The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-29
5 LOCAL BREvITIES


The M M. degree was conferred by
Cincinnati Lodge on Monday evening.
The monkey in Brown & O'Connelp'
window still seems to be great attrac
ton.
The Lackawanna telephone line ii
now in use on the Morris and ESSEX
Division.
''Old Maid Conventions" seem to bt
quite an attraction in the various towns
throughout the county.
A sociable and entt rtainment was held
in the rooms of the Speedwell avenue
Sunday School last evening.
Iona Tribe, 1S1, I. o. r, M will give
their first annual dinner in Washington
Hotel next Thursday evening.
Albert Carroll the letter carrier, who
was suspended last week for alleged
Irregularities is again on the force.
The ball given under the auspices OF
Court Ridgedale, No. 1854 in McAlpin
Hall last evening was great success.
The American Tobacco Company has
purchased the plant Of d Ell. McAlpin
Go. for q price said to be about 3d.
100000
About one hunderd members of the
John L. Davis Association of Orange
took dinner at the West End Hotel
yesterday.
Local sportsmen were afield bright
and early Thanksgiving morning and
the crack of guns were heard continue
ally.
u. S. postal regulations protect mail
carriers from injury by providing that
where dogs are allowed to be at large IN
persons yard or house, the carrier
need not deliver their mail.
There is absolutely no truth in the re-
port that has been circulated to the Effect
that j. Clark Oliver former Collector OF
this city would appear before the pres
emit term of court to plead to the indlct-
ments against him.
Owing to the shortness of the days
the carpenters, beginning this week, go
to work fifteen minutes earlier. TIL.
whistles in the morning blowing at 715
instead of r. 80, and in the afternoon at
AS instead of o'clock.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
Morristown McAll Auxiliary will be
held in the lecture room of the South
Street Church on Tuesday, Dec 3rd, at B
o'clock. Rev. S. q. Batten will address
the meeting, to which all are cordially
invited
In addition to a large and complete
line of hardware and house furnishing
articles, horse blankets and stable fittings
Phillips & Day announce full assort-
ment of poultry supplies. which include
bone cutters, and various other neces-
stiles for winter use in the poultry house.
On January 1st, 1902, a new rule will
go into effect on the various railroads of
the country. They will not accept az
baggage anything but baggage contain
ing personal effects. The express COM
panies claim that the railroads have
been carrying all kinds of packages at
baggage.
The Morristown School closed for thu
Thanksgiving vacation Wednesday; the
students to return Monday noon. The
kicking contests between members of
the foot ball team which were to have
been decided Tuesday were postponed
until next Wednesday. owing to the
high wind.
Miss Gertrude COLES has three pic
tures--a portrait in oil of Miss Elizabeth
Schmidt, a water color, and miniature
at the annual Exhibition of Allied
Arts, held in the Clausen Gallery, 381
Fifth avenue, from November 26th to
December 7th. inclusive, from 10 a. m.
to 10 p. m.
Over sc, 1000 people witnessed the Yale
Harvard foot ball game at Cambridge
last Saturday, in which Yale was de-
feated by the score of $40 The gate
receipts were over $50 1000. Among the
Morristonians who witnessed the con-
test were F. G. Woodman and Arthur
p. Butler, masters at the Morristown
School.
The many Morristonians who visited
the Pan American will be interested in
the announcement that the Exposition
buildings have been sold to the Chicago
House Wrecking Company for $92 600
The buildings are to be removed and the
grounds restored to their former con-
dition by the company. The steel in the
electrical tower is valued at $25, 900.
The Mystic Shrlners of this city will
make pilgrimage to Newark tonight
when a convocation will be held in Kru-
gers Auditorium. 1t is understood that
over a dozen candidates from Morris
town will be initiated. Extensive prep
arations are being made by the Shriners
of Newark to give visiting mobiles a
grand reception.
In order to avoid paying license of
$40 to the authorities for each county in
which shooting is done in Pennsylvania,
a number of the residents of this section
of the state have purchased an interest
in Pennsylvania real estate which will
enable them at small cost to shoot any
where in that state as the law exempts
alien real estate owners.
"Jim Blaine the little Shetland pony
owned by Walter j. Goger of Newark.
which was exhibited at the recent Field
Club Horse Show, won the blue ribbon
at the Madison Square Garden, N. r.,
last week. Jim" is a little fellow,
weighing but $50 pounds, which is the
exact weight of his owner, whom he can
drag in a cart considerable distance at
the rate of eight miles an hour.
George B Raymond general agent of
the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New
York and whose residence Seven
Gables" was destroyed at Morris Plains
early in the year by fire. has awarded
contracts for q handsome new dwelling
on thu Miller road for which Robert q.