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Newspaper
Caldwell News
Location
Caldwell, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
1
A mixture of civic notes and social items from Caldwell including a Caldwell Council special meeting announcement, residents visits, a Myrtle Avenue home nearing completion, an engagement, Sunshine Society activities, and an upcoming auction of personal property. Also reported Firemen Day celebration, a poker anecdote, and brief society notices.
The West Orange Board of Education approved plans for a brick two story school at Pleasantdale adjacent site. The building features long corridors large classrooms on both sides and a rear teachers room with wardrobe space. A basement will house heating coal storage and a pupil recreation area. Finishing of the second floor may wait. The project costs about $10,000 and should be ready within three months with interior changes awaiting bid notices.
An entertainment event by the Christian Baptist Mission of Caldwell will be held in Association Hall on Thursday evening August 14. The program includes recitations solos duets dialogues and more with a lineup featuring Miss Beatrice King Miss Lena Thomas Mrs James Kee Miss Mamie Moton Heading Miss Anna Davis Miss Luella Jenkins Heading Mr Henny Peepbles and Miss King with Mr Taylor. Rev J O Love pastor of Union Baptist Church Montclair N J will give the closing advice to young men.
The annual St Aloysius Church festival at Caldwell opens Monday evening August 18 at the Beach House Bloomfield Avenue and runs one week. The committee promises first class talent and booths with a vast array of fancy articles. Well known soloists cake walkers and dance numbers are planned. Music by Mazzai Gros of Newark.
Borough council meets to read bills totaling 817.98 and authorize warrants. Communications from Caldwell Hook and Ladder and Franklin Lee Hank Note Co. discussed. Speer and Condit lead on road work, sidewalk grades, and monument staking. Council adjourns to August 1.
At the North Caldwell school house meeting on Tuesday evening the Board of Education elected Faith Adams to teach Clinton school and Burkett of Mine Brook to teach North Caldwell. The panel of applicants was reviewed and salaries for janitors were unified with contracts to be sent to successful candidates. The board adjourned subject to the chairman's call.
Caldwell Baptist Methodist and Presbyterian churches plan open air services on the Presbyterian Church lawn each Wednesday in August. Speakers include J W McDowall August 13, Arthur Lucas August 20, and H L Wickes August 27. All Caldwell and nearby residents and visitors invited. If stormy, events move to the Presbyterian lecture room.
The Caldwell Sunshine Society met at Miss Eden Wheeler's home on Tuesday evening August 1. Agnes Peck was named president for six months with Klare Thorn as vice president, Doro thea Eberich secretary, Helen Smith treasurer, Mamie Lindsey membership chair, and Helen Provost entertainment chair. A social gathering is planned for Thursday evening August 14 at Miss Provost's home.
The six Granges of Essex Union and Morris counties announce an aurial picnic at Tuttle's Grove Swinefield bridge on August 21. Committees met in Hanover last week and finalized arrangements. Officials promise this year’s event will surpass past picnics.
The market featured Mrs Warhington’s cart and numerous booths run by Miss Josephise Worthington Miss Clara Lightsey and Mrs Underhill with crepe paper decorations and home made candies. Proceeds from Essex Fells residents supported Mrs Reid and Mrs Lindsley restaurants and beauty department. The grounds offered outdoor seating lanterns and flags as L B Rico notes the event closed with incomplete totals.
The Postmaster General in Washington DC issued redemption rules for uncancelled and unserviceable postal cards. Original purchasers may redeem cards at 26 percent discount of face value, excluding bronzed, enameled or mutilated cards. The rule took effect August 1. Previously non redeemable, oversupply cards could be overprinted with white enamel, but this practice was later disallowed and a processing time limit was set, originally July 1 and extended by one month.
In West Caldwell early Wednesday a thief entered the residence of Charles A. Peabody through a pantry window and stole a cameo brooch after ransacking the lower level. Mrs. Peabody awoke to a bright light, the intruder fled, and she offered ten dollars for the return of the brooch.
Guests at Miss Bond’s Hillside Cottage in Essex Fells enjoyed whist with five tables and prizes for ladies and gentlemen. Prof Edgar Judson Ebbels of Montclair will lecture at Roseland Presbyterian Church on August 19 with ice cream for sale after. Rev W Reed of Verona Presbyterian to preach next Sunday. Mr William Henry Harrison travels in Canada for ten days.
Local notes report Miss Myrtie Bross at Hindle and visits by Roseland residents to Canada. A church add-on, school expansion plans, and weathered scheduling changes accompany editorials on farmer grassing and labor unions. Discussion covers rights of way, potential telephone lines, and a proposed steel rail experiment to aid farm transport with a push to buy U.S. Steel stock.
The Caldwell Sunshine Society arranges a Dairy Maids Drill to be staged in Association Hall this month. Twenty young ladies in dairy maid costumes with pails will perform intricate evolutions, joined by wool nymphes for a merry pairing. Solos and choruses will enhance the entertainment.
The Vernon board discussed bids for heating and ventilation after the lowest bidder withdrew. The committee recommended awarding to J. L. Harnet Company of New York for school supplies for the year. Applications were received for a vacant Vernon school teaching post due to Mrs Ams Dothbeer’s resignation.
A case in Huntieh Medical Journal reports acute tenosynovitis of the tendon sheaths near the ankle linked to extensive ping pong play. The patient wore tight boots while walking, stressing the tibialis anterior muscle and causing swelling above the ankle. The author notes such cases may recur until proper footwear and attire meet the sport’s demands.
Conveyances show Austin G. Jacobus and spouse to Roland Jacobus for Verona property on west side of a new street south from Bloomfield avenue. Gould to Van Ness for a property on Gould avenue north west side, 239 feet northeast from Westville road. Mortgages include Webbet to Verona Building and Loan Association for a north side of Personette Avenue property. Van Ness to Jersey City Water Supply Company for Caldwell line between Van Seseo and Shire lands. Comlit to Jersey City Water Supply Company for Caldwell line between Condit and Riker. John T. Vreeland and spouse to Fratecisea for Caldwell property on the centre line of Horseneck road. Mortgages cancelled for Henry M. Jacobus and spouse at Ridge Road corner of By share No. 2 and Munch's in Caldwell. $1,100.
A Sunday program in the Ocean Grove Auditorium featured Verona and Caldwell attendees enjoying the cantata Coming of the King. A chorus of eight hundred children and three hundred adults with a film-music orchestra performed creditably under Tali Esen Morgan of New York, with white and rough rider outfits and floral decorations.
Fle Young Baltimores of Cottage defeated the Newark City Home Young Lostons by 18 to 2 on the home grounds Saturday afternoon. Cedar Grove Athletic Club beat a Orange bike 19 to 2 on its diamond. Verona Stars took four straight from Young Cedar Groves 4 to 2. Montclair Khdeka to cross bats with Cedar Grove Athletics Club this afternoon at the Athletic Club grounds.
A reader argues that cats deserve humane summer care rather than confinement. The piece condemns city owners who abandon cats, calls for proper homes with yards, and urges recognizing cats as dignified companions rather than mere property.
The President and Vice President offer cups for best Male and best Ladies scores. Qualification rounds are 18 holes on July 26 and August 5 at 3 40 p m. Preliminary rounds 18 holes August 23 at 3 30 p m. Semi finals 18 holes September 6 at 3 40 p m. Finals 18 holes September 20 at 3 30 p m. Top four from each stage advance. Qualification and Preliminary use medal play. Semi finals and Finals use match play.
Miss Olive Collins of Orange guests Mrs. Belle Collins and Florence Collins from Jeffer son Street visits Mr. and Mrs. William Collins. The Ming sisters from Morristown stay with Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Collins. Mable sisters from New York visit Mrs. Samuel Metjuaide. Mr. and Mrs. James Nack and Hazel Trouder from New York spend Sunday with William Johnson. Lizzie Crosby and Barbara Berg from Orange visit Mrs. William E. Crosby on Wednesday. Mrs. Fred Cochen and her children Halsey and Grace from Indianapolis visit pacers Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Riddle.
Guests of the Grover House held a Guessing Bee on Wednesday evening July 26 with living pictures of popular advertisements acted by house youth. Winners included Mrs. W. K. Brialy Mrs. J. Renwick of New York Mrs. M. Milton of Brooklyn and Messrs Diamond D Case and E Case of Jersey City. A large Progressive Euchre gathering occurred Friday and a tennis tournament was planned for today.
A church notice lists temporary pulpit supply during August by several ministers. Rev. Nelson E.B. Chester of the Presbyterian Church will be absent, with August dates assigned to Rev. Rudolph Kuebler, Rev. Edward P. Berry, Rev. Wilfred V. Shaw, and Rev. A. K. Denlinger, Bloominglou.
Mise Besete Brooks of Verona visited the ostrich farm exhibit near Asbury Park a few days ago. She expressed strong amusement at the birds and their living habits as shown in the exhibit.
Community notes list residents at Keach Avenue and Montclair. Mr Charlies A Williams travels to Portland for work while Mr Thomas Sheridan returns from Goshen. The Board of Education reviews age matters and local plans for a cabbage shed are drawn by Jacobus. No peach wine harvest is planned at the Congregational Church. week of prayer will be observed.
A fragmented list records arrivals at the MosoMONGOM Inn in New York and other hotels, naming numerous guests and spouses from cities including Newark Philadelphia Brooklyn Jersey City Kingston and Brooklyn. The gathering includes M. Drake Wod wife Miss Trowbridge J F Mead and many others with varying titles and initials.
A Verona resident recalls a trolley stop remark about a street called Grove Avenue. The line this is that avenue leads to speculation about lamps and bats, with Cedar Grove residents joking the phrase refers to a different kind of bat near Overbrook.
The New Jersey Children’s Home Society asks for homes for many homeless children from all counties. They seek bright baby boys and girls from one month to three years old, black and white. Communicate with the local board or Rev. M. T. Lamb at 44 Forst-Richey Building, Trenton.
The paper sock, once hailed as an innovation, has become a mercantile commodity selling for ten cents a pair. It comes in many shades and patterns, promises warmth, and is not laundered. After wearing, one pair is discarded for a new one from the sock book.
A party from Verona and Mounwlair recently stayed at Avebury Park and Ocean Grove and enjoyed a yachting and fishing excursion. The fishing was excellent with many catches including a sea bass weighing three quarters of a pound and Miss Anns Hrookst of Verona among the most successful anglers.
Mrs Florence Williams of Madison was granted a divorce from John W Mosher of Livingston on desertion pleas. Chancellor ordered the dissolution with Db F Burnham serving as solicitor for the plaintiff.
The Caldwell post office hours are given with arrival and closing times. Mails arrive at 7 24 and 2 49 and 5 1 p m. Mails close at 7 40 p m with additional times listed as 4 35 and 7 44 p m.
Community page notes a call for correspondents with instruction to sign each message and include a personal adage. The brief emphasizes accountability and consistent attribution for future communications.
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