The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-05
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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$25 to the band concert
fund.
The board of trustees of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church will meet this
evening
The Morristown Daily Record
celebrated it's tenth anniversary on
Saturday.
A permanent branch of the Book
lovers library Of Philadelphia has been
opened here.
The one year old child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Day, of Lincoln street uieo
Wednesday of spinal meningitis.
Armin Hoffman will work at the
National Iron bank during Une sum-
mer
.Ioseph Van Dyke will conduct the
meeting at the C0llinsville chapel ON
Sunday evening
Lewis Thompson has purchased a lot
on Locust avenue, Hillside, from John
Murphy for $780,
Companies B, G, and D of the Boys
brigade, of this town, participated in
parade at Summit on Monday.
Paul Wachtell, pitcher for the Grey
stone Park baseball team, has been
signed by Southern league team.
This evening the Morristown band
will give its regular weekly concert IN
The park. The vocalist will be Ed
ward Mack, baritone.
Mrs. Asa Howard Geeding, the wife
of the choir director of South Street
Presbyterian church died on Monday
after two weeks illness.
Frank Ambrose, who has conducted
the West End hotel for several years,
has retired and relinguiShed the hotel
business to Thomas Smith.
Two electric lamps, fed with cur
rent from storage batteries, have re-
placed the acetylene gas lamps on the
automobile chemical engine.
The Christian Endeavor society Of
the First Presbyterian church will
give a Fourth of July entertainment
in the chapel on Wednesday evening.
The Rev. w. w. Holloway D. D.,
will read paper on Immigration
at the Thursday evening prayer meet
ing of the First Presbyterian church.
Thirty candidates were initiated at
the summer meeting of the Morris
County Forest 2 of the Tall Cedars of
Lebanon, held in Miller hall Tuesday
night.
W. D. jerks has installed an isolat-
ed lighting plant in his residence on
Mt. Kemble avenue to furnish current
for the lighting of his house and
grounds.
James Maloney, first baseman of the
Morristown A. A. base ball team, is
confined to h is home by injuries he re-
ceived in a game Saturday at Speed
well field.
X The Rev. James M. Meeker, D. D.,
president of the Collegiate institute
at HackettStown, occupied the pulpit
OF the Methodist Episcopal church at
both services Sunday.
Sidney Collins, republican, OF Rock
away. and William Hummell, Demo-
crat, Of Dover, have been appointed
by Governor Fort as members OF the
county board Of elections. y
! The Morris Plains Real Estate Co.
has been incorporated by Albert Sire
4 and Leander S. Sire, of New York,
and John B. Byram, OF this town,
with capitalization OF $4,000.
Thomas Meskill has purchased the
7 frame building on the post Office site
! on Morris street and will move ii TO
/ lot corner of Spring and Center streets
and will fit it up for a dwelling.
Miss Carrie Case and Miss May
: Leonard were graduated from the jun
] ior to the senior division of the Chris
l-tian EndeavOr society OF the Baptist
church, at Monday nights exercises.
The Methodist Sunday school is ar
ranging a trolley excursion to Lake
HOpatcOng. The trolley company has
promised to have its cars running
Through to the lake from Morristown
in August.
The U. S. Government on Wednes-
day paid for the land of Isaac d. Lyon
and q. Franklin Wilson, on Morris
street, which was condemned for the
site for the new post office, and took
the title to it.
Chief of Police j. Frank Holloway
on Monday celebrated the twenty
seventh anniversary of his appoint
ment as member of the force. For
twenty-five years he has been chief OF
the department..
At the summer meeting of the Pres
bytery of Morris and Orange on the
twenty-frst inst, the Rev. Reid
Stuart Dickson was ordained and in
stalled pastor of the Presbyterian
church, of New Providence.
The Morristown board of sewerage
has awarded to J.. B. and HI. K. Sal
mon. of Hackettstown. the contract
for installing water plant at the
sewer disposal works. Their bid, the
only one received, was S929.75.
The body of Mrs. Emma Stocks,
who died at SheepShead Bay on Satur-
day, was brought to MorrstOwn on
Monday and inferred in Evergreen
cemetery to-day. She was the widow
of the late Robert Stocks, of Buffalo.
Richard Scharfe, driver for New
ark business house, was arrested by
Agent James E. Welsh, of the S. p. @.
A., Saturday morning charged with
driving mule with sore neck. He
was lined So and costs by Justice Isaac
r. Pierson.
The state civil service commission
has announced that on Monday, July
10Th, will be held an examination for
the position of clerk to the first dis
trict court OF Morris county. Harry
Zwenger was appointed temporarily
to the position.
William Stephens, who was brought