Local notes and society items from Granbury press 1916
Miss Georgia Thompson returns home after Jamesburg visit and numerous local social notes report visits to Trenton Bayonne Paterson and Bordentown. Fisher of Hightstown and Princeton Triangle Club member Phillip Chamberlin highlighted as a notable event with a Waldorf Astoria stop and a farewell tea dance in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Thompson
Jamesburg
Lemuel Stalts
Trenton
L. G. Appleget
Poughkeepsie, N. Y
Emma Snow
D. W. Clayton
Martha Carlson
South Amboy
George H. Franklin
Hightstown
Florida
Phillip Chamberlin
Princeton Triangle Club
Phillip Miller Chamberlin
M.P., Chamberlin
Chamberlin
Peddie Institute
Princeton
Triangle Club
Waldorf-Astoria
New York City
Thankful notices and holiday turkey ad from 1910s era
Care of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for support during illness and after the death of Thomas C. Perrine, signed by Mrs. T. C. Perrine and Mrs. H. N. Scott. The page also features a turkey sale by E. C. Wilson for Christmas and a Chamberlains Tablets constipation ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Perrine
T. C. Perrine
H. N. Scott
Frank Perrine
Jamesburg to Host Chautauqua Series by Local Committee
Jamesburg residents guarantee a three day Chautauqua program with tickets sold by guarantors. A meeting at Rev W J B Edgar's home set officers and committees for tickets advertising hospitality decorations publicity and more. Events planned for January 16 to 18 1917 with mixed afternoon and evening performances under the Chautauqua Association of Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamesburg
W. J. B. Edgar
Church Street
R. M. Grigg
J. Rulon Dare
Harry C. Groves
Condit M. Davison
J. H Baremore
John Ehrenstine
Henry Johnson
J. Edmund Marryott
W. J. B Edgar
Freight Depot Removal Blocked by Hightstown Residents
Residents of Hightstown move to restrain the Pennsylvania Railroad from shifting the local freight station to the town outskirts. A Board of Public Utilities hearing is set for December 26 after last Sundays planned removal was paused. Borough officials argued the central location endangered during fertilizer and potato loading season as trains drilled at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hightstown
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Board of Public Utilities
The Quiet Majority on Good in Humanity
A speaker argues that goodness exists beyond law and police. He asserts that law gains power only when grounded in public conscience and right. He contends society is progressing toward dawn, not night, and that law does not create virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ines
Public Sales Announced Across Cranbury Grover's Mills and Edinburg
Public sale notices list the heirs of Sarah D Bennett and estates of Jacob Oehler at Cranbury and Dey Road, with 9 room residence and modern improvements. Other sales include Grover's Mills horses and cows, Edinburg stock and machinery, and Jamesburg crops and farm gear. Mrs Hugh Cook endorses Chamberlains Cough Remedy for children with colds. Obtainable everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah D Bennett
Main Street
Cranbury
Wm. M. Cox
Jacob Oehler
Dey Road
Samuel Koerner
Grover’s
Hugh Cook
Scottsville, N. Y
Garbutt
N. Y
Chamberlain
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Universal Cure
Readers are told of a purported cure for catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. The advertisement promises a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure, cites testimonials, and urges purchase from druggists with bold claims and a mention of Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Addrem
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Stoll's Gift Stop Offers Wide Holiday Selections
Meccano Sets range 1.00 to 18.00 and Meccano Electric Motors 1.50 to 3.00. Cameras from ae to 77.00. Fountain Pens 1.00 to 10.00. Leather Goods 0.23 upward. Cutlery 0.25 upward. Flashlights. Flexible Flyers 32.50 and up. Sectional Bookcases 13.00 set up. Silver pencils 0.23 up. Pennants 0.25 up. Desk Clocks 1.00 to 10.00. Desks and Chairs. Christmas Cards and other gift items abound.
Absent Defendants Ordered to Answer in Cranbury Mortgage Suit
A New Jersey chancery order directs Anna D Carey Herbert D Litchfield Joseph M Everitt Winnifred Dyer Sears and spouses John Grover Arthur Grover and spouses and John C Holmes heirs devisees and J Col den Murray heirs to appear by Jan 29 1917 in a mortgage foreclosure suit filed by George B Mershon as administrator of Henry Perrine deceased The bill seeks cancellation of an old 1866 mortgage to J Col den Murray and foreclosure on lands in Cranbury Middlesex County with publication and personal service rules set for absent parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna D. Carey
Herbert D. Litchfield
Joseph M. Everitt
Winnifred Dyer Sears
Mr. Sears
John Grover
Jos Grover
Arthur Grover
John C. Holmes
J. Colden Murray
Court of Chancery
George B. Mershon
Henry Perrine
Louisa P. Holmes
Albert H. Stults
Middlesex County
Albert H.stults
Cranbury
New Jersey
William W. McChesney
Chancery
Joan C. Molmes
Anna JD. Carey
Winifred Dyer Sears
John C. Nolmes
Sears
Walter H. Havens
Richard Haverty
Prospect Avenue
Isabella A. Holmes
John C.holmes
Cranbury Press
Middlesex
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Ezra
Joseph Wicoff
Grace Hutton
Bayonne
Alice Suydam
Paterson
G. B. Mershon
Emma Mershon
Philadelphia
E. W. Walker
Arthur Clayton
Florence Perrine
Mayme Applegate
Stanley Conover
Bordentown
Jane Dey
Mary Perrine
John F. TenBroeck
Perth Amboy
Adah Rue
R. P Stillwell
W. H. Havens
Elizabeth Thompson
Alex. Snedeker
Prospect Plains
John E. Carlson
Est
N. F. Clayton
Carlson
John H. Barclay
Trenton Times
Burlington
the Times
Barclay
Bucks County
Mercer County
Joseph Black
E. C. Wilson
Chautauqua Association of Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Raysom S. Gries
William UC. Rogers
Cranbury, N. J
First National Bank of
M. I. Voorhees
N. J
Stoll
Stoll's
E. State St
Trenton, N. J
Charles G. Groves
Office North Main Street
Y Chancery OF
Robert H. McApays
Aaron V. Dawes
S. P. Dunham & Co
First National Bank
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