The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-19
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

for the summer vacation = ule 4 oil.
!. II. Martin is tearing down the
frame building in the rear OF MS zine
street property.
Henry Berghorn, OF New orK IS tne
purchaser of the John Ollyer piace aU
New Vernon, the price was Sl5,5Oo.
S. S. Childs has been appointed a
member of the board of managers OF
the state village for epileptlcS- at Skill-
man.
John It. Ritter has force Of men at
work grading and identifying the
grounds about the Italian Mission on
Flagler street.
The Morristown Lodge f. & A. M.
conferred the third degree on Tuesday
evening, the work being followed by a
collation..
The mills of the United Box Board
and Paper Co. atWhippany were CLOSED
last week. The three McEwan mills
are running.
A game of baseball between PROBES
sional and business men is pelng az
ranged to be played unoer the auspices
of the Y. NJ. 9. A.
A memorial tablet to the late h, IL
Potter will be unveiled at the Wharton
nublic school on Memorial Day at 10 a.
m. There will be several speakers.
Members of the Friday Evening CLUB
were entertained and instructed lasO
Friday evening by Mrs. Foote, VINO
gave a lecture recital on modern COM
posers.
Veterans of the G. A. r. will attend
service in st. Peters Churcn on sun
day evening, the annual memorial SCI
mon being preached by the Rev. Pnlie-
mon f. Sturges.
County Collector Mclean has re-
ceived a check for $54, 2SS the tlrSt IN
stallment of the railroad and canal
tax. which will be distributed among
the taxing districts.
The Morris township board of edu-
cation has re-engaged the present
teaching force in the Hillside, Morris
Plains. Union Hill and Mt. kemble
avenue schools for next year.
The police made eight arrests on
Saturday night and two on SUNDAY Tor
drunkenness and disorder. One arrest
was made on Saturday night for VIC
lating the bicycle ordinance.
The stated meeting of the Morris
County Branch Of the State Charities
Aid Association will be held in the
parlor of the Y. M. G. A. on Wednes-
day afternoon, May goth, at 8 O'Clock.
q The Decorative Art Shop will re-
move within few days to the Dodge
store, corner of South and DeHart
streets, where additional lines will be
added and the store known as the Glf6
Shop.
Clarence DeGoll, of Elizabeth, was
arrested by Officer Osborne on Madison
avenue on Saturday afternoon and
fined $40 and costs on charge of ex-
ceeding the speed limit for automo-
biies.
The Shelley Hygiene Ice Co. started
the first engine and compressor az
their new plant on Water street ana
the railroad on Saturday and the fol-
lowing morning began to make ice in
one Of the tanks.
The Insurance "Press' has an ar
ticle in the paper of April 22nd, telling
of tifty-eight school fires in three
months and listing Morristown with
many other towns and cities where
protective appliances are needed.
Work is again in progress on the new
chapel at Convent. The fancy plaster
ing is being done by Davis Brown, OF
Brooklyn, the cabinet work by A. A.
Durrschmidt, of Derby, Conn, and
the wiring for electric lights by Emil
PudelSak.
The directors of the Friday Evening
Club organized on Wednesday after
noon by the election of Arthur 2.
Butler as president, Rev. f. b. Dwight
and Edward K. Mills as vice-presi-
dents and David K. Barkman, Secre-
tary and treasurer.
The annual meeting of the share
FOLDERS of Washington Association
of New Jersey, for the transaction of
the business of the corporation, and
for the election of trustees, will be held
at the Headquarters, Morristown, on
Wednesday, June oath, at II m.
County Engineer King was called
from the meeting Of the board of free
holders on Wednesday by telephone
message that his barn at lockwood
was on fire. Earlier in the week he
suffered from fires on his place which
it was thought were of incendiary ori-
gin.
Washburn's Circus exhibited in
Morristown on Thursday. playing be-
fore an audience which filled the tent
in the evening. The special features
of the show were the exhibits of
trained animals which with the other
attractions proved interesting.
The Summer Shelter will reopen for
the season on June 9th. Miss Alice
Hill, who was in charge during the
summer of 1906, has been secured as
matron for the coming season. Last
summer she was travelling in Europe.
Miss Littell will again be at the Shelf
er as assistant.
Competitive examinations for State
scholarships in Rutgers College will
be held in the County Court House,
Morristown, on Saturday, June 6, from
8 a. m. to p. m. Candidates will be
examined in Algebra, Plane and Solid
Geometry, English, U. S. History,
Chemistry, Physics, General History
and German, French or Latin.
The annual meeting of the Newark
District Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist Church was held in the
Methodist Church on Wednesday with
a large attendance. Rev. r. B. Urmy
extended the welcome for the church
and reports were made of the several