The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

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The Shakespeare Club met at Mrs. J.
G. Williams Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ridley Watts are
home after a sojourn in Florida
The Misses Hurlbut will spend the
summer in Europe sailing in June.
Mrs. E. p. Franklin will give a
card party at her residence, No, "a
Franklin street this afternoon.
DR.. James Ditmars Voorhees, will
be married in the Central Presbyter-
ian Church, New York City, april End
to Miss Louise Brown.
Miss Ella Brink gave a dainty din
ner party Monday in honor of her
grandmother, Mrs. Amanda Welsh, it
being her Goth birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander J. Bennell
and their son, Raymond, who are
at Bournemonth, the Newport of Eng
land, on the English Channel, report
delightful weather with sprung we'll.
advanced.
Officers have been elected for the
Sophomore class of Miss Dana S School
as follows: Miss Grace Kaufman, of
Plainfield, president; Miss Cornelia
Mclean, Savannah, EGa., vice presi-
dent; Miss Ida Taylor, of this city,
secretary.
Cards are out announcing the mar
rage of Cortlandt Belts to Miss Ella
j., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
III. Johnson, OF Summit, which will
take place in the Central Presbyter-
ian Church of that place at 4 O'Clock
on the afternoon of the 31st inst.
The many friends of Clifford Rutan
will be surprised to learn of his mar
riage to Miss Rose Nichols, which oc-
Cured at the BRIDE residence in
Collinsville Tuesday evening, the Rev.
Albert Erdman, d. d., officiating. Only
the immediate relatives of the family
were present at the ceremony.
A-iolly surprise party was rendered
Miss Mabel Green at her home on Mt.
Eemble avenue Tuesday evening.
Among those present were Miss Mabel
ConkIing, Miss Jessie Sharp, Miss
Charlotte Williamson, Miss Frances
Boclzoven, Miss Louise Andrews, Miss
Ethel Baker, Miss Helen Bird, Miss
Snyder, the Misses Losey and Messrs.
Baker, King, Cooley, Bockoven,
Wilson, Mills, Martin and Williamson.
Richard A. McCurdy president of
the New York Mutual Life Insurance
Company, has added another big al
ligator to the tr phies of his present
season. On Friday Mr.. McCurdy shot
and killed 14foot saurian from a
launch in the upper HiIlsborough
This is his second this season, and
both specimens will be stuffed and
mounted in his New York office. =
Tribune, Tampa, Florida, March 16 h.
The Tampa correspondent of the
Jacksonville Times Union under date
of the 18th publishes the following
interesting item relative to two we'll
known residents of Morristown
Robert Fl. McCurdy's and Louis A.
Thebaud's roundup of game today
was between forty five and fifty ac-
quatic birds of different varieties, aud
made a fine showing. Mr. McCurdy
sent oR ahead brace OF pointer dogs,
one of them an unbroken puppy, for
the purpose of seeing the novice work
alongside the older and better trained
animal. Both Mr.. McCurdy and Mr..
Thebaud are members of the New
Jersey State Association for Game
Preservation, and are too good sports
men to violate the close season for
quail. but Game Wardens Riddle and
Finnetry heard about the dogs being
sent ahead and, securing wagon.
drove some twelve miles, expecting
to catcu the party red handed When
discovered they were quietly taking
lunch, and the dogs RECALLING them
selves on the scraps but not quail
had been flushed. Tine Florida fine
for killing quail out of season is 1926
for the first bird and $40 for every
other bird of which the informer
gets one half. Mr.. McCurdy and Mr..
Thebaud also obtained rattlesnake
with twelve rattles. The taxidermist
proHounces it one of the finest ever
seen, and is preparing it for use as
collaret.