New From New Egypt, 1905
New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905:
Moses Cranmer, overseer of the poor has adopted a new method with the applicants for public funds. He keeps a large pile of wood and w hen an applicant presents himself for help he is given a job cutting wood, which saves the town's money and gives them employment. There are very few who really want work but can get it this way.
June Ridgway has sold his barber shop at Forked River and returned here, looking for a new opening. He says it is a poor climate for whiskers up there.
A number of New York Evening Journal reporters spent Sunday at Pine Bluff Inn, Point Pleasant.
A Box Social was held at the Presbyterian Church at Toms River on Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Applegate of Toms River have just returned from an extended visit in California
Moses Cranmer, overseer of the poor has adopted a new method with the applicants for public funds. He keeps a large pile of wood and w hen an applicant presents himself for help he is given a job cutting wood, which saves the town's money and gives them employment. There are very few who really want work but can get it this way.
June Ridgway has sold his barber shop at Forked River and returned here, looking for a new opening. He says it is a poor climate for whiskers up there.
A number of New York Evening Journal reporters spent Sunday at Pine Bluff Inn, Point Pleasant.
A Box Social was held at the Presbyterian Church at Toms River on Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Applegate of Toms River have just returned from an extended visit in California
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