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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1886
Page
3
The Cranbury Press lists church services at First and Second Presbyterian, a Methodist and Episcopal parish schedule, with prayer meetings and Sunday schools. It also notes lodge meetings, post office hours, mail routes to Philadelphia and New York trains, and a brief town report on local education and infrastructure developments.
Notice from Monmouth area traders reports sale of stove property at Monmouth Tunctionshi ownership transfer to W L Emmorfas with possession due April first. John N Race plans a new store continuing business. Cranbury Station firms Brown Gibson selling coal, with price guidance and coal varieties noted. Inquiries directed to Peto I. Begen.
The item references a statement from the Hightstown Gazette about a Penn Railroad freight discrimination section, and notes a broader community debate. It also reports on the death of Lizzie G Baldwin found in river gravel near Water Power, with details of her attire and the unclear cause. The text covers court actions, local personalities, a suicide at Clinton Street railroad, and various notices and ads from Trenton and nearby towns.
Sheriff levied on Pennsylvania locomotive 830 in Elizabeth New Jersey yard January 6 to satisfy a 35 000 claim. At the May term administrators of Hopg Van Ness obtained a judgment in Union County counts. Lindabury company counsel took over, money paid and engine released.
On January 1 Barker Gummere Judge William T Hoffman and other counsel hired to aid the state in enforcing taxes by railroads under the new law were released. Briefs were completed and a decision is expected at the February term possibly appealed to the Court of Errors and Appeals with delays likely but the railroads must pay taxes before the suits proceed.
Local items record Johar Gibson’s thirty year anniversary at Cranbury Station and list appointments by several officials. A December 1885 freight report shows freight and cash gains over 1884, with notes on hay press activity, manifests, and railroad freight charges affecting farmers. Also covered are lodge installations in Middlesex and New Brunswick and a Hamilton Grange meeting criticizing Pennsylvania Railroad rates and urging legislative action.
Thomas Moran of Bordentown, a Pennsylvania Railroad track walker, was found dead near lock No 2 between Trenton and Bordentown. A bullet wound in the head and another in the neck indicate possible murder by tramps. Moran, about 60, leaves a childless widow in Bordentown. the coroner took charge of the body.
A long, disjointed OCR yields sermons about faith and evangelism, a labored railroad report about a Bordentown line, and brief notices. Included are tragic items: a fall from a New Brunswick building, Mrs Campbell’s death, a mill location bid, saloon licenses lapsed yet open, a Cranford assault attempt, and a New Brunswick child scalding with eye injury.
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