Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-07-04

a few days at Wildwood.
Mrs. Chester Denning is about
again after serious illness.
Miss Elizabeth VanSciver is visit
ing her sister at Utica, N. Y.
Miss Mary Morrell has returned
from three-weeks visit to Wild
wood.
Miss Belle Perkins, of Bridesburg,
is visiting her aunt, Miss Peters, of
Warren street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Flounters, of
Philadelphia, visited Mrs. Frederick
Melchoir the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cowan and
Mrs. James Gibson have gone to the
Maine coast for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Sinex, who
are slightly unwell expect to occupy
their home at Thomaston, Maine,
shortly.
Miss Josephine Love and Miss
Hannah Maloney, of Philadelphia,
were Sunday evening visitors to
Beverly.
Frederick Melchoir, of Warren
street, left on Monday for California
to visit his daughter, Mrs. Edwin
Stevenson.
Miss Elizabeth Mingin, of Phila-
delphia, spent Tuesday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. q. P. Wells, of
| Church street.
! Loren Vandegrift, of Riverside,
employed at the Progressive Press,
has been suffering the past week
with a severe attack of sunburn.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. 7. Morrell left
on Friday for Ocean City, where
they will spend a short season in
the bungalow on Asbury avenue.
Cases on the appeal list of the
Common Pleas Court that are to be
tried without juries will begin be-
fore Judge Slaughter on July 18th.
Of the thousands of fans at the
Babe Ruth Delanco- Burlington
County League All-Stars baseball
game on Tuesday evening, we be-
lieve Beverly must have numbered
nearly thousand.
| Miss Katherine, daughter of DIR.
George Tracey, left on Friday for
| Capitol Island, Maine, where she
will spend the summer with Miss
Hildergarde Stees, who is now maxi
ing short stay in Boston
Miss Mary Gregory fell over car
pet sweeper in her room on Warren
street, on Friday last, injuring her
back SO badly as to require her re-
moval to the Jefferson Hospital, Phil
adelphia. in an ambulance.
The fire whistle at the Wall Rope
| Works was blown at l1.35 on Fri
day morning last, but the flames
were soon subdued by the company
fire fighters, the services of the local
companies not being needed.
Flames from the debris of the
Grubb mansion, destroyed week ago
Sunday evening, which show at in
tervals, are still being looked after
by our local fire fighters, fearing
that a high wind might endanger
the surrounding properties.
The high wind and deluge of
rain OH Wednesday afternoon at five
o'clock broke with terrific force
over this city. Several trees were
uprooted and many branches were
strewn about the streets. The heavy
rain taxed the culverts for time
to take care of the overflow, which
rose to the top of the curbing on
the sidewalks.
r. T. Laws, of Edgewater Park,
assistant to the general works
manager of the United States Cast
Iron Pipe and Foundry Company,
and Thomas Anthony, also of Edge
water Park, chief engineer at the
same plant, sailed on Saturday for
England, where they win make an
inspection of foundry buildings in
the interest Of the East Burlington
concern.
The beach along the Delaware
River is still invaded by scores Of
bathers during the heated period.
The approach to the beach is from
the street ends as the property own
ers have closed their lawns to the
public. 1t will be possible, however
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