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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
1
Sunday services led by Rev J E B Curry with the sermon titled Jesus Only from Matthew 17 8. Sunday School at 10, Christian Endeavor at 6 20 led by Miss Mary Woolston. Community Service at 7 30 features an illustrated lecture The Significance of our flag and views of national parks.
Second Church Notes report Rev. Frederick Schweitzer delivering a sermon on youth ministry. The Woman's Missionary Society will conduct its annual canvass after a special service. Sunday School at 10 A M with events on Friday prayer meeting and a Sunday School picnic next Thursday. The board of Foreign Missions designates Rev Ralph Ira McCarmell for Siam with full support pledged. Cranbury Boy Scout Troop plans a camping trip July 11 15 near Water Gap.
Pastor Rev L E Lennox leads a patriotic service with music and flag honors at the Sunday School 10 AM. Prayer meeting Thursday 7:45 PM and a stereopticon lecture Friday 8 PM at the Methodist church by Rev R A Conover of Camden. A silver offering will be taken, admission free. Everybody welcome.
The Light Bearers mission band of the First Presbyterian church will meet in the chapel Friday afternoon July 8 at four o'clock. Leaders are Rose Vincent and Melvina Vincent. A Cranbury Township public meeting discussed daylight saving and decided to keep standard time.
Group No 1 of the Ladies Guild will serve supper in the First Church chapel on Monday July 4 at five o'clock standard time. Menu includes pressed chicken boiled ham new potatoes peas cottage cheese jelly cabbage and poppe salad cake fruit coffee.
Jacques Train, injured when he fell from a hay wagon a week ago while driving a load on the Walter R. Dey farm near Cranbury, died Thursday at St. Francis hospital. Officials believe heat may have contributed as he never regained consciousness. He had no home.
On Monday July 4 at 8 30 a m the Cranbury Fire Company will stage a baseball game between married and single men. Refreshments will be sold on the grounds. Lineups include C Stults Louis Chamberlin E Wilson Schnell Stahl Symmes Hopple Schenck Spratford and Soehler among married players and J ONeil Reid Vanderveer Hagerty Grove Butcher Appleger Bergen Ollifford Reid Walker among singles.
Fire crews responded Thursday afternoon to Martin Nolan's farm on the road to Hightstown and extinguished a blaze in a chicken house with no further damage reported.
Mrs Alvin Petty hosted a Saturday evening shower for her niece Kathryn Buckelew at Dunhams Corner in honor of her upcoming marriage to Earl Prost of New Brunswick. About 65 guests attended and Buckelew was blindfolded and led to a wagon shielded by an umbrella filled with gifts. Refreshments followed the gift reveal.
Mrs Lincoln D Applegate of Dutch Neck hosted a 5 o clock Wednesday wedding for her daughter Edna N Applegate to J Fleming Errickson of Pennington. Rev George H Bucher officiated the ceremony with attendants Chester Wolfe and Carolyn Everett.
A Tuesday afternoon storm brought a heavy wind and rain that damaged several farms. A barn at Mrs. Ed ward Simonson’s Scotts Corner farm burned with livestock lost, while another barn near the Red Lion Hotel was struck. William V. Ely’s hay barn at Ely’s Corner was blown down. Apple grower John Barclay suffers extensive fruit damage though potatoes may benefit. Farmers face high losses from wind and fruit blown from trees.
A severe electrical storm struck Trenton and nearby areas on Monday afternoon bringing lightning, hail as large as marbles, and winds of 60 mph. Fires caused by lightning were reported across north, east and south sectors, with eight fires in less than 50 minutes and many buildings sustaining roof and window damage. Hail and wind hindered fire crews, while heavy rain flooded cellars and damaged crops. The storm followed by a peak temperature of 93 degrees, then fell 29 degrees after the event, tying June 27 as the hottest on record.
National Holstein Friesian Association reports from Delavan Wisconsin show Forsgate Farms Jamesburg New Jersey cows excelling with high milk and butter yields. Foregate Korndyke Raggie at age 3 years 28 days produced 583.7 ha milk and 22 347 lbs butter in 7 days with strong 80 day totals of 2185 4 lbs milk and 86 202 lbs butter. Clara Clothilde Lyons at 2 years 11 months 15 days produced 2658. LIbs milk and 93.477 lbs butter in 30 days, 4872.8 lbs milk and 175.363 lbs butter in 60 days, 71830 lbs milk and 254 803 lbs butter in 90 days, within senior 2 year spans. The herd is congratulated for the fine showing.
Clarence Thoroton offers Thermo Pak containers at Thornton's for home use to keep any ice cream flavor solid for several hours. The device enhances enjoyment by preserving condition and convenience for transport or storage.
The Fire Company of Cranbury hosts a block dance on Saturday July 2 and Monday July 4 at 8 PM Standard Time with Goodwin's Band providing music. Space for dancing and parking is available with a section set aside for colored people. Committee members include E. C. Wilson Charles Symmes T. B. Woolston and others. Publicity by S E Bennett and streets by William Smith. Don't miss it.
Hightstown social life appears active with visits among Perrine Everingham Oakerson Crater Gier and Mount families. Florence Brearley staying with Dr Applegate at Sea Girt. Nellie Schuyler visits Little Silver. Ely Mount welcomed a son. Busy Bee Club hosted by Lydia Dey and Hannah Hutchinson. Hightstown Library nearly ready as books arrive.
In England a female juror collapsed during a malicious wounding case in Manchester. She grew ill and nearly swooned, had to exit, and a substitute juror was appointed. The trial had to start over from the beginning.
The dialogue notes the return of the five cent loaf while signaling mass layoffs at the workplace. The exchange, set in a Boston Transcript frame, contrasts relief over bread price with grim job cuts.
The New York Post reports Cucuboro the kingfisher, nicknamed the Laughing Jackass by Australians for his daily pre dawn laughter and water loving habits, has reached New York Central Park. Locals treasure his cheerful chorus, likening his dawn and sunset calls to a clock and dinner bell for the Australian bush.
An old legend links Wales to the daffodil as a floral emblem through a barter with Spain. Spaniards reportedly exchanged coal and anthracite for bulbs after observing Welsh sun worship and iron smelting needs around Bilbao. The tale ties the flower to Bilboa seafarers and Pembrokeshire mining.
After the Derby, the News office logged about one hundred calls a minute. Most sought the race result with Behave Yourself crossing first in 2 04 1 5. A fan asked about the Indians versus Colonels game, and the operator confirmed the same winner. A caller complained the reply seemed like a joke.
The article notes a trend where furniture makers scan European mansions for ideas while overlooking the graceful, simple colonial style found in the United States. It asserts the colonial period as authentic, valuable art that remains useful and that designers are wisely adapting period designs to contemporary needs.
Advice advises avoiding meat and eating light foods. It recommends taking three Chamberlain's Tablets to cleanse the stomach and tone the liver, with a promise of feeling better within a day or two.
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