The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-01-12
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DR.. Homer g. Stuntz will speak in
the Methodist church Sunday morn
ing. 58
The Morris township committee has
organized for the year with Watson a..
Bartron as chairman and Lewis r..
Clark, treasurer
a blazing pile OF brush menaced the
houses in Olyphant park Friday even
ing and the chemical engine was called
to extinguish the blaze.
The walls and ceilings in Humane
Engine cOmpany's house are being
papered and painted. William ID.
Harrison has the contract.
William Wrath, for many years
janitor of the National Iron bank, was
removed to the state hospital at Nor
ris Plains on Tuesday.
Nicholas Marinaro has the mason
contract for a house to be erected for
l.. A. Comstock in Madison. The
dwelling will cost $4,000.
An electric light has been placed in
the third story of the tower Of the
municipal building and will be lighted
when the board of aldermen is in SeS-
sion.
At Morristown School Chapel on
Sunday Rev. John 2. Forbes, OF Brook
lynn N. Y, will preach. Service at 5
p. m. Visitors are always cordially
welcome.
Miss Emma A. Chapman, of Jersey
City, has taken the place of Miss Ma
bel Dean in the public school. Miss
Chapman will teach in the high school.
She is a graduate of Barnard college.
Henry w. Armstrong has sold his
house and lot No. Is Western avenue
to Herman Viedt and on April first
will remove to No. 10 Western avenue
now occupied by Mrs. Phoebe Foun-
tain.
A series of uableaux entitled "a
Bachelors Revere" will entertain the
members Of the Epworth league after
the regular business meeting to be
held in the Methodist church on Wed
nesday evening.
Books on home and foreign missions,
magazines and pamphlets have been
gathered for the purpose OF starting a
missionary library in the First PreSby-
terrain church. The library is shelved
in the bible class room in the chapel.
In suit brought by John Y. Cor
gbitt, of Madison, against the Madison
Young Mems Christian association for
1928 for mason work before Justice
Edward o. Johnston, Tuesday, a jury
rendered verdict for the plaintiff for
the full amount claimed.
The Jersey Athletic club has elected
Wallace RICHTER, president; Pierson
Little, treasurer and Charles Dun
ster, secretary. James McDermott
WILDE the manager and James Hazen
the captain of the Jerseys base bah
team this season.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
society of tine Methodist church will
( hold its first meeting of the year at
the parsonage on Friday afternoon.
The subject for the1year is The Moss
lem World" and the afternoon will be
spent in !" Looking Toward Mecca. =
Pincus Weinstock, DeHart street
tailor. was arrested on Wednesday by
ROundsman Theodore L. Rolf and
turned over to the custody of Detec-
tive Harris, Of the Newark police de-
partment. Weinstock is wanted in
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In an appeal from a verdict for $50
and costs found ia Justice Edward G.
Johns0n'S court recently for Rosa Pr
azza against Nicholas MarinarO for the
obstruction of a delivery wagon, the
papers in the case were taken by Judge
Alfred Elmer Mills on Wednesday and
he has reserved his verdict.
Wilbur f. Day was presented on
Wednesday with beautiful specimen
of the cyclamen perSicuim by ReSolute
Hook 81 Ladder Co., the occasion be-
ing the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF his
birth. Mr.. Day is the only active char
ter member of the company. He is
& slowly improving in health. tcs Il
The Rev. Robert B. Hull, DID,, a.
the First Baptist church on Sunday
morning presented commissions to the
following officers of Company b,
Fourth N. j. Regiment. United Boys,
Brigades of America Second Ser
sgeant Stephen France, Second Ser
geant Arthur Linde, Corporal John
Rodler, Corporal Carl Peters and Corr
poral Fred Reeves.
Charles Jennings, who has been in
the empty of steamship line plying
between New York and Panama as an
assistant purser, has given up the posi-
tion. He returned from Panama on
the " Adyance" on Saturday haying
enough Of sailoring after his exueri-
+ eHce on the wrecked Finance" of the
same line and The bad weather his
ship encountered.
The ladies' night entertainment
given by Morristown lodge Of ElkS in
Washington hall Friday evening was
greatly enjoyed by the many who at
tended. The entertainment included
vocal selections by Mrs. John Gill and
George Babbitt and recitations by
Frederick @. Reeves and Edward A.
Isaacs, followed by dancing.
Harvey Loree has purchased of Mrs
Francis A. Lee the property on West
~ern avenue now occupied by her. Mr..
L0ree plans to raise the house, shingle
it and make other alterations and will
also build new house on the adjOin-
ing lot. Mrs. Lee will move into the
house on the Opposite'side of the street
now occupied by Edward Burlington
after she has had the house, which she
owns, remodeled.
State Tenement House Inspector
William L. Cloak is In town looking
over the apartment houses that come
under the direction of his department..
Hehas found houses here in fairly good