The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-19
BArosNE BABBLEs.

Efforts are being made by tho Odd Eel
lows of this CITY towards TN organic itioQ of
a Bebecca degree lodge.
A two-story frame dwelling house is be-
inc erected on Twentieth street, Bergen
Point, for Mrs. Kate O'Hanlon.
MIR. and Mrs. Matthew G.. HoughtoD, of
Lancaster, Pa, arc the guests of Mr.. and
!. Mrs. Alfred H. Cooper, of Bergen Point.
During the ensuing social season a series
Of three receptions will be given, under the
auspices of the Bergen Point Lawn Tennis
Club.
Arrangements for the organization OF a
branch of the Patriotic Order of Sons of
America at Bergen Point are being per-
fected.
Mrs. S, T. Brown, of Bergen Point, has
leased her residence on the Newark Bay
shore, and removed to New York City for
the winter.
Aunt Polly Bassets ''sipging skewl" will
hold forth Wednesday and Thursday even
ings in the Madison M. L. Church, of
Bayonne proper.
Mrs. Henry W. F. Jones, of Sixteenth
street, Bergen Point. and her daughter
Marian, will spend the remainder of the
winter in Florida.
The members of the Bergen Point ORA
matte Club are rehearsing two plays, which
they expect TO produce early next month
in St. Mary's Hail.
The annual election for officers of Bay
onne Council, No. 695, Royal Arcanum,
will occur tomorrow evening, in Arcanum
Hall, Bayonne proper
According to announcement, the new
Smelling and Metal Refining Works at
Constable Hook, will be put into full oper-
alton by the first of January.
The Board of Education will meet in
regular session Monday evening, and the
Board of Commissioners will held a regu-
lar meeting Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Arthur b. Styles, prominent mem
Der of the Bergen Point Athletic Club, has
purchased ex- Trustee Luther Van Buskirk's
pharmacy on Avenue d, Pamrapo.
The super-structure of the new convert
in the course of erection on Twentieth
street, Bergen Point, for the sisters OF st.
Joseph, is ready to receive the roof
Mr.. and Mrs Archibald A. Smith ten
dered their friends a reception Thursday
afternoon and evening in their residence
on La Tourette street, Bergen Point.
A site upon which to build their club
house, has been selected by the members
of the Pamrapo Athletic Club, VINO propose
TO issue bonds to the extent of $1,000.
The great amount of wo,k encountered
in making the excavations for the founda-
tons of Finch Il Co.'s prouesed stove foun-
dry at Pamrapo has considerably retarded
the work.
Invitations to Metzsl soup party to be
held in the Bergen Point Hotel, on We'd
nesday afternoon and evening, the 29rh,
inst, have been issued by mine host Chas.
Reppenhagen.
The members of the Police Department
have presented a series of handsom ely en-
crossed and framed resoluti )ns of con-
dolence and regret to the family of the late
Chief of Police Hiram Van Buskirk.
Rev. A. v. Raymond, of Plainfeld, N.
j.. delivered an interesting lecture, entitled
ssThe Legends and Literature of the Morse
men" to a large audience Thursday even
ing in the Bergen Point Reformed Church.
A large hog, bearing the cognomen of
ssGroyer Cleveland il being fattensd by
mine host Charles Reppenhagen, of the
Bergen Point Hotel, for an old-fashioned
hog guessing contest to be held on Christ.
mas Day.
An engine attachment for automatic mall
let's, used in condensing gold filling in teeth,
which the inventor claims is equal IN every
respect to the electric mallet, has been in
vented by DIR. William II. Mitchell, DDS.
of Bergen Point.
The regular annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Mechanics Trust Company,
of Bergen PIT, for the election of Board of
Directors for the institution, will be held
on Tuesday, January 4th. Polls open
from 3 10 p. M
Dock property in this city, which posses
ses advantages for approach by ocean
Ill uAc nd oil n
adaptable railroad connections, has been
advertised for by the Union Storage Com
pany, of Toledo, Ohio.
AT sparring and wrestling exhibition to
be given Tuesday evening, in the Crescent
Rink, at Elizabethport, Charles Mcdonald,
of Bergen Poiut, will have setto with Jas
Li6dy. of Elizabeth. and Bob Jackson, of
Greenylle, will fight Richard Burke, of
Elizabeth.
Mr.. BENJAMIN w. Gilchrist, of Bergen
PORT, and Miss Lizzie j. Slattery, of West
Tenth street, New York city, were private
ly married Wednesday evening. in st.
Budgets Church, New York. Rev. DIR.
McSweeney performed the ceremony. The
couple have commenced housekeeping in
Greenville.
At the residence of Mr.. George Bonney,
of Bayonne avenue, the members of the
Young Folks Social Circle of the Madison
M. E. Church, of Bayonne proper, met
Tuesday evening and elected the following
officers to serve during the ensuing year:
President. Levi E. Barke; Vice President,
Miss Hottie Maybee; Secretary, John W.
!, Mcclure; Treasurer, Robert Collier.
The forty-frst birthday of Mr.. John Fl.
Huxley, of Bayonne proper, was celebrated
Monday evening, at his residence on Oak
land avenue, in very enjoyable manner
by number of his friends. among whom
were Recorder and Mrs. John Fl. Besher,
Rev Charles L. Hull and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Coward, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank @. Ludy,