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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1894
Page
2
The Pladifield Courier reports on January 19, 1898 about concerns over street paving in Elizabeth and the need for safer sidewalks. It condemns partisan politics and notes recent police activity at Front Street, including a watchman smoking near a ball.
A newly formed order uniting two Brooklyn lodges installed officers at the Music Hall building. Grand and local officers presided as 40 members from Senate Lodge Brooklyn attended, pledging to advance the merged lodge’s goals. A banquet followed with speeches praising the consolidation and future growth.
The text describes guests at a lodge meeting where Fonor and Goerk spoke, a drum corps played martial music, and visitors planned to present a memorial to a new lodge but could not finalize it. The supreme lodge ceremony is postponed, and the crowd cheered as the gathering broke up.
A lively bowling game between two eight-man teams drew a strong crowd at the Board of Trade. The contest featured skilled play and exciting moments, with referees and umpires noted for steady officiating.
Last evening a passenger on a Sowerse Street line car had his arm burnt when the belt and top rail heated by hot cloth caused a scorch. Conductor Totten advised him to remove his arm as the heated gear caused injury. Repeat incidents are noted as common among riders who rest arms on top of the heating devices.
North Plainfield Board of Health revoked two scavengers licenses for unpaid fees while granting a license to Geraud Abderhill of Wanbington Valley to begin duties. Complaints about continued sewer discharges into the brook east of Somerset Street were not acted on. A separate note mentions a door mat left on a Sixth Street doorstep for travelers.
OCR fragment hints at judges and a weekly event with prints and portraits. It mentions an art show with a depot, a Saturday event, and a price of nine or fifteen cents. Details are missing due to damaged text.
The issue presents opening chapters of How to Make Money in Wall Street by Henry Clews, The Worlds Gain by Henry Milford Steele, The Royals of Hawaii by Herbert Stanley, and A Tragedy Pro-Tem by James Clarence Harvey. It features poems, short stories, farces, and illustrations, with fashion notes by Clinton.
On Tuesday the Warren Chapel Junior Endeavor Society elected officers for the coming term. Elected were Hattie Squiers as Vice President, May Squiers as Secretary, Lillie Fang as Treasurer, Mabie Stevens as Mistress of Following. Also listed are remaining letters at the Pisin Post Office dated January 15, 1494 and various local notices and an old remedies advertisement.
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