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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1916
Page
5
Cranbury residents share travel visits and family events with mentions of friends from Galeton Plainsboro and Newark. Local births, vacations, and patient recoveries are noted alongside election board appointments and church services. The Cranbury Athletic Association plans a game with Camp No. 37 and local sales advertise hosiery.
Cranbury people praise Adler-i-ka a simple mix of buckthorn bark and glycerine for quick relief. One spoonful claims to ease constipation sour stomach and gas with a few doses helping appendicitis and chronic stomach trouble. N F Clayton, druggist.
The Sunday closing movement in Princeton draws mixed reactions with many church members supporting closing all stores while others oppose the plan. The issue, endorsed by several religious groups, rests with the mayor and police department to enforce.
Assessor G. Raymond Wicoff values Cranbury 1916: land 450600. improvements 3540400. personal 171700. railroad 38500. public service 16100. total 1217300 with an increase over 1915 of 20100.
Miss Jennie B. Hanaway hosted a luncheon with Eva Wilson and Agnes Purdy of Brooklyn as guests. Mrs E Brasch and Lillian Acker of Newark visited Mr and Mrs Joseph Hanaway on Thursday. John Peppler entertained Alan Caine of Hightstown. Leon Dolton of South Amboy spent an over Sunday with Mrs Thomas Conway.
The Middlesex County Office of Farm Demonstration led a successful Tuesday automobile tour visiting George Smith's South River cold storage plant Bissett's sorghum plots and cow peas N F Stearns' horses and buildings the State Home for Boys at Jamesburg and the Walker Gordon Milk Farm Plainsboro Lunch on the lawn followed. Speeches by Senator Frelinghuysen Geo W F Gaunt and Prof Gee accompanied visits to home buildings and the grounds. The forty car tour included W H Havens and many local residents and was deemed enjoyable and productive.
A Fair Haven New York mother, Mrs. Sidney Simmons, testifies that her seven year old son was cured of cholera morbus as an infant by Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. She reports other family members use it with good results and endorses its merit as a valuable medicine. Obtainable everywhere.
The text explains that large leafed trees lose water through evaporation and need extensive root systems to supply moisture. A mature shade tree with about 700 000 leaves can transpire roughly 180 gallons daily, requiring equal soil uptake to prevent drought stress.
The Cranbury Township Board of Health adopts the New Jersey State Sanitary Code Chapter I Nuisances Affecting Health. Regulations prohibit health hazards from wells water privies excrement disposal mosquito habitats and decomposing matter near food premises. Regulations take effect June 1 1916 with adoption dated July 13 1916.
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