The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-08
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Daniel BOCKOV6Q, WHO is DulIulug
new house on Sussex avenue, expects
to occupy it April lst.
Stephen Roberts will remove from
Western avenue to the Ross mouse Oh
Hill street on April lst.
Sidney Baldwin will remove to the
houseSon Western avenue owned py
John Z. Ritter on April lst.
The Chatham school board decides it
will need an appropriation OF 81 900 60
conduct the schools next veal
Albert Thompson has purchased the
nronartv corner of Western and Scar
no avenues from Miss Della Pruden.
County Clerk E. Bertram Mott has
added to the equipment OF his office a
new steel filing case for books with
capacity Of sixty-four volumes.
BENJAMIN Day. the Lackawanna
railroad engineer of the s'milli0naires"
ovnress. has returned to his home here
from the railroad hospital at Scran-
ton.
A smoker and refreshments will be
the attraction for members OF Phoenix
branch. Grand Fraternity, at their
next regular meeting on tuesday
evening.
Five months in the county jail was
the sentence handed down by Judge
Alfred Elmer Mills on Thursday to
James Corners, of Dover, who had
plead guilty to stealing bag OF oats.
The Morris Gun club is arranging
an all day shoot to be held on it's
grounds in Collinsville on Tuesday,
March 22nd. A match with the Nor
ristown Field club is also being ar
ranged.
Two of the Cutler park building lots
were sold through II. Irving johnston,
manager real estate division or Llpp-
man & Co, to l.. B. Weeks, of this
town. Mr.. Weeks intends to build IN
the near future.
Postmaster George L. Clarke Friday
morning received his commission OF
reappointment as postmaster announcer
term. 1t is signed by President Will
lam III. Taft and by Postmaster-Gen-
eraL Frank I'll. Hitchcock.
Philip Day removed his stationery
business this week to the store for
merly occupied by the Brown u O'Con-
nell Drug Go. Mr.. O'Connell has re-
moved his drug business TO the build
ing recently purchased by him.
Because witnesses to the will of the
late Monsignor Joseph NJ. Flynn had
not signed the instrument in each
others presence nor had seen the test
ator sign it Judge Alfred Elmer Mills
on Thursday refused to admit the Will
to probate.
Joseph Defessez, chauffeur in the
employ of Louis A. Thebaud, fell from
a ladder in the Thebaud garage Tues
day afternoon and fractured both his
arms. A few weeks ago the chauffeur
broke his right wrist while cranking a
machine.
The marriage of Court Crier Edward
P. Byram and Mrs. Nellie Silvers has
been announced, the ceremony being
performed in Trenton on Washing
toms birthday. Mr.. and Mrs. Byram
have taken an apartment at NO. 10
High street.
With the baritone solos sung by it's
director, Asa Howard Geeding, the
choir of the S3uth Street Presbyterian
church Sunday evening sang j. S,
Maunder's cantata 'sPenitence, Pardon
and Peace" before an audience chat
packed the church.
Samantha's Surprise Party" will
be given under the auspices OF the Ep-
worth league in the Methodist church
on Wednesday evening, March 9Th.
Mrs. Robert D. Jillson. the director.
will be assisted by fifty young people
of the society.
Miss Grace r. Carrell will entertain
the members of the Woman'S Foreign
Missionary society of the Methodist
church at her home, No. 65 Washing
ton street, on Friday afternoon. The
subject for discussion will be Italy
In the Shadow of the Vatican"
Joseph Pangborn was bitten by a
horse while at work in Anderson M.
Guerin's stable on Tuesday The ami
NAL lacerated his neck and right cheek.
DIR. Stephen Pierson cauterized the
wounds and Pangborn went TO his
home on Macculloch avenue.
The annual meeting of the Woman S
Missionary society, the Young Wo-
man, Missionary society and the Jun
ior band will be held at three O'Clock
in the South Street Presbyterian
church on Wednesday, March 9Th.
Mrs. Paul Erdman, of Syria, will be
the speaker
The Rev. William W. Barker, pas
tor of the First Baptist church, is ar
ranging for the church'S annual roll
call, which is to be held on Friday
evening, April 1st. The Rev. SD.
Arthur, pastor of the North Baptist
church. Of Jersey City, has been Sc
cured as one of the speakers.
The Women's Missionary society,
the Young Women's Missionary So
ciety and the Junior band of the South
Street Presbyterian church will cele-
brate their anniversary on Wednes-
day. Mrs. Paul Erdman, Of Zahleh,
Syria, will be the speaker. A social
hour will follow the meeting and tea
will be served.
Arnold Helmingder, of Orange, has
been engaged as night telegraph oper
ator in the MorriStOwn office of the
Western Union Telegraph company
by Manager William I'll. Linder. The
local office is now never closed, being
open night and day. Mr.. Helmingder
was formerly the wireless operator on
the Panama line steamer Alliance"
Abraham T. Adams and William
Kenny were discovered in the barn in
the rear OF the court house at mid
night Wednesday night. Sheriff Cal
houn Orr, Keeper William Carroll and
a DOliceman had to force fine door 0nan