The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-14
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The first skating of the season Is be-
ing enjoyed on POcahOntas pond.
William Hamilton, of the firm of
Hulsizer g. Hamilton, removes to
Bound Brook this week.
The board of excise has granted re-
newals of the saloon license of A. w.
Theiler'S Sons and the hotel license of
Frank Ambrose for the West End
hotel.
The Rev. Alexander MacColl will
give Stereopticon lecture on immi-
grafton to the South Street Presby-
terrain church Mission band on Friday
afternoon.
Letters from Miss Adelaide Owen,
of Fatehpur, India, will be read before
the Woman'S Union MisSionOnay So
ciety this afternoon in the South
Street Presbyterian church.
The choir of the First Presbyterian
church will render the cantata THE
Holy Childn on next Sunday evening.
Mrs. Joseph Hinchman is choir direct
or and Mrs. Alfred Fox. the organist.
The employed boys gymnasium class
of the Young Mems Christian associa-
tion has formed an organization with
Gray Higbie, president Fred Carr,
secretary, and William Baker, treas
urer.
The Christmas musical service of
the Methodist church will be on De-
cember 18th when Schnecker's " Hope
of the World" will be sung. Several
extra soloists have been engaged to
assist the regular choir OF 30 voices.
Charles Olsen has left the employ of
the state hospital for the insane where
he has been employed as he ad garden
er for twenty years and has secured a
similar position with Mrs. Annie nj.
McClym0ndS, of Morris, Plains.
The senior members of the Young
Mems Christian association will have
a jOllificatiOn in association hall on
next week Friday evening Roller
skating will be enjoyed and each mem
Der is expected to bring his lady friends.
John T. Ritter, the contractor, has
purchased j. Fred Runyon's place on
Western avenue. Mr.. Ritter will lay
a new concrete sidewalk in front of
the property, build new piazzas, re-
paint and make other repairs to the
house.
Officer Young arrested five young
men for treSpaSSing upon the ice Skat-
ing rink of the MorriStown Field club
on Sunday evening on complaint of
Caretaker George Grove. Police JUS
tice Howard released them with a
Teprimand.
A chimney fire at Fritz Behr's resi-
dence on Headley road required atten-
tion from the firemen Tuesday after
noon. The auto chemical engine with
several mem erS of Independent Hose
company and Assistant Chief Robert
Mack had no trouble in distinguishing
the blaze.
In special sessions before Judge AL
fred Elmer Mills Wednesday afternoon
Prosecutor Charles A. Rathbun ar
raigned Alonzo KimDall, nineteen
years old, who plead guilty to larceny,
and Richard Norris, thirty-nine years
old, who plead non vult to charge OF
burglary, and sentence was deferred.
Chief of Police j. Frank Holloway
has been notified by the New York
police that Katherine Chazzilland, OF
this town, was insane and had been
placed in Bellevue hospital. Chief
Holloway has as yet been unable to
locate the woman'S relatives that he
might notify them.
Austin Abel, fifteen years old, of
Ann street, finding inanimate objects
too slow for his proves with an air
rifle took to shooting at the neigh
boris cats and chickens. AS result
he was hailed before Police Justice
Patrick j. Howard and he was fined
So and costs.
The Rev. Samuel Zane Batten, pas
tor of the First Baptist church, of
Lincoln, Neb., is in Washington, d.
c., attending conference and he is
expected to pay visit to Morristown
while he is east. Mr.. Batten was for
merly the pastor of the First Baptist
church here, being called from here to
Lincoln six years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lake, of Dover,
have been summoned to appear before
Judge Alfred Elmer Mills on Thurs
day and show cause why their two
children, George and Lillian, should
not be taken from them. 1t is alleged
by Agent James e. Welsh, iof the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, that the youngsters are not
receiving proper care.
At the meeting of the Mems club of
the First Presbyterian church, on
Monday evening at o'clock, the Rev.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Montclair,
will speak upon the su oject What
Democracy is Doing to Religion" Mr..