Church Services and Schedules At Three Local Congregations
First Presbyterian holds Sunday morning sermon by Rev J B Curry on An Ancient Comradship with Sunday School at 10. Prayer meeting Friday at 7 30. Second Presbyterian led by Rev Frederick Schweitzer offers Community Service at 7 30. Schultz Memorial M E morning worship at 11. Lennox to preach Sunday morning at 11 at another church led by Rev L E Lennox.
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J. B. Curry
Second Presbyterian
Frederick Schweitzer
Second Church E Society Meeting on Recreations
The GC E Society of the Second Church will meet in the chapel next Sunday evening at 6 30. The subject is How Can We Improve Our Recreations and the leader is Mrs John Stonaker.
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GC. E. Society of the Second Church
John Stonaker
Woman's Club Meeting at Cranbury Home
The Woman's Club of Cranbury plans a meeting next Wednesday at Mrs. W. H Johnson’s home. Afternoon activity centers on bird topics and Victrola selections. Committee members are Mrs. S. O Perrine and Mrs. W. H. Johnson.
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Woman’s Club of
Cranbury
W. H Johnson
Birdland
Perrine
W. H. Johnson
Children stage "The Little Heroine of the Revolution" at Second Church
Junior C. E members presented a fine entertainment in the chapel last night. The children wore revolutionary costumes and gave well performed parts in the production titled The Little Heroine of the Revolution.
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C. E
Pageant Planned at Peddie Institute for Pilgrim Arrival Tercentenary
Wightstown New Jersey April 13 Extensive plans are under way at Peddie Institute for a pageant celebrating the tercentenary of the Pilgrim landing. The masque The Lighting of the Torch by F R Buchanan is being rehearsed under J Walter Reeves head of Public Speech. The cast will be mostly Peddie students and the final performance will occur during the Alumni Reunion and Commencement in June.
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Wightstown
N. J
Peddie Institute
F. R. Buchanan
J. Walter Reeves
Peddie
Hightstown Trust Co Opens After Charter Approval
The Hightstown Trust Company receives a state charter with 100000 capi tal stock and 20000 surplus. Shares priced at par plus surplus or 120 each. Charter members listed include G A Bennett and A G Conover. Building purchase by Mason building owner Elmer B Chamberlin. possession Sept 1 1921. Open for business on or about November 1 with general banking savings and trust departments.
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Hightstown Trust Company
State Banking Department
G. A. Bennett
A. G. Conover
C. Herbert Davison
W. H. Davison
B. V. D. Erving
David Gross
Clarry Gross
D. I Measler
Governor Edwards Signs Bill On Chiropractor Education Rules
Governor Edwards signed Senate Bill No 149 formed by the Medical Society of New Jersey setting educational standards for a four year high school and college course for chiropractors. It abolishes the State Chiropractic Board and places chiropractors under the State Board of Medical Examiners. A measure to grant osteopaths similar practice rights was defeated in the House where it originated.
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Edwards
Medical Society of New Jersey
State
Chiropractic Board
State Board of Medical Examiners
Fresh and Whimsical Exchanges From Cornell Widow
A clipped exchange features two lines from the Cornell Widow with a hygiene lecture reference. One line warns that many illnesses can spread by kissing while the other jokes about a sister catching a fish, delivering a light, era-specific quip.
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Cornell
Congregational Meeting at Second Church Cranbury
The annual meeting of Second Presbyterian Church of Cranbury was held April 8 in the church. Trustees were re-elected for three years. Treasurer reported over 12500 receipts with 8400 balance. church membership at 247 with 33 tithers. Salary increased for Pastor Rev Frederick Schweitzer to 2500. Social in chapel followed with refreshments and baby prizes.
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Second Presbyterian Church of
Ernest L. Stults
Geo. B. Mershon
Willis L. Applegate
John D. Bennett
Charles D. Groves
Senior Christian Endeavor
Junior Christian Endeavor
Men’s Brotherhood
Stitch and Chatter Club
Home Missionary Society
Foreign Missionary Society
Board of Deacons
Frederick Schweitzer
John Stonaker
H. B. Claflin
Marie A Groves
Ruth Hughes
Henry Conover
Middlesex County Board to Meet in Cranbury May 18
The Middlesex County Board of Agriculture will hold its May meeting in Cranbury New Jersey on or about May 18. A committee of T M Applegate Dayton Geo Davison Plainsboro and County Agent Bowen will arrange the meeting and appoint board members as needed.
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Middlesex County Board of Agriculture
Cranbury
N. J
T. M. Applegate
Dayton
Geo. Davison
Plainsboro
Bowen
County Board of Agriculture
Middlesex County
1921 Legislature Advances Rural Police and Dairy Measures
The 1921 Legislature passed the ice cream butterfat rule and the Rural Police bill while prohibiting butterfat substitutes in evaporated and condensed milk. The daylight saving bill failed in the Senate after House approval. The cocoanut oil ban faced a strong lobby, with support from farm groups and the Grange.
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Assemblyman Sexsmith
Monmouth
State Federation of County Board of Agriculture
The
Grange
Dairymen’s League
State Chamber of Commerce
Women’s Federated Clubs
State Department of Health
Federation
House
Senate
W C T U Meeting Notes New York Conference Report
The W C T U met with Mrs. Fred Schweitzer on Tuesday. The program included Victrola selections discussions on temperance in schools by Miss Laura Scudder and Mrs. Armor and Mrs. Curry. A report covered the first Regional Conference in New York City by Mrs. William Perrine.
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Fred Schweitzer
Victrola
Armor
Curry
Laura Scudder
New York City
William Perrine
Mrs Mary Harris Armor to Speak in Cranbury
Mrs Mary Harris Armor will visit Cranbury on Friday May 20 to support the W C T U. A biographical sketch praises her Georgia roots education and long record as a temperance orator and church leader. In 1918 Wesleyan College Macon Ga awarded her an LL D honorary degree, the first such honor for a women’s college in America.
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Mary Harris Armor
Cranbury
Mercer University
Augusta Medical College
Mary Harris
University Town
Penfield
Georgia
Walter F. Armor
Armor
Wesleyan College
Macon
America
Pennsylvania Railroad imposes five cent ticket penalty East of Pittsburgh
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces a five cent penalty on unpurchased fares on its lines east of Pittsburgh Erie and Buffalo when tickets could be bought before boarding. Tariffs effective May 15 outline the need to use ticket facilities to ease cash handling and protect passengers, with no refund of the extra charge.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh
Erie
Buffalo
Tariffa
Pennsylvania
Meat Under Perpetual Ban on Island Monks
On Valamo Island in Finland an ancient rule forbids meat for 450 Greek Catholic Monks. Visiting American Red Cross members dined on fish at a monastery lunch, while hunting trapping and meat temptations remain banned along with smoking.
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Valamo
Finland
Lake
Ladoga
American Red Cross
Viborg
Aerial Mail Plans in China Suffer Setback
Chang Tso Lin, who rules much of northern China, ordered six English airplanes and split three for possible postal use to Mukden and three for Paotingfu military aims. The Mukden planes derailed a bridge en route, wrecking the air service plan and spoiling hopes for an aerial mail route.
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Chang Tso Lin
China
England
Mukden
Muk
Tientgin
Mexican President attends bullfight amid dramatic finale
President Obregon sanctioning bullfighting sat ringside as Rodolfo Gaona and Ernesto Pastor faced the bulls. When Pastor seemed to deliver a fatal thrust, the anthem rose and the bull halted, then fell dead as the hymn ended, one of the strangest sights in Mexico City arena, say veteran attendees.
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Obregon
Mexico
Rodolfo Gaona
Ernesto Pastor
Pastor
Boyd
Brooklyn Eagle
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First Presbyterian
Second Church
E. Society
Woman’s Club
Hightstown Trust Co
Congregational Meeting of
Ww. Cc. T. U
Mrs. Armor
New
Plaid
Trenton
Voorhees
East State St
Trenton, N. J
B. F. Gunson
E State Street
Trent
R. A. Donnelly
State Street
Broad
Block
Daniel Block
South Broad St
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