Cora Anderson killed by lightning, 1920
New Jersey Courier 3 Jun 1920
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Lighting storm, 1916
New Jersey Courier 21 Jul 1916 The electrical storm of Thursday night, July 13, played many pranks in this section, and pretty well demoralized electric light service for the time being. It kept the force of local company busy repairing damage it had done. The queerest prank was at Hooper and Dayton avenues, where it supposedly melted off a wire and ran the electric current into the ground. It is claimed that the next morning the ground around an electric light pole on that corner was so charged with electricity that a horse stepping upon it fell down, and a cat running over it was nearly killed.
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
Bad Storm in Burlington County, 1858
From the New Jersey Mirror 26 Aug 1858 The storm on Tuesday afternoon of last week, was very severe in different parts of the County. Near the Red Lion, a man named George Bartlett, was struck by lightning, and instantly killed. He was a carpenter and had been at work on the house of Josiah Prickitt. When the storm came up, he went in the house, and took a seat near the chimney, in the kitchen, Mr. Prickitt sitting only a few feet from him. The fluid ran down the chimney, immediately by the side of Mr. Bartlett, killing him instantly, while Mr. Prickitt was but slightly stunned. In various parts of Springfield, the wind and hail did considerable damage. Fields of corn were completely prostrated, trees and fences blown down, and a large quantity of window-glass broken. In the house of James B. Warner, 71 panes of glass were broken, and in the house of George Gandy, 49 panes were demolished and scattered, by the force of the wind and hail. At Francis B. Warner's, a chimney was b