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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1893
Page
3
The readable line hints at a parade or pageant with banners and a route through a city street. Limited text names a parade or march and a suggested hillside setting, but overall details are unclear due to damaged OCR and missing context.
Local items report evening entertainments at Monroe Chapel and a strawberry ice cream festival for the chapel fund. Borough electric railway work slows. Somerset street worsens. Reports mention school vacation, alumni ticketing, a garden concert, and social events in Plainfield society.
A fragment from a newspaper item describes ongoing arguments in the Jennings case with references to Bishop Bet and Grace interests. It notes no decision yet and mentions the Courier club meeting and an accident on Front Street where J. W. Marshall was struck by a streetcar, resulting in injuries.
Zak Instrumental selection by Mise Barnes followed by Mr Vegiard reciting for applause and laughter. Joha Keefe gave Twenty years ago. Rev Mr Barnes gave an address on Mount Vesuvina. Mrs Vegiard recited Barbara Frietchie with effect. Albert Ford aged ten or twelve rendered Sheridan's Ride despite train noise. Majer Stasis spoke. D C Tiffany told Horatius at the Bridge with a patriotic moral. W B Wadsworth praised manual training, noting funds raised to start the program and hoping for splendid results.
Property owners along Pesce Street and Watchung Avenue from the railroad bridge to Front Street face higher costs as Street Commissioner Meeker begins widening work. After clearing obstructions they must relay sidewalks and rebuild fences at their own expense, with completion rumored within two weeks. The street crew is mostly on the job, save for two men. The article also notes lodge officers touring, a nearby livery stable and Kilnes' burned warehouse, multiple arson-like incidents, and a change in odoriferous products from the post office rear area to Lew Bruxy wick.
The text argues against multiple votes by shareholders, noting many workers in Pond Tool Company shops favor the new store plan. It compares to England where similar cooperatives attract large memberships, and projectors feel confident despite uncertainties about the venture’s success.
The chancellor heard the report of Craig A. Marsh and BR Pope as administrators regarding the partition of property. Commissioners John Van Winkie Nelson Ranyon and Levi Hetfield allocated eight parcels valued at $463,000 among thirteen heirs with shares of one sixth, one ninth, one eighteenth and one fifty fourth. The commissioners labored about a month to finalize the division.
Andy Nolan appeared in city court to answer drunkenness and wife assault charges. After evidence, sentence was suspended. Nolan and his wife, hired from New York by Evan Jones, brought New York rum, provoking words and blows. The judge showed leniency as they were unfamiliar with orderly city life. Also noted are rail and pipe theft brief items and local bicyclist anxiety over lighting on recent nights.
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