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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
9
Today marks the final full week of Christmas shopping as Goldstein's promotes its Main Floor gift exposition. The ad touts a mile of show counters with bright lighting and a broad range of fine exclusive items, inviting shoppers to browse and ease holiday decisions in Long Branch.
In Asbury Park, witnesses discuss misrepresented contents in a carload of hay and grain versus Errickson’s accounts. Judge Foster delays ruling as lawyers propose eliminating lengthy matters before trial amid conflicting horse transaction testimonies between Rogers and Franklin.
Franklin and Rogers faced off in a horse transaction case. Franklin was represented by Assemblyman Leon Taylor and Rogers by Charles E. Cook. The matter will be decided in Freehold tomorrow.
A teen thief known as Huff claims a visit in jail from a confederate urging him not to squeal as authorities search for a youth named Lambertson. Huff recounts plans to break into a Keyport hardware store with mittens dusted in molasses to muffle noise, while local officials question notification lapses from Jamesburg authorities.
Dennis Black aged 74 4 months died after a five day confinement to the house from pneumonia in Nut Swamp Middletown Township. Funeral at his residence Friday at two with Rev Clifford Dilks of Little Silver Methodist Church officiating. Interment Fair View cemetery under Harry C Fay. Survived by widow two daughters Mattie Black and Mrs Jennie Wagner and several grandchildren. Born in Bricksburg now Lakewood to Pau and Mary Black.
State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles H. Lippincott announced new local agents authorized to issue drivers licenses and registration certificates. The list includes Andrew Lustbaum in Long Branch Edward VonKathengill in Red Bank H L Zobel in Sea Bright Charles R Zacharias in Asbury Park A R White in Freehold John J Schanck in Keyport Clark Clayton in Spring Lake W C O Leary in Lakewood.
City officials discuss razing a hall building and widening Ocean avenue while advancing street repairs. Ex fireman Henry Beck receives a seven year service certificate. Proposals to lay conduits and purchase land for road realignments proceed. The next meeting falls after Christmas.
Proposed route starts at Black Point road terminal and runs via Navesink avenue to Ridge road and Ward avenue, crossing Rumson drive, along Washington avenue to Packer avenue and the bridge. President Packer to appoint a committee to secure consents. About one mile of consents needed. 40 likely to be secured.
Attorney General Edmund Wilson bought the Philip Kuhl building in Red Bank for 8100 but says no plans exist yet for a waiting room. Rumors of J C Traction Company and Monmouth County Electric Co using the space endure, with local hope for a joint trolley waiting room.
The playlet Our Ministers Honeymoon, produced by St Luke's School youth on Thanksgiving night, drew a crowded house and strong praise. It will be repeated tonight at Neptune Hall Church Street with the same cast and orchestra, tickets selling fast. A next performance is planned at West Long Branch for Old First Church fund.
Miss Virginia Long Applegate eldest daughter of Maxey Applegate editor of The Monmouth Inquirer Freehold and Charles Ira Harris Brooklyn were married at St Peter's Episcopal Church Freehold in a brief ceremony. The reception followed at 51 Hudson Street with gifts including a diamond watch and scarf pin. The couple planned a Southern honeymoon then residence at Avon New Jersey after January 1 191%.
At a Red Bank gathering held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C Harold Tumey new club officers were chosen. Sultan GC Harold Tumey Sub Sultan Joseph Chamberlain Lord of Money Bags Harold Davison Lord of Pen Viper Kenneth Brown were named. A social session followed and plans were made for a sociable at the Y M C A on Monmouth Street under the club’s auspices tomorrow night.
Moe Gordon launches Empire dry cleaning dyeing pressing and repair shop in East Front street Red Bank in the former Gottlieb Pfahler shoemaker shop following Pfahler’s death weeks ago.
On Christmas night the Young Men's Catholic Club of this city meets the All Collegiate team at Lyceum court. The Catholic lineup features Fordham captain Jack Flanigan, Georgetown's Freddie Flannigan, Chattle’s captain George Johnston, Merle and Eager. Both teams are evenly matched for a fast game, with dancing after the contest as arranged by local management.
A deed filed in New Brunswick on December 18 conveys by Thomas A. and John H. P. Conover to the New York and Long Branch Railroad Company a strip of land about 3175 feet long and 140 feet wide along the line between South Amboy and Morgan. The cross ing over the tracks remains with the Conover estate. Executed September 23 by the estate executors and about a dozen heirs.
Manager Garrettson of the Long Branch Opera House in Washington Street plans to donate 80 percent of tomorrow night's receipts to fund a Christmas treat for the inmates at the Almshouse at Wayside under Mrs. Susan Truax. The gesture aims to aid the city and surrounding area’s needy residents cared for by Mrs. Truax, who notes their isolation and need for support.
Melinda Hall faced the recorder's court on a complaint by Mrs. Nannie Mount after a dispute on Belmont avenue. She admitted using abusive language in a moment of jealousy toward her fiancé visiting another house. Recorder Arrowsmith suspended sentence until December 28.
Rev Everett Van Dright of Grace Methodist Red Bank presented a paper titled Some Present Day Conditions and a Remedy at the Preachers Meeting of the New Brunswick district New Jersey Conference held Monday morning at Ocean Grove.
Mrs. William Patterson of Monmouth Street Red Bank sold her Wallace Street property to James McCue of Shrewsbury a longtime superintendent at the Delafield Smith estate. The $3,000 sale was handled by William A. Hopping of Red Bank and confirmed yesterday. McCue bought the 40 by 200 foot lot with an 80 foot L and a nine room house in good condition as an investment.
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