The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-05
LOCAL BREVITIES

move to that place in May.
The third and last subscription
dance will be held at McAlpin
Hall Friday evening, April 18th.
The veterans of the 9th Regiment
New Jersey Volunteers met in their
annual reunion at Newark Tuesday
DR.. James Mosedale, veterinary sur
geon. has removed his Office from .107
Morris street to 113 Washington street.
Notice the change in J. E. Parker s
advertisement in our next issue. He
has something interesting to tell you.
Viedt's speciality for Saturday will
be English mixed candies, chocolates,
bonbons, caramels. ETC., at % cents a
pound,
W. W. Hill, proprietor of the Dover
steam carpet cleaning works has
seasonable advertisement in this is
sue of the Chronicle.
Miss Esther Louise Soaring will be
the solo soprano in the quartette atSt.
Paul's M. E. Church, Newark, for the
special Easter music.
The basket factories in Hunterdon,
Warren and Sussex counties, OF which
there are number, have started to
make peach baskets for next summers
crop.
The New Jersey annual conference
of the A. M. E. Church will be held
in the Spring Street Church in this
city May 1st. Bishop W. B Derrick
will preside.
The Campus Club one of the
Princeton University upper class
clubs, has completed negotiations
with Professor West for his handsome
house on Prospect avenue.
The German Valley House which
only day or two before had been ia
ken possession of by Simeon Charles
was burned Monday morning at nine
o'clock and almost totally destroyed.
The survivors of the Thirty ninth
N. j. Volunteers observed in Newark
on Monday, the anniversary of the
fighting before Petersburg on the day
that the Union entered the town in
1865.
The Atlantic County Game Propa-
eating Society has liberated five dozen
quail in the fields adjacent to Mays
Landing. The birds were from the
Indian Territory and were in good
condition.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will give
a reception to the members of that
church and congregation Tuesday
evening April 9th, in the Sunday
School rooms.
About fifty slot machines containing
it is said, coin amounting to hundreds
of dollars, were gathered up Saturday
night in a raid on saloons in Bellville,
Avondale and Clinton by Sheriff
Virtue and his assistants.
Four we'll known duckhunters of
this vicinity left town on hunting
trip on Saturday. The hats of the
party on their return looked as if they
had been used for target practice, due
possibly to scarcity of game.
The feast of the Passover began
Wednesday evening and 1t will be
kept by all Hebrews for seven days,
when none but unleavened bread or
HMatzos' will be eaten. The feast
began at shutdown and continues until
the same hour on Thursday of next
week.
The northwest gale that had been
blowing all day Sunday developed
hurricane force at shortly after sun
set, when it attained a velocity of
sixty miles an hour. 1t whirled
through the streets with the speed of
an express train, and at times pedes-
trains had difficulty in retaining their
footing.
Humane Companys annual ball
which is to occur Tuesday, April
9th, in McAlpin Hall promises
to be even a greater success than
ever. The music will be by Shar-
rette's capable orchestra and Day
will act as caterer. All the members
and the visiting firemen are to ap-
pear in uniform.
On Tuesday evening, April 9th, the
fifth lecture in the series by represen-
tatives of the religious bodies will
be given in the Lyceum, when the
Rev Father Burke, of the Paulist Fa-
theirs of New York City will speak ON
"Why am Catholic. - The lecture
begins at o'clock and the admission
is free. All are invited.
The New York Trotting Associa-
ton, of Brooklyn, was incorporated
WILL d "a plbd1 VI plOj OOO. ~ 10 pIO-
posed to hold trotting meetings and
conduct races. The directors are
John McOarty, James Shelvin, Frank
D. Dreamer, E. f. Bedford and Will
liam A. Engleman, of Brooklyn, and
James Butler, of New York City, and
W. F. Redmond, of Madison, N. j.
The Rockaway Record is quoted as
authority for the statement that some
time in the near future bicycle race
is expected to be run between Rocka-
way and Morristown, by George S.
Freeman and Allen Jenkins. The prize
which will be awarded the WINNER is
a SIS certificate. This race has been
agitated by the participants and their
friends, for two years past. 1t is ex-
pected the contest will be very excit-
ing one, as both men are-considered
good riders.
The annual meeting of the Morris
Canal and Banking Company was held
Monday afternoon at Jersey City No
action was taken relative to the pro-
posed abandonment of the canal. The
directors elected were William Q. AL
derson, William Hogencamp, William
H. ECorbin, Isaac McQuilkin, Thomas
Holme and Robert H. McCarter The di-
rectors organized by electing these
officers: President Alfred Walters,
vice-president, John A. Garrett; secre-