The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-29
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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Christmas
Angelo Bennell is home from An
dover for the holidays.
Miss Rachel Reed is home from
Blairstown institute for Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank McEwan, Of
Madison avenue, have gone to Piqua,
@.
Robert Starck, OF Jersey City, was
the guest of Howard Z. BarreUt over
Sunday.
/. B. Dickinson is il Harrisburg,
Pa, visiting his brother, Thomas
Dickinson.
Victor "A. Wiss & Brother have just
delivered a handsome Buick touring
car to r. d. Fcore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood D. Barrett
will move from 10 Liberty street to 8
Ridgedale avenue.
Miss Ella Brink will entertain her
Sunday school class at her home on
Saturday afternoon.
William Aitchison, Of Cornell, is
spending the holiday with his mother
on Ridgedale avenue,
Mrs. Llewellyn B. Tompkins and
Frederick B. Tompkins are spending
two weeks in Atlantic City.
George T. Allen is able to be about
again after being confined to his home
for two weeks with the grip.
Edward Hall has been appointed a
special traffic agent OF the American
Telegraph and Telephone %.
A watch night service will be held
in ST. Peters church beginning at
eleven O'Clock New Years eve. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel f. Cox and
Miss Cox, Of Bengal, n. X, are the
guests of Justice Edward @. Johnston.
Wesley Logan, of Centenary Collegi-
ate institute, OF Hackettstown, is in
town during the Christmas vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood d. Barrett
are entertaining David Smythman and
Miss Minnie Richards, OF Butler, for
a few days.
The second annual Reunion of the
alumni of St. Peters church choir will
be held New Years eve at the rectcry
at eight o'clock.
Miss Mabel Dean, who has been one
of the teachers in the high school, left
this morning for Honolulu where she
will make her home.
The chemical engine was called to
Michael Underhill'S house on Center
avenue Saturday morning blazing
chimney needing attention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stacy Ii. Briant. Of
Mrs. Briant's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter M. Hall, oyer Christmas.
There will be New Years day
prayer meeting in the chapel of the
First Presbyterian church beginning
at nine-thirty in the morning.
The annual meeting of the Sunday
school board of the Methodist church
occurs Wednesday evening at which
time there will be an election OF offers.
a chimney fire at the residence Of
Ridley Watts, on Franklin street, de-
manded the attention of the chemical
engine Christmas afternoon at five
O'Clock.
Sunday January 10th, the Rev.
Homer G. Stuntz will be the preacher
at the morning service at the Metho-
dist church, it being " Foreign Mis-.
sion Day.
The Rev. Franklin B. Dwight will
give a lecture, illustrated with stere-
Opticon views, OF Switzerland in the
Market Street Mission on Wednesday
evening at 7.45.
Capt. Oscar III. Hawley, a former
MOrristown newspaper man but new
a resident OF Minneapolis, Mimi, was
ir Morristown renewing old acquaint-
;ances on Christmas.
Company B, 4th N. j.. Regiment,
United Boys Brigades of America,
will go to Summit on New Years day
and will engage ia a sham battle with
the Summit company.
Carl Sturgis, P. Paul Piper and James
Roberts, of Colgate university, are
among those college students who are
spending the Christmas holidays at
their homes in town.
At the South Street Presbyterian
church the regular Thursday evening
prayer meeting will be omitted this
week and New Years morning at
nine-thirty there will be brief SER
vice of prayer.
Beginning with Monday evening,
January 4th, the Rev. and Mrs. Phile-
mon r. Sturges will be at home at the
rectory on the first and third Monday
evenings Of each month after Sevenz
thirty TO all members Of the st. Peters
church parish,
BY the completion of the big water
power plant Of the Kennedy Electrical
company about mile north Of Ger
man Valley, SchOoley's Mountain and
German Valley are now to be lighted |
by electricity, and Calif0n, Chester and /
other places will follow.