The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-02-07


Mornangslde Dflye- New York, ~ MS
81 year, alter an illness Ct one week
Funeral service was held Ian S2Iad, IN
the Calvafy Presbyterian clutch, New
burg, O which be YVES q member w
years, and elder 20 years, and Sunday
school superintendent. Besides his
son and daughter, he is also survived
py brother Phlietus Howell and
year ago. and then made 4 trip e. the
II waiian Islands to visit his nephew.
rnwapn e1u.vpp
80 - - = : -
many Years clerk. 10 the belmont
Hotel while It was under the manage
ment Of w w Dilts, died Jan 30 1924,
u II, Francis hospital. Trenton,
where ne was taken the day before.
his BODY was brought 70 Freehold,
and funeral service was held Saturday
morning 1890 clock, at Undertaken
freeman 8, AZ East Main street. After
the funeral, his body was taken for
interment to Doylestown, Pa, where
he was born September 18th. 1860, the
son OF Abner Cleaver and Elizabeth
Heft. When boy, he went to Wash
lngtown, d. G., to work for the Union
News Company. He was there five
years and then engaged with Mr. Dllts,
who, was then operating the Windsor
2 1 9eeI y L as ne caAne 70 fIee-
I s, NJ ~ 81 p, 800 - u = ,s
Dilfs died three aor, /, v;ro ssars
81 vaara n liz service Ie Wr 1sIaa zar :
survived ~ two hrrfharsr.ss,, ,.se,r,
CIeaver III yVes+fialS N and V1arraT,
f,Iaavar IL pbiiadaIr,f, z 80 y
MRS. sILAs EsTELLE
Mrs, Estella Fstalia wife If Silas "a.
telle. a contractor Of 7llg Evergreen aye
nue., Bradley Beach died earlv Al ondav
morning at the Ann Nav hospital fol-
loving an ouerafion far ;ntesf5naI Oh
struefion Mrs FsteIla for for, ,,sa-I, rsz
Miss Estelle Of lakewood She had lived
IA Bradley Beach 9syesre Re sid h ~,
husband. She Is survived l,v 4 fiaTsgft -a
Miss Fstella EstelIe I;v;ys, ~ 5- $500
three sisters Mrs. lanes 7.la vt.,T, a,,5
Mrs. Herbert Matthews ~ T,akewood.
Mrs. Julia White Of Red Rank. ana 4
brother. Clarence Estelle al I,akewnod
Private funeral services wera beId
at the EstelIe home Thursdav after
noon at 1.80. Rev. 4. Rupert Noel
rector of st. James FnieeoFsI chnrei,
Of Bradley Beach officiating
Interment was made IN Woodland
cemetery. Lakewood.
,a
- : ?. oono rsA
Wnen MIS-. Frank b. Conover, wife
Of the president OF the Tiffany studio,
NeW 1ork; leIs ner nome on Park =
avenue, New York. Saturday, to go
shopping ner 64-years-old husband, Ill
apeo, klssed ner ana SAID:
IoouDge, nave good time. When
you return Wen 1nlsn that game OF
prlqge we started iast night
Upon returning nonae several hours
later A1ls. GoneveE found her husband
missing ana the bathroom door lock
ed.
Sne suInhoned ponce officers who
Iolno tne Dody OF Conoyer ID the
bathroom. his throat had been
slasiaeo ana ne held razor In his
mana.
FRANK Brnen Conover Was born at
q afiporos Jan. 4, 1906, son OF Judge
Cnarles II. and Mary Ann Conover-
For four generations the family his
tory mas been Identified with that Of
Monmouth county, their Dutch ances-
tors oeing among the earlier settlers of
the state,
Mr- Conover's grandfather John
Ed wards was a graduate Of Princeton
college and possessed Of abundant
means lead life Of quiet leisure. He
was an old-line Wing and a COM
munleant Of tne Old Tennent church
near Freehold.
Frank 3. Con0ver was prepared Tor
college at Freehold Institute. He enter
ed Rutgers college IN 1876, continued
until he reached his junior year, then
abandoned college for business ca
reer. He accepted position as ticket
clerk for the New York Central rail-
road, holding the position fer SIX
years, then exchanging his position
for q similar one with the New Jersey
Central road.
In New York he made rapid strides
until ne attained the post OF superln;
tendenr OF the Freehold division. In
the meantime he had organized the
monmouth Ice company becoming ac-
tive n It's management. The busi-
ness OF tbs company rapidly gaining
volume ne resigned from his con
necTlQn With the railroad to give the