The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-10-20
NEWSY NOTES FROM
SUBURBAN TOWNS
Items Of Interest Concerning
Our NaighbOTs' DOings.

nerd the nlghIS OF november 24ln
and 25th. The, first nights services
will be of an historical nature, and
former pastors will be present. Thei
second nights service will be in the
nature of song festival, with AMI
address by Rev DR.. Jacob A. Cole,
superintendent of the Paterson dis
trict. The choir will render special
music at both services.
The Rockaway township board off
education has offered Henry MillerE
fifty-five cents day additional toI
extend his trip daily to Hibernia, tol
transport several pupils attending thet
Rockaway high school. Miller has al
contract to transport pupils from
Lyonsville to Rockaway and return,
and the Hibernia pupils have to walk
to Beach Chen to meet him, a dis
tance of two miles and half.
The Roxbury Township Public
Schools association has organized att
Succasunna. Temporary officers were
elected as follows: President, Ed
ward w. Fitzpatrick, sr., of Kenyil;
e-presidents, Robert V. Spencer,
George w. Thorpe and Howard Wal
Hoagland, of Ledgewood; secretary,
Mrs. George D. Gardner; treasurer,
Mrs. Ralph Davey.
Fire started at two o'clock Sunday
morning in the apartment If Charles
| Granato in Main street, Madison, and
| did about 81 900 damage to the upper
story and first floor, whe'e he cor.
| ~ I
swept rapidly and the whole upper
floor is in ruins, the family having
been obliged to flee in their night
clothing and obtain lodging With
| friends.
Justice Parker has allowed a writ
of certiorari in the supreme court to
| review the arrest and conviction OF
Isadore Less, of Dover, for violating
an ordinance prohibiting the sale of
LIQUOR. Less claims he had obtained
a federal government license and
that he was not violating the ordin-
ance of the town of Dover. After his
arrest he was fined 500.
Newton Schott, sixteen years old,
a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick B..
Schott, of Rockaway, received at
school from Supervising Principal G..
Herbert Walling, > bro%ze medal,
awarded by the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca for bravery displayed last sum-
mer in rescuing Miss Emma Lehman,
of Passaic, from drowning in Green
J Pond.
The resignation of the Rev. Robert
J. Thompson as pastor of ST. Johns
Episcopal church, Of Dover, will be-
come effective November 18th, in
order that Mr.. Thompson may be able
to be present at the sixty-fifth ami
versary of the church, which will be
observed November Sth. His new
charge will be st. Bartholomew
church. Hohokus.
Railroad Dsctective Thomas Harris
has arrested four young men wanted
for breaking and entering u box car
on the Lackawanna railroad at Port
Morris, April 10th The prisoners,
who are in the county Jail. are VIII
(, liam Miller, of Dover Fred voorhees,,
of Hackettstown, Woodruff Mcconnell
and Floyd Scherrer, of Port Morris.
The Basking Ridge Baseball club
has reorganized as the Basking Ridge
A. c.. with the following officers:
President, Edward Daigle; vice-presi.
dents, Charles II. Buck and Robert
Garrabrant; secretary, Kenneth Turn
er; treasurer, Arthur j. Burnett;
manager, Clarence A. Craig; assist
ant manager, Robert Garrabrant.
| The Morris County Automobile club
has erected danger signs on many Of
| the dangerous curves throughout the
county. The clubs officers have al
SO erected caution signs warning
drivers of the condition OF various
roads.
| The cottage of E. E. Barney, Of
New York, known as Sunny Hut,
on Raccoon Island. Lake Hopatcong,
was destroyed by fire at loss esti-
mated at fully $4,000. There is
said to be no insurance.
A fire of mysterious origin started
at 4.30 o'clock Sunday morning ir the
new home of Albert N. Kearns in
Franklin avenue, Rockaway, and
caused damage estimated at about
$500, chiefly due to smoke
The ninth annual flower show OF
the Morris County Gardeners and
Florists society viii be held in Mad
ison ON Wednesday and Thursday ev-
enings, October 2Sth and 29th.
The first of series of benefit
dances for the Brookside Field club
will be held in Vocational hall, Brook
side, Thanksgiving Eve, November
the 25th.
The Mems club, Of Dover. opened
its season with a dinner with w F.
Birch as host and William Tonking
! ltoastmaster.
The number of pupils now enrolled
in the Rockaway public schools is
SIT, of which 151 are listed in the
Keller avenue school.
A case of diphtheria at Bowlby-
vile has been reported to the Rock
away township board of health
A movement for the Sunday clos
ing of barber shops is on at Summit.
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