Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
MORRISTOWN

Louis A. Theabaud and family, Of
Madison avenue, have returned from
New York.
The Misses Ruth and Dorothy
Cowan, of East Orange, are visiting
Mrs Frank Rodler, of Speedwell ave-
nue..
The annual election of officers of
A T. A. Torbet Post, G.. A. r., will
be held tomorrow night.
The auto chemical was called to
the residence of Frederick w. Knip-
scher at As Franklin street Satur-
day to extinguish a small fire in the
rear of the kitchen range.
The large room in the northeast
corner OF the Court House has been
partitioned for the use of the Norris
County Board of Taxation.
A Judgment for s151.50 was given
In the District Court against the
Morristown Realty and Construction
Company. A judgment for 50 was
also given against Michael j. Boston,
of this town.
Mrs. Walter Teets has been visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. James Wright In
Dover.
With the advent of new sheriff
at the Court House, a general house
Sheriff Thompson has put several of
the prisoners at work about the
building. The attic has been cleared
of it's accumulation of broken furni-
ture and odds and ends, and has
been cleaned and swept. The jail has
been thoroughly scrubbed, the old
bedding and much of the clothing of
the prisoners burned and the men
supplied with c'ean clothes. Fur
Their improvements are planned by
Sheriff Thompson. At present every
man committed to Jail is given a
bath, and if clean clothes are needed
he is furnished with them. The front
room to the left of the main corridor
In the Court House, long the hang
out of the unemployed, has been
cleaned and partition put in the
centre of it. One of the rooms thus
made will be used by the County Tax
Board for an office, while the other
will be occupied by the county en-
gineer Sheriff Thompson expects to
occupy the sheriff's house, adjoining
the Court House, as soon as repairs
are made.
Richard L. Davis has removed
from Sussex avenue to Speedwen
avenue, Morris Plains.
George e. Voorhees,, jr., has started
for his home in California, after
month spent in the East on business.
He made his headquarters in Morris
town with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
George E. Voorhees,, Of Prospect
street. He returns by way of Wash
ington, ID. c.
Mrs. Frederick S. Breese, of Oily
plant Park, has a broken forearm,
sustained when the engine of her au-
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cranking it.
Because of the next regular meet
ing night of the Board OF Education
falling on Christmas, the board will
meet on December Is.
Andrew l.. Cobb has resigned as
Jury commissioner. He is a Repub
iican. and served with Whitfield B.
Gillen, Democrat, when the latter
was sheriff. With the election of
William H. Thompson, Republican, to
the shrievalty, it becomes necessary
for Democrat to be appointed COM
missioner.
David Ogilvie, professional at the
Norris County Golf Club, has gone
South for the winter. AS usual, he
viii be with the Augusta Country
Club, at Augusta, Ga, during the
winter months, making his fourteenth
season with the Augusta club. Ogil-
vie will be assisted by his brother,
Alec Ogilvie, and by Alec Cunning
ham, the latter having been In the
West during the summer. Ogilvie
will return TO Morristown in the
spring.
With the appointment of Andrew L.
Cobb, Carl V. Vogt and Char es w.
Ennis as members of the condemna-
mi etn Cf
the Noble tract as site for high
school building, o step forward was
taken in the realization of the new
high school proposition. The three
men were appointed by Justice
Parker on Saturday. This step was
necessary. as Joseph Hinchman,
president of the Board of Education,
is also an executor of the Noble
estate, and the legal proceedings are
of a friendly nature, as he cannot act
in dual capacity.
Miss Grace Dawson, deaconess in
the Centenary Church, Newark, adj
dressed the Epworth League Sunday
evening, describing her work in New
ark.
Michael Totaro was arrested Satur-
day night for riding a bicycle with
out a light He was fined $2.10.
MISS Evelyn LAY SIlLcTldtI1S LIl6
Queen Esther Circle at her home on
Anto avenue Wednesday afternoon.
The collection for the Belgian re-
lief fund, taken at the union Thanks
giving service held in the First Bap-
fist Church, amounted to s4L85.
Campfire Girls OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church present Our Aunt
From California" and some original
campfire songs and ceremonies in the
church on Friday evening.
Mrs. J, Nelson Buck and children
have been spending q week with Mr.
and Mrs. David B. Moore, at Dover.
Former Jail Keeper Edward Carroll
has taken apartments in the Moody
house, 81 Washington street.
The Women's Union prayer meeting
will be held on Thursday mornings
| In December in the Methodist Episco-
pa Church. Miss Adeline Owen will
give a series Of Bible readings on
prayer"
James j. Lyons has purchased from
Horace A. Babbitt two lots on CUT
! Ter street, near Mills street, and viii
erect two dwellings upon them.
Rev. Mr. Wills, Of Lexington. KY,
occupied the pulpit of the First Bap-
tist Church on Sunday.
Miss Christine Logan, Of Barry
street, has been visiting her brother
and sister-in- 'aw, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Logan, az Wilmington, Del,
far few days,