The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-02
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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Three arrests were made on Memoir
ial Day, all ON the charge OF orr Ken
ness and disorder
Town Electrician Pierson is connect
ing uu the boxes with the new under
groundsfire alarm system to-day
Rev. r. b. Urmy will speak on
q World Evangelism at the Market
Street Mission on Wednesday evening.
Beginning on Sunday, June l4th, the
Methodist Sunday School will be held
at 9.30a. M, instead of in the after
noon.
The paving stone walk in front of
the jenkins property on South street
has been taken up and is being replaced
by concrete walk.
The residence of George P. Schmidt
in Normandie Park was burglarized
last Friday night and considerable
plate, ETC., was taken.
Policemen Meslar and Wilday de.
cended upon the Howell lumber yard
sheds on Friday night and dlSlodged
four hoboes who were sent to jail.
The Y. M. G. A. Juniors defeated
the st. Peters nine at baseball on
Wednesday, by the score Of eight TO
seven in the Junior league games,
There will be an adjourned auction
sale of lots on the Sire tract on Water
street on Saturday afternoon. Eight
lots were sold at the last auction.
Charles Werdam, of New York, was
arrested on the Park on Monday even-
ing and fined SIS and costs Tor speed
ing his automobile above the limit.
Beginning Monday, the roller skat-
ing rink will be open only in the even
ing except on Friday and Saturday,
when the rink will be open all day
The closing exercises of the Indus
trial School which meets in the Bap-
tjst Church every Sunday morning
were held on Wednesday afternoon,
when prizes for good work were dis
tributed.
Frantisk Prusa, Bohemian, was
picked up at the station about mid
night on the suspicion which was later
confirmed that he was insane. He
claimed to hail from Cleveland where
he said he had an uncle residing.
The commissioners appointed TO
condemn lands needed for sewer rights
of way met on Thursday and after
looking over the maps made person
al examination of the properties IN
dispute, and will meet again next
Thursday.
The woman's union prayer meeting
will be held through the monitor June
in the ladies' parlor of the Methodist
Church every Thursday morning at
half past ten O'Clock. The women OF
all the churches are cordially invited
to attend this meeting.
The police on Saturday evening
picked up Max Schinenotf, who had
wandered away the day before from
the Essex County Insane Asylum on
South Orange Avenue. Attendants
came up on Sunday morning and took
him back to the institution.
Rev. w. A. Hooper, who for twenty
three years was the pastor OF the New
Providence Presbyterian Church, died
last Tuesday in Beaver, Pa. MI Hoop
er removed to Pennsylvania about
three years ago. He was about eighty
years of age and leaves widow.
Last Sunday was the annual vista
tion of Holy Rood Cemetery on the
Whippany road. The address OF the
occasion was delivered by MonSignor
Kelley, of Jersey City. The boy choir
of the Church of the Assumption was
present and assisted in the service.
The Morristown post office seems to
be steadily growing nearer facb.
conference committee or members OF
the Senate and House nave been over
the omnibus building bill and the
fN.. a gnffi0o cite hOrp iC still
in the bill as it goes to final passage.
Pulpit supplies at the South Street
PRESBYTERIAN Church will be as fol-
lows: June 28, Rev. r. B. Dwight
July 26, Rev. T. B. lronside; August
2, 8, Is, % and 30, Rev. James r.
Riggs: September 6, Rev. Albert Erd-
man, September ID, Rev. il Beau
mont.
Harry A. Grove has purchased two
lots on Glen Brook place at Morris
Plains of Messrs. Shelley and Davis
and expects to build on the tract. The
Morris Auueduct is carting pipe and
will lay thousand feet of water main
OH this street to accommodate pros
pective water takers.
William Hambright, who, besides
supervising the line work of the Nor
ris u Somerset Electric Co., is a show
man as we'll, has opened his merry-go-
round at Ulmer Park for the season.
He had an amusement enterprise on
the Tillyou property at Steeple Chase
Park last season and was burned out
with the rest.
Opponents of the voting machines
are stirring up the matter in the
First Ward of Morristown and in Nor
ris township. In the first named, M.
E. Riley is circulating petition for
an election on the machines and in
the township, Joseph VanDyke is try
ing to get rid of the machines by cir
culating another petition.
The board of aldermen have the
stone on the ground for cobbling a
portion of the gutter of Morris street
in front of the railroad property, OPP
posite Ridgedale avenue, which for
some reason had never been cobbled
and where the curb had fallen over as
a result. The street committee is
having number of sections of this
nature cobbled.
Charles Sulk, plumber of Jersey
City, made his escape from the Morris
Plains Hospital on Friday evening last.
After the evening meal he went out