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Newspaper
Woodbridge Leader
Location
Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1929
Page
5
Sunday speed event at Woodbridge Track attracts 10 000 spectators with 6 000 cars expected. Police traffic aid and special engineers from New York plan to manage routes from Newark terminals as drivers tune up at the Liberty Hotel before the event.
Salil for Alaska and Mrs B W Hoagland of Huron Avenue plan a trip to Alaska. En route they will stop in Portland Oregon for AMA convention then sail from Seattle July 16 aboard a Dollar Line steamship for a nineteen day trip. Stops include Ketchikan Petersburg Juneau Cordova Seward Kodiak and Seldovia. Mrs Hoagland travels but he has looked forward to the northern journey.
Legal advertisement announces public vendue to sell two parcels in Middlesex County New Jersey. The first tract in Raritan Township, lot 1 on the Little Parma map, the second tract in Woodbridge Township consisting of lots 70 to 80 and 83 to 102 in Block 3508 forming part of Lafayette Heights. The sale is set for July seventeenth, 1929 at 2 o’clock in the sheriffs office. Court proceeding states the deed conveys all rights of the defendant, Andrew Popovits, and the judgment amounts to approximately 459 dollars.
Fourth grade exercises and pageant selections from Hopelawn School outline a year plan with songs, dances, recitations, and student performances. The program includes a January to December calendar of numbers led by students and the school orchestra.
Building Inspector Fred Kayser issued multiple permits over several weeks. Notable approvals include one story frame bungalows for Chenely and Reed, two story frame dwellings for Schneider, Christensen, Lehman, and Merelyne, with values from 3,000 to 4,200 dollars, plus a moving home from Lafayette Avenue to Metuchen Road for Delaney.
A historic listing details multiple one and two story frame bungalows and dwellings on Ford avenues Milton streets and nearby towns with prices ranging from 1 500 to 7 000 dollars plus mention of a gasoline filling station sale at Standard Oil corner Amboy and James streets. Names include Francois Caron Joseph Ett le K Desatnulk Edward Trost Chris Peterson Louis Caras Hugo Luefening Leon ard Fisher Frank Gencarelli Ellen Madison Mike Litus Kroner Amont Aaron Groes and John M Jensen among others.
A simple brick home design draws appeal from its economy and straightforward layout. Though not a true Colonial, it emphasizes a large living room and a connected sleeping area above, offering comfortable interior arrangements for a small family.
William Dennard and Margaret Walker lead senior speakers in a graduation program stressing purpose and character. Bertha McKenzie outlines wartime teamwork and lasting peace while Richard Predmore foresees a future powered by new energy and advancing machinery.
The piece notes the potential of atomic energy and untapped power sources like water and wind, while reporting on a baccalaureate address by Miss Johanna Magyar. It includes remarks from Rev. A Boylan Fitzgerald and others about facing trials to achieve triumph and the graduates’ planned futures.
The Learn to Swim campaign starts July 11 at Cliffwood Beach pool with two weeks of free instruction for children taught by expert instructors. The program emphasizes water safety, proper form, and confidence building with a swimming master and four instructors. Adults can enroll at the instructor’s office or by mailing for classes.
Edwin J. Messinger from Bradley is at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He ranks in the top quarter of the Class of 1931 in academics and stars as an end on the football team. He also helped Drake Relay meet in Des Moines and earned a varsity letter in shot put.
A fragmented OCR fragment presents a mix of quoted phrases from Emerson and others, including stray names and garbled text about wisdom, character, and love. The legible portions reference life as a dewdrop, strength of a great soul, and brief sayings.
A compass and surveyor's chain once used by George Washington in Virginia in 1748 were presented to Rutgers University by Frederick William Parker and Mrs Adelaide Park McAnnally and the late Neilson Taylor Parker. The gift from Washington's artifacts heirs traces to Baron George F A Hote and Justice Kirkpatrick before reaching the university.
Frank Eisenhaur 28 of 1007 Fifth Avenue Avenel died after a long illness. A funeral from his late home yesterday morning followed by a requiem mass at St. Janice Church Woodbridge celebrated by Rev R J O Farrell. Interment was in St. Marys Cemetery Perth Amboy. Bearers were William Kineally Frank Dako Michael Peterson and Joseph Eitow.
The teachers of Avenel School were guests at a luncheon in the Flynn Tea Room hosted by the Avenel Parent Teachers Association yesterday. Mrs. A. Johnson arranged the event.
Sealed bids for No 1 Buckwheat Coal to be delivered to the Memorial Municipal Building during the 1929 1930 season are invited by the Township Committee of Woodbridge New Jersey. Bids are due June 24 1929 at 3 30 PM daylight saving time with a 100 per ton base price for hard ash coal and the committee reserves the right to reject any bid.
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