Passaic City record., 1893-04-15
Memorial Day next.


Several weddings are on the
tapis.
$50 voters who were on the reg
istry lists failed to go to the polls
last Tuesday.
A seven-y year old child of council
man Roscoe has been seriously i'll
with pneumonia during the week.
The Park Ridge LoeaI has moved
into new quarters and enlarged
from five column to a six column
folio paper.
We have been talking about the
Worlds Fair SO long that we hard
ly realize its opening is less than
three weeks off.
If talk will keep the cholera
away, the country is safe; but it is
just as well to do a little cleaning
up just for appearance sake.
The spring elections indicate
well, we are not certain what.
except that the way Of the trans
gressor is hard, particularly if he
voted the wrong ticket.
Thank goodness the Columbian
porous plaster cent postage
stamps will soon be a thing of the
past. Postmaster General Bissel1
has signed their death warrant.
The Ne7es now has an opportu-
nifty to correct another error. It's
statement that Mr.. John Jelleme
lost $500. on the election is untrue;
MI. Je11eme's lost was only $lo.
Judge Speer holds that corpor-
ations are just as amenable to the
law as are lador unions. This may
be startling to the corporations,
but it will strike most people as
correct.
The Elizabeth Common Council,
after a long and stormy session,
granted the New Jersey Jockey
Club a race track license for five
years, the license fee being FIVE
thousand dollars a year.
The coming summer promises
to be one of sickness and death.
The sanitary commissioners in
most of the big cities are now en-
gagged in making every effort to
meet and overcome the colera.
Why so to New York City to do
your shopping for Spring fnery
when our Passaic tradesmen can
show you such great variety of
desirable goods at such reasonable
prices. Make your purchases of
them and keep the money here at
home.
The locked-out printers of a
Paris newspaper lynched the fore
man, who had been instrumental
in bringing about the trouble.
Over here they would have started
an opposition paper, which is
peaceable, if not always profta-
bic.
Good Printing of every desert p
ton at the RECORD office.
Mr.. H. C. N. Johnston has the
contract for terracing the ground
on the Bio omfeld and Gregory
avenue sides of the Methodist
Church and relaying some of the
tagging. The terrace will be
about 21a feet high in front and
the improvement to the property
will be very decided.
The annual meeting of the Con-
gregation of the Presbyterian
Church was held Wednesday even
ing. w. L. Clark and James K.
Know1den were re- elected trustees
and w ]. Fish was elected Treas
urer. The trustees will endeavor
to raise sufficient funds to purchase
the property now used as par
sonage.
Babies will be checked at the
worlds fair just the same as any
necessary encumbrance. A mat
ron will be at the nursery and the
little ones will receive better care
than can be given them by their
parents in the surge of humanity.
The proud papas and rnammas can
by paying a reasonable sum, carry
all day brass check which will
entitle them to their darling in the
evening.
More congregational singing is
surely needed in many of the
churches. People who merely
look on, lose interest; they should
take some active part in the ser
vices. To leta church choir do all
the singing is to get the idea in
some peoples heads that nobody
can sing but them: a supposlt1on
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