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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
3
Rev J E Curry and Elder Alex 8 Stuke attended the Lakewood presbytery meeting. Numerous local residents and visitors are listed with movements, visits, and social events. The Fourth of July program at Odd Fellows Hall promises fireworks and food amid summer store hours and community improvements.
Samuel Bennett begins hospital care with his parents at St Francia in Trenton to treat chronic appendicitis. The piece notes the family sought medical advice, pressed for surgery, and mentions ongoing local concerns about public behavior, a kitchen fire at Puerschner’s, and community notices including a retirement of Supervising Principal Conners and honors for Alice Wose Vose.
Cranbury hosts a grand patriotic festival with a bountiful supper at a popular price to fund the Improvement Society. The event features ice cream, candy, fruit, soft drinks, and a fireworks display in the evening. Community committees and a general meeting are listed, with plans for music and a piano recital nearby.
South Brunswick township children graduated at Dayton Presbyterian church with fourth year certificates for 50 pupils and 108 attendance certificates. Fourteen eighth year county seam graduates earned high school entry certificates. Afterward a picnic at Deans Grove followed. The South River Baptist church built a worship house and seeks $150 more to reach $1,400 for a $500 state pledge. $250 was raised. Jamesburg Public School commencement to be held next Wednesday at the Presbyterian church. Local notes include family visits, church choir progress, home improvements, a fiftieth wedding anniversary, a swarm of bees, a James Riley and Agnes Connerty wedding, and slow water works progress.
The Dayton church announces its annual festival planned for July 29 with promises of a grand event and larger attendance. An advertisement touts the Butterworth Universal Thresher from Trenton New Jersey as a versatile all in one threshing machine capable of threshing separating cleaning and binding straw without damage, priced at 65 10l.
Will sacrifice a good oldsmobile run about a first class plano matchless steel range beautiful antique desk lawn mower carpet etc Call after July 2nd W H Conners Cranbury N J Miss Georgia Nutt desires to announce that she will give reasons in shorthand to those deairing instruction Miss Nutt is a recent graduate of the Department of Commerce and Finance for Drexel Institute Philadelphia
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