The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-05-25
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Interesting Bits Of News Gathered from
Various Sources

Various Sources.
The Morristown F. 9. will cross
bats with the strong Montclair A. g.
tomorrow.
Wednesday being a legal holiday
the banks will not open and most of
the stores will be closed.
On Monday the weather surprised
everybody, heat, cold, rain, hail and
breezes by no means gentle, were
served by old Prob. :"
| A strawberry and ice cream festival
will be held in the basement of the
Baptist Church on Friday evening.
Benefit of the organ fund.
Ross W. Weir & Co.'S celebrated Rel
Ribbon Mocha and Java Coffee, can
be obtained in Morristown at the store
of Messrs. Alexander & Co. 1888
In five inning game on Randolph
Field, Monday afternoon, the Tall
madge School base ball team defeated
the Morris Academy by the score of
8 to Z.
A strawberry and Ice cream fair
will be held at the grounds of st.
| Margaret's School, on the afternoon
and evening of Memorial Day. The
benefits will be for the church.
| The Rev. DR.. Erdman will address
| the Sunday School Primary Teachers
| Union of Chatham and Madison on
| Wednesday afternoon at Madison on
Geography and Customs of the
Holy Land.
"a base ball team has been organized
among number of the young men in
town. The team will be known as the
Knickerbockers. y Teams wishing to
arrange games can do so by addressing
Fred Trowbridge, Manager.
Messrs. Robert D. Foote, P. G.
Barker, L. Q. Stiles, H. H. Davis
and George Fl. Ross, have been cleo
ted directors of the Masonic Hall As
sociation for the ensuing year. Mr..
Ross succeeds the late John Thatcher.
The Lackawanna conductors made
their appearance in summer uniforms
on Wednesday. The coats are sack
style with the words Lackawanna"
on collar lapel. The brakemen are
also out in summer suits, fashioned
as before.
The officers of the Morris County
Christian Endeavor Association are
President, Pearce Rogers, of Mine
Hill; vice-president, the Rev. S. D.
Batten, of Morristown; secretary
Miss M. E. Morris, of New Vernon /;
treasurer. H. W. Whipple, of Dover.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Education will be. held to-
night. The Board has offered re-
engagement to all the present teach
ers, who with one or two exceptions,
it is understood will accept Two
additional teachers will be employed,
one each in the high and interme-
diate schools.
The smoker rendered the First Ward
Hose Go. by Washington Engine Co.,
around. Mitchell's band headed the
| President John Denman of the
Washes, Foreman Welsh of the First
Wards, Chief Engineer Fox, Aldermen
Eichlin, Reeve and Belly, DR.. Wright
and Postmaster Fennell.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of this place, will entertain
the auxiliaries of the Newark Distric
on Tuesday the goth, at an all day
meeting in the Methodist Church
Morning service will begin at 10. 81
O'Clock. Friends of the missionary
cause are cordially invited. Address
by Mrs. M. S. Bailey in the afternoon.
A new time table will probably &C
in effect on the Lackawanna on June
Sd. Three additional Sunday trains
will be added one leaving, eastward
about II and another two hours later.
Two additional trains will be run
west from Hoboken. There will BIZ
no change in the regular trains as now
scheduled. A train will also leave
Morristown about midnight, due al
New York l. IA.
The SD anniversary of the Morris
County Bible Society will be held il
the First Methodist Church of Dover,
on Tuesday, June 18th, at TO- 45 a. m.
The opening sermon will be by the
Rev. VIM. H. Woolverton, of Boonton.
The afternoon session will be devoted
to business reports and brief addresses
by the Rev. Norman Fox, D. D., of
Morristown, ON 1.-THE Bible in Litera.
ture. Mr.. Joseph f. Randolph Oh
How to interest the young people in
the Bible, - and Interesting Ameri.
can Editions of the Bible" by Rev.
S. G.. Ayers.