The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-16
LOCAL BREVITIES


The New Jersey State Board of
Taxation will sit at the town hall in
Boonton on Thursday, May 80, at 10
a. m.
The regular meeting of the Woman's
Temperance Union will be held in their
rooms at Y. M q. A., Tuesday, May 20,
at 3 p. m. A large attendance is de-
sired.
The Morris County branch of the State
Charities Aid Association of New Jer-
sey will meet in the Y. NJ. G. A. parlor
on Wednesday at 4:3J p, m.
Rev. M. Mathieson of San Jcrales,
will deliver stereopticonIlecture on New
Mexico in the Market St. Mission on
Saturday at 1866 p. m. All are cordially
invited.
The Owen Y. W. G. T. U. will hold a
social meeting at the home of Mrs.
Dickinson, 1874 Washington street, on
Monday evening May 10Th. Each men,
Der is asked to bring friend.
A practical exposition of Temperance
will be given at the Loval Temperance
Legion, Friday May 16 at as p. M, in
their room at the Market st. Mission.
All are welcome.
There are now sixty-seven rural
free delivery mail carriers in New
Jersey, and they will hereafter be paid
monthly by checks from the post
master at Newark.
The First Congregational Church
meeting will be held in Lippman Hall
next Sunday afternoon at 33J and even
ing at 80 The Rev. Geo. Fl. Stephens
will preach. All are welcome.
During the services around the
Soldiers Monument in the park on
Memorial Day salute of thirteen
guns will be fired from Fort Non
sense by the Lincoln Guards.
In the Baptist Church Friday night,
Miss Addie French, who will soon
engage in missionary work in South
Africa, made an interesting address on
"Why want to be a Missionary.
The Lincoln Guards will make
their appearance Memorial Day in
new uniforms. The color will be
gray, with red trimming and the coats
are to be cut with standing collar.
A civil service examination for the
positions of clerk and carrier in the
local post office will be. held on Satur-
day, May 81. Applications must be
filed on or before Monday, May 10.
A new barn will shortly be erected
on the premises of Mrs. F. S. Bradford
on Maple avenue in the place of the
one destroyed by fire several months
ago. David Fl. Wilday has the con-
tract.
The Union Pacific Tea Company,
which for many years past has been
located in the McAlpin Block on
Speedwell avenue will shortly take
possession of the store on Park Palce
formerly occupied by Jos. Lusardi.
The quarterly meeting of the Nor
ristown Indian Association will be
held in the parlor of the South Street
Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, May
Goth at 10. 80 a. m. "Vo;ces from the
Plains" by Mrs. Coursen. All are
welcome.
The second private rehearsal of the
Morristown Choral Club under the direc-
ton Of Frank Eaton, will be given in the
parlor of the South Street Presbyterian
Church next Tuesday evening, May the
Twentieth at eight o'clock.
The State reunion of the Order of Elks
will be held in Elizabeth on Thursday,
June 26. This is the first time the State
Lodge has ever met there and the mem
bers of the local lodge are looking for
ward to the event with great deal of
interest.
Mrs. A. M. Hammer, an able speaker
who has been heard ia Morristown sew
eral times, will give Bible reading I'M
der the auspices of the Woman's Auxili-
airy of the Y. M. G. A., in Association
Hall, on Thursday, May 29nd at $3.50
p. %. All women are cordially invited
to attend.
The strawberry and ice cream festi
val held by the Lincoln Guards Fri
day evening Melted about fifteen dol
lars. The Grand Army room was
crowded with fun makers. A violin
solo by Miss Sherman and piano
solo by Miss Minnie Voorhees, were
much enjoyed.
The Rev. Francis A. Henry, D. D.,
will deliver lecture on "The Real
and Ideal in Art" at the residence of
Mrs. E. T. Nichols, No. SO Madison
avenue on Tuesday, the Goth inst at
O'Clock The proceeds are to be de-
voted to charity. Tickets may be OBJ
tanned at the Woman Art Exchange
and Smiths drug store, price so cents.
Two painters, William Vorholz and
William VIII ldon employed by George
T. Barnes while working on the rear of
the Washington Hotel fell over 10 feet
Wednesday morning. The scaffold upon
which the men were standing was not
properly suspended and gave away
Whaldon was taken to the Memorial
Hospital his condition being serious
while Vorholz escaped without a scratch.
Among the fastest horses seen on
the New York Speedway last Sunday
were DEWITT @. Flanagan's Little
Helen and Sovereign Girl. Miss
Overton owned by friedrich Dietz and
Little Helen divided the honors in
two stirring contests, Mr.. Flanagan
81, 900 beauty beating Mr.. Dietz's mare
by narrow margin at the second
trial, after losing the first brush by a
length.
On the evening of June 3rd, at the
Methodist Episcopal Church there
will be Syrian piazza and lawn fete
given by the ladies of the Home and
Foreign Missionary Societies. Illumi-
nation of the balcony as given in the
east Young ladies and gentlemen
will serve unleavened bread for the
guests in native costumes brought
from the east nv Mrs Frances Gard