The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-24
LOCAL BREvITlES
Interesting Bits OF News Gathered from
various Sources

The Board of Aldermen will meet
next Friday evening.
The High School and Bayley School
foot ball teams will meet on the grid
iron field tomorrow afternoon.
The Y. M. @. A. Third Team was
defeated by the Morristown School
foot ball eleven yesterday by score
of 40 to 0.
The fair and bazaar announced in a
local paper to take place on December
4, and is not to be held until early
in January.
There will be no foot ball game at
the Morristown School field tomorrow
team which was scheduled to APP
pear, having cancelled the date.
O. S.Rutan has purchased the house
at the corner of Wetmore and COLES
avenues which was formerly owned by
Joseph Lusardi.
The local banks and public schools,
and most of the stores will be closed
on Thursday next. The schools will
reopen on Monday
The formal opening of the Young
Women's Reading and Recreation
Room in the Market Street Mission,
will take place tonight at 1880.
The regular Gospel Temperance
meeting under the auspices of the
W. @. 7. U. will be held in the Sal
walton Army Hall at 8 O'Clock to-
night.
Jacob Bird, of Mt. Hope, was
brought to the county jail last night
and will answer to charge of
bigamy. He is said to have three
wives.
The First Presbyterian and the
Methodist Episcopal Churches will
join for union service on Thanks
giving morning. DR.. Macnaughtan
will preach special sermon.
1t is stated that the Morristown
Driving Park will be included in a
new trotting circuit which is to be
established next spring. The circuit
will also take in Dover and Waverly.
The missionary societies of the
First Presbyterian Church will hold
praise service in the chapel on
Monday afternoon when Thanksgiv
ing offerings will be received.
A. G. Ropes is erecting an addition
to his house on Morris avenue, The
contractors are Sturgis Brothers,
mason work; Greenwood and DeCos-
ter, carpenter and ]. Thatcher, paint
ing.
DR.. Jacquemin, of Netcong, whose
sensational trial occurred here some
months ago when he was acquitted
of "a serious charge, has had the other
indictments against him nolle pressed
by Prosecutor Mills.
Under the auspices of the Woman s
Home Missionary Society two dea-
conesses, Miss Ellen Spratt, of Lon
don, Eng, and Miss Mary Clennon,
of Jersey City, will speak at the
morning service in the Methodist
Church on Sunday.
late Major General Green, has pur-
chased the property at the corner of
COLES and Wetmore avenues. 1t was
in this house that General Green s
father died. The property was owned
by Miss Anna M. Day.
Resolute Hook & Ladder Company IS
supply wagon, which is used in re-
spending to still alarms, is being re-
modelled at Persons carriage Re-
pository The vehichle when com
pleted will resemble those in use by
the Fire Department of New York.
Driver Eugene Kelley, with the
supply wagon now being used by
Resolute Hook & Ladder Company,
responded too still alarm at H. 80
Saturday night. A kerosene lamp had
exploded in Louis Singers store at 4S
Speedwell avenue, but did no damage.
Frank H. Young, of Speedwell
avenue has obtained patent on an
invention designed to reduce friction
and also to be used as an automatic
oiler on cars. 1t does away with oil
ing from underneath and it is claimed
removes the necessity of using waste
Nelson Jackson, one of the prisoners
in the county Jail awaiting transfer
to State Prison, has apparently de-
veloped homicidal insanity. One day
recently he attacked Jail Keeper Orr
may be committed to the State Hos
pital.
In accordance with the President IS
proclamation to close all Government
buildings, the Morristown Post Office
will not be open tomorrow, the day
of President Hobart's funeral,
except from 7 to 10 ane to 6 O'Clock.
There will be one delivery, i'll the
morning
SIN the Tolls, five act comedy
drama, was presented at the Lyceum
Wednesday evening, by the Morris
town Dramatic Company, to an APP
preciative audience. The performance
was much better, than when presented
by the company last April Wednes-
day nights presentation was for the
benefit of the Grand Fraternity.
Truman Scott kept a number of
chickens in house at the rear of 20
Court street but ON Wednesday night
some animal, presumably a dog,
killed all but one fowl. Mr.. Scott
thinks he has traced the work to the
dog Of man living not far away.
This was done by the trail of feathers
made by the animal carrying his
stolen prey.
Great preparations and numerous
reAearsals are now engaging the at
tention of the Hose Company mem
bers in view of their coming minstrel
performance Every member of the
company is to take part and like
everything the INDEPENDENTS attempt,
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