Church Notes and Local Obituaries in Trenton Area
Sunday services at First and Second Presbyterian Churches with sermons by Rev. Curry and Rev. Schweitzer. Community service and prayer meetings scheduled. Fourth of July Ladies Guild supper at First Church chapel. Trenton visitors to Mrs. Rue at Symmes Court. obituaries for Mrs. Rebecca Duncan aged 85 with funeral arrangements by Cole, Son & Co.
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Trenton
Mrs. Rue
Maude B. Rue
Miss Chamberlin
Symmes Court
Nellie Rogers
Azile Ennis
Lillias Keddie
Besa Adigsn
Mies Durr
the State Hospital
Toland
Drake
Interves
Nell Eldridge
James Heydorn
Amos Tindall
Mr. Robinson
Podmore
Irving Burroughs
Arthur VanCleve
Rosedale
Arthur L. Burroughs
Montclair
M. Russell Johe
Cranbury
Rebecca Duncan
Duncan
Henry Perrine
Jemima Ely Perrine
Daniel P. Stillwell
Stephen Duncan
James F. Stillwell
Raymond P. Stillwell
J. Morton Cole
First Church
J. E. Curry
Brainerd Cemetery
Cole, Son & Ca
Cranbury Grammar School Graduation Held in First Church
Graduates of Cranbury Public School were celebrated in the First Church chapel on Thursday evening. The program showcased essays, recitations, a flower drill by twelve girls, and musical selections. Prizes were awarded for tobacco essay and a Whittier literary essay, with strong remarks from Rev. Schweitzer urging better school facilities.
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Cranbury
Uporss
Foster
Gaudman
Dvorak
Samuel Micheleon
Karl Puerechner
Edward Schnell Soloz
Hawley
Irving Bennett
Roosevelt
Banks Stab
Frederick Schweitzer
Irving 8. Bennett
Lillie JE. Farr
Allon P. Harris
Samuel J. de Michelson
Karl H. Puerschner
Banks M. Stab
Edward B. Schnell
Ernest F. Walker
Helen A. Wolfe
Edna M. Wolfe
Karl Poerschner
Harlan
Whittier
Banks Stahl
Lillie Farr
Stella Brown Dies After Long Illness At 22
Stella Brown daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Brown died after a long illness at age 22. Funeral from her parents’ home in Monmouth Junction on Boundary Road Thursday at two o’clock in the afternoon conducted by Rev Mr McKeever of Rocky Hill. A benefit performance of The Blundering Mr Brown will be at Star Theatre Jamesburg Friday evening at eight for the Presbyterian Sunday school.
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First Presbyterian
J. E. Curry
Stella Brown
Edward
Elizabeth Brown
Monmouth Junction
Mr. McKeever
Rocky Hill
Jamesburg
Mr. Brown
Star Theatre
Presbyterian Sunday School
Thanking Cranbury Fire Company and a bus schedule note
A grateful resident thanks the Cranbury Fire Company for aiding in saving his home and encloses a twenty five dollar check for expenses. Also announces a change of time for the Hightstown auto bus departing Cranbury Saturdays at 3 15 PM standard time.
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Wedneday
Davin H. Galagés
Jone
Hightstown
Cranbury
Moral Problems in Fashions for Girls
A state health officer comments on modern dress and morality, criticizing police reliance on appearance to judge character. He argues dress signals individuality, urges modesty, and condemns immodest attire as a factor in social corruption while defending thoughtful presentation as a path to the single standard of morality.
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Valeria H. Parker
Atlantic States
England Turns to Spanish in Fashion Craze
A society craze for things Spanish is rising in England with two Spanish plays in London. Spanish singers and dancers are in high demand. Fashionable women wear the high Spanish comb and attempt mantilla styles. New dances show clear Spanish influence.
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England
London
Children’s Day Services At Local Church
The First church held Children’s Day with pink decor and tovern ramblers. A cantata entertained as five babies were baptized and Bibles given to Sarah and Emma Bennett. Several scholars were promoted across departments, with songs, an anthem, and organ voluntaries accompanying the service.
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Tovern
Wallace Edward
Arthur.Clayton
James Robert
Spencer Perrine
Emiel Charles Witt, Jr
Air
Charles Emiel Witt
Marjory Butcher
William Davison
John Willard
Clarence Ervin
Sarah
Emma Bennett
Aeveral
Annoa Scott
Sarah Bennett
Alice Brown
Elizabeth Dey
Harvey Hutchinson
Kenneth Heidi
Clarence Bylvan Grover
Isabel Perrine
Doris Heddinger
Evelyn Clayton
Marion Clayton
Alberta Applegate
Alice Stout
Herman Stout
Rees Mary Welsh
Ora Bennett
Donald Owens
Martin Welsh
Alice Elizabeth
John Martin
David Farr, Jr
D. Farr Chamberlin
Stanley Duncan
Walter Farr
Gladys Stults
Gladys Petty
Mary Smith
Virginia Pullen
Sara Smith
Anna Schnell
Marion Scott
Helen Reed
Fire Sweeps Three Barns and House Destroyed
Firefighters rush to Dayton area barns owned by David H Griggs John Hincky and Leonard Smith. Cranbury and Hightstown units respond as barns all burn to ashes. Later a wood shed and house along Rhode Hall Jamesburg road burn, furniture saved, locomotive spark blamed.
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David H. Griggs
Dayton
John Hincky
Leonard Smith
Cranbury Fire Company
Hightatown Company
Addison Scott
Rhode Hall
Jamesburg
Jamesburg Company
Cranbury Company
R F Erwin Praises Chamberlain Tablets For Digestion
A Peru Indiana man, R F Erwin, recounts a year ago an indigestion attack followed by biliousness and constipation. He bought Chamberlain's Tablets after a recommendation and says they helped him immediately. He urges readers with digestion trouble to try the tablets.
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Chamberlain
R. F. Erwin
Peru
Ind
Children's Day at the Methodist Church in full bloom
The Methodist Church celebrated Children's Day with artistic decorations of crimson rambler roses and a laurel arch. Mrs. Jobo Carlson led the program with a thorough drill and a rich lineup of musical selections, recitations, and a flag drill, drawing a large audience and ending with a patriotic flag procession. The event highlighted thoughtful readings and music, and the Sunday school attendance reached a multi year high with about twenty dollars raised for the Children's Day fund.
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Jobo Carlson
Florence Marten
Galilee
John Carlson
Martha Carlson
Harvey Dey
Rosina Poerschner
Lizzie Petty
Jon, Wicoff
Edward Dolan
John Soehler
Harry Schanck
Evelyn Oehler
Orville Marten
May Oehler
Alberta Dolan
Mildred Hagerty
Mary Ely
Eleanor Soehler
Florence Griggs
Earl Pullen
Alice Odolph
Martha Soehler
May Dolan
Jeanette Brill
Ethel Cox
Kathryn Stahl
Edward Wicoff
Joseph Hoppe
Alexander Simonton
Geron Brill
Anna Odolph
Gladys Odolph
Stanley Griggs
William Pullen
Grace Weston
Block Dance to Be Held in Cranbury Public Space
A Block Dance is set for Saturday July 2 and Monday July 4 at 8 PM Standard Time with Goodwins Band of Cranbury providing music. A portion of dancing space is reserved for colored people and ample parking will be available. General Committee and event staff listed. refreshments peanuts and amusements arranged. The Cranbury Fire Company will participate in what is billed as a real local event.
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Goodwin
Band of
Cranbury
E. C. Wilson
Charles Symmes
T. B. Woolston
Lighta
Joseph Wicoff
Peter Urban
Norman Appleger
Lewis Schenck
Winfield Stahl
M. A. Bue
Trafic
Wm. T. Denison
S. EB. Bennett
Stresta
William Smith
the Fire Company of Cranbury Cy
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