The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-01-15
THE LOCAL
HAPPENINGS
Noteworthy Occurrences IN and
About the Vicinity Of
MorriStown
BRIEFLY AND TERsELY TOLD

ing short vacation at Old Point Com
fort, Va.
Mr.. E. P. Sayre, of Ithaca, N. Y, and
AL. Sayre, of Newark, spent few
days this week with Mrs. G. j. Sayre,
Of Clinton street.
Remember The New York Tribune
Almanac for 1904 is the best and most
complete published. 1t settles all dis
puteS and only costs 25c.
DR.. and Mrs. VIM. Bross, of the
Colonial, gave the boys of the Morris
Academy a sleigh ride to Madison and
Alton on Tuesday afternoon.
The winter meeting of the Presby-
terry of Morris and Orange will be held
in the South Street Presbyterian
Church on Tuesday, January 10, at 10
a. m.
The Morris County Branch of the
State Charities Aid Association was
held in the Y NJ. G. A. parlOrs on
Wednesday, January ID, at II o'clock
a. m. fttA
Mr.. and Mrs. Halsey of Convent
Station, have closed their house and
left for Savannah, Ga, where they ex-
pect to spend the remainder of the
winter.
The regular meeting of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
well be held in their rooms, Tuesday,
Jan. 10, at p. m. A large attendance
is desired.
Mr. William Pain, of Newark, who
has lately returned from England, has
reached home after spending some
time with Mrs. George Grove, of Gin
ton street.
Major HI. M. Dalrymple, chairman
of the county roads committee of the
Board of Freeholders, is i'll at his
home, 63 Elm street. His condition is
considered critical
Eleven members of the Current
News Club enjoyed sleigh ride to
Bernardsyille on Monday afternoon.
On arriving at their destination they
were entertained by Mrs. Howell.
The meeting of the Morris County
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals was held in the parish
house of the Church of the Redeemer
at IL o'clock on Thursday, January ID,
The Philadelphia Ledger states that
Nr. and Mrs. John G. Dawson, of West
Philadelphia, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Ethel Cantlin,
to Mr.. Monroe Buckley, of Morris
town, N. j. }N
Edward MCGOWAN, lately discharged
from the Twelfth us. Cavalry and
now residing in Texas, was expected
home for Christmas. Word has been
received by his parents that he is seri-
ously III with pneumonia.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Association of the Morristown Memoir
ial Hospital will be held at the hos
pital on Wednesday, January 20, at
1870 a. m. All those interested are
cordially invited to be present.
At meeting of the Board of Excise
the Board of Aldermen on Wednesday
evening, the application of Robert G.
Wilson for a license at "a Market
street, was laid over for month.
The story of the 6 Tramp's Curse, ;"
published in the New York papers,
may have some foundation; but people
living up Mendham way profess to
know nothing of it. Another fairy
tale, probably from the American -
Arthur S. Leland & Co. of New
York and Boston will mail to indi-
viduals who send us two cent stamp,
little book showing New York and
Boston stocks, alphabetically arranged
that have paid dividends during the
past year.
The serious illness of Anthony Com
stock, who was announced to deliver a
lecture before the University Club of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion of Madison, caused postpone
ment of the meeting on Friday even
ing last.
Messrs. G. Franklin Wilson and Carl
V. Vogt, of this city, and DR.. f. w.
F'lagge, of Rockaway, have returned
from their hunting tripin the .wilds of
North Carolina, meeting with fair sue
cess, which will furnish them themes
for tales to be handed down to future
generations.
Sidewalks are popularity supposed to
be for the convenience of pedestrians /;
the roadway for teams. Yet those
who are compelled to travel on
Shanks' mares perforce, on account
of icy sidewalks, have to take the
roadway on account of danger to life
and limb, as we'll as possible visit to
hospital.
Superintendent Charles e. Cook has
had fire-proof curtain of pure asbes-
tos hung in the James Assembly
Rooms, Madison. The James Hall is
probably one of the safest halls in this
vicinity, as it now has not only a fire.
proof curtain, but all the electric wiz
ing in the building is run in iron pipe
conduitS.
The g. A. Mills Woodworking Com
pany, of this city, is getting out the
woodwork for hennery to be built on
one of the Vanderbilt estates on Long
Island. The contract price is $4,000.
A palace in fact for arstocratic chick