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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1922
Page
1
In the churches the Sunday School and Men’s Bible Class meet at ten o’clock. Sunday morning preaching by Rev. J. E. Curry on the theme When Work Becomes Worship from Matthew twenty five verse forty. Prayer Meeting at eight o’clock Friday night.
Fight o'clock this Friday evening the Prayer-Service in the Chapel, Mr. Henry Reed will lead the meeting. First bell for Sunday School on Sunday morning at 9:45 with devotional exercises led by Mr. Graham Campbell. The Men's Bible Class meets with the Pastor at ten o'clock in the Church. Preaching at eleven o'clock by the Pastor. The Stitch and Chatter postponed to Wednesday July 26th.
Sunday School at First Presbyterian met in the morning with a 10 AM service and 11 AM worship while a Thursday prayer meeting was held at 8 PM. About 250 attended the picnic at Asbury Park and 350 attended the Clark's Landing picnic, enjoying seashore bathing and fine school events.
The Ladies Aid of Schultz Memorial Church held a Mitten Social at Mrs. G D Brill’s home Wednesday night. A large attendance enjoyed the event and the social raised about $23.00 for church funds.
Mr and Mrs M Russell Johnson and Mr and Mrs William H Johnson left Tuesday in their car for a tour on Ong Island They went as far as Riverhead and returned yesterday Tomorrow they will leave for Wilmington Delaware where they will be joined by Warren F Johnson of Washington DC and motor from there to Atlantic City where they will spend Sunday
A. W. Forman led a Providence Life and Trust Co. party from Philadelphia on a Cape May trip last week. They left Wednesday and returned Saturday with a catch of 250 fish on one day.
The Cranbury Troop of Boys Scouts starts a ten day camping trip at Camp Brainerd on a bluff above the Manasquan River near Point Pleasant. Thirteen scouts plus the Scout master, assistant, and a chef will camp from last Thursday avernoon, returning Saturday afternoon with good weather and plenty of eats.
The Tuesday afternoon W C T U gathering at Mrs Halsey Reid’s home drew a large audience. A varied program included songs by Miss Barclay Symmes Brown and Mrs Charles Bar clay, readings by Miss Marian Barclay, piano solos by Miss Carlotta Davison, selections by Mrs Reid and Dr Curry, and two Indian pieces. Refreshments followed for a delightful afternoon.
At Hightstown on Monday afternoon fifty six Fresh Air Children from New York arrived and were met by volunteers and hosts. The community is urged to support the program with clothing and other contributions ahead of the July 24 deadline to help needy city children enjoy two weeks of care and kindness.
Mrs Bertram hosted a birthday gathering Monday for her daughter Virginia H Pullen turning eleven. Attendees included Alice Perrine Gladys Stults Alberta Grover Gladys Petty Evelyn Clayton Ronald Clayton FrancesDenison Billy Denison George Denison Alice Scott Anna Scott Alice Barcalow Marion Clayton Alberta Clayton Laura Chamberlin Mary Perrine Ruth Grover Emma Bennett Kathryn Stahl Harold Hagerty Rosella Perrine Frances Stults.
Congressman T Frank Appleby announces that House Joint Resolution 297 became law after passage by the House on June 5 and the Senate on June 21. The measure calls for an international maritime conference to curb dumping refuse oil into oceans, protecting beaches and fisheries. President Harding will be approached to convene the talks with Secretary Hoover instrumental in pushing the legislation.
John Henry Applegate eighty one died at home near Jamesburg following a disease complication. Funeral services Friday at 2 30 from his brother Jacob Applegate's home with interment in Brainerd Cemetery Cranbury. He was a farmer and lifelong Cranbury Jamesburg resident married to Anna Dey. Surviving are 60 children, a sister Mrs Elizabeth Snedeker New Brunswick and a brother Jacob Applegate Jamnesburg. He belonged to the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury.
Pioneer Grange will hold a harvest home on July 18 at the school grounds in Dayton. A Grange dinner, music, and dancing are planned with dinner served from 5:30 p.m. at 75 cents. If weather turns stormy, the event will move to the next clear night. The committee includes Harvey Dey Errickson Hoxie Boye Perrine and their spouses.
Middlesex County farmers will hold their annual picnic and field day at the College Farm grounds New Brunswick on Wednesday July 19. The program features basket lunch sports music and short speeches with a good band and a ball game anticipated. Dr Lipman and Colonel Schwartzkopf head a speaker lineup while F G Hart chairs the organizing committee of the County Board of Agriculture with Granges Home Bureau and county agents represented.
The Dutch Neck Presbyterian Sunday School will hold its annual picnic on Thursday July 27 at Clark's Landing. Mr and Mrs Frank R Adams were guests at Norwyn Place Farm Mount Holly. Several families and individuals visited friends in Princeton Mount Holly Monmouth Junction Hutchinsons Mills Newark Somerville Waymart and Waymart PA with various come and go visits and travels.
Perrine daughter Mrs. Mattie H. Perrine married George Franklin Eldridge of Hightstown Saturday evening at the bride's mother's home. Rev Harry Owings of the Baptist Church officiated. The ceremony was intimate with few guests. Eldridge recently became assistant postmaster after C. Stanley Stults resigned.
James A. Edgar announces candidacy for Surrogate on the Republican ticket this fall. Prof. J. Walter Reeves of Peddie to head the Dramatic Society organized in Hightstown. "If I Were King" to be staged as fall opener. Senator Walter KE Edge of New Jersey says he will oppose the Fordney McCumber tariff bill unless the Tariff Commission can revise rates. The elastic rates provision could be a national calamity.
A letter from Perrine, Oregon’s first subscriber now living with his granddaughter Miss Ethel Bergen, is published. It recounts Perrine’s Civil War memories, travel across the West, and trips along the Columbia River Highway to Astoria and the Pacific Ocean, noting long newspaper loyalty and daily life in 1922 Hillsboro.
Dayton Harvest Home set for August 2 with Kingston M EB and Pioneer Grange hosting July 18 in Dayton. Harvest Home on July 26 at Hightstown Baptist Church and Windsor M E hosts July 26 with Goodwin's Band.
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