Electrical Storm, 1900
New Jersey Courier 30 Aug 1900
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S.N. Bunnel
S.N. Bunnel was the father of Dr. Fred N. Bunnel and Beatrice Bunnel; he lived t the corner of Hooper Avenue and Madison as of April 1905. Fred passed the state Medical Examination early in July 1905; he attended the Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons. A news item appeared in the NJC on 7 June 1902, mentioning that S.N. Bunnel was thrown to the ground and hit across the ankles with a 6 x 6 timber while working in A.S. Tilton's barn and was unable to walk. In August of that year he was advertising a house for rent on Park Street, with 'cheap terms.' William Riley Bunnel may or may not have been another son; he married a Susan and fathered: Fred Graham Bunnel, who married on Dec 25, 1901, Alice Mead Harris, the daughter of S.C. Harris and Sidney Harris. Alice Mead Harris had a brother, Sidney, who married Lizzie Mae Holman. On 17 Oct 1901, Fred Grrham resigned as librarian at the M.E. Sunday School. Apparently he worked in New York, as the NJC for 18 May 1905 state
Boys allowed to come home, 1918
New Jersey Courier 12 Jul 1918 last winter, two Point Pleasant boys, Walter Clifton and George Tilton, were sent to the Rahway Reformatory and the State Home For Boys, respectively, having pleaded guilty to taking property belonging to somebody else at that place. Friday Tilton was allowed to come home, and on Monday Clifton was brought back. They both promise to be good, and some Point Pleasant people have agreed to see that they do.
News from Silverton, 1914
New Jersey Courier 20 Feb 1914 Mrs. Charles Brooklyn is making an indefinite stay at Lakewood. Clarence Gant of the Manasquan L.S.S. spent Tuesday with his parents here. Alfred Sanborn and wife of Bradley Beach called on Mrs. M.A. Gant Tuesday. Larue Clayton was a Thursday caller Miss Koch of Cedar Grove is a frequent visitor. Mrs. Chas. Johnson has returned to her home at Toms River after a short visit with her brother, Samuel Tilton and family. Roy T. Havens, son of A.O.S. Havens of Point Pleasant, who is now employed in the Philippines as a civil engineer in railroad construction work, had his foot smashed December 5, by an iron rail falling from a freight car.
