The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-24
NORRIS COUNTY NEWS
MADISON.


Thanksgiving evening by the Katha-
rine Ridgway Concert Company.
The opening reception of Young q
COUGHS Dancing Glass was held in
the banquet hall of the new James
Building on Tuesday evening.
Rev. William G. Simpson, of Scran-
ton, Pa, gave readings from Beside
the Bonnie Brier Bush before a
large and appreciative audience in
the Christ Methodist Church on We'd
nesday evening
The Neapolitan Concert Company
under the direction Of Prof. A. M. G.
Devitalis, of this place gave an enter
tainment in the Madison Assembly
Hall last evening.
The first society dance Of the season
will be given in the Madison Assem-
bly, Hall on Friday evening, Dec. 1.
The patronesses are Mrs. @. A. Ander-
son, Mrs. E. P. Holden, Mrs. Charles
M. Decker, Mrs. John M. Shaw, Mrs.
w. w. Davis, Mrs. James H. Baker.
Rev. William K. Bennett, pastor Of
the Presbyterian Church, addressed
the Y. M. g. A. meeting on Sunday.
Melville Sanford, manager of the
Plankentown House, Milwaukee, Wis,
is the Guest of @. B. MCGEE, of
Kings road.
The local foot ball club will visit
Newark tomorrow and play the North
End A. 9. of that place.
Martin Thornton has sold his resi-
dence on the corner of Prospect street
andHillside avenue to James A.
Webb for $4,000. Mr.. Thornton has
purchas the place now occupied by
Samuel Waters on Park avenue.
The local foot ball club journeyed
to Elizabeth on Saturday and de-
feated the Dauntless A. G. of that
place by score of IL to 0. Manager
Whitaker rendered the boys a dinner
at Newark after the game which was
followed by box party at the Empire
Theatre. Foot ball has not been a
paying venture in Madison this year
and the remaining games will be
played away from home.
Superintendent Stewart, OF the
power station, e. r. Lum and Lewis
Morris left on Saturday for the Cats
kills where they will spend a week
hunting.
The Common Council will hold
its monthly meeting in the future
on the first Monday of the month.
James Presberger has sold out his
Boston store and returned to his
home in Passaic.
William E. Troxell, of this place,
has accepted position as night opera
tor at the Dover telegraph Office.
Mayor Jesse S. Reyes left on Fri
day for four weeks hunting trip in
Maine.
A special meeting of the Board of
Education was held in the Assembly
Oh Efrs 10
evening.
Horace B. Fry, the playwright, is
slowly recovering from his recent
severe illness.
Hamilton NICK. Twombly and fam
lily will return to their New York
City home today and their mansion
at this place will be closed until next
September as the family will spend
next summer at the Paris Exposition
The @. B. l.. will give their annual
dance in the Madison Assembly Hall
on Thanksgiving eve.
The Rev. Z. r. Murgatroyd, of
New Vernon addressed the Primary
Union in Webb Memorial Chapel yes
terday afternoon on Temperance in
All Things"
James E. Burnett and H. L. Brown
are ON two weeks hunting trip
through Warren County.
The marriage of Miss Clara S.
Toothe, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William E. Toothe, of Rosedale
avenue, to d. B. G. Hughes, of New
York City, will take place at the
Hotel Majestic, in New York, on
Wednesday, December 6.
James Kelley, of this place, has
been appointed District Deputy of
Northern New Jersey for the Fores-
tiers.
A special mothers meeting, under
the auspices of the local w. @. T. u,
will be held this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. e. P. Burroughs, on
Main street.
In the Masonic Hall, ON Tuesday
evening, sixteen new members were
received in the l. o. Foresters.
1.-THE Crusaders" a sacred cantata,
is being rehearsed by the Madison
Choral Society, under the direction of
Prof Charles Bigelow Ford.
A number of the members of the
Madison Lodge, of the f. and A. NJ,
will visit Morrlstown ON Monday
evening and witness the third degree
conferred on Senator Pitney and
Mayor Quayle.
Miss Maria L. Sampson, who re-
Gently removed from this place to
Westfield, died at that place, on
Saturday, at the age of &C years.
p G. Voeglen, of this place, at
tended the Dentists banquet, in Da-
Wis parlors, in Newark, ON Monday
evening.
B. d. Philhower finished the work
of numbering the houses in the
borough ON Tuesday night
The Madison Academy foot ball
team will play the Summit Public
School in this place tomorrow after
noon.
The dedication Of the new Admins
tration Building at Drew Theological
Seminary will take place ON Tuesday,
November 28. The dedicatory sermon
will be preached by Bishop Edward
G. Andrews, of New York, in the new
building, which has just been COM
pleted. Many prominent Methodist
divines are expected to be in atten-
dance at the services The Admins
tration Building was erected at cost
of over 800, 600 and is the gift of two
men who do not wish their names
divul ged.
ID. Willis James and family return
ed to their city residence in New Y ork
on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON VALLEY
Miss Carrie Bostwick, of Brooklyn,