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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1913
Page
5
Cranbury and surrounding residents gather for family visits and club events. Local exchanges include guests from Jersey City Trenton Newark and New York with many Sundays spent with neighbors and relatives. Community notices mention entertainment plans and charitable sales amid illness and auto show travel.
A boys club named the Jolly Eight Club forms with Leslie Perrine as president and members Harold Scott Isaiah Barclay Milton Van Derveer James O Neil Milton Lawrence Norman Applegate and Charles Brown. The Cranbury Vigilant Society holds its annual meeting Saturday afternoon at Odd Fellows Hall. Mrs Harder expands stock with homemade gingham and white lawn aprons priced 25 to 50 cents in varied styles and sizes.
Next Monday evening Miss Dora Shoemaker will present an elocutionary entertainment in the First Presbyterian chapel under the Willing trust. She teaches at the National School of Oratory in Philadelphia and is endorsed for her ability and charm. A cake and ice cream sale follows. Admission is 25 cents. children under twelve pay 15 cents.
J Seward Perrine suffered a dizzy spell and fell unconscious at the foot of the stairs last week. Dr H C Symmes treated him at the scene as Mrs Perrine found him on returning home from a visit. The event occurred before a February 26 mid winter reception at the home of Mr and Mrs John 8 Silvers.
The Knights of Pythias Lodge No 34 will hold an oyster supper in Castle Hall Hightstown on Thursday January 30 The committee promises a pleasant evening with oysters served in all styles ice cream and other refreshments All are invited Officers listed include President Peter W Griggs Vice President James Stout Secretary Charles Modil Treasurer Charles Harris.
If children show the first symptom of croup, hoarseness, give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy immediately and the attack may be warded off. For sale by all dealers.
A suburban teacher hears a muffled laugh and questions the rude student. The pupil confesses he laughed up his sleeve, unaware there was a hole in his elbow, a quip cited from the London Telegraph.
A sequence of estate and general sales listed with dates from January 29 to February 24. Executors and organizers including Harry E Hutchinson John A Stults Wm E Moore R J Gulick Addison H Scott Eli Rogers A Lincoln Perrine and Mrs Kate Hutton announce sales of stock farm implements crops hay and household goods at locations Cranbury Dayton Grovers Mills Monmouth Junction Hoffmans Station and near Rhode Hall and South River.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr. King's New Life Pills to curb digestive distress. It claims the pills gently compel action of stomach liver and bowels restoring health and good feelings. Available for 25c at N F Clayton's.
Old Closefist asks why his son begs for dollars. The boy jokes that no work is harder than getting a dollar from him. The passage blends a domestic quarrel with a marketing aside from Harper’s Weekly.
In Trenton New Jersey vendors show dollar messaline silks woven to stand wear. The fabrics measure a yard wide and are described as crisp and pleasant. They are priced at 12 1/4 cents per yard.
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