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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1915
Page
1
The congregation voted unanimously to extend a call to Rev Warren Ellsing to become their pastor. The call was ratified by the Presbytery and Ellsing accepted, with him to take charge after preliminaries are completed.
Rev J A Matheson will be installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church of Allentown on Thursday evening February 4. Rev J E B Curry is invited to take part in the exercises. Sunday morning preaching by Rev S J McClenaghan. Sunday school service will feature Billy Sunday songs. All welcome to attend.
Sunday morning the pastor Rev J B Curry will preach on Peter's Vision and Peter's Prejudice. Sunday evening a Stereopticon exhibition titled In Red Man's Land will be shown.
The C E Society of the First Presbyterian Church will meet in the chapel Sunday evening. The subject is Foreign Mission Opportunities the world round. The leader will be Miss Margaret Carry.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the First church will meet in the chapel next Friday afternoon at 8 o'clock with Miss R. Ella Chamberlin chairing the program. The Society of the Second church meets the same day at Mrs. J. B. Silvers home to elect officers for the coming year and receive annual offerings for Home and Foreign missions.
The Circle will convene next Wednesday with Mrs. J. B. Perrine. The program planned is City and Suburb.
Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Ernest Barker and Miss Bessie L. Farjeon of Brooklyn. The ceremony will be held at Christ Church Brooklyn on Thursday evening February 11. Barker is known in Hightstown as a nephew of F.V. Jemizon.
The Princeton faculty plans to require graduates to demonstrate swimming knowledge before receiving diplomas. A 1911 regulation on swimming was never enforced, but recent storms with many drownings are cited as justification for the new rule.
The entertainment section notes a chapel event at the First Church on February 15 featuring star performers. The full programme will be published in next week's Press, with details forthcoming.
Mr. C. P. Emmons donated two bags of corn to the swans, ensuring nourishment and happiness. The swans swim and play merrily, free from hunger, while others may also wish to extend a meal to them.
The Hightstown Fire Department plans a ball Tuesday night at the house with decor and music by the Stillwell Orchestra of Freehold. Proceeds aim to raise several hundred dollars to boost the automobile fund, offsetting about 800 dollars owed on the 3500 dollar auto fire apparatus.
Mr and Mrs H N Scott entertained many friends at Hotel Sterling in Trenton on Tuesday honoring Mr Scott's birthday. J Silvers presented a diamond and pearl pin, Mr Scott accepted graciously, then guests attended the Shriner's Carnival at the Armory. Guests included numerous Trenton couples and associates.
The Walker-Gordon Laboratory Company of Plainsboro started an employees saving bank governed by the workers who elected a board and officers. First National Bank of Princeton is the depository. Nearly every dairy farm employee is a depositor. The company shares earnings with staff and supports the bank plan.
Mr and Mrs G Armstrong Bennett mourn the sudden death of their two and a half year old daughter Rebecca. The family includes Alfred and Marvin Bennett. Funeral services were held at the parents home with interment in Brainerd cemetery under direction of A B Cole Son Co.
Music lovers in Hightstown look forward to a concert by the Temple Girls Octette of Philadelphia under W Powell Twaddell at the Baptist Church. Net proceeds go to the church Women’s Missionary Society. Twaddell will also give an organ recital.
Former Borough Clerk George W. De Voe, a noted real estate and insurance agent, has been appointed postmaster at Spotswood to succeed Joseph Hodapp Sr. The move ends Hodapp’s fifteen year tenure. De Voe awaits commission and location plans for a relocation of the office.
Friends gathered at his home Saturday evening to honor R P Stillwell on his birthday. About five hundred in attendance enjoyed refreshments after the surprise. Guests included Mr. and Mrs J B Silvers, Mrs Fannie Van Derveer, Mrs Sara Clayton, Mr and Mrs W H Johnson, Mr and Mrs H N Scott, Mr and Mrs B S Barclay, Mr and Mrs H S Perrine, Mr and Mrs G B Merahon, Mr and Mrs Russell Silvers, Mr and Mrs William Gordon, Mr and Mrs Walter Havens, Dr B S Van Dyke, and Mr and Mrs Samuel Perrine.
At the Monday meeting the Plainsboro Grange elected committees for the year including Membership with H W Jeffers Julia Belles and Perrine Finance with J W B Wicoff Howard Jemison and G W Mount Relief with Wm Silvers Wm Bolles and H Grover Trustees elected J V B Wicoff and J E White Refreshments with Wm Major A Updyke and Wm Bolles Music with H A Stults Harold Freeman and Stults Flower with J V B Wicoff Abel Updyke and H A Stults
A meeting of male residents at the Monmouth Junction post office on Friday evening January 22 organized a Board of Trade for the town. Officers elected for the year are W. W. Emens president Michael Cahill vice president John T. Finnegan John B. Rowland and Arthur Turton directors Nicholas H. Vree land treasurer. By laws were approved and a residency rule set prohibiting membership for those living more than one and a half miles from the P R R depot.
Jamesburg Mrs. Tillie C. McMertrie daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Chandler of Jamesburg and George J. Vanderveer son of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Vanderveer of Buckalew Avenue were married Sunday afternoon by Rev. John Ehrenstein at the First Baptist Church manse with William Wilson as best man and Miss Jean Chandler as maid of honor.
Florian Beiseiger and David Robinson found a best life preserver on the beach near Jersey avenue at Spring Lake last Sunday. It was in good condition and bore the name Mexico, a ship traveling between New York and Havana. The preserver was found about 200 miles south of Sandy Hook and the vessel arrived in New York late Monday afternoon. How it washed ashore on Sunday remains unexplained.
Early Monday morning Mrs. Carrie E Chamberlin wife of Henry P Chamberlin died at her home in Hightstown. Her funeral was held Wednesday afternoon. She leaves her husband a son Clifford Chamberlin a grandson Ernest Chamberlin a sister Miss Sarah Walton of Dutch Neck and a brother Jacob Walton of Dutch Neck.
Van Dyke Perrine died after about a week's illness at his home near Monmouth Junction aged 78. He leaves a widow, one son George Perrine, two daughters Mrs Frank Pierson and Mrs Morris Vannest, and one grandchild Mary Elizabeth Pierson. He was brother of John C. Perrine of Cranbury, the last survivor of a family of six. Funeral will be Monday at 10 80 o'clock with interment at Kingston.
Residents of the township seek to join Hightstown to access sewer, fire and police protection, lighting, and mail delivery. Borough engineers provide a map of the proposed line including the sewage plant, roads, and outlying parcels. A Mercer County Assemblyman will be asked to introduce an annexation bill in the current legislative session.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee reported favorably on the woman suffrage resolution after a Monday public hearing. Introduced by Mr. Peacock of Burlington, it was set as a special order for next Monday night to receive a final vote in the House, and both parties are pledged to submit the question to voters.
Princeton mothers organized a Home and School Association after a talk by Miss Anna Fell principal of Cadwalader School Trenton. The group met last Wednesday afternoon and planned a February 2 meeting with tea after the business session. Officers include President Mrs Lloyd Grover Vice President Mrs Fetter Secretary Miss Vincent and Treasurer Mrs Frank Bayles.
A fragmentary diary style line notes a figure roaming overhead and a child identifying the figure as Papa. The piece hints at family tension and a restless morning mood in a brief, observational tone.
The notice promotes winter film development and landscape photography highlighting detailed scenes with foliage and indoor flash for portraits. It promises expert service to maximize prints from exposures and notes that no charges are made for failed attempts.
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