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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1921
Page
1
Sunday morning preaching by Rev. J. E. Curry on The Fires that Went Out and Our Lamps are going out from Matthew 25:8. companion sermon to Keep the Soul Fires Burning. Sunday School at 10. Prayer meeting Friday at 7 30. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets July 1 at Mrs Walter Scott's at four o'clock.
At 11 A M Rev Frederick Schweitzer will preach on One's Work in Life The next Sunday sermons will cover the Claims of the Ministry on the Young Man of Today Sunday School begins at 10 A M Junior C B meets last for the summer at 3 P M Senior C E discusses Men and Women whose lives inspire us The church marks its 83rd birthday with an address by Rev Joseph Van Dyke and the Woman's Home Missionary Society meets July 1 with Mrs James Dey and committee for a program on America.
Rev L E Lennox leads morning service with What it Costs Not to be a Christian. Friday July 1 features stereopticon views of centenary achievements and a lecture by Rev Richard A Conover of Camden NJ at 8 PM. Free admission with a silver offering to support the Trenton district.
Henry Wilson son of Mr and Mrs David J Wilson finished studies at Princeton University and is on a two weeks camping trip in Bethel Connecticut. He will travel to New York on July 15 to begin work with the Guaranty Trust Company.
The Senior E of the Second church will hold their annual picnic Saturday afternoon at Harkers Grove. Bring rush bathing suit and baseball outfit. Cars meet at chapel at 1 P M promptly. The Picnic Committee has planned games and a good time is assured.
Group No 1 of the Ladies Guild will serve a supper in the First Church chapel on Monday July 4 at five PM standard time. Menu includes pressed chicken boiled ham new potatoes and peas cottage cheese jelly cabbage and pepper salad cake and fruit and coffee.
A citizen thanks Supervisor Storer and John D. Bennett for improving the street at Main and Park Place. The letter expresses gratitude from townspeople and daily drivers and asks to reach more passersby.
Dorothy Hutton and Charles Schnell united in marriage at 7 on Saturday evening. Rev Frederick W Schweitzer officiated under a pink rose arch. Mies Freids Schnell was maid of honor, Russell Hutton best man. Sixty guests attended a wedding supper before the couple, who will reside in Cranbury, with the bridegroom working in baking.
Emily Miller of Spring City Pa becomes engaged to Russell Probasco of Allentown as family hosts an automobile luncheon party including Alvah Probasco Cranbury Miss Jean Probasco and Milton Probasco. The group tours Valley Forge after dining.
Mr W I Stults hosted a Thursday supper at Cranbury Inn for the Cranbury Grammar School graduates and guests. Attendees included Miss Laura Scudder and several Bennett and Wolfe families. menu featured chicken salad sandwiches salads cake and ice cream. guests praised Mr Stults kindness and enjoyed the event.
Cranbury residents singled out among graduates at the Hightstown High School exercises held Wednesday evening in the Baptist Church. Key participants included Mary Symmes, Clara Mae Walker, Newell Davis, and Stanley Chancewick, with readings by Henry Symmes and Walker, and prizes awarded by the Hightstown Improvement Association to Mary H. R. Symmes and Marion Hughes for compositions on Hightstown Opportunities.
The program for the public school commencement was prepared before Bessie Wilson's marks were approved. After approval, her name was added to the graduates list, but the printer did not know, causing her omission in the Press. Lavra Scudder confirms the correction.
A public meeting of Cranbury Township citizens is set for Saturday June 25 at 8 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall. The session, called by the Township Committee, will discuss daylight saving for the entire township. Clerk H J Butcher orders the notice.
Miss Mary V. Spaulding wed Jos Lawrence Havens at Second Presbyterian Church Cranbury N J. The ceremony featured a large bridal party with attendants from Rutherford Prospect Plains Allentown and Cranbury. After a reception the couple plans to reside in Rutherford New Jersey.
In London many buyers were fooled by a gold based alloy marketed as platinum and sold at platinum prices for jewelry, later found to be inferior material. The metal lurgist notes the ease of creating such alloys and warns buyers to beware.
The Japanese House of Representatives adopted a bill granting women the right to attend political meetings marking a significant advance toward emancipation for Japanese women and expanding civic participation.
HIGHTSTOWN. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Heidinger of Union Valley and others spent Sunday visiting Nutley, Prospect Plains, Hamilton Square, Trenton, Cranbury, and Cranbury Station. Several social visits are noted among families in Hightstown and nearby towns.
The Asbury Park School of Methods announces its 28th session July 6 to 18 in the Asbury Park High School Building. Dr Milton S Littlefield leads a faculty including Nancy Lee Frayser Otto Mayer A G Sinclair and more with courses in Bible Pedagogy Psychology and Christian Citizenship. Special offerings include Story Telling Music Bible Geography and Sunday School Administration. Sessions run forenoon only with post class recreation and guidance. Prospective students should contact the New Jersey Sunday School Association in Newark for details.
The season of 1920 saw 18000 acres cleared in Marinette county pushing toward a potential annual crop value of at least 1000000 dollars. The milestone was marked by a massive blast near Wausaukee when 158 dynamite sticks exploded as an official closed a switch. A land clearing school and 57 meetings supported the effort, with 14 carloads of explosives used.
The Fire Company of Cranbury hosts a Block Dance on Saturday July 2 and Monday July 4 at 8 pm. Goodwin's of Cranbury provides music. A barn space is reserved including an area for colored people and ample parking. Committee members include E. C. Wilson Charles Symmes and others. Publicity by S. E. Bennett.
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