Cranbury Personalities Share Weekend Visits and School News
Isaac Everett visited Philadelphia friends while George VanDyke of Trenton spent Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. James VanDyke. The Board of Education engaged Howard Green to teach at Cranbury High. Many locals visited relatives in Hightstown, Trenton, and Philadelphia. Community events included a Flinch Club meeting, Corona Club gathering, and church activities with stints by W Russell Silvers and other residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Everett
Philadelphia
George VanDyke
Trenton
James VanDyke
Joseph Dey
John Durance
Windsor
Sadie Applegate
Grace Applegate
Flinch Club
Olive Petty
Board of Education
Howard Green
Mansfield
Cranbury
Thomas Perrine
Clara Bergen
McClenagham
Local Social Roundup From Trenton and Nearby
Mrs George B. Mershon spent Wednesday in Philadelphia. E. C. Barclay visited Tren ton on Wednesday. The Social Club will meet next Thursday January 19 with Mr and Mrs Wm Perrine. Mr and Mrs W J Campbell spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Lewis Bowers of Dutch Neck. Mr and Mrs Thomas Brokaw, parents of Mrs G A Bennett, have gone to Florida for the winter. Mr and Mrs Henry Chamberlin, Clifford Chamberlin’s parents in Hightstown, will winter in the south. Clarence Perrine is in St Francis hospital Trenton for special treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Chamberlin
Ancil Davison
John Fraizer
Philadelphia
H. J. Groves
Richard W. Norton
Helen
Ezra
Lemuel Stults
Ernest Stults
Clarence Perrine
Corona Club
Wm. F. Perrine
W. J. Campbell
Lewis Bowers
Dutch Neck
Thomas Brokaw
G. A. Bennett
Florida
Henry Chamberlin
Hightstown
South
Second Presbyterian Church Youth Circle Meets Tomorrow
The Y P C 8 of the Second Presbyterian Church will meet tomorrow evening at the home of Miss Mary Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Presbyterian Church
Mary Hughes
Meeting of the W. C. PT. U. at Miss Rose Voorhees home
The W C P T U met Thursday afternoon at Miss Rose Voorhees’s Bergen home. John J. Bergen assumed Cranbury postmaster duties Monday with assistants Miss Delta Dey and Miss Bessie Bergen. James H Field of Hightstown advertises horses and mules for sale with deals. The Escent Orchestra gains popularity with two engagements in Allentown New Jersey on February 2 and February 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Voorhees
John 8. Bergen
Cranbury
Ofice
Delta Dey
Bessie Bergen
James H. Field
Hightstown
Sknnny
Escent
Allentown
Lon
Second Presbyterian Sunday School Officers Named
The Second Presbyterian Sunday school elected officers for the year. Superintendent W. J. Campbell. Asst Superintendent E. S Barclay. Secretary Charles C. Groves. Asst Secretary W. Russell Silvers. Treasurer John Major. Pianist Mrs. Thomas J Woolston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Presbyterian Sunday School
W. J. Campbell
E. S Barclay
Charles C. Groves
W. Russell Silvers
John Major
Thomas J, Woolston
Reading Circle Meeting Highlights With Helen Keller Focus
The Reading Circle gathered at Mrs. H. C. Symmes home on Wednesday with programs on Helen Keller life extracts Mrs Stults Women enterprises by Mrs S H Perrine and a travel talk by Miss Elva Chamberlin illustrated with pictures from abroad and a map of soil and formations. Rev C W Heisley will present a Lincoln discourse next Sunday at 7 in the Methodist Church tracing his early life from flat boatman to president and, on the 22nd, Lincoln's Civil War career and death with anecdotes and prayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Symmes
Helen Keller
Stults
S. H Perrine
Elva Chamberlin
Symmes
Jast
C. W. Heisley
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Mississippi
Lincoln
Sojourners at Pinebluff in North Carolina
The notice reports winter mailing list growth as papers head to Pinebluff and other southern winter locales. It mentions Mr and Mrs R L McDowell enjoying winters there for health and sunshine. Mr and Mrs A H Symmes and daughter Mary also favor the climate and pleasant associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinebluf
N. C
R. L. McDowell
Pinebluff
A H. Symmes
Mary
Village Improvement Society Incorporation Plan Set
At the regular meeting the Village Improvement Society voted to become incorporated. A committee led by J S Silvers H Perrine and D Lewis Sr was formed to handle the process. An entertainment by local talent is planned for Wednesday February 22 with a committee of Mrs H C Symmes Mrs G W Burroughs Mrs B S Barclay and Mrs C T Hoffman in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Village Improvement Society
J. S. Silvers
H. Perrine
D. ©. Lewis Sr
H.C. Symmes
G. W. Burroughs
B.S. Barclay
C. T. Hoffman
Quiet Cranbury Wedding Linked Cox and Pullen Names
A quiet wedding occurred at the M. E Parsonage Cranbury on Sunday January 8 1911 at 6 PM. Margaret D daughter of Mr and Mrs William M Cox of Cranbury married Jess Pullen. Attendants were the bride's brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Charles R Cox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E Parsonage
Cranbury
Margaret D
Wm. M. Cox
Jesss K. Pullen
Chas. R. Cox
John Dey of Dayton Dies After Illness
John Dey aged family farmer from Dayton died Thursday January 12 after a lingering illness. He was son of William P. and Alice A. Dey and is survived by two sisters Mrs. Sara Perrine and Mrs. Isaac Cubberly. He married twice, first to Jennie Brokaw and second to Armenia Hutchinson. He leaves three children Mrs. Holmes Probasco of Allentown Wm Dey of Newark and Harvey K. Dey of Dayton. The Union Valley Christian Endeavor group at M P church elected officers for six months and planned a box social at Chas. Dey's Prospect Plains residence for January 20 or 23 if stormy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Dey
Dayton
William P
Alice A. Dey
Sara Perrine
Isaac Cubberly
Jennie Brokaw
Isaac Brokaw
Armenia Hutchinson
Peter Barclay
Union Valley Christian Endeavor
Christian Endeavor Society
M. P. Church
Geo. B. Perrine
Sylvanus Davison
Chas. Dey
Luella Clayton
Deaths in Highland Park and Dayton Notices
Death notices list John Johnson Davison of Davison's Mills at Highland Park on January 12 1911 with funeral details from his daughter Mrs John Christopher Myers residence and private interment. Another notice reports John S Dey of Dayton N J dying on January 12 with funeral from Dayton January 16 at one o'clock and Cranbury interment. Also a cartoon caption about Harvey Waters and Rufus Choate discussing unreadable writing and a reply about content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davison
Highland Park
John Johnson Davison
John Christopher Myers
New Brunswick
Dey
Dayton
N. J
John S. Dey
Cranbury
Harvey Waters
Rufus Choate
Mr. Choate
Public Sales Dates Announced for Farms and Homes
A sequence of estate and church sales is listed. Jeremiah Buckslew will auction a 4 acre homestead near Collier's Mille, 27 acres Cedar Swamp, and 2 1/2 acres Cranbury bog. John Hughes to sell stock and farm implements at Prospect Plains. First Presbyterian Plainsboro trustees to sell eight and seven room dwellings with lots. Wm Hughes to auction farming items on Cranbury to Jamesburg road. Orianna Van Dyke executors to sell property on Hights town best street. Wm B Dey to sell stock farm implements and poultry near Half Acre. P M John B Stults to sell stock and implements near Pleasant Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah Buckslew
Edward Buckslew
Collier’s Mille
Cranbury Bog
John Hughes
Prospect
Plains
First Presbyterian Church of
Plainsboro
Wm. Hughes
Cranbury
Jamesburg
Latock
Orianna van Dyke
Hightstown
Oldest English epitaph in Oxfordshire churchyard
The oldest English epitaph, dated 1370, survives in an Oxfordshire churchyard. The two lines illustrate its antique typography and obsolete language, with modern readings illustrating the lament that all must die and fare poorly when we depart this life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxfordshire
Local shop sale ad listing varied fabrics and accessories
An old newspaper advertisement lists mufflers, handkerchiefs, aprons, belts, plumes, scarves and silk items with prices from 5c to 40c. It shows a retail sale at Monaroz Sr Dey Road through discounted yardage items.
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Cranbury Press
Bagnell Johnson
Brother Warren
Mrs. C. P. Emmons
Frank Jemison
Anna Chamberlin
St. Francis
Keyport
Jesus
Frank Vreeland
Monmouth Junction
Nicholas Vreeland
Charles Dey
Mabel Bennett
Bessie Perrine
John Barlow
Willing Workers
First Presbyterian Chapel
Golden Key
First Church C. E Society
Ogleby
New York
Silvers
Samuel Bennett
Grover Stultr
Richard Mason
Kathryn Duncan
Vincent Perrine
Wm. Stein
James Kerr
Gertrude
Charles McDonald
E. Arrickson
Elwood VanDusen
William Hutchinson
Freehold
J. E. Bennett
John J. Stryker
Princeton
Wm. H. Bergen
George B. Mershon
St.Francis Hospital
P. GC. S
Bergen
S. S
the Reading Circle
Pullen—Cox
Y Apollo Lodge
Ave
Joseph E. Curry
W. M
E. Harder
Call
Geo. M. Appelget
Anand
J. Oehler
Cranbury, N. J
Dey Road
Blaine Davison
Muel
H. N. Scott
N.J
James A. Smith
McCleland Street
Perth
Amboy
Cranbury Station
New Jersey
S. P. Dunham & 66
Trenton, N. J
Ss. P. Dunham & CO
Cyphers
America
Cyphers Incubator Company
Thomas
Peppler
Hightstown, N. J
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