The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-15
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Observation-Disclosures

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lodge at High Bridge.
The Morristown Liederkranz Singing
Society is to give a concert in L1pp-
man Hall, Tuesday evening, Feb. ~.
Lackawanna train 1874 will be run
between New York and Elmira only,
hereafter instead of New York and
Groveland as formerly.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the Baptist held social at the home
of George Hees, Normandie Park,
Friday evening, and incidentally en-
joyed the good sleighing
Dances and receptions are very
numerous and probably will contin-
ne to be until the goth when the
beginning OF the Lenten season will
put an end to the gayety.
Washington street and Atno avenue
have been ringing this week with the
shouts of the coasters. Lots of fun and
lots of upsets but no serious accl-
dents have been reported.
The ice that is being harvested at
Lake Hopatcong is sixteen to twenty
inches thick. The men employed IN
cutting it work twelve hours shltt
for which they receive $l. on.
A most enjoyable masquerade was
given last night by Miss Marie Shelley
at her home in Littleton. Among
the guests, who numbered about fifty,
were many from Morristown.
Don't forget the Reproduction
of Tissot's Paintings of the Life of
Christ to be given Wednesday even
ing, February goth at the Lyceum,
under the auspices of the Y. M. GA.
The dynamo and engine which have
heretofore supplied light for the Bah
bitt Building have been removed and
the Morris County Electric Company
will furnish light and power here
after.
Rev. William P. Taylor, of St.
Peters Church gave a most interest
ing address last Friday to the boys
of Morris Academy on the Import
ance of Education, and Some of it's
Results.
The sleighing still remains but is
too poor to be really enjoyable.
Nearly every night parties from here
have visited the nearby towns, while
Morristown has been the destination
of many loads.
The March LIST edition of the New
York and New Jersey Telephone
Company Directory goes to press Feb.
23rd and unless contracts for service
are signed before that date your name
will not appear in that issue OF the
directory.
The regular meeting of Phoenix
Camp, No. 20 The Grand Fraternity,
was held Wednesday evening. Two
applications for membership were re-
ceived. The death benefit of f. W.
j. Zwenger, who died January 23rd,
was paid yesterday.
David @. McAllister, who has been
a member of the choir of the Church
of the Redeemer and who has sung at
the evening services in the Methodist
Church has acceped a position in Bos-
ton. DR.. Ray W. WEIGH will take
Mr.. McAllister's place in the Church
of the Redeemer, and will enter the
choir Sunday.
On Tuesday evening at O'Clock,
the third lecture by representatives
of the leading religious bodies will
be given in the Baptist Church. The
Rev, Amory H. Bradford, D. D., of
Montclair, will speak on "The Con-
gregational Position. The admission
is free, and a general invitation is
extended to the public.
/" Miss Susie Trainor's girls, -
Misses Coffee, Higgins, Rickley,
Noonan, McGrain and Rutledge,
with the assistance of Miss Trainor
and Miss Mary Cody, gave another of
their delightful parties Monday even
ing. This was sleigh ride to New
Vernon, followed by dance. About
fifty persons attended. Music was
furnished by Sharrette.
Ivanhoe Coucnil, No. SO, Loyal
Additional Benefit Association, of
Dover, has installed the following
officers for the current year Council
Tor, A. j. Coe; Vice Councillor, W.. H.
CORN; Orator, H. W. Whipple; Past
Councillor, J. H. Hulsart; Recorder,
E. M. Soaring; Collector, H. W.
Whipple Treasurer, e. A. Taylor;
Chaplain, W. W. Sickles; Marshal,
E. A. Taylor, Warden, Robert Kill
gore; Sentinel, A. G. Buck.
The average in scholarship for the
first term of the Dover public schools
was 49, as compared with SO. 1 for
the first term of last year, and S2.9
for that of the year before. There
were Al less children enrolled than
during the first term of last year.
The per centage of attendance for the
term was 4. For the first term last
year it was 49, for that of the year
before Oh a. There Ware 100 nunilS
present every session of the term.
Tbs Empire State Society, Sons of
the American Revolution will hold
its eleventh annual banquet, in the
banquet hall of the Aldine Associa-
tion, No. Ill Fifth avenue, corner of
18th Street, New York CITY. this
Friday evening. The president of the
society, The Hon. Robert B. Roose-
welt, will presidesand there will be the
usual number of prominent speakers.
The principal theme of the celebra-
tion will be: What the XXth Century
has Inherited from the Founders of
the Republic.
Small boys have taken the cigarette
question into their own hands in the
city of Trenton. Fifty of them, pupils
of the public schools, have formed an
anti-cigarette society, the object of
which is not so much to protect the
members from the dar gers of smoking
the insidious compositions rs to root
out the habit in other directions
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