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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1915
Page
1
The pastor Rev J E Curry will preach on The Motor Age Its Wonderful Possibilities and Hidden Dangers using Ez 1 16 and 1 21 as text urging car owners to attend with their autos if needed fill the house Also Second Presbyterian Church will have Rev Warren Elsing preaching in the morning on The Contrary Wind.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Cox will host guests this Sunday including Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Errickson and family Miss Cecilia Everett Mr. and Mrs. John Everett Mr. and Mrs. Harry Farr and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Errickson.
The Cranbury Baseball Club lost to Dayton 5 to 0 last Saturday. They will meet again tomorrow at 3 PM on the school grounds for a rematch.
A storm damaged a tree in Mrs Abijah Applegates yard with bark ripped from top to bottom. Hightstown High reports Miss Ottie Puerschner Cranbury named on the honor roll in each bi monthly listing. Tomorrow evening Goodwins Band presents a postponed concert featuring a varied program including Overture Yankee Hash Waltz and Belmont Waltz.
Miss Harriet A Baremore and Joseph A Hollenbeck, both of Hightstown, married Friday evening at five o'clock at the parsonage of the Trinity Methodist church in Trenton by Rev. Charles H Elder. They will reside in Hightstown.
Widow of Humphrey Rogers died Tuesday in the seventy ninth year. Funeral from son in law Jasper C. Laird residence on Dey street Hightstown. Survived by seven children Lizzie Laird Eila Grover Albert Rogers Charles M Rogers George Rogers William Rogers Harry Rogers Jamesburg and more.
The Ocean County Kennel Club will hold its first annual dog show for all breeds on July 31 1915 at the Kenwyn Kennels grounds in Point Pleasant Ocean County New Jersey. Full classifications and breed prizes offered with no Pedigree required to enter.
Captain William T. Schultz a New York steamboat man died July 1 after five weeks of Brights disease with liver and heart complications. He is buried at Rhinebeck-on-the-Hudson. He married Mrs. Gertrude Schultz, a Cranbury native who contributed to the Press. The Schultz estate in South Dartmouth, including a 27 room mansion filled with steins prints and historical works, is famed in the region.
Two masked men robbed the Bloomfield Savings Institution at Bloomfield Center and Broadstreet, binding and gagging cashiers. Bank employees say the thieves fled with a large cash haul, about five thousand seven hundred dollars, from the two story brick building opposite Bloomfield National Bank in the heart of Bloomfield.
Prof BE E Guige, after ten years as Belmar public school supervising principal, is chosen supervising principal of Freehold schools at 1800 pounds a year. He replaces Charles Strahan, recently named Monmouth county superintendent. Belmar salary was 1500 dollars. Freehold maximum is 2500 dollars.
The Mercer Shoe Company succeeds the Minor-Pullen Shoe company with William H. Franklin as president, Dr. George H. Franklin as vice president, Howard C. Davison as secretary and treasurer, and J. W. Davison and William H. Thompson as incorporators. The cutting room began Wednesday and the factory will be fully operational in a few days.
The Friday Club elected officers and committees for the year 1915 16. President is Miss Mary C Simpson with several vice presidents, secretaries and committee heads. The theme for 1915 16 is Belgium and each meeting will feature a musical program.
The Old Tennent Harvest Home is set for Wednesday July 28 1915 with a rain date of the following evening if stormy. The notice specifies the event timing and contingency.
Harry Brower of Railroad avenue Jamesburg suffered severe facial burns when a carbide can exploded in the basement of his bakery on Sunday morning. Smelling gas he lit a match near the stock receptacle, flames scorched his face and set his clothing. He received first aid at Koon's drug store before being taken home for treatment.
The Middlesex and Somerset Pomona Grange with the Middlesex County Board of Agriculture organize a large summer outing to Palisade Park on Tuesday July 27. The steamer Albion will transport hundreds of farmers and their families with Goodwins Concert Band aboard. Tickets are limited to 1100 and priced at 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children.
The Middlesex County Board of Agriculture and 75 members toured George Davison’s Plainsboro farm to inspect 40 acres of potatoes and a corn plot entered in the county corn growing contest. Dr. Melvin L. Cook discussed potato disease and remedies, and Irving L. Owen spoke on alfalfa as 200 acres of alfalfa appear countywide. The group plans a September visit to J. M. Evans’s New Market farm to review 20 corn varieties planted there for yield comparison.
The Western Union office shifts from Harry Harbourt’s to Cunningham's drug store. Officials promise improvements and a more central, convenient location with a commitment to first class service for Hightstown patrons.
Tomorrow at School Grounds at 3 P M Cranbury faces Dayton in a lively baseball clash. Also obituary notice for Harry C Perrine Sr longtime South Amboy banker, potter and clay industry leader who died after pneumonia at his home on Swan's Hill. Funeral set for Saturday at Christ Episcopal Church.
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