Church Activities and Engagements Highlight New Year
Sunday School and worship services led by Rev. J B Curry and Rev Frederick Schweitzer at the First Church with multiple youth groups meeting in the Chapel. A New Year party and missionary society events planned while Willard Grove announces engagement to Gwendolyn Dalley of Newark New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. EB. Curry
Frederick Schweitzer
C. E
Graham Campbell
Better Christian Endeavor Societies
L. E H. Lennox
New Year Orchestra
Willard
First Presbyterian
Symmes H. Perrine
H. J. Butcher
Curry
Church
Frank Jemison
Death of William Elmer Bergen and related events
William Elmer Bergen died Friday after a long illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday with interment at Brainerd cemetery. He is survived by a daughter Mrs. John Gordon and a son Charles Bergen. Miss Melvene Dey hosted friends with games music and refreshments. Apollo Lodge No. 156 F and A M attended the Saint John the Evangelist Feast banquet at Stacy Trent Hotel Trenton with addresses by Ernest A. Reed Job E Hedges and Realf Otteren. Attendees from here included Grover Stults Leroy Scott Rev. J E B Curry H J Butcher and Joseph Owens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Elmer Bergen
Brainerd
Mr. Bergen
John Gordon
Charles Bergen
Apollo Lodge No. 156
Stacy-Trent Hotel
Trenton
Saint John the Evangelist
Ernest A. Reed
Job E Hedges
New York
Realff Otteren
Iowa
Grover Stults
Leroy Scott
J. EB. Curry
H. J. Butcher
Joseph Owens
Apollo Lodge
Apollo Lodge No
Benjamin F. Havens
Grover E. Stults
Harry C. Grover
Bertram
J. M
Franklin Bennett
John D. Bennett
Nicholas Vreeland
Thomas B. Woolston
Tyler
Week of Prayer Subjects in Cranbury Churches
The Week of Prayer will be observed in Cranbury with daily services next week. Meetings Monday and Tuesday evenings at Second Presbyterian Church, Wednesday and Thursday at Methodist Church, Friday and Sunday at First Presbyterian Church. Topics include Thankegiving and Confession, The Church Universal, Nations and Their Rulers, Foreign Missions, Christian Education in the Christian Home, and Community Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranbury
Second Presbyterian Church
Methodist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Church Universal
Five Hundred Party Delights Cranbury Social Season
Mrs. George B. Mershon hosted a Yuletide five hundred party at her South Cranbury home with five tables. High scores went to Mrs. Stanley Conover and Mrs. William Gordon who won prizes. refreshments followed. Guests included Mrs. E. O. Howell of Philadelphia, Mrs. R. Bruce Gordon Jr of Newark, Mrs. Horace Jennings of Glen Rock, and others from Trenton Washington D C Montclair and Stillwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Mershon
South Cranbury
Stanley Conover
William Gordon
Mersdon
Montclair
Bessie B. Dey
Wm. N. Hughes
Samuel Bennett
Wm. H Johnson
Raymond P., Stillwell
H. N. Scott
M. A. Rue
Arthur Perrine
Margaret Perrine
Brainerd Chapter O. E. Installations and Local Social Events
Brainerd Chapter O. E. installed officers at the Masonic Lodge with Madge rene Ebert of Newark presiding as Most Worthy Past Matron. The gathering included Lizzie C. Barclay as Worthy Matron Ezekiel R. Barclay as Worthy Patron and numerous officers. Also noted were Christmas parties hosted by the Bennett, Mason, Stults, Dey, Day and other families. church gifts to staff. and the death of Mrs. Elias Mason of South Amboy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brainerd
Ordér . of the Eastern Star
Masonic Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Madgerene Ebert
Newark
Stanley Conover
Lizzie C. Barclay
Ezekiel
Barclay
Lizzie B Mershon
Bessie Bishop
Annie Voorhees
Clara B. Rue
Surrogate Clayton Stricken by Paralysis in New Brunswick
Surrogate Daniel Webster Clayton, long time Middlesex county official, suffered a stroke on Wednesday afternoon in New Brunswick and was hospitalized at St. Peter's. Doctors describe his condition as practically unchanged though improving, with family at his side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Webster Clayton
New Brunswick
St. Peter’s Hospital
Clayton
Bis Associates
A. L. Smith
Bis
Peter Daly
Miss Walker's Surprise Shower Precedes Cranbury Wedding
Miss Edna Walker receives a surprise shower at Miss Marian Barclay's home with about thirty guests. Frank Brasch of Cranbury to marry Miss Walker, with red crepe umbrella and cooking utensil gifts. Also notes 50th anniversary invitations for Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson and past marriage of Anna Norris and William Hutchinson in 1872.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Walker
Marian Barclay
Frank Brasch
Cranbury
Miss Walker
Charles Barclay
William J Hutchinson
Hightstone
Anna Norris
William J. Hutchingon
Norris
York Road
East Windsor Township
C. P. Eaches
First Baptist Church
Allen Wilson
Wilson
Hutchinson
Hightstown
Clean politics rise after Amendment in California cities
Ww T U dry advocates argue the Eighteenth Amendment strengthens clean politics. Recent elections in San Francisco Los Angeles and Sacramento show liquor influence waning with new officials more likely to enforce laws. Observers predict bootleggers and blind pigs will soon cease operation in the Golden State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Sacramento
California
Golden State
Ancient Tropical Maize Unearthed In Tennessee Sunken Graves
W E Meyer of the Bureau of American Ethnology found charred maize in stone slab graves during David son county excavations. analysis identifies many-rowed tropical flint corn, linking North American and West Indies varieties and suggesting early interhemispheric contact. instruments point to cultivation beyond the Great Lakes well before Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Joseph
W. E. Meyer
Bureau of American Ethnology
United States Department of Agriculture
Davidson County
Meyer
West Indies
North America
Great Lakes
Canada
America
Florida
Mississippi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Second Presbyterian
Ladies Missionary Society
Missionary Meeting
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the First Church
A. H. Symmes
M. E Bergen
R. Hila Chamberlin
the Woman’s Club
Woman’s Club
Samuel Perrine
William C. Danser
Samuel J. Oehler
J. F. F. Club
Melvene Dey
Gertrude Harder
Lily Farr
Marian Hughes
Hazel Duncan
Elizabeth Campbell
Ernest Walker
Albert Barclay
Harold O'Neil
Norman Appleger
Ralph Danser
Richard Mason
Walter Dey
G. A. Bennett
Alfred and
Marvin Bennett
Alex Mason
Celeste Mason
Hazel Sked
Walter Day
Clifford Stulta
Stella Stults
Ed Ginter
Wm. H. DeBow
Annie Fisher
Second Presbyterian Sunday School
Fred Schweitzer
G. B. Mershon
Mra. Schweitzer
Mra. Mershon
Methodist
Fred Carlaon
Brainerd Chapter O. E
Elias 8. Mason
Elias Mason
South Amboy
Robert
Hazel Stephenson
Alvah Probasco
Edward Walker
Lewis Chamberlin
John Stonaker
Charles Davison
William Mount
Lucille Chamberlin
Irene Walker
Enid W. Walker
Joseph Dey
Marian Campbell
Margaret Bergen
Carleton Campbell
John Barclay
Grace Mershon
William Denison
Anna Schock
Mary Hughes
Enid R. Walker
William Walker
Gladys Snedeker
Prospect Plains
Eleanor Shhroeder
E. Joerg
T. U
Capital City
Capitol City
Longeloth
King Philip Mills
East State St
Trenton, N. J
BR. A. Donnelly
State Street
Broad
Daniel Block Chotiag
South Broad St
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