The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-02-17
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.
LENT began on "Wednesday.

Lent began on wednesday.
Charles McCollum, the liveryman. has
gone to Iowa, where he will negotiate for
a car load of horses.
An entertainment and social will be
held at South Street Presbyterian Church
tonight under the auspices OF Glass 40
A party of young people enjoyed
straw ride given by Richard Mulhall,
to Denville, on Friday evening last.
The skating carnival announced to
take place at Speedwell Lake on Monday
last has been postponed to February %.
Rev. D. M. Stearns' Union Bible Glass
will be held next Monday evening in the
Lecture room of the South Street Pres
| byterian Church.
After February 8 all delinquent poll
taxes in Morris township will be collect
ed by constables at an additional cost OF
80 cents to the delinquent.
| Charles Kersting is having the interior
of his baking establishment on Washing
ton street generally overhauled 1t will
be much improved in appearance.
Owing to the condition of the streets on
Tuesday but one session was held at the
public schools. Lincoln day was OBJ
served Monday by closing the schools.
Rev. A. Magoun Sherman will deliver
his lecture on 1.-THE War in Cuba" at
Easton, Pa, to night, under the auspices
of Lafayette Post, g. A. R., of that city.
] Henry L., the six-year-old son of
William and Annie Booker of Morris
street, died on Tuesday after brief ILL
ness. The funeral was held yesterday
afternoon.
The tenth annual conference Of the
Young Women's Christian Temperance
Union of New Jersey will be held in the
Morristown Baptist Church on February
"a and %.
The first social and dance of the
Morristown Liederkranz Society was
held in Lippman Hall Tuesday evening.
There was large attendance and the
event was declared success.
The Cymbal Quartet, of Jamestown,
N. Y, will give an entertainment in
Association Hall to night. The reputa-
/ ton of this well known musical orSani-
cation is such that comment is unneces-
sary.
! Conductor William Ct. Burritt Of the
D. L. and w. railroad was taken i'll on
his train at an early hour Tuesday morn
/ ing. He was taken to his home on King
street and his place is being filed by
| William Bailey.
Frederick Coping, an assistant man.
ager of the Colonel Life Insurance Com
pany, came to Morristown last week to
in this district. The local Office is in the
Hoffman building.
! The large shed owned by Andrew
Riley & Son on Morris street collapsed
last night and wrecked a number of
wagons that were underneath. The col
lapse was caused by the weight of the
snow on the roof
Two deaths occurred at All Souls
Hospital this week. The first was ON
Sunday, when Michael Terrill of Morris
town died of pneumonia; and George
Tucker was the second to succumb, dy-
ing on Monday Of appoplexy.
The entertainment by George Clauder,
violincellist, assisted by local talent,
postponed from Monday night. will be
held at the Baptist Church next Monday
evening. The proceeds of silver col
lection will 60 to the organ fund.
Among those from Morristown who
are in attendance at the Y. NJ G. A.
State Convention at Railway, which be-
gan last evening and ends tomorrow
afternoon, are: Local Secretary A. FL.
Lunbeck, Claude Armstrong, Aldus
Pierson and E. A. Carroll.
During the year ending December 81,
1898, the D., L. & w. Railroad reported
that its gross earnings were $43 ,696, 4S2,
which is decrease of 1887 971. The net
earnings were So. 730 $40. The reports
shows also that $9l0.711 was charged to
profit, and loss for depreciation of equip
ment
Tuesday was a record breaker in the
amount of business done by Central"
and all day the girls were kept busy at
the telephone station getting New York
and other points out of town Over 800
calls were recorded for New York alone.
The new telephone subscribers are
Thomas Alexander, S8f; and A. e.
Swartwout, 1871 b.
Il A Bergen county exchange aptly re-
marks: " Because thing is cheap does
not signify it is always good. A customer
does not go to the grocery store and ask
for cheap eggs and butter-but the mer-
; chant who hunts up the cheap printing
establishment or cheap newspaper to uti-
} lie for advertising purchases. gets about
the same quality of truck as cheap eggs."
|, The relatives and few intimate friends
Of Mrs. Rose McMonagle, mother of Mrs.
John B. Sturges, gave her birthday
surprise party at her home on Morris
street Tuesday night, it being the eth
anniversary of her BIRTH The evening
was pleasantly spent listening to vocal
and piano solos by the different members,
J and recalling "reminiscences of bygone
days.