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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1891
Page
1
Fragmentary forecast notes fair with cooler temperatures and northwest winds. Mentions Thursday and Friday with slightly colder conditions and a motto line about trusting Providence.
Refreshments at Hope Chapel on New Year’s Day and a full slate of Christmas events fill Somerset County. Courts adjourned until Tuesday. various church Sunday schools host Christmas programs with cantatas, recitations, and gifts. Michael Watson faces illegal liquor charges. A brood mare sale is planned at Finderne, and local clubs hold New Year activities and library hours vary.
A prominent ad announces Miss Lettie Bernard Chase and her company presenting Uncle's Darling Alaska, an original play by Charles W. Chase. The article touts its modern appeal, Alaska scenic effects, and imported animals for realism, while also including general medical advice on grip.
The wedding will be solemnized at 7 p m at 113 West Front street with Rev Cornelius Schenck officiating. Miss Amouretta Hall, daughter of William W Hall, will be bride. reception to follow at her home. Mrs George S Butters of Concord Mass is visiting her brother Asa Collier.
Robert C. Dingee, age one, former resident of Evona and East Fifth Street Brooklyn, died at his stepfather C. H. Pelletreau’s home 306 Livingston Street Brooklyn. He worked for Bradstreet Mercantile Agency in New York before illness led to retirement. Funeral at 8 p.m. tomorrow from the Brooklyn house. interment private. An Philadelphia inquiry notes cigar stumps are sold to dealers who sell them to cigarette makers.
Perservance Lodge No 74 Knights of Pythias elected c D G W Clark V C N Heideloff P R J Neal M af A A Pf Pope K R 8 F Wakefield M of F W H H B Drake M of F J B Higgins Representative to Grand Lodge L DeCamp Alternate M Turton Trustee Joseph Eltram Grand Chancellor Ulrich assisted by Past Chancellors Rarick and Van Dyke installed the officers A large turnout despite inclement weather and a evening of speeches and songs.
At the Franklin Council No. 41 meeting officers were elected including Councilor E. R. Pope and Vice Councilor G. Van Nest. Rev. B. Fay Mills and L. B. Greenwood opened revival meetings in Elizabeth at First Presbyterian Church with two daily sessions and morning prayers at Central Baptist Church. Open house at the YMCA is planned New Year’s Day. Interments and obituary notices follow for Swords family with services in Netherwood and Trinity Cemetery.
Miss Mary Henrietta Swords died Monday at Rev. Stephen P. Simpson's home on Broadway aged ninety six. Born 1795 in New York she lived at Leonard Street addresses and was famed for her health. Daughter of James Swords of the Thomas and James Swords publishing house. Rev Charles J. Kelly to lecture tonight at Music Hall on the Passion Play at Oberammergau under Catholic Young Men's Lyceum.
A theater ad touts a full menagerie for realism including trained reindeer the only of its kind a superbly intelligent horse Esquamus dogs from Alaska and a bear named Topsy along with a trick mule Minnie Mastiff and Dane dogs King and Count Look out for the big parade in the show.
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