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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
4
Assistant postmaster Moore is confined at home with grip. Town reports mumps, illnesses, visits, and social events. Properties change hands, banks move quarters, and a new Jamesburg post office building is planned.
At the Middlesex County School Board Association annual meeting County Superintendent H Brewster Wallis urged industrial schools. He advocated a city program with choice for high school pupils and a jointly funded rural model. A second report noted an attempted hold up near Job's Woods on the Hightstown road when Harvey Davison was paid for a horse.
Princeton residents attended an illustrated lecture on The Yosemite Valley by Dr William J Sinclair of the University in Princeton High School auditorium. The event opened a series by the Village Improvement Society School Committee. A February lecture on The Battle of Trenton by Prof Durell is planned. Commencement exercises for the February class of 1909 at the New Jersey State Normal School Trenton will occur January 29 with Dr James M Green delivering the address. Clementine Lewis, Cranbury, graduates and has a teaching post in Hoboken.
The Town Improvement Association, with about sixty members, shows active progress in Fountain Square Dawes Building. A recent donation of quilting, matting, tables, chairs, stoves, and more funds a future reading room and library. A cake sale raised funds, and a social hour with cocoa and tea followed. Key members include Mia, James B., Maxwell. An alumni dinner for Peddie School is set for June 29 at Hotel Manhattan New York, with Gilbury as president and Tolson as secretary. The Lotus Glee Club of New York will sing at Peddie on January 27, promoted by Mrs. Minnele Marshall Smith. Marguerite Dey and Clark Holmes announce their February 17 wedding. Joseph H. Black recovered from illness, and Vin Dyke chairs the Friday Club reception planning for February.
The Village Improvement Society celebrated its fourth anniversary at the First Presbyterian chapel with a large turnout. Rev J E Curry presided opening and directed a program featuring addresses recitations and library work notes.
Rev and Mia J B Clark visited friends in Englishtown Wednesday. Miss Eleanor Conover and Miss Mae MacKenzie spent Tuesday and Thursday with Mrs C. Speaker at Monmouth Junction. Miss Sue Osborn visited relatives at East Orange last Sunday. Miss Stella VanDerveer stayed with Mrs Paul Matzke Sunday. Town folk enjoyed a minstrel at Monmouth Junction by the Princeton Hook and Ladder Club. Miss Harriet Duncan and Mr George Waite are on a pleasure trip in Newark.
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