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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
5
Netherwood Residents' Association changes the Home Garden exhibit to Saturday September 8 at St Stephen's Parish House due to members' Labor Day travel. A Wilmerding reports thirty gardens planted by youths will display vegetables and prize cash for best products and best flowers by children.
Arrangements by the Spicer Manufacturing Company Mutual Aid Society are finalized for an August 8 boat outing from Elizabethport aboard the Griswold to the Highlands. Capacity is 250. tickets cost 75 cents for members and 1.25 for outsiders, with sandwiches and refreshments provided.
Rev Father T J Campbell and Our Lady of the Mount Port will hold a picnic and dance at Mt Bethel tomorrow afternoon and night. The event, on Mr Pil Meret grounds, starts after 1 p m with refreshments and dancing to benefit the Mount Mission. Proceeds go to Our Lady of the Mount Mission under Father Campbell.
A letter from Henry Swalbach, 17, in France to Joseph Sysibesh at Scotch Pisin avenue, reports his arrival in Europe with the Twenty second Infantry. He cannot provide details on his whereabouts due to censorship and notes the letter was mailed July 17. He expresses eagerness to reach the front.
Plainfield for the first time since the war declaration has no listing station. Men affected by the draft are not accepted locally but those under twenty one or over thirty one may go to Elisabeth Newark or New York to enlist in the army navy or guard.
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