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Crater Heads Somerset Society (English)
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11 October 1937
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County Clerk Walter K. Crater was elected president of the Somerset County Historical Society Saturday in the Old Dutch Parsonage, Washington Place, headquarters of General Frelinghuysen Chapter, DAR. (English)
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County Clerk Walter K. Crater was elected president of the Somerset County Historical Society Saturday in the Old Dutch Parsonage, Washington Place, headquarters of General Frelinghuysen Chapter, DAR. He succeeds W. B. R. Mason of Bound Brook, who was made honorary president. Rep. Charles A. Eaton of Watchung spoke. His talk was In observation of the sesquicentennial of the U. S. Constitution. Other officers elected follow: Vice-presidents, Mrs. A. L. C. Hardwicke of this borough and Isaac L. Kipp of Neshanic Station; secretary-treasurer. Dr. F. A. Wild of Bound Brook; curator. Miss Mary Laughton, Somerville; trustee, Dr. Lancelot Ely, Somerville. Dr. Eaton touched briefly on various phases of constitutional history and called the century and a half old document "the most extraordinary human document outside the word of God." Eaton Sounds Warning. Dr. Eaton asserted we are entering the "dark ages" of proletarianism with the fundamental rights of mankind being disregarded by tyrants. He concluded the only hope of the world is in a spiritual revival which will elevate the intellectual being to his proper place in directing world progress. Freeholder Van N. Voorhees told the society the Board of Freeholders had been approached by representatives of the WPA who have conducted an historical survey of Morris County, facts of which have been published in pamphlet form. … (English)
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