The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-25

Mrs. Edward j. Halls dance in
Washington Hall on Monday evening
of this week, when she introduced her
son Edward, was a great success. Miss
Halls friends were largely represented,
which made it more of merry-mak-
ing than ordinarily is the case at
dances of this kind.
Mrs. Philip Livingston gave re-
ception at her Fifth avenue New York
house on Monday afternoon her sis
ter, Miss De Peyster, assisting in re-
ceiving
Next week promises to be unusually
gay in Morristown society circles.
The second Bachelors Ball will be
given on Monday evening. Tuesday
evening Mrs. William Shipper gives a
cotill0n, at her residence, Madison
avenue, Convent station, for ller son
! Teddy. On Wednesday the children's
Christmas subscription dance will be
next in order, in Washington Hall.
Thursday evening New Years Eye),
the junior dance will be given in the
same place, and. as is well understood,
! the second of the seasons assemblies
will be held in Washington Hall on
Friday New Year, evening.
1 The Junior dance, announced for
/ Thursday evening of next week, will
be given by the coming debutantes of a
year or two later, many of whom are
now home from boarding school for
the holidays.
Miss Margaret Wood, who has been
quite sick. for the last ten days with
pneumonia, is much better and her
many friends hope for rapid recovery.
A "bridgen tournament is spoken of
for Thursday afternoon, January 7,
and it is stated that twenty entries
have already been made, some of the
number by ladies out OF town.
The childrens Christmas festival of
the Church of the Redeemer will be
held in that church on Tuesday after
moon of next week.
The South Street Presbyterian
Church Sunday school festival will be
given in the church on Wednesday
next at O'Clock in the evening.
Mrs. Pierre j. Smith gives little
children's Christmas party this even
ing in her Miller road home.
The Christmas donations of cloth
ing, groceries, fruit and useful arti-
cles, to the Children's Home, Parsip-
pany, have been about as liberal as
last year, when over one hundred and
sixty persons made contributions.
The Misses Hazeltine's school closed
on Wednesday for the usual two weeks
vacation during the holidays, when
the several departments united in a
costume demonstration of the manner
; Christmas is observed by various ma
tiOns.
The four-masted schooner Robert Fl
. McCurdy arrived in New York harbOr
on Saturday last, from Rockland,
: Maine, where she was launched on
October 81. The schooner is named
after the general manager of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, and is
said to be an excellent example of
modern ship building.
Mr.. Mason Young has improved so
much in health, that for the last few
; days, he has been able to be up and
dressed, although not, as yet, leaving
his room.
There has been a very decided lull
in social affairs during the past week.
Christmas preparations monopolizing
eyerybodys attention.
Mr.. and Mrs e. @. johnson an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Josephine Waller, who is a
granddaughter of the late Rev. James
johnson, of Aberdeen, Scotland, to
Samuel Hansen Cox, cousin of the late
Samuel Hansen Cox, D. d., LII, d., of
New York.