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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1892
Page
3
The itemized scan lists numerous local events in Westfield including council meetings, lodge initiations, religious gatherings, theatrical plans, a forthcoming baseball season, housing demand, and funeral notices. It mentions Queen City Lodge, W T U, Reform Club addresses, and upcoming concerts as part of a bustling community calendar.
The Crescent League will represent Public City in New Jersey Central four club play, promising to be among the area’s strongest semi professional teams. The schedule begins May 21 with Saturday games only, midweek dates open. contact Secretary Charles Reed of Philadelphia for dates.
A fire at Bowman's boarding house on West Front street was found around ten in the morning and extinguished by J N Troneyman and Josepha Krewnon before significant damage. It started in a bedroom from a kerosene lamp left burning by a boarder, burning a husk mattress, bedstead, and damaging the carpet. no alarm was sent.
Cranbury residents jest over a string of love letters signed Jack the Kisser as a church debate over the culprit unfolds. A violin prodigy, Musin, praised by critics, captivates audiences with astonishing talent and high prices, touring major cities with renowned success.
Despite bad weather about three hundred attended Charles B. Brown’s Sunday School event at Firet Baptist Church. The program featured W. E. Mac Clymont, Ellis Curry, John Osmney, B. T Barnes, M. Rocap, Benjamin Le Vere, and Nash-light photos by Jow Jr. Refreshments were served by several volunteers. The crowd enjoyed the evening and everyone seemed to have a good time.
Sir Edwin Arnold travels the United States and studies Japanese family life for a paper in Cosmopolitan. The issue features illustrations, a Howells frontispiece, and reviews by JH Fr. Boyenon. Other articles include Archibald Porbes Afghan tale, Adams Brazilian Republic, and a library new books list.
The committee on Almshouses reports deteriorating tenements in Plainteid Row with delapidated ceilings vermin and overcrowding. City neglect and lax control foster indiscriminate occupancy and moral decline. The report urges proper care, janitorial authority and housing reforms to prevent further decay and taxpayer burden.
A late telegraphic update reports three bills tackling racetrack regulation in the New Jersey Legislature. Debates focus on freeholder boards and a Gloucester approved issue. Rep William Park from Monmouth may introduce a bill, but passage remains uncertain amid antitrack sentiment in the Senate and pressures from merchants and farmers.
A 23 year old Carlyle Harris is found guilty of murder in the Bret and a distraught mother protests guilt. Separate item reports Ward Waterbury's rescue and return to his family after abduction on the New York Connecticut line in Long Ridge.
A fast Baltimore and Ohio express jumped the track one mile north of North Baltimore station. Several people were killed and many were wounded. In a separate item, the livery firm Roberts and Waldron dissolved their partnership with Councilman Roberts to continue the business on North Avenue.
The commission named by the last Legislature to change town duties in Somerset, with Pace of Somerset and Campbell of Bergeo and Hendricksem of Barrington as members, says work has progressed slowly and asks to be continued to report to the 1893 Legislature. A regular meeting of the Ivaghne Council, American Legion of Honor, was held last evening at their rooms in Music Hall.
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