Local Cranbury Notes Highlight Social Visits and Death
The Cranbury Press summarizes a week of visits and social rounds. Families like Lawhapent, Maple, Duncan, and VanDevender appear in gatherings at Trenton Asbury Park and Brooklyn. The paper notes illnesses, renovations, and a infant death, plus community events and a Presbyterian Sunday school photo day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. F. Clayton
Fennimore
Asbury Park
Nellie Eldridge
Trenton Frend
Grace McDowell
8. T. Lewis
Emelyn Lewis
Cranbury Notes Mention Reunion Vaccination and Wreck
Cranbury items report a second annual Baird Wyckoff reunion at the First Church planned for August 6 with grave marking for descendants of Thomas and Sally Apploget. Other notes include a town birthday celebration for W Irving Stults, a fatal shoemaker’s death, a Cranbury Station wreck, and calls for dog control measures amid local safety concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baird
Wyckoff
Thomas
Sally Baird
Cranbury
Brainerd
August Firth
Family Feasted Then Fell Ill After Tea at Petty Home
A Sunday gathering at Mr. and Mrs. Wilm Petty Jr. near Scotts Corner ended with several guests becoming ill after a large meal. Suspected cause points to iced tea as officials investigate possible contamination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wmn. Petty, Jr
Scotts Corner
Mra
John D. Perrine
Moore Franklin
United Efforts
Trenton Dog Control Needed to Stop Street Nuisance
Letter protests that dogs in Trenton roam streets cause property damage snarl at pedestrians and bite people. It calls for a law forcing owners to keep dogs on their premises or leashed in public, arguing current tax and freedom practices threaten safety and decency.
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Trenton
Cranbury
Anukes
Peta
Cotamon Council
Herron Sentenced to Die in Electric Chair for Metuchen Murder
Archibald Herron was convicted of murdering Rev. 8 B. Prickett in Metuchen on July 15 and sentenced to death in the electric chair for the week of September 7. Trial spanned July 27 with the verdict delivered after about eleven hours of court time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald Herron
B. Prickett
Metuchen
Herron
C. T. Cowenhoven
Supreme Court
Bergen
Berdine
Sta Alart
Quality bricks and the New Jersey clay industry lead
A geological survey shows B. H. Reed & Bros. brick tops strength tests among seventy five plants with a compression test of 12 770 pounds per square inch and a rupture modulus of 2042 pounds. Other plants range down to 771 pounds and 14 pounds, underscoring quality differences across manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay Industries
New Jersey
B. H. Reed & Bro
Reed & Bros
Geological Survey of
State of
Gypsy trip planned for Trenton Y M C A boys
The Trenton YMCA schedules a eight day gypsy style camping trip for the boys department starting August 22. They will march from Trenton to Asbury Park with tents cooking gear and a horse drawn wagon. They expect to reach the shore by Tuesday afternoon and stay till Thursday. Public sale announced for August 11 includes farm stock machinery and household goods at Wm H Varian residence.
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Trenton Y. M.C. A
Asbury Park
Trenton
Wm. H. Varian
Steal Pies at Point of Gun in Hightstown
In Hightstown at 5 am a party of eight autoists six intoxicated robbed Schaffer’s bakery after ordering pies. They fled after drawing revolvers alarming residents, then sped away toward Mercer Street. Also noted are spring seed gifts to pupils and a church encampment trip to Matawan, plus a brief explainer on candle power and standards.
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Bchaller’s
Auto
Hightstown
K O. K
I. 3
Yerka
Matawan
Murray
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Tribune Farmer
Harvest Home Events Across Local Churches
Notices announce harvest home suppers at Union Valley M P Church on August 6 with ice cream fruit and music by Goodwins band. Plainsboro Presbyterian Church followed by August 11 with music by Goodwins band. Old Tennent Harvest Home set for August 12 1908 with next evening rain date. Also an ad extols Butterworth Universal Thresher from Trenton New Jersey and a painting service for tin roofs by Bateman Cranbury Box 84.
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New Jersey State Board of Agriculture
Agricultural College
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Edward B. Voorhees
K. 16. Davis
Franklin Dye
Union Valley M. P. Church
Iea
Goodwin
Presbyterian—Church-at
August Furniture Sale Offers Delayed Delivery and Storage
Trenton readers are urged to select furniture during the August sale with delivery deferred to a future time. Manufacturers and merchants push discounted stocks to move surplus as new arrivals come in, with goods inspected and guaranteed by both store and manufacturers.
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August
Rugé
Store Ad Offers Complete Home Furnishings
The catalog lists every article of furniture in the store, from essentials for a house to pieces for every room on every floor, highlighting full home furnishing availability.
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The-Cranbury Press
Mrs. CH
W. H. Johnson
M. N. Scott
Suanday
Alburton
Ocean Grove
Albert Duncan
Newark
George M. Duncan
Aurele Ervin
R. P. Stilwell
J. Walters
Waitoight
Phoenixville
Abram VanDevender
Misa Katherine
Brooklyn
Harry Moora
Edward Humphreya
Philadelphia
Newton Hutchingon
Hamilton Square
A. C. McGill
Dolly Cooley
Roselle
Pleasant Hill
R. C. Reynolde
Frank Davis, Jr
Billington
Emma Schnell
van Dyke
Lydia Davison
Catskills
Kneafscaneye
Harry Schnell
Claire Rue
Clifton
Mia
Alfred Rue
Maud Rue
J. Chamberlin
I. G. Hoffman
Ralph Farr
Dughter
Home Missionary Society of the First Church
Harold Applegate
South Cranbury
Asbury] Park
John Davis
Helmetta
Charles Davis
Alfred Perrine
Cranbury Neck
Clara Chamberlin
Cranbury’ Station
Alex
Stuka
Della Bergen
Red Bank
Mrs
Harry Stevens
B. W. Appleget
Elsie Bergen
David Petty
Misa Bebn Lea
Charles’ Lee
Charles Everingham
Emma Harder
Gertrude
Kingston
Charles, Danger
J. E. Bennett
Harvey 8. Dey
Harvey Hutchinson
R. I. McDowell
Ment
Leon Ely
Gon Raymond
Vineland
Willis Applegate
W. F. Grove
Sea Shore
R. V. Spaulding
Mary
First Presbyterian
First Presbyterian Sunday School
D. J. Wilson
David Jahiry
Arthur E. Porting
Wm. H. Johnson
Franklin Park
Mr. Johnson
Charles Danser
Lizzie Potty
Misa Bessie Perrine
Tomo
Mark Graves
First Church
The
and Liquor League
Albert Mershon
Washington, D. C
Wm. M. Curry
Paranasus
James War Dyke
Methodist Episcopal Church
Monroe
New Jersey Anti Balcon League
Oehler’s Grove
W. Irving Stults
Irving Bennett
Mr. Stuka
Lonea
Mr. Davison
John Davison
Jacob Gordon
Davison
Duncan “MacGowan
Isage Bogart
MacGowen
Cranbury Station
Prospect Plains
Kers
the Harvest Homes
Dayton Presbyterians
Highta Town
Judge Boornen
Booraem
Middlesex County
New York City
Fred'k W. Donnelly
Opera House
South Broad St
M. Harden
Silver City
North Carolina
Mr. Harden
N. F.clayton
Sient Summer Shoes
State St
Broad St
Harvest Homes
Butterworth
N. J
Bateman
Kk. A. Donnelly’s
Nightstarts
Madras
B. V. D. Pajamas
R. A. Donnelly
Chas. F. Danser
STEAM
Cranbury, New Jersey
N. R. Cowenhoven
Paternon Street
East State Street
Trenton, N. J
Dlishima
C. C. Blauvelt
Hightstown, N. J
S.P. Dunham&co
Is Moux
Axminster
S. P. Dunham & CO
Panama
Ladies and
R. L. Dobbins
First National Bank
Savings Department
John
Silvers
Parser
Geo, B. Mershon, Casaiee
David C, Lewis
James H, Goodwin
Walter
Grover
Alexander
Cole
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