The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-14
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Lewis r. Davis has had q piazza
added to his coy home on western
avenue.
William E. Day is building bunga-
low at Cedar Lake, adjoining a. n.
Persons place.
Miss Burr, Of the Morristown Free
kindergarten, has been enjoying her
vacation in Asbury Park and Albany .
The Dorcas society of the Methodist
church will meet at the home OF Mrs.
William Esther, No. 40 Mills street,
on Wednesday afternoon.
A handsome new oak desk, finished
in old English style. has been added
to the equipment of the board OF free
holders committee room.
The ladies aid society of the Meth
sodist church will hold a dime social
for the benefit of the piano fund on
Wednesday evening, the twenty
second.
The members of the MOrristown
Indian association are preparing a
Christmas box for Miss Marie john
county, California.
Prof. Isaac T. Headland, of Pekin
university, will speak in the Memo
dist church next Sunday evening on
affairs in China. The speaker comes
to Morristown under the auspices OF
the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the church.
/, A suit brought by the New Jersey
Tent; & Awning Co.. OF this town
aoainst Wulff & Co., also of this town,
for the erection of awnings was de-
cided in favor of the plaintiff by Jus
tice EdwardC. Johnston Monday after
noon, Judgment being given for S4l.5O.
A team Of horses belonging to John
VanRiper ran away Saturday mora
ing. Mr.. VanRiper was feeding the
horses near the James park when they
took fright and dashed across the park
and down Morris street before they
were caught. The wagon was not
damaged.
William O'Neal, of Morris Plains,
fell from as.wagon while driving down
Speedwell avenue Tuesday morning
andEhis head was cut and bruised. He
was taken to police Headquarters and
his wounds dressed after which Jus
tice Howard sent him to jail Tor Gnree
days for being drunk.
The Epworth league of the Metho-
dist church will hold rally service
next Sunday evening. The speaker
will be Prof Edwin l.. carp, until re-
Gently of the faculty of Syracuse uni
yersity and now occupying the newly
founded chair of Christian Sociology
in Drew seminary at Madison.
Lewis G. Gillespie is having an iSo-
lated water plant installed on his
place "Tower Hill" A pump will be
used to force the water from wells on
the property to the reservoir in the
tower, power being furnished by an
eight horse power gasolene engine.
The Pierson Plumbing Co., is doing
the work.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, colorei, OF
Thompson street, was arrested Satur-
day by the police on complaint OF her
neighbors who asserted the woman
was crazy. Though no alienist Police
Justice Patrick Howard had no trou-
BILE diagnosing her case and she was
sent to Jail for four days charged with
being drunk and disorderly.
The women Of the First Presby-
terian church have been asked to help
prepare box of clothing for the Rev.
\ Robert Adair, of Providence, Ky. Mr..
and Mrs. Adair have four children, a
boy of thirteen and girls of six, three
and one year. The Women's Home
Missionary society of the church,
which holds a sewing meeting every
"Wednesday afternoon. is preparing
the box.
Street Commissioner Howard Cole
has on exhib tion in one OF John Il.
Runyon's show windows two photo
graphs of the municipal building on
Speedwell avenue. One shows the
building before the recent improve
ment was made in the sidewalk ant
the other shows how it looks now
with the new concrete walk laid and
the grass plots put down in front OF
the building.
With the return of the Rev. William
Russell Bennett, its pastor, to the
pulpit of the First Presbyterian
church next Sunday, that church will
resume lit normal activities after che
changes incidental to the summer va
cations. The time Of holding tire
morning church service will be ten
thirty instead of eleven and the Sur
day school will meet in the afternoon
at three O'Clock instead Of in the morn
ing.