The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-08-29
LOCAL BREvITlES

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& Daniel Sully in the Parish Priest
will open the season In the Lyceum
this evening.
Rev. Robert Westley Rach, OF Cam
den, will preach in the First Presby-
terrain Church on Sunday.
The fifty second reunion of the
Crane family will be held in the
grove at Pine Brook on Labor Day.
The fall convention of Morris
County W. =. T. u will be held in
James Hall, Madison September 10th.
II. N. Dickerman, of Elmira, for
merly of the Morris Plains State
Hospital, is visiting friends in Morris
Plains.
The O. Ola Hackettstown reopens
September 18th. There has been a
large enrolment of stu dents for the
freshman class.
Tomorrow afternoon the local tele-
phone team will play a picked team
of employees from the State Hospital
on the latter's diamond.
A fat headed adder measuring near
~ three feet in length was killed In
the gutter on Court street Monday
afternoon by two negroes
Gilbert Teller, of Boonton, was
lodged in the county jail Friday
evening charged with robbing several
stores and hen coops in that vicinity.
The annual clam bake of the Den
vile Game Protective Association
will be held on their fishing grounds
at Silver Lake on Saturday afternoon,
September 9th at O'Clock.
Rev. J. F. Riggs, D. D., who has
occupied the pulpit of the South
Street Presbyterian Church during
the month of August will preach his
last sermon in the church on Sunday.
"Let by cones be by cones" say the
young people of the Fairview. We
now have a new pianist Prof. Runyon
of Morristown, and three times a
week we get good music. ''-Chatham
Press
The regular meeting of Phoenix
Branch, No. 20, Grand Fraternity. will
he held next Tuesday evening. Presi-
dent CASTOR will be present and adj
dress the meeting. A full attendance
is desired.
After being closed since August
18th, the Library will open next
Tuesday The interior has peen
thoroughly cleaned including fresh
coat of varnish upon the floor and
woodwork.
The annual meeting for the election
of officers of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will be held in
their rooms at Y. NJ @. A. Tuesday,
September 2, at 3 p. m. A full at
tendance is desired.
This is apparently great buck
wheat year, and if hail or frost does
not spoil the prospects people will
have buckwheat in such quantity that
they can scratch themselves warm
even if coal should be short.
When Little Helen, now owned by
Dewitt @. Flanagan, was purchased
at the Lackey Sale, Cambridge, Ind,
the first bid was 50, 900. Thomas W.
Lawson had a representative III the
box to pay 1000 for her. Mr.. Flana-
gan got her for 81, 025
DR.. W. NJ sers Garrison, of the City
Hospital, Baltimore, has been ap-
pointed fifth assistant physician at
the New Jersey State Hospital, Morris
Plains, and DR.. Frank Hosford, of
the Overlook Hospital Essex County,
sixth assistant physician.
Next Monday the shooting season
opens for rail bird, marsh or mud hen,
geese, duck, brant, and all web footed
fowl. The mud hons and rail birds
may be shot until the last of Deem
Der while the ducks, brant, etc, may
be killed until the first of next May.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Worlds Congress which open
ed at Christiania, Norway on the
10Th closed on Sunday night, when
the president made his farewell ad-
dress and a representative of each ma
tionality said few words in recogni-
tion of the generous reception they
had received.
Robert R. Johnston, proprietor of
the Washington Hotel, bas arranged
for his third animal clam bake, the
date fixed being Thursday, September
18th from until 8 o'clock. Excel
lent music will be furnished during
the entire bake, which is to be pre-
pared by Doughty Brothers, special
lists from Rhode Island. Tickets sell
for 81. so.
The monument on the Antletam
battlefield will be worthy tribute to
the New Jersey soldiers who were in
that engagement, one of the most
severe and costly battles of the Civil
War, in which the Northern troops
lost 2,10S men killed and 9,549
wounded, and the Confederates 1,5l2
killed and 7, 916 wounded. New Jersey
had six different commands in this
fight.
A curious will has been admitted
to probate in the Surrogate office.
The document was made by the late
William Fl. Kirby, of Newark and
contains clause reading: II hereby
declare that do not intend in this,
my last will and testament, to make
any provision for any child now born
or hereafter to be born to me- The
widow, Mrs. Nancy Kirby, is named
as executrix.
Members Of the Dickinson family
from all parts Of New Jersey gathered
on the shores of Verona Lake last
Saturday III annual reunion. There
were about 200 present. The oldest
member of the family present was
David B. Dickinson, of Chatham, rs.
Officers were elected as follows !.
President, Bern W. Dickinson; vice
president, John W. Dickinson; trea-
surer, William Dickinson; secretary,
Mrs. John W. Dickinson.
"Goln' to the circus?" was the
universal question asked Monday
when the Walter L. Mains shows
exhibited in the rear of ALI Souls
Hospital on Mt Kemble avenue. The