Church notices and society events from local parishes
Sabbath morning topics and evening athletics talk at Second Presbyterian. May 1 prayer teaching from Joel. First Presbyterian Mission Work at Home and Abroad led by Miriam Carter and Ella Chamberlin. Central Local Union meets May 3 with C M Bond and others. Peddie quartet to perform. Foreign Missionary Society on India May 2. Study class on Educational Evolution led by Mrs J J Bradley. Home Missionary Society meets May 2 on The Freedmen.
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Secord
Joel
C. E. Society
Christian Endeavor Society
First Presbyterian Church
Miriam Carter
First Presbyterian Church of
Cranbury
C. M. Bond
Peddie
C. H. Bandy
Fatehgarh
India
H. B. Strock
Allentown
Society of the First Presbyterian Church
J. J. Bradley
Ancil G. Dey
Home Missionary Society of the Second Presbyterian Church
John Pullen
Misa Viola Brown Dies After Months Ill At Windsor Area
Misa Viola Brown daughter of Mr and Mrs Zebulon Brown of near Windsor passed away Saturday after an illness of several months. Funeral services were held from her late home Wednesday afternoon and at Windsor church. The Piper's Pay a farce by Ladies Reading Circle will be repeated May seventh at Second Presbyterian chapel for Chapel Repair Fund. The program includes Cranbury male Odette and other numbers with cake and ice cream sale to follow. Committee seeks $1000. over $500 pledged. Admission 35 cents.
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Misa Viola Brown
Zebulon Brown
Windsor
Ladies Reading Circle
Second Presbyterian Chapel
Cranbury
Odette
Town plans five monthly entertainments next winter
A Citizens Committee of nine from the Village Improvement Society, Granpe, and Reading Circle will host five events starting October, including one lecture, two musicals, an cartoonist night, and an impersonator. Subscriptions at 1.25 dollars for the full series, 0.85 dollars for single admissions.
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Village Improvement Society
Granpe
Reading Circle
Sayreville Hosts Spring Institute of WCTU
Middlesex County Women’s Christian Temperance Union holds the Spring Institute at the Methodist Church in Sayreville N J on Wednesday April 30 with a full program of devotions greetings literature resolutions and musical numbers led by Mrs Geo G Johnson Miss Elfreth Miss Ida Lillian Page and others including a Gold Medal Contest and evening session featuring recitations and a temperance doxology. County officers listed include President Mrs Anna Reid Fisher Corresponding Secretary Mrs L R Ware Recording Secretary Mrs Wm F Perrine Treasurer Mrs Alice A Mundy Metuchen.
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Spring Institute of
W.C. T. US
Middlesex County Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Sayreville
N. J
Geo
Johnson
Mias
C. E. Way
Byron D. Halstead
Emma Way
A. A Mundy
James VanCleaf
Myre
Alice Mundy
Mabel Whiting
Mra. R. Clark
Chas, Stevens
New Jersey
Overington
W. W. Knox
Miss Page
J. J. Bradley
Elfreth
Dayton
Ida Lillian Page
Geo.s. Johnson
Anna Reid Fisher
L. R. Ware
South Amboy
Wm. F. Perrine
Cranbury
Alice A. Mundy
Metuchen
Double Funeral for Smith Wright and Son Jefferson Wright
The double funeral was held at Forman Wright’s Morrison Street home in Hightstown with Rev. Dr. Stan ton and Rev. Dr. Donaghue officiating. Interment followed in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Bearers were D. H. Cunningham, W. N. Cunningham, George Updike, Joseph Shinn, John R. Shangle. Both men died within hours of each other, while Jefferson Wright was visiting Wenatchee, Washington. The Wright family, longtime Hightstown residents, included four sons and two daughters surviving the elder Smith Wright.
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Smith Wright
Jefferson Wright
Forman Wright
Morrison Street
Hightstown
W. A. Stanton
The
Baptist Church
Dr. Donaghue
Dutch Reformed Church
Rocky Hill
Cedar Hill Cemetery
D. H. Cunningham
W. N. Cunningham
George Updike
Joseph Shinn
John R. Shangle
Wenatchee
Wash
Mr. Wright
West
Wright
James Wright
Richard Wright
Sharon
George Wright
Perrineville
Walter Hutchinson
New Brunswick
Edna Avery
Woman's Home Missionary Society Meet Set in Matawan
Monmouth Presbyterial Society of Home Missions says the Woman's Home Missionary Society of Monmouth Presbytery will convene in Matawan next Thursday May 1. Mrs Samuel Perrine will represent the First Church society at the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Home Missionary ‘Society of Monmouth Presbytery
Matawan
Samuel Perrine
First Church Society
Cranbury Odette Visit Delights Titusville Concert
The Cranbury Odette enjoyed a Friday Titusville visit assisting at a concert and staying with prominent families. The audience gave hearty applause, making the evening one of the season’s brightest. Also a note on Chamberlain's Liniment for rheumatic discomfort. For sale by All Dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranbury Odette
Titusville
Chamberlain
Anti suffrage movement gathers in New Jersey
A Cranbury group joins a statewide anti suffrage effort with plans for branches in Orange Elizabeth Lambertville Had donfield and other towns. A Prudence Hall Trenton meeting May 1 features Mrs John E Martin and others as they campaign to defeat woman suffrage in the referendum.
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Cranbury
New Jersey Association
Trenton
Orange
Elizabeth
Lambertville
Haddonfield
Somerville
Grange
Lawrenceville
Annie Mellvaine
Newark
Annie Bronson
New York
John A. Matthews
Essex
New Jersey
Prudence Hall
School of Industrial Arts
John E. Martin
Old Barracks
Pennington Seminary Remembered Free War Service and Endowment Efforts
The article recalls Pennington Seminary’s Civil War loyalty under Rev. Dr. Isaac W. Wiley and the later president Rev. Dr. Thomas O Hanlon. It notes trustees and supporters seeking to raise debt relief and endow the school, with plans for a monument to Union volunteers among Pennington students and strong state involvement in civic reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennington Seminary
Methodist Episcopal
Pennington
Wiley
Trenton
Penpington Seminary
New Jersey
Thomas O’hanlon
Embroidered Caps and Laces at Varying Prices
A catalog of caps and trims lists prices from 25 cents to 3.50 dollars. Items feature embroidery, Irish lace, Wal lace insertion, ribbon bows, tucking, and crochet edging with options ranging from simple to hand embroidered pieces.
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Second Presbyterian Church
China
Se World
M. E. Church Notices
Reading’ Circle
Ella Chamberlin
Ella Stults
Central Local Union
Missionary Societies
Viola Brown
Abe
Monmouth Presbyterial Society of Home Missions
Cranbury Singers
James M. VanVenburgh
H. B. Willis
Monroe Township
Ohio
R. Barclay Iving
Applegarth
R. B. Ivins
Colorado
Tits Ster
Norfolk
Danis Black Clothing Co
Washington Market Building
S. Broad St
Trenton, N. J
Reis
ATS
A. F. Williams
East State Street
Micghell’s Seed House
Winar’s
John Winar
Oranbury, N. J
First National Bank
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