Hightstown Board Votes to Lengthen School Day
The Hightstown Borough Board of Education plans a longer school day of five and a half hours with thirty minutes for physical exercises. A tuition increase to about 40 per year per pupil is expected next term from last year’s 30. A separate colored school building remains undetermined but a suitable site is hoped to be found before the term opens. 53 colored children are enrolled, with a proposal to hire a colored teacher.
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Hightstown
Board of Education
State Board of Education
Plainsboro pair travels west with Midwest and Niagara stop
Mrs. M. B Johnson of Plainsboro has begun an extended trip through the West visiting relatives in Cleveland and Detroit and will pause at Niagara Falls. Miss Claire Johnson of Plainsboro visits her aunt Mrs. Lewia P. Sibley of Suffern New York.
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M. B Johnson
Plainsboro
Cleveland
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Claire Johnson
Mis. Lewia P. Sibley
Suffern
N. Y
Summer Complaint Remedy Eases Summer Diarrhea
Mrs. F. F. Scott of Scottaville New York reports using Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy during a severe summer complaint. One dose relieved intense pain and other family members have had similar results, highlighting the medicine as a timely at hand treatment.
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Mra. F. F. Scott
Scottaville
N. Y
Chamberlain
Local Social Roundup From Hightstown and Shore Towns
Miss Florence Schoen spends the month with her parents at Ocean Grove. Several residents vacation at Manasquan Beach and along the Jersey coast. Mrs. Anna Holt resigns as matron of Peddie Institute to join Kingsley School. Many families visit relatives in Belmar, Atlantic Highlands, and Asbury Park while others travel to Matawan Cranbury and Jamesburg.
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Florence Schoen
Ocean Grove
Vera Danser
Manasquan Beach
Philip Chamberlain
Roger Stanton
Erie
Francis Romweber
Jersey
Hannah Harden
South’ Main
South Streeze
Emma Reed
Beulah Reed
Ship‘pensburg
Anna W. Holt
Peddie Institute
Kingsley School
Lizzie Grover
Trenton
Albert Grover
Cranbury
John Culver
Plainfield
Joseph B. Schenck
Jennie Baylea
Jamesburg
G. B. Shinn
Ezra
E. A. Mount
Charles Mount
Elmer Hewart
Atlantic Highlands
Absentminded Husband Sparks Alarm Mixup
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes Mrs. Flatbush asks about her absentminded husband and Mrs. Bensonhurst replies he set the alarm for six and forgot its purpose. The anecdote highlights domestic forgetfulness with a light tone.
Dayton harvest home raised record funds and crowds
The Dayton harvest home on church grounds drew an estimated 1000 autos and 700–800 diners for a large supper with barnyard fowl, ham, cheese, beets, biscuits, tomatoes, peaches cake and coffee. Over 80 dollars was raised for Red Cross amid orderly crowds and live music by Goodwins Band.
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Dayton
Goodwins
Margaretta E. Carroll
Red Cross
Old Glory
War Masquerader Among Allied Lines in World War I
The narrator recalls enlisting in Canada with the Canadian infantry, rising to lead a company, and facing a German spy among his ranks. The infiltrator, George Calkins also known as Mr. Peabody, posed as a Yorkshireman and learned German methods, was exposed in a critical attack, and was executed after capture.
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Canada
Flanders
Calais
Yorkshire
Germany
George Calkins
Calkins
Fenenscap
Massachusetts
Peabody
Mr. Calkins
England
Alsace
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N. J
Josephine
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South Williamstown, Mass
Elmer Chamberlain
Calvin Chamberlain
New York State
Sarah White
New York City
W. A. Silvershere
George Dennis
John D. Perrine
Randolph Chamberlin
Abijah Chamberlin
Walter McDougall
Wilton Lanning
Delaware Water Gap
Edythe Burroughs
Adelia
Asbury Park
Thomas Peppler
Strindach Company
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Tor See
South Carolina
Ave
Pennsylvania
R. R
R. A. Donnelly
R. A. Donnelly’s
State Street
Broad
Trenton, N. J
National Bank
Federal Reserve System
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