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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1912
Page
8
Great crowds flocked to Highlands on Saturday with a Newark special and two through trains on Sunday. The Patten and Red Bank boats ran to capacity as hotels and boarding houses filled. Tenting colonies on beach and hill were busy and merchants reported excellent business.
A military circus and wild west show for Babies' Hospital at Oceanic, near Rumson Polo field, on July 6 with two performances and a Long Branch parade. Troop A will perform Indians, cowboys, and stunts, with a Roman chariot race and cavalry drill. The event benefits the summer home for ill children two weeks to three years old, now improved with new plumbing, lighting, and linen.
During the summer months a number of entertainments in aid of the summer home are given by the summer folk.
Howard West returns home for a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Milton West on Church street where Mr. West serves as wireless operator on a pilot boat. E H Root battalion chief of the New York fire department with Mrs. Root and their daughter drove to Long Branch Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. George Wood on Hampton avenue.
About thirty friends and relatives gathered at Miss Emma Marshall’s Red Bank home on Spring Street to celebrate her twenty first birthday. The event featured a cake with twenty one candles, prizes for guests, and a late night gathering with ice cream and social games.
A prize white Plymouth Rock hen owned by A. E. Van Derveer laid a half pound egg measuring eight and a half inches around and nine and a half inches long. The 14 month old bird took ten minutes to lay it, and this is the hen's second unusually large egg. The owner contemplates sending a sample to Governor Wilson if more such eggs appear. Also report notes tomato industry growth in Allentown with 287 acres, triple the usual, and plans to plant peas next year.
Police have not identified the thieves who blew open the Collier Brothers office safe in Keansburg after midnight. Thorne Smith, a trusted employee, was on the premises until near twelve o clock, and investigators suspect the same assailants earlier hit safes at Port Monmouth and Farmington.
An advertising notice invites local businesses to place ads in the Daily Record promising strong returns. The brief urges quick contact for space and rates.
Sunday afternoon at the Keyport wharf a dispute over a missing $4.60 led to a knife attack. William Stiff and Benjamin Davis, both African American, were arrested after Stiff slashed Davis with a razor. Justice Isaac N. Joline committed both men to the county jail at Freehold without bail for the grand jury on July 10, with Randall and Cherry held as witnesses.
Mrs. Arthur H. Hearn widow of a Hearn department store proprietor in New York was arrested in Asbury Park for reckless driving without a license. She faced charges Sunday night after driving from Lakewood and nearly hitting two children at the safety aisle. She admitted no license but said she thought her chauffeur’s license sufficed. She appeared in court and was fined 15 dollars.
Fair Haven Borough Council reported a peaceful settlement with Shrewsbury Township over debts as of June 12. President Henry J. W. Cooke presented a 3254.50 check, with anticipated total near 4000 after franchise taxes, and the township assumes all debts up to June 12, leaving the borough free of indebtedness. The agreement was approved unanimously and noted by Councilman Myron Brown.
Keansburg Methodist Church schedules a series of festivals and suppers, each two weeks apart, with donations to Monmouth Memorial Hospital in Long Branch. A Sunday School starts at Keansburg Beach, weekly services at New Point Comfort Beach, an August camp meeting at St John’s Grove, all assisted by the Berge sisters singing evangelists.
Mrs Hapoan A Moore mother of William Lacour will be buried tomorrow at Freehold She is survived by thirty seven great grandchildren and twenty seven grandchildren Funeral services are tonight at the home of her daughter Mrs Charles Layton 667 Broadway at oclock Rev Dr J Dobbins will officiate A second service will be held tomorrow at the Freehold M W Church at two oclock Rev Hl M Blake will officiate Interment will be at Grenlawn cemetery Freehold by C F Morris funeral director
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