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YEARS AGO RED BANK. teachers is the street public Mulford Thorpe of Red Bank went All the they Harrison Shampanore of Little in pen in his yard. Dogs got the and the death. Mr. and Mrs James Allen of Keyport left for St. Peteraburg, Russia, where Mr. Allen had got Miss Fannie Scott, daughter of John Scott of Headden's Corner, died of consumption at the Age of eighteen years. David Bray of Celt's Neck with A party of friends spent a night coon hunting and got three raccoons and eight Mrs. Caroline Thomas, Mrs. Henry Field and Harvey G. Conover were confirmed in Christ church at Middletown. Edward Walling of Navesink cut off three fingers of his left hand while working with a circular saw. Henry 8. White was elected chairman of the Monmouth county Republican executive committee. Jerome Hill, aged five years, son of Whitall S. Hill of Broad street, died suddenly of pneumonia. Elenah Phillips, infant son of John Phillips of Atlantic Highlands, died suddenly from croup. John Maxson of Locust Point was kicked in the abdomen by a horse and was severely injured. Edward McFreely's house at Belford caught fire and was damaged to the amount of $50. Twenty-seven chickens were stolen from Christopher Snedeker of Colt's Neck. Over 140 hogs died of hog colera in Middletown township within two months. Twenty Years Ago. A scare was started among some of the depositors of the First national bank of Red Bank by an unfounded rumor. Over 200 depositors drew out their money. Many of them took the money to the Second national bank to deposit it. Isaac B. Edwards, who was president of the Second national bank, asked all new depositors who came to the bank during the run on the First national bank where the money came from that they wanted to deposit in the Second bank. When he was told that the money had been withdrawn from the First national bank he refused to accept it. He told the depositors that the First national bank was as sound as a dollar, that they should not withdraw their money from that bank, and he told them to go right back and put the money where they had taken it from. Other residents of Red Bank, when they heard of the run on the bank, took whatever money they could get hold of and went in throngs to the First national bank to deposit it in order to give confidence in the bank to those who were taking out their money. James L. Terhune was cashier of the First national bank and a number of Red Bankers went to him with offers of money to meet any emergency, but he replied that he had money enough of his own to satisfy every depositor in the bank. He thanked the men for their generous offer and said he appreciated their kindness and friendship, but that he thought the bank would weather the run all right. Charles VanBrunt of Tinton Falls and a couple of friends from Asbury Park went coon hunting at Pine Brook. The dogs treed a coon and Mr. VanBrunt, who was 86 years old and a veteran of the civil war, was foremost in dislodging the coon and in capturing it. The coon weighed 28 pounds and was the biggest coon said to have ever been caught in that neighborhood. Mrs. Clara Banks Rocap, daughter of Henry J. Child of Red Bank, died at her home at Bridgeton of hasty consumption. She had graduated from Red Bank high school in 1890 and for several years she was a teacher in the Red Bank public schools. Her husband and two small children survived her. Miss Mabel Rankin, daughter of Donald Rankin of Fair Haven, and Myron VanDyke Brown of Red Bank, were married at the Presbyterian parsonage by Rev. Samuel H. Thompson. The couple began housekeeping in Mr. Brown's new home on Harrison avenue. Holly Olmstead gave a roast pig and clam chowder supper at his hotel at Tinton Falls. One of the diners was James Leddy of Red Bank, who ruined a new pair of trousers and scalded his leg very severely by upsetting a dish of hot chowder in his lap. A fair and supper was held at the Colt's Neck Reformed church, and $150 was cleared. There were a number of guessing contests, among the prize winners being Miss Lizzie Soffel, Miss Jennie Foster, Mrs. Edwin H. Statesir and Mrs. Frederick Miss Emma H. Stilwagon, daughter of John H. Stilwagon and Bronson P. Butler, both of Holmdel, were married by Rev. Garrett Wyckoff. The couple made a wedding tour through the South, Joseph Frost of New Monmouth was caught under the body of a wagon which turned over in a runaway. One of his legs was so badly sprained that he was laid up a couple of weeks. William Wilson, the storekeeper at Pine Brook, raised 25 bushels of seed. onions from a half pound of onion T. E. Huyler of Eatontown was appointed truant officer of that children who had been playing bookey ever school Mr. and Mrs. John Giberson of and number of party friends who their farm and bagged great of game Walter A. Hogan of Rector place of nearly year. was 48 years old and left wife and children. who had recently killed himelf, left will in which he left everything possessed to his wife, Emma Harry B. White of Asbury Park, son of Arthur H. White, a former resident of Red Bank, was married to Miss Elizabeth T. Reed of that place, Mrs. Caroline H. Meeker of Oceanic died suddenly of heart trouble and diabetes. She was 64 years old and was found dead in The firm of Porter & Hogan got the contract for paving Broad street and Front street with brick at a bid of $2.51 per square yard. Mrs. J. F. Denninger's house at Middletown caught fire and damage of several hundred dollars was done before the fire was put out Thomas L. O'Brien of Middletown township near Atlantic Highlands gathered 285 bushels of corn from 2 1-2 acres of land. Charles Conover Irons of Port Monmouth died from a complication of diseases. He left a widow and three grown children. Rev. William V. Wilson of New Monmouth, pastor of the New Monmouth Baptist church, celebrated his 96th birthday. Edward Viering and Theodore Jontry of Belford left for Florida, where they expected to work at the carpenter trade. Thomas S. Field bought the William W. Conover farm of 125 acres between Red Bank and Middletown for $80,000. Alfred Hendrickson of Fair Haven spent two days gunning at Colt's Neck and all he shot was a henhawk. Douglas Cook of Belford cut his hand very badly while working on Joseph Havens's new house at that place. Mr. and Mrs. George M. Quackenbush of Little Silver celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. The Navesink hook and ladder fire company of Red Bank held a fair and cleared $1,360.
