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Saturday, May 3, 1890
April 30
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Robbins and son, Sanford, have been visiting friends at Bridgeton.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Cook attended the funeral of Mr. Cook's aunt at Greenwich yesterday.
George Crouse, oyster dealer at Maurice River, yesterday sent via W. J. R. R. ten barrels of Maurice River Cove plant oysters consigned to a firm in Germany to be used as an experiment.
Mrs. James Morris was shopping in Bridgeton yesterday.
George C. Sockwell left yesterday for Philadelphia to take a position as steward aboard the steamer Columbia plying between that city and Bristol.
Benj. T. Powell, of Cedarville, was in town surveying property yesterday.
Mrs. R. H. Bloxsom returned home last night from an extended visit to relatives in Philadelphia.
The schooner Cygnet left yesterday for the planting grounds, with a new bow sprit.
Al. Tallman, of Swedesboro, was in town yesterday on business.
Capt. Jefferson Gaskill came home from aboard his schooner Gertrude with the measles Howard Harris will handle the wheel during the Captain's illness.
William O'Hara, of Bridgeton, is visiting friend here.
Mrs. Frank Pepper left yesterday for Bridgeton to visit relatives.
The friends of Miss Kate Silliman are preparing to present her with a handsome gold watch, as an evidence of their esteem. Miss Silliman, who has been one of the leaders in a so-called watch "contest," will withdraw from the contest on the advice of teachers because of what they charge is unfair play on the part of the publisher. The watch which is to be presented to her is like that to be awarded in the "contest" and is one of those "$75 prize watches" which John C. Sheldon, of Bridgeton, is selling for $35 or less.
NEMO.
April 29
The schooner Nettie and Lena is in the dry dock at Snell's ship yard undergoing repairs.
Mr. Hiram Edler, of Millville, has been visiting friends here.
Jesse Prichard, Jr., and Belford Harris have been visiting friends at Dragstown.
Joseph J. Low is painting the tin roof of the dwelling house of Wm. H. Berry.
Captain James Jesse of the sloop Colfax ran in here yesterday for repairs.
Wm. Bonham, agent for the firm of A. W. Wright & Co., druggists, was in town yesterday.
Captain Stephen T. Hearn, Robert DuBois and James Morris start to-morrow on a gunning expedition up the Bay. The party will sail in Mr. DuBois' yacht.
Miss Clara Lake is visiting friends in Bridgeton.
Liveryman Warrington L. Hand was in Vineland on business yesterday.
Mrs. Wm. Eaton left yesterday to visit her parents at Bridgeton.
George Philips and Wilbert Lore spent Sunday at Haleyville.
C. M. Pinkard left yesterday for Philadelphia.
Harry Graham, of the firm of Michner & Co., of Phildelphia, was in town visiting his customrs yesterday.
NEMO.
April 28
Mrs. M. F. Stell, Jr., and daughter, Lillian, of Fairton, have been visiting Mrs. Jacob Turpin.
Hammit Robbins, of Bridgeton, spent Sunday with his parents.
Captain Oliver Sneade, of Bivalve, visited Bridgeton on Saturday.
Engineer Jesse Bacon, of the West Jersey ferry boat, has moved his family to Bridgeton.
Oscar Buzby has returned home from a visit to Dividing Creek.
Mr. Thos. Douglass and son, Samuel, of Cape May, have been visiting friends here.
Henry S. Robbins was doing Bridgeton on business Saturday.
NEMO.
April 25
Lewis Williams, of C. R. Scull & Son's wall paper establishment, of Bridgeton, has been beautifying the interior of the residence of our townsman, Timothy Bateman.
J. O. Heritage has arrived home from a business trip to Philadelphia.
George Robbins, Sr. was doing Bridgeton on business yesterday.
What might have been a serious fire was discovered by one of the engineers on the Central Road, in the blacksmith shop of Isaac Reeves on Wednesday morning last. He kindly stopped the train and notified Mr. Reeves, who, with the assistance of another gentleman and a few buckets of water, succeeded in extinguishing the flames.
George Donnelly, of Millville, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Henry Lee.
J. G. Brill, segar dealer, of Philadelphia, was in town yesterday.
Passenger train No. 809 ran over a valuable hound dog, just south of Cedarville station Wednesday morning.
David Blizzard, of Bivalve, visited...
Liveryman, Warrington Hand is beautifying the appearance of his residence with paint.
John Hollinger has purchased a watch dog. John says he is so powerful that he will pick up the work bench and walk out doors with it.
Three of our townsmen left here last Sunday morning to make the trip to New York and return the same day, and upon leaving New York they took a train that would give them ample time upon their arrival at Philadelphia to make the connection for home, but to the sad disappointment of the boys an accident occurred, delaying its progress so that they had only thirteen minutes upon their arrival at Broad street to get to the West Jersey Ferry. Tom Godfrey says he didn't know George Lloyd could run, but he did run like a race horse leaving Jim Fowler way in the rear.
Joseph S. Turner, Select Guard, together with Select Commander Ferguson, of Camden, visited White Cross Castle, A. O. of M. C., at Atlantic City, on Monday night last.
Mrs. D. T. Robbins has been in Philadelphia this week purchasing another new lot of millinery goods. She has a full line of all the latest styles.
NEMO.
Saturday, May 10, 1890
May 3
George McGee came home yesterday from the Western shore to spend the day with his family.
Captain Wm. E. Fowler was doing Bridgeton on business yesterday.
Long Reach presented a pretty sight last evening as the boats were returning from their week's work.
Mrs. Martin Woolford, of Berrytown, has been visiting Mrs. Ellis Cain.
NEMO.
May 5
The demand for the NEWS Saturday night exceeded the large number of extra copies received. Quite a crowd assembled at the Post Office anxious for papers. The NEWS was highly complimented for the full and complete accounts of the defunct institutions at Port Norris and Elmer.
Mrs. Dallas Blackman arrived home Saturday from a four months visit down Chesapeake.
Samuel Robbins has been visiting friends at Bridgeton.
A party consisting of members of both churches met at Rev. A. H. Hahn's Friday evening and enjoyed a very pleasant evening. Games and music were the amusements of the evening.
Robert Bloxsom was doing Bridgeton on business Saturday.
Isaac Reeves, the practical dredge maker, has made 70 pairs of the Peterson patent of which he a short time ago purchased the State right of Joseph J. Campbell. The dredges weighed eight tons, nine hundred and thirty pounds. Mr. Reeves also makes a round tooth bar for working in the mud for which he has a big demand.
Capt. Wm. H. Berry was in Bridgeton on business Saturday.
Wm. Souder, of Bridgeton, has been visiting friends here.
Manager Peace and C. W. Hand visited the main Bank at Camden Saturday and were advised to call a meeting of depositors and make a statement that the Bank had assets of about $28,000 and to appoint a committee to go to Camden, examine the books and consult as to the best plan of settlement. Accordingly a meeting was called Saturday evening in K. of P. Hall and the condition of the Bank discussed. It was finally decided to have a receiver appointed to settle the affairs.
NEMO.
May 7
Carpenter Howard Dixson has in course of construction an addition to the residence of Captain Stephen T. Hearn, on Main street.
John Collins, from Camden, has been making his regular visits this week.
Captain Dayton Campbell and son, Stultz, have been visiting friends in Philadelphia.
Quite a number of our citizens left yesterday to attend Court.
Chas. Riggins is soon to erect a new house on the road leading to Mauricetown.
Edward Stites was visiting relatives in Bridgeton yesterday.
Frank Deemer, the new proprietor of the Maurice River hotel was granted a license by the Court at Bridgeton yesterday.
Edward S. Moore was in town last night.
John Hollinger has been making a number of alterations to his shop and restaurant.
Mr. Harry Turner and Miss Lillie Pepper, of Dividing Creek, have been visiting Mrs. Frank Pepper.
Blacksmith Tabor Fagan and Thos. Hand, Sr., visited Mauricetown on business yesterday.
Capt. Paynter received quite a nice young horse via Central Railroad from Pleasantville on Monday last.
Belford Harris goes to Mauricetown to-morrow to build a brick wall for Harrison Sheppard, a resident of that village.
Wheelwright Charles Hayes has just finished a very pretty cutter for George Robbins, Sr.
Constable Daniel B. Ferguson left yesterday for Bridgeton to serve in that capacity during the Court session.
Ephraim Haines was doing Bridgeton yesterday on business.
Miss Ray Silvers, of Bridgeton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. James Fowler.
Harry French, agent, was in town yesterday.
A large party assembled at the residence of Daniel Turner, Jr., on Saturday evening last, to celebrate his twenty-first birthday.
Joseph O. Heritage is the Grand Juror from this township this present term of Court.
House cleaning is very fashionable with the house wives just at present.
Notices are posted at the Central depot of an important change of time to take effect Monday the 12th.
May 2
Our tobacco dealers visited Bridgeton yesterday to renew their licenses.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Prichard visited relatives at Bridgeton yesterday.
Belford Harris received a consignment of greens and pineapples yesterday from the Philadelphia markets. He informs us that he will keep a supply constantly on hand.
Lawyer Benjamin T. Powell, of Cedarville, was in town yesterday.
Captain Stephen T. Hearn, James Morris and Robert DuBois arrived home from a gunning expedition up the bay yesterday. They report game plentiful.
Postmaster John Yates, of Bivalve, was doing Bridgeton on business yesterday.
Workmen arrived here yesterday to erect a wind mill for our townsman, Edward Stites.
Mrs. Hannah Chard, of Robbinstown, passed her 101st mile stone in April last and yesterday walked to Mr. Richard Robbins', a distance of about half a mile, and took dinner with the family.
Daniel Turner is improving the appearance of his property with a new coat of paint.
Captain Wm. H. Berry, engineer of the N. Y. Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of Point Pleasant, has been visiting his father, Mr. Jehu Bowen, at North Port Norris.
Overseer of Roads Gabe Robbins is making decided improvements in the grade of the North Port Norris roads.
Grocer Timothy Bateman, of Bivalve, was in Bridgeton yesterday attending to business.
Mrs. Robert DuBois was in Bridgeton shopping yesterday.
Mr. Hayes, the wheelwright, says fun is fun but he warns the ones that painted his boat white the second time to desist from such work or perhaps they will get themselves in trouble.
A representative of an irresponsible contemporary was in town yesterday, frantically endeavoring to patch up the unfairness of its publisher.
NEMO.
Saturday, May 31, 1890
May 29
Miss Maud Carr, of Bridgeton, is visiting Miss Nellie Ware, on Church street.
The schooner Mary H. Lake came into Bivalve yesterday with her fore mast top carried away.
Wm. Parsons is giving his residence at Bivalve a coat of whitewash.
E. J. Cook, of Bivalve, was doing Bridgeton on business yesterday.
Captain L. E. Yates, oyster dealer at Bivalve, came home from a trip to Bridgeton on the evening train last night.
Ludlam M. Lee, of Bivalve, has been visiting friends at Bridgeton.
The Western Union Telegraph Company will assume control of the Cumberland and Maurice River
Telegraph line on Sunday next, June 1st, and messages that have heretofore cost fifty cents will cost only twenty-five.
Robert H. Bloxsom was doing Bridgeton on business yesterday.
May 24
Rev. Mr. Hahn, of the Baptist Church, will preach to the G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans Sunday morning.
Robert H. Bloxsom has friends from Philadelphia visiting him.
Captain Charles Lake, we are glad to state, is getting better.
Miss Laura Joseph, teacher of the primary school, left to-day for her home at Charleston, West Virginia.
Mrs. Wm. Fowler, Jr., and Miss Annie Fowler were in Bridgeton shopping yesterday.
Wm. S. Lambert, Jr., visited friends in Bridgeton yesterday.
Mrs. Wm. J. Kienzle returned from a visit to her parents at Bridgeton yesterday.
Mrs. Rev. Wm. Stewart left yesterday to visit her parents at Harrisburg, Pa.
Mrs. Wm. H. Berry, of Point Pleasant, who has been visiting her parents, returned home yesterday.
The buoy which marks the oyster rock at the entrance of Maurice River was carried away in the storm on Tuesday last.
Mrs. Levi Robbins has been visiting relatives in Bridgeton.
An extra freight train was put on the Central Road to-day on account of the increasing business.
NEMO.
May 26
All persons having flowers to donate for Memorial purposes are kindly requested to send the same to G. A. R. Hall on Friday afternoon, May 30th, by two o'clock where they will be thankfully received by the ladies of the G. A. R. in behalf of the J. C. Shinn Post.
Hammit Robbins, an employee of the Ferracute Machine Works, was home to spend Sunday with his parents.
Captain Wm. H. Berry was doing Bridgeton on business Saturday.
Nelson Pepper, teacher of Back Neck school, spent Sunday home.
Robert T. Lore, oyster dealer, of Philadelphia, was here in the interest of the oyster business Saturday.
Thos. Hand, Sr., was at Haleyville on business Saturday.
At the meeting of Idaho Tribe, No. 51, Improved Order of Red Men, on Friday night next, every member is requested to be present as business of importance is to be considered.
Captain Charles M. Peace visited Bridgeton Saturday.
Our public schools are making extensive preparations for an entertainment to be given by the scholars at the close of the schools next Friday.
Edwin M. Ware was in Bridgeton on business, Saturday.
All members of C. M. Peace Circle, No. 15 L. of the G. A. R. are requested to meet at the residence of Mrs. Jennie Andrews, on Wednesday evening, May 28th. Business of importance to transact.
NEMO.
May 27
Edward Harris and daughter, of Bridgeton, are visiting our townsman Henry Harris.
H. H. Nickelson was in Philadelphia on business yesterday.
Electrician Samuel Meyers, of Bridgeton, was in town yesterday.
Mr. McNeil, the plumber, who is putting up a wind mill and plumbing fixtures at the residence of Edward Stites, spent Sunday at his home in Bridgeton.
Prof. V. M. Rundell, Belford Harris and Frank Pepper spent Sunday with friends at Woodruff's.
NEMO.
Miss Della Mayhew, of Millville, has been visiting her uncle Stephen R. Mayhew.
Lemuel Robbins has painted his house in a very neat and attractive manner.
J. E. Prichard has put a new safe in his grocery store.
Stultz Rowley is home for a few days.
Miss Lillie Chambers, who has been suffering with the measles is much better.
J. Q. Campbell has removed to the store vacated by W. J. Robbins, Jos. Gibson takes takes the store vacated by Mr. Campbell.
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May 28
The evening of the public school entertainment will be changed to Thursday instead of Friday as intended, as the hall has been engaged for that date and the school was unable to secure it. The parents of the scholars are invited to be present. Prof. Rundell wishes it stated that he regrets very much that an invitation could not be extended to all, but the enrollment of scholars numbers about two hundred and the parents of these included will nearly fill the hall.
Captain Bert Shull was in Bridgeton on business yesterday.
Joshua Surran, of Bridgeton, was in town yesterday.
Quite a number of our residents attended the sale at Port Elizabeth, yesterday, of John T. Robbins.
Mrs. Fayette Newcomb was in Bridgeton shopping yesterday.
Howard Ferguson, of Bridgeton, was here on business yesterday.
NEMO.
May 23
A. J. Morrison, shoemaker of Bivalve, arrived home yesterday morning from a business trip to Bridgeton.
Jos. O. Heritage, grocer, has had his delivery wagon painted. Joe is bound to shine.
Master Willie Stites is visiting friends at Bridgeton.
Paul Stathem, of Cedarville, came down to Bivalve last night on the evening train.
The new house of Charles Riggins is nearing completion.
Ebbie Whitaker left for his home at Bridgeton yesterday.
Belford Harris, George Sheldon and Daniel Turner arrived home from Vineland yesterday, where they went to attend the annual re-union of the Sons of Veterans.
NEMO.