Cranbury News Highlights Local Events and Notices
Misa Anna Wyckoff of Manasquan visits. Rev. J. E. Curry buys a wheel and improves at it. Abijah Applegate visits Jersey City. Sammie Bennett ill. Davison sisters from Trenton visiting. Van Dyke named Monmouth Hotel manager at Asbury Park. Children’s Mission Band meets. Mrs. Curry travels to Pennsylvania and Ohio for weeks. George Timms to Philadelphia hospital for operation. Corona tennis and croquet club opening with 15-20 members. Roads in South Cranbury improve with gravel. Gertrude Davison hosts class gathering. heads West to aunt Mrs. Maxwell. Strange sky light seen, debated as aurora or other cause. fire apparatus urged for safety. A. S. Cole notes fire engine maintenance costs. Anna Hutchinson and David Thurston wed at Calvary Baptist Church. extended wedding trip to Niagara. summer at Asbury Park. Gas stove explosion at Second Presbyterian parsonage. fire contained with help, back rooms damaged. insured. July 4 plans include Cranbury track races with prizes and a stand, 25 cent admission. evening entertainment at Odd Fellows Hall by Daughters of Liberty and Jr. O U A M. speeches, supper, music by Goodwin’s Band, and fireworks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Hutchinson
David Thurston
New York City
Calvary Baptist Church
RB. 8. MacArthur
New York
Alice Svydam
Raymond Hutchinson
Niagara
Asbury Park
Commencement Exercises at Odd Fellows Hall
The public school graduation took place Monday evening in Odd Fellows Hall. Highlighted by Goodwin's Orchestra, Miss Lotta Goodwin, Miss Georgia Nutt, and Raymond Hutchinson, the program featured tableaux, class prophecies, and diplomas presented by Principal Eleanor Davis. The speaker, Dr. J. C. Holmes, urged graduates to seek knowledge, think independently, and pursue lifelong learning with character and charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odd Fellows Hall
Goodwin
Harry
Groves
Lotta Goodwin
Raymond Hutchinson
Georgia F. Nutt
Miles Standish
Dep
Miss Davison
Eleanor Davis
Georgia Nutt
Lotta C. , Goodwin
Gertrude M. Davison
Nellie Dey
Harry C. Groves
J.C. Holmes
M.D
Gentle counsel on virtue ambition and friendship
A reflective piece urges readers to pursue a high purpose with gentleness patience and true friendship. It links moral growth to real worldly duties and the coming twentieth century while stressing timely kindness and responsible action before obituaries and sales notices interrupt with practical ads for hats linens and work opportunities in Hightstown New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawthorpe
Dickens
David Copperfield
Earth
Heaven
Jorquin
Rome
Goether
Odds and ends of school notices and local ordinance
Fragmented OCR text mentions fall term opening and entrance exams for a normal school, admissions and certifications, and a local ordinance in Cranbury township setting rules on travel, streets, and boundary limits. Names and dates are unclear due to garbled OCR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Normal and Model Sehools
Jane Itn
Made
Willie Geenoved
Trithen
Dafora Atten Addes
WM. Grcen
Trenton
Notice to Creditors and Sheriff Sale Notices
Notice to creditors of Benjamin A Scott deceased to present debts within months. and a Chancery of New Jersey sale notice by George J. Litterst Sheriff for Monroe Township Middlesex County involving the mortgage foreclosure of the Wyckoff property, sale date July 1978 at 2 PM, with detailed parcel descriptions and paths of deeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Walker
Alexander Walker
Mitesex
Bareby
Cald
Walter Scott
Frank Scott
Albert B. Beatty
Benjamin A. Scott
Canory
Middledex
Chancery
New Jersey
Susan DeBow
John
White
Monroe Township
Middlesex County
Perricevilly
David B. Wyckoffa Milla
Neorner
Thomas Mount
Mount
Perrinevilla
Dvid B. Wyckotts Milla
China
Te Rinning
John B Wyckoff
William Evernhan
Monroe Townahip
Staite
Red Tavern
Wyckoffe Mills
Prospect Plains
William Evernham
Evernham
Wuld Devert
Aard Everoham
George J. Litterst
Tanton
Hucuingon
Solicitas
Prices Cut on Ready-to-Wear Garments This Week
Store advertises season ending discounts on silk waists children s reefers reefers and women tailor made suits with prices from 0.82 to 1.49 and up to 13.87 for high grade suits plus silk petticoats marked down to 4.98 to 49.98 and other garments highlighted as money savers.
Golden Oak Bedroom Suites and Furnishings Sale
Gold en Oak bedroom suites offered at 14 75 with swell front plate glass mirror and 20 by 24 inch panels. Solid oak sideboard 11 50 with large bevel mirror and carved detail. Chiffoniers from 1 49 to 5 50 in antique and solid oak finishes. Woven springs and mattresses priced from 1 25 to 5.50 with navy blue patterns and durable silks described.
Forethought At 50 Cents The Merade Fashion Item
An advertisement describes extra fine garments priced at 50 cents including merade vests with small seams and silk crochet details. Options feature high or low necks long or short sleeves or knee length drawers, plus extra fine vest with torchen lace and silk braid trims.
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Granbury Press
Plainsboro
Misa Anna Wyckoff
Manasquan
J. E. Curry
Abijah Applegate
Mr. Rosell
Jersey City
Sammie Bennett
J. E. Bennett
Lillian and
Lizzie Davison
Mrs. Rose Voorees
Town
J. 8. van Dyke, Jr
Monmouth
Children’s Mission Band
Fiist Church
Pennsylvania
Ohio
George Timms
Philadelphia
Corona Tennis and
South Cranbury
Gertrude Davison
West
Maxwell
Cranbury
P. R. Bergen
Cole
Second Presbyterian Church
C. F. Taylor
Bethesef
Orne
Cranbury and
Hightstown
Daughters of Liberty and Jr. O. U. A. M
Cranbury Public School
Francis Bacon
Thebes
Alyays
Andromache
Hector
Asis Minor
Ovid
Phoebus Apollo
Hayden
Chatterton
Anderson
Addison
Burns
Collins
Franklin
Johnson
Goldsmith
Hogarth
Rosseau
Savage
Watts Moreland
Farady
Van
Kant
Spencer
Alexander
McCashe
Marius
Hadrian
Philosphy
Thomas Edison
John Ruskin
Michiel Farady
Hough Miller
Florence Nightingale
Greater
Rose Lathrop
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ruskin
Hippolytus
Euripides
Twelve Pearly Gates
New Jerusalem
Greece
Dorcas Society
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Portsmouth
Norfolk
L Hfe
Tle Thong
Malton
Cains Johns Cisar
Pompey
Charles I
Mary Stewart
Charlotte Carday
Masat
Loum XVI
Johnson's
Johnson’s
Switch’s Shirt Factory
N. J
Miss
Maine
White Marsh
Lemuel Stults
Jhonson
Smith'’s Shirt Factory
Hightstown, N. J
Snow
State Normal and Model Schools
Treveles
Araddat
Cramhuary
Mietlessey
Asia
Gabe
Stalin Evel Tevede
Emia
Davison
Edwin W
Joan Davie
Lew
Cranbury, N. J
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Executora
Sito
E. State St
Press
A. Featherstone& Co
G. D. van Derveer
Dayton
Newark
Peter Breipr Brewine Co
Risina Sun Brewine Co
Peter Havce
Lempece
Betz Barwery
Elizabeth, N. J
Harrison, N. J
Jersey City, N. J
Newark, N. J
F. J. Kastner Co., Lyon & Sons Brewing Co
C. Trerz Brewery
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W. Wiedenmayer
C. Braun Berwina Co
Eagle Brewing Co
Essex County Brewing Co
Granam & Co
Jas. A. Graham
Christian, Feigenspa
Joan Frran
Joseph Hensler Brewing Co
Katz Bros
SprattLer & Mennell Brewine Co
Himes
Kr Barwine Co
Paterson
Franz Hitt
Home Ebrewine Co
Trenton Brewine Co
Daniel Bermes
Peter Brewine Co
Union Hill, N. 3
P. Dunhar & CO
North Broad
East State Street
Cole & Son
the Farwers 'Fence Machine Co
Hagerstown, Wa
Farina Land
Bastede & Errickson, Bayton, Jr. J
C. C. Blauvelt
J. J
Blauvelt
Cranbury Station
Sharpless & Carpenter's
W. H. Petty
Alderathon
Schlemer & Co
J. & C. Fincher
Emarson
Smith & Barnes
Waldorf & Royal Pincos Mason & Hamily
Garpentar, Wilcox & White
Waterloo Organa
Ian
N. Warren Street
Masonic Temple
Munle Store
Kent & Son
Flatbush Avenur
Brooklyn
Baurice Earmpoe
Owen Pandred
Weh Ave
Apotas
WICIK
Gordon
Vick
Pardoner
Adyiner
Anna Dover
James Vicks Sons
Rochester, N
Henry C. Symmes
German American Insurance Coq
Finton
Prane A. Brown
D. W. Clayton
A. Perdoni
Main Street
W. H. Johnson
Imain St
A. Roe
K. A. Brown
Commission
Reade Street
Irving National Bank
J. Murphy
Hatlira Boat Porter House
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Clayton
Ana Ula Wate
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