The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-26
LOCAL BREVlTIES

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day in town.
Walker A. Wyckoff, Professor of So
GEOLOGY of Princeton University, deliv-
cred lecture before the students of the
Morristown School last Saturday night.
Harris Domb, formerly employed in
the barber shop of Albert Wayrich, has
opened a place in the store occupied by
Ellis W. Brown, at 81 Washington ST..
A meeting of the local Painters and
Decorators Union was held in the YORK
Building last Tuesday, which was adj
dressed by William E. Wood, the State
organizer.
Philippe Spievacque, converted Rab-
hi who has been stationed at Warsaw,
Brussels, addressed large gatherings in
the rooms of the Morristown Praying
Band last Sunday.
Mrs. COLES gave last week, on the
evenings of April nth and 18th, at the
Quincy Mansion School, at Wollaston,
six miles out of Boston, her lectures on
1.-The Art of Conversation, and on
" Women as Humorists."
N The New Jersey Building at the Pam
American Exposition is between the
Michigan building on one side and the
United States Ordnance Department
building on the other The building will
1 be finished about the middle of May.
MRS. Bridget Tob;n, who was recently
shot by her husband, James Tobin,
continues to improve at All Souls Hos
pital, and the chances for her ultimate
recovery are excellent. The bullets have
not yet been extracted from her neck.
The quarterly meeting of the Morris
town Indian Association will be held In
the lecture room of the South Street
Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, April
both. at 10. 80 a. m. Prof. G. w. James
will address the meeting, to which all
are cordially invited.
At her residence on Linden street, last
Tuesday night, Miss Sadie Blanchard
gave party to a number of her friends.
The evenings entertainment consisted of
music, games and a donkey party. The
prizes offered was won by Monte Lyons,
and Miss Louie zimmerman secured the
BOBBY prize.
Charles Weaver was lodged in the
Morris county Jail last Wednesday morn
ing having been captured in Newton on
charge of burglary. A few weeks ago
Weaver occupied a room in boarding
house with Martin Holton and one even
ing it is alleged that Weaver had stolen
quantity of clothing and the sum of
$40 from his friend.
William Stephenson, an employee of
John I'll. Schmidt Company, sustained a
painful injury yesterday morning.
While extracting piece of wire from a
in tO Ia ir choyn tho
wire penetrated his hand clear through.
Dr. Henriques attended him. There
is no fear of blood poisoning.
Miss Florence G. Covert. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Covert, former
ly of Morristown and now of Columbus,
Ohio, was the writer of an interesting
article on How do We Treat the Eng
ish Flag ?" which appeared as the lead
ing article in the April issue of Pol
aris," monthly issued by the North
High School, of which Miss Covert is a
student.
An unusual social event occurred in
Newark, Monday evening, when Will
liam Stainsby, chief of the New Jersey
Bureau of Labor Statistics, and his wife
celebrated their golden wedding at their
the same time daughter and son-in-
law of the aged couple, Supreme Court
Justice and Mrs. j. Franklin Fort cele-
brated their silver wedding.
The orchestra which has been formed
among the members of the Tapkaow
Club consists of twelve men. as follows :
Violins Prof Edward NJ Young, Prof.
Geo. Sharrette, l. B. Dickinson, John E.
Parker, j. Brad. Stevens 'cellos, Oscar
Fl. Hawley, Ellis Bower; contra bass,
John Roman flutes, George w. Bow
er, George Clark clarinet, Thomas
Simmons cornet, Edward Mitchell;
horn, Edward Becker.
An unfortunate accident occurred on
Monday forenoon to District Manager
Irving w. Pope, of the New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company. While
mounting a baggage wagon on the cor
ner Of Morris and Pine streets, driven by
w. A. Louanstein. Mr. Pope was seized
with an attack OF vertigo and fell to the
ground, narrowly escaping being run
over by a passing coupe. Aside from a
deep cut over the left eye, he was
not seriously injured, and has been at
business as usual
At the annual meeting of the Friday
Evening Club, held in Lyceum Hall,
Friday evening last, Frank Waller,
Rev. KinsIey Twining and Rev, F. B.
Dwight were elected members of the
Executive Committee in place of Paul
Revere, Henry M. Smith and DIR. Ste
phen Pierson, whose terms of office ex-
PRED at that time. An interesting adj
dress was made by John r. Howard, of
Montclair, on his personal "reminiscences
of John G. Fremont, Mrs. Harriet Beech
er Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
The handsome new house built by
John [. Waterbury is completed and
his family will occupy it next month.
The place is one of the finest and most
beautiful in Morristown and great adj
dition to the Syndicate road and Madi-
son ave. The color of the stone is I'M
usual, there being no other house of the
same color in the vicinity. The interior
is superb and it is as complete as modern
skill and taste can make it. Especial at.
tention has been paid to the lighting, and
the arrangement of the electric lights is
very artistic.
One of the most singular happenings
of recent years in Morristown occurred
last Saturday, when Veterinary Surgeon
Cattanach removed dime from the
shoulder Of a valuable horse owned by
Supreme Court Judge Garrerson The
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