NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 01/16

From the Jan. 16 edition of the Register-News

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100 years ago

   
Alex Errickson, a blacksmith employed at the John E. Thropp machine works, Trenton, had the bones of his right wrist broken on Wednesday morning of last week while at work. Mr. Errickson was welding a piece of iron when his helper in wielding the large sledge brought it down with crushing force on his wrist. Mr. Errickson is the son of Rev. Wm. Errickson of White Hill.
   
Mrs. Aaron Robbins was presented with the big turkey which grocer John Kenner gave away. The correct weight, 26 pounds, was guessed correctly by Mrs. A. Robbins, Mrs. Annie Jones, Mr. Pierson and J.B. Agnew.
   
Prof. P.T. Sheehan has removed his dancing academy from the Masonic Hall to the large room in the Gabel building over the post office. This evening and every Friday night until further notice a sociable will be given. An admission of 25 cents is charged to the Tuesday night dancing class and the sociable on Friday night.
90 years ago

   
Masons at work on the foundation of the new house which is to be erected on Prince Street, on the Bloomsburg property, discovered a nest of Indian relics, in good preservation in the excavation
   
Many local people attended the vaudeville performance which, with Harry Lauder as the star, held the boards at the Trent Theatre on Tuesday evening.
   
A carload of race horses were shipped from the Rancocas stock farm at Jobstown, last week, to Charleston, S.C.
50 years ago

   
Ground-breaking for the Peter Muschal School took place Tuesday, with school board president Donald Marcks lifting the first shovelful.
   
Plans for a $2,000,000 housing development on the B.M.I. Athletic Field bordering Route 39 between Elizabeth Street and Mile Hollow were revealed this week.
   
Bordentown Township’s choice building lots are gradually dwindling. No more lots in the Park Ridge Farm or Sylvan Glen.
30 years ago

   
Bordentown Township’s proposed sewer plant is nearing reality it was disclosed this week by Mayor Jacob Oswald. Mayor Oswald gave a report at Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Township Committee and revealed that bids will be received for the construction of the plant and laying of the mains on Feb. 6.
   The ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds in the amount of $1,175,000 for the construction was adopted on first reading by the committee Tuesday evening.
   
The long-awaited decision of what, if anything, is to be done to obtain access to the Turnpike Bridge from Route 130 at Florence appears in the offing. The question of whether or not the access will be obtained seems more confusing today. The long-running battle between local officials and the Turnpike Commission over the acquiring of the access should come to a head within the next several weeks.


Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1903-1973.