The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-11-23
LOCAL BREvlTlES

OA uOouHJs
George W. Brown is making num-
Der of improvements to his house on
Water street.
The annual ball of Washington
Engine Company will be held on
Thanksgiving night.
There are now about 2,0OO lawyers
in New Jersey, or one lawyer for
every Oil inhabitants.
A choir of 100 children will give a
praise service in the Methodist Church
next Sunday evening.
Large numbers of Morristown
people attended the Horse Show in
New York this week.
The Y. P. S. O. e. Of the A. M. E.
Church will give Donkey Party"
and GYPSY Tent on Thanksgiving
evening.
New ballot boxes manufactured by
Camden concern we're used in Sussex
County at the recent election and gave
much satisfaction.
Mems, womens and children's
cast-off clothing is urgently needed at
the Market Street Mission for distri-
button among the poor.
A meeting of teachers of the Bap-
fist Sunday School was held on Mon
day evening at which Sidney Smith
of Dover. gave an address on Graded
Sunday Schools, =
The weighing machine in front of
Smith, drug store was relieved OF its
receipts on Tuesday night, by some
unknown person. A false key was
used to open the machine.
Farmers Institutes will be held at
Branchville on November 23 to 26, at
Deckertown Nov. "a and at Laytons
on November 26 under the auspices OF
the State Board Of Agriculture.
The Morristown Minstrel Company
gave an excellent show at Demands
vile on Tuesday evening. The town
hall was filled to the doors After the
performance supper was given to
the boys at Lyons Hotel.
There will be an entertainment at
the rooms of the Free kindergarten,
lin the McAlpin block ON Friday
evening (tonight), at 8 o'clock, for
the parents of the pupils in attendance
at the school. The program will
embrace vocal anu instrumental
music. recitations and readings.
The Republican County Committee
held brief session on Wednesday.
Aside from the endorsement of Guido
O. Hinchman. of Dover, for the post
mastership of that place, upon the
expiration of M. M. McCracken' s
term, in January, 1901, little but
routine business was transacted.
Fashionable Dress Making by the
S. T. Taylor French system is adver-
'tised elsewhere by M. Bristow, No Al
East Park Place. This popular system
has numerous admirers in Morristown
and the advertiser guarantees salts
faction to each patron.
The condition of Harry Benjamin,
of Whippany, who was accidently shot
in the leg on Thursday last, became
so alarming on Saturday that ampu-
tation was necessary. The operation
was performed by Drs. Pierson and
Henriques on Saturday evening and
the young man is now on the road to-
recovery.
The Bailey Grammar School is doing
excellent work with an enrolment of
$3.50 scholars There will be a Thanks
giving entertainment on the afternoon
of Thursday next beginning at B
O'Clock. The program will consist of
music and recitations, for which those
participating have been carefully
drilled.
The population of Morris County
being So, 1856, the prosecutor of the pleas
for this county is entitled to a salary
of 50, 500 per year. according to an act
of the Legislature of 1900 which pro-
vides that when the population of any
county of this State is more than
SO, 600 and not more than 70, 600. the
prosecutors salary shall be 30, 800.
The present salary is 81, 800.
Arthur Crane, a young man employed
as woodworker by the Geo. Mills Co.,
died at his home, 81 Speedwell avenue,
on Monday evening, He was in his
28th year and had been a sufferer from
Bright's disease for some time. The
funeral was held from his late home
yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock, the
Rev. DIR. Coultas officiating.
meeting for conference and prayer
has been called by the Evangelistic
Committee of the Presbytery of Nor
ris and Orange, to be held at the
South Street Church, on Tuesday,
November 81, from 10 to IL A. M. and
2 to 5 p. M. Robert e. Spear will
speak at both services. Each service
will be opened with a prayer meet
ing, led in the morning by the Rev.
Stanley White, in the afternoon by
Rev. William Fl. Wolverton.
The following officers were elected
by the Grand Encampment of Odd
Fellows in session at Trenton: Grand
Patriarch, Anthony Moore, Jersey
City; Grand High Priest, Harry A,
Phillips, Newark; Grand Senior
Warden, William @. Burke, Jersey
City; Grand Junior Warden, Samuel
Karn, Morristown; Grand Scribe,
Lewis Parker; Trenton; Grand Urea
surer, James 9. Robbins. Hamilton
Square; Grand Representative, George
H. Mutt, Trenton.
Many Morristown people who heard
the famous baritone. DR.. Carl Duff,
IN the Persian Garden, " at q private
musical last winter, will be glad to
learn that he has consented to come
TO Morristown for Song Recital, to
be given under the auspices of the
Young Women s Christian Temper
ance Union, on December IL. DR..
Duff is one of the most popular singers
of the day, and it is by chance that
he is free to be in Morristown on that
evening Tickets will be on sale next
week.
Miss Sophia Schmidt. a young
woman amnloved in a Sherman Hill