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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
3
Cranbury items cover buys and moves. Harry N Scottiig buys a Buick runabout. Numerous visits, illnesses and social calls at The Maples, Cedar Wood, Monroe Street and nearby households. Mentions include Miss Genung Asbury Park, Miss Marion Bergen Princeton, Nicholas Vreeland, and Rev J B Curry with church notes and school news.
Miss Laura French of Asbury Park and Cranbury origin tours the world to aid a blind girls school in Canton China. She displays curio items gathered enroute and recounts their origins to boost fundraising in Pennsylvania. Mrs Mary H Gulick, widow of Spencer Gulick, was found dead in Long Branch aged 67 due to heart disease.
The church calendar lists a morning service at 11 o'clock and an evening sermon by Rev J K B Curry on the topic Paravit and Possession. A Christian Endeavor meeting and Pilgrim Progress talk are noted with Miss Catalena Pendleton leading. Rev Buck is expected to preach at the Methodist Episcopal Church next Sunday. St Patrick at the Corona hosts Mr and Mrs B S Barclay with a St Patrick themed evening including a child in Patrick costume and a mock wedding party with green decor, oysters patties chicken salad and other refreshments served.
Mr and Mrs Nelson Petty hosted a St Patrick’s party for their daughter Olive with music games and dainty refreshments. Guests included Olive Petty and many friends. decorations featured green and white festoons and shamrock leaves. The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society held a meeting on March 6 with Maude Rue presiding and officers elected for the year.
A pro Teram on Taft inauguration prepared by Mrs. A A Duncan for Pioneer Grange No 1 outlines cabinet duties and inaugural ceremony with named members. Farmers are urged to attend a Chamberlain Opera House meeting March 20 addressed by C L Green of the Immigration Board. Church group issues tributes to Miss Rachel H Silvers and extends sympathy to her family.
The Voorhees store announces an Easter opening with spring hats and apparel displays across departments. C C Blauvelt expands the building to add 24 by 31 feet of floor space, creating a new dressing goods room and a dedicated millinery parlor, aiming for the season’s finest store showcase.
The Cranbury Township Board of Education reports the 1908 annual meeting results with elected officers for districts 3, 5, and 8. It details current expenses, repairs, and the 1908-1909 budget, teacher appointments for School No. 1 No. 2 and No. 3, transport contracts for Cranbury Neck, and plans to build a new addition and a two room school at Plainsboro. It lists receipts from state, township taxes, and the library fund, plus expenses for salaries, transportation, fuel, and maintenance.
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