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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
7
At a Township Committee meeting Mayor Horton urged protection measures after a Boyertown theatre accident. He praised two uniformed firemen on duty for the Choral Club concert and urged payment by the town. A resolution to pay the men 2 each was carried without opposition.
The Sherman School flagpole nearly seventy feet high again bears Old Glory after John Crowley, undeterred by several failed climbs, mounted the pole to replace the iron rope with a new one amid cheers. Police officer Dolf Poole aided in securing his ascent. Also notes a Board of Education meeting, lectures, and local club events on the schedule.
The Rev M Pelgrim of Rutgers Theological Seminary preached at the Congregational Church. Union services are planned monthly among Presbyterian Methodist and Congregational churches. J Frank Burke of the Anti Saloon League will address the Hen s Club tonight. Mrs James P Edgar is convalescing from pneumonia. My A Brown resumes activity after inflammatory rheumatism. Mrs Stephen Rose of Elizabeth visited her son Samuel Rose on Upper Main Street. Marion McDonald returns from Elizabeth. William Miller is weakened by grip. Rosy Valentine travels south for winter and hosted the Builders Society at Green Street. W C T U met last Wednesday.
Westfield January 16. A church meeting accepted the resignation of Rev H H Guernsey effective May 1, 1908. A committee will arrange a council to dismiss him and secure a new pastor, with supplies for the pulpit and a deacon elected. Guernsey, Yale Seminary graduate, plans study abroad before returning to literary work.
Afternoon sale plans at the MB Church Sunday 2 to 5 featuring home baked goods. Residents, travelers and visitors including William Love of the Polytechnic Institute stayed with Prof J H Jove on Green Street. Several locals visit, host, or travel, with trustees elected for the Masonic Hall Association and a 3 percent stock dividend declared. truancy efforts intensify in Middlesex schools. Verna Belmar Love visits Long Branch.
Westfield brief includes engagements, visits, and statue of local events. Allan Johnson recovers from gunshot wounds. John Pierson, brother of Edwin Pierson, dies in Lockport. The Ladies Sewing Society sets a Turkey supper for February 7. local officials discuss 1908 assessments. Special Woodmen meeting features initiation by Elizabeth team and district visit. Billboards cleaned and new billboard erected on Prospect Street. Malcolm Marsh hired as assistant to Town Engineer at $1.50 daily. A pew school addition vote set for January 87 with a $45 000 appropriation.
Cranford January meeting honors William Galletley of Gamewell Fire Alarm Co for upgrading fire alarm boxes with glass doors and keys inside. The committee also settles a cab fare bill, orders a ten day sidewalk repair notice, expunges a poll tax against a fireman, and approves multiple bills including a partial 400 payment to Calihan for sidewalk work.
The borough adds over two hundred houses in the past year with a dozen more under construction. Population growth strains school capacity and a new schoolhouse is hoped to relieve the shortage. Miss Bertha Jack of Westfield Avenue is ill with pneumonia at home. The Lorraine cottage meeting hosts tomorrow at E W Chaffee 376 Westfield Avenue. Mrs Mary Hale relocates temporarily to Mrs E J Lillibridge on Westfield Avenue.
The Elisabeth Daily Journal will be on sale at Broad Street Market and Market streets newsstands and at the Union News stand of the Central Railroad and at the Pennsylvania Railroad Market Street Station.
Small lot of linoleums offered with regular prices reduced for a Friday sale. Mill ends include 500 and 60c prints in six patterns. Yardage squares measure two yards by six patterns, with overall discounts as advertised. Sale runs Friday while stock lasts.
Large lot of Val Inces edgings and insertions ready for Friday at special prices. Round or diamond meshes with pretty patterns. Sold in 1g-yard pieces worth 7Be 1.00 and 1.25. Special very readied deal 5dec 89c.
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