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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1900
Page
5
Local notices will be admitted at fifteen cents per line with "Adv" at the end. Notices placed in bottom local columns. continued four weeks or longer qualify for a five percent discount. The Journal is a legal newspaper and the proper medium for all notices, with some ads legally mandated and others chosen by the interested party.
Deal public school to get new principal Ralph D Bush. Long Branch discharge from bankruptcy for T O Morford. Common Council to bid on coal supply. Nate Salsbury plans twelve cottages at Long Branch. Ocean Grove boardwalk renewal to open June 9. Virginia seed oysters planted by oystermen. striped bass catch near Shark River inlet. mayor authorizes six month renewal of $7500 vote due May 29. New Jersey Medical Society annual meeting in Atlantic City June 6 week. A M E Zion Church spring meeting June 10. church project movement at Oakhurst. Louis DeCou promoted at Adams Express between NY and Point Pleasant. musical in First Baptist Church. Alumni Association banquet June 14 at Hotel Brunswick. David C Pinckney Property sale June 9. cantata May Haven to be sung at Ocean Grove auditorium. church services resumed at Allenhurst June 3 with Rev S L Gilberson. Young People Union entertainment June 13. $75 allocated for G A R. Eintracht Singing Society at Evangelical Lutheran Church German service. bankruptcy proceedings for M E De Soto Longe of Red Bank and Ida B E Hunt of Asbury Park. wedding of William Blake Hall and Anna Tucker June 14 at St Paul’s M E Ocean Grove. Lipton loving cup presented in London. Congressman Howell secures post office staff raises in his district.
An old newspaper ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy. It asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, claims to cure catarrh, and offers $1000 for any failure to cure, inviting testimonials and listing J. Cheney & Co. as sellers. It mentions Hall's Pills as a companion product and cites Toleda? Ohio as a location.
An observer recalls a rag time street scene where two shoe polishers in a leather chair shop rhythmically polished Whix shoes to music from a hand organ. The artists and organists synchronized brushing and footwork with street life, ending with a nickel paid and the narrator walking on, the world seeming to move with rag time.
The article notes many African Americans rising from legacy of servitude to respectable roles. They form associations in Brooklyn and Manhattan such as the Sons of Virginia and Sons of the Old North State. About 15 black medical graduates hold diplomas from notable schools including Long Island College Harvard Dartmouth UPenn and Howard University.
Edmund Gosse argues in Atlantic that the Trinity Milton manuscript ranks as the world’s most precious English literature source. The sheets reveal Milton’s mind, hesitations, and art as he produced his great poems, with nearly all content in Milton’s own hand except some sonnets copied by scribes.
An Arizona Bill of Fare joke and catalog of Queen Victoria paraphernalia appear in a jagged excerpt. A salesman recalls a restaurant sign promising lamb chops and milk toast while noting cattle for meat. The other fragment lists items associated with the Queen.
The Mirror reports Mrs F E Miller and son Robert visiting central Massachusetts for several weeks. Mrs Joseph Green of Plainfield visits her parents Dr and Mrs Beegla in Main Ave. Rev John H Andree, German Lutheran minister, visits his uncle Fy Andree, Willard Home superintendent. William Griff Jr of West Wananissa recovers from illness. James VanBronn is seriously ill at 706 Sewall Ave. Mrs B H Wyckoff of New Brunswick visits Mrs M A Bodine in Summerfield Ave. Harry W Schuyler of Philadelphia spends summer at his cottage on Pilgrim Pathway Ocean Grove.
Transfers recorded include Martino V. Dager selling parcels in Asbury Park to cas vasonal and First National Bank of Asbury Park. Listings show Ocean Grove, Bradley Beach, Avon, Spring Lake, Belmar, and Wall Township deeds with prices ranging from $1 to $3,000. Notable names include James E. Borfen Laura J. White and Janet McNaughton.
Ocean Grove Hoard of Trade and Ladies Auxiliary announce a Saturday afternoon meeting in Association hall to arrange the opening day for the town. Tuesday next is likely as the opening day and the auditorium will host the cantata May Queen performed by the Ocean Grove and Asbury Park Choral Union.
Harry Summerg won a seat as free commissioner in Fire District No. 1 on Saturday with a $3500 appropriation for the fire department. In Fire District No. 2 Joseph Taggart was elected free commissioner and the annual appropriation was set at $500.
Daniel P and John Seeds of Bradley Beach faced Magistrate Dodd after a Wednesday disturbance in town. Each paid $3 and costs. Joseph Woolley faced $60 in ball for alleged assault and battery related to the rumpus sparked by Drum and Seeds and Magee’s theatre party. Eling E Magee of Red Bank, partner in Magee and Qhayaplin’s troupe, has deserted his wife and two children, with Grace Texola named as his love.
William Rollins hauled a 38.5 pound bass from the Deal lake flume on Wednesday. The fish stretched 45 inches and Rollins landed it in about fifteen minutes, a catch he called a possible record breaker for size.
Rev. Howard E. Thompson, pastor of Emmanuel Church in Allegheny City Pa has been called to succeed the late Rev W E Wright as pastor of St Peter s Episcopal Church Freehold. Thompson is a Jerseyman with roots in New Jersey.
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