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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1917
Page
5
Sunday church solos and church meetings headline a long list of social updates. Readers learn of visits by residents to Trenton Newark and Philadelphia, graduations, illnesses, host parties, and travel between Jamesburg Cranbury and New Brunswick with mentions of Peddie Institute and Camp Kanuka.
Notice seeking five hundred children to carry flags and march in the Fourth of July parade. brief call for participants and placement details.
The Cranbury area charity fundraiser announces prizes for the Bigger and Better July 4th event with donors including Chamberlin & Barclay J H Grover & Son Bennett & Denison Mershon & Clayton and J B Silvers & Bro Co plus individual gifts like a gold watch and auto tire. A farewell reception honors Prof A W Ford who resigns to enter brokerage in New York City. Mrs Ford led Red Cross work in Hightstown.
Executive Committee rapidly forms plans for a Bigger and Better Than Ever Fourth of July Celebration with committees appointed for Tent and Platform, solicitation of funds, judges, school children, and electric lights. Members include David J. Wilson chairing Tent and Platform. S H Perrine Wm F Perrine C F Haley J Wilfert C T Hoffman W H DeBow J Murphy Arthur Perrine John Bergen Charles Davison Russell Johnson Abram Voorhees Addie Mount Winfield Stahl John Elliott Chas Groves. D C Mershon D W Clayton. E S Barclay H N Scott D W Clayton. Mrs Jos G Symmes R P Stillwell. Joe Wyckoff.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Kirby of Ezra welcome a son born on Wednesday. Mrs Daniel Croshaw visited Highland Park with Mr and Mrs John Bradley and family. Mrs William Vogel stayed in Freehold with Mr and Mrs John Vogel. Mr and Mrs James I Hutchinson and Mr and Mrs Joseph B Schenck spent Monday in Jersey City. Mr and Mrs Harry Wolfe of Roselle visited Mrs Charles Rabold in Stockton Street. Mr and Mrs Russell Rockhill of New Brunswick were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Walter McDougall.
The junior prize speaking contest at Peddie Institute Hightstown was held Saturday evening in the First Baptist church. Palmer R. Nickerson won first prize with Robert L Payne second. Judges included Head Master R W Swetland and D H Wheeler of Lawrenceville school.
$100 reward offered for any case Wall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. Cure claimed for catarrh, a constitutional disease, with internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents guarantee cure or money back. Also promotes Half's Family Pills for constipation.
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