The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
Odds and Ends.

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The annual ball of the Monmouth
County Liquor Dealers Association
will be held in the Ocean Theatre,
Long Branch, Wednesday, April s.
Barnum's circus will be at Long
Branch on August 18th.
Atlantic Highlands is to have q
new depot.
Mr.. w. G. Lefferts, superintendent
of the Westminster Sunday School,
| Asbury Park. has been presented
with handsome Oxford bible by the
/ scholars.
A Methodist minister is authority
for the statement that there are but
two Democrats in the New Jersey
Conference.
In the New Brunswick District of
| the NJ. e. Conference there are so
churches, 10,919 members, AS local
preachers, 40 parsonages, 81 Sunday
Schools, 10, 1874 scholars.
| After April 1st, Dentist George B.
Herbert, of Manasquan, will be per-
manently located at Asbury Park.
During the month ending March
4th, there were 1873 pounds of
mail matter handled at the Keyport
| postoffice.
Matawan will have an election for
two borough commissioners for the
term of three years, on April 4th.
1t is rulnored that the New Jersey
Central Railroad shops will be moved
from Manchester to either Red Bank
or Eatontown.
Monmouth county has 11S patients
in the insane asylum at Trenton. OF
these 81 are men and 81 women. This
total is 80 more than The coun-
TVS quota. Two of Monmouth's
patients are supported directly by
the State, but last year the county
paid $1T, ,663 S3 for the care of her
patients.
School Trustees:-R Red Bank, Chas.
D. Warner; Port Monmouth, Henry
J. Frost; Highlands, A. HI. Bernadon;
ford, Jos. S. Clark; Atlantic High
lands, r. S. Snyder; Keansburgh,
Henry Seeley; Navesink, John M.
Johnson; Long Branch, Thomas r.
Woolley, A. I. Vanderveer; Asbury
Park, Lewis Rainear.
The next quarterly meeting Of the
| Central Endeavor Local Union will
| be held in the First Church, Gran
bury, on Friday evening, March 31st.
Addresses are expected from Rev. nj.
Bullock, of Allentown, and Rev. E.
NJ. Ferguson, of Trenton. Miss Pow
nell, of Janesburg, will read paper
on Junior Work.
Mrs. Deborah Mount. sister of the
late Alfred Perrine, of Hightstown,
died suddenly on Saturday, at her
residence near Englishtown. The
funeral took place on Wednesday of
last week, With interment in the
burying ground at the Old Tennent
church.
Captain John f. Brewer, the crack
shot of Bridgeton, recently issued a
challenge to DR.. w F. Carver, of
England, TO shoot match Of 200 live
birds for 81 900 side and the cup
pionship of the world Thechallenge
has been accepted and 500 forfeit
has been posted by Carver.
Gen. E. Burd Grubb, ex-Minister
to Spain, was presented with a son
and heir Monday morning. Both
Mrs Grubb and the child are doing
well. The mother was formerly Miss
Violet Sopwith, an English beauty
of noble parentage, who was called
the 'Rose of Lismore." Gen. Grubb
met her at Madrid. and their wedding
last year was brilliant affair.
A meeting of the Board of Free
holders was called for yesterday at
Hub Wardell's Port-au-Peck Hotel
at Pleasure Bay The meeting was
called at the request of the railway
company, which wants permission to
cross the Pleasure Bay bridge on its
way from West End to Monmouth
Park. From Monmouth Park it is
proposed to go to Red Bank.
In addition to the information con-
veyed in our obituary notice of Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Hyres printed last week
the following has been furnished us:
Mrs. Hyres was born Jan. IA, 1920. at
Prospertown, Ocean county, and
was married to Gorden Hyres, Oct.
13, 1888. In the spring of 1874 she
removed to the farm at Red Valley
where she died. having lived there
46 wears. She leaves the following
children to mourn her loss: Mrs.
Forman Hendrickson, (widow0 Mrs.
James Nelson, Edward A. Hyres,
Mrs. Reuben G. Strahan, Mrs. Chas.
P. Thompson, Mrs. Chas. G. Coward,
Mrs. Samuel Thompson. She also
leaves "a grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
4 -f.s n. l. =, Ia.f.