The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-06

morning and broke his right arm He
was taken 10 his home on Halliday street.
Miss Alice Hamilton, of Pacific venue
Is entertaining Misses Fannie add Nav
Kearney. Of West Shokan. n. \.
Mr.. and Mrs A. Geutner will give q
sociable at their residence on Pacific ave-
nue this evening.
The regular meeting OF the Lafayette
Literary aud Debating Society Will be
held this evening &C the residence OF Mr..
Harry knoblock. on Commnnipaw ave-
nue..
George Sommers created a disturbance
while drunk 10 a restaurant on PACING
avenue last evening. Sommers refused
to pay for the meal he had ordered and
started in to do mp the waiter. Police
man Green arrested him.
Miss Mamie Muller, of Pacific avenue.
will leave today for Camden, where she
will spend several weeks with her friends
The regula meeting OF the Leonard j.
Kaiser Association will be held this even
ing at the Lafayette House on Johnson
avenue.
At this season Of the year the most
promiut feature of Greenville Is our
mud" This year is no exception. Bad
drains, miserable sidewalks. a want OF
street curbing aud several other such in
teresting features make local life mtser-
able.
lne l.. VI. u. A IhuleS AuAtlihfy nctu
an Informal reception at the residence oil
Miss @. f. Dilloway, No. IS Linden ave
nue., last evening.
Miss Fields, the first assistant in the
grammar department of No. 20 School,
has been appointed on the High School
staff. Miss Murray, also OF Nc. ~ School,
has been promoted to the grammar de-
partment.
The monthly business meeting of the
local Christian Eudeavor Society will be
beld this evening at the Reformed Church
chapel, Danforth and Ocean venues
Through Lawyer Gilbert Collins, Henry
Lembeck and DR.. Lignot have certio-
raried the city authorities in the matter
of the Linden avenue aud Avenu X"
sewer assessment. The COMPLAINT Is
that the assessment Is entirely too high.
The outcome of the litigation will be
watched with keen interest.
The trouble between Rector Chapman
and the Grace p. f.. Church yestry at
present stand In ''statu quo" The YES
trymen waited on Bishop Starkey in
Orange q few evenings 2 in reference
to the matter. but the Bishop has not
made any decision. Mr.. Chapman Is as
firm as ever in his determination to stay,
II possible.
An entertainment will shortly be held
in aid Of the Ocean wen free reading
rooms. GOOD work has been accom-
plished by these two institutions since
their opening a few months ago. Every
evening thirty or more boys and men en-
joy the hospitality afforded. and spend
their evenings an harmless indoor amuse-
ments.
The Danforth avenue. property owners
~strenuously object to paying $92 per lot
for the recent paving Of the avenue. An
effort Is TO be made TO have 1t to
SIS per lot. The Linden venue paving,
which was done by private contract, only
cost about $50 per lot.
West berger.
Mrs. /. G.. Marsh and daughter, of
Watseka, Ill. have returned home after
visiting Mrs. w. l.. Cummings, of No. 45
West Sid avenue, and NJ. j. Cummings,
of No. lT3 jackson avenue
The work Of laying the Passaic water
pipes through the principal section Of
West.BeTgeh; below West Side avenue, Is
being pushed. and the needed improve
ment will soon be completed. The work
now extends through Clendenny u
Mallory avenues.
The regular meeting of the West Ber-
gen Pleasure Club was held last evening
at the rooms. Mallory avenue and Union
street. The members decided TO give u
reception at the club house early next
month. The secretary's report showed a
membership of over fifty.
The Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian EndeavoT will meet ut the Reformed
tnurcn TINS evening. Inc regular meet
ing of the Junior Society will be held this
afternoon at three O'Clock in the church
parlor.
Charles ]. Goldin, of No. 1885, Union
street, has returned from a visit 10
Florida.
The regular meeting of the West Ber-
gen Citizens Improvement Association
will be held at the ooms, No. 200 West
Side avenue, on next Monday evening.
Final action will be taken on the sewer
and street lighting question. The COM
mittee VINO have been c~anvassing this
section Tor signers to the sewer petition
will render q report.
Harry III. Cummings, Myron G. Durkee
and William L. Cummings, of West Ber-
gen, have gone to Texas.
The Central Railroad has abandoned
the work OF sinking the well northeast
of the railroad. The we'll was sunk to q
depth of fifty feet. Very little water was
found at that depth.