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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1913
Page
1
The C. E. Society of the First Presbyterian Church will meet Sunday evening in the chapel. Miss Clara Huffington will lead the discussion on the topic Missionary Essentials at Home and Abroad.
Rev C I Ebell and his wife enjoy a vacation at his parents near Atlantic City so the M E Church will have no service Sunday. Second Presbyterian will have Rev J W Van Dyke preaching Sunday morning.
Invitations are issued for the October 15 wedding of Miss Julia Mae Errickson of Dayton and Ancil Davison Jr of Cranbury to take place in Dayton. Also noted is the October marriage of Lewis Long and Mary Ella Vincent in Hightstown with Rev. Dr. W. A. Stanton officiating at the Baptist parsonage.
J Morgan Reid spoke to Cranbury Jr O U A M No 60 and guests from Plainsboro and Hightstown attended. John C Perrine, a wealthy retired farmer, celebrated his eightieth birthday and preparations begin for an Anniversary Sunday Exercises at First Presbyterian Church on October 10 with Godfrey W Schroth and H J Stout as soloists. An electric light plant is being installed at Hiram Cook’s premises in Dutch Neck with Andrew Harris wiring multiple Cranbury homes. streets will be lit.
Walter Griggs drove Miss Marion Campbell to the Second Presbyterian Church for Sunday services. After she left, his horse collapsed and died within a few steps. Griggs summoned his father who provided a replacement horse so he could escort Campbell home after the service. The deceased animal was described as valuable.
Former Cranbury resident B A Farr of Rutherford New Jersey and assistant sales manager at the Mergenthaler Linotype Co New York is visiting at the home of Wm N Hughes with his wife. Farr is an old Cranbury resident and Brainerd Institute graduate.
Come Out Sunday and attend Rally Day activities at 10 o clock A M. The committee includes Charles C Groves Miss Clara Bergen and Miss Emma Ditmars. The program features full orchestra recitations by Margaret Applegate Bergen Petty and Elizabeth Campbell responsive reading a quartet and a short talk by Dr J L Whitaker.
The Central Local Union of Christian Endeavor observes its twenty fifth anniversary and eighty fourth convention at the Baptist Church in Hightstown New Jersey with a full morning and afternoon program including addresses by Rev W A Stanton Rev Thomas Tyack Rev F B Everitt and Rev S J McClenaghan among others and a noon executive committee meeting. A social club outing to New York preceded the event with a sightseeing car visit to the East Side Hippodrome and dinner at Lorbers with members listed.
Cranbury Mechanics and Plainsboro Junior Order of United Ancient Masons No 60 and No 299 met Monday evening. Charles Hopkins and Harold Ross were initiated into membership as part of the Goodwill Council No 32 team from New Brunswick leading the initiation.
Lewis D Stults a Cranbury resident and Civil War veteran died at his home on Railroad Avenue after a brief illness. He was 78, a carpenter by trade and a retired city life member of the First Presbyterian Church. He left four children from his first marriage and three with his second wife Sara Perrine along with relatives and a sister and brother. Funeral services were held at his house and at the First Presbyterian Church with interment in Brainerd cemetery. In a separate incident, A V Okersons children on a carriage escaped injury when a frightened horse bolted and the wagon tipped, injuring Ethel and Ads Okerson slightly.
Postmaster Theodore F. Stryker of Rockey Hill has received notification from Washington of his reappointment to the office. A Republican, he has held the fourth class post office for the last sixteen years since the start of the McKinley administration.
Judge Daly sentenced Albert W. Reynolds a former hostler at the Monmouth Junction hotel to three and a half to seven years at hard labor and a $2000 fine for shooting his wife. The jury acquitted him on the shooting of Albert Dutko.
Mrs. Clarence Perrine accepts organist position at First Presbyterian Church and will start duties Sunday October 5 replacing Miss Reba Vreeland who has resigned. Perrine is noted as a pleasing performer on organ and piano and active in Cranbury musical circles.
The County Board of Taxation fixed Cranbury’s tax rate on Tuesday at 1.38. The remainder of the county followed with varied rates for towns including Dunellen 2.19 East Brunswick 1.68 Helmetta 1.35 Highland Park 1.70 Jamesburg 2.14 Madison 1.38 Metuchen 2.03 Milltown 1.76 Monroe 1.70 North Brunswick 1.17 Perth Amboy 1.98 Raritan 1.90 Roosevelt 1.82 Sayreville 1.42 South Amboy 2.08 South Brunswick 1.51 South River 2.10 Spotawood 1.58 Woodbridge 2.29 New Brunswick 2.21.
A linen and aluminum shower was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Everett Errickson at Dayton on a Saturday evening. Invited guests from Dayton Cranbury Hightstown Jamesburg Monmouth Junction Freehold Elizabeth Trenton Bound Brook Princeton Long Branch Jersey City Philadelphia and Philadelphia area attended.
The Cranbury Public School seventh and eighth graders form a Literary Society. Officers: Rue Grover president Harvey Voorhees vice president Margaret Applegate secretary Anna Applegate treasurer. Activities include debates essays readings recitations and book reviews with monthly Junior Audubon Society meetings. State Commissioner Kendall endorses the S E B and invites visitors to Friday meetings.
Yard offers Sovran gloves at 1.00 in tan black and white with 2 clasps. Misses Maggioni gloves in tan and white with 2 clasps. English cape gloves in tans black white with 1 clasp. Finer grade 1.50 and 1.50 Maggioni finest kid gloves in multiple colors. Fownes kid gloves range 1.50 to 2.00.
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