New Jersey Legislature Finds Itself Up in the Air
After ten weeks of effort the Democratic party leads New Jersey as Governor Fielder struggles to push revenue bills. Senate hints at an April 2 sine die adjournment while deficits near 2.4 million loom. Bills seek higher auto and inheritance taxes, bank levies, and school funding shifts, with opposition from Republicans and clergy over church contracts and Sunday opening debates.
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Trenton
Democratic Party
New Jersey
Fielder
Forzhis
Senate
Newark Normal School
Hudson
Essex
McGinnis
Passaic
Ocean Grove
Methodists
Hightstown High School Faculty Host St Patrick Tea
The Hightstown High School faculty hosted a St Patrick's tea for Grammar School staff on Tuesday in the library. The event featured decorations, games, and refreshments served by Miss Spooner and Mrs Donnell.
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Public Schools
Hightstown High School
Helen Grover
Jennie Donnell
Laura Dany
Mies ‘Cook
Ruth Spooner
Mary Hilliard
Gertrude Everett
Jones
Grammar School
St. Patrick’s
P. Botton
Elizabeth Brown
Matilda Mount
Nettie Donnell
Hazel Roszel
Luella Dey
Edna Conover
Oliver
Spooner
J. Donnell
Cranbury Township School Board 1914 Annual Report Highlights
The Cranbury Township Board of Education reports 1914 activities and numbers. Key items include officers elected March 1918, salaries for Floyd Evans and transportation contracts for Cranbury Neck, Wicoffs Mills, Plainsboro, and Hightstown High School, plus ten pupils attending outside highs. Receipts and expenditures totals are detailed. The board contemplates funding needs for 1914 and considers sending ninth and tenth graders to Hightstown to avoid a new High School building.
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Cranbury Township
D. J. Wilson
S. H. Perrine
Wm. F. Perrine
Board of Education
Symmes H. Perrine
George B. Mershon
Howard J. Butcher
Floyd Evans
Margaret Curry
Ethel Woodrud
Plainsboro
H. C. Symmes
Elwood Groves
Cranbury Neck
Lewis Schenck
Wicoffs Mills
Scotts Corner School
F. F. Grove
Brunswick Township
South Brunswick
Hightstown
Chronic Stomach Trouble Cured
A Wakelee Michigan man claims lasting stomach relief after a year of suffering using Cham Berlin’s Tablets. He says previous medicines failed to help and recommends the remedy, widely sold by All Dealers.
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Chamberlain
P. H. Beck
Wakelee, Mich
Chamberlin
Blauvelt Spring Millinery Display Promises Modern Styles
Blauvelt announces its spring opening with a new range of headwear showing smaller, close fitting shapes and a variety of chic designs. Millinery designers promise to meet diverse tastes with extreme and conservative options to suit every tilt.
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Tere
Quote exchange over fortune and widow ends in marriage
A Cincinnati Enquirer quip shows a conversation between Grouch and Gink about a man who robbed a fortune and gained liberty by marrying the rich widow pursued by the speaker. The exchange ends with a sharp turn in the judge’s punchline.
Local society notes recount visits and meetings across New Jersey
George D. VanDerveer was called to Camden on business. Mrs. Dougin shopped in New Brunswick. Mrs. McCabe improves slowly from illness. Mrs. Beekman hosts her Camden guest. Carrie Petty visited her aunt, Mrs. Everett. Mrs. Hunt and daughter Helen visited from Trenton. A.V. Stout of Monmouth Junction attended Tuesday. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society elected officers led by President Mrs. James B. Clark. Mrs. Stout of Plainsboro visited Dey family. P R R linemen work Monmouth Junction to Bordentown. Freeholder Ely attended bank talks. Rev. James B. Clark at state hearing on local option. Perrines hosted relatives from Matagon and Washington, D C. Miss Hubbard visited Miss Hunt in Trenton.
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George D. VanDerveer
Camden
Joseph Dougin
New Brunswick
John McCabe
A. C. Beekman
Henry Stults
Carrie Petty
John Everett
E. B. Hunt
Helen
Trenton
Oramah Hubbard
A.V Stout
Monmouth Junction
Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society
F.L Evans
James B. Clark
Wesley Applegate
Misa Estella Vio Derveer
Harvey R. Dey
Howard Stout
Plainsboro
Thomas Dey
P. R. R. Force
Bordentown
Freeholder
Ely
First National Bank of Cranbury
State House
A. L. Perrine
Matuwon
Washington, D. C
Bessie
Hubbard
Helen Hunt
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the Cranbury Press
Cranebury
N.S. Geo
H. J. Butcher
Blauvelt
Pretty Spring Millinery
New Spring
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cranbury Station
H. S. Lippincott
P. R.R
W. R. McKnight
I. Elkin Nathans
B. L. Crandall
New Jersey State Experiment Station
Cincinnati Enquirer
Dayton
B. F. Gunson
Clothier
East State Street
Trenton, N. J
Charles C. Groves
Office North Main Street
Automobile
SUN
Optical ME
F.C. Leaming
Pres. Cor
State
Warren St’s
C. C. Blauvelt
O’neil’s Store
North Granbury
James O’neil
Cranbury, N. J
Stoll's
E. State St
Chas. F. Haley
Monroe St
Samuel E. Dey, Garace
Cranbury
Amford
Milton I. Voorhees
J. L. Suydam
Martha D. Perrine
County of
Middlesex
MittTox
Voorages
J. L. Buypans
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