This Day in History: July 1st, 1916

This Day in History: July 1st, 1916

FIREWORKS HAVE ARRIVED FOR BIG CELEBRATION MILLTOWN


 July 1 – The consignment of fireworks which are to be displayed in the borough of Milltown on the evening of the Fourth, arrived in the borough yesterday, and plans for the big event are nearing completion.

It is planned to have the band concert start at 8 o’clock, after which the fireworks will be exhibited.

The display will be under the direction of an expert furnished by the Unexcelled Fireworks Company, of New York City, with whom the contract for fireworks was placed. and there is every reason to believe that the show will be a good one.

Knoll’s 20-plece band, of New Brunswick, will furnish the music.

Everybody is going to the Foresters Picnic at Red Men’s Grove, Milltown, on Monday night, July 3rd. Continuous dancing.


This Day In History: April 8, 1925

This Day In History: April 8, 1925

Fireworks Explode As Factory Burns; Milltown Alarmed


MILLTOWN, April 8. – Eureka firemen answered a still alarm to North Brunswick township yesterday afternoon when they responded to the fire at the Unexcelled fireworks plant on George’s Road. The explosions at the fireworks plant were very obvious and many, people were alarmed until they looked out of their windows and observed the valley of smoke that enveloped the atmosphere in that section. The firemen responded in record time and were at the grounds five minutes after the call was sounded. They centered their work on the outlying buildings, and saved many from explosions.