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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1892
Page
3
Local items include trains revised times on the Central Railroad, arrests for drunkenness, tax payments, cows and milk wagon incidents, and streetcar track work. Community notes cover church, school, and social club activities, with sports and weather details and upcoming bicycle events.
News item notes the wedding of Rev Dr Robert Lowry to Miss Mary Runyon of New York Fifth Avenue Baptist Church at five o clock in the evening. The ceremony will be conducted by Rev Dr Geason of New York City and attended only by close relatives. Dr and Mrs Lowry will travel on the Orgy of Partes? tonight and stay for several months.
Plainfield cranks returned from Somerville with cash to back a West End win. Turner pitched amid arm fatigue, Harkins led West End with a three bagger and two singles, while Crescent’s Leidy and Daley produced two baggers apiece. Final inning run spree gave West End the win.
The Westfelders faced a demoralizing defeat amid umpiring mistakes and amateur players McCarthy and Galligen. The Y M C L A used cooler heads and strategic positioning to seize the advantage, while Westfelds faltered after the third inning and collapsed, ending in a resounding loss.
In June 91 a chaotic courtroom in New Jersey saw Judge Martine preside as Edward Divine shot Max Berget during a trial interrupt. Clerget was led to plead, shots rang, and Divine was arrested after killing him. News items describe the Journal Trophy races, club standings, YMCA mountain excursion, and Masonic lodge proceedings alongside local amateur baseball results.
The Swedish Benevolent Society held their third annual Mid-Summer Festival on Saturday night on the mountain near the look-out with athletic contests singing and dancing and the Hwel Quartet performing. Officers Kielly and Sanders raided a gambling den on South Second street capturing four players James Lane James ONeill Zebediah Freeman and Leander Brown. Lane was fined fifteen dollars and the others fifty dollars each awaiting Grand Jury. An officer found a wandering animal on the railroad track near the gas house and it was taken to Robert’s. Carman Rothbery let his horse out of the North Plainfield stable and it wandered into Harris Goldstein’s garden causing about three dollars worth of vegetable loss. Justice Sperry awarded that amount to the plaintiff. Excitement grows over Aunt Fanny’s Health Revive la drink advertised at L. W. Randolph’s drug store offering a free trial package.
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