The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-12-21
LOCAL BREvITlES

ana some me quar- SuOcblng.
The Annual Election Of Officers Of
Madison Chapter, No. ~, r. a. M,
will be held next Wednesday evening
The mail to Lake Denmark has been
discontinued for the present. Mail
for that office will now be sent to
Monnt Hope.
Plans and specifications are being
made for new pipe organ to be placed
in the chapel at the Morris Plains
hospital to cost $2, 900.
R.H. Williams of the Morris County
Golf Club is spoken of as the prob
president Of the United States Golf
Association.
The Order Of Chosen Friends which
recently collapsed was at one time
among the strong benevolent orders
with quite large membership in
Morris County.
Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement of Edgar A. Pember on an
other page of the Chronicle who wants
at once desirable Morristown property.
His address is 22U Broadway, New
York.
Francis Smith, alias William Force.
who was sentenced from Morris
County in 1896 to serve ten years in
the State Prison for burglary was Civ
en- his freedom yesterday by the Court
of Pardons.
Owing to the expiration of its lease
the Yorel Art Co., on Park Place,
is closing out its entire stock at cost.
A feature of the store is the Santa
Claus grab bag. 1t costs ten cents
per grab and none are disappointed.
st. Columbanus Council. No. 40,
Catholic Benevolent Legion on We'd
nesday held debate on the subject,
Resolved That it would be uene-
fetal TO Morristnwn. to have Sewer
age System established. /" Needless
to saw, the judges decided in favor of
the affirmative.
A tramp, who gave mis- name as
Hoffman was brought to All Souls,
Hospital on Sunday afternoon suffer-
ing from the effects of fall. It
seems. that he went into a farmer S
barn IN the Mendham road to sleep
and fell out of the hay. He was found
lying on the floor severely injured and
was brought to Morristown.
The first annual meeting of the
New Jersey State School Board Assoc
citation will be held on Friday, De-
cember %, at the State House at
Trenton. After the business session
banquet will be served at the Tren-
ton house. Members Of the Board
from Morristown are FL. A. Freeman
and q r Whitehead
On Monday of last week, Frank
MOffet of Stirling was bitten in the
hand by his dog. The animal had
been acting strangely for several
days, and in endeavoring to tie it
up, the animal fastened its teeth in
his hand He at once shot the dog,
and on Saturday went to New York
where he is now taking the Pasteur
treatment.
The fourth regular meeting of the
Friday Evening Club will be held
at the Lyceum tonight DR. j HI.
Garfield. late chancellor of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and Librarian of
Columbia University. New York will
speak on Public Libraries. The
Rev. S. G.. Ayres, A. NJ, librarian
of Drew Theological Seminary will
talk of ancient manuscripts and other
treasures of that institution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel johnson. who
live near Vienna, Warren County.
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary Of
their marriage on Monday. Mr.. John
son is 90 years of age and his wife is
nearly so. She was Miss Amy Camden,
of Morristown and was Mr.. John
xrrif a Was AZ
ried in1 881 and has been the father
of twelve children, all living except
one, who cied at the age of Is years.
Two still alarms early Tuesday
morning brought out the Chemical en-
CINE. A servant girl at the residence
of Thomas B. Pierson, at No. 20 High
street, scratched match on the wall,
when it broke and fell on the bed. ig-
hitting it. The fire was extinguished
before any considerable damage was
done. A defective fiue in the res
idence of William 7. Sanger also
caused slight fire. 1t was quickly
extinguished by the Chemical.
At the regular business meeting of
the Society Of Christian Endeavor
OF the South Street Presby terian
Church held on Tues ay night, officers
were elected as follows: President,
Rev. Albert Erdman, D. D.. vice
president, Miss Phoebe Casterline,
treasurer, Ernest Tiger; recording
secretary, Miss Agnes Philips: CORE
spending secretary, Miss Winifred Bah
bitt A new constitution and by
laws We're adopted. Ex-Judge Cutler
presided.
A special meeting was held in the
rooms of the Market Street Mission on
Monday evening when Prof. Hudson
of Cleveland, o., spoke on the sub
ject, "a Good Soldier Of Christ. :,
He illustrated his remarks with stor-
les of ar,ay life and incidents and
anecdotes of his personal career as a
soldier. A number of members of Tor
bet Post, Ct. A. r, were present and
greatly enjoyed Comrade Hudson s
talk as we'll as the army songs he sang,
many OF them being composed by
himself
Edward Gallager, of 62 Drift way,
East Orange was killed on the Morris
81 Essex Cracks at Summit on Tues
day. AS the west bound train due at
Summit at three o'clock p. m. was
rounding the curve east Of the station
the engineer saw the body of q man
lying on the rails He stopped his
traiu before the BIO was reached and
found that the remains were terribly
mangled, having been struck by a
heavy freight train which had pro-
ceeded the paSSenper train The man