Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
MOrristOwn Notes

The automobile which the Board OF
Freeholders purchased for the super
visor of the roads, Michael p. Norris,
has arrived and is ready for service.
| The machine is a runabout and has
morris County painted on both
| sides of the hood. 1t cost the county
| S295. The machine was purchased
| that the road supervisor might give
more attention to the county's roads
in being able to visit them all in u
shorter time.
The Alpha Nu Club has signed a
contract with the Meyerhoff attrac-
tons for a carnival to show in Nor
ristown, on Speedwell Field, the week
beginning June %. The committee in
charge of the amusement enterprise
| includes Frank A. Pierson, chairman;
Raymond c. Matthews, treasurer;
Gordon Heath, William Mcintyre,
Daniel Jensen and Matthew j. Mad
den.
Miss Fannie Burr, of Mt. Kemble
avenue, Is visiting Rev. Thomas T.
Crawford and Mrs. Crawford at
Bernardsville.
Irving D. Ball, of Boonton, one Of
the three young men arrested by
Special officer Thomas Harris, of the
| Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
| Railroad Company, for breaking into
a freight car at Lincoln Park and
stealing clothing to the value OF $500,
was sentenced to the State Reforma-
| tory at Railway by Judge Joshua r..
! Salmon Ball was on parole from
the reforrnatory. Each of the other
two young men, Joseph Kuk and John
Kane, were fined $50 and costs. Frank
Kinney and Harry Hought were also
sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and
costs. Edward Lonergan, of Madi-
son, found guilty of assault, was
fined $25 and costs. The fines and
| costs were committed
Workmen were busy this week pre-
pairing the triangular shaped park
formed by the intersection of the
two branches of Elm street with
Morris street for seeding this spring.
Other workmen were also busy grad
ing all about the grounds of the new
Lackawanna station.
The two stores in the Miller build
| ing formerly occupied by Chris l..
Gallagher and Louis Klementz have
been turned into one large store and
will be occupied by a branch store of
the s. II. Berry Hardware Company.
Miss Harriet w. Howard of South
street, Is stopping at the Hotel Elan
ders, In New York city, where she
has joined Miss Keller.
All the tenants of the York build
ing, in South street, 1t Is expected,
will be out by May 1, so that work
can be begun at once on the new up
o-date bank building to be erected
on it's site by the American Trust
Company, which has purchased the
| building.
Mrs. Thomas h. Ironsde is visit
ing her sister, Miss Lucy G.. Thomp-
son, at Flanders.
Roswell o. b. Smith has been So
journing with Walter Smith, at Ches-
ter, for few days.
John O'Melia, of Dover, pleaded
guilty to obtaining money under false
pretenses before Judge Joshua r..
Salmon in Special Sessions. Henry
Blight. of the same place, who Is held
on q larceny charge was released on
500 bail, which was furnished by Ed
ward y. Neighbour, of Dover.
The ball committee of Humane En-
CINE Company is perfecting arrange
ments for the company's annual
Easter ball. The affair, one of the
principal social events of the local
volunteer flremen, will be held In
Washington Hall next Wednesday
evening. The committee of arrange
ments includes Alfred A, Mack, chair
man; Watson c. Guerin, treasurer;
Fred c. Michelfelder, secretary; AL
| bert C. Pierson and Harry p. Piper,
president of the company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest II. Tomlinson
are planning trip to Texas, They
expect to leave Morristown on April
| 10.
The Caldwell memorial playground
will open for the season on May l.
Miss Edna Rusch Is spending few
days with friends in Green Village.
Charles Russo, aged twenty-one,
was held in $500 bail for the action of
! the grand jury Monday afternoon by
Police Justice Il. A. Quayle, jr., on a
charge of assault and battery pre-
ferred by his wife. Russo's father
went his bail Mrs. Russo appeared
before Justice Quayle in very sorry
plight and said her husband often
beat her.
William p Krouse will move from
the Haywood Farms, on the Whip
pany road, to the Burnet farm on the
same road. The latter farm has beer
unoccupied for a number of years
and considerable work has been done
in the way of improving its appear
| ance.