The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-01
LOCAL BREvlTlES


There are 1888 votes registered in
Morris county.
The Dickerson mine near Stanhope ia
being worked again by force OF thirty
men.
The Sunday evening service at st;
Peters will hereafter be held at 9
o'clock.
The Darktown Fire Brigade of New
ton is to be made permanent organ
ization.
Fourteen new letter boxes have been
placed upon the principal streets of
Newton.
The tower system OF moving switches
in the Port Morris car yard is now in
successful operation.
The Morris Academy foot ball team
will play the Rockaway High School,
election day, on Randolph field.
The reception given by the Lincoln
Guards in Association Hall Monday even
ing proved a very successful affair.
The hackmen's race for purse Of $685.
which was held Friday at the Driving
Park, was won by Edward Connors.
Mrs White of Utah, gave a very inter
esting address last evening in the M. r.
Church on the Mormon Mission Work.
The next regular meeting of the Owen
Y. w. G. T u. will be held at the < M.
G. A. Tuesday evening, Nov D, at Z. 40.
Beginning November 9th, there will
be held in the Methodist Church a-series
of revival meetings which will occupy
two weeks.
Thomas Moreland of Speedwell ave-
nue.. and Miss Annie Sullivan OF Mt.
Hope, were married at that place on
Wednesday.
About thirty-five members of the
Newark automobile club passed through
town Sunday evening. after enjoying
the day at Lake Hopatcong.
Rummage Sale for the benefit of
the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. G.
A. of Madison will be held in the James
building, November 9Th and 9th.
Collector Daniel S. Fisher of Sussex
has distributed notices to taxpayers that
he is ready to receive their school, coun
ty and town expenses at the rate of
$14.50 per $1,000.
G. Franklin Bailey, well known to
many in Morristown is now business
manager of "Newspaperdom," an au-
thority on newspaper work and dolngs
in New York city.
The old building at No. 36 Speedwell
avenue, now occupied by Salney Broth
ers, cIothiers, is being torn down, in
order that three-story brick building
may be built upon the site.
The management Of the North End
Base Ball Club Of Phillipsburg, which
played several games with the State
Hospital nine announces that So, 700 was
the net profits of the seasons playing.
Henry Osborne, painter. while at
work Saturday on Shelley's flats on
Flagler street, fell from scaffold, break
ing several bones. He was taken TO his
home in a critical condition.
The Old Forge building at Port Dram
will shortly be made into 6rst-class
: machine shop, while new building will
be erected for chemical company
!, which is seeking location.
Al number of the citizens of Boonton
held meeting in Hopkins Hall recently
when it was decided to organize a
local gas company A considerable of
the stock has already been subscribed
for.
The regular meeting of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union will be
held in their rooms at the Y. M. G. A.
Tuesday, Nov. 5, at pm. A full at
tendance is desired.
A burglar entered the house of w. c.
Parker on Maple avenue early Wednes-
day morning. Mr.. Parker heard the
noise and went down stairs just in time
to see man disappear through a win
dow.
The women of the Auxiliary of the
Newark diocese will on November 18th
meet at st. Peters Church. Bishop
Starkey will be present and addresses
are to be made by Bishop Kinsaloing of
Brazil, and Bishop Grams of China.
Dennis Haley of this city, was found
on Speedwell avenue Tuesday night by
officer Osborne in an unconscious con-
dition. Haley it is said fell on a broken
bottle severing an artery. After being
treated by Police Surgeon McCarroll he
was taken to his home.
II is not often that magazine has a
contributor one hundred and one years
old. In 1.-THE Outlook" for November 2,
the Story of the Battle of Lake Cham
plain is told by an eye witness, Mr..
Benajah Phelps, who reached the age of
hundred and one years last March. ($3
year. The Outlook Company, 2S7
Fourth avenue, New York;
The seventh annual meeting of the
New Jersey State Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs was called to order in East
Orange yesterday and will hold SEES
sion to-day also. 1t is fitting place for
the Federation, on account of its associa-
tions with the late Charlotte Emerson
Brown, who was the first President of
the General Federation.
The Marguerite Sylvia Opera Company
in Kirke La Shelle's and Julian Ed
wards comic opera, 1.-THE Princess
Chic" has just concluded highly sue
cessful engagement of four weeks at the
fremont Theatre, Boston, and is just
beginning fortnight's season at the
Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia.
Miss sylvia is one Of the youngest prima
donna stars and her success has been
notable from the very first.
A number Of the members OF the
Morris County Bar are to be the guests
at the reception to be rendered Chief
Justice DAVID A. Depue in Newark. by
the lawyers club of Essex county, on
November 18th John O. I'll. Pitney OF