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fTiATNTIELD COURIER-NEWS, TTEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, ll4 PAGE 3 BOROUGH SCHOOLS MANUAL ARTS Resinol Demonstration of Columbia Yarns All This Week Miss Rose E. Garber, an expert in Knitting and Crocheting, as well as all usf'8 for Yarn, will be at this store all week. You are invited to come and see her tret the newest ideas, and Bhe will be glad to show you the many ways that "Columbia Yarn" may bo used for fancy as well as useful articles. We Are Sole Agents in Plainfield for Columbia Yams THERE ARE NONE BETTER FEW THEIR EQUAL These Yarns have been on the market since 1816, and their quality has ever been up to the set standard that have made them the Leaders in Yarns Today. This demonstration is entirely Free Provided by us as a service for Buy Blankets Now Big Assortments Big Values COTTON BLANELTJ BLANKETS AT 60c A PAIR Good Cotton Blankets, size 4 2x72; grey and white, ptnk and blue borders.

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Baltimore, Md. New Features Have Been Added this Year Students Making Minor Repairs A visit to the department of manual arts in the borough school will convince one that this branch of learning is working on principles that will meet the immediate demands of the community. In the manual training department, which Is now under the direction of Claude Jeffries, the making of ornamental and pretty things is not practiced today until there is time and place for it. The boys are doing real practical work, jobs Involving carpentry, masonry, cabinet and electrical construction. Jobs are assigned them by the teacher or oupil, foreman, which they are at liberty to work out according to their own ideas.

The only requirement is that they turn out a workmanlike product, something which they take pride in doing. The Courier-News representative through the courtesy of the supervising principal, D. Fred Aungst, looked over the Somerset school building today and found many minor jobs under way or completed by students. Closets have been built, useless partitions taken out, hat racks made and placed, doors N. P.

H. S. NOTES helpfulness. Come. Note See Window Display.

1 i i A meeting of the student connMi A. E. PORC was held yesterday to discuss various plans for the ensuing year. The council decided to give a Hallowe'en On Sale in THE BASEMENT Everything in HOUSECLEANING NEEDS iHil stl SEE THE NEW SWEATERS For Men, Women and Children he: white stor ytiffj We Give The Famous Green Trading Stamps hung, cupboards built in, benches repaired. In fact any repair job that comes up in the school is turned over to the department for party to the high school, Friday, October 30, mainly to bring the freshmen and the rest of the school together to become better acquainted.

The members of the council are gol ing to broach1 the matter before tha classes to get the sentiment of th high school. 109 The high school basketball teams can start practicing whenever ther desire, as the negotiations have been settled with the Saengerbund Club It is not probable that the teams will get started until cold weather begins. The boys' first and second team, will have the privilege of U8injr twenty new lockers, which have Just been installed. This FEEDERICK C. TANNER In addition, the boys are working on next year's list of supplies for the different rooms at a future saving for the school.

HEATREi I COMING ATTRACTIONS AT THE The work, so far as possible, is carried out along the lines of modern shop practice. The drafting room makes the blue prints from which the boys work. The cost of materials and lengfh of time are carefully kept and recorded. An as lent to the boys, as they will now be iuio iu use me snowers, which heretofore had been practically useless. The junior class h'ave finally decided on the )nta i A IS' 1 mai mcy win purchase.

A ring from Dieges Clouse seemed to be the popular choice, so negotiations are now Chairman Elect of New York Republican State Committee. peuumg witn tnis company. The freshmen class held a class meeting yesterday to decide whether to support a class tennis team in th. coming tournament. The maloritT of the class were not in favor of it, but some upper classmen will nrnhl ably talk it over with the class to get them to reconsider their act, as it was an unprecedented occurrence.

Gibson Fairman. '14 TO tit rr a A a signment bulletin board for the higher grades is being made and installed. Everywhere the work is made as practical and shop-like as possible. The effect of such work Is already showing itself In the students. They are eager to work, because they know they can work, they are rapidly developing a sense of self-reliance and independence.

The students are not only learning work for work's sake, gaining practical skill and turning out practical work, but they are gaining In the things that count, intepreted in life values. Darning Stockings and Canning Fruit Sewing is taught in the fifth and sixth grades and much of the first year Is spent in accustoming the child to tools and the elementary principles of sewing. Miss Bertha Spencer is in charge or tne Domestic Science Department. Special attention is given to patching, mending and darning. The following year the simple stitches are reviewed and applied in making useful articles.

Each girl is required to make an outfit, consisting of apron, cap, towel and holder for use in the- cooking classes in the esventh and eighth grades. In the High School the sewing is elective. The work includes the application of the stitches taught in the grades; the use of the sewing machine and its attachments; cutting school yesterday to take a postgraduate course. He Is taking a commercial course In onHMn.M jlHVU t. entering business at the end of the scuuoi year.

MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA Photo by American Frees Association. TO RE-ORGANIZE WESTFIEIiD RESIDENT IN NEW COMPANY 4 A The P. Lowentraut Manufacturing Company was incorporated yesterday at Trenton with a capital of St' $125,000. The office of the company lis at Newark. They will make The Municipal Orchestra, one of the many branches of work of the Recreation Committee, will meet on Monday evening next, October 12.

in the auditorium of the Franklin school at 8 o'clock for re-organization for the winter's work. An experienced leader, S. Frederick Smith, has been engaged and put in charge of the orchestra. Invitations to the leading instrumentalists of the community are being issued, and those who wish to join the orchestra will be required to have certain ability with their instruments before becoming permanent members. Schubert's L'nfinished Symphony and one and fittinc of patterns; making of 'mechanical devices.

The incorpora underwear, dresses and waists. The cooking taught in the sev tors are Anna Lowenstraut, Fred erick J. Greenberg, Newark; Theo dore J. Woodring, Westfleld. enth and eighth grades is very ele Irene Halsman, as "Kitty," in "Kitty Mackaj," at the Plainfield Theatre Monday night, October 13 mentary, Intended to prepare the girls to do plain home cooking; to manage a gas range; care for a kitchen; care of table linen and the serving of meals.

With this funda "Merchant of Venice" From matinee idol the handsome romantic hero of feminine playgoers to the sternest, most powerful tra oi Beethoven's Symphony with some miscellaneous compositions of Grieg and other composers will be etarted at the first meeting. The concerts will be given in the new high school auditorium. tates into the romantic roles so popular on the English stage before the advent of the "problem play." Mr. Mantell was not satisfied to be merely a handsome stage -hero. He disliked the term "matinee idol," and his native intelligence revolted at the thought of spending his days merely posing for the admiration of feminine playgoers, and there finally came a chance for him to break gedian the American stage has known I TALE OF THE WEATHER.

Observations of the United States weather bureau taken at p. m. yesterday follow: Temp. Weather. Albany SO Cloudy Atlantic City C2 Cloudy Boston 52 Clear Buffalo 54 Cloudy Chicago 70 Clear New Orleans 76 Clear New York 58 Cloudy St.

Louis 78 Clear Washington 70 Cloudy fw- A v.A.jif mmS SURPRISE PARTY FOR HER ENGAGEMENT in late years, has been the curious evolution of Robert B. Mantell, who will be seen at the Plainfield Theatre Tuesday night, October 13, in the "Merchant of Venice." Mr. Mantell in his very earliest days received a severe training in the classics with touring English companies, but his handsome face and (jT-QT frnm Riifh rnlps and follow his A A DAMS AVho will apiear in "The of Iveonora" at the Plainfield Theatre tomorrow night mental training the work in the High School includes canning and, preserving; practical work in cooking of cereals, vegetables, meats, soup, fish, salads, breads, cakes and deserts. In every case the cost of materials used is estimated and economy in use and buying emphasized. Both cooking and sewing aim to be a training for the girls which will better fit them for the changing conditions which the twentieth century is bringing them.

Rope Splicing Taught Miss Laura M. Sydenham, who is the supervisor of art3, has added a number of elective courses this year to that department. One of the fea inclinations to become a tragedian eminently worth while. Those who have seen Mr. Mantell's Othello, King Lear, Richard III and similar role3 know how successful he has been in Maude Adams is to be the bright particular attraction at the Plain-field Theatre tomorrow night.

It has been said that it matters little to the great theatre-going public figure and his deep, rich voice soon "The Eagle's Mate" Mary Pickford is featured in "The Eagle's Mate" and will appear in the photo-play at the Plainfield Theatre forced him through managerial die-'realizing his ambitions Miss Helen Wyckoff. of 191 Sixteenth street, Brooklyn, was genuinely surprised Sunday evening by thirty friends who tendered her a party. They came from Philadelphia, New York, Plainfield, Trenton, Hoboken, Hackensack, Jersey City and Brooklyn. The occasion was her birthday and announcement of her engagement. A ,11 I Reliable Stylish that sits at the feet of this actress tonight for the last time.

It is a SCHEDULED EVENTS story of love and romance in the mountains of Virginia. tures this year will be rope-splicing, but. there are many other important courses which are offered in the LOOKING TOR BULLETS. Civilians Seeking Souvenirs After the Battle of Senlis. what it is she elects to enact before it.

Just the same it is pertinent to add that the vehicle in which she is to come forward is to be J. M. Bar-rie's new comedy, "The Legend of High School department. They in Tonight Miantonomo Tribe's 25th Daughters of Rebekah State convention Atlantic City. "Things That Count" The human interest play, "The -tv ueuuiiui evening was with games, music and dancing.

Dainty refreshments were served at midnight. Miss Helen Wyckoff was the recipient of many beautiful nd useful gifts. The party broke up 3 o'clock Monday morning. Leonora," in which Miss Adams was Things That Count," will be present-seen during the major portion of lastj ed at the Plainfield Theatre Satur-peason in New York. As an author day afternoon and night with a Barrie has been unusually successful 1 strong cast.

It is a keenly interest- Thirteenth N. J. Regiment reunion at Somerville. I clude book-binding, loom weaving, basketry, associated with applied designs, also costume designs and interior decorations. In the grades the pupils are taught also the weaving of rope, raffia, reed and sewed baskets, knotting, block printing ing play.

In "The Little Minister," "Quality Street," "Peter Pan" and "What Every Woman Knows," in all of which plays Miss Adams has been the and construction work. A few years For Friday at the Plainfield Sewer Committee receives bid for sewer construction. Zionists dance at Columbus Club. Tweuty-eighth annual State convention C. E.

begins in Jersey City. Tomorrow "The Legend of Leonora," at the COMPARATIVE STRENGTH OF GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY Theatre the offering will be a photo 1 RgMV Play "The Wrath of the Gods." or fMlL This to Professional Men You doctors and lawyers depend very much on your appearance for success. You know that It is necessary to wear dignified garments clothes that give an air of solidity; of Importance, Such clothes are sold at Rothberg's. Nor because they are dignl-fleld in appearance are they lacking In style. Far from It! Come In and see the garments better still, try on some of the suits you will readily see how thoroly in keeping with your calling In life, and how much less they cost than garments of the same character made by a custom tailor.

chief interpreter. In "The Legend of Leonora" he again brings out his love of quaintness, whimsy and Destruction of Sakura-Jima, a spectacular picture evolved from an old Japanese legend. ago the borough schools in competition with other schools In this locality carried off honors in poster work. Drawing work and other exhibits at the county schools display at Somerville, last spring, were very creditable showing for North Plainfield schools. I Plainfield Theatre.

Vaudeville at Proctor's Theatre. Men's Association of Heavenly Rest Church. G. E. State convention at Jersey City.

Y. W. C. A. reception.

Giants and Y'ankees baseball ser T. A. W. FIFE AXD DRUM CORPS PRACTICE BOROUGH REPUBLICANS TO HOLD MEETING The following Is published la answer to a request: The population of Great Britain. United Kingdom, is the population of the German Empire Is the population of the British colonies is the population of the German colonics la 12.000,000.

The total population under the British flag is 420,000,000. With the freedom of the seas the British Empire could put an array-of. 20,000,000 into the field. It estimated that Germany could Pt 5,000,000 or 6,000,000, into tb field. The T.

A. B. Fife and Drum Corps will meet at the hall on West vnnrth The Republican Club of the bor ies begins. ough is already planning to hold its street C. E.

Social at Congregational church. tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. attendance of members Is re- 1 as this is one of the practice Pfe Jr. C. E.

Society Organizes At Warren Chapel yesterday afternoon the young folks of that church were well represented at the reorganization of the Junior Christian Endeavor Society. Preliminary plans were made toward completing the organization and will further be made at the beginning next week. Mrs. Louis Stites is in charge of this newly organized society, and It is expected that many more members will be enrolled. MANY MOURNERS AT ITALIAN initial meeting in preparation for the: a full fall campaign when it is expected' ueste that the local and county candidates will appear before the organiiation for a short speech.

The two Repub-j lican councilmanlc candidates, Julius' FUNERAL The funeral of Michael Venetelli I. H. S. Sophs Elect a meeting of the Sophomore Rothberg's Stein-BIoch Smart Clothes "Most Things Men Wear" Stabl and Edmund Kushmore, were was largely attended yesterday after noon from St. Mary's church.

The local nest of Italian Owls, of which Heir For Somerville Resident Willard L. Conrow, of SomerTille. has no time at present for readies war news. There is something njo interesting in the home clrle' r-intr arrived a3L the deceased was a member, attend- the funeral in a and six the members acted as pail bear llr A ot the PinSeld nigh school held previous to the primaries. It.

is expected that Hon. W. W. Smaller, jyrday afternoon the following of Bound Brook, who Is again out officers were elected: Chester Al-for Senatorial honors, will also be paugh, president; Miss Catherine present at the meetings, also Ogden Endress, vice president; Harold Hammond, of Bernards, who Is in the! Spicer, secretary, and Charles race for the Assemblyship. (tin, treasurer, School Holidays The public schools will close Monday, Columbus Day.

This will mean a vacation for the pupils from Friday 214 West Front St. Eight Next to Proctor's 9 1SU. by Araancart Frees Association. Saturday. Both mother getting along nicely and iuaru ers.

A long procession of carriages escorted the remains to their last resting plaee la St. Mary's cemetery, has the air of a proud afternoon until Tuesday morning..