The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
LOCAL lightning SPARKS
Daily Life Of a Busy Town Done
in the Least of Detail.
It Takes All Sorts of Happenings in All
Sorts of Ways at All Sorts of Times and
Places to Make All Sorts Of Home News.

IL dktS All QUITO Vi happenings III All
Sorts of Ways at All Sorts of Times and
Places to Make All Sorts of Home News.
Bass fishing closes December 1.
Conductor William H. Bailey is again
running extra.
Boonton and Dover now have direct
telephonic communication.
Police Officer Lewis Henderson, re-
ported for duty Monday after weeks
Illness
Rain, sleet and miniature blizzard
was what Old Probability served this
section with yesterday.
The Rev. DIR. w. R. Richards of Plain
field will exchange with the Rev. DR..
Macnaughtan on Sunday.
w. K. Muchmore has been reappoint-
ed the Morristown agent for the Column
bia and Hartford bicycles for 1899.
The horse of Chemical Engine Com
PAW No. has been sold to H. P. Witte
and another will be trained for duty
Engineer Thomas of Boonton is running
in place of Morris Jennings. who is con-
fined to his home by an attack Of grippe.
:. Henry Armstrong made his appear
ance in cutter yesterday afternoon be-
hind trotter of note, the first sleigh of
the season.
George Blanchard of this city, for
merly baggage master of Hacketts-
town train since the time table changed,
is now running extra.
Pastor D. M. Stearns will conduct the
Union Bible Class in the lecture room of
the South Street Presby terian Church on
Monday evening, November %. at 7.45.
Charles K. Johnson, who for some
years conducted jewelry business in
Morristown has engaged in the same
line in the Rathbun building, Madison.
The Rev Fred Cutler has accepted the
Craftsmanship of the boys department Of
the Y. M. G. A. and will devote consid-
cradle attention to this branch of the
work.
The Y. NJ. C. A. Week Of Prayer end
ed Sunday afternoon, when f02 men
were present at Association Hall to hear
Major Gardner, Ballington Booths sec
Rotary.
The football game between the Pru-
dentials of Newark and the Morristown
team, postponed en- Saturday last, will
be played on Randolph Field tomorrow
afternoon.
A fair will be held in Association Hall
on Wednesday afternoon and evening.
December IA, the event to be under the
auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Y. M. c. A.
The patriotic orders of this city, in
Guiding the American Mechanics and
Daughters of Liberty, will attend SER
vices at the Baptist Church Sunday
evening"
'Battleship Gray" is one of the lead
ing colors just now. Ladies' dresses.
sacks and head wear. likewise neckties
and waistcoats for the sterner sex are
very noticeable.
w. a. Dutton is travelling through the
New England States for the Western
Wheel Works. His bicycle business
here will be in charge of Alfred Westall
during the winter.
A number of Morristonians were
among those who paid from S. to $50
to see the Corbett-Sharkey boxing
contest in New York Tuesday night
Sharkey got the decision on foul.
Engineer "Jack' English has been
given the run on the Easton mail in
place of the late Edward King. Mr..
English. who resides in Boonton, is one
of the oldest engineers on the Morris and
Essex Division of the Lackawanna.
Austin E. Armstrong of Drew Theo-
logical Seminary will give an elocution-
AIRY entertainment in Y NJ. G. A. Hall
this Friday evening. November 25,
under the auspices of the Owen Young
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
The recent change in the Lackawanna
time table affects only two trains from
this station The train formerly leaving
at $50 a. M now leaves at 625. and the
Dover express, which left at IA, now
leaves at 7.12. No change on the west
bound trains.
The crop bulletin for New Jersey sum-
marizes the seasons reportlssas follows;
1.-THE season. on the whole, may be con-
sidered profitable one to all producers
of vegetables, grain and. grass. but un.
productive to the orchard and fruit
interests of the State y
The twenty-sixth anniversary of the
Old Jerry McAuley Water Street Mis-
sion of New York will be held on Sun.
day, November 81, at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon and at 73O in the evening.
The friends of this good work are cor.
daily invited to be present.
The Housekeeping Committee of Me
mortal Hospital desire to thank their
friends for the generous response to their
appeal for Thanksgiving contributions.
These gifts enabled it to supply to the
sick in its charge a bountiful Thanks