The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14
LOCAL lightning SPARKS
Daily Life of a Busy Town Done
in the Least of Detail.
1T Takes All Sorts of Happenings in All
Sorts of Ways at All Sorts of Times and
Places to Make All Sorts Of Home News

Sorts of Ways at All Sorts of Times and
Places to Make All Sorts of Home News
The Y. NJ c. A. gymnasium classes
will begin the winters work on Friday
next
The annual ball of the Uuited States
Express Company employees was held
in McAlpin Hall Wednesday evening.
The Board of Managers of the State
Hospital at Morris Plains will hold their
annual meeting on November 10th next.
The Aldermanic Street Committee will
meet in the Board rooms to night to hear
objections to establishing grade on Mills
street.
Hiram Devoe. formerly well known
conductor on the Lackawanna, has been
appointed train dispatcher at Succa-
sunna.
In Morris Special Sessions on Friday
last Frank Mastick was acquitted of a
charge of the larceny of gold watch at
Hibernia.
Superintendent Ironside of the Mar
ket Street Mission was in attendance at
the Christian Alliance Conference held
in New York the fore part of the week.
The Morris County Court will sit to
hear applications to be admitted to be-
come citizens of the United States on
December and 90, 1898. and January
6, 1899
The first of the boys meetings will be
a,o1 M n A Gnndox1 of
noon at LIS o'clock. DIR. Erdman will
be the speaker and Miss May Beach will
render solo.
Vice Chancellor Pitney will set in
Hackettstown on November % to hear
the contest between the German Valley
Lutheran Church over the Nancy
Waters estate.
The Union Bible Glass conducted by
Pastor D. NJ Stearns will meet in the
lecture room of the of the South Street
Presbyterian Church on Monday even
ing at 7.45 o'clock.
A horse attached to a wagon of the
United States Express Company took
fright Wednesday morning on Prospect
street. The animal ran some distance
before being stopped by Fred Sharrette.
Charles Bodine, the young soldier who
returned home recently, is i'll with
typhoid fever at All Souls Hospital
George Cook, another of Uncle Sans
boys, is quite i'll at his home in Collins
vile.
A class was organized by the young
people of the M E. Church last night to
pursue course in universal literature
during the winter. There will also be
social features in connection with the
project.
The only golf events of this week at
the Morris County Club links will occur
tomorrow, when the home team will
play Tuxedo. The Secretary's cup and
the Captains cup will also be contested
for on the same day.
On Saturday evening last Miss Jane
sCurran of Elm street reported at police
headquarters that she had lost pocket
book containing $25 Speedwell avenue.
The purse and contents were found by
Miss Ada Sherman, who presented the
property to Chief Holloway and the lat
ter returned it to the owner.
George Hessey, of Flanders on Tues
day paid a fine of $40 and costs for neg
Iecting to care for several head of cattle
owned by him and which he left with
ovt food for number of days. The
charge was made by R. S. Van Dyke, of
Morristown, for the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
Court Ridgedale 1854, Independent
Order of Foresters, is already making
preparations for its first grand annual
ball to be held in McAlpin Hall Thanks
giving night. The committee comprises
John A. Todd, E. J. Connors, V. J.
Corcoran, Joseph King, Frank Edwards
Michael Bowling and Christopher Ann
brose
The Star Course of Entertainments
under the auspices of the Y M. G.. A.
will begin on November %, with Low
.ett's Boston Stars as the attraction An
unusually fine selection of talent has
been made and embraces the following
Alexander Black in IA Capitol Court
ship" December 9; Melvin Robinson,
Impersonator and Humorist January
20; Old Homestead Quartette and
Reader. February 6; John Temple Graves
in IA Reign of the Demagogues, . March
8. Season tickets will be sold for 50 and
members and auxiliary course tickets for
$3.50.
HORSE SHOW AWARDS.