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V, VOL. LXX. No. 43. $1.50 Per Year. HIGHTSTOWN. MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1919. Price 4 Cents. Whole No. 3,632 FOR GIRLS OF MERCER CO. Trees Planted MUST PAY CASH Al i m o n y . John W. Perrine Memorial Day W. R Thompson Girls, have you ever been to a con To Commemorate While declaring that under the Named Assistant Wfll Be Observed ference? II you have not, you have, Will Direct Victory something to look forward to, and' if system of support to which she had dn Hightstown you have- will need no urging to attend Loan Campaign Supreme Sacrifice been accustomed for several years, Bank Cashier to another. Mrs. Lizzie Ely of Hightstown, wife A vocational conference for girls of Combined District of West Wind Memorial Tree Planting on Arbor of John V. Ely, a prosperous farm Will Succeed John W. West on Cranbury Band Has Been Engaged Mercer county will be held under the aus pices ol the Young Women's Christian Day at High School.—In Honor owner of Perrineville, has received May First. He Was Formerly To Furnish the Music. Com sor and East Windsor Town Association of Mercer county on May ships and Borough of Hights of Three Boys Who Died Over approximately $720 worth of pro Employed By First National mittees Named to Make Ar 9th and 10th in Princeton. This is the town—Committees Appointed. seas. visions and clothing annually. 'Vice B ank. rangements for Appropriate Ex first conference of its kind in the county Chancellor John H. Backes, in the ercises. and the purpose Is to present to the girls Variou.s vocations which arc ojicn to Tlu' campaigu for the Fitlh Liberty _ Arbor Day was appropriately ob Court of Chancery Friday after John .W. Perrine has been elected women, and to show them how they can Loan will cuimnem'i' on A-loiiday. served at the-High School on Friday noon said that he thought she would assistant cashier of the First National Aleuiorial Day will be ob.scrvrd in prepare for the vocation of their choice. Williiim 11. Thompson, who handled afternoon. Three trees were planted he bettor off with $000 cash each Bank. He will succeed John W. Hightstown. Tlie Craiihiiry Baud Iligli school girls .ire especially urged to the eampaigii in this distriet in a to commemorate the supreme aao- year. He consequently made, suelff West, -ft’ho leaves oji May first to has boon engaged and other musi(“ attend, also the eighth gr.ide pupils are rifice made by three Hightstown go to the Gross Bro.s., Inc. Air. will he a fealure of the services. A invited, and any other girls ol the county highly satisfactory manner, lina been an order, the money to be paid iii who arc interested in hearing of the o|i- ’ boy.?: Harold Fones, Lewis Forman monthly instalments. Counsel tor Perrine was previously envployed by public ineeliiig wa.s held in the Bor u[)pointed for the comhiiied district portunities now open to women and the composed of the townships of I'.ast and Samuel Platt, Jr. The trees each seemed pleased, although the the bank. Two years ago he left the ough Hull on Friday evening. Mayor means by which they ran prcp:ire (or Windsor ami West Windsor ami (ho were presented by Walter C. Black. woman’s stipend ivas reduced. bank and "wa.s employed by Perrine & Henry R. -Applegate pre.sided and them. The full program will be given at .i The trees were planted along the In handing doivn this decision the Priory. For six months he was in E. C. Sleinsieck ■'vas secretary. Imroug'h of llighlslown. later date, but an outline of the program Chairmai) Thonipsou has aiinmmc- Morrison avenue line of the high Cour't dismissed one of 'the most in the Judge Advocate General’s De The Red Cross, F'irenien, all fra is as follows:. ed t,hc a]i!)ointuu'iil of the following hchool grounds. Memorial tablets teresting alimoney cases that has been partment at Washington, D. ('., and ternal organizations, school ehildreii, Friday, .May 9th, .MOO-fuOO—Regis recording the time and purpose of in the Jersey courts for years. was discharged with the rank of Peddle cadets, members of the G. A. tration of delegates,at the V. \V. C. .\. com mittees: D. B. Di‘y, vice-chairman of tho the planting of the trees will be The defendant is 83 years old and Battalion Sergeant-Major. He will R., Spanish-.Ameriean war veterans rooms. and soldiers and sailors of the World 6:.10—Banquet in Methodist eluireh. euinhined coimuiUeqs; advisory eom- placed in the school library. the complainant 54 years old. The assume hits duties a.s assistant cashier Song, cheers, toasts. War, citizens and in fact everyone in initlcc: K. B. ChamVicrlin, D. H. M any of the town’s people and all husband was ■ a widower with three on May first. 8:00—Open meeting ol conference. Hightstown and vicinity are invited High .school Assembly Ha'I. Out of town Ciuiningham, Walter H. Grover, ii. the wshool children weretjpresent at children when he married the present Voorhees S. Cook of Manasquan Mrs. Plly. She had four minor children has been employed by the directors to participate in the exercises. speakers. II. Ely and Joseph H. Johnes., the planting. The following pro Saliinbu', Alay lOtb—X'ncaliomil guid I'ulilicily committee for borough and these Ely agreed to maintain of Jhe First National Bank to suc The following eomniittees have gram was followed: Kev. George T. ance talk and inlormal discussions—Miss and townships, ('. kStanlcy kSlulls and until they became of age. This he did. ceed Ernest Johnes. Mr. (^ook was been appointed: Mapshal, D. B. Dey; Mary Cady, cdiication.il secretar)' of Hillman, of the Methodist Church, George !'. Ocmiis. Kpcaki-rs com In rendering his opinion Vice (’han- recently discharged from the army flower emnmittee, Mrs. U. G. Van- the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. spoke about the memorials in gen M arler, Airs, W. N. Cimninghani, 12:,h)—l.iincheon in Methodist Oiiirch. mittee con.sislkS of .1. W aller UccYcsl eral; Dv, ^,^Uiam.'A^.f^ton pf^Ae ce^^^.^,ke^,.j(;vm'wed the case and service. For nine years he was em- Mrs.. R. K Forman, Airs. W.' L. ,, , „ chairman; G. II. F'raiikliii, Ii. >V.\ Baptist''Church tdoli "'^ysd ,by the Mansaquan liank. Mr. 2:00-Hny, |h e ( hallcngc ol Dc-; , A. 'fily This was Voorhees will enter upon hi.s work In Wilbur, tttWlP W. G. Riley.;, finiiijce, mocracy, given bv Trenton High School . ,, , , , “What Mean Ye By These Tree#;” .Stanton, Rev. F.dward Whalen, •!. J. on her husband’s credit. the bank at onee. C. iS. Grover, J. B. Davison, J. A. girls. while' Dr. Thomas Tyaok of the Pres Jenkins, R. II. Rivehburg, Thomas Under this system the court re Priory, J. I. Hutchinson, Aaron .1:(K>—Closing address of conference In- byterian ghurch, gave the personal Miss Helen Hughy.^. traveling Student FAREWELL PARTY Huckstep a4ttl Addison Robbins, Jr.; Tyneli, and Alayor Applegate. marked that at times tbe~hiife might Secretary of the V. W. C. A'.- application of the memorial. The speakers, H. K. Applegate, and E. C. ■.Phe-totnniiUee on; posler.s apdr lit- school pupilssang “America” and have “an excess of ham, and a scarci A farewell party and reception was The delegates . will i>c (-tUertairted in ty of lamb; an excess of bread and a given by Mr. and Mrs, Frank L, Mac- Steinsieck; entertainment and intro Princeton and Mrs, Harold Betider, uraturet'D." B. Dey, cEalfmam’W J .' the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Keeler, tieorge J. Burch, H. Bi Early scarcity of butter; a surplus of food Ferran at their South .street home on duction of speakers, R. W. Swetland chairman ol the Ho.spitality Committee, alter which Dr. Gedrge H. Franklin Tuesday evening. Mr. MacFerran has is planning accommodations for 200 dele and scarcity of clothing.'’ and W. L. Wilbur; advertising, W. C. and M. J. Norton. offered prayer. Miss Elizabeth Nor been transferred from Hightstown to gates. Hightstown borough is divided The couple were married twenty- New Haven, Conn. Mr. MacFerran is Black and G. P. Dennis; convey The small registration fee, plu.' carfare, ris of the Senior Class recited “In into two districts. Clarence S. Grover three years ago. In 1900 the alimony now at New Haven'and Mrs. MacFerran ances, 0. T. F’enton and E. J. Rogers. will be the only expense to be borne by Flanders’ Fields.” The regular ad is sub-chairman for District No. 1, and proceedings were started after Wil will leave Hightstown on Monday morn The committees are at work and the delegates and it is earnestly hoped dress of the afternoon was given by ing. The affair was given for the purpoK that a targe number of girls of the county Joseph B. Schanck for District No. 2. liam Ely, son of the defendant, mar they will report at a meeting to be Dr. William L. Wilbur. He voiced of bidding their friends farewell. Music ■will attend. The general committee for Hights ried a sikter of his step-mother and was furnished during the evening by Mr. (tailed by Chairm an Applegate. the people’s regret that it was neces town borough: Daniel 1. Messier, H. “took her home to live.” Then the Brems, pianist, and Richard Garcia, sary for any of the country’s men to THE BAPTIST CHURCH R.