The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-15
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

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schools opened Tuesday after the Easter
vacation.
Local talent will figure in concert at
Monroe next Thursday evening for the
benefit of the chapel.
Mrs. Collins, matron and trained nurse
of the Morristown Memorial Hospital,
has been granted leave of absence for
six months.
J. Biglow Ford, the new organist for
the Methodist Church. will give half
hour recital at the church next Monday
evening at 7.45 o'clock.
The boys meeting at the Y. M. G. A.
on Sunday will be addressed by Charles
E. Surdam and quartet of local young
men will sing. All boys invited.
Joe Collins of Miller street hurt his
foot quite severely on Monday in one
of the presses at the. Banner Office,
where he serves as Office "devil."
Mail Carrier Hutching's delivery horse
ran away down at the park Monday, re-
sulting in totally wrecked mail cart
and frightened driver The horse was
stopped by Henry Morris.
The last meeting of Pastor Stearns
Union Bible Glass will be held at the
First Church chapel Monday evening.
Pastor Stearns will sail for mission
tour in Africa early in May.
Joseph York is improving his Wash
ington Hotel property at the depot; the
lawns are being resodded and relaid, and
the place put in general summer trim,
making it one of the attractive fronts of
the street.
Joel W. Muchmore has sold the old
homestead property on the corner of
Morris street and Ridgedale avenue to
his son-in-law, Charles Vernon of
Brooklyn, who will shortly make Nor
ristown his home.
Fifteen veterans of Torbert Post will
assist in the "National Flag Drill and
Military Tableaux" of the Baptist Boys
Brigade at the Lyceum next Wednesday
evening. G. Allen Baker, the local drill
master, has charge Of the entertainment.
The services of last Sunday in the Con-
gregational Church were received by
very appreciative audiences. W. E.
Stephens, using his model of Jerusalem,
seemed to impress the hearers of the val
ne and truth of the Work and Resurrec-
tion of Christ.
While Charles Oliver, of the firm of
Fairchild & Oliver, was driving with
Mrs. Oliver near Collinsville on Monday,
the shafts of the carriage broke and Mr..
Oliver was thrown out, sustaining quite
serious injury to his left arm, which is
now carried in sling.
On Monday of this week Judge Vree-
land appointed Norman Fox of this city
as member of the City Board of Excise
Commissioners to succeed Oscar D.
Miller, for the term of years. Mr.. Fox
is retired minister of the Baptist de-
nomination and is well-known in Morris
town where he has resided many years.
Henry Absalom. went last Sunday as
usual to Guerin's slaughter house on
Western avenue. He was accompanied
by his dog Mutton which hearing the
loud squealing of the hogs, became
frightened and ran down town and con-
tinued to run until he dropped dead in
the road and this is no 'sfish story"
either.
"Ancient Jerusalem at the Time of
Christi will be the subject sof talk by
W. E. Stevens at the Y. M. G. A. hall
Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Stevens brings
with him full model of the "Ancient
City" which he sets up before the audi
ence and explains in detail, and the talk
is one of the most interesting offered
to the men of this city.
Sunday afternoon lightning struck the
barn of Norman Benbrook on the New
Vernon. Two boys, Stewart Whitenack
of the CHRONICLE Office and George
Whitenack, were in the barn at the
time, but escaped unhurt. It will be re-
membered that Mr.. Benbrook's house
was struck by lightning and burned to
the ground in July last.
The Prudential Insurance Company
announces elsewhere in the CHRONICLE
that under all policies issued by the COM
pany of whatever description, in case war
is declared, the insured may enlist and
serve in the army or navy without giving
notice to the company. This is another
step showing the patriotic and
liberal management of the Prudential.