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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1916
Page
1
Local notices list preaching at First and Second Presbyterian churches with pastors J E Curry Warren Elging and Z W Wells. Also efforts by Corona Club Village Improvement Society Easter committee and Social Club events with gatherings at the Wilferts and Scott households.
Plans by the Ladies Guild of the First Presbyterian church for a strawberry festival to be held in the chapel on Tuesday evening May 30. Guild members from South Crapoury and Cranbury Station Road will oversee the event.
Joseph Owens and family moved to his new Washington Road farm while Le Roy Mc Kenzie and family joined the H N Scott farm on the same road. Bayard Updyke and family relocated to the Grover Stults property. the Stulis family moves to the W H De Bow farm. At the First Presbyterian church annual meeting the board of trustees was re elected and the pastor J Curry received a salary raise to 1500 dollars. The kitchen at the chapel will be enlarged and the cemetery committee may erect a granite arch over the Brainerd cemetery driveway.
In the Orphans Court the account of George B. Mershon, executor of David C. Lewis of Cranbury, shows total estate 15211 27 with balance held in trust for Mrs Lewis during her lifetime. Payments include a $100 legacy to Second Presbyterian Church of Cranbury. Executor's commissions total 484 06.
The Rev Warren Elsing marked his first year at Second Presbyterian Church with a morning service where elder C B Emmons praised his preaching and the Elsing family for comfort to the sick. Seventy one new members joined this year and attendance rose both Sundays and at midweek prayer meetings.
The Public Library recently received The history of Old Tennent Church donated by Mr. C. H Sanford of London England and Freehold New Jersey. The book highlights historic sections with illustrations and was compiled by Rev. Frank R. Sytames a former townsman and pastor. It was published locally by Geo. W Burroughs & Son.
The forty fourth annual meeting at Beverly on Thursday was full of interest with the program working and reports encouraging. Mrs Bila Silvers Stults of Cranbury and Mrs J E Curry of Cranbury were re elected as president and recording secretary along with other officers. Attendees from First church and Second church are listed. The society will meet at Mt Holly next year.
Members of the Ladies' Reading Circle met at Mrs. Anna Spaulding's home Wednesday afternoon to discuss Child Welfare Greater Mothers of the Child World. Readings featured include Winifred Stoner a Child Wonder Margaret Sangster Mrs William K Vanderbilt Big Sister Movement pensions for widowed mothers and profiles of notable mothers and advocates.
Miss Perrine hosted a Sunday gathering with guests from the State Normal School including Esther Bacey Martha Conrad and Helen Slack. Saturday night she entertained house guests and other attendees were Helen Murray Margaret Curry Emma Mershon Bertha Applegate Ethel Cole Margaret Perrine and several men. The group attended the movies in Hightstown before returning to the Perrine home for a pleasant evening.
Hazel Amanda Spratford of Prospect Plains dies at home after long illness at age fifteen. Her funeral will be at her parents’ home chaired by Rev Wells with interment at Second Presbyterian cemetery. Also reports death of Rev Joseph G Symmes age forty five, Mendham pastor, after sopoplexy and illness. He leaves wife and two daughters and a brother Rev Frank Symmes. funeral in Mendham with burial at Brainerd cemetery.
After months of illness Mrs Elizabeth Dey wife of Charles Dey died at her North Craibur home on Saturday evening. Survived by husband two daughters Jennit and Lillian and three sons David Harry and Walter Dey two brothers Alfred and Seward Perrine one sister Mrs Lewis Stults and step sister Mrs John C Perrine. Funeral at her home Wednesday at 1 then at First Presbyterian Church at 2 Rev J E Curry officiated interment Bramerd Cemetery.
Mrs Harriet L McNamee wife of Albert C McNamee died at her Plainsboro home Monday afternoon after a year of illness and two weeks of acute distress. She leaves her husband three sons Frank George and John all of Plainsboro, three sisters Mrs Anna Longstreet Mrs Emily Longstreet of Oceavic Mrs Mary Brinker of Brooklyn, and two brothers Aaron Casler of Oceanport and John M Casler of Long Branch. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church of Plainsboro yesterday at 2 p.m. with Rev G A Burslem officiating.
No 32 New Brunswick man of 33 years in the Methodist Church leaves a wife and two daughters Mrs Clarence Hagerty of Trenton and Miss Stella La Baw of this place Also a sister Mrs Walter Reid of Cranbury The Rev Z W Wells officiated at the Thursday funeral and interment followed in the Second Presbyterian cemetery.
Mrs Ella White aged sixty two died Saturday night at her cousin George Swinger’s home in Hightstown after a sudden indigestion. Born in Virginia, she lived near Prospect Plains and Jamesburg, residing with her son Nelson Vandenburg at death. She had two marriages, to Benjamin Vandenburg and Horatio White, who died six years ago, leaving son William T White of Milltown. The Rev J B Edgar officiated at the Jamesburg Presbyterian Church burial in Hightstown.
Mrs Garrett A Quick and wife of Garrett A Quick died at her home in Trenton after a long illness. She left sisters Mrs Raymond P Stillwell of this place and Mrs Edwin Wilkes of Trenton, brothers Joseph C Lawrence of Rhinebeck and Charles A Lawrence of Princeton, and her mother Mrs J Lawrence of Trenton. Surviving also are husband and two children Miss Alyttle Quick and William C Quick. Funeral from 101 Market Street Trenton with Rev Charles H Elder of Trinity M E Church officiating. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery Trenton.
John Gordon La Baw died suddenly at his North Cranbury home on Sunday night due to heart failure. He was 63, born in Cranbury, spent twenty years in New Brunswick at the William Rowland crockery store, then returned to Cranbury and joined the hardware business. He was a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics.
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