Local Social Roundup Highlights Visits and Celebrations
Miss Gertrude Vandenbergh of Prospect Plains and other residents travel for weekend visits. Families from Trenton Long Branch Dutch Neck and Maplewood share hospitality. Church board meeting notes improvements in health and ongoing illnesses. A February 17th surprise anniversary party for Charles Nixon and wife includes a large gathering of relatives and friends. Milton Vander Veer returns from Florida. multiple local residents host visitors and attend gatherings across Cranbury Hightstown Perth Amboy and New Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Vandenbergh
Prospect Plains
Earl Wilson
Symmes Bergen
Trenton
Amzi Duncan
Alex Paul
Long Branch
Russell Johnson
James Silcox
Rosedale
Henry Snedeker
Dutch Neck
H. B. Claflin
W. Gulick
Maplewood
Charles Nixon
Napoleon Reeves
Samuel Nixon
Benjamin Riddley
James Phares
Fred Phares
Maggie Deamus
Cranbury
William Fields
Somerville
Oscar Phares
Joseph Copeland
Hightstown
Dorothy
Margaret Riddley
Evelyn Nixon
Olive Jones
Stanley
Arthur
Franklyn Nixon
Harvey Phares
Arnold Thomson
Prohibition Boosts Chicago Hotel Finances for Blackstone and Drake
Tracy C. and John B. Drake, owners of the Blackstone and Drake hotels, argued that hotels should focus on selling rooms not alcohol. They foresaw prohibition in 1908 and predicted benefits to hotel profits, which materialized as the Blackstone’s first year after prohibition shows several hundred thousand dollars more in receipts than the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tracy C
John B. Drake
Blackstone
Drake
Chicago
Blackstone Hotel
Resolutions of Esteem for Mrs George W Burroughs
The Woman's Club of Cranbury adopts resolutions expressing sorrow at the loss of a charter member. It offers deepest sympathies to the family and requests a copy for the minutes. Signed by Mags Samuel Perrine and committees, March 20 1922. A Cranbury Fire Company meeting is announced for January 30 at 8 o'clock at the new fire house, with Josh Wicoff as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Burroughs
The
Woman’s Club of
Cranbury
Mags
Samuel. Perrine
Frank A Brown
Hazey N. Scott
Crar
Bury Fire Company
Josh Wicoff
So Many People Die From Mushrooms Warned By Foresters
An American Forestry Association warning highlights deadly Amanita phalloides poisonings this summer and urges readers to avoid foraging without expert knowledge. Experts compare mushroom risks to rattlesnake venom and stress careful species identification before any preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Forestry Association of Washington
American Forestry Magazine
Louis C. C. Krieger
Excellent Remedy for Constipation
A compact promotion for Chamberlain's Tablets claiming they are easy to take, mild in effect, and superior for constipation. The note urges trying the remedy when the need arises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Praise From Abbottstown Reader
Edward P. Miller of Abbottstown Pa writes that Chamber lains Cough Remedy is excellent for coughs and colds and that those who have used it seldom use any other preparation. He says everyone who has used it speaks well of the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Edward P. Miller
Abbottstown
Dunham’s
Cranbury School Alteration Bids Sought for 1923
The Cranbury Board of Education invites sealed proposals for alterations and additions to the Cranbury brick school building. Bids due March 28 1923 at 7 30 P M. Plans at Alexander Merchant Architect New Brunswick NJ. Deposit 25 for plan return and 5 percent certified check with bids. The board may reject any bids. Leroy Scott president Howard J Butcher district clerk March 10 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Cranbury
Middlesex County
N. J
Alexander Merchant
George Street
New Brunswick
Major trustees sale of 104 acre Cranbury farm in New Jersey
April 3 sale of the 104 acre farm of J Milton Bergen Jr Cranbury New Jersey with details of stock machinery crops and household goods on April 8. Auctioneers F F Grove list colony houses and poultry equipment with price and capacity. Also Poultry Farm ads for Capons live or dressed highest market price and a maple fire wood delivery offer from Fred A Clayton in Crasbury New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick Vogel
Mercerville
Trenton
Riley
F. F. Grove
John Major
J. Milton Bergen, Jr
Cranbury
N. J
William Henry
Penns Neck School
Porvancher
Academy Street
Hightstown
Fred A
Clayton
Crasbury
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Granbury Press
M. E. Church
Fred Carlson
Georgia Thompson
Alicea Suydam
Monmouth Junction
Rolland L. Dey
Clifford Conover
Mee
Emula
Gene Pent
Louisa
Freida Schnell
Abram Voorhees
E. D. Stults
South Orange
William Chamberlin
Princeton
Alfred Chamberlin
Milton Vander Veer
Florida
Wm. M. Cox
Raymond Griggs
Thomas Hutton
John Barlow
Joseph Hutton
Brooklyn
James Hutchinson
Adah Rue
John Teu Broeck
Perth Amboy
R. W. Shufeldt
American Forestry
Ross's Sales
Southard St. Bridge
Bungalow Poultry Farm
Plainsboro
C. H. Chandler
Prop
Anna C. Whitlock
Mary Frances Hagamen
Middlesex
Anna GC Wahiitloce
HENRY
Estimat Heerfiri
Grant Everett
John N. Stonaker
Cranbury, N. J
Charles G. Groves
Othee North Main Street
KE. K. Orton
S. P. Dunham & CO
Trenton, N. J
Foulard
Copenhagen
Mercer
Columbia
Columbia Medallion
Medallion Department
State Street
John J. Ochler
Harry B. Brown
Nassau Street
Princeton, N. J
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