.
A recent census of the Master Paint
erS of MorriStown revealed the fact
that there are at present thirty-four
firms, companies or individuals en-
gagged in the painting business.
Mrs. Melissa Seals, of German Val
ley, died at the Memorial Hospital on
Monday night, death following an
operation. Her&remains were taken
to her former home on Tuesday.
A number Of repairs and improve
ments are under way at All Souls
Hospital, including new Solarlum
for the third floor and the shingling of
the roof with red asbestos shingles.
The reported sale of the Lackawan-
ma coal pockets at Summit to " the
Baxter Coal CO.. resolves itself into
the transfer of Lackawanna employee
Summit yard.
A delegation of ten members of the
local branch Of st. Patrick's Alliance
attended a district convention at
Boonton on Sunday The district
comprises MorristOwn, Dover, Boon
ton and Butler.
The only change in the ST. Peters
choir is the substitution of William A.
Thompson for e. l.. VanNaltS as the
bass soloiSt. Mr.. VanNalts has filed
the position with great acceptance for
the past three years.
G. f. McMurtry won the shooting
event at the Whippany River last Sat-
urday afternoon, the first out door
event of the season. A sweepStake
was also feature and dinner was SER
we'd at the club house.
Charles GutShall, who came to Nor
ristown from Harrisburg, Pa, last
summer to build the trolley line here
has returned to his native town, TAX
ing a position with the company there
in whose employ he formerly was.
The new dynamo for the Norris &
Somerset Electric Co. is on the cars at
the station having come in from the
factory at Schenectady within day or
so. The machine is in two pieces
which together occupy most OF nat
car.
That the building strike is still in
existence was shown on Wednesday,
when George T. Allen brought seven
carpenters from New York to work
on the Humphreys house. The local
delegate went to the job and called
the men off.
Cloth all Wool and Paint all Paint
is cheaper than shoddy cloth or shoddy