The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-01-24
LOCAL BREvITIEs

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The Rev. Mr.. Henry will act Of
nonm teneus until a new rector il
elected for st. Peters.
Pride of Vanatta Council, No. o. will
hold sociable and dance in Masonic
Hall next Tuesday evening.
The regular convocation of Madison
Chapter No. 81, r. A. M, will take
place next Wednesday evening,
DIR. Anna L. AlIaben will givea lecture
on Hygiene for Daily Life" in the
Market Street Mission this evening,
The congregation Of the Presbyter-
ian Church at Morris Plains has made
a unanimous call to Rev. W. w.
Hammond, d. d.
At the annual meeting of the directors
of the Morristown Trust Company held
Saturday afternoon, the old officers were
reelected for the ensuing year.
Arthur Whitney presented the Nor
ristown Club with handsome clock
set in rosewood case at the annual
meeting held Saturday evening.
Woodruff M. Vance and family have
moved from the Wilday house on
Rigdedale avenue to Mrs. A. A.
Vance's house on Morris street.
The January meeting of Mecca Shrine
will be held in Madison Square Garden,
N. r., next Tuesday evening. Many
local shriners will be in attendance.
Each Congressman in this State
will have IA. 900 packages of garden
La nf 70
mers' bulletins for distribution the
coming year.
Mrs. Harry Lee, of New York City
will address the Young Peoples So
ciety of Christian Endeavor of the
First Presbyterian Church on Sunday
evening at $50.
the new ice houses of the Jefferson
Ice Company at Stanhope of which
w. x. Howell, of this city, is part
owner, are about completed and have
a capacity of forty thousand TONS
In bowling match on the Tapkaow
alleys Monday evening the first team
defeated the Third Ward team by win
ming two out of three games. The latter
team. however, was composed mostly of
substitutes.
An official permit from Washington,
D. c., was received by Letter Car
rier DeGroot yesterday morning, no.
tifying him that test of his newly
invented letter box is to be made
about April l.
John G. Carr, who recently died 10 the
New Jersey Insane Asylum at Morris
Plains. with Carr. Mclaughlin, Wal
baum and Causius, constituted the s'Big
Four" of the Guttenburg race track,
which achieved so much notoriety several
years ago.
A lecture is to be given by Rev.
j. l.. Hurlbut under the auspices of
the Epworth League in the Methodist
Episcopal Church Wednesday evening.
DR.. Hurlbut's subject will be "a
Pilgrimage in Palestine.
Judge John M. Dillon's residence
sKnollcrest" at Bernardsville, will
shortly be improved by $50, 600 adj
dition while the handsome new
$50, 900 house Of George B. Post, Jr..
is rapidly nearing completion.
James F. Pidcock, who recently died
at Whitehouse and whose estate is esti-
mated at 800. 900, left peculiar will,
by which his wife only receives 81. 900,
the residue going to his sister. 1t is
supposed that a contest will ensue.
The quarterly meeting of the Morris
town Indian Association will be held in
the parlor Of the South Street Presby-
terrain Church on Tuesday, January 90,
at 10 80 a. m. Mrs. Amelia s. Quinton.
the president of the Womens National
Indian Association, will make the ad-
dress.
The annual fancy dress ball of the
New Jersey State Hospital is to be held
at that institution Washington's Birth
day night. The ball this year promises
to be an unusual success as it will be
held in the new amusement hall Just
recently completed.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton
University gave a most interesting
lecture before the members of the FRI
day Evening Club last Friday evening.
His readings included selections from
''Fishermen's Luck" Bird Songs and
Canadiansstory.
AMI Dodd for twenty years past
the president of the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Co, of Newark, hav-
ing rendered his resignation has been
succeeded by Frederick Frelinghuy-
sen, brother of George G. Freling-
huysen Of this city.
Crusade Day was observed by the W.
G T. U. in Association Hall Tuesday
afternoon Mrs. Cox, president of the
Morris County Union, delivered an in
teresting address followed by an enter
tainment given by the children of the
Loyal Temperance Legion.
A stereopticon lecture on Palestine
will be given in the Methodist Episcopal
Church on Wednesday evening, Jan.
90th, by the pastor, DIR. j. L. Hurlbut,
under the auspices of the Epworth
League. DR.. Hurlbut will use the
pictures he secured while visiting the
Holy Land few years ago.
The National Newark Banking Com
pany and the Newark City National
Bank, two of the strongest banks in
that city, have agreed to pool their
business. The stock of the first
named bank is quoted at 300 per cent.
o. par, that Of the City at 300 per cent.
on par.
Among the Morristonians who at
tended the ball given under the aus
pi6es of the Knights OF Columbus
in Madison Square Garden, New York,
Wednesday evening, were M. F. Low
William A. Lauenstein, James BELLY
and Thomas Cahill.