27 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Caldwell News
Location
Caldwell, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1902
Page
1
Caldwell notices detail meetings and visits across Caldwell Township Montclair and Roseland. Local boards discuss health improvement and elections while churches plan rallies services and missions. Residents relocate visit study travel and attend schools with engagements at Epworth League and Sunday School.
The first meeting of the Woman's Club will be at Mrs Nichols' home on Friday afternoon October 10 at 2 40. The club calendar will be ready for members at this gathering. Vacation notes will be the afternoon theme and all members are urged to attend.
A Caldwell society column reports on Baroness de Packt born in South Africa and educated in Europe for a possible operatic career, with details of her family and travels. It also covers Sunshine Society meetings in Caldwell and Bloomfield areas with officer elections and meeting changes.
The Isabella Literary Society gathered at Mrs. Prank Goble’s Grove Avenue home Tuesday afternoon for an enjoyable event. Attendees heard a musical program featuring pieces by Nevin and performances by Mrs. Harrison and others, followed by a talk on Chinese in California by Mrs. Filmore Condit, then refreshments and social time.
The Childrens Auxiliary met at Association Hall on Tuesday. A picnic at Verona Lake Park was tentatively set for Saturday September 27, with departure from Caldwell at 10 a.m. by trolley, returning in the afternoon, weather permitting it may be postponed to the next Saturday. Parents who wish to accompany the group are welcome. The group will later rehearse for an entertainment at Association Hall in late November.
Mrs D Booth of Brooklyn visits Mrs Mitchell. Miss Schafer plans move to Newark to start business in Centre Market. Annie Wintanter, public school worker, confined at home with illness this past week. Friends from Broomfield visit Caldwell Verona and Cedar Grove at Mr Edward Courter’s residence on one evening.
An account recalls Captain Samuel Chester Reid and the brig General Armstrong in the payal action during the War of 1812. The battle near Payal, Portugal, involved British ships Plantagenet and Carnation and ended with American resistance delaying British plans to capture New Orleans.
Community notes from Livingston include visits by Mrs A W Harrison and family from Ocean Grove, church meetings at Northfield Baptist and Roseland Presbyterian, and plans for a Sunday school gathering. Republican primary results show A W Harrison re-elected as freeholder with 174 votes. liquor presence blamed for reducing voter decorum.
A well dressed middle aged woman at the Girls Cottage on the Newark City Home grounds fled across fields and woods after being confronted by two girls. She carried a large satchel and claimed she wanted no help. The incident startled observers and a faint baby cry was reported from the satchel.
The 67 year old Mrs. Hum, a victim of acute melancholia, reportedly hanged herself using a rope attached to a transom after being viewed by a ward seerums around 1 am and again near 2 am. Her body was given to an undertaker sent by her son Benjamin Hunt and moved to his Well Street home.
The Annual Convention of the He sex County Woman's Christian Temper ance Union will meet at De Groot Memorial Church in New ark on Tuesday September 30. The program lists morning devotion prayers, reports from committees and officers, and various society topics led by named members. Afternoon sessions include Bible reading reports and special committees on anti narcotics Christian citizenship and temperance work with multiple speakers and music. Evening features devotions an address by Mrs Isabella Demarest with solo and benediction.
A newspaper note laments the sudden disappearance of straw hats after September 22. Writers compare the practice to a created close season and debate year round wear for comfort, joking about hair thickness and gender norms in England where women wear them year round.
Conveyances list two property transfers in Verona and Caldwell involving Sarah J. Bird Emma Chambers Mary Beach and Charlotte Canfield on Broomfield Avenue Washburn Place and neighboring lands. Mortgages note Mary Beach and allies to Charlotte Canfield for 2200 dollars and Dexter Balletux to Amellat Lindasaley at Roseland centre Essex Fells with 100 dollars.
The application of David Stonaker of Verona for a liquor license was withdrawn last week in court on the advice of attorney John L. Johnson. Robert H. McCarter, for David Slayback and other Verona residents, and the Board of Education urged the court not to grant a saloon opposite the public school.
The Ladies' Aid Society will hold a meeting in the chapel of Verona Methodist Church on Thursday at 3 o'clock for the annual election of officers. All members are urged to attend and are welcome to participate in the proceedings.
The article surveys fashionable winter dress trends with velvet and panne fabrics color shifts toward blues greens and yellows bold plaids and embroidery high heels and rubber silk coats noted kimono gains popularity and walking skirts vary in length with triple and four flounce designs noted for evening wear.
Verona notes describe local meetings at Liberty 107 and Johnson’s Hall, a planned illustrated feature at the First Congregational Church by the Woman’s Aid Society, Tea Bella Literary Club socializing at Mrs. Wilfred F. Harrison’s home, and medical society gathering in Orange. Also mentions weddings, temperance union meeting, Harvest Home event, a hotel dispute joke, and a visiting couple from St. Lawrence County.
The Interstate Fair occupies Trenton from September 20 to October 3 with shows in vaudeville and related entertainments. Officials note strong attendance prospects and premium prizes totaling about sixty thousand dollars across exhibitions and competitions.
The County Board of Elections lists registration days and locations for voters to sign up. Registration sessions run on October 4 from 10 am to 4 pm, October 7 at 10 am, October 28 from 1 to 9 pm, with sites in Caldwell Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell Township Council Rooms, North Caldwell Council Rooms, Essex Fells Building at Oak Lane and Erie Railroad tracks, Livingston Harrison's Hall, and Verona Club House at Bloomfield and Claremont avenues.
On Monday evening last the summer season ended at seven o'clock signaling time to bring out winter apparel and store moth protection. The sun crossed the equator creating equal day and night worldwide while the weather forecast says no unusual conditions are expected and fears of violent storms are dismissed.
A sociable hosted by the Christian Endeavor Society of the Congregational Church Friday night at Rev. Shelton Uissel's home featured the amusing hat trimming contest. Rev. Shelton Bistel won for the most artistic trimmed hat, with refreshments and a self supplied supper.
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