The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-01-10

LOCAL BREVITIES

day morning was excellent.
Cadwalder Howell who for the past
six months has been in Dayton Ohio has
returned.
A regular conclave Of Odo de st. Am
and Commandery will be held this even
ing at 7.30-
The new timetable Of the Lacka-
wanna seems to give general satisfac-
tion along the road.
No reports were made and no licenses
granted at the meeting Of the Excise
Board Wednesday evening.
a Regular convocation Of. Madi-
son Chapter, No ~, r. A. M, was
held on Wednesday evening.
A new balcony has been built By
Carpenter Isaac Pierson on the Dodge
Building facing South street.
The meeting at the Market Street
Mission next Wednesday evening VIII
be illustrated by the stereoptican.
The Knights Of the Sacred Heart will
give dance in the Bayley School build
ing on Wednesday evening, January ~.
Vanatta Council, Daughters of Liber-
twin give dance in Masonic Hall, on
Washington street, Tuesday evening,
January 20.
An entertainment will be given in
Masonic Hall under the auspices of
the Scandinavian Lutheran society
tomorrow evening.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton
University will address the Friday even
ing club at its January meeting which
will be held next Friday evening.
The still alarm wagon of the Resolute
H. & L. company was called out yester-
day morning to extinguish a small fire
In the barn Of Smith & Foster on Speed
well avenue.
The>recent heavy rain caused the
Passaic River to rise the highest in
twenty years. The dam at the Sum-
NIT Electric Light factory was badly
damaged.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Womans' Christian Temperance Union
was held in its rooms in the Young
Mems Christian Association Building
Tuesday afternoon.
There will be but eight standard
wheels upon the market this season,
namely the Columbia, Crescent, Ram
bier, Tribune, Wolf-American, Yale,
Regal and Cleveland.
The ssOwen Wis arranging to hold
. supper at the z. IA. Q. A. on Tues
day evening, January twenty first. 1t
is hoped that friends Of the Y will
keep that date an open one.
Morristown firemen who OCCASION
ally visit Elizabeth will find the Vet
eran Volunteer Firemen Association
located in suite of nicely furnished
rooms in the Cory building.
H. O. Shelley has purchased the
houses of Louis Vismara on Mechanic
street. The property includes double
and single house, the Fprice paid was
81. 700 and 1926 respectively.
=. B. Sunderlin, for the last eight
years general secretary of the Lacka-
wanna Railroad Young Mems Chris
tian Association at Hoboken, has re-
signed to accept a similar position in
Albany, N. z,
Now that the fad for discarding the
overcoat has been revived. it is we'll
to bear In mind that several local en-
thusiasts have been caught wearing
several undershirts and some of them
thick ones, too.
Rev N. w. Swenson, of Newark,
has been engaged by the Scandina-
Wan Lutheran Congregation which
wOrships in the Redeemer Church,
to preach at the Injecting held each
Wednesday evening.
The Madison A. A. defeated the howl
ing team of the Young Mems Catholic
Association on the latter's alleys last
evening by winning two out of three
games A return game will be played
at Madison next Thursday evening.
Mrs. E. A. McAlpin, of New York.
will give talk to young ladies at the
South Street Presbyterian Church
next Tuesday afternoon and in the
evening at 1876, she will deliver an
address in the First Presbyterian
Church.
Rance Poland, she veteran fisher
man at Belmar, who is well known
to. many Morristonians was dro 8ned
in the surf on Tuesday while attempt
ing to launch his boat. His son who
was assisting his father was also
drowned.
The government printing Offices
have been running day and night in
the production of millions of the new
British postage and revenue stamps
bearing the portrait of King Edward
instead of the familiar likeness of
Queen Victoria.
The English sparrow has become
such nuisance in some parts of H.
linois that annual sparrow hunts have
been undertaken for some years
past. In Pleasant Township "a, 600
of the pestiferous little birds were
killed at q recent hunt
For the first time in the history Of
Princeton University there is now en-
rolled among her undergraduates a
young Chinaman, born and reared in
canton. His name is Dong Seung,
and he came to America from his ma
tive country five years ago.
Mrs, Elizabeth Rundlet, of Elizabeth,
the oldest inmate of the Morris
Eiains insane Asylum from Union
County, died there Tuesday aged Sc
venty nine. She had been demented
fifty-six years. and her living SO long
with this malady As considered re-
markable case.
Union services will be held on Sunday
evening in two churches. In the Sonfh
Street church DIR. Hurlbut and Rev. j