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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1921
Page
1
Sunday sermons by Rev. J B Curry on An Object Season from Nature with Saxophone by W H Baum and special music. Easter services feature lilies, Easter anthem, choir, and Living Christ sermon. Good Friday lessons, quartet and solo performances, and Siam Mission offering noted. Visitors welcome.
Morning worship at 11 o clock with preaching by Rev L E Lennox on Our Risen Lord. Sunday School at 10 o clock followed by a short program and Easter music. Families are urged to attend and bring others for the great church day.
The C E Society of the Second Church will meet in the chapel next Sunday evening at 6 30 o clock. Subject: Lessons from the first Easter led by Mrs E C Wilson.
Hamilton Square notes the birth of a 10 pound girl born Sunday to Mr and Mrs Fred Vanness of 63 East Nottingham Way. The baby is named Yora Mae, and Mrs Vanness is formerly Miss Mae Everett, daughter of Edgar Everett of Cranbury.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the First Church will meet next Friday afternoon, April 1, with Mrs. J. C. Hoffman as hostess. Committee members include Mrs. H. J. Butcher, Mrs. J. P. Dey, and Miss Edsall. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Second Church also sets a meeting for April 1, hosted by Mrs. Lewis Chamberlin Sr., discussing Chapter 4 of Chosen Study, with committee members Mrs. W. N. Hughes and Mrs. Ernest Stults.
The closing meeting of the Highta town Dancing Class, taught by Miss Frances Cropsey, ended Monday evening. A social time followed with refreshments and a large box of carnations presented to Miss Cropsey.
The Men’s Service Club resumed meetings Monday evening in the First Presbyterian Church chapel after a hiatus. Captain E A MacMillan of Princeton University spoke on his overseas experiences and the talk was well received by all attendees.
Henry R. Reed of Union Valley sustained a severe head injury from a fall while hauling potatoes. He remained unconscious for hours before doctors from Trenton and St Francis Hospital operated. After surgery he rested more comfortably and hopes for recovery.
Large congregation and out of town visitors attended services last Sunday at Second Presbyterian Church for the unveiling of pulpit furniture baptismal font and communion plates donated as memorials for former officers. The church featured tulips carnations and Easter lilies in a vase donated by Isaac S Everett in memory of his wife. Music included a solo The Palms by Mrs. Lewis Chamberlin and a trio Alone by Mrs. Chamberlin Lemuel Stults and H. B. Claflin.
Mr and Mrs Thomas G Wells hosted a Friday evening birthday celebration at their home with many friends in attendance. Guests included Mr and Mrs Fred Cox Mr and Mrs Matthew Reynolds Mr and Mrs Thomas Mr and Mrs Joseph Petty Mr and Mrs Charles Cox Mr and Mrs Carl Bellow Mr and Mrs Raymond Griggs Mr and Mrs R Stillwell Mr and Mrs David Griggs Mr and Mrs Andrew Perrine and Mr and Mrs Alvin Anderson.
Mr and Mrs Anthony Wilson of Hightstown announce the marriage of their daughter Mia Helen Allen Wilson to Raymond C Stonaker. The ceremony takes place Wednesday afternoon March thirtieth at four o'clock at their home 320 North Main Street.
Mrs Dominicus C Mershon marked her fiftieth birthday with a surprise party arranged by her husband. About twenty five relatives and friends attended a motor ride then dinner at the Cranbury Inn followed by speeches gifts including a diamond ring and flowers.
H W Jeffers manager of Walker Gordon Milk Farms Plainsboro spoke at the Cornell Club of Trenton luncheon at Hotel Sterling. Professor Agee of Pennsylvania State College also spoke. The club, with about sixty Cornell alumni, meets Mondays with special speakers every third Monday.
The Second Church plans fine music next Sunday with Mr A W Totten performing two solos in the morning and two in the evening. His voice draws admirers, and he is considered better than ever. The church choir will perform Easter Anthems.
Henry W. Petty age 65, retired grain and feed merchant from Perth Amboy, died this morning at his brother Eugene Petty’s home in Second Street. He is survived by another brother Ellis Petty of Newark. He belonged to I O O F and K of P. Funeral Saturday at Second Presbyterian Church Cranbury at noon. Interment in Cranbury family lot.
Ernest Lux tops Middlesex County with 57 percent production from 10 Plymouth Rock pullets yielding 157 eggs in February. Douglass Chamberlain is second with 54 percent from 28 White Leghorn pullets totaling 429 eggs. J Newell Davis is third with 45 percent from 35 White Leghorn pullets and 440 eggs. The Stelton Club places second in the county clubs and the Dayton Club is third.
Archbishop James Cardinal Gibbons, head of the Baltimore archdiocese and primate of the American Catholic Church, died at the archiepiscopal residence after a long illness. He was in his eighty seventh year, passing peacefully at 11 33 o clock.
The Cranbury Fire Company hosted a Tuesday evening dance that attracted a strong turnout and provided enjoyable entertainment for attendees.
In Trenton on March 24 two people were seriously hurt one slightly and another escaped after an automobile driven by Allison Dye skidded on a wet road between Hamilton Square and Robbinsville, rolled down an embankment, and turned turtle. Mrs Cornelia Dye 63 of Hightstown sister of Congressman Hutchinson sustained multiple injuries and is in St Francis Hospital. Mrs John Hutchinson of Passaic Street suffered a broken collarbone and is under medical care while Mr Hutchinson head of Hutchinson Storage Battery Company escaped with minor injuries.
H. R. Disbrow & Son have installed underground lubricating oil outfits similar to gas pumps. The system measures accurately and draws many customers curious about the new device. A five gallon gas pump is planned to improve prompt service and by April first the firm will handle home and transit trade. Lewis Chamberlin Jr. joins the sales force and will train at the Allen town store, with T. B. Woolston overseeing the local shop.
The Cranbury Fire Company will meet at the Fire House on Thursday evening March 31. All members are requested to be present. Jos Wicorr secretary.
George Washington Knight is sentenced by Supreme Court Justice James J. Bergen to die in the electric chair the week beginning May 2 for the murder of Mrs Edith Marshall Wilson of Perth Amboy. Knight was convicted of first degree murder after being arrested March 14 following the March 12 killing near Center street.
In Middlesex county Justice James J. Bergen presides over a final batch of unusual homicide cases. William J. Fitzsimmons was found guilty of murdering his wife on May 19 and faces the electric chair in Trenton during the week of May 2. He had been paying attention to a girl named Dollie Ryan and her photograph inside his watch ob.
The friends of the Colored Peoples' Sunday school are invited to attend the Easter afternoon service at 8 o'clock to hear the cantata The Easter King presented by the group.
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