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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
5
Cranbury residents and visitors fill a busy week with trips to Asbury Park Atlantic City Duke's Park and Lakewood. Families like Perrines Applegates and Bennetts host and travel as neighbors attend concerts and harvest events while local clubs elect officers and organize activities.
Mrs. D L Kenney from St Louis praises Dr Hobson’s Eczema Ointment for curing her tetter. The note mentions the ointment’s effectiveness against burning itching and skin disease. Philadelphia and St Louis are referenced in the advertisement copy.
Mr and Mrs Thomas McCowatt announce the birth of a baby boy on Sunday July 27. The couple joyfully celebrate the new arrival and welcome their son into the family with happiness.
The C E Society of the First church meets Sunday evening in the chapel with a lesson on The Ideal Christian. Leader Miss Helen Murray presides. John H. Barclay attends the Executive Committee meeting of the Fruit Growers Association held at Wm Reed’s in Tennent on Tuesday.
Miss Elva Chamberlin and Mrs Margaret Bergen report a pleasant journey through the western states with cool agreeable weather and a cheerful mood aboard their travels.
Revered Camden New Jersey pastor Samuel D Price of the New Jersey Sunday School Association is abroad in Zurich Switzerland and has mailed a remembrance card.
Mr and Mrs Abel Edsall will entertain Mrs H J Groves and family and Mr and Mrs Elwood Groves at their South Cranbury home this evening in a social gathering.
Dr Geo H Dickey of Flushing New York and his family, a longtime subscriber, spend the summer at Buck Hill Falls in Pennsylvania.
Mr and Mrs R L McDowell came home Thursday from a pleasant trip to Clearwater Lake Maine. McDowell notes potatoes in blossom hay harvests and good conditions with a agreeable climate not exceeding seventy degrees and many diversions observed during the stay.
A sick man with bowel complaints recovers after one or two doses of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and praises it. The advertisement urges trying the remedy when in need and claims it never fails. Sold by all dealers.
Goodwin s Band to give a concert tomorrow evening on the porch of Surrogate and Mrs D W Clayton in South Cranbury. Triangle Tennis Club later enjoyed a Doggie Eat in the Perrine garage with many dogs, watermelons, a marshmallow toast and a Rough house for about thirty attendees. Several families and couples spent Saturday at the Shore motoring to Asbury Park for leisure.
Cranbury firemen were called about 4 o clock Friday afternoon to tackle a blaze in the Soffield home occupied by Mr and Mrs Frank Soffield. The fire started in the chimney and ran along the second story side. Chemicals were used and the fire was soon out. Damage described as slight. Cranbury Sportsmen Enjoy Fishing. The group including Wm H Johnson RB Stilwell Walter Waitweight Russell Johnson Alexander Applegate Wm F Perrine Charles Hoffman Howard J Butcher Waldo Perrine and Charles Butcher fished at Waretown NJ by car, angling for the funny tribe. Another party including Clifford Chamberlin ELC Wilson Will Dilatush Edward Hutchinson Alonzo Dey Frank Donnell and Butch Morton motor to Waretown returning with 54 bluefish over 160 pounds. Our friends have had glorious sport this week and we appreciate neighbors for fish on the table. Samuel Perrine Harvey Duncan Walter McDougall William Dey and Harry Dey motored to Forked River Monday and caught 194 weak fish.
Charles Haley and Baird Davison of this place accompanied by Charles and Harrison Hutchinson of Hamilton Square went fishing at Forked River on Monday.
On a Forked River trip the party led by Mr and Mrs LeRoy Scott Mr and Mrs John Bennett Mr and Mrs Johnes Dey Mr and Mrs Johnes Mount and Mr and Mrs Alonzo Dey enjoyed a sunny day and returned with 175 good fish.
E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton Me says the salve removes pain from cuts bruises sprains burns and other skin injuries and acts as a healing remedy. It is offered at 25 cents by N F Clayton.
On Wednesday August 6 Plainsboro church hosts harvest home at Trolley Grove. On Thursday August 7 Frederick Douglass Lodge No 34 K of P holds harvest home in Norton's Grove Hightstown. Windsor Harvest Home also Thursday August 7. Union Valley Church auctions harvest home on church grounds Thursday August 14.
The Harvest Home of Jamesburg Presbyterian Church is set for Wednesday August 13 1913 on the church lawn with a community gathering and activities for attendees.
Finder urged to return to Press Office with a reward. Also a praise ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills by Rev H Stubenwoll of Allison Indiana, claiming perfect pills for constipation and liver regulation. Pills priced 25c at N E Clayton’s.
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