May 15 edition
125 years ago
At Lumberton in this county, a little girl 5 years of age fell into a well while chasing a butterfly. A good subject for a poem.
The strawberry festival at Trinity M.E. Church last Saturday evening was well enjoyed and the profits snug.
The ticket office at the lower station was plundered Saturday evening. Loss of seven or eight dollars.
The true road to economy keep the city tax rate down to 50 cents.
100 years ago
The proprietor of Holzbaur’s bakery in Carpenter Street being anxious to get gas power as soon as possible, an effort was made to accommodate him by the head boss of the first gang that arrived Sunday. When the Law & Order Society got wind of the violation of the Sabbath they set out to check it. Before the law powers could be invoked, however, the pipes were all laid from Union Street with the exception of one or two sections.
Rynear VanSickle, who in the dim past is reported to have run an engine on the Bordentown and Trenton railroad, died last week at the great age of 96 years. He had lived in Rockford since 1854. He was a graduate of Princeton University, and took to railroading when he left college.
The army of Italian laborers engaged in laying the new gas mains are rushing the work. The weather has been decidedly favorable so far, and if it shall continue a little longer the principal part of the big undertaking will be done. While the absence of rain has been a drawback to farmers it has been a boon to the pipe layers.
70 years ago
William Wilson, city tax collector, has applied to the city fathers for protection in the form of hold-up insurance.
"What the campaign needs is a laugh. We are taking it too seriously." This was the statement of Judge Harold B. Wells in Beverly recently.
Brooklandwood May Flower, 155134, owned by the Manual Training School, a purebred Guernsey cow, has completed a 10 months’ record, advanced registry in Class D.
60 years ago
Fieldsboro School pupils realized a grand total of $1,008 toward the Jeep Campaign.
The Memorial Day parade will take place Sunday afternoon, May 30, with the principal exercises at the Bordentown Cemetery. Graves in suburban areas will not be visited due to gas and tire shortages, but will be decorated as usual.
Forty-five registrants of Draft Board No. 4 were selected from the group who took the physical examination at Camden on Monday.
(Compiled by Vanessa S. Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1878-1943).

