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Cranbury Press

Location

Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America

Date

Aug 15, 1919

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Church notices and local obituaries in Cranbury region

Church services listed for First and Second Presbyterian and Schultz Memorial M E with times and topics. Community events include Men’s Service Club outing at Clark's Landing and Stitch and Chatter Club meeting. Local obituaries note deaths of Richard Farr Jacob Rogers and Mrs Louisa Stoddard with funeral details.

First Presbyterian Church Clark’s Landing Point Pleasant Louisa Stoddard Prospect Plains Frederick Schweitzer Second Presbyterian Church Cranbury Mra Broguard Prospect Plaine Brainerd Cemetery A. 8. Cole

Jersey fruit hit by heavy gale in Burlington County

Enormous damage to fruit and other farm crops reported as a northeast gale swept Burlington County last night. Early estimates indicate thousands of bushels of green peaches and apples lost from trees and many branches broken. Hundreds of acres of corn also flattened by the wind as tall stalks, swollen by recent rains, collapsed.

Burlington Burlington County

Girl Dies Suddenly at Lakeside Park While Boarding Boat

Miss Margarete Snyder a 19 year old from Hightstown camping with Fieldsboro Pioneer Girls was stricken and died instantly at Lakeside Park Saturday afternoon near a store on the park. She had rowed across the lake to buy provisions and was returning to the camp when heart failure likely caused death. She formerly lived in Fieldsboro and worked recently for National Musical String Co. The funeral was held at Fieldsboro and burial was in Bordentown.

Lakeside Park Margareute Snyder Phoebe McCabe Hightstown Miss Snyder Fieldsboro Center Street Hightatown National Musical String Co Bordentown

McCran Clarifies District Election Board Terms in 1918 Law

In Trenton on August 14 Attorney General Thomas F. McCran holds that district election board members appointed in 1918 remain in office until September 1, 1920. He also states county boards may appoint local officials, and that district officials can be compelled to serve by the county sheriff as jury duty, with excusal only by the Court of Common Pleas judge.

Trenton William N. Runyon Thomas F. McCran Runyon McCran Court of Common Pleas N. Y Hightstown Madison Dunellen Newton A. K. Bugbee Bugbee New Jersey Supreme Court of New Jersey Jersey City Commission Supreme Court United States Jersey City

Robbers Take $1800 From Windsor Hightstown Road Crew

Two armed men invaded a shanty housing 50 road workers on the Windsor Hightstown road near Hightstown, forcing each laborer to surrender pay totaling about $1800. Authorities describe one suspect with a khaki uniform and a large scar, the other in civilian clothes.

Windsor-Hightstown Hightstown

Passaic Senator backs Bugbee in gubernatorial race

Passaic and Paterson reports quote State Senator Albin Smith endorsing Newton A. K. Bugbee for New Jersey governor. He urges Republican unity, notes high living costs, anti price-gouging measures, tax cuts, and women’s suffrage while asserting Bugbee’s fit with state needs and GOP principles.

Passaic Bugbee Paterson Albin Smith Newton A. K. Bugbee New Jersey Republican Party Paternon Vivian M. Lewis Passaic County

New Jersey Farmers Influence War Trade Board Potash Policy

The War Trade Board lifted import restrictions on potash after a hearing prompted by Senator Frelinghuysen. A New Jersey agricultural delegation from Trenton and several towns presented facts to show potash's role in fertilizers and food production, aiming to boost farm output and reduce fertilizer costs.

War Trade Board Joseph 8. Frelinghuysen New Jersey State Department of Agriculture Frelinghuysen A. L. Clark Trenton J. Gilbert Borton Woodstown F. L. Davis Fred Gardner Robbinsville Wettgen Roseland Charles B. Probasco Cranbury Barclay Walter L. Minch Bridgeton Charles F. Seabrook Mr. Millspaugh Seabrook Farms Frank P. Jones Freehold I. B. Vanderveer Harry Taylor P. C. Pittinger J. L. Pittinger C. Stillwell

Celebrated Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary

Mr and Mrs Jay E White of Plainsboro celebrated their fourteenth anniversary of marriage on August 9 at Mrs C A Hollenbeck’s home 52 Maple St Yonkers New York. Supper was served and many presents received. Guests included Mr and Mrs Jay H White and son Harold of Plainsboro NJ Luther Hollenbeck Jamesburg NJ Commissioner of Public Works Thomas See and family Mr and Mrs William Harris Alonzo D Lee Charles Hollenbeck Mrs C A Hollenbeck Edward Nelson Jacobson and others of Yonkers NY.

Jay E. White Plainsboro Thomas See and Family William Harris Alonzo D. Lee Charles Hollenbeck C. A. Hollenbeck Edward Nelson Jacobson Yonkers N. Y

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First Presbyterian W. J. B. Edgar Second Presbyterian Fred Schweitzer Jonah Lot Paul A.G. Hagaman Stitch and Chatter Club Mary Hughes Cranbury Fire Company W.H. Havens John A. Bergen South Brunswick Township Bergen Justice of the Peace Charles W. Sedam Margaret Marie Schenck Arso Washington Market Motor Transportation Company Dayton Benjamin Feinberg Samuel Katz Brooklyn St. Peter’s Hospital New Brunswick Thomas Manley Franklin Park Albany Street Charles Hullfish Richard Farr Ralph Jacob Rogers 2D New Jersey Cavalry Sarah Heath William Crosby Jamesburg Wallace Cole Windsor Jamnenburg Jersey Margarete Snyder Cuzco Machu Picchu Peru E. State St Trenton, N. J Donnelly Summer Reduction Incr Boys Clothing Bela A. F. Willams Williams East State St First National Bank Palm Beach Daniel Block Clothing CO Washington Market Building Ss. Broad St
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