Churches Activities and Local Notices in Cranbury
The issue lists church events including First Presbyterian sacraments and session meetings, Junior Y M C A entertainment, and a patriotic service at the Methodist Church. It notes marriage of Isabel Bergen Field to Julien Curtis Sloss, local society meetings, a mass meeting for the Monroe Township No-License League, and a Carlisle-Pierpont debate. Decoration Day gravesite beauty at Brainerd and Second Presbyterian cemeteries is praised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Elsing
Ies
Isabel Bergen Field
James Hall Field
Wardstreet
Hightstown
Julien Curtis Sloss
W. A. Stanton
Baptist Church
Pennsylvania Railroad
Monroe Township
Union Valley
Carlisle-Pierpont
Cranbury Orchestra
Cranbury
Brainerd
Frank Jemiron
Samuel Lawrence
Second Presbyterian Cemetery
Fifth Wedding Anniversary of Mr and Mrs Wesley Errick
Mr and Mrs Wesley Everett Errick observed their fifth wedding anniversary on May 22 with many guests. A musical program by Professor Tongas and Miss Tongas of New Brunswick plus vocal numbers by Miss Dorothy Sefton and Miss Ruth Applegate accompanied the celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Everett Errickson
Dayton
Tongas
New Brunswick
Dorothy Sefton
Elizabeth
Ruth Applegate
Freehold
Charles Groves
Cranbury
Errickson
Will of Charles C. Hart Details Trust To Sons
By the will of Charles C. Hart of Cranbury township all real and personal estate goes to his wife Mary A. Hart for life. After her death the residue goes to Harvey F. Hart with a $100 trust to pay $10 yearly to Charles Elmer Hart until exhausted. Executors named are Mary A. Hart and Harvey F. Hart with a codicil in 1914 adding heirs of Harvey if he predeceases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Hart
Cranbury Township
Mary A. Hart
Harvey F. Hart
Charles Elmer Hart
William 8. Cole
A. O. Rue
Benjamin S. VaeDyke
William Russell Silvers
Charles Stanley Hart
Mary Evelyn Hart
Iron Hades in South Wales
A visitor's first night in South Wales reveals stark ironworks and poverty with gray smoke and mud hut cottages. By night the scene brightens to a hellish glow as furnaces flare and a gold stream pours down the smokestack like molten fire on the dark hillside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Wales
London Daily Mail
Hell
Social News From Hightstown and Nearby
HIGHTSTOWN couples and guests gathered during the week and weekend with relatives and friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Activities included hosts Mrs J B Schenck entertaining Miss Mary Woodward and others visiting or visiting in Trenton Princeton Bergen Mills Freehold Newark and Windsor with several family exchanges and dinners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter McDougall
Ness
Princeton
E. V. Gordon
Asher Applegate
Bergen Mills
William Gray
Newark
Charles Field
George Peppler
Thomas Collins
Oscar Collins
Freehold
Gilbert Youmans
Trenton
C. L. Warwick
South Jersey
Thomas Breen
Jamesburg
Mary Standiford
Grant Schoenly
East Orange
Mary 5. Osborn
Daxton News Briefs From Newark and Surrounding Areas
Local notes report visitors from Newark Camp Dix service calls and church events. Mrs. Buckelew and daughter return from Avon By The Sea. Red Cross sale earns seventeen dollars. Recovery noted for Mrs. Vanderhoof and Mrs. Snedeker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Petty
Newark
D. H. Griggs
Addison H. van Derveer
Camp Dix
Presbyterian Church
Mary Buckelew
Edgar Carroll
Avon-By-The-Sea
R. H. Vanderhoof
Red Cross
C. G. Snedeker
Hospital for War Boots in London Factory
A wartime boot repair plant near east London operates like a medical workshop where mud caked boots are restored in 40 minutes. Boots are scrubbed, treated with castor oil, re-skinned, reattached and polished to service for the army. About 8000 workers are engaged in this battalion-like operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Flanders
Booze Fight Suggestion Satire From Married Man
A fragment from a prohibition era piece mocks liquor use by proposing a home saloon run by a husband for his wife to control spending. It plays on counting drinks and saving money to depict a cynical plan ending with the wife freed from the husband.
Tragedy at Plainsboro Train Crossing Claims 20-Year-Old
Michael Darra aged 20 of 25 Aqueduct Street Newark was struck and killed by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at Plainsboro while walking to Walker-Gordon Dairy Farm. Coroner John W. Hubbard handled the body and investigation, as Newark police notified his parents for burial arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainsboro
Pennsylvania Railroad
Walker-Gordon
Michael Darra
Aqueduct Street
Newark
Darra
John W. Hubbard
Doctors A Big War Factor
Dr Woods Hutchinson argues in a Royal Society of Medicine talk that medical science, vaccines, and antiseptics greatly reduce war deaths. He cites that historically most deaths come from disease, not combat, and notes current war death ratios favor battle deaths over disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woods Hutchinson
Royal Society of Medicine
London Globe
Rent Courts Extend to Swiss War Measure
Rent courts used in German cities to curb unjust rent hikes have been adopted in Switzerland as a wartime measure. Tenants may appeal to a local commission if they deem rent demands unjust. The article then abruptly shifts to fashion and poultry remarks about stockings and yellow legged chickens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
U S Marines Cultivate Potatoes in Port au Prince Area
A Port au Prince report notes that U S Marines in the mountains cultivate chilte potatoes for export potential to the United States. Consul Verres reports extensive live cultivation by Marines and local residents, with growing confidence in export viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verres
Port Au Princes
Haid
United States Marine Corps
Springtime photos from country to city friends
The note encourages taking pictures around the country farm and garden and sending them to city friends. It promises developing and printing services at moderate prices and mentions cameras priced from 1.00 to 100.00 for readers.
Also Mentioned on This Page
First Presbyterian
Second Presbyterian
Missionary Societies
Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the First Church
Halsey Reed
Butcher
Charles Hoffman
Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Second Church
Porto Rico
Cuba
Milne
Davis
M. EH
Sloss- Field
the Reading Circle
Ladies Reading Circle
Silvers
Reading Circle
Alvah W. Forman
Cranford
Matilda Jenkyns
Stults
Mary Smith
Forman
Jessie Brown
Spaulding
Mrs. Brown
Betty Barker
Chamberlin
Jamieson
Miss Groves
Martha
Miss Jenkyns
Clara Chamberlin
Peggy
Miss Barker
Anna Chamberlin
IRON
John Applegate
Pennsylvania
J. B. Schenck
Mary Woodward
Pertineville
Walter Davison
Samuel Mount
Elmer Tindall
Windsor
Daxton
Ww.c. T. U
U. S. Marines
E. State St
Trenton, N. J
Donnelly
Donnelly Co
Taylor Opera House
Mens & Boys
A. F. Williams
Williams
East State St
Horace Mann
Mer
America
Daniel Block Clothing CO
Washington Market Building
109 S. Broad Sr
Indores
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