The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-10-16
THE LOCAL
HAPPENINGS
Noteworthy Occurrences IN and
About the Vicinity Of
MorriStown
BRIEFLY AND TERSELY TOLD


Mrs. Frank Marvin, of Jersey City
is visiting Mrs. Thomas Malley.
Jacob NJ Wise has purchased thu
bakery of the estate of Charles N
Kersting.
Mrs. E. Yawger has returned from {
visit to her daughter, Mrs. A. HI
Compton, at Plainfield.
There will be an autumn sociable al
st. Virgilius Hall, Morris Plains, or
Tuesday evening, October 20.
The H. E. Fanshawes, of Headley
road, are now occupying the house or
Maple avenue corner of Oak street.
A delegation from A. It. A. Torbert
Post went to Chatham last Tuesday
night to attend the annual inspection
of the Post in that city.
There will be a special meeting in
the Salvation Army Hall, Water
street, Saturday and Sunday, October
II and Is, led by Ensign Traub and
Captain Hale, of Newark.
The Pastime Base Ball Club will
hold it's second annual benefit at the
Lyceum Theatre, on the evening OF
November eighteenth when Daniel
Sully will present his new play, "The
Old Mill Stream"
The Lincoln Guards held farmers
picnic last Monday night in the G. A.
r. rooms. All the members of the
Guard dressed ridiculously and created
much laughter, looking for all the
world like farmers.
There will be held in the Baptist
church on next Wednesday evening a
union young peoples meeting Ad-
dresses will be made by Rev. Charles
P. McGregor, of Bayonne, and Rev.
Robert S. Macarthur, of New York.
Had it not been for baggagemaster
Geary at the Lackawanna station yes
terday morning, it is probable that
Joseph Benedict, who had jumped on
the 1910 a. m. train, would have been
seriously injured. Geary saw the man
hanging from the platform and grab
bed him just as he was falling off.
The class for the study of the Sun
day school lesson will be held this
evening in Epworth Hall, led by DR..
Hurlbut. Prelude on "Shadows on
David's Throne" Lesson on "David's
Confession of SIM" Psalm 81. All are
welcome at this class, which meets at
7:45.
On a special train the State Society
of Colonial Danes arrived in this city
this morning at 1910. They will be
entertained at Washington Headquar-
ton Headquarters, where an address
will be made on Lafayette by Prof.
Charlton T. Lewis and an address on
Morristown before the Revolution %
by Hon. Communicated, Mrs. Frederick
Burnham, Vice President of the State
Society, will also make an address.
At the vesper service of the Epworth
League to be held in the lecture room
of the Methodist Church, next Sunday
evening at $50, Mr.. Charles Barnard
of New York, will give an authors
reading from his story "The Door in
the Book" All are invited to this
meeting, which will be of great in
terest. The evening service of the
church will be held at 1880 and the pas
tor will preach.
There are so many ways in which
poisons may be accidentally taken that
a knowledge of their effects and of the
proper antidoteS, as well as the gen.
eral treatment to be administered, be-
comes a matter of too great import
ance to be neglected. In "Poisons-
Remedies, one Of the series of medi-
cal handbooks being issued by The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York, full directions in each case
are given. The book will be sent on
request to any who address the Home
Office of the Company, New York city.
When Fred Vorholz, assistant jani-
tor at Lyceum Hall, stepped off the
1922 train this morning he slipped and
fell under the cars and before he could
crawl out the wheels passed over his
right leg. All Souls ambulance was
called, and Vorholz was removed to
the hospital where his leg was ampu-
tated four inches below the knee.
With his brother, Charles Vorholz, and
several men, Fred went to Summit
last night to see Hi. Henry IS ministries
which played in that city. 1t is said
the train started out of the station
before all the passengers had got out
and for that reason Vorholz could not
save himself.
Mr.. H. II. Topakyan, the whole
sale Oriental rug dealer of 139 Fifth
avenue, New York city, begs to in
form his patrons that the auction sale
has been postponed on account Of
the auctioneer's sickness. However,
at the request of business men, he will
hold the evening public sales at so
South street, near the Lyceum, next
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Octo-
Der %, % and "a, at O'Clock p. M.
The auction will be conducted by Mr..
D. Lindenborn, the well-known art
salesman of New York city. Cata-
logues may he had on application.