The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
LOCAL NEWS TENS.

twenty Genus quart.
Hill street is receiving long needed
improvement; the road is being macada-
mixed by the City authorities.
The celebration of the JEWS New
Year began at sunset on Sunday and was
continued during Monday by orthodox
Hebrews.
The Y. NJ. G. A. debate on the an
nexation of Hawaii which was to have
occurred Wednesday evening, was post
poned for one week.
Hi-Henry's well known Minstrels are
in town to-day, appearing at the Lyceum
Hall this evening in their usual attrac-
lions of fun and wit.
Although comparatively early in the
season large number of deaths are re-
ported of children who were burned
while playing about bon-fres.
The Morristown Excise Commission
meets on Wednesday evening October
18th. -Four applications for renewal of
license are advertised this week.
Three large sun parlors will be erected
at Asbury Park before cold weather.
They will be inclosed with glass, heated
and lighted, and kept in order by janitors.
The Mission Gospel Wagon ended its
work for the summer last Sunday, hav-
ing held IS meetings in various parts of
the town, with total estimated atten-
dance of over nine thousand.
The Misses Park gave an exceptional
ly fine entertainment before goodly au-
dience in the Methodist Sunday School
room Wednesday evening.
John Swick a carpenter of this city,
had serious fall on Tuesday while
working in the new Lippman building
on Speedwell avenue. He is recovering
rapidly.
The Y. M. G. A. Boys meetings which
have been very successful in previous
seasons will be resumed on Sunday after
noon next, when there will be special
music and short talks of interest TO the
boys of the town.
The old one hundred foot brick stack
at the Eden Tissue Mills, Whippany was
torn down this week. 1t contained one
hundred thousand bricks, and was
dropped by cutting away the brick on
one side of the base.
The eleventh annual reunion of the
New Jersey Association of Ex-prisoners
Of War is to be held at Railway on
Thursday next. Several Morristown
veterans find pleasure in these reunions,
which increase in interest every year.
The annual meeting of the Sunday
School Missionary Society of the First
Church, held last Sunday afternoon was
addressed by j. D. Stevenson who organ
lied the society thirty years ago. The
annual election of officers was postponed
until next Sunday afternoon.
George w. Ball of Whippany left at
the CHRONICLE Office on Monday hand
some specimen of Duchess Anglo
maigne" pear from a young tree in its first
! year of frniting, together with a bunch
Of blossoms from the same tree, some
what singular freak of nature.
John K Roniface the well known fish
dealer received in his usual shipment of
fish from Sea Bright the other day fish
which is considered an oddly by Ich-
thyologists known as s.Trigger'' fish
and fishermen in general. Recently a
half dozen or SO have been caught off Sea
Bright.
Through the agency of the Morris
County Mortgage and Realty Company
John D. Garfield (the Morristown Land
and improvement Company has sold
about four acres adjoining and to the
southwest of John A. Stewards property
on Madison avenue to Judge A. l. Gar
retson. 1t is the intention of the pur-
chaser to build handsome house 'front.'
ing on the cross road from Madison ave-
nue. to Woodland avenue. The site is an
exceptionally fine one.
The mems Bible class of the Church of
the Redeemer will hold its first meeting
in the upper room of the parish house on
Sunday afternoon at o'clock for the
purpose of organizing for the ensuing
year. 1t is the intention of Rev. w. M.
Hughes, rector of the church, to make a
careful examination of the epistles of st.
Paul. bringing up the great subject of
Christian theology Much interesting
material will also be given as to the
heather religions of the Christian era.
The seasons readings will be most in
teresting and profitable to those who will
avail themselves of this opportunity.
Vice Chancellor Pitney has fled an
opinion in the case of Cortlandt Parker
and others. executors of Richard w.
Sites decd, versus Elizabeth W. Seeley,
Richard Wayne Sites and others. The
opinion says cit is friendly suit, and
made necessary by the infancy of one of
the parties in interest" On the main
point involved the opinion is in favor Of
Richard Wayne Sites allowing him to ex-
ercise the option given to. his father in the
following clause of the will of his grand
father. 81 give to my son R. M. Sites,
the right to purchase, mot for specuIa-
tom the dwelling on Elm street, for
$S000," which part or portion of land