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News from 1920
Tuckerton Beacon 19 Feb 1920: ANOTHER COUNTY PAPER SUSPENDS PUBLICATION The Eatontown Advertiser, a Democratic weekly newspaper which has been issued for nearly half a century, has suspended publication because of the illness of the editor, William T. COLE. Mr. Cole is 78 years of age, and in addition to his duties as editor and publisher, comprised the mechanical force as well. The Advertiser is the seventh Monmouth County weekly to suspend publication since the commencement of the war. LAST OF A.E.F. HAVE LEFT CAMP DIX: Last week saw the last of the A.E.F. demobilization at Camp Dix, where half a million soldiers have been converted into civilians. As there are several thousand wounded Americans in hospitals and convalescent stations the demobilization department will not close at once, as groups of these men are arriving at Camp Dix every week.
Horatio Taylor obituary,1918
from the New Jersey Courier, 18 Oct 1918 Horatio Taylor of Forked River is reported to have died in France during September, the telegram from the war department being received by Mrs. Charles Taylor on Saturday last. Young Taylor went to Camp Dix in the draft and from there to Camp Lee, Va; and thence to France in the 139th infantry. There are two stories around, one that he was killed in battle and the other that he died from disease. He married Miss Fennimore of Bordentown. A brother, Arthur Taylor, is also in the army.
Henry Werner obituary, 1975
from the Tuckerton Beacon, 11 Dec 1975 Henry C. Werner, jr., 51, of the Johnstons Training and Research Center, Bordentown, died on 6 Dec at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Phila. He was born in Cliffside Park and had been employed by the State of New Jersey for over 22 years. He had been Superintendent of Cottage Life at the Training Center. He was a World War II veteran of the navy. He is survived by the widow Carolyn, a son, Henry C. III at home and his father, Henry Sr. of Barnegat. Funeral services were held Dec 10 from the Hubert Funeral Home, 517 Farsworth Ave, Bordentown and burial was in Bordentown Cemetery. Memorial contribution may be made to the American Cancer Society.