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The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 7

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The Courier-Newsi
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Bridgewater, New Jersey
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7
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Telephone Plainfield 8-8009 PLAINFIELD, N. COURIER-NEWS. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1940 rAUb DtVLN lr I I wa Communion Breakfast 7 of Entree's Maginot Line 11 Editors For Scouts Planned Following the 9 a. m.

Mass Sunday, the fourth annual Communion breakfast of the Boy Scout Troop of St. Joseph's Church will be held at Tepper'a Restaurant. Nine members of the troop are to re Defenders Live Strangely wum XT mores Soplio tit (Fk-ture on Tag: On) 1 If HI 1 1 II iLUtf gk 1 Tt 14 11 11 LTV II Paris Wartime life for the garrisons of France's Maginot Line Is a strange mixture of the monk 1 it If lit USS Tl ft 1 IY It 11 iTV Ui ceive second class pins. Frank Jannuzzi will act as toastmaster and speakers will be David Flam-mer. Fred Billet, August Church and Howard Krausche.

Awards will be presented by Scoutmaster Alfred Pilon. ish and the military, with monotony as a concomitant and daylight a rarity worthy of exclamation Secluded in the subterranean depths of the great fortresses, all they know of the war Is what they read in the papers, usually two days old. In their artificially lighted chambers, the soldiers know no dis 2 New Members Enrolled by Dunellen Lions Dunellen Lion Club received two new members during supper meeting in the Dunellen Hotel last nipht. They are George L. Toms.

1690 W. Fourth Arbor, memhpr nf tinction between day and night, fair weather and foul. When they go into the line they go to stay, cut off from the world above except ror 10-day leaves every four months, Cant Go Visiting 2 YEARS TO PAY EASY MONTHLY TERMS Unlike their comrades above ground, they have no chance to the Piscataway Township Commit JJK7 visit neighboring villages and pay court to girls. It would not do tee; ana Wallace Bruun, local radio dealer, of Xew Market. mem much good, anyway, for John J.

Rafferty presented the Lion pin to Mr. Toms and told of most of the villages near the line have been cleared of civilians. Seven of the 11 editors on the taff tor The Entree for the new semester at Plainfield High School which commenced this week, are members of the Sophomore class. Five of the seven sophomore editors comprise the five top-ranking editors. Editor-in-chief is Miss Helen Goodwin who during the past semester served The Entree as exchange editor.

She succeeds Miss Tiuth Boehler a senior. Miss Good- isactive in the Thrift Club, a ppdl choir. Press Club and Creative Writing Group, the latter of which she helped organize. On several occasions Miss Goodwin has served as press representative for The Courier-News at various events it the school. She has the honor of having publish in The Entree the largest number of inches of material during the last semester.

She is in charge of publicity for the Dramatic Department. Miss Marie Coletta. assistant editor-in-chief, is also a sophomore. She was editor-in-chief of the Emerson -Variety- during her grammar school years. She vice-president of her class.

Herbert Raab. a sophomore, former reporter for the school paper is now news editor and Miss Gail Woodhull. another sophomore, remains in her office as feature editor. Her assistant will be Miss Evelyn Zieman. the fifth of the first five editors, all of whom are sophomores.

William Moore is a member of the junior class who has left his desk as photographer for the paper to become its new sports editor. Benjamin Cutillo. a sophomore, will te the assistant sports editor. Miss Bettyfae (Pat) Brady a former reporter on the paper is now exchange editor, succeeding Miss Goodwin, the present editor-in-chief. The new copy editor is Miss Margaret Smith.

John Schenck is the new photographer and Edward Chimleski ia the staff artist. Because the line's bier euns must be manned 24 hours a day, the self-styled shellfish" troops may eat breakfast at nightfall and dine heartily on soup, meat, potatoes ine duties and obligations of a Lion. George Spayth presented the pin to Mr. Bruun. Walter Muller.

president of the Ransome Concrete Machinery Company, guest of Michael Kerwin. president, spoke on the history of LM Mir I r- i ana wine in the early morning. Each man sleeps eight hours a day, but in the chill of winter he 4 concrete. He promised to show- kicks off the covers, and in warm '''3 weather he needs blankets -for 54 underground it Is so cold in sum mer that a central heating system Is used; and in winter the warmth of the earth is sufficient There generally are drills four moving pictures on the subject Feb. 29.

Club will not meet Feb. 22 because of Washington's Birthday. Two blind persons from Somer-ville and one from Bound Brook will be transported to monthly meeting of the Middlesex Country Blind Association Wednesday night in Xew Brunswick by Edward Sheenan and Lesile B. Apps. Guests were Harry Swackhamer, with Mr.

Kerwin and Morris Yer.gst. with Jack Herman. Meeting was attended 100 per cent of the members. times a week, compared with once a week before the war. Aside from that, there are few restric tions except those imposed by the mere fact of living1 in the line.

Each fort is somewhat different because each commander makes his own disciplinary rules. They Have Amusements Jk There are movies, radios, books 52 and games to amuse the men Thanks tc an elaborate alr-con- -azuttr 1 citioning system, designed to" keep out gas, they can smoke cigarets bought In the fortress canteens. These little underground stores also sell chocolate, stationery and similar items. Civil Service RatingsAnnoimced ElirbLh Bonia of Tlx Courier-Hew Elizabeth William F. Grolle-mund.

veteran. RD 1. Califon. with a mark of 86. is fifth on a list of 116 men who passed a recent State Civil Service Commission examination for the position electrician in the state, according to ratings given out in the Elizabeth branch of the commission.

The position pays SIDOWN-Sl WEEKLY There are packages and letters SIMMONS from home, too, for the lesiure SIRilVIONS COUCHES hours. These, the newspapers and an occasional peep through a gun-sight are th: only contacts with the Historical Plav Features Program Westfield A one-act play. "The Evacaution of dealing with life of Americans before the Revolution featured a recent assembly prosram in Holy Trinity Hirh School. Cast included Jean Gorman. Anne Canasscla, Rita Dilibro.

Virginia Brownlee, Anna Mae Keppler. Mary Malinsky, William Schneekolth, Joseph Smith. Vincent Sweeney. William Messier. Jcseph Laurent.

Iver IWMEBSPBIMG MATT world "upstairs Half the time they do not even know what the weather Is. Each fort Is a self-contained little city, designed to hold out unaided for months in case of siege. It has the prevailing union wages. First place was gained by William M. Ford of Leonardo, who, despite his modest mark of 82.05, gets the job mandatorily because of his being a disabled war veteran.

Among others who passed were: its own factories, electric plant, theater, hospital, laundry, sewage stem, and "street cars. Peterson. Robert Pfaff. Joseph Car-J iiiua. jamej jicvartny ana Saivl-1 tore PerrettL Welcome was delivered by Alwin Dolores V.

Cutillo Becomes Bride of Edward Soriano Miss Dolores V. Cutillo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Antimo Cutillo. 12S1 E.

Second and Edward Soriano, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fer Emil Vogt. Lincoln Middlesex; Louis Philhower, Mountain High Bridge; Edgar F. Force, E.

Main High Bridge; Arthur Anderson, 29 George Clark Township. Frederick W. Spencer, an employe of the State Reformatory. Annar.dale, with 81.75, is credited with being first on a list of four who passed a test for the position of supervisor of cannery in the state, which compensates at the rtte of $2,400 per annum. Lewis W.

Klockner. 19 Georee's Sievers and Miriam Kostos and Gerald Weems addressed members of the Sodality. Essay. "The Religious Rights Under the Constitution," was read by Mary E- Fitzgerald, the high school's entrant in the recent oratorical contest held in Senior High School under auspices of Martin Wallberg Pest 3. American Legion.

dinand Soriano. 1500 Watchung were married in St. Bernard' An opportunity to get a Simmons quality inner-spring mattress at a big saving, with all these features: Tre-built border roll eilges fine insulation ventilators handles rayon-ilk tickings. rimrioi. ni.

.,.1 Church Sunday (Feb. 4, 1940) by TK .1. II i i ir.e a. Heavev. I r' i i ii I ZlhihM iSif 5 Wf rfr 'ill PL, Clinton, with 80.75, is second on a list of 15 who are certified as having passed a test for supervisor in the State Highway Department, a promotionery examination, which pays from $2,880 to $3,600 per annum.

Nicholas J. Pen-dergast. 379 Catherine Somer-ville, had a mark of 72.19. John V. Kelly, veteran.

Glassboro, got first place with 81.98. Bride wore a princess-style satin gown and carried a bouquet of white roses and lilies-of-the-valley. Maid of honor was Miss Yolanda Cutillo. sister of the bride, who wore a baby pink chiffon gown and carried a bouquet of dark red roses. Best man was Rocco Soriano HI lIllIlltTHOIlVllII Clinton Charter Night anniversary dinner and dance of the Rotary Club of Xorth Hunterdon County were held Wednesday evening in the Raritan Valley Country Club, Raritan.

Committee included Sidney H. Souter Harry M. Seals and J. Royce Farrington, all cf Annandale. Charles A.

Naughright, High Bridge, will have charge of the dinner-meeting Feb. 17 in the Clinton House. and the ushers were Alphonse Cu- The ornate marble tomb of General U. S. Grant on Riverside Drive, Xew York, was built by popular subscription.

mio, Drotner of the bride, and John Orloff. Wedding march was played by Miss Florence Si-hprpr nl Lustrous Oriental Pattern Rugs 9x12 the bride was given in marriage by her father. Miss Marie Spano was following a reception at the "ume me Diides parents, the couple left on a wedding trip. Upon their return they will reside at 116 oariieia Ave. Bride is a graduate of Plainfield Mapnifieent rugs that will highlight your whole room.

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