The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-15
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

Thomas Allen has sold his well known
horse, Prince of Orange" to Dir. Nell
don Of Stanhope.
DR.. Harry Vaughan of Speedwell ave-
nue., for violating the bicycle ordinance
by riding on the sidewalk, paid So 70.
The eleventh annual excursion of
St. Mary's Y. NJ. G. A. to Rockaway
Beach will take place next Wednesday
A failure to write or stamp ones
iniatials on stamps affixed to checks and
notes renders the offender liable to
fine.
George Banks, colored who fell from
the 900 train Tuesday evening of last
week is yet at All Souls Hospital, inn
proving slowly.
The new flag and liberty pole at Nor
Plains were secured by subscriptions Of
citizens and were not contributed, as re-
ported last week.
The contract for heating and ventilat-
ing the addition to the State hospital has
been awarded to Messrs. Blake & Will
liams of New York city, for SIG, 900.
Mrs. A. G. Ropes and ten young
ladies of the Young Ladies' Bible Class
of the Baptist Church have returned
from ten days visit at the Mortified
Bible conference.
Attention is called to the card of Neil
H. Miller, a reliable real estate dealer at
Belmar. He still has few choice cot
tages which can be rented very reason
ably for the balance of the season.
The farmers of Sussex never gathered
a better harvest nor had more perfect
weather to do it, The hay crop is be-
yond anything known for years, and
great portion of it is housed or stacked.
SUSSEX Register
st. Agnes Guild of st. Peters Church
met Tuesday evening and will meet
again on the second Tuesday in August.
Other organizations of the parish, with
exception of the Altar Guild, have ad-
journed until October.
The directors of the Young Mems
Christian Association have appointed a
special committee, with James s.
Stearns as chairman, to aid in the Y. M.
G. A. work for the soldiers in the various
state and national camps.
Resolute Hook and Ladder Company
and Independent Hose Company have
each received check for $25 from Ru-
dolph Fl. Kissel in appreciation of their
service at the recent fire at Inamere
Farm, Watnong.
In Asbury Park the Salvation Army
and the American Volunteers, who
possess rival bands of great power and
volume, parade the streees and keep up
din that has become so unbearrable as
to require interference by the City
Council, which has decided to abate the
nuisance.
The Rev. DIR. Buckley of this city will
deliver an address on How to Assure
the Permanent Success of the League
at the seventh annual convention of the
Second General Conference District of
the Epworth League of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at present in session
at Saratoga.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the
First Presbyterian church on Tuesday
evening appointed the following special
committee on fresh air work: Miss G.
Rose Crane, Mrs. L. NJ. Leek and D. F.
Barkman. They will work with the
Essex County G. E. Union in aid of
Newark children.
Installation of new officers have &C
CURED in local lodge circles as follows:
Morris Lodge, I. 0. O. F., Monday even
ing; Enterprise Encampment, Tuesday
evening; Iona Tribe, I. O. R. NJ, Friday
evening last; Roxiticus Lodge, /. o. O.
F., and Mowhuscowhungie Tribe, /. O.
R. NJ, Wednesday of last week.
Miss Harriet F. Darling was married
to William Ell. Estler, at the residence of
her parents, No SO Mill street, at 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, by the Rev.
DR.. T. l. Coultas. Only the immediate
relatives of the families were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Estler will make their
home with Mrs Estler's sister, Mrs. j.
William Burns, on Mt Kemble avenue.
At meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the First National Bank of Wash
ington, N. j.. held on the 18th inst,
Joseph B. Cornish of the firm of Cornish
& Co. was elected vice president, and
John II. Bowers, of the Bowers Snuff
& Tobacco Co. of Changewater. N. j.,
was elected director to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of the late
Samuel T. Smith.
HTorristonians in Virginia.
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