From the June 7 edition of the Register-News
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120 years ago
It is alleged that Harry Cowgill, of Mt. Holly, is the fortunate possessor of an educated hog.
The indebtedness and interest on the Baptist Church amounts to about $3,200. Last Sunday, Rev. W. I. Kolb announced that subscriptions would be received to pay off the whole amount. In a short time, $1,700 was subscribed and since then the amount has grown rapidly.
Last week the trotting stallion Mill Boy, raised and formerly owned by Martin L. Dunn of this city, covered himself with glory at the Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, spring meeting.
100 years ago
Last Wednesday 81 insane patients were safely transferred from the State Asylum at Trenton to the new institution at New Lisbon. The special train consisted of an engine and three cars. Dr. Ward of the State Asylum had charge of the removal, and so arranged it that none were exposed to the rain.
The Stanwick terra cotta works are closed. The union pressers and modelers last week made a demand for eight hours and the discharge of non-union men, and, on being refused, struck.
The national government will improve the channel between this city and Trenton by making a survey and supplying necessary buoys and beacons. Last Friday captains Horace Wilson and F.G. Edwards of the Wilmington Steamboat Co., and Thomas H. Thropp of Trenton came up the river on the lighthouse tender Zizania for the purpose of viewing the situation.
90 years ago
A dance, followed by a luncheon, was the treat enjoyed by the families and friends of the members of the Weccacoe Hose Company on Monday night. The members gave this pleasant little entertainment for the ladies, in recognition of their efforts at various times to help the company. A pleasing program of popular music by Professor Anthony Coughlin’s orchestra added greatly to the enjoyment of the occasion.
Charles Hubbard, a student of the Princeton preparatory school, fractured his left leg in three places on Saturday morning when the baseball team of the school played the B.M.I. second team in this city. Hubbard was running for third base, when he struck the baseman and fell. Dr. C. B. Maits was called and after attending the injured man, had him removed to him home in Princeton in an automobile.
Peter Still, known throughout the county, on trains, trolleys, at fairs and everywhere as an itinerant dispenser of the famous brown salve that was said to cure all of the ills to which flesh was heir, died at his home last week at the age of 74 years. The deep-voice "doctah" was a unique character and he never lost an opportunity to exploit the virtues of the remedy that many will remember has having considerable cure-all power.
Flames destroyed the big sawmill of William G. Potts, at Bustleton, Tuesday afternoon, and for two hours threatened the entire rural settlement. A hundred farmers, recruited from a wide radius, aided the villagers in fighting the blaze, which several times communicated to adjoining buildings and dwellings. The workshop of Ridgeway Potts, a block from the mill, was partially destroyed. The total loss is placed at $12,000, without insurance.
Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1881-1911.