Assorted county news, 1916

New Jersey Courier 14 Jul 1916

Miss Zilda Stevens of Marlton, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Wills.

Mrs. Seidenburg of Pittsburg is the guest of Mrs. Hirshblond.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred R. Gandy are at Riverside house for the summer as their customer is.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morris and three daughters of Chicago spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Morris.

Joseph Hensley of Trenton spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. John Dorsett

W.A.Crane of the New York customer house was in town yesterday.

Mrs. Wm. Grant of Hooper Avenue is entertaining her father from Jersey City.

William Britton, wife, and daughter, Beatrice, of Philadelphia, motored down Sunday for a week with Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bills.

Mr and Mrs. A.C. King returned yesterday from several weeks at Maplewood, NH in the White Mountains. Mr. King did some fine shooting while there at the tournament. He was a member of a squad of five that broke the world's record by smashing 497 targets out of a possible 500, each man shooting at 100. Fred Plumb of Atlantic City made the best score, 200 straight. King made a score of 99 out of 100.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. David Parker Gravatt of West Collingswood on Sunday. It weighs nine pounds, so the delighted parents L.B. Gravatt, and wife, report.

Mrs. Mark Meltzer of New York motored down recently from her summer home at Belmar to call upon her sister, Mrs. F. Lipschuetz.

Mrs. Pearl Applegate's house on Union Street is enclosed and the roof on.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schwarz expect to go to housekeeping in the Mrs. Samuel Burn house on Main Street.

Mr. Brahmer quit as manager of the Pine Beach Inn last Saturday and Harry Walsh is again in charge of that hotel.

The two Cattus boys, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John V.A. Cattus, have gone out with the sevent regiment of New York.

William T. Giberson is building two more houses on South main street on the site from which he recently moved another house.

A.P. Greim has started work on his new factory at Birdville in Berkeley. it is of concrete block, 24 x 84 feet on the ground floor.

The Huddy Park flower beds are gay with bloom. Every passing automobile and all the passengers on the CRR trains can see this pretty park.

It is quite an improvement to have the street sprinkled on Sunday--more auto traffic that day than any other, and consequently there was formerly more dust.

During last night's shower, lightning struck the barn of Mrs. James Britton on Seward Avenue. It had a mow full of fresh hay and there was a cow in the stall. The lightning split off boards in several places but did not set the hay afire, nor hurt the cow.

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