From the June 14 edition of the Register-News
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100 years ago
Last Tuesday, Vice Chancellor Reed granted a divorce to Clara J. Lester from John Franklin Lester, giving her the custody of he three children and allowing her $5 a week alimony.
The most prodigious and far greatest display of wonderfully trained ponies, donkeys, pigs, mules, apes and dogs that was ever assembled under canvas, are this season a prominent factor in the success of the Welsh Bros. railroad shows. At every performance they are a source of staid wonder to the old and explosive delight to the young. They present extraordinary tricks and feats totally at variance with the nature of the different animals and heretofore regarded as impossible. Then there is also a large coterie of gorgeously costumed and ludicrously made up clowns in numerous refined side-splitting capers, which are always received with screams of laughter.
90 years ago
Members of the various canoe clubs of the American Canoe Association will embark on a cruise down the Rancocas Creek from Brown’s Mills to Wissinoming on Sunday, expecting to consume three days in making the trip.
State Road Commissioner Stevens is injecting some new life into his department and he is attending to business in a manner that he believes will best serve the interests of the people to be benefited by good roads. One of his recent decisions will lead him to a personal inspection of all roads constructed under the state aid act and his first visit to Burlington county since the adoption of this policy was made recently, when he inspected and tapped the new gravel road being constructed from Gardner’s Corner to Atsion.
Bordentown has at least one inland waterway. After every rain storm there is a canal between the trolley rails of Farnsworth Avenue, at Church Street, that necessitates the use of a temporary footbridge in order to cross the street.
30 years ago
Unofficial census figures for Burlington County were announced this week, revealing that Bordentown Township now has a greater population than Bordentown City. When the figures were released, they showed Bordentown City with 4,985 as compared with 5,499 in 1950. Township was reported as 6,020 for 1960 as against 2,033. Local officials were inclined to doubt the accuracy of these figures and felt there was a possibility the two municipalities might be reversed.
An ordinance prohibiting loitering within the township will receive final reading and public hearing by the Florence Township Committee during the next regular township committee meeting. The ordinance, which was introduced by Committeeman John Rein during the July 16 meeting, prohibits loitering upon any street, public or quasi-public place within the township.
In answer to recent complaints by Bordentown Township residents of youths disturbing the peace and engaging in generally rowdy behavior at local parks, the township committee introduced an ordinance at Tuesday night’s meeting designed to curb such actions. The ordinance, which carried a maximum $100 fine and 30-day jail sentence, prohibits anyone from entering the parks outside the hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Also listed as violations are use of obscene language or indecent acts, vandalism, fighting, gambling, possession of liquor, drugs or marijuana, picnics, building fires and possession of any weapons.
Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from The Bordentown Register, 1901-1970.