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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1914
Page
1
Miss Grace Dey and Percy Dean of Dayton will render duets at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. The area features a schedule of services and social events with multiple community gatherings, tennis and Grange meetings noted.
The Cranbury Junior baseball club defeated the Cranbury Colored Giants 9 to 4 on Saturday morning. The Colored Giants led through the fifth inning before Cranbury's hitters sparked the rally with "Humpy" at the plate. Hutchinson of Hightstown started for the Juniors and was relieved in the third as Davison shut down the opponents allowing only one run.
The New Jersey W. C. T. U. Summer Institute will convene at Ocean Grove's Young People's Temple on July 21 and 22 with Daniel A. Poling delivering the evening address on "The Conservation of Humanity" Poling is noted as a prominent Citizenship Superintendent for the United Society of Christian Endeavor Prohibition speakers are expected to draw a large audience The Plainsboro Grange held an open meeting with a packed program including readings music and a lecture a presbytery action followed regarding Rev Adolos Allen and the Second Church of Cranbury N J with praise for Allen and a note of his moving to Christian work in another field Arthur Phillips Stated Clerk
Miss Myrtle E. Dunbar wed Lionel V. Silvester at an outdoor ceremony in Princeton. Estella Rae Black married Ferria Charles Waite at The Orchards in Hightstown with a lawn procession and reception. The report also notes Theodore F. Everett joining Manasquan National Bank’s board after James B. Hudson’s death and the First Presbyterian Church youth society planning a six month expansion campaign.
The Helmetta club held a safe celebration with large crowds at the grove and lawn. The midway offered games and two baseball games followed by a vaudeville show praised as its best yet. Receipts were expected to reach the five hundred mark and no fireworks were displayed due to poor last year's stock.
Funeral services were held for John Thompson of Prospect Plains after his death on Friday with interment in Cranbury on Monday. Addie Mount aged 87 was also buried Monday from his Perrineville home with survivor Mrs. George Ely and Henry Mount. Rev. Joseph Van Dyke and Dr. Franklin led services. interment at Hightstown under A. S. Cole Lon Co. Rev. Charles F. Garrison, Eatontown pastor, died Thursday morning after weeks of illness. his son a doctor and sister a daughter survive. Garrison served in Cranbury and Milltown churches and helped temperance work and care for the feeble minded.
Lyle Van Nuis longtime cashier of the National Bank of New Jersey died at Stamford New York in the Catskills at age sixty after a sick leave. He was born in New Brunswick educated at Rutgers and served the bank since 1884 reaching cashier before his death.
Assistant Headmaster of the Peddie Institute and Mrs. R A Rivenburg announce the arrival of a daughter at their Main Street home in Hightstown.
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