From the Feb. 21 edition of the Register-News
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110 years ago
After passing through a severe attack of sickness, during which he was carefully nursed by his affianced, Thomas O’Brien was married on Tuesday last to Miss Mary Phalon.
Miss Braislin has leased for five years the house lately occupied by R.P. Snowden. Miss Braislin will remove her school for young ladies to that new abode about the Easter holidays.
A bicycle railway is to be built between Mt. Holly and Smithville. The company is composed of solid men. If the railroad works satisfactorily, the good citizens of Crosswicks will soon have an opportunity of having rapid transit to and from Bordentown.
70 years ago
The first three grades of the Public School closed Monday in an effort to check an epidemic of mumps which was prevalent among the pupils.
Dr. Robert Sievers was elected president of the Board of Education at the organization meeting held Monday night in the high school. Dr. Sievers succeeds Frank T. Buchanan, who resigned.
A total of $445,000 was paid in salaries and wages last year to 300 employees in Bordentown by members of the Bordentown Business Association.
No trace has been found of Preston Smith of Crosswicks Road and Osmond Taylor of Miles Alley, who escaped from the Annandale Reformatory last week. Both were serving time for robberies committed in this city.
60 years ago
Members of the Bordentown Police Reserves received their first instruction Wednesday night at the City Hall. The Reserves will be given instruction in all phases of police work, including public relations, how to preserve the peace, to enforce the law, to protect life and property, to prevent and detect crime, to arrest and bring to justice law violators and to be courteous.
The legal phases of police work will be explained to the men during the course by Judge Harold B. Wells.
40 years ago
County residents who have an opinion on horse racing and betting will have an opportunity to express their feelings for and against at a public meting next Friday evening. Bills already introduced in the Legislature this term provide for the extension of the racing season, the approval of a second harness racing track and the permitting of off-track betting. With the state’s eyes turned to any possible source of new revenue, the pressure for extension of the racing season will be great this year.
An interesting sidelight developed at Tuesday’s meeting of the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders when the reporters at the meeting discovered a typographical error that went undetected in the second reading of the county budget which could have set the county back three centuries. The next-to-last item of the lengthy document read, "Current Surplus Anticipated in 1662 Budget, $200,000."
Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1892-1962.