The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-10-17
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LOCAL BREvITlES

laQl0B use.
In the State Firemen's Home at
Boonton are now confined sixteen dis
abled firemen.
The shooting season for quail,
woodcock, squirrel and pheasant in
Pennsylvania opened Wednesday.
Somerset Inn, the popular hostelry
at Bernardsville, is closed, after one
of the liveliest seasons ever re-
corded.
Paul G. Zimmerman, assisted by
his amateur orchestra, will give a
concert in Lippman Hall Friday even
ing, November 9TH.
The regular meeting of the
Woman's Christian Union will be
held in their rooms at Y. M. @. A.
Tuesday, October 21st. at p. m.
All members and friends are urged
to attend.
Rev. Thomas Huston, the blind
evangelist who upon several occa-
sions has conducted services in this
town, is now holding series OF re-
vival meetings in the Boonton Meth
odist church.
Instead of leaving your order for
calling cards at the stationery store,
why not leave it with the printer!
He has to do it anyway. The Chron-
icle does the finest of printing and
engraved work.
Chrysanthemum season is near at
hand, and it will not be long before
this beautiful flower will be in full
bloom. The early variety began to be
in evidence about two weeks ago,
when one was to be seen here and
there.
English snipe are IN on the Colum-
bia and Troy meadows. Few, how
ever, are being killed. Some are
now coming back from a northern
flight, and should provide the gunners
with abundant sport within the next
few days.
The new dam of the Jersey City
reservoir at Boonton is slowly assum
ing vast proportions. 1t is gigantic
work of engineering skill, and gives
evidence of great and lasting durabil-
ity. There are many visitors to the
location of the dam from all parts
of Northern New Jersey.
William Hessey, Amos Purden,
Gilbert Young, James Darling. J.
Horace Elmer, Jesse jennings,
George Beavers, Collins Weir, Geo.
W. Pierson, Albert Long and Mr..
Williams from Mendham attended
the National Encampment of the G..
A. r. at Washington, D. @.
The Owen "Y' will hold a "sock
social" at the residence of Frank
Baldwin, Morris street, on Tuesday
evening, October 2lst Each member
is asked to bring friend. The "Y"
~1o FAr fofr IN In hnI
early in December Useful and fancy
articles, suitable for Christmas gifts,
will be on sale.
There is no danger, for the present
at least, of closing the Maple Avenue
school building on account of the
scarcity of fuel, as there is now
stored away in the basement nine
cords of wood, together with twenty
tons of coal. Wood is being burned
in the furnaces, and the school rooms
are kept comfortable.
Joseph Jefferson has presented to
the Friday Evening Club large pic
ture of himself, which may be seen
in the show window of H. G.
Emmells. This evening at the
Lyceum the eighteenth regular meet
ing of the club will be held, when
Charles Dennison Kellogg will give a
recital, illustrated with stereopticon
and music, on Studies in Camp,
with Nature and Birds. -
The Right Rev. John j. O'Connor,
bishop of Newark, confirmed seventy
children and twenty adults at the
Church of the Assumption Sunday.
At the evening service the Bishop
preached on the Sacrament of Holy
Eucharist, which was warmly recon-
mended by Pope Leo in his last Gu
cyclical. The Very Rev. Jos. M.
Flynn and Rev. T. M. Donovan ass
sisted in the services.
There is an increased demand for
kerosene oil, created by the coal
famine. Wholesale grocers and oil
dealers have raised the price half
cent gallon and there is a prospect
that there will be another half cent
a gallon rise in oil before the end of
the week. Some of the Morristown
dealers have increased the price,
while others are waiting for another
boost from the Standard people be-
fore raising the useful commodity.
The Bible class conducted by DR..
Hurlbut every Tuesday evening at
7 40 IN the primary room of the
Methodist Episcopal church is open
TO all interested in the study of the
scriptures. Next Tuesday evening
DR.. Hurlbut will give prelude on
1.-THE Condition of Israel at the Close
of the Conquest of Canaan" fol-
lowed by the study of the lesson on
Joshua and Oaleb"-Joshua xiv:
Ais.
An old landmark of Revolutionary
Morristown is being wiped out by
the destruction of the McCarroll
house on Speedwell Avenue. During
the Revolutionary War this house
was Tory stronghold, and several
spies were caught there. Later it was
purchased by James James, from
Georgia, who kept many slaves there.
When slavery was abolished in New
Jersey the house became a station on
one of the underground roads" that
helped slaves escape into Canada.
The Morristown Auxiliary of the
Union Missionary Society of America
held its regular meeting in the parlor
of the South Street church Tuesday
afternoon. After listening to the re-
ports of the secretary and treasurer,
which showed the society to be in a
good financial standing. the general
secretary. Miss Doremus of New
York, gave brief sketch of her visit
to the missions in India, China and
Japan, and the condition in which
she found them was graphically de-
aorihad