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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1916
Page
1
Members are urged to attend a mid-summer rally with ride requests for elderly and shut-ins and welcome transient motorists to worship. Rev. Warren Elsing will preach on Christ Jesus and Jeremiah’s wheel allegory while church societies prepare separate meetings and programs. A finger injury to Mrs. Savige is noted and Warrenite Road work advances under John H. Elliott.
Mount J. Duncan sends his annual subscription to the Cranbury Press though living in Stone Ridge New York. He reports this season's weather as in New Jersey and his health is much improved.
Kingston Presbyterian church hosts a harvest home with music by Goodwin's Band and a lawn fete and dance on August 21. St James Catholic Club and Ladies Altar Society of Jamesburg sponsor their annual lawn fete and dance on August 6 with good music and amusements.
Ann Amanda Selover Pierson aged 74 wife of Thomas Pierson died at Rhode Hall after an illness of two months. Funeral services were held at the family home. She was born in Middlesex county between Dayton and Rhode Hall and lived there her whole life. Steinbach's furniture advertises special offerings in style and price from August 1 to 17 in Asbury Park.
The Schultz Memorial Church congregation hosts a harvest home on Cranbury school grounds Tuesday evening August 15 with Goodwins Band providing music. If stormy, the event moves to the next evening.
Miss Emma Lea Mershon announced her engagement to Mr Arthur Leslie Burroughs at a Park Place luncheon hosted by Mr and Mrs George B Mershon in honor of Emma’s birthday. Guests included Mrs W Russell Silvers Mrs Stanley Conover and others at the pink themed event. The couple are active in Cranbury social life with Burroughs a printer and musician and Emma a Cranbury school teacher. The same edition notes the Princeton Driving Association race meet at Bayard Lane Driving Park and a Cranbury marriage license for William Shorter Bull and Miss Marie Rosine Ledos. Local farmers attending a meeting in Trenton discussed cooperation and development.
William W. Stevens of Burlington and Charles C. Houser of Altoona died after being struck while atop a freight car under Cranbury Station’s overhead bridge. Both brakemen, about 30, suffered base skull fractures. Houser’s body rolled to the tracks. The engineer saw the danger but could not warn them. Houser leaves a widow and four children. An inquest is expected.
The annual Harvest Home of Old Tennent church will be held on Wednesday August 2. If stormy it will be held the next evening.
Organization of a county Local Option League was perfected at a Second Reformed church meeting in New Brunswick. E. S. Barclay was named president with a slate of officers including Adrian Lyon Perth Amboy and John Parkins South Amboy. Committees will work with Democrats and Republicans to secure voter support before primaries. Condit M Davison of Jamesburg was chosen secretary but declined.
Plainstown notes show several social visits with Miss Helen Grover in Perth Amboy and Miss Marguerite Cubberley of Philadelphia visiting Princeton. L W Grove bought a Ford roadster from E Dey. A small town jury split a verdict with six voting 4000 and six voting 3000, settling at 500.
Etiquette traces to labels placed by two Scotch gardeners at Versailles for Louis XIV. Courtiers ignored the markers until a directive required walking within the labeled paths, turning “etiquettes” into a standard for doing the correct thing.
A brief item notes a journey or errand thirty miles to reach a clothing store, highlighting distance as a factor in a daily shopping task.
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