The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-17
LOCAL BREvITIES

Miss Struble gave talk in the Y.
M. @. A. parlors Monday on the
principles of Delsarte with view to
forming class.
An oyster supper was held in the
Collinsville Chapel Tuesday evening
and good sum was Melted for the
needed repairs to the building.
Mohuscowungie Tribe, No. 216 of Red
Men have paid to Mrs. Nicholas B.
Briant check for $3.50, this being the
amount of her late husbands benefit.
The fifth health talk of the series
given by Mrs. Hall, will be at the
home of Mrs. Sue Lawrence at Mend
ham Tuesday, Nov. 81, at 2.3 p. m.
Rev. Franklin B. Dwight will give
his third and last talk on the Bible, in
Association Hall Sunday afternoon.
AN Inspiration to Life" will be
his subject.
Many persons hereabouts have
watched the past three nights for the
meteoric showers predicted by astron-
omers. The display was not apparent
to the naked eye.
Mrs. William Jessup, of Zahleh,
Syria, spoke at the meeting of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
in the First Presbyterian Chapel on
Monday afternoon.
o. N. Hughson, the undertaken, has
purchased team of black horses,
which are the prettiest to be seen
hereabouts. The animals are from
Vermont and of the Morgan strain.
The first anniversary of the Water
Street Methodist Chapel was cele-
DRAFTED on Sunday afternoon. APP
propriate services were held and Rev.
7. |. Coultas, D. D., was the princi-
pal speaker.
The Morris County ministers met
in the parlors of the Y. M. @. A.
yesterday afternoon. A paper on the
Spiritual Condition of the Jews"
was read by Rev. Thomas A. Reeves
of Rockaway.
David J. Telfair, who was convicted
of stealing a horse from the stable of
Theodore Sayre, near Washington
Valley, has been taken from the jail
to the State Hospital He was de-
clared to be insane.
An interesting business meeting of
Glass DO, of the South Street Presby-
terrain Church Sunday School was
held on Wednesday night. Refresh
ments and some interesting selections
on the graphaphone followed.
Miss Loretta Tappan Greene, an
entertainer and elocutionist of rare
ability, will be the attraction at Bap-
fist Church Monday evening when
another entertainment will be given
for the benefit of the organ fund.
The Board of Elections met on Satur-
day last and approved the official re-
turns. Only two changes were made
from the table printed in last weeks
Chronicle and neither one changed the
total of five votes. They effected the
Prohibition candidates.
The five act comedy drama In the
Tolls" will be presented at Lyceum
Hall next Wednesday evening by the
Morristown Theatrical Company.
The event will be given under the
auspices of the Grand Fraternity and
the tickets are having ready sale.
An entertainment will be given in
the Y. M. g. A. Hall tonight under
the auspices of the Owen Y w. @. T.
u. The entertainers will be the
Beverages, of Nebraska, who are
known throughout America as the
temperance singers. A silver collec-
tion will be taken.
Two of the strongest players on the
Newark A. @. foot ball team, which
defeated Lehigh by a score of 10 to 0
last Saturday, hail from Morristown.
They are John Mills and Carl Vogt.
Both are putting up good game and
Newark papers frequently have oeca-
sion to refer to the clever work of this
duet
The smiles of the local policeman
have grown broader as the result of
the new blue helmets which they are
now wearing. These hats are the
same as are used by the New York
police. 1t may be added that it takes
more than new hats to effect the heads
of members of the Morristown Police
Department.
The directors of the First National
Bank at their last meeting elected Mr..
Abraham Wolff member of the board.
Mr.. Wolff awhose beautiful country
place on Normandie Heights, is one
of the sights of Morristown, is a mem
Der of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
of New York, among the leading
bankers Of the United States.
The annual meeting for the election
of officers of the Morris County Board
of Agriculture will be held at the hall
in New Vernon on Saturday Nov. IS,
1899, at 2 p. m. after which the meet
ing will be open to discuss any mat
tiers which the farmers wish to take
up. The Board extends cordial in
vitation to all interested to attend.
A hay barracks owned by Bauer
Brothers on the Horse Hill Road,
which was filled with 800 bundles of
cornstalks, took fire on Monday.
About half the contents were bnrned
before the blaze was extinguished.
Men passing on the road saw the
smoke, and they stopped long enough
to carry water from a creek nearby
and put out the flames.
Tuesdays snow storm was some
thing of surprise, coming as it did
so early in the season. The snowfall
was heavy enough to cause sleigh
to slip along nicely, but the prospect
of this pleasure was spoiled by rain
Excise Commissioner McCollum
and Henry. Armstrong We'd with
each other in being the first horsemen
to enjoy Sigh ride. A number of
other sleigh riders were out later in
the evening.