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THE DAILY HOME NEWS. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1937. PAGE FIFTEEN Metuchen News G.

O. P. CLUB WILL MEET Christmas Party Will Be Held Tomorrow Night At Legion Home METUCHEN, Dec. An invitation is extended to local Republicans to attend the Christmas party given by the Metuchen Republican Club tomorrow night in the Amerscan Legion home. George Ruddy, pianist, will play for group singing and dancing.

There will be a Christmas and Santa Claus. a Each person attending is asked to bring a ten cent gift for exchange. Refreshments will be served. Members of the committee are Miss Helen C. Stevens, Mrs.

Holger Holm, Mrs. Eric Schuster, Mrs. Huyler Romond, Mr. and A Mrs. H.

A. Rack. D. A. R.

Elects Officers Julia T. Roth Council Daughters of America, Mrs. Evelyn Ernst, councilor, met Monday night. The following officers were elected: Councilor, Mrs. Ethel Beck; associate councilor, Miss Mary Jackson; vice councilor, Mrs.

Margaret Kebel; associate vice councilor, Miss Olive Gunst; conductor, Mrs. Ann Young; warden, Mrs. Anna Deck; Inside sentinel, Mrs. Maude Epting; Associate recording secretary, Mrs. Catherine Knudson.

Following the business session, a salmagundi party was held with six tables in play. The prize winners were Mrs. Mae Fauroat, Mrs. Ethel Beck, Miss Eleanor Drake and Miss Anna Cornell. The next meeting will be held December 27 when state officers will make their official visit.

Miss Manning spent the LuPersonal Items week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Everett Rich L.

place spent Sunday in New York. was a week-end visitor in town. R. Donnan of Washington Karl Anderson and family of Myrtle avenue were Newark visitors Saturday. Lone Eagle Council, Sons and Daughters of Liberty.

Miss Doris Bohl, councilor, will hold a covered dish supper and Christmas party tonight in Junior Hall. Trustees of the Baptist Church met last night at the home of A. B. James on Middlesex avenue. The Mite Club and Ladies' Society of the Baptist Church will, hold a Christmas party Friday night in the church for the Sunday school children.

The special Thanksgiving offerIng of the Reformed Church amounted to $484.15. It is expected this amount will be increased to $500. A friend of the church has promised an additional $500 in der to reduce the church debt by $1,000. NON-SUPPORT CHARGE HEARD AT METUCHEN METUCHEN, Dec. 15 William H.

Scruggs, 38, of 154 Central avenue, was reprimanded and placed on probation by Recorder Arthur Hillpot last night after charges of non-support had been against him by the George A. Humphries, relief director. Humphries charged that he had neglected, his 18-year-old son. Scruggs promised to care for him in the future. GIRL SCOUT TROOP TO HONOR BIRTHDAY METUCHEN, Dec.

15- -The fifth anniversary of the founding of Girl Scout Troop No. 2 will be observed by the troop at a meeting this eve ning in the Legion Memorial Home. A special program has been planned, under the direction of Miss Betty Magill, captain, and Miss Jean Dewender, lieutenant. Invitations to attend this affair have been issued to all former members of the troop. GRASS FIRE THREAT TO SEVERAL GARAGES METUCHEN, Dec 15-Both Metuchen fire companies were called out at 3:30 p.

m. yesterday to fight grass fire which threatened several garages and other property on Division street in the south end of town. The fire was extinguished without damage to any property. Very high grass behind the properties and a brisk wind caused the flames to travel through the field at high speed. N.E.W-S! To All Who Want TYPEWRITERS Our easy payment plan makes it possible for anyone to own a guaranteed factory rebuilt ma of any standard make.

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Ruth Hansen, teacher in the sixth grade of the New Market School, has announced the children who are listed on the honor roll for the second marking period. The stu dents are John Fisher, Genevieve Cullen, John Hunting, John Kloosterman, William Kruick, Catherine Matick, Fred Roth, John Selenko Commendable list includes Stepher Chiger, Carmela, Finnuchio, Helen Gryniak, Hermansen, Helen James, James Kabalick, Josepa Koster, Julia Kramer, John Leseye, Rose Nasdeo, Jean Sweeney an Murray Tracy, Classroom Notes Attendance in 6E has been good up to December according to an an nouncement made by Miss Evelyn Hoffman, teacher. This month the attendance is dropping due to many of the students having colds. Arthur Mathis has been absent from the class for more than week. Helen Mudryk of 6E has moved to New York.

Steve Czak been promoted to the seventh grade because of good work. Fifth grade pupils are busily en gaged watching license plates Counties are studied in connection with the studying of New Jersey in social studies class. Mary Finnuchio is slowly improving in St. Peter's Hospital, New Brunswick, where she is suffering with pneumonia. Mary is a ber of Mrs.

M. H. Kings' 8K class Jeannette Redshaw of class visited in Franklin over the weekend and brought back samples zine ores to the class. English class has presented an original play called "Mrs. Tweedle's Christma: Eve." Members of the cast were Patricia Long, Helen Pravda, rude Hoffman, Olga Meski, Helen Kowalsko, Agnes Sofield and Beatrice Safina.

Mrs. Helen Behmer and Mra Anna S. Coneys of the faculty visited other schools Friday. Two girls of 70, Evelyn Moore and Mary Johns, were check girls at the P. T.

A. bazaar Friday, night. Mary Bertucci and her brother are now attending the New Market! School and are in the eighth and sixth grades respectively. Robert Wolinetz has been absent from school the past three days due to a sore throat. Eighth grade history classes are making baskets illustrating the influence of science and invention in history.

Mrs. Viola Johns has announced the following pupils on the honor roll: High honor, Alfred Hunting; honor, Thelma Burton. Alice Mae McGrath, Grace Remley, Nadia Sadowsky, Patricia Stagg, Anna Tkach, Jean Voorhees, Stella Zakolski: commendable, Elizabeth Dewees, Florence Foersch, Anna May Gray, Ralph Hill, Ruth Kelly Ruth Konecnik, Mary McAudey, James Mooney, Frances Platt and Dorothy Weissert. Marie Hartel has returned to the class after being detained at home by illness. Sixth grade hygiene classes are beginning a unit on "Foods and their Relationship tc Health." The pupils in 7D, H.

M. Delaney, teacher, are making illustrations. for the bulletin board which they are going to call "Our Christmas They are going to be on exhibition the week before vacation. 7D has already exceeded its quota for Christmas for the 1937 tuberculosis campaign. Members of Miss Monaghan's reception and first grades Look What Is Here! GORDON RAZOR BLADES Made to fit-all new and old double and single edge razors.

Guaranteed to give eight to ten perfect shaves. Single or double edged blades. 3 for 10c; 5 for 15c. Special offer! With every $1 purchase of Gordon's Razor Blades a large tube of Gordon's Shaving Cream will be given FREE. Louis D.

Eastburn, Wholesale and Retail. sale also at Drug. Cigar and Grocery Stores. 4 Single Edge Blades for 10c Piscataway Township News are studying community helpers Last week the class was taught the activities of the police department. Class will make Christmas presents.

Members of the honor roll as announced by Mrs. Verna D. Kliner, teacher in the second grade, are Sophie Cuba, Wallace Graves, Mary Gray, Stella Lopatka, Marie Lukas, Doris Mandell, Richard Olsen and John Whiddon. Doris Mandell, Richard Olsen and Ruth Luthman have returned to school after being ill for a week The room monitors for tne wee are Joyce Hughes and Joan Steel. Eugene Hunting is on the high honor roll in the second grade.

minor operation in Middlesex GenDorothy Johns, underwent a eral Hospital, New Brunswick, Monday and will return to her home today. The second grade, under the di. rection of Miss Elizabeth Bacon, 19 studying shepherd life in Palestine Stories like "Boyhood of David," have been told and discussed. tures of shepherd life have been brought and. the class.

The children are planning to make a moving picture which will complete their study of these people. MISS JANET HUNT BACK FROM HOSPITAL AFTER PLANE CRASH NEW MARKET, Dec. 15-Miss Janet Hunt of Stelton road will return to her home Saturday from the Point Pleasant Hospital where she has been confined for the past three months due to injuries in an airplane accident. Personal Items Mr. and Mrs.

William Lockwood of Stelton road entertained Mrs. Nacy Buttinger, Mrs. Ronald Buttinger, Michaels and Ronald Buttinger Jr. of Englewood yesterday. Mrs.

Arthur Schermond of Plainfeld visited Mrs. Edward Erber Tuesday. Mrs. Emma Nasdeo of Metlar's Jane visited Mr. and Mrs.

Gordon Ross of Astoria, L. I. Mrs. Susan McManus of West Fifth street entertained Mr. and Mrs.

Patrick Kane of Jersey City and Daniel and James Bracken and Gilbert Renley of Pittsburgh, Pa. DUNELLEN TEACHER RESIGNS FROM JOB DUNELLEN, Dec. 15. The Board of Education received the resignation of Mrs. Harriet Gilbert, effective January 3, at a meeting last night in the school.

Mrs. Gilbert will teach in Orange. Mrs. Frank Burdick of Dunellen was appointed to replace her for the rest of the year. John P.

Faber, chairman of the finance committee, reported a balance of $3,345,39 Frank Hodges reported the Johns Manville Company will take care of the leak in the school roof. Albert Carter was appointed to replace Robert Partain as janitor in the Lincoln School due to the latter's illness. Supervising Principal Ralph BUSES For PRINCETON Leave Safeway Ticket Office 7:20 A. M. and Every Hour Until 11:20 P.M.

not run Sundays or Holidays DUNELLEN Leave Safeway Ticket Office 5:45 6:45 A. M. And Every Hour Until 11:45 P. M. Not Run Sundays or Holidays Buses for Hire at Reasonable Prices SOMERSET BUS CO.

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TOLLY VINIK FIRST STREET Tel. N. B. 583 Mrs. Emily Elliot; publicity, Miss Edythe Mae Gulick; hall and chairs, Mrs.

Mae Osborne; costume and stage, Mrs. Frederick Snyder; tickets, Mrs. Blanche Bieler; candy, Mrs. M. R.

Palmer. LITERARY GROUP HOLDS MEETING B. I. L. Department Opens Season in Metuchen At League House METUCHEN, Dec.

15, Literary works of the pre-war decades were discussed at the first meeting of the season of the literature department of the Borough Improvement League held yesterday afternoon at the League House. The topic for discussion was "The Turn of the Century, Mrs. Y. E. Lebedeff was in charge of the discussion and reviewed the outstanding authors and works of the period.

The topic of the department for year is "Outstanding Books of the Twentieth Mrs. A. A. Turner is chairman of the department. Three book reviews were given by members of the department.

Mrs. Frederick Zimmerman reviewed "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come." by John Fox a Civil War story. Mrs. Lincoln Jones gave a talk on "Of Human Bondage," by W. Somerset Maugham, one of the outstanding authors of the period, and Mrs.

Gerald Fitzgerald reviewed "My Antonia," by Willa Cathers, a story of life in Nebraska. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Turner, assisted by Mrs. Lebedeff, Mrs. Sam C.

Schenck Jr. and Mrs. J. R. Westbrook.

The next meeting of the department will be held Tuesday, January 11, in the League House. Mrs. J. R. Westbrook will be in charge.

The topic for discussion will be "The PostWar Period, 1919-1929." The regular Christmas, meeting of the league tomorrow afternoon in the League House with Miss Dorothy Jenkins as guest speaker. She will club on "What You Can Christaddress, the, mas." Mrs. E. A. Burroughs, club president, The will music conduct and the garden business departments will be in charge.

DOORWAY CONTEST TO BE CONDUCTED Metuchen Garden Club Will Offer Prizes For Best Decorated Doorway METUCHEN, Dec. 15, The annual Christmas doorway decoration contest, held each year by the local Garden Club, will again be held in the borough, with all residents invited to participate. Plans for the contest were discussed at a meeting of the Garden Club held Monday evening in the League House on Middlesex avenue. Mrs. W.

Robert Hale was named to head the committee in charge of the contest this year. Entries must be submitted to Mrs. Hale, or a member of the committee which will be named, before Christmas Eve. The judging will take place some time between Christmas and New Year's Day. Mrs.

E. A. Burroughs, president of the Borough Improvement League, has been named to assist Mrs. Hale and the rest of the committee will be appointed this week. Full details contest will also be announced later this week.

The League House was attractively decorated for the meeting. Mrs. Hal eand Mrs. John Rolfe were in charge of the decorations. Games were played and prizes were awarded to Mrs.

Arthur K. Hillpot. P. Remensnyder and Mrs. Rolfe were in charge of the games.

Each member brought a jar of jelly to the meeting and Mrs. A. C. Allison was awarded a prize for the best wrapping about the jar. The jellies will be turned over to the beneficient committee of the which BorImprovement League, is preparing Christmas baskets.

Mrs. Roy Minton, president, conducted the meeting. The next meeting will be held in the League House on Monday, January 10. It is estimated that the cost of an ideal network of roads for the entire United States would cost $57,000,000,000, with a saving of 2 cents a mile of travel for all motor vehicles. A CLEAN CHIMNEY NEVER BURNS SAMBO CLEANS CHEMICALLY CHIMNEYS FURNACES Just Throw Sambo on the Fire FIREPLACES Chemical Action OIL BURNERS Does the Rest CLEAN CHIMNEYS SAVE FUEL HOWARD DE HART, Agent 187 BALDWIN STREET PHONE 2090 ABEL HANSEN RITES TOMORROW FOR ABEL HANSEN Fords Porcelain Works Head Died Yesterday: Was Native Of Denmark METUCHEN, Dec.

15 Funeral services for Abel Hansen, 74, owner of the Fords Porcelain Works who died at his home, Maplehurst, on Amboy avenue yesterday after sev. eral months' illness, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home. The Rev. Dr. Frederick D.

Niedermeyer, of the First Prezbyterian. Church of Perth Amboy will officiate. Burial will be in Alpine Cemetery, Perth Amboy. Mr. Hansen during the World War was food administrator for the Perth Amboy district.

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and came to this country when a young man. Mr. Hansen learned about. and baking of clay at Esberg, Denmark, and then came to the United States. Mr.

Hansen was employed for a while Perths Amboy Terra Cotta Company and then with the Standard Terra Company, with whom he stayed for 16 years then went into business for himself. He established the Ford: Porcelain Works and remained at the head of the works to the day of his death. Mr. Hansen was president of the Fords National Bank, vice president of the Raritan Trust Company, treasurer of the Perth Amboy Euilding and Loan Association and had also served as president of the New Jersey Clay Workers Associa tion. He was a member of the board of governors of the Perth Amboy General Hospital, membe: the York Athletic Cluh, Raritan Yacht Club and East Jersey Club.

Mr. Hansen is survived by his wife, Mrs. Caroline Hansen, two daughters, Mrs. Sidney W. Talbot of Bridgeport, and Mrs.

Everett Gordon Reid, of Metuchen, and one son, Irving Abel Hansen. BOHLKE WILL SPEAK AT ROTARY MEETING METUCHEN, Dec, 15 -William C. Bohlke of 220 Amboy avenue will be guest speaker at the regular dinner meeting of the Metucher Rotary Club tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock at the Metuchen Inn. The local resident will speak on "Radio, Today and Tomorrow." The Rev. John J.

Foley, president, will conduct the meeting. 'Y' AUXILIARY WILL ENTERTAIN CHILDREN METUCHEN, Dec. 15-Plans' have been completed by the Y. M. C.

A. Women's Auxiliary for' its Christfor children to be heid mas, party, Wednesday, December 29. All children in the borough are invited to attend. A marionette show also will be presented for the entertainment of the children. The affair will begin at 2 p.

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Building Materials--Paints--Hardware 116 SANDFORD STREET PHONE 866 WOMEN DEMOCRATS CONDUCT MEETING Piscataway Township Club Entertains County Unit At New Market NEW MARKET, Dec. of the Middlesex County' Wom-Fare en's Democratic Club planned to distribute Christmas caandy to patients in the Roosevelt Hospital, Metuchen, last night at a regular meeting in the local firehouse, The Piscataway Township Women's unit was the host. The county meeting was conducted by Mrs. Elizabeth Stillwell of Highland Park, president. The candy will be distributed Tuesday night by volunteer workers to more than 230 patients in the hospital.

The committee will meet at the hospital at 7:30 o'clock. It was decided to contribute $5 to the Middlesex County Tuberculosis League. Two new members, Mrs. Elizabeth Pfeiffer, president of the Piscatawaytown Club, and Mrs. Julius Engel, also 'of Piscatawaytown, were accepted.

Mrs. Ethel Kirkpatrick, state committeewoman, spoke commending the women for their activity. Following the brief business meeting a Christmas entertainment was given. Members of the local club taking part in a pantomime included Mrs. Willard Harrell, Mrs.

William Lockwood, Mrs. Paul Meyers, Mrs. Anton B. Krug and Mrs. Joseph Josephs.

The local club met preceding the meeting of the county unit with Mrs. Krug, prestdent in charge. Mrs. Harrell, chairman of the ways and means committee announced the snowball dance to be held on January 14 in Murray's Tavern. A prize will be awarded to the member selling the greatest number of tickets to the affair.

She also announced the next meeting January 11 when a penny sale will be held. A new blanket club was started by the club and Mra. John ley was appointed in charge. The club voted to contribute $5 towards the Christmas seal sale. Crane reported the Christmas Carol Light service to be held 1 in the Whitter School December 21.

The short business meeting was conducted by Hugh B. Frey, prsident. Personal Christmas Cards A Large Selection Come In and Look Them Over REED'S 391-393 George Street CHURCH PLAYERS TO GIVE COMEDY New Market Church Group Will Present Play At Grange Hall Jan. 14 NEW MARKET, Dec. 15- Tickets on sale for "Mama's Baby Boy." a three-act comedy by Charles George to be presented Friday evening, January 14, in the New Market Grange Hall by the Robert A.

Nagle Bible- Class of the First Baptist Church. Members of the Young People's Society besides members of the Bible class are taking part. Mrs. Alice Voorhees, vice president of the is general man of the committee. Mrs.

chair. hees is directing the activities of the class in the absence of Miss Grace Pierson, president. Members of the cast include the following: Mrs. Alice Veorheea, Mrs. McLean, the leading part: Elston Grenninger, Luther Long, the leading man; Mrs.

Mae Osborne, Mrs. Blackburn, Mrs. McLean'e mother: Fred Cathcart, Sheppard McLean, the baby boy; Mrs. Cornelia Taylor, Julie, Mr. Long daughter; Fred Harris, Wilbur: Mrs.

Emily Taylor, Sylvia Kline, Wilbur a girl friend; Mrs. Helen Weisbecker, Mrs. Anglin, personal friend of Mrs. McLean: Mrs. Myrtle Adempsky, Cynthia Anglin; Miss Anna Loessel, Minnie, the colored maid; James' Emery, Max Moore, real estate agent, Assisting Mrs.

Voorhees on the committee are: Program chairman. The new air record hours, and set by A. Betty Kirby land comet London to Capetown is now one day, 21 six minutes. It was E. Clouston and Mrs.

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