The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-21
LOCAL lightning SPARKS
Daily Life of a Busy Town Done
in the Least of Detail.

~ idhcS M QUITO VI happenings iH an
Sorts Of Ways at All Sorts of Times and
Places to Make All Sorts of Home News
Are you sure your name is on the
registry list If not, why not2
The first frost of the season, a white
one, visited this section on Sunday night
Extensive Improvements are being
made to the outside of the house owned
by Mrs. H. F. Whitehead at II Speed
well avenue.
John B. Ayers is building coy cot
tage on 18th street, near the ocean
front. Belmar
Mary Agnes, the infant child of Mr..
and Mrs. William Murphy of Washing
ton street, died on Sunday.
Glass 45 of the South Street Presley
terrain Church will hold linked !"
sociable in its rooms this Friday evening,
the 21st.
Some of the largest chestnuts ever
grown in Morris county are to be seen on
the property of Mrs. A. W. Cutler on
Speedwell avenue.
Rev. DIR. Albert Erdman and Robert
Carter will participate in the dedicatory
services of the new chapel at Taylortown
near Boonton tonight.
Edward Mason, late of the battleship
Indiana, has received his honorable dis
charge and is now residing with his
parents on Phoenix avenue.
A pleasing entertainment was given
in the Sunday school room of theI Metho-
dist Church Wednesday evening under
auspices of the Epworth League.
Frequent rehearsals are being held by
the amateur company which is to pre-
sent THE Secretary" in the Lyceum
next month for the benefit of the Royal
Arcacnum
All of the soldiers who were at
Memorial Hospital have rejoined their
respective regiments. Before leaving
each one spoke in the highest terms of
histreatment here.
Loren Dilts took bicycle ride Sunday,
and leaving his wheel by the roadside
went into wood for chestnuts Upon
returning to the road he discovered that
his wheel had been stolen.
Daniel johnson, who lives on Prospect
street, took an overdose of morphine
one night last week which might have
resulted fatally had DIR. Wilkinson not
arrived in time to relieve the victim.
William Degroo, driver of Humane
Company's hose carriage, has been made
the recipient of an appropriate testi-
monial by the members of that company
as token of their appreciation of his
services.
William 7. Coghlan has the contract
for decorating the National Union Bank
of Dover Mr.. Coghlan has recently
finished the interior decorations for
twelve fats in New York for Phillip
Livingston of this city.
State Fish Warden ]. B. Henderson,
of Newton recently took 10000 small
trout to Phillipsburg, the first instalment
of $4,000 which he is to distribute in the
streams at Boonton Denville, Stanhope,
Hackettstown and Belvidere
An interesting entertainment will be
given in the Baptist Church on Monday
evening, October 81, by Miss Edith M.
Norton, the well known humorist and
dramatic recitationist. No admission
will be charged, but silver collection
will be taken.
John E. Melick has returned from
Whitehouse, where the seasons peach
shipping business has just been closed.
He states that but 5000 baskets of the
delicious fruit were shipped over the
Rockaway Valley railroad, this being
little more than one-ffth of last years
shipments.
The Christian Work Committee of the
Y. NJ. G. A. is planning for series of
meetings to be held during association
week of prayer, November IS to 10. 1t
is hoped to have several of the meetings
conducted by students from Drew Theo-
logical Seminary, who are also to have
charge of the music.
The Women's Missionary Society in
the Presbytery of Morris and Orange
will hold its Eighteenth Annual Meeting
on Wednesday October 26, in the Pres
byterian church of Dover, from 9. 80 a.
m. until $50 p m. The D. L. & w R.
R. will sell round trip tickets to delegates
at reduced rates
The chilly atmosphere that prevails
does not seem to affect the Volunteers
of America, for they continue to hold
meetings in the Park nightly. The
male members should make good soldiers
for campaign in either Alaska or Cuba
Climatic changes seem not to dampen
nor otherwise affect the ardor of these
soldiers.
Joseph Ballantine's Whites dancing
classes are organizing for the season. The
formal opening last week was an aus
picious event. and this popular instruc-
tors method of teaching the art of
society dancing seems to have created a