May 8 edition
125 years ago
Samuel Sample and Sons of this county have their excellent spool cotton on exhibition in the American department of the Paris exposition.
A neat and handy machine is the "Buncher" for preparing asparagus for market.
Dr. Leo H. DeLange has removed his dental office to the cozy brick building formerly occupied by the Post Office.
100 years ago
Abel R. Taylor has resigned as organist of Christ Episcopal Church, in this city, and accepted a similar position in the First Presbyterian Church, Trenton. He will fill his new position June 1.
Last Monday the body of Thomas Durkin was brought here from Newark for burial. At the time of his death he was in St. Michael’s Hospital, but his end came suddenly. He was a native of White Hill, and is survived by his brother James, who lives in Jersey City and is the last member of a once large family.
Prof. Sheehan’s juvenile minstrels go to Florence, 40 strong this evening, to give one of their jolly performances. Some of the parents and other adults go with them on a special trolley car.
Shortly after 7 o’clock every evening, thousands of swallows may again be seen making their annual circles over Crosswicks Street, before taking up their nightly quarters in one convenient and lofty chimney. Just at dusk they pour down into the chimney, like coal shuting from a high wagon into a cellar window.
Mrs. S.W. Fitzgerald entertained at a bridge party at the Mansion House, Fieldsboro, on Saturday afternoon. A large crowd attended.
Nearly 20 Bordentonians attended the annual dinner and meeting of the Bordentown Female College in Philadelphia, Wednesday.
Clarence Soden, whose large and attractive brick garage and auto showroom was the first of the new type to be built expressly for the automobile business in this city, has improved the appearance of his building at the corner of Park and Second streets by brilliant flood lighting.
50 years ago
Hunt Bros. Circus, one of the country’s top shows, will make a one-day visit to Bordentown this Saturday, May 23, giving both an afternoon and evening performance. The show is playing in Bordentown under the auspices of the Ervin V. Hamilton Post, American Legion.
The circus will pitch its big top on the BMI Fields on Route 206 (old Route 39) near Elizabeth Street, the same site that was used last year by the Mill Bros. Circus. This year’s performance under the main tent is the greatest ever given in the long history of the Hunt Bros. Snow. Many Bordentonians have grown used to seeing the Hunt Bros. Truck and trailers parked n their winter quarters at Florence Station each year but this is the first time in over 15 years that the circus is actually playing in Bordentown.
(Compiled by Vanessa S. Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1878-1953).

