1930 HOLY ANGELS LADIES' MINSTREL AT HAMILTON HIGH

Here we see the ladies of Holy Angels Parish in Broad Street Park as the prepare to perform their all-girl minstrel show at thew new Hamilton High School auditorium.

1930: HOLY ANGELS RECTORY BEFORE IT BECAME THE HOLY ANGELS RECTORY

It is pure speculation on my part that this home for sale ultimately ended up being purchased through the efforts of the late Monsignor Michael P. McCorristin for use as the rectory for Holy Angels Church. I am sending a copy over to Jim Colello for inclusion in his extensive Broad Street Park blog which has a link at the right of this page.

1921:HOLY ANGELS CARNIVAL AT BROAD STREET PARK

The Holy Angels Parish, like St. Anthony and many other Catholic parishes, along with local volunteer fire departments, held annual carnivals during the prime summer months. The graphic above tells of the carnival for the 1921 summer season as presented by the parishioners at Holy Angels Church on South Broad Street and New Cedar Lane in Hamilton. Note the the little graphic which I cut and pasted is from a LATER carnival during the time when Father Walsh was Pastor of the church.

AFTER THE ABOVE WAS POSTED, MACK MCNICOLL SENT THE PHOTO BELOW. IT NEEDED A BIT OF TWEAKING, BUT THE FINAL PRODUCT IS QUITE LEGIBLE. THANKS MUCH, MACK!

(See the link to Mack's site in my links list on the right of the home page.)

1940: Father McCorristin Assigned to Holy Angels Parish

He went on to be a giant in the history of the Roman Catholics of the Mercer County area.

1941: Holy Angels Church Stages a Presentation

Back before we had Monday night football, baseball games, television programming and other 21st century "stay at home" diversions, our society was alive with dances, musical programs, and as above, stage programs. The parishioners at Holy Angels got together and presented "Varieties of 1941" to the public.

1922: HOLY ANGELS "EUCHRE"

OVER THE YEARS I HAVE ASKED MONSIGNIORS, NUNS, DEACONS, AND ALMOST EVERYONE TO DEFINE A "EUCHRE." NO ONE WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS TERM WHICH WAS A VERY FREQUENT CHURCH CUSTOM IN EARLIER YEARS. I ASSUME THE WORD DERIVES FROM EUCHARIST, BUT THAT'S ALL I KNOW. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE DEFINITION OF A EUCHRE IS?
I RECEIVED 2 ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION ABOVE, ONE FROM "DOROTHY," AND ANOTHER FROM "JO." NOT KNOWING WHETHER OR NOT THESE LADIES REQUESTED SEMI-ANONYMITY, I HAVE ONLY USED SKETCHY IDENTIFICATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LADIES, PLEASE COME BACK OFTEN.

The word "Euchre" in this case may refer to
the card game of that name.

Dorothy

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "1922: HOLY ANGELS "EUCHRE"":

Hi there,

I just found this blog through a link in an nj.com/Times of Trenton article. Very informative - I love it!
I also wanted to let you know that my good friends Mr. Google and Mr. Wiki have informed me that Euchre is actually a card game!
The name Euchre may or may not have been taken from "Eucharist"; some believe it's simply a translation of a similar French card game called Écarté, but others think that since it's historically been so popular as a church fundraiser, that people may have borrowed the name from "Eucharist". I don't really understand how the game is played; there are several different versions and I'm really not much of a card player beyond poker. But it appears to be kind of similar to bridge, 500 rummy, and pinochle. It involves bidding, collecting specific cards of specific suits, trump cards, and tricking/bluffing your opponents.
Euchre is still played around the world today - there are championship tournaments and everything. It's not nearly as popular here in America as it was back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, but there are still a lot of churches and clubs/groups that have Euchre "parties" or "tournaments" as fundraisers. Apparently Euchre works very well as a fundraising event, so it's still used pretty often for that purpose.
Well anyway, thanks so much for digging up and enhancing all of these old Trenton/Hamilton pictures! What a great find! ~ Jo

1932: Father Walsh's Holy Angels Carnival

This interesting ad from the Trenton State Gazette of July, 1932 started as a black and white "grayscale" image. Thanks to graphic software, I took a drab black and white ad and transformed it into an attractive work of art!