The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-02-09
BREvITIES
Interesting Bits Of News Gathered from
Various Sources.

various Sources.
The Excise Board will meet We'd
nesday evening of next week
The regular meeting Of the Board of
Health will be held next Tuesday even
ing
The regular meeting Of the Board
of Freeholders will be held next We'd
nesday.
Conductor Harry Stout, of Hoboken,
has moved his family to 1878 Morris
street.
Congressman Salmon will deliver
an address at the letter carriers con-
vention Monday.
Invitations are out for social hop
to be given in McAlpin Hall by the
pupils of Professor Holly's class this
evening.
The w. G. T. u held a supper in
their rooms in the Y. M. @. A. Build
ing Tuesday evening realizing a
neat sum in receipt.
John Talmadge has decided to close
out his business on South street He
has accepted position as travelling
salesman for a large firm.
The will of Phebe A. Guerin, of
Mendham was probated in the Surro-
gates Office last Saturday In the
document her three children are made
sole heirs.
The Male Quartette, of which
Messrs. George P. Combs, Sidney A.
Baldwin, Charles E. Letcher and
Irving E. Salmon are members, will
hereafter be known as the "Cobalesa"
Quartette.
The members of Independent Hose
Company have issued invitations for
social to be held in their headquar-
tiers on Market street Friday evening
next. d. F. Sturgis, Eugene Carroll
and George 9. Smith is the committee
i'll charge of the affair.
The citizens of Morristown should
remember the mail carriers next Mon
day. The boys are working hard to
make this, their second annual con-
vention success. Therefore let every
store and dwelling along the line Of
march decorate and thus add to the
welcome hospitality of the visitors.
Messrs. J. K Boniface. w. f. Day,
Theo. Ayres, John Denman, J. b.
Ayres, Joseph Kronenberg and j. B.
Stevens who form the Committee of
Arrangement, have about perfected
their plans for the annual reception of
the Association of Exempt Flremen,
which is to be held next Wednesday
evening at o'clock, in the Farrelly
building on South street.
At the regular meeting of ST Co
lumbanus Council, No 40, G. B. L.,
Wednesday evening the members were
entertained by the Amusement Com
mittee under J. d. Collins, chair
man. These entertainments are to be
made feature of the meetings here
after and an elaborate program is be-
ing preared for the meeting, Feb. 21st
when five new members will be init
ated
Sergeant Morrison and Officer Bran
non arrested Frank Hennessey for be-
ing disorderly Monday. When he
was taken before Police Justice Cliff,
he saIuted him with " Whistle up some
time Squire and I'll give you a Jig. "
81 won't whistle, . responded the
judge, ''5ut FIJI give you time to the
extent of four days, and accordingly
the prisoner was handed over to
Sheriff Baker.
About forty members of the Y. P.S.
9. E. of the Baptist Church, assembled
at the home of the Misses Baird on
Speedwell avenue Tuesday evening
After the business meeting, the mem
bers were entertained socially. Music
enlivened the occasion, especially the
vocal selections, while the playing OF
various games together with serving
Nf rof l1Tr1 70 II M
of pleasant entertainments
On Wednesday evening of next week
the Fourth Quarterly Conference will
be held in the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Z. 40 o'clock. Much inter
est has been taken in the evangelistic
work and next Sunday large number
of persons will be admitted as mem
bers on confession of faith. The
Newark M. E. Conference, in which
Morristown is included, will be held
at Paterson on April 4th
DR.. L. l.. Mial has been participant
in a-aebilliard tournament of the
Amateur Athletic Union, which has
been in progress at the Knickerbocker
CluhssForty fourth street and Madi-
son avenue during the..week. The
New York Sun remarks concerning
LII. Mldl: LIZ. Mill mas D00n play
ing fine game for some months past.
Recently in match at the club house
he made an average of fifteen in a
game of 200 points. -
When Mrs. Margaret Lord, of SO
Madison avenue, was attempting to
step in her coupe on DeHart street
Tuesday afternoon, a driver of a
wagon backed into the rear of her
conveyance, causing her horse to make
sudden plunge. The coachman,
Robert Gibson, was thrown from his
seat, sustaining several bruises. The
horse turned up South street and was
caught near the park by Michael Lin
dept and Joseph Kronenberg After
turning the corner of DeHart street, the
two rear wheels collapsed. Fortunate
ly Mrs. Lord retained her seat, thus
escaping injury.
James Carpenter, who ON the morn
ing of January 10th, was caught in
the residence of Charles Mellon, on
Madison avenue and committed to the
county Jail, was on Monday convicted
of burglary, his counsel making no
defence. He will be sentenced next
week. A search of Carpenters per-
son resulted in Officers Rolf and Bren-
non finding butchers cleaver, two
silk muff1ers, dozen silver spoons, a
fine sealskin cap and a key to the
residence in which he was discovered
Carpenter wanted to go on the stand
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