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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1891
Page
1
Local items report a lumber yard blaze under control after a two hour water stream, a Westfield Athletic Club loss to Elizabeth L A on last Friday, and preparations for a grand December reception. Other notes include tax bill notices, jail releases, and council and firehouse meetings with remarks on community events and charitable missions.
Harry Blackwell of Newark spent yesterday in the city with friends. Two society weddings are planned for the coming month. Mrs. Samuel Huntington of Franklin Place will host a Thursday reception on December 17. Leo Daft, now permanently in Seattle after a stay in Tacoma, left Plainfield six months ago. John Barker of Lord & Taylor’s NY guest of West Fourth Street friends yesterday. Russell Jacobus, son of the late Samuel Jacobus, visiting from Boston, revisiting old friends in the city. W Howland plans a December 17 evening reception at their residence. Mrs. Nancy Progh, 91, died at her Sycamore Street home. funeral in Easton, Pa. William Murphy, ex Norwich player, signed by Crescents for next season, arrives and takes a post at Pond Machine Tool works. Arthur J. Upston, injured in the big fire hose cart accident, is recovering with doctor’s verdict near danger exhaustion. Constable Rockfalian sold another of Michael Higgins’ coupe-rockaways to satisfy a James Clark mortgage. Clark paid 60 for the wagon plus about 90 in repairs. Alice Quaas, of 221 Mulberry Street, Newark, died after a two week illness. funeral held. body to be moved to the city in spring. Joseph C. Garretson, prominent Somerset County lawyer and politician from Bound Brook, died after a long illness. A former 1889 Assembly nominee, he was married about eighteen months ago and left a lucrative law practice.
Barney Grimes, identified by Officer Flannagan as part of the gang who attacked a passing train in Friday city events, was arrested in Dunellen and committed for 30 days for breaking into a fag shanty shooting at a locomotive headlight and attempting to break freight cars.
The Board of Officers of the New Jersey Division L A W will meet tomorrow at 8 p m at division headquarters 88 Broad Street Elizabeth Delegates to the National Assembly will be elected annual reports read and committees appointed for the coming year Delegates will attend from the Plainfich Bicycle Club
The Bible Normal Class at First Baptist Church meets this evening at 4 o clock with the topic An Analysis of the Book of Exodus. The class welcomes all city residents and has grown large thanks to its interesting and profitable studies.
A. B. Samuels was arrested for being drunk and fighting Sunday night, paid his fine, and was released. A man named Newman was fined five dollars for using profane language on the street. A Plainfield banjo soloist will entertain Somervillians for ten minutes at the West End Minstrels and share a tale about the man who never came back.
The Central New Jersey Base Ball League with Plainfield Elizabet h Westfield and Somerville clubs will hold an important meeting at the Crescent League club house this evening. Young men can join classes in mechanical drawing and bookkeeping at the YMCA rooms tonight.
Report details a Bound Brook bunco scheme involving a Mississippi pair and a confederate known as Wilkinson. The group sought gold and silver from victims at the Annex Hotel, moving through Bound Brook as a regional hub for “bunco” activity. Police traced the ring with detectives Breen and McU. Marsh and noted southern victims, a New York agency guiding southern speculators to the city.
Aaron M. Powell will discuss the Brussels Congress of the International Federation for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice and federation progress in Europe at a New York parlor meeting December 10. Rev Antoinette Brown Blackwell will address Woman and the Regulation System.
The Church of the Holy Cross ladies host a parlor sale in the parish building this week with a Wednesday evening supper from six to eight and Thursday afternoon and evening sales. A children friendly Thursday with Sunday school free admission is noted along with refreshments.
Henry Shipman of Adams Express in Rahway reports an anonymous West warning about Rahway’s slow hunt for a 1887 throat-cut murder victim. The G A R Bazaar closed Saturday night and Warren Engibe Company No 1 of North Plainfield won a silver trumpet for giving $105.
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