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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
1
A man spent a year in county jail for contempt of court as divorce proceedings moved forward. He allegedly transferred property and failed to pay alimony ordered by Chancellor Walker.
Antonio Disapio, once jailed a year for contempt at Freehold, will be released under an order signed by Chancellor Walker. His counsel Thomas V. Arrowsmith stated the appeal for repleading. The case stems from alimony arrears, domestic strife on Laird Street, and a prior separation culminating in divorce proceedings. An all day shoot at Long Branch Gun Club in Loyalton drew many visitors with a powder company representative expected.
Mr and Mrs A H Califf opened their Sea Bright cottage for the summer, their first occupancy since last Saturday. Mr Califf serves as treasurer of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Unclaimed express packages held by the United States Express Company in Perth Amboy were auctioned to the highest bidder last Saturday. The sale netted about $200 with several parcels originating in the city. One man bought four dozen bottles of hair restorers for a quarter and a Masonic apron valued at thirty cents.
Hotel Monmouth lies at the terminal of the Red Bank to Rumson trolley and Sea Bright to Rumson auto line. Full particulars furnished by Wm Hinterman, Agent, Rumson NJ. Phant 267 Rumson. Nelson and Floye Will perform a versatile act tonight at the Grand.
Local listings announce Packer's Moving Pictures Tonight with a 2 reel feature and short subjects including In The Blood and The Burglar of Company. Also advertised are memorial day postcards, a Rumson auto bus line, and profiles for sea Wright to Rumson travel service with full paraphernalia furnished by William Hintelman, agent.
Prof F K Ball presented an all Wagner program at the First Presbyterian Church featuring organ violin and piano. Excerpts from Tannhauser Lohengrin Tristan Parsifal and The Mastersingers were performed with Miss Mabel I Ball and Mrs G A Parslow as accompanists and a double male quartet.
Reported near the Center avenue firehouse, a bullet whizzed past Judge Foster as he returned from the Atlantic Highlands meeting. Early accounts claimed an attempted life, but later clarification said a man fired at a cat, and the stray shot prompted county wide rumors and brief investigations.
Mrs. Sarah Williams widow of Kvvamk Williams died at her Abbottsford avenue home yesterday after noon soon after giving birth. The infant was rushed to Monmouth Memorial Hospital and reported doing well. Coroner Morris to hold an inquest. suspicions of abuse circulated but no superficial marks found. Mrs. Williams leaves four other children and immediate family in Bradevell and Matawan.
Mayor Bryant B. Newcomb urges a uniform and more efficient lighting system for the business district. The council adopted Woolley’s motion to endorse the recommendation and direct further work with the local lighting company and business interests.
Advertisement notes there will be no morning boat from Long Branch on Friday May 30. It also mentions furniture below cost due to changing business at 7 Sun Ave.
Early morning blaze at Louis J. Ronry’s Keeler’s lane property in Red Bank destroyed a barn and killed two horses valued over $1,000. Origin unknown. one worker asleep in the barn narrowly escaped. Fire companies from Rumson and Oceanic responded, but the barn was a total loss.
Aeon on the election of a Earl Plumbing inspector to esecee Georgie Ht, Northam, was deferred until Tied day. Jie TWh, after a conference of the health board members at lary that last Hisht, City Lotteiler William A Stevens, who is also counsel for the health board, was absent. The ex pected opinion from the state health board regarding the qualifications ne cessary for a sanitary plumbing inspector was not presented. Northacu, the present inspector, and ROO. Adamson, Jr, hts opponent, were present at the meeting. The standing committees were appointed to pursue sanitation measures for Long Branch. Democratic Primary at Red Bank set for next week with 35 executive committeemen to be elected.
Commencement day at a Village School rehearsed under Joseph Mitchell will be performed tonight at St James Parish Hall as a benefit for St James Men's League. Local amateurs are cast and expected to draw a large audience with ample seating.
Lawyer Edwards raps Judge Heisley over brick quality used in Atlantic City linking it to a second avenue paying contract. Board of Commissioners adjourned to Monday to act. inquiry into Metropolitan Brick Company pricing set, with testimony next Saturday at Solicitor Stevens’s office.
Thieves took three bicycles from the Red Bank High School grounds on Branch Avenue between nine and nine thirty yesterday morning. Student Walter Kinsman reported the loss to Prof. George H. Harten, leading to discovery that bikes belonging to D. Glenning Riddle and Frank Dean were also missing. Police are investigating. bikes were Iver Johnson Hudson and Crawford models valued at 35 dollars each.
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