The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-26
BLOOMFIELD-GLEN RIDGE.

The engagement is announced of Peter
II. Cadmus, OF Manhattan. ana MISS
Elizabeth Hetzel, OF Montgomery street
this town.
Excelsior Hose Company No, 3 will hold
its twenty-first annual ball in Central
Hall December 4.
Bloomfield Lodge No. 40, F. and A. NJ,
will. mold a past masters night next
Wednesday.
Mrs. Charles +. Harrison, of Beach
street. has arrived in Europe.
The Bloomfield Republican Club will
hold a meeting Monday night.
Mrs. Arnold w. Fismer, Of Beach street,
with her family, has returned from Long
Island.
The Town Council will hold an adj
iourned meeting Tuesday night, when the
question of making improvements on the
part of the Lackawanna Railroad along
It's line in Bloomfield will be discussed.
Steps will be taken in B%rookdale as soon
as soon as MIGRANTS are placed there to
form a volunteer fire company.
Next Monday evening the first enter
tainment In the guild series will be held
when the Lotus Glee Club viii give a con-
cert.
The independent Republicans of Glen
Ridge met in the home of Hampden L..
tombstone last night and talked over plans
for getting out the vote on November o..
The Bloomfield High School football
eleven will play the Perth Amboy Righ
School team today in Watsessing Park at
4 o'clock.
John Franklin Fort will speak In Central
Hall next Friday night.
Alexander Stilwell, of Montclair, Is about
to take up his residence in this town. He
Is a member of Montclair Lodge of Elks.
Chief Of Police Collins has asked the
principals of the different schools to in
st!uct their scholars not TO use chalk on
buildings, fences and sidewalks during the
Halloween festivities.
Mrs. Joanna Morris, q negress, whose
home is at 14l4 Colorado street, Phila-
delphia. and who Is stopping with her
brother, James A. Faggin, l Depot square.
Bloomfield. is confined to her brothers
home with injuries received in Bloomfield
Centre a few nights ago when in getting
off "a West-bound trolley car OF the Bloom
field avenue line she stepped directly in
front of an east-bound car, and was
Knocked down and severely hurt. 1t is
said the m0torman of the east-bound car
did not sound his gong or slacken his
speed as he crossed the centre. DR.. Shaul
attended the woman, whose condition is
said to be serious.
Robert Williams, 65 years old, one of the
best-known negroes in Bloomfield, died In
a hospital In this city yesterday after a
short illness. Death was due to Bright's
disease. Bob as he was Familiarity
called by his many friends, was a veteran
Of the Civil War and was severely wound
ed in his arm In battle, He was for years
in the employ of the late Augustus f..
Morris. OF late he had been in the employ
of the town. Seventeen years ago he acted
as a special policeman aud made several
important arrests. He lived in Birch
street. Bloomfield, for many years. He IS
survived by a widow and the following
children: Mrs. Laura Schuyler, Robert
Theron. leonard and Edward Williams
and Nellie and Lulu Williams.
Isaac Anderson, a negro, who lived in
Railroad place, Bloomfield, died in the
Moumtainside Hospital. Montclair, last
night at the age Of 6S years. He was a
veteran of the Civil War and was in the
hospital corps in Sherman's famous
March to the Sea" He had been i'll but
a short time.