Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

MOrristOwn Notes

A meeting of the voters of the Han.
over Township school district will be
held in the Parsippany schoolhoust
on March II at 2 D. m. to vote or
the purchase of the site for a new
schoolhouse at Mountain Lakes
Three other propositions will also bt
voted on at the same meeting. The
first proposition is to purchase the
plot at the corner of Lake drive anC
the Boulevard, offered by the Noun
tain Lakes Association for 81, and the
adjoining lot at cost of $1,000, and
to erect a schoolhouse on the same
at a cost of S23, 500. The other propo-
sitions include the purchase of the
site and the erection of a schoolhouse
adjoining the cemetery in Hanover
This will cost $4,000; the setting aside
of $4,000 for the building of an adj
dition to the Whippany School and
the transfer of $301.09 from the sale
of bonds to the general building ac-
count.
Papers of incorporation have been
filed in the county clerks office by
the Berkeley Construction Company
at Long Hill. The company has q
capital stock Of $4,000, and the incor-
porators are George R. Pearce
Charles A. Wulff and Chester G. Bur
den, all of New York city.
w. A. Hewlett is building a frame
bungalow at Towaco, to cost $3,260I
The bungalow. which is to have seven
rooms and bath, is designed by Mr.
Hewlett, in conjunction With C. c.
THAN, of New York city. The gen.
eral contract has been given Frank
Klein, of New York. 1t is to be
finished by April !.
Collins B. Weir is the architect for
a dwelling house being built by
Cesaria Bozzi in Flagler street. The
dwelling will cost $3.50 Arthur H.
Brown has the carpenter contract.
A large crowd of members and
friends of Loantaka Council No. 9SS,
Royal Arcanum, were present at the
annual ladies' night of the council
last night in its rooms in Miller Hall
An entertaining program by e. A
Hendrickson, Miss Edith Beach and
S. c. Hendrickson, of Flatbush, was
given, followed by refreshments and
dancing. The program included
Southern airs on the musical glasses
by Mr.. Hendrickson, songs and
stories by Miss Beach, ~sieight-
of-hand tricks and novelties by
e. A. Hendrickson, character i'm
by S. C. Hendrickson.
or talking songs, by Miss
Beach and shadowgraphs by e. A.
Mitchell's Orchestra
rendered the music for the dancing.
The committee in charge of the affair
was George II. Kiser, regent; w. f.
oakley, chairman; Jesse p. Tiger. r.
Dell. Class, C. r. Slater, James A.
Seoble, r. G. Whitehead, e. E. Pier.
son, c. w. Bodine and George r.
Charles p. Neral, of Dover, and
William III. Mathews, of Rockaway.
fetracted their pleas of not guilty of
libel, as charged by John w. Rob
erts, claim agent of the Morris County
traction Company, yesterday after
noon before Judge Joshua r. Salmon.
Both of the men pleaded guilty to
the counts of editing and dissent
mating the article in the Morris
County Educator the Socialist paper,
which Mr.. Roberts claimed was a
hbel against him, and pleaded not
guilty to the count of writing the
article. James H. Bolitho, the Rock
away lawyer indicted with McFall
and Mathews on the same charges,
has pleaded non vult to all three of
the charges. The latter at first de-
MED knowing anything about the
article.
The Jury found Joseph Ruglio. of
Mendham, not guilty of the serious
charge made against him by Mary
a five-year-old child. of the
same place. The offense occurred
January z in the borough of Mend
ham, and Ruglio, who is sixteen years
old, was arrested, charged with the
crime.
Thursday, March 5, will be the close
of the public night school for the sea-
son. The full term will have been
at that time. The evening
school, which has been held in the
Maple Avenue School building. has
been in charge of Professor Irwin B.
Somerville. The school has been very
successful this season, having had an
average attendance of 100 pupils.
With Mr.. Somerville, the following
have been in charge of the various
branches taught George Harris and
R. c. Carter, grade work; Tryge
Lied, the manual training work: H.
c. Wooton, stenography and type
and Miss Waller has had
charge of the Italian-speaking pupils.
Chief of Police j. Frank Holloway
expects to attend the meeting of the
Chiefs Association of New Jersey, to
be held at Union Hill on Thursday,
March 5.
Mrs. Franklin w. Muir gave an
auction bridge party Wednesday in
honor of her sister-in-law Mrs. Will
lam e. Muir.
Charles w. Ennis has been elected
one of the representatives of the New
Jersey Lumbermen's Association at
the National Wholesale Lumber Deal
ers' Association convention in Buffalo
on March L..
Miss Lillian Ball has been visiting
Miss Edith M. Harvey at Netcong.
The chess team of the Chatham
Young Mems Christian Association
will meet the local Y. NJ. c. A. team
here Saturday night in tournament
match.
A meeting of the captains in the
mem bership campaign to be conducted
by the local Young Mems Christian
Association from March Is to 81 was
held Wednesday night in the parlors
TO talk over plans for the campaign.
Lenten services at the Church of
the Redeemer commenced yesterday
with morning prayer at 1890 and
evening prayer at SIS. Services con-
tinue until Easter with children's
service on Monday afternoons. Next
Sunday the Rev. Walter Bentley, of
the Church of the Ascension, Brook
Ign, will preach; on March 10 the
Rev. William M. Mitcham, Of st.
James's, Hackettstown; March %,
Rev. Arthur H. Judge, of st. Mat
thews, New York. and on March 20
Rev. Thomas A. Conoyer. of ST. Rer-