From the Oct. 18 edition of the Register-News
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110 years ago
The Trenton Fair took about 7,000 dahlias from the pretty floral garden of August Zeller at White Hill.
Last Friday, a block of Maryland granite, rock cut, pyramid shaped and weighing 13 tons, was placed on the foundation proposed for the first locomotive in this country, "Johnny Bull." It required a big crane and nice judgment to put the block in its place.
100 years ago
The three monkey-faced owls exhibited at the county fair were captured in Bordentown by Thomas M. Joy, who sold them to Hellings and Wells of Burlington. At the Trenton fair a fakir on the midway raked in a small fortune by exhibiting similar birds at 10 cents for admission ticket. The blower called them "human-faced animals." They are really arctic owls, and have been breeding about here for years. They fight their captors desperately even when very young.
James Valentine of White Hill has a badly burned right hand. He got it in putting out the burning clothing of a little girl in Trenton on Sunday last. With other children the girl was playing around a bonfire when her dress caught fire. The child was also badly burned.
The Salvation Army is about to start a branch of their organization in Bordentown. They have secured the ground floor of Warner’s Hall on Farnsworth Avenue, which will be cleaned and repaired. They will hold their first meeting Saturday evening at 8 o’clock.
60 years ago
The new 2-manual organ recently installed in the First Baptist Church will be dedicated on Tuesday with a special recital by Clarence Snyder, now a resident of Arlington. Snyder, who is but 17 years of age, has been acclaimed by music critics as one of the most promising organists of the day.
Miss Helen Townsend has accepted a position as laboratory technician at St. Peter’s Hospital, Brooklyn.
Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1891-1941.

