The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-05-20
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

Frank r. johnson will speak at the
Mission meeting on Tuesday night.
Several of the city streets are receiv-
ing long needed attention. The resi-
dents of Speedwell avenue are glad to
see the mud scraped off once more.
Robert Smith of this city has for
warded $65 to the Maine Monument
Fund as result of the entertainment by
local talent in Lyceum Hall, on May 10,
Messrs. Rogers & Gould, bankers and
brokers, of which firm Alexander H.
Tiers of this city is member, have re-
moved to the Empire building, No. II
Broadway.
The quarterly social of the First Pres
byterian Sunday school will be held at
the chapel on Friday evening of next
week. A musical and literary program
is being provided.
Arrangements are making for the an
nual meeting of the local Christian En-
deavor Union of sixteen societies in Nor
ristown and vicinity, to be held in this
city in the latter part of June.
John Paul Jameson, we'll known to
everybody in Morristown, is at Chat
tanooga with the Twelfth New York
Regiment, the first of the volunteer
regiments to arrive there. Daniel jamie
son, who has been away at Philadelphia
for two years, is with the Jersey troops
at Sea Girt.
The Boys Department of the Y. NJ.
G. A. has formed class in Bible mark
| ing, ten boys meeting at the first session
Wednesday evening. Numerous verses
of the Gospel are carefully marked with
shading pens in red ink and the copies
then distributed.
Daniel FL. Leek, superintendent of the
McAlpin property, recently swung the
handsome flag to the breeze, which be-
longed to the Sound Money Club of this
city. 1t is suspended between the Nc
Alpin block and the Becker building.
James j. Thompson, carpenter for S.
M. Toms, had serious fall Monday
evening from the roof of the new barn
of Phillip Livingstone on Madison
avenue. fall of twenty-six feet. In
juries were received about the head and
legs but no bones were broken.
Justice Axtell gave hearing on We'd
nesday to Mrs. James Gould of Mine
Hill, arrested by Agent Van Dyke of the
s. P. G. A., for letting her horses stand
at the Park all day without food or
water, while she attended court. She
pleaded SO hard before the Justice that
she was released after reprimand.
On Wednesday evening the Y. P. S. C..
E. of the First Congregational Church
held sociable at the residence of Thee.
Armstrong, Mt. Kemble avenue. After
program of vocal and instrumental
music, with recitations, an sEndeavor
Lunch" was served by the Social Com
mittee. The evening was very enjoyably
spent.
A six pound projectile from the rapid
fire guns on the 'sMaine" has attracted
many to the store window of E. A. Car
rell at the Y. M. c. A. building during
the week. It is a bona fide relic of the
Maine" explosion taken from the wreck
at the bottom of Havana harbor, and
bears the effect of the salt water as proof
of its genuineness.
The annual meeting of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church is
in session this week at Warsaw, Indiana.
Regularly chosen delegates from the
Presbytery of Morris and Orange are:
Rev. j. 7. Patterson, Orange Central
Church; Rev. E. R. Murgatroyd, New
Vernon; Rev. j. M. Thomas, East
Orange, Arlington avenue.
The second cycle run of the North Jer-
sey Y. M. 9. A. wheelmen was taken
last night to Railway. The probability
Of rain deferred many who expected to
go, but the local association was repre-
scented by two members, who made the
trip by tandem. They reported a good
time and that they were able to see the
searchlights of the United States cruiser
Columbia now lying off Staten Island.
Charles Bodine, of George E. Voor-
hees' hardware store, has enlisted in the
Fifteenth Separate company of the First
Provisional Regiment of Volunteers, now
forming at Camp Black, and expects to
be called. Rufus q. Whitehead, son of
F. L. Whitehead, expects to enlist with
the troops at Sea Girt, and Alfred De-
Groot has already enlisted and started
South with the Second New Jersey Regi-
ment of regulars.
The Young Woman's Guild of the
Morristown Memorial Hospital will hold
its annual fair in McAlpin Hall on Tues
day, May "a, afternoon and evening.
Among the attractive features for the
children will be dolls garden party,
graphaphone and grab bag. The taste
fully arranged hat table, which was con-
Quoted so successfully several years ago,
will again be in charge of the same
ladies. There will be music, but no