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„ FOR ADVERTISERS FOR SUBSCRIBERS T'tH••""•;•" •" ; "" , '• {A' paper that goes into the A comprehensive, accurate 'home-and reaches the buy-' and impartial review.ol each-\ ting public ~ • DARD weeks happenings. VOL XXX. NO. 21 WESTriELD. UNION COUNTY, N. J., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2), 1)11 PRICE 2 CENTS BELGIAN RELIEF GOLF CLUB HOLDS ANNUAL BANQUET B! mjum ANNUAL MEETING OF ST. PAULS One Hundred and Thirty-four A Movement Started Here Which Financial Condition Very Satis- Men Listen to Able Address by' ' Should Be Of Interest To All factory. Club Active Along - Judge Speer After Sumptuous Residents Of Westfield Social, Sporting' and Phiian- Repast The.following press notice has been thropic Lines ' ;,' sent to the local papers rogardlug a The seventh annual banquet of th.* movement for providing aid. • tor dis- The annual meeting of the Westfleld Men's Club of St. Pauls church wat' Golf Club was held last Tuesday ev- tressed Belgians: hold in tbe parish house on Wednes- -A movement has bebn started which, ening In the club house with PresTUent Frederic G. White In the chair. About day night. It was one oC the beat •""'owing to the universal sympathy which banquets ever held by this popular the plight of the whole Belgian people thirty members: were present. Tho roll call was dispensed with and Sec- church organization. The menu wa*. has, arouBed, should Interest all and excellent and was cooked and served meet with a quick and heurty re- retary P. B; Scarff read the minutes of the previous meeting. by tbe ladies of the Woman's Guild. sponse. In view o( the measures to assisted by the young ladies of to» Treasurer A. D. Tuttle's report Bhow- relieve the appalling destitution and church. : ed the club to be in a satisfactory misery of the-non-combatants of Bel- One hundred and thirty-four mea; financial condition despite general glum which are being taken through- sat down to the tables at 7:30 and tta* business depression. The club's con- out the United States, and. In fact, menu which was put before them was throughout the world, it Is felt, that servative management entrenched and lit for a king and was done full jus-- our town should take an active part the outbreak of the European war and tice to by those who partook of the in this work and do everything pos- to this the club's sound condition may many good things provided by m»: sible to further this splendid purpose. be partly attributed. Receipts were ladies. The dining room was prettily " 'It scarcely would be possible to ex- 11300 over and above expenses, for the decorated with American flaga >uu aggerate' the calamity which with ov- fiscal year.. during the banquet music was furnish- ; erwhelming suddenness has fallen For the tennis committee Mr. John ed by Dushanek'B orchestra and many -' upon this peaceful, thrifty and self- E. Nltchle's report showed that the songs were sung by the diners. ~ reliant people. Prosperous Belgian (committee had done it's share of enter- After the wants of the inner matt cities have been practically destroyed, taining during the past year through had been appeased the toastmastor, C. Belgian industries have been paralyz- club tournaments, inter-club matches, II. Trematne, who Is also the presi- ed, hundreds if not thousands of her i "goat" tournament and the Innova- dent o£ the club, made the initial wage earners have been, killed, many tion of night tennis. The crowd at the speech of the evening. Mr. Tremain* thousand homes have been obliterated; first night tennis tournament has been mode an appeal to tbe members of the, and unnumbered wives and children estimated at'2,000; at the second night have been made utterly destitute. The club to co-operate with tbe church In tournament 2,500. The club is to be situation cannot better be indicated its wortt and urged the membors ot congratulated on It's progressiveness than to quote the words of an eye the club to work for the upbuilding along this line. witness, the wife of a Minister of of the club and adding to its member-' Mr. B. R. Perkins of the greenB com- State of Belgium, who In an address ship. Mr. Treraaine then introduced mittee "stated that the committee had to the women of America, said: the speaker of the evening, Hon. W11-' ispent the major-part of Us appropria- HANKS Ham H. Sneer, Judge of the Circuit tion and by next year hoped to show "Seven out of tho nine provinces Court of the State of New Jersey. Mr. some good results from 'such expen- that go to make the Kingdom of Speer Is an excellent speaker and. held diture. Play over the new holes be- Belgium have been devastated the close attention of his heave's. His yond the present sixth green Is antici- the most dreadful war known subject was "Citizenship and Church 'pated with interest by those who play history. The peaceful countryside GWINGS Duty." Several times (luring his aft- golf. is strewn with the dead and dying. dress he was greeted with applause. Thousands and thousands of people | Tho shooting committee through E. At the conclusion of Mr. Speer's ad- have nothing in the world left, not S. Gales,- chairman, reported trap dress, Mr. Tremalne Introduced th»' •'.,. a roof over their heads, no money, shooting to be under way and from the circular recently received we judge rector of the church, Rov. James A> no clothes, and no chance of earning COMING! Smith. Mr. Smith stated that ho WiU. a living of any sort. - shooting will play an, important part in tbe club's sporting activities dur- not a speechmaker and that the ad-, The sight of the poor refugeeb dress which he expected to deliver had. streaming Into Antwerp 'from Lou- ing the winter. , •'"•.'••'•'.' nment'-committee got mixed with his sermon for next. » vain and Malines, women, with bab- Sunday and that he had not been able les in their arms, their older chil- Mr. uglai that SCHOOL, SCHfltAKU to get them separated. Judging from dren clinging to their skirts, men the recent club dances had 'not been wheeling their decrepit fathers In as. largely attended as nad been hoped the way Mr.- Smith was applauded at wheelbarrows or helping along a perhaps due to the fact that the the close of his address his remarks | crippled brother or son, is more pit- dancing craze may have temporarily AUTO ffffTIM HOLDS LADIES NIGHT OPEN STORE were appreciated by'all. iable than any words can.express." expended itself. Mr. Tremalne then introduced RoV. ' A general committee of -men and Speaking for the house committee G. Franklin Ream, of the First Meth- women is being organized-to outline Mr. A. D. Tultle stated that they hope l.itantly Kilted by Plainfield Car Many Brave Stcrm for Excellent Completly Equipped Grocery Is odist Church. Mr. Ream paid a tribute and carry out plans for gaining a sub- In the near future to have completed on Outskirts of Town Being Conducted by Sixth to the rector of tbe church and gave a. stantial contribution to be given to plans for a more perfect draining of Program Provided by Orator brief but interfisting address along the sufferers by the "Community of the club house shower baths. the lines of church duty. John K. An unknown Iallnn about fifty years Wittke Grade Pupils of McKinley •Westfleld". Sub-committees, will bo The regular election x>f trustees re- Pencheon was Introduced by Mr. Tre- formed to carry put various parts of sulted as follows: For a three year jold was struck and instantly killed by School maine as the man whom he had ft. the general program. It is hoped that' Notwithstanding the stormy weather grudge against as he said it ira3, term—F. C. White,;.A. D. Tuttle, W. an automobile owned by William Qe- 1 . among thoso Included in the commit-. R. Davis, H. T. W. Hunttlng, D. C. Dodd, of Plainfleld at South and Het- of last nl8ht about seventy-five per- A completely equipped grocery through him that he enme to be the , store, managed and conducted by the president of the club. Mr. Peuclveon tees will be the following: Mayor Ev-1 Arnold; For two year term—Octavlus fleid avenues, in the Groceland sec.. sons attended the "Ladles Night" glv- nns, Congressman Tuttle, Dr. Steans, Knight, Robert B. Perry; For a one en in Areanum hlU Unlon Couno11 &ixth grade pupils, has been installed replied to the remarks of the toast- tion, just over the boundary llno-Of •>* ' master in n very bright manner nnd. Dr. Loomis, Itev. H. J. Watterson, Heir.' year term—C. E. Halstend and W. I, this town, at eight o'clock on Wednes-,No- 5' Lo5>nl delation. Those who in the McKinley school and Is under J. H. Smith, Rev. G. Franklin Ream, Ferris; the new trustee's terms com- the supervision of Miss Alexander, told how he and Rev. James A. Smith, day night. The Plainfleld automobile; dId brave tho rnln were wel1 rePald Artfiur N. Plerson, A. D. Tuttle, F. D. menco January 1, 1915. the teacher. A certain amount of time had forced the job on Mr. Trem.itne. Jn which were Mr. GeDodd, Charlos as an excellent program was provided Mooney, A. L. Alpers, R. A. Fairbalrn,| As it's share In Westfleld's "Belgian is devoted by the pupils each day lo Mr. Pencheon said that Mr. Tremnlne J. F. Cowperthwalto, C.