Art of Allen Farm Sold Report on Water Plant
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RED BANK rOLUME XXXII. NO. 13. RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1909. PAGES 1 TO PtUMBEB BUYS A HOUSE. AUTO HITS BUGGY TWICE SOLD. > ART OF ALLEN FARM SOLDJHUM r. Oonway Paroliii«o» Soata on Mloh»el DosnaUy'i Place Purohmud by REPORT ON WATER PLANT Prospect ATUU, KNOCKED IT Of A DITCH AND THEM a Buffalo Man. CARLES A. MCCLASKEY BUYS THE J AMES P. ALLEN James P, Conway, a plumber who has W OUT. Michael Donnelly sold hia farm has been employed by Howard Frey for near Lincroft last Thursday to Cor.WILLIAM H. HOUSTON MAKES STATEMENT CON- some time, has bought one of Jacob Tho Wajfon Brekan Mid tfaa Automobil* SHARE OF THE PLACE FOR $3,500. Also BMiififl AnothT Anto ttoni nelius Roach of. Buffalo, New York, CERNING THE RED BANK WATER WORKS. Kridel's houseion Prospect street. The Through a Bubad Wlza ronoa Into a The farm is on the old Morrisville sale of the property was made by Harry u a Strip of Land 135 Feet Wide and 1,644 Feet Long on Dltoh »t Tlnton Pull*. road and adjoins Dr. Willinm H, He Has Been Superintendent of the Works Since January 18th—- A. Hawkins. The house has seven Two automobile accidents, one at Lawea's place. It contains ten acres. the Comer of Shrewsbury Avenue and the New Exteniion of rooms, a bath room, and has gas, electric Little Silver and the other at Tinton The price paid by Mr. Roach waa The Receipts and the Expenses—How the Money Was Sp«nt— the Newman Springs Road, With the Long Frontage on the lights and other improvements. The Falls, occurred Sunday night. No one$3,000. Mr. Donnelly has lived on Amount of Coal Used —Recommendation* and Suggestions Re* New Road—The Property Contain* About Five Acres. price paid was $3,600., Four of these was seriously hurt, but those who saw the place sixteen years. It was for- houses were originally placed in Mr. the accidenti lay it was little short of mcrly owned by Aaron Patterson and garding Hydrant and Sprinkling Taxes Refunding Bonds, The part of the Charles G. Allen farm ot be replaced for less than $3,000 and Hawkins's hands for sale, but only two marvelous that everybody concerned was bought by Mr. Donnelly at a William H. Houston, the head of of this year. Four hydrants have Ln Shrewsbury avenue which was owned his makes the property a bargain. of them now remain in the market. was not killed. sheriff's sale. the water department of Red Bank, been raised in order to bring them to by the children of James P. Allen was Mr. McCIaskey is a milkman and he Charles Wright of Little Silver was made a very complete statement of a proper height above the street grades old last Saturday to Charles A, Mc- as conducted the place as a milk farm driving home from Long Branch with a the water works to the commissioners where the streets have been filled in. wkey, who has occupied the Allen or the past 26 years, during the whole HE GOT HIS FARM BACK. young woman who Is employed as a HELPING THE^ HOSPITAL of Red Bank at their last regular Over 100 hydrants have been over- irm 26 years. The farm is located ime he has occupied it. He will eon- cook at J. J. Mahoney's summer resi- meeting, Tho statement embodied hauled and repairs made where needed. fust outside of the town of Red Bank, inue in the milk business and he ex- PTJECHASEBS UNABLE TO 9AT FOB dence at Shrewsbury, when his wagon MANX DONATIONS MADE AT THE not only all tho facta concerning the One new gate valve was put in to re- It has a total frontage of 1,861 lecta to continue leasing the rest of the SCOBEYTILLE was struck by an automobile between BED BASK FAIK. water works in the present stage, but place a broken valve on Chestnut feet on Shrewsbury avenue. It extends arm. Little Silver and Geeanport. In the contained recommendations and sug-street and thirty gate valves M». E. B. Bnekatt of Chapol Hill S«- pastward from Shrewsbury avenue to the The strip of the farm bought by Mr. Smith C. Pitcher's Farm Bold Salt rail automobile were six men who were on gestions as to operation of the water been repacked. These gate valves are McCIaskey contains about five acres. to Two Perth Amboy Men Who Paid cureu About SlSO la Cash and a Very >rammond property, a distance of about 9600 Down—They Could Not Salia tHa their way to Long Branch. Mr. Wright Larg-e Quantity of Flower*, Fruit, department in the future. set In the mains and are used to shot 1,650-feat. Besides having on it the house and out- Balance and They Will Give Up Place. was on the extreme right side of the Veg-«table», Jellies and Canned Oooda. Mr, Houston, like all his predeces- off the water in certain streets when buildings of the farm, it has a frontage Charles G. Allen had seven children Smith C, Pitcher, who sold his farm road. He had a lantern on his wagon, sors in charge of the water depart- repaira to the mains are necessfty." ~ along its entire length on the new ex- The Long Branch hospital received a the farm was divided into seven at Seobeyville last fall to Michael and but the light went out shortly before ment, has found that it is impossible Samara to Service Kpai. tension of the Newman Springs road. the wagon was struck. e amount of supplies and also a Ips of land, each of which had a Leo LatkonskI of Perth Amboy, has got considerable sum of money from the to collect all quarterly bills promptly, The service pipes are the small atage_on,Shrew-sbuiy_avenue._JEach This road has recently been opened his farm back, owing to 4he inability- of TheLautomobile was going at aerate and that a good many bills run from from Shrewsbury avenue to Broad Red-Bank fair. Before thejair opened pipes which are laid in thejtraets to ip extended eastward toward Broad the purchasers to pay for the property. of about forty miles an hour and it Mrs. E. R. Brackett of Chapel Hill ar- one quarter into another. At the carry the water from the street mains et and each strip ran through the street, and it is now being converted The farm contains 105 acres and is com- flung Mr. Wright's wagon on ahead time of making his report there was into a county road. The contract to ranged to have donations of goods from to the curb line. Twelve of these irtre depth of the farm, These strips monly known as the old Thompson place. Into a ditch. The chauffeur lost control those who made exhibits atf*t^e fair, about $8,800 due on open water ac- pipes have broken since the beginning land ranged from 185 feet to S2§ construct a county road from Holmdel It is on the stone road leading from of the machine and he jumped out. counts. This is about the average to Red Bank, to connect with the-atone but who did not care to take their ex- of the year. Three of these service it In width. One of these strips went Seobeyville to Colt's Neck, The automobile struck the wagon again hibits back home. A booth was ar- amount which has been overdue for pipe breaks were on Maple avenue road on Broad street, was awarded last and knocked It on top of a bank. The j each child, Last fall the Latkonskis agreed to ranged by Mrs. Brackett for the recep- several years past. It amounts to a and were due to the caving down of Charles G. Allen's children were Roh- summer, and work on the road has pay $8,000 for the place and they made horse started to run away, but one of little less than the bills for one quar- been going on for the past two months. tion of these goods and this was ap- the sewer trench. The nine other t Allen, Jr., James P. Allen, George K. a deposit of $600. They own some prop- the autoists scrambled out of the machine ter, and is about the average amount breaks were on Shrewsbury aWrrae The hollow near Broad street has been propriately decorated by Mrs. Brackett, n, Miss Margaret Allen, Miss Mary erty at Perth Amboy and they expected and caught the horse by the bridle. overdue In all water companies and and were due to the eating away of filled In and the road from Shrewsbury Mr, Wright and the young-woman who who was assisted by Miss Faith Hos- |iUlen, Mrs. Deborah Applegate, wife of to sell this property and pay Mr. Pitcher ford, Mils Betty Irwin and Miss Mary public water works. All of this the pipes by the electricity which es- ohn'S. Applegate.and J, Trafford Allen, avenue to Broad street is now being the remainder of the money. They was in the wagon with him, were thrown money is collectable, since the water capes into the earth from the trolley used by,., residents of Everett, LIncroft out but were not hurt beyond some Shields. Mrs. Brackett was dressed as ibert AUendied some time ago and Ma were unable to^ find a purchaser for a Red Cross nurie. One of the inci- bills are a lien on property, the same tracks.