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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
3
Local notices list visits from Harry Brown of South Amboy and Emma Dey of Trenton. Cranbury church events and fund drive conclude with surplus. Revs and families from New York and Long Branch appear in sermons and social visits. A busy week includes travel plans to Bermuda and Asbury Park and community meetings at the library.
An evening of music in Second Presbyterian church opened with an organ voluntary by Arthur B Burroughs. W Ruswell Silvers sang To The Cross and the large choir and orchestra performed a grand anthem. Rev J E Curry presided. Vincent G Hughes, son of the late William G Hughes, died after a long illness. Funeral was Thursday at the Second Presbyterian church with Rev Adolps Allen conducting and Rev Joseph Van Dyke assisting. Clara Bergen presided at the organ.
Charles W Higgins died at his home near Deans aged 70. His funeral will be Sunday at 2 o'clock from the residence of his son in law James Davison. Rev J B Clark of Dayton will conduct the services, with interment at Dayton.
The Trenton Baptist Association plans meetings on October 4 and 5 at Penns Neck Baptist Church with the state gathering in Atlantic City. Dr J L Whitaker and Miss Ida Whitaker depart October 15 for the south to spend the winter. Miss Bertha Van Hise was surprised by friends with a social evening before her departure.
The Methodist Sunday school session moved to afternoon ahead of chapel renovations including floor dress, interior painting, and new chairs. The Women’s Home Missionary society of First Presbyterian meets tomorrow at 3 with topic Forward Look. The Second Presbyterian hosts Friday Oct 7 on The Mormon Field with Mrs G B Mershon. The Ladies Reading Circle starts Oct 7 with president Mrs Ella Stults and past presidents. officers announced for the year and program committees listed. Special Grange meetings led by Mrs John B Perrine arrange travel to Flemington Berlin and Burlington this week.
The Thirty Second Annual Reunion of the 14th New Jersey Volunteers will be held in Grand Army Hall New Brunswick on Wednesday October 19 1910 at 1030 A M The welcome address will be given by Counsellor Samuel Schleimer of New Brunswick and will be followed by a response from Comrade Cornelius Teun Eyck of New York A business meeting starts at 1030 with an address by Dr John Handley an honorary member The dinner follows in the Banquet Room and a 2 P M assembly in the G A R Post Room with entertainment from New Brunswick comrades and friends plus a vocal solo by a daughter of Comrade Joseph Suydam of New Brunswick.
Surveyors plan street layouts for pipe costs in the borough. Fred J. Schoen begins a double brick house on Franklin Street. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church enjoyed a successful social with about fifty lodge members attending a Windsor reunion. Mont buys a new Elmore car and becomes its agent. A J Harbourt visits from Trenton. J. W. Pullen was an out of town guest. Rev. Dennet of Manoequan guests the Yerks family. Mrs Steinsick moves to Philadelphia. Intestinal illnesses rise from ptomaine poisoning. Mabel Heyers sang solos at the M E Church. Swetland addressed the Baptist Sunday School. The Friday Club resumes weekly meetings with officers listed. W C L U officers elected. new officers named.
Fire at Rustin Hibbitts farm along the Amboy railroad destroyed a barn and wagon house. Two men injured. three horses were saved with help from Mrs Hibbitts and Mrs Matlack who rescued stock and summoned neighbors. Firefighters worked as farming machinery on the lower floor largely survived.
A humorous poem fragment mocks a woman's inaction and disinterest in sports. It mentions tennis, golf, bowling, and bowling-like tasks while noting she wears a ribbon and dhunty lingerie. The fragment references Katharine Perry of a 19th century publication.
County Collector C Asa Francis Judge John E Foster and wives escaped serious injury when a new Pullman auto carrying them to Princeton struck telegraph poles along the Freehold road near Hightstown. The car tipped on its side but all occupants, except Judge Foster who suffered arm contusions and Mrs Foster with shoulder pain, crawled free. Perrine’s garage towed the wreck. the party received medical attention in Hights town.
Sunday services listed with times for Clauss meeting and preaching. Notices call for fundraising to install a parsonage window for Rev. T B Applegate. Advertisements seek subscriptions and volunteers, plus cemetery fencing plans. Local school transport, farm sale details, and estate sale dates are announced along with job and domestic help ads. Community notices reference Tallmadge era religious movements and temperance rhetoric from The Alabama Baptist.
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