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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1892
Page
3
City and county items include Engine 910 lighting at night, alumni and tennis club meetings, and a Somerset County Board of Freeholders session. Reports cover real estate transfers, a bankrupt stock sale, a police case involving a Chinaman, horse sales, and preparations for summer rail and resort openings.
Regular Crescent League meeting chaired by Judge William R. Codington elected William A. Coddington to fill the vacancy left by G C Barnet. Palma Club of Jersey City invited Crescent to enter a bowling tournament to be held in connection with the salma’s fur. Treasurer’s quarterly report shows the league in good financial condition.
The Crescent League team praises Manager Keller for guiding its baseball selections. A funeral was held for the late Dr. Charter P. Stillman at his sister Mrs J Keyer’s East Seventh Street residence with Rev. A H Lewis and Rev. A H Boringham officiating. Interment followed at Seventh-day Baptist Cemetery beside his father.
The Union County bowling team defeated Thee Park Club in a two game set on Union County Club lanes. The first game stayed tight with the outcome decided by the last bowler on each side, while Park Club took the second game easily by eighty seven pins under North Plainfield spectators.
The Plainfield Public Library and Reading Room board met with directors Moors Baldwin Babcock Cox Dumont Ewarta Tracy Yates and Silliman present. Bills were ordered paid and the librarian granted a one week leave of absence for attendance at the American Library Association conference.
Night watchman Benjamin Wright, patrolling West Front, found a hotel door unlocked at Laing's. He entered to investigate, stepped into a trap door, and fell eight feet into the cellar. He was not badly injured but had to retire for the night.
A wreck on the New Jersey Central Railroad at Bound Brook delayed East-bound traffic late last evening. Philadelphia and Reading engine No. 404, a camel-back, attached to an eastbound freight, crossed from the P and BR track to the main line and took two hours to move the locomotive back on track.
The Crescenta of Plainfield plan a new catcher this season. Chic Hofford, previously with the Troy team in the Eastern League, has secured his release and will captain the Crescenta. The Central League will feel this change as Crescenta earns congratulations. Kate Castleton and her company present The Dazzler at Munic Hall tomorrow evening. The cast includes Mim Castleton in a notable role.
Reports say a through passenger train on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad wrecked a bridge twenty two miles west of the city after floods weakened foundations. Thirty six passengers are feared drowned.
A series of disjointed lines offers cryptic musings on youth memory and forgiveness. The text contemplates aging as footprints of worry and the elusiveness of beauty. It touches on time perception and the pursuit of meaning through proverb like statements.
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