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THE OLD NAME THE OLD POLICY ALL THE NEWS BOOST f| ABOUT 'ft BERNARDS VILLE THE FOLKS YOU KNOW Vol. 21. No. 52 BERNARDSVILLE, SOMERSET COUNTY, N. J., THURSDAY, FEBRU\RY 17, 1916 FIVE CENTS PRESS TIME BULLETINS friends and supporters of the BOP ONLY A GUEST team and the school in tha audi- PUTS A NEW One more steo taken in effort to torium of the High School at POWER COMPANY IS make borough of Basking Ridge. Somervillo when the debate start- AT" PUZZLEJJPTO BOD See notice on page 8. ed. A caravan of autos carried them to the county scat. The NOW IN NEW HANDS The little star chamber session of the The action of the teachers com- J. Saunders, local daityman an two auto stages caned full loads members of the Boiird of Kducation last mittee or the Board of Education English subject will go to battle- "Twas Easy, 'Twas Easy" ran of students. The Peapack-Glad- The local power and lightii week ha« stirred up unrest within the m executive session- the memfron- t to join Royal Horse Artillery. the chorus of the song from the stone contingent of students company is no longer a unit 3 board itself. The discrepancies between bers are not certain which- by A lad named Charles McDonald throats of a hundred and more came bundled up in an open auto the Eastern Pennsylvania l'ower loyal rooters of Bernards High. Company but it is a part of the thfi account* of what transpired behind wli'.ch the Supervising Principal run over by Shaffer's bus while truck. tho closed doors ag given by members was instructed to schedule a that rang through the halls of newly organized New Jersey ,,(' th'- board and the afterthought of teacher for only that work for coasting on road near Van Dofns the Someryille High School build- Power ana Light Company. The general members who were nut active in which she was engaged by themil!. Arm broken. ing last Friday night. The dem- change, which was brought abo£ the calling of the meeting, as to the le-board has precipitated another R. V, Lindabury reappointed to onstrationprecededtheatuiounco-j uUNIKALi lu Ltl rim IHt by a transaction of unusual gality of the session has brought about problem upon the school organi- nient of the judges' decision but scope is best explained by a com- Palisades Park Commission. I pri'hensivi' statement just issued this unrfsl. To quote from the words zation. Miss Rachel Reed, a it foretold the result of the delib- NEW PAROCHIAL SCHOOL of one of the members "the matter is member of the High School fac- Grant B. Schlcy takes $5,000 erations of the three umpires who by W. S. Btrstow, president ol ulty Wednesday notified Super- worth of stock in new Far Hills we>'e ballotting behind closed the new company and which has not finished yet," Anncaiiu'enuTit lias been triailt* form- just been given to the public The News printed lust week what it vising Principal Meseroll that if "Water Co. doors. The verdict in favor .of ally that tlie contract for the new par the negative and Bernards, in the The statement follows! honestly thought tfanspirad at thean effort is made to change her First offical act of new town- oi'hial school, lyceum and sisters' home, work us the result of the action first of this years interscholastic ^ The New Jersey Power & Light "L'luHfd" session. NuLbinghas devel- ship counsel-request for adjourn- the gift of the three children of James Company h;is been organized un- oped since to support uny itatement Of the board members she will debating series precipitated a Cox Brady of Gladstone to t he Church insist that only the work be demen- t of sidewalk assessment hear- near riot on the part of the local of Our Lady of Perpetual Helphaabeen der tho laws of the State of New that th« account was not accurate contingent, in the centre of which Jerspy, and is acquiring all of Even this week upon sm'ond inter* tailed to her, for which she waings . Granted. awarded to the Kenn-VWll Contracting the electric lighting and powar engaared by the Board of Educa- were the four who so creditably Company of New York. The building views the members Of the board are nut had brought victory to the local properties at Bernardsville, !)•- dear as to the nature of the meeting tion. In other words Miss Reed's will cost about $75,000. A complete ver. Rockaway, Far Mills, Pea- stand means that some other high school. The vanquished deicription of the building given they attended. Several members are were not forgotten and cheor p:iok. Gladstone, Chester, Ivlend- of an opinion tliHt they attended an ex-teacher and not she will teach MYSTERY J1H1 SHROUDS out for publication late Thursday. ham and Wharton, now owned the physical geography class, now after cheer was yiyen for Somer- ecutive session of the Board of Educa- ville High and her individual con- by the Eastern Pennsylvania being taught by Miss M. Louise Power Company of Pennsylvania, tion and probably will only learn from Henry. DR. NORTH AT HIS EXIT testants. these columns that they were guests of The final result was never in and operated by the Eastern the Voucher's Committee which was Miss Reed talked rather reluct- Dr. Charles E. North of Mont- EXERCISES AS USUAL IN Pennsylvania Power Company of antly when questioned by the doubt after the debate had passed indulging in an informal deliberation. clair who was to have told us the half-way mark. New Jersey. It further acquire! Dr. C M. Henry, president of th\e News. But in order that her what ailed Bernardsville has come AUDITORIUM TUESDAY P. N. all of the property of the Jersey ! attitude might not be misunder- Although the judges in their Power Company, as well as the board was asked in what particular th" and gone, and still we don't announcement, in a gracious NkWrf account of the meeting last week | stood by garbled reports she know. The much-heralded re- As \isua! the local Washington Associ- machinery in the present, power I agreed to make a clear statement. manner stated that it was a diffi- ation will celebrate Washington's Birth- plant at Boonton. was in accurate. He said -'An execu- port we are told will not be forth- cult matter to arrive at the win- tive session ot' the Board of Education Miss Reed said: "I was engaged coming and the inference is that day with appropriate exercises on Tues- ner, it was understood from an- day afternoon, Feb. J.'x'nd, in the Ber- The new company will be an foe the transaction of business is notby the Board of Education to we are quite much better than teach English and other Fresh- other source, not authoritative nards Inn Auditorium. The arrange- independent New Jersey enter- legal. The meeting w*8 not a session some people thought. The mys- man subjects, At the present however, that the vote was unan- ments are in eliHrge of a committee prise, in no way allied with any of the Board of Education and if I used tery with w*hich the investigation time I am teaching upper English imous in favor of Bernards. headed by the Rev. William I. McKeun of the former companies. The the tana 'executive radon1 in my re- of the Montclair expert has been Eastern Pennsylvania Power and am devoting considerable shrouded is not cleared with the The second series bringing to- rector of the Church of Our Lady of Per- raarki it was a misnomer, It was atime to the coaching of the de- gether the Victors of last Friday petual Help. An Innovation decided upon Company, from which these prop- meeting of the teacher'* committee, announced termination of his erties are purchased, will confine bating team and to the work of work. The Newark News which night is scheduled for two weeks by the committee placed the program in Applications far the supervising princi- its futuie operations to Phillips- the Crimson board. I enjoy the has been selected as the organ of hence. This year, county bound- charge of a committee of the Senior paljtbifi weie ••'iiiHiiifi IMI. There ar« burg and Warren County, The work 1 am doing and would pre- those who were behind the North ai'ies will not be considered and Class* of the High School headed by iii arly fifty of these applications." Jersey Power Company will be fer to remain undisturbed. But movement sheds no light on Bound Brook, victorious over Robert Gillie as chairman The hi^h When asked if the entire membership if my subjects are changed, I North Plainh'eld who it waschoos l orchestra will play the Clare- dissolved and the Jersey Corpo- either the result of the so-called ration will undertake the devel- of the Hoard present had not consider maintain that I have the right to survey or the object of the pub-thought would be the next oppo- mont quartette will sing and the pro- ed instruction! which were given Mr.insist that I teach only those sub- nent meets another team. Ber- gram also will include rftfidiltgl and rec- opment of its real estate holdings lic spirited citizens who brought at Boon ton. The past corporate MesiToll relative to a change In thejects for which the Board of Edu- the noted doctor here. nards meets the victorious Chat- itations. The Rev. J.