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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1910
Page
1
Bishop P B Wilson dedicates the new First M B Church at Oakhurst in a red letter day service. An all day dedication attracted hundreds of visitors who helped raise 3000 dollars for the building fund. The chancel and pulpit featured daisies palms and flowers, with an old time love feast led by William Tallman.
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The Board of Trade meets at City Hall to finalize plans for a joint Fourth of July celebration with the Long Branch Property Holders Association. William D. Martin chairs the amusements and demonstrations committee and reports with Deeves of the Property Holders, with music fireworks expected as main attractions. Other reports cover the Howland House demolition and the August carnival, plus the G A R joint committee’s final plan.
Rev Frederick K Shield preached a special sermon to women at the First Reformed Church with choir music and a ladies chorus as a featured element. Lady ushers included Mary Merke Dorothy Worthley Alice Wheeler and Margaret Shield. The attendance was strong and interest high. A Hollywood Golf Club Saturday Handicap ended in a tie between J B Hess and Walter Liebmann with net 78.
Four Bound Brook residents were injured when their automobile collided with an embankment near Freehold on Friday night. Augustus Ramsey and Frank W. Miller remained at Monmouth Memorial Hospital, while Leigh Bache and Alfred Olmstead, treated at the scene, went home by train. The group, bound for a Barnegat fishing trip, faced postponement as the car was damaged beyond use and towed to a garage.
Gloomy Gus Taylor accused of stealing lead pipe from a cottage in Monmouth Beach area and moving it in a burlap bag. A junk dealer trip led Patrolman Vetter to uncover the pipe, with suspect held for grand jury review after pleading not guilty. Nearby searches traced the pipe to an unoccupied New York Hotel site near the Southern depot. Also notes Alma Fish’s Brookyln visit and Florence Travis wedding in Brooklyn with 200 guests.
Among New Jersey visitors at the Hotel Victoria last week was Mrs Wilbur R Edwards of Long Branch who joined the monster Welcome Home celebration for ex President Roosevelt returning from Africa. Also note a Perth Amboy trolley misdirection by Red Bank women and the Mikado Revival at the Casino Broadway New York with an all star cast and popular songs in mid June.
No serious damage reported from a Saturday tornado that darkened the city for two hours. The storm, the severest in memory, felled trees, tore shingles, and forced fishermen back to shore after rough seas. The only lightning strike hit the Guggenheimer summer home on Pearl Street.
J H Ross superintendent for 8 RK Rosoff returns to Long Branch after visiting steel centers at Trenton and Pittsburg. He says pier construction advances swiftly and confirms Sea Bright's J A Howland secured the contract to drive concrete piling and supply equipment. Concrete mixers are at the depot and several carloads of cement are in transit. First Sunday mail for the season was handled by the Long Branch office yesterday.
Yesterday at Simpson Memorial M E Church Rev Alfonso Dare was ill as Rev Dr John Handley spoke on Is the young man Absalon safe prompting attention to boys in churches and Sunday schools. Handley noted 15000 900 young men aged 14 to 35 and 10000000 who never attend church, urging action. Baptisms occurred before the sermon, Henry Thomas and John W. Burkett named, Alvin A. Whiting of Red Bank sang at evening service and is grandson of Captain Robert Potter of Atlantic Avenue.
Chelsea avenue last night saw Joseph Lieb brandish a pistol with four rounds after a pursuit by Pa trolman Kirby. Lieb, a porter and night watchman at Hotel Vendome, claimed no intent to shoot, only defend himself after insults. he was fined $10 by Judge VanDoren.
The Weather Bureau forecast for 36 hours ending Tuesday at 5 p m. calls for generally fair weather in New Jersey with light variable winds.
Middlesex county politicians from New Brunswick about fifteen attended a seashore bake at Price's Hotel Pleasure Bay. The regularly organized club is led by George A Viehmann and makes frequent trips to the shore in season. Eight new patients were admitted to Monmouth Memorial Hospital on Sunday including Michael Holliway Carmello Bananza John Bergen Martin Kearney James Higgins Nellie Anfini Mary McGaffney and Mary Sakowitz. Britton's ice cream cones are advertised in the piece.
Long Branch seeks 125000 for site and new post office as part of omnibus public works. The bill aims to erect the building and provide relief for Edward Farrowsbury Park, a former United Army member, while a review board may decide on several other cases. Captain Thomas McKeney's bridge salary request of 30 per month awaits presidential approval. The First Assistant Postmaster General has signaled action on related matters.
William Brown of Eatontown and Charles Smith of Perth Amboy were arrested in Red Bank after breaking into Michael Winter’s Eatontown cash drawer. About $6 found on Smith. Albert Wardell also involved, seen near hotel. Hearing before Recorder Sickles, held to await grand jury action under $100 bonds.
G. T. Slocum, formerly of Long Branch, lies critically ill at his Awbury Park home with Bright's disease and has been unconscious for a day. He is a member of Long Branch Council No. 429, Royal Arcanum.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Jr and a Connecticut factory worker, engaged after his transformation, wed Eleanor Alexander at FiFi Ayana Presbyterian Church. About 1500 socialites attended inside and thousands watched from the street outside the ceremony in New York.
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