The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06

LOCAL BREvITlES.
znteresting Bits Of News Gathered from
49, various sources

April will be Palm Sunday.
Two Bundy boilers are being placed
in the Almshouse at Morris Plains.
The April meeting of the Board Of
Aldermen will be held this evening.
Harvey J. Genung has been engaged
as precentor in the Madison Presby-
terrain Church.
heannual election of officers of the
Sunday School Of the Methodist
Church will be held Wednesday even
ing.
The sophomore and Junior classes of
the Maple Avenue School held a
pleasant social at the school building
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur f. Day, Mr..
and Mrs. Stephen s. Day and Mr.. and
Mrs Chas. W. Ennis, have returned
from Porto Rico
1t has been decided not to hold the
conference of the A. M. E. Church in
Morristown. The place now selected
is Atlantic City.
Mrs: Nishwitz, widow of the late
Frederick Nishwitz, of Millington.
has been appointed administrative of
her husband IS estate.
Last Friday Vice. Chancellor Pitney,
granted William Nixon, through his
counsel, Chas. Stilwell, Jr.. the Gus
tody of his two sons.
Lawyer Frederick H. Beach, who
for some time past has had an Office
in the National Iron Bank Building
will open an Office in Dover.
Geo. W. Green and John Chapman
conducted an interesting meeting at
the new Methodist Church at Chat
ham Thursday last, the goth of
March
Resolute Hook and Ladder truck
horses, "Tom" and Jerry" have
been relieved from a months duty
and are enjoying the freedom of
Foote'S farm.
Mrs. COLES last lecture of the Mid
winter course, on the Oberammergau
Passion Play, will be given ON Tues
day, April 10th, at the house of Mrs.
Ames, 80 Madison avenue.
Next Wednesday evening, Rev.
Henry G. Swentzell, of Brooklyn,
st. Peters Church. His subject will
be The Providence of God. "
A number of young business men,
it is said, contemplate suing the local
Board of Health for compelling them
to leave town when their boarding
house was under quarantine.
Word has been received that Victor
Brown, of Mill street, who is a mem
Der of the Twenty eighth Infantry, u.
s. ", now in the Philippine Islands,
has been sent to the hospital, suffering
from malaria.
The ball team at the Morris Plains
Hospital this season will be as strong
an aggregation of ball tossers as in
previous years. The lineup and
schedule for the coming season will
be published later.
The interior of Humane Engine
Company's apartment is being neatly
painted Two guards have been put
up to the ceiling to prevent the har-
ness from knocking the plaster off
while being raised and lowered.
Quite number of the congregation
gathered in the Congregational
Church last Sunday and listened to
the farewell sermon of Rev. William
Kershaw and to participate in the last
services to be held in that edifice.
The Young Ladies Missionary So
ciety of the First Presbyterian Church
will hold an Easter sale of home made
cake and candy in the chapel on
Saturday, April 14th from to p.
IN. for the benefit of the Ashville
scholarship.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Morris Ministerial Association was
held in the parsonage of the, South
Street Presbyterian Church, Tuesday
afternoon. Rev. Thomas A. Reeves,
of RoclSaway, read an interesting
paper on the South African War.
William Fenimore, an inmate of the
State Hospital at Morris Plains es-
capped from the guards of that institu-
ton Friday. Fenimore was mild
patient and was at work ON the
grounds when he wandered off. His
brother gave bonds to take care of
him.
Marie Corelli, for the first time in
five years, has written short story
for an American magazine. The
Laurels of the Brave is the title of a
story which she has just finished for
The Saturday Evening Post, of Phila-
delphia, which will appear in The
Saturday Evening Post. of April IA.
The renowned instrumentalists,
Messrs. Willard and Bartlett and the
famous soprano, Miss Edith Hirsch-
man, have been engaged to give one
of their entertaining concerts in the
Baptist Church, next Monday evening
for the benefit of the organ fund. No
admission will be charged, but sill
Yer collection will be taken.
William Keefe, of Miller street, was
placed under bail Monday to await
the action of the Grand Jury on a
charge of assault and battery pre-
ferred by William Lyons. Lyons, it
seems, was riding his wheel on Miller
street, when Keefe ran up to him,
knocked him from the wheel, and
broke it.
Spinach is now in high favor as an
article of diet. Chemists affirm that
it contains more iron to the square
inch "than most of the renowned
ferruginous remedies. - Spinach not
only contains salts of iron and potas-
sium, but other salts which are good
. for the liver and blood. Consequently
it improves the complexion.
The April issue of Table Talk has
for its leading article "Fagot of
Herbs, which will interest practical