Cranbury Personal Notes and Local Visits 1911
Franklin and Annie Scott spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Walter Scott. Many residents and visitors are noted including Mrs L G Appleget in Trenton and Miss Adelaide Everingham in Philadelphia. Albert Wade won a $176 draft for solving a magazine problem and several families travel between Cranbury, Jamesburg, Belmar, and Asbury Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin and
Annie Scott
Mrs. Walter Scott
Samuel Perrine
Frank
Phoenixville
Adelaide Everingham
Philadelpha
L. G. Appleget
Trenton
Roland Bebee
Isaac Bogart
Second Presbyterian Church
Clara Bergen
John Ervin
Jamesburg
Frank Jennings
Alvina Wilson
St. Francis Hospital
Albert Wade
Extension Magazine
Clarence ‘Perrine
Isaac Pullen
Wm. M. Cox
St. Francia Hospital
Charles_V_Van_ Horn
Asbury Park
Mount J. Duncan
Stone Ridge
New York
John E. Ervin
Belmar
Wiliam A. Ervin
William Conover
Aston VanDerveer
Manala
Pan
Elwood Groves
Sara Hoagland
New Brunswick
Community notices mix of clubs school visits and social events
Local clubs plan meetings on January 26 and January 29 with NF Clayton Mrs Clayton and Miss Jennie Everett listed. School visits by County Superintendent H Brewster Willis noted. A Chamberlin's Opera House dance February 21 hosts Ferrie Ferris Harman. A Lincoln lecture series concludes. Fortieth anniversary celebrated. Delicatessen Sale at Second Presbyterian Church January 28. Capons sold to Chas S Hulse. Donnelly store remains open after recent fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlin
Hightstown
Oscar Ferrie
Fred Ferris
Charles Harman
Second Presbyterian Church
Engle Mission Band
Inauguration Attendees From Cranbury At Wilson Event
Crowds at Governor Wilsons inauguration in Trenton included Cranbury residents W Russell Silvers J J Bradley Arthur Clayton Charles T Hoffman Howard J Butcher Walter H Havens Isaac Co Hoffman John Major Sylvanus Grover and Blaine Davison. Items from a Fire Company festival about two years ago await ownership owners must apply to George Puerschoer for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor Wilson
Trenton
Cranbury
W. Russell Silvers
J. J. Bradley
Arthur Clayton
Charles T. Hoffman
Howard J. Butcher
Walter H., Havens
Isaac Co. ‘Hoffman
John Major
Sylvanus Grover
Blaine Davison
George Puerschoer
Fire destroys two story house at State Farm farm
A two story frame house at the State Agricultural farm in New Brunswick burned at 8 o'clock this morning with all contents lost. Miss Tillie Voorhees resided there and used part of the building as a studio. The blaze consumed paintings and antiques leaving the structure a charred ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Brunswick
Tillie Voorhees
EB. B. Voorhees
Resolutions Mourn Loss of Wilmer F Temple at Cranbury Council
The Cranbury No 60 Jr 6 U A M mourns Wilmer F Temple noting death as divine will. They resolve to present the relatives a copy, suspend the charter for 30 days, and publish resolutions in the Cranbury Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WuHeness
Cranbury
N. J
Wilmer F. Temple
Cranbury Press
Insurance Agency Purchase Announcement and Proctor Anecdote
The speaker announces he has purchased the entire insurance business of the late Frank A. Brown and will handle the policies and expirations, offering to visit before policy renewals. He notes his home office on North Masia Street beside the Second Church Chapel. A Proctor of Vermont quotation about voting follows, highlighting his four word speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Brown
North
Masia
Proctor
Senator Proctor
Vermont
Hoar
Green Mountain
Massachusetts
Public Sales Notices From Local Trustees and Executors
A series of public auctions and sales in Plainsboro Cranbury Hights Town Spotswood and Jamesburg districts includes an eight room dwelling with barn and building lots, executor sales of Orianna Van Dyke estate, multiple stock and farming implement auctions, real estate and household goods, with dates from January 21 to February 16 and locations on premises rural roads and farms. Authorities include First Presbyterian Church trustees Isaac S Everett Wm Hughes C M Davison P M John B Stults Dora Lemken and Mary Pullen executrix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Presbyterian Church of
Plainsboro
Isaac S. Everett
Cranbury
Wm. Hughes
Jamesburg
Orianna van Dyke
Hights
C. M. Davison
Alfred Davison
Wm. B. Dey
John B. Stults
Pleasant Hill School House
Dora Lemken
Spotswood
Mary Pullen
John E Pullen
Eelop
Dayton
A Story of Old Ironsides in the War of 1812
The Constitution escaped Broke's squadron by towing under a near calm. Captain Hull lowered boats and used a half mile long kedge anchor with lines to haul the ship forward while the English commodore adopted a similar tactic. A breeze later saved the vessel from capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broke
Hull
Feed Grinding and Wood Sawing Notice at Hightstown
Notice: a package with two pairs of small shoes left at Baptist sheds in Hightstown can be recovered at this office. Also an advertisement for grinding feed and sawing wood by Joan J. Offleer Cranbury NJ. Horses and cow for sale by H N Scorr and high prices paid for heavy hogs and shoats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hightstown
Joan J. Offleer
Cranbury, N. J
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Charles Bowers
Russell
Kansas
Everett
Arthur Ervin
Jersey City
Andrew C. Bedle
F. A. Brown
Iaw
Charles
Frank Walker
Freehold
Cecil Lamb
Richard Cadmus
Mrs
Nicholas Vreeland
Jacob Hand
Town
Nicholas Vreeland, Jr
Monmouth Junction
Homer
Grace Perrine
Charles Dancer
St. Augustine
Florida
Robert Sutton
J. McDonald
Lizzie Petty
Philadelphia
Bertram Clayton
South Creobury
J. Kerr
William Stein
Clifford Conover
Vincent Perrine
Bessie Perrine
Corona Club
NF. Clayton
J. F. F. Club
The
F. F. Club
Jennie Everett
H. Brewster Willis
the Reading Circle
N.F. Clayton
James van Dyke
R. V. Spaulding
N. F. Clayton
C. W. Heisley
Abraham Lincoln
Pioneer Grange No.1
H J. Butcher
H. J. Butcher
J. Murphy
Laura Scudder
Walter B Havens
Spencer W. Perrine
Armenia
H. Dry
Dayton, N. J
John E. Stuits
Geo. B. Ely
Cranbury Station
Chas. S. Hulse
Newtown
Donnelly Clothing Store
R. A. Donnelly Haberdashery
State Farm
Clans
Scotland
Clubs
Malcolm VI
Caldare
Wurewang
E. Harder
Geo. M. Appelget
Dey Road
Mael
H. N. Scorr
James A. Suira
McCleland Streat
Perth
Amboy
Dunham & CO
Trenton, N. J
Coats
Ss. P. Dunham & CO
Jersey
Thomas’ Peppler
Hightstown, N,v
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