Newspapers: Abstracts NJ Barnaget Courier, 1902 & 1906 Ocean County, New Jersey Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Stephenie Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nj/njfiles.htm ********************************************************* Barnegat Courier Transcribed by Terri from records held at the Ocean County Historical Society 10 April 1902 Mr. Charles Hillary and family of New York, have moved in the Hirsch house on Snyder avenue. Mr. Hillary expects to start the steam laundry soon. From four to eight carloads of gravel a day are being shipped from the siding just west of the P.R.R. depot to Sea Side Park, where new streets are being built. The members of the Berkeley golf club were charmingly entertained on Friday last by Miss Anne Cowperthwait. The decorations of carnations and palms were very pretty. Rev. M.H. Pogson of New York, will give a lecture on Temperance in the Presbyterian church on Thursday evening April 17th. at 7:30, under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The W.C.T.U. of Ocean county will hold its spring convention at Barnegat on May 8th. This was decided at a meeting of the executive committee held on Thursday afternoon last at the M.E. church of this village. Walter R. Murray and E. Allen VanNuys of Princeton Seminary, spoke on mission work in China and Oregon at the Presbyterian church on Sunday evening. The Methodist congregation united with the Presbyterian on this occasion. Charles E. Irons spent several days in Mt. Holly recently as a witness in the suit brought by Joseph Wharton of Philadelphia, against the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, to recover damages for timber burned over 1400 acres of pine land. A number of the relatives of the late John H. Pittenger of Monmouth county, will contest the will by which the entire estate was left to decedent's brother, Dennison Pittenger. It is said that there is an earlier will by which all of his relatives would share, and they want the later will set aside. Should it be done, A.S. Pittenger of this place would be one of the beneficiaries. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Barnegat Courier Transcribed by Terri from records held at the Ocean County Historical Society 13 Dec. 1906 Barnegat The wedding of Miss Mineola Chandler, daughter of Capt. Alex S. Chandler, to Mr. W.M. Clark, will take place in New York on Dec. 15. W.G. Conrad and wife have been spending a few days in Trenton, returning Monday. Mrs. and Miss Stephenson were visitors to Philadelphia last week. Mrs. Kate Falkinburg has been spending a few days with her sister. Capt. W.F. Randolph was home last week. Mrs. J.C. Bennett and Mrs. A.H. Tolbert entertained the Ladies Aid Society at the latter's home on Thursday last. The Cook Comedy Company commenced a weeks engagement at the opera house last Friday. The sugar ship which went ashore at Pehala last Monday, called several visitors from here, but when they got over there they found that the wrecking steamer had pulled her off and she was on her way to Philadelphia. The interior alterations in the former drug store for the purpose of a bank are about done and the safe is expected (missing word). Then with a little paint our new bank will be ready for business. Report says that the schooner Florence I. Lockwood, Capt. Wm. A Taylor, of this town, was lost last Thursday, but no particulars are at hand at this time. Capt. Charles Cox, one of our oldest citizens, died on Saturday evening last at the age of 87 years. Capt. Cox has been an invalid for a number of years past. Before his affliction he was one of our best known baymen and was a favorite captain with the visiting sportsmen. His funeral was held yesterday and interment was made here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------