The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-15
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

byterian church SUNDAY morning.
Morris township will hold it's annual
school meeting in the township hall
On Mendham road on this evening.
e. A. Smith, an evangelist from
Dover, will conduct the services at the
.CollinsYille chapel on Sunday evening.
Morristown Conclaye of Heptasophs
is arranging ladies' night entertain
inert which is to be given in the near
future.
Arthur Lane is i'll at his home on
Clinton street with blood poisoning.
He scratched his hand with a nall on
Tuesday.
The Rev. W. w. Holloway, D. D.,
Of Dover. occupied the pulpit of the
First Presbyterian church SUNDAY
morning.
Charles Bradley has moved his house
IN Madison avenue farther back on
the lot and is building a large addl-
tion to it.
Mrs. James May and her three chill
dren. of Chester, are ill in the Barker
pavilion for contagious diseases with
scarlet fever.
freeman Bros, of Mendham, have
delivered to Ogden Apgar, of Chester,
a new Ford car, five passenger, fully
equipped, at $3.50.
William Ayers has succeeded the
late David Sanderson as conductor OF
the Morristown express, known as the
g millionaires train"
Frederick B. Cobhett, having sue
cessfully passed his EXAMINATIONS mas
been admitted to the bar OF the state
as an attorney at law.
Henry M. Gross, of the engineering
department of the motifs county
Traction company, is i'll In HARRISBURG,
Pa, with the scarlet fever.
Charles r. Whitehead has re-
ceiyed his new Jackson 30" from
Freeman Bros, of Mendham. This
is handsome and powerful car and
Mr.. Whitehead is well pleased with IT,.
progress and Problems of Public
Education will be the subject OF Su-
perintendent of Schools Ira Winthrop
Trayell's address before the Men,
club of the First PRESBYTERIAN church
this evening.
The Italian club of Morristown has
rented the room over Phillips q Days
store on Park place and will occupy 1t
as a club room. Only Italian buSl-
ness men of~the town are members OF
the organization.
Miss Mary M. Axtell has been Sc
cured by the South Street Presbyterian
church to do city mission work in
Morristown. Miss Axtell, who comes
from New York, will begin her duties
here on April LIST.
The anniversary meeting of the Wo-
mems Missionary societies of the First
PRESBYTERIAN church will be held next
Wednesday afternoon. An address on
+" Porto Rico" will be given by Mrs.
Augustus A. Crane, of Elizabeth.
MAYNARD Day has on exhibition in
one of w. f. Days store windows two
hand-colored engagements OF photo
graphs he took last summer at Hack
ettStoWn. One view is OF guard lock
on the Morris canal and the other is a
cornfeld.
Professor Ira W. Traveli, superin-
tendent of the MorriStoWn public
schools. will address the Mems club of
the First Presbyterian church this
evening in the chapel. Professor
TravelI's subject will be " Problems OF
7 Public Education"
The board of excise has granted a
renewal of the wholesale liquor license
of Piper Bros, on Market street, and
a transfer Of, the saloon license granted
to Frank Piper from his present loca-
tion on Speedwell avenue TO store on
the opposite side Of the street.
Col. Alexander r. Chisolm, who re-
sided on Madison avenue, Morristown,
for number Of years, and who was
recorder in the years 1878, died at
his home in New York city yesterday.
He was an officer in the Confederate
army during the war Of the rebellion.
James Hayes, colored, was fined ten
dollars and costs by Justice Isaac r.
Pierson onSSatur3ay for bea5ing his
twelve-year old son. The complaint
was brought by Agent James e. Welsh,
of the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children.
Street Commissioner Howard ]. Cole
has won the thanks of pedestrians who
use Western avenue for having relaid
the crossing at Miller street so that
the storm water is carried down the
hill and will no longer lie on the cross
ing to depth Of an inch or more.
Miss Mildred A. Logan entertained
the members of the Owl club at her
home on Western avenue Friday even
ing. Piano selections by Miss Mariette
Reed, of Flanders, who was spending
the weekend with Miss Logan, were
a pleasing feature Of the evenings en-
tertainment.
Funeral services of the late George
w. Douglass, who died on Friday,
March 18th, we're held at his late resi-
dence near Van Doren's mill at one
O'Clock Monday Afternoon. Mr.. Doug
lass was a former resident of Jersey
City and a retired detective. He was
sixty-one years old.
A new Morris county corporation is
William Harris g. Sons, Of No. 124
Blackwell street, Dover. The firm is
capitalized at $4,000 and will deal in
watches, clocks and jewelry. The in
corporators are William Harris, Will
liam @. Harris, Annie Harris, Kate
Alfred Harris and Alfred T. Harris.
Prosecutor Charles A. Rathun has
ordered released from the county jail
John Bertak. of Dover. who was held
as a witness of the death Of John
Hunchion, who fell down flight of
stairs at Bertak 5 home in Dover and
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