The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-09
LAFAYETTE.

". c. Greer, late of Lafayette, has &C
cepted The position of head salesman for
a well known Philadelphia drygoods
firm.
A water pipe burst last night on Pacific
avenue, near Communipaw, bat the
water was turned off before much damage
was done.
The bell on No. IS School, when rung
in the morning and evening, gives out a
mournful sound that reminds ONE of a
tin basin being struck with q hammer,
and is enough to drive a nervous person
into a tt or melancholia.
Halliday street, Communipaw
avenue, is n of the dirtiest and IEluddi-
est streets in the city. In some places the
mud Is six inches in depth, and to cros1
is at the danger OF running clot2as 2nd
shoes.
Mr.. John II. Haslopp is building u three
story brick building on Pacific avenue
near Corhmunipaw. E1Tacds Brothers
are the contractors.
Miss Mary Clark, Of Pine street, gave a.
reception to her friends last might. Thei
parlorS were very prettily decorated with
bunting and 2ags. and the guests spent al
pleasant evening. Among those VINO en-
joyed themselves were the Misses Nellie
and TNessie Clark, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Woods,
Mr. and Mrs. George CIafiin, Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitpenn. Mr.. and MRS. George
Young, M. j. Burke, Mr.. and Mrs. j. c.
Smith. Mr.. M. +. Heating an6sM Fred
Q nick Heinz, the Misses Mary Ii Katie
CT oss, M. j.. Wilson and Miss Hattie Car
son.
Severalcomplaints have been received
by the poficeifrom the gardeners on Com
munipaw avenue, who say that during
1.-THE night Time quantities of celery and
garden! pro1uce are pulled up Ii
scattered ~alllover the side walks. The po-
lice are on theAookout for the mischief
makers.
Mr.. James Mclaughlin, of Pine street.
while fishing near the Statue OF Liberty
yesterday caught forty-ffwe sea bass.
WEST BERGEN.
The West Sidh Ladies' mnd Parsonage
Social Union will hold a series of monthly
~fsocials on the first Thursday of each
month.
Tomorrow evening, after the regular
weekly prayer meeting at the M. II.
Church, the members will vote on the
I question OF admitting women as delegates
TO the conferences.
Edward Cummings, of West Side ave-
nue., villa enter Bordentown College next
week.
Real estate is booming IN the city and
the prices are going up. Al New Yorker
d has purchased from Mr.. tMandeville a
number of lots on West Side venue, and
it is intended to build cottages to be
\ readytln the spring.
A large carpenter shop land planning
mills being built on Kea.rlley avenue.
1t will employ thirty hands when fin
! ished.
Nj. r. j. Sullivan of Kernnay avenue
is making preparations for astrl2 through
The West.
M. L. Davis, of Eye avenue, lis one OF
the best bicyclistsiin the st; he.
Prof. ELMER Rapp will give q ~kseries of
smusical entertainments during Whe win
tier at his residence on Cler hennyavenue,
Mr.. George Clark, OF Virginia swenue
|ghas commenced building an other story
ION his house.
GREENVILEE.
The following is the courrse, of lectures
\ during this month at the 1iu den Avenue
I Cnurch:-October 8, the hevAF Il. @. Ingle
hart, subject, Bread: October 16l Thu
Rev. w. o. George, "A Literary RanibSe'
October %, the Rev. Jesse Gilo ert, Love
Courtship and Marriage; Ocuober 80, thu
Rev. James w. Marshall, Zig hteen nun
dred Feet Below the Surface, Through
the Columbia River and Mou q t Tacoma.
An old woman aboutslxty years of age
has been noticed every afternoon ram
bling in an absent manner through tht
Bay View Cemetery KneeliuE at every
tombstone and mumbling prayers. She
does not bother anyone anal goes away
regularly at five O'clock. WHO she is,an.
where she lives, is a myster q to the at
tendFsnts, who take PITY on Hhe old lady
andfwatcn her TO see chat no B arm comes
to her.
Robert Murphy. the liquofi dealer O
Ocean avenue, returned last Nkfeek from
trip to Ire band. Mi. Murphy brings bacl
a number Of curlOstties, tb& chef ous
being q BOOK Of real Irish ShauiHocGs.
A. 6erLkan farmer. about forJy-fiv'
wears of lAre. was noticed shrivinV III