The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
LOCAL BREvITlES.
Interesting Bits of News Gathered from
various sources.

On March 10Th the Summit Basket
ball team will contest in a game with
the Orients of the Y. M. @. A.
Mrs Hugh Farrell, a patient in All
Souls Hospital. died in that institu-
ton Sunday at the age of 80 years
The adjourned sale Of the plant of
the Boonton Water Company will be
held in in the Court House Saturday.
Mrs. Brigadier stillwell, Of st.
Louis, led the birthday meeting in
the Salvation Army barracks Saturday
night.
The arrival of blue birds in South
Jersey predict AN early spring, which
we will believe after the blizzard date
is past
The furniture firm Of Kahn Brothers
on Park Place, has been dissolved by
mutual consent Peter Kahn will con-
time the business.
The remains of William R. Drayton.
and Lamont E. Young, both of Jersey
City, were inferred in Evergreen
cemetery Wednesday.
Next Sunday, Preston Garland, of
Spring street, will have attained the
age of 101 years. Garland was born a
slave on plantation near Lynchburg.
Va. S ~ 3 ~
The funeral services Of Mrs. Emile
M. r., widow of General Mansfield
Lowell, were held from her late resi-.
dence, Sc Maple avenue, Monday
morning
The New York Cash Store calls at
tention of the readers of the Chronicle
this week, to their add on page 4, in
which is announced a special sale
of shirt waists.
This afternoon Miss s. G. Very will
give her first lecture on 1.-THE Homes
and Haunts of Composers, at the
residence of Mrs. William Watts. Her
subject will be Leipsig.
ga March Pot-Pourri, . by Lucy
Elliot Keller, is the opening article
in the March issue of Table Talk. 1t
is interestingly written and will en-
terrain as we'll as profit its readers
The regular meeting of theWomen's
Christian Temperance Union will be
held in, its rooms in the Y. M. @.
A. building Tuesday, March 6, at 8
p. m. A full attendance is DESIRED
At the recent organization of a BEN
eft society among the employees of the
N. Y. and N. j. Telephone Company,
in Brooklyn, E. J. Bowen, of Morris
town, was placed on the standing com
mittee.
Next Wednesday evening, Mr.. Vim
cent will lecture at Miss Dana's
school on American Humorists.
Friday night last number of the
students gave Pyramus and Thisbe, =
from Midsummer Nights Dream. ls
The entertainment by the choir of
the M. E. Church Friday night was
attended by fully 800 persons. The
interior of the room was beautifully
decorated with flags and palms.
Chocolate and fancy cake was served.
The officers of the association which
has leased the racing privileges of
the Morristown Driving Park from
Barney Demarest, the new lessee, are
W. F Redman, president; Dewitt g.
Flanagan, vice president, and LaMont
DeGuerin, secretary.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
Morristown McAll Auxiliary will be
held Tuesday afternoon, March 6, at 8
O'Clock, in the parlors of the South ST..
Presbyterian Church. Reports will be
presented and officers and managers
elected for the ensuing year. A large
attendance is desired.
Workmen, excavating for foundation
on the property of DR.. Andrews on
South street. unearthed two large
sized cannon balls Tuesday. They
are deeply pitted and thickly covered
with iron rust. Whether they formed
part of the Revolutionary ammunition
is matter of conjecture.
Commissary Sergeant Charles
Wechsler, Of the 39th U. IS. Infantry
who is doing service in Manila,
has forwarded to his father in this
city, Spanish flag, which he found
on the person of dead Filipino, who
in turn had taken 1t from a Spanish
soldier, at Santa Rosa, ON the island
of Luzon.
Officer Messler has been stationed at
the Lackawanna station daily the past
week. 1t was his duty to hold all
colored persons and others whom he
thought ought to be- examined by
physician and If necessary be vacci-
mated. Tuesday there were twenty
two persons vaccinated and those who
refused were shipped back on the next
train.
The Orange Valley Bowling team
and a number of friends came. up on
visit to the bowling team of the
Young Mems, Catholic Association
Friday night. After the contests
which resulted in favor of the Orange
boys, a reception was held. Games,
dancing and singing constituted the
evenings enjoyment Refreshments
were abundantly served, and an
amount of eatables was kindly sent
to All Souls Hospital Music was
furnished by Sharette.
Before the Supreme Court at Tren-
ton last Monday, four of Morristown's
yonng men passed very credit
able and successful examinations, and
by that action, four more attorneys
have been added to the legal profess
sion, They are c. Franklin Wilson,
who studied in the office of Hon. John
B. Vreeland Douglass Frapwell from
the office of Lawyer John E. Fennell
Irving E. Salmon, who studied under
his father Congressman Salmon, and
Edward K Mills, who also studied in
the office of his father, Alfred Mills.
An argument on rule to show cause
why a new trial should not be granted
in the case of Eunice A. Lambert
against the Metropolitan Savings and
Loan Association was concluded in
the State Supreme Court at Trenton
last week Hon Mahlon Pitnav an