Body of Polish laborer found in Holmdel ditch
County Detective Smith and four others found the frozen body of John Sherlock, a Polish laborer missing since Monday, in a shallow ditch near Holmdel. Sherlock was killed by a blow to the head, with evidence pointing to his brother in law Schrashino, who was arrested. Imprints from Schrashino's shoe and a cracked tire on his shoe point to his involvement. an inquest will be held at Perrine's hotel in Holmdel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Smith
John Sherlock
Halmdel
Vanderburgh
Sherlock
Eoldie Schrashino
Henry Cross
Channey
Conover
Schrashino
John
Smith
Sehrashino
Harry Neafie
Freehold
George Woods, Jr
Red Bank
Howard Ely
Bronson Butler
Charles Ely
Edwin Hyers
William J. Johnson
Bloomfield Sutphen
Perrine’s
Holmdel
Charles H. T. Clayton
Adelphia
Neafie
London
Cracow
Silesia
Warsa W
Mlawa
Vistula
Piotrkow
Przendbors
Czenstochowa
Petrgrad
Carpathians
Galieia
Dalla Pass
Paris
LaBassee
Dixmude
Ypres
Flanders
War Office
Arras
St. Laurent
Lys
Oise
Armentieras
Roulers
Lille
Ostend
Good Living Shown In Court Over Non Support
In Recorder Arrowsmith's court Mrs Grace Newton described neglect and abuse by husband William Newton who earns 70 dollars a month. He defended himself with detailed accounts of gifts and expenses for wife and child, asking to remain under the same roof. The judge urged a Christmas period to reconcile and postponed the case to Saturday morning.
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Grace Newton
Recorder Arrowsmith
William Newton
Newton
New York
Asbury Park
Willing Workers Guests of Ushers Union Meeting
A gathering of the Ushers Union of Asbury M. E. Church was held at Maurice Potter’s Atlantic Avenue home. The Willing Workers and friends joined for games including Thirty inch dash Shot put fishing contest and one mile blow. May Presley won first with Susie Duryee second and Roland Jerolamon third. Refreshments followed. attendees included Rev. Dr. R. B. Stephenson and Mrs. Stephenson Richard Van Dyke Mrs. George Potter Susie Duryee Elsie Barber Kathleen Barber Minna Jerolamon Lucy Nastasia Ray Whiting and Maurice Potter plus several Jerolamon and Potter family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ushers’ Union
Asbury M. 8. Church
Atlantic Avenue
Maurice Potter
May Presley
Susie Duryee
Roland Jerolamon
R. B. Stephenson
Richard van Dyke
George Potter
Elsie Barber
Billa Barber
Kathleen Barber
Minna Jerolamon
Lucy Nastasia
Ray Whiting
Elsie Potter
Harry Ely
Everett Covert
Earl Polhemus
Carl Hoyt
Claude Potter
Chester Jerolamon
Charles Davis
Harry Janes
Commerce Board to Hear About Free Delivery
Postmaster Thomas L. Slocum will address the Chamber of Commerce at City Hall next Monday night to explain the planned free delivery extension. He will discuss petitions from the West End and summer residents, and plans to establish a first class post office. A coast protection report and a Municipal Christmas tree committee are also on the agenda, promising a lively meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Slocum
Chamber of Commerce
City Hall
Slocum
West End
New York
Chamber
McFaddin
Savoy Hotel Loot Alarm As Jewelry Is Missing
D N Hanson of Mason and Hanson woollen merchants offers a 1000 reward for return of 6000 dollars worth of jewelry and furs stolen from his wife and daughter in the Savoy Hotel on Fifth Avenue. Detectives suspect entry via a bathroom. victim Rebecca Hanson and Miss Hanson were in New York for a social event.
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D. N. Hanson
Mason & Hanson
New York
Chicago
Rebecca
Savoy
Fifth Avenue
Wittyninth Street
Mr. Hanson
Cornelia Leggett Woolley
Park Mason Woolley
Long Branch
James O Woolley
Hanson Suite
Everett Man to Be Extradited to North Carolina
Trenton December 19 Governor Fielder honored extradition papers for Charles A. Carlson despite efforts by former Attorney General Edmund Wilson to block the return. Carlson, located in Everett New Jersey, is alleged to have defrauded David J. Fuller of Henderson, North Carolina, of 2500 and faces other counts in North Carolina.
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Trenton
Edmund Wilson
Charles A. Carlson
North Carolina
Fielder
South
Carlson
Everett
Monmouth County
Wescott
David J. Fuller
Henderson
Borough Clerk Poole Fighting For Life In New York Hospital
Borough Clerk Frank A. Poole of West Long Branch is in a New York hospital after liver tumor surgery. Surgeons could not remove all of the growth without risking collapse. his condition remains painful but hopeful. His wife visited him yesterday as he asks about the operation's extent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Poole
West Long Branch
New York
Frank
CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES AND SUNDAY EVENTS DAILY
Church program lists morning and evening organ voluntaries hymns choirs and soloists at Simpson M. E. Church with a sermon titled The Star of Destiny. Plus Christmas sermons and talks at Asbury and First Reformed churches with missionary and youth meetings. Oakhurst and Wayside churches schedule services, Sunday schools, Epworth League, and prayer meetings. Also notes a Christmas offering, library Sunday, and local notices.
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Asbury M. E
Stephenson
Bethlehem
J. P. Merratt
Eberhardt
New York
Oakhurst M. E
Harry T. Fister
Claes
Epworth League
Thursdany
Wayside M. E. Church
Harry. T. Fisler
Trinity A
M. E
J. Franely Vanderhorst
Goth
Narrow escape as freight collides with auto at Fifth Avenue crossing
Broadway liveryman Harry Layton narrowly escaped serious injury when a freight train struck his auto mobile at the Central railroad crossing on Fifth Avenue. He had stopped near the crossing, started again without hearing a whistle, and sped forward as the engine overtook him. The collision wrecked a rear wheel and bent the axle, throwing Layton about the car and causing arm and side injuries and internal pain. The train, drifting from Branchport, was moving slowly. no fatalities were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Layton
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Central Railroad
Layton
Arthur Leno
Branchport
Parker Lot May Be Baptist Site
At a large First Baptist Church meeting the Broadway sites committee reported. Members Seo bey, J A Stratton and Charles H Brown favored the W S Parker estate at Broadway and Dudley street. The unanimous vote supported purchasing the Parker estate if satisfactory terms can be made, with action to be taken at the annual meeting on Thursday December 31 1914.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Committee On
Spiderweb Social at St Luke s Parsonage
The Epworth League of St Luke s held a Spiderweb Social at the parsonage last night with about forty attendees. An advertisement guessing contest pleased the girls led by Miss Anna Wortman. men were led by William H Riddle. Music featured Miss Orivade Lathem Cram in solos, and college songs and old time airs were sung. refreshments closed the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
St. Luke's
Anna Wortman
William H. Riddle
Orivade Lathem Cram
BAS 15 Held For Carrying Weapons
Charles Bass colored charged with carrying a revolver was arrested in Montclair by the chief of police. He was held for Long Branch authorities until Detective Walling pursued him, then detained for a hearing in recorder's court. Bass denied the weapon, claiming it was empty, though officers say it was loaded. He awaits grand jury action. Also charged were Charles Jones and Blanche Voorhees in separate incidents. Jones found with a $50 overcoat at Belmont avenue home. Nixon chose not to press charges. Murray served ten days in county jail for intoxication after pleading guilty in Chelsea avenue. Blanche Voorhees arrested for disturbance in Rockwell avenue after drinking. Recorder Towamith sentenced her with a jocular remark about Santa’s county jail.
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Charles Bass
Montclair
Long Branch
Walling
Bass
City Mall
Recorder’s Court
Edwards
Recorder Arrowsmith
Charles Jones
Wilson Nixon
Jones
Belmont Avenue
Nixon
Freehold
John Murray
Murray
Chelsea Avenue
City Hall
McCarthy
Blanche Voorhees
Rockwell Avenue
Hvhn
Blanche
al Towamith
Santa Claus
Visiteton
Tubercular patients leave for sanitarium
Long Branch reports two tubercular patients depart for a sanitarium in hopeful, curable cases. One is a child from a home with five other children, aiming to stop infection by removing sources and teaching self care. Red Cross funds support visiting nurses and other needed services for poor patients. Reports also note wartime dispatches and local ads.
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Long Branch
Gate of
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Lodemann & Lindhardt
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Imperial Refined
Micks
Purity Sweets
Jos, Hirschfeld & Son
Atv
Dally Record
Firemen’s Relief
Long Branch i Firemen’s Relief Association
Everett Man
Poole
Branchport Hose @o
Asher L. Wardell
Gun Pointer Moore
Albert SN. Moore
Delaware
Pony” Moore
Port-au-Peck
Young Moore
Norfolk, Va
Greene's Hotel
Johnston
Wilson
Mc Donald
Shautey
Christaiag Nivals
Arthur Hobson
Mendelsohn
Ashford
R. K. Reid
Wand Congregation
Star of Destiny
Brown
Vening Organ
Karmer
J. Pitman West
Mozart
King” Lesper
C. Arch Reid
Hylmn
Mast
Mendlesohn
Amanda Widdey
Florence Reid
Leila Sutphin
Melissa Reid
Olive Sutphin
Marion Woolley
Alice van Dyke
Blanche Fowler
Lydia Zingle
W. Britton
Ida White
Lottie Britton
Florence van Tine
Edgar Woolley
Howard Voorhees
W. Thurston Blaisdell
Prof
Mount Olivet Baptist Church
BE. Redd
Christian Science
Library Hall
Broad
J. 8
Goodenough’s
Boston
Sodemann & Lindhardt
Joseph Salt
Miss McDoneld
Shanley
North Fifth Avenue
Parker Lot
ST. Luke’s Parsonage
Gotham Paster
Hartcock
Union Methodist Episcopal Church
New York City
Men’s League of Grace Methodist Church
Demnom|lination
W. H. Walverton
Camden County
Neptune Council
Jr O
AL My
Church Street
Frank Woolley
Fred A. Smythe
Percy Hennessey
Russell Sherman
Inside Sentinel
W. HM. Duryee
Outside Sentinel
Robert Stratton
West
Petrograd
Imperial
Wert's
G. D. Seymour
Gale
Jos, Kliachfeld & Son
Berlin
France
Belgium
Nieuport
Bixechoote
Lawapse
Albert Jand
Noyan
Pillkallen
Geneva
Switzerland
Greece
Constantinople
Rheims
William Philip Simms
United Press
Hyer and Flock
Cohee Ee
Hirschfeld & Son
Poinsettios
Telephone
Sodeman & Windhardt
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