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Wunbct NiUooU Editorial Amdiaoa M UM 88th YEAR — 52nd|?/E)EK New Jttuy Pnm ajMdatloo MATAWAN, N. J., THURSDAY; JUNE 27,1957 mouu, *"USn,ar *" " Single Copy Ten Cent. Matawan Police Bonding Voted 7 To I Savings, Loan Has Mayor Presents Flag, Banner, To Drum, Bugle Corps Madison Moves To Centennial fsiue No further iteps In ths The Matnvan Journal tUU Matawan Township Board at week marks the Matawan Ask Pay Boost Education'* $705,000 building Oth Anniversary Assail Developer Township Centennial by pub- program will be takes until lishing a EO-p age •eolloa Wantl5PerCent after conferences Wtl Fred- Matawan Association Committee Votes Centennial Celebration iup« Acrost The Board eric Fesslcr, Hailet, (he »r- Started May 21, 1907 - To Pick Up Bond Plement commemorating the chtteot, Barry Trolltr, board progress of Matawan Tmn. "'Police"Chief Johni. J. Flood secretary, • disclosed yester- The Majtawan Savings a a A Madison Township Attorney a h 1 p, outlining < IU hlntory pElltibned the Matawan Bor- day. - -....- , r .. :,. .'_- Loan' Association, Park Ave., Joseph H. Edgar -Monday and underlining tho aebfevc. ough-Council Tuesday night to The board was given the. Matawan, Is 'marking its 50th night was Instructed by the mcnti of * century wJt/not- adopt an ordinance granting a 'go-ahead11 on the program nniversary this year. The As- township committee to recnll Ing the advance of the town- 15-per. cent across-the-board by the voters of the school loclatlon was organized in a porfoimance bond, at a town- ship's school*, tihurchflfr, 4c< annual salary increase for the district Thursday when " the 807 tor'the purposes of en- ship developer who allegedly volopmcnt, utilities, bu»U police department. Chief Flood project to spend (660,000 for ouraging systematic sayings has failed to live up to an nosa and ludustry, said.sdoptton of the ordinance, a 20-r'oom unit' ana all-pur- and the purchase of homes. agreement to repair streets In ,. Although the. centennial according tj state regulations, pose room In Cliff wood and During the years it has help- lib housing development. section I* not to bo consider, la necessary before the meas- to add three rooms on Mata» d many of its members be- Commlttceman Horace An- ed mi exhaustive hlnlory of ure can be submitted to the wan Hljtb School at $45,009 come: financially secure. derson, streets and road chair- the towiiNhln, but rather, an-' voters for their approval at ttar cost passed 542 to 19. Fart of When originally organised, man, endeavoring for some otlior ohnpler to be itdded to next general election. the Cllffwood proposal Is an he Association's name was tlmo to get tho Kcndnll Con- the annals of (lie rommuu' The Matawan Building and He reminded members of authorization to buy the' i.6 struction Co. to repair Vlllan- Itv, the Ktotf haa endeavored Powers tract and the 10.9 Loan' Association. It retained o\a and1 Princeton lids, in the lo report the activltle* of tbe the borough council that the Collins tract; both of which this name until 1954, Vheri It six-man department Is request- 1 vlniclty of !ho new 8t. Bene- community, church unS clv» adjoin the present Cllffwood was changed, as officers and dictine Church, declared: lo group* In the towmhlp. Ing "reasdriable cofripensa- School lot. directors believed ^he present tlon" and that it has been "I think wo have been plny- Kveryone in Invited to en* The vote In Matawan was name defined Its activities three years since the last an- more clearly. • lng 'footsie' long enough will! Joy the eontontiUl celebra- nual pay increase was granted 121 to 55 in favor with one Kandall," mid ho recommend- tion vvliloh In iQliedulea' July in the borough. Pay boosts are ballot voided ol 117 oast, The first minutes of the As- ed that bccauRo of tils alleg- "•«, S and 0, which will fitting- proposed as follows: Chief, about one-tenth of registered sociation show that a group ed Ittck of co-operation, the ly innrk 100 yenri of pro- $5000 to $5750; captain, $1500 enrollment. The vote in Cltff- meton May 31, 1907, at C. A. township pick up tho contrac- irons. to $5175; sergeant, (4250 to wood was 421 to 24 for tha Oeran's Store on Mala St., tor'« performanci) bond. Attor- 14887; patrolman, $1000 to project with four ballots and elected the following of- ney Edirnr and Townslilp En- $4600; patrolman, ' $3633 to voided In a total vote of 419, ficers: President, H. H. Long- gineer Robert Bauer were In- $4178 and patrolman, $3441 to nearly half the total regis- street; . vico piesldent, P. \J. structed to toko tho H0C08- Township Halts «3957. Salaries of the patrol- tration. . ' » ' • Devlin: treasurer. C. H. War- wiry steps to carry out Ml'. men are dependent upon, the dell; seeret&ty, William a. Anderson's sungestlon, Private Dumping number of years service they Bedle. Auditors were Alonno Two L,oU Bold have with the police depart- Walling, Q. B. Shepherd and ment. • • : Loscoe Appointed y John Man, Jr., Matawan Township, presented a tine and (lie Mniawan At a publlc.talo, two lota on Action Follow* W, A, Jacobl. . Taivnshlp Banner to tho Juiilor Drum and Bugle- Corps, sponsored by Guadalcanal rout 474|t, Central Ave, in Brunswick Rotldonti' Domandi At the suggestion of Mayor First Directors Veterans of Foreign Wars. Wary Lou Soltys anA Wllroa Willarrt are shown lit the tront of tlio aardenn No, 3 weio aolil to Bpafford W. Schanck, council Funds Custodian The first directors of the picture receiving the flag and banner from Mayor Man, In the back, In the iintinl order, nro Wnllor ami Frcit Hcdlo for Following leccnt coinpltlntt Andrra Savcl, Jndltli Spoor, Nancy Yiuchak, Janet Lenvy mid llarbnrn Konnr. ma oaou, Biu» costs, . - voted to table the proposal un- Matawan Board Fills Association were A. O. car- (it Mtm vciililoniclni s protofltlinf til the ordinance which was an, W. L. VanBrunt, Al Har- Thoro WHO much discussion the condition of pilvalo dumpp* tubmltted by the department Post By Split Vote dy, S. B.Eggleston, F.C. Bed- Early Publication ovev a vctiuesl tor pcimWBlon tn« uvntuuv i rtR glowini g rut has been studied by the bor- le and Dr. E. VanWickle. Tile Steps To Form Subdivisions In to transfer Uin liquor llconao monnce, tin* MiUnwuMt n TTown- ough attorney. -.- ; Matawnn Township Board of by-laws and constitution were The Mutawan Journal will of SeldloT's Ilench to u ttonto alilp CommlUeo yciitovdcvy b«n- To Provide Flay Area* Education Monday approved prepared by Benjamin P. S. be printed on Wednesday next ati locution. It clovi'loiuMl tliiu.o nod Ml private tltimplng In llm Council granted permission by a 5-4 vote the appointment Brown and Elmer H, derail. School Committee week, dun to tho Fourth of Madison Dclourcd In a contrayeriiy Vbout \vho township "ctfeulvo ImmedU - to the .• Matawan Junior Wom- of George A. Loscoe. a for The late Mr. Longstreet July holiday, Tim deadline owni-lhe llconuo,'ANoi' it WIIH ntely," mer board member..a£ custo- served as president from 1907 Citizens Organizing Committoo Adopts ouplftlntid the townulili) could •n's CUib to; provide a pi a y for r.ewn copy nnd display Pilvalu dumping privilege* •rea for pre-school youngsters dian of school funds at $880 tt> 1011, and was succeeded by Group Met Thursday advertisements will ho at 12 Code Aniendment tnko ncllon roKiirulcna npprov- an nica naith of ihp for- -»t Terhune Park. Permission per year. He will succeed Ko- Charles Geran who served un- o'clock noon on Monday and al wns rtlven, However, thin ii1 Lennox ltd, municipal was granted with the provision irt C. Wyckofif, who Is relin- til 1023. William VanBrunt was 6evcral impovtant steps tho deadline for legs! and Prollmlnary plans, spcclfloa- was . n formullly oliiuo Ihn dump were imleied hulled Im- that no buildings are to be con- quishing the position June 30. president from 1923 to 1037, were taken tpward the forma- classified advertise- Ions and maps of proposed Stnte Alcoholic Bovcruga' AM mediately mid Urn uolu-o rt>- and since that time, Warren soclnUan hnit tlin mnjov nuth- ttructed on the property. Miss The appointment of Mr. Los- ion of a permanent Matawan ments will l>d Monday at S ubdivisions and now develop- pni'tmonl wns mdrrrd lo tulio Dorothy Delbasco, president of B. Hutchinson has been the Citizens Committee for.Publlo p.m. ments in Madison Township orlty In such onsen. ImniDillntp Mcpn lo aiiptoliend coe followed certification from head -of the Association. the club, said the members Earl B. Garrison, county - su- Schools at a meeting hold In In order that emnlo.'eeii «( now will bo refevi'Bd first lo AppiovM wan ulvon lor tlio niiy vlolatom ot he Matawan High , School hoped to provide benches perintendent of schools, that In addition to Mr. Hutchin- The Matawhn Journal may tho Board of education for renewal of 20 tavern , llcenisuti, the bun: (continued on "page fifteen) the appointment of Calvin Thursday evening, Tho meet- enjoy a holiday weekend wHli cyalimtlon before they nro for- stoves, ii "vnvim son, present officers and dlr- ing of the seven member or- was'ded to tho..town«hlp plan ln.nuiUlton, llu< cnmniUlrn Pearce to the board June 10 (continued on page fourteen) tlielr families, this iflloo will boct" llccnuo tor Food Fair, nonlgnalod. ihc luht Friduy a( was proper even though a va- ganizational: group was called be Moxcu from W-dncnd»]n nlng boatd fof Inspection. ,. Inc., and a club llconso f o oach . inoni.il ivu & ttt' thft . request ol temporary Tho plan to permit tho board Belted With Bat, cancy has been allowed to go Bt B p.m. until Mona»y, JnV» p Laurence. Hivvbov VOKI, Amoi olftati-uiv nft> whtu 1 chairman Oeorgo .Jtterjslcr;;'- If ; l l ! dl unfilled Iqr . three successive S20IUI00Si.il In S9w' ' •:' lo nnnlyeo plm a! davelopcra tonn oglon. article*';'UbUullv mil icgular-miJdtlngs-Tbis pormlt- deteftnme .ti«>tt",»tttn^•'-tflV*.^ by thi- municipal m
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,,,un. every ThuriiJiu al Keyport. MonmouUJ County, N. 1. STABLE BUSINESS AHEAD Br Tear By BROWN PUBLISHING AMD PRINTING COMPAMY (Asbury Park Press) Business tin the remaining Butrer* Garden Reporter BOTH UNION BEACH Mayor Joseph Scholer and J. Mabel Brown, Editor - Geraldlnt V. Brovn, AuocUU tailor iajf of tms year will remain Making Over Berry Bed • Borough Clerk Al Hennessy reached new highs last week Subscription Ralca Payable In AbVeaee s stable as It has been In the One year iwltbii) atale), H-M That was a short strawber- at the ceremonies and inspection marking the official open- Ei> Uon'h. SV one if««r louUUb «taU)_ MOO 'lrst half, Prices will continue ry season wasn't it? The sea- w ing of the Jersey Central Power and light Co.'s bay di- ThreT MonVa J L «iS On* "«" '"""^ "• *•<- W :o climb, producing larger dol- son never lasts long enough tb Th* MaUwu Journal U a newspaper "of UM people, tr/ tt» pwpK, lar gains than volume gains. satisfy auyone with a real vision service building on Florence Ave. The mayor vol- •nStor U), SS>ji " li aim U to MrnTtbt besl to^rtii oi M.«aw« wd Expansion i» proceeding at » craving (or strawberries, and vicinity is Dnieil alj oi tin ntvri ol lit week without Maa or prejudice good pace because business unteered for a ride in a Iree trimming bucket which took In . Sltn SoVioniervaHve manner, re.pecun» UM Inallenajle rlfbU Uus fear's harvest lame to a him 48 feet into the air. Not to be outdone, Al "Hero" of w "aUSrandtnerety mating
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The ings Bonds Committee, an- contributed more than $1,000,- hie June ZT, 195' •rs Tuesday night by a n a r- 000 to the fund-raising crusade ow margin of 54 votes defeat- mayor declared be will press nounced that Vice President id a Board of Education pro- for approval of the project be- Richard M. Nixon will be the of the American Cancer So- posal to bond $435,000 to con- fore a hew school .construction guest speaker at Jhe _ annual ciety. .._._.._ program" can be submitted, Visit Soldier At struct; a 10-dassrooin elemen- meeting of the New Jersey - Reporting to the State Board tary school. The proposal was which would deplete the $123,- 000 borrowing capacity of the Savings Bonds Committee, at of Trustees, Qren O. Hunt, voted down 577 to 523 with a Qlen Ridge, state chairman, Fort Dix; Items otal of 1100 ballots cast, in- borough. the Spring X,ake Country Club, Mayor Apple^ate, two weeks revealed that the total already Mrs. Lee Bobbins, Cheese- cluding 11 absentee ballots. today. has reached $1,018,000, and a quake, visited her husbuand, The board now must wait a ago, broke his silence to op- pose publiclr'the porposate of Approximately 200 volun- number of the: county chapters Pvt. Lee Bobbins at Fort Dix minimum of 40 days before teers representing each coun- still are completing their solic- on Sunday with her mother, submitting the same or a re- the board of education 'which he maintained were "exorbit- ty in the state and many itations. The lateness of Easter Mrs. F r d d Schulmelster vised proposal for school con- leaders In industry, banking, prevented some communities Cheesequake; Mrs. H az e struction to the voters. T h e ant" and "out ef line" with those of other municipalities- civio organizations and educa- from starting their crusades Bobbins,' Dennis Royal, Brown- >roposif4on turned .down Tues- tjon - plan to attend ancT dis- untilneaf the end flf April. town, and Mr. and Mrs. Har- day night was the first ele- Earlier this week he Issued a cuss plans for the coming mentary school construction circular to support his claims. Chairman Hunt expressed, old Walters, Matawan. months- and the excellent re- his thanks to the members'of program offered for voter ap- The circular was challenged sults the New Jersey program iroval in the past 30 years. by Henri Hansen who demon- the board who assisted In the Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bowne, has achieved during the past crusade. The chairman re- Cottrell Rd., Cheesequake, The.board hoped to relieve strated that some figures sup- year. plied by Mr. Applegate to sup- quested that all those who had as weekend guests, Mr. oublc sessions in the West This annual affair is the have not been contacted or and Mrs. Raymond Sanders, yport and O-r a m m a r port his claims were Invalid A group ot mnnlcipal offlolab and newspaper representative* who attended ihe preview and. inaccurate. In one in-, most outstanding of its kind who wish to assist the pro- Washington, D.c. ichools by construction of the In the nation. Under. Mr. grams' of the American Can- Inspection tour of Jersey Central Fewer & Light Company's, new JI60,000 Bar Dlrislon electric ichool providing eight class- stance, an example of school Th.e Rt, Rev. Alfred L. Ban- service center In Union Beach, last week examine a display of linemen equipment. The local costs offered by the mayor, Boost's personal leadership cer Society send their 'cohtrl- yard, Bishop oTThe Episcopal litlllly ^iH^^»^ipfi^^il^llHP'*-f^Tr-t^^-T"Wl^-fM~^T«y-f'til'^°-'"'''^^^" ^n1""1"1 f»e»jlqii»rtei» local ooms, two kindergartens, and the New Jersey Savings Bonds butlons to- "Cancer," care of Dloccso of New Jersey, will iddfc- MF^Hansendiarged;—was-ap- on Florence Ave. Ustcnlnr as Georro I-eddj, JCP4L engineer, explains the function of proximately (100,000 in error Program has an' enviable rec- the-'local post office. visit the Church of Our Sav- equipment are, left to right: Mrs; Kosemary Kennedy, JCP&L'a Keyport commerlcal office Ion to necessary storage and ord of accomplishment in the Middlesex County, where: ior, Cheesequake, for confir- manager; George T. McCarthy, and Hiss Geraldine V. Broom, representing The Keyport eating space along -with a and he noted there was anoth- er $<5,00O discrepancy In an- promotion of our national Joseph DeCoster, Perth Am- mation services on Funday at Weekly and The Matawan Journal;' Victor Lelker, Middletown Courier) Frederick V. Bapp. linlc and offices. Construct/Ion thrift program. boy, Is chairman, was the first 8 a.m. Following the service, Keyport Counoilman; Alfred T. Hennessy, Jr., Union Bescb Borough Clerk; entries -E. Kohl- as planned at a site on Broad other figure offered as proof of hepp, president of JCP&L and New Jersey Power ft Light Company and Joseph A. Scholer, the mayor's argument. Among the honored guests chapter to report success. a breakfast will be served at near the high school. will be Gov. Robert B. Mey- the parish ball. Mayor of Union Beach. - . • The program was! opposed Mr. Hansen pointed out that ner, Honorary Chairman of Federal Law Prohibits A meeting was held at the Tenuously by Mayor Charles all false figures concerning the Sayings Bonds Committee, Browntown School, on Tues- Keyport Girl One. . Applegate viho jsaid be amounts of money and rooms representatives of the Armed Some Jobs For Minors , day by the Board of Educ.o Report Totals Robert, Marilyn 'gain will seek approval of his provided In other municipali- Services, and many others. - tion to award contracts for Of Four Injured 200,000 'waterfront lmprove- ties, Included In the 'circular, "Summer jobs In logging furniture for the new class- nent project which was turn- all favored the mayor'* argu- and sawmilllng can lead to- rooms being constructed. Of Booket Fund A Keyport girl. Miss Emma Young Have Parly d down early this month by ments. Matthew Dziekowski serious accidents when boys Levine, 16, of 34 Fulton St.. » Miss June Bowne, who is a Elks Lodge 2030, Matawan Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Named Freight Agent are hired in violation of feder- was one of four persons injur- al child-labor provisions," cau- senior student nurse at Mid- and Keyport, in co-operation ed Saturday when two autos oung, Jr., Bolmdel Rd., Haz- et, held open house on Sunday [eansburg Firm To Pilot Training Open 1 tions Regional Director Frank dlesex General Hospital, New with Knights of C q 1 u rq b u s collided at Line Bd. and Matthew E. Dziekowski, has Brunswick, visited her par- honor of the .graduation of been appointed freight agent J. Muencb of the V. 8, Labor odge 3402, of St. Joseph's Church St., Matawan Town- uild Post Off ice For College Students Department's Wage and Hour ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bow- ship. The others injured were heir son, Robert, and daurh- for. the^ennsylvanla Railroad ne, Cottrell Rd., Cheesequake, Church, Keyport, recently col- r, Marilyn. Robert graduat- Rep, Peter O. Frellngbuyjen Young men with two years at Old Bridge, effective Mon- and Public Contracts Divi- Gene Fitzgerald, 20, Long sions. - over the weekend. lected $981 toward a nurses Branch, with whom Miss Le- d from Keyport High School nnounced Saturday .that a or more of college training day, according to an announce- 'hursday evening. He has re- The Sunday School of the fund and medical expenses for vine was riding; and Anthony Keansburg contracting firm,, now are being accepted for ap-ment by Park M. Roeper, re- Pointing out that an 18-year- ceived a yearly scholarship to age minimum applies to work Church of Our Savior, Cheese- James Booket, seriously burn- Leswlewlcz, 40, and Michael arx Bros. Building Corp., licatlon into the XJ. S. Air gional manager. Orlando, 36, both of Spots- jehlgh University. Bethlehem, in most logging and sawmill- quake, will hold a picnic at ed in a rubbish fire several lad been a-Warded t*i" work of Force'aviation cadet pilot A native of N e w a r k, Mr. McGulrels Grove, Mlddletown wood, riding In the second car. Pa., which he will attend In Dziekowski entered the rail- ing Jobs, Mr. Muench urged months ago, Matawan First Aid Squad took he fall, Marilyn was a mem- uildlng a new post office for training program, according to lumbermen to make sure of on July flth. !dison Township. The build- road's service as a baggage- The 19-year-old, IS Oaston all the Injured to,a Matawan er of the graduating oUn Tech. Sgt. Joseph T.. Soboul, man at the Newark passenger the ages of the youths they e will be constructed on a are hlrlag for summer jobs. •1., Matawan Township, boy. physician. rom the Centerville Grammar local Air Force Recruiter. station hi 1047, later b e i n 3 Derrick James Wins ichool, Holmdel Township, ot of ground presently held Was seared over 40 per cent of Applications for the pilot promoted to ticket clerk and Baby Contest Thursday Patrolman Francis Cherney, une 11, ' iy the postmaster-general as training program were limit- serving there as well as at his body when he fell into- a township police, who investi- Guests ' Included Mr. and" tssignable under option. The ed in the past, however, recent Metuchen and'Llnden, He re- DR.LCUISI.PRAGER •The Senior Woman's Club-of lack yard trash fire during a gated, reported that Mr. Fitz- Mrs. Harold B. Girth, Mis-s iptlon has been assigned to Information from the' Flying cently has b e e n attending gerald said he was going 30 St. James A.M.E. ZIon leizure. Marjorle L. Girth. Carl Girth, arx Bros. Training Air Force announced night classes at the Red Bank OPTOMETRIST Church, Matawan, sponsored a miles per hour on Line Bd. ranbury; Mre. Mabel Sut- that the program again would Miss Barbara Callaban, pub- The building will be 65-by-55- High School in order to further EYES EXAMINED baby contest at the Matawan coming into the Intersection. ihen, Asbury Park; Mr. and be opened wide to highly qual- his education. , Community Center, Thursday lic relations director of Mon- He said he slammed on his tfrs. PaulT. Ryder and Thorn- et with an attached platform ified individuals. . OFFICE HOURS brakes when he saw the Les- 30-by-20-feet. It-will have Dail;. and Saturdays evening. The entertainment mouth Memorial Hospital, said on Ryder, Miss Mary Parent, Individuals desiring r.ddl- IT. S. Coast Guard offers a and a baby parade ras given it has cost the hospital about wlewlcz car suddenly appear 1 modern facilities,, fluores- 9 A4! to 6 P.M. Thomas V. B. Ryder, Miss tlonal facts oh the aviation ca- six-month active duty pro- . Frldajn 9 A M to? PM. tjy the young.people. on Church St., but skidded in- orn smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. >nt lighting, bank-type coun- det pilot training program and 185 a day for his care. to the Spotswood driver's ve- rs and air conditioning. The gram,, for high school gradu- Closed All Day Wednesdays The 10 babies who partici- ugh Ryder, Red Bank. its entrance qualifications are ates. Contact the recruiting of- She said the hospital has hicle, striking it on the left rm of lease is 15 years, with urged to contact Sgt. Soboul at pated were Derrick James, spent $5700 to date on the boy. Also Mr. and Mrs. Roland fice at the Red Bank Post Of- 30 W. Front St., Side. ' m n one, David Bmmons, .wo five-year renewal options. the U. S. Air Force Recruiting r Willette Hill, Donna Parrish, He requires round-the-clock will be located on Willow fice, or visit the recruiter at Keyport - Llnda-Mackason, p or 1 e n e jlnda Eramons, Mr. and Mrs. 7 : Office; Room 8, Post Office the Keyport P o s t Office on nurses, has already received e.-, next to the Edison Building, Red Bank. KEyporT 7-2020 Ffeof, Httrfy:;pal1ender, jr., >ne skin "graft with more con- Atlantic Highlands To SdwardC. Welgand, Mr. atfil Monday. .Irs. T. Fred Young, Miss lank. Allen Lawson, Willie Blake, emplated, Postal service now is main- Richard Anderson and Dar- The $081, slated for the hoB-Hold Fireworks Show ancy .Young, Mrs. Harry Area Residents On rawford, tit. and Mrs. Har- lined for Edison Township lene Braxton. Prize winners lital, was collected during a \ • rom the residence of the post- MCOSS Appeals Group- were' Derrick James, first ecent James Booket Day Fireworks will bring the y S. Willey, Miss Carole Mrs. James Purdy. Holm- PERCE STRING*" SfULTZ ray, Hillary Cummons, Miss laster, Sdward Collins, on prize: Wlllett Hill, second rive from the following .Fourth of July to a fitting and lalnfleld Ave. When opened, del, and Mrs. J. D. Tuller prize; Donna Parrish, t bird ichools: Union Beach, St. Jo- traditional close at Atlantic Marilyn Walling, Miss Berria- lne Stopkle, Keyport: Miss the new post office will take Llncroft, arc among those am. wo prize. All other entrants re- ieph's Parochial, Key- Highlands. A glgnntlc display ver the branch post office serving on the special appeals ceived consolation prizes.. ort, Matawan and Matawan will light the skies over Sandy oanne Hess, James Rellly, Hook Bay, beginning promptly south Amboy; Mis3 Heather ow serviced at Nixon from committee of the Monmouth The senior women wish to Township Schools, Morganyllle tew Brunswick and some ot county Organization for Social STUL1Z3 'thank all those whose Interest 3rarnmar 8chop 1 and St. at 9:30 p.m. An "extravagan- Stokes. Haddonfleld.------za ot more than an hour" has e Highland Park and Me- Service, at-their annual bene- made the affair «f success. Mary's South Amboy. Also Mrs. George M. Dun- Aichen RFD routes. I been promised by the munici- an, Mr. ar.d Mrs. Martin J, fit at the Neptune Music Cir- pal hmbor commission, spon- tl ^i children, cua,:July 15, MCOSS has .taken sor of the fireworks. the entire house" fpr the-Open- Martin and Judy, - Mr. • a n Bus Twhoo-tBB~3ropklyn A buffet supper at Jumping relief the 500. craft normally Duncan and George M. -Dun- Dodgers will play the Milwau- Brook Country Club, Neptune, berthed and moored in the can, in, all of Mata wan;,Mrs kee Braves. Buses will leave will precede the performance. harbor. Reservations for theatre w Frank Hyer, Mrs. JjFrank 'ete's Hall, Florence Ave., ,r r J, \ OIL BURNING tOUtPMENTi-SERVICE Spectators from throughout Welgand, William Welgand Union Bench, at 11:30 i.m.tickets and the buffet are be- 4> 1-11Q4 \ FUEL O:IS-• KEROSENE • COAL SAVE ing taken at MCOSS Leadquar- Tickets still are a-'allable, by Monmouth County are expect- Carl Laursen, Miss Kathle •213 BROAD Street •'•TUiffxvit ed to throng to the harbor, Woolley, Dr. Asher Yaguda contacting Ernest Englard or ters, 141 Bodman PI., En where parking areas qan ac- and Mrs, Yaguda, Mr. -and William Wright. Bank. commodate, more ..than.. 1000 Mrs. John T.Ackerson and ,carg. Others will view the dis- Miss Betty Jean Young, Haz- play from atop Mount Mitch- let, ell, highest point on the Atlan- tic Coast from Maine to Flor- ida. On Committee Miss Dolores Cordta, S«3 First Annual Supper Main St,, Keansburg, employ ed at the Red Bank office The Ladies Auxiliary of th the Monmouth County Nation- Union Beach Doutlng an al Bank, Is a member of the HUGE Fishing Club will serve It hospitality committee for the first annual supper on Satu Regional Conference oI.Nem day at 6:30 p.m. for member, Jersey Chapters, District and their families only. T h American Institute of Banking PROFITS! supper will be held at the clul The conference Is scheduled ,U house on Center St. Tlcke start Saturday at the H o t e Largest Operation may be purchased at the doo President In Atlantic City. Of Its Kind... Worth Much Bmm» bNutjr Uul know to* to work—UM WtlnirW Cum Cvrierl "More! 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Sons Of American Legion Croup Bible School For Fire Department Law Partners To Formed By Laurence Harbor Post Methodist Church News Iu Matawan Move Offices The Sons "of the American to senior high school class Plans are being made by Offices of Melvln A. Phllo June 2T, 1«S7 Legion Squadron of Laurence age. They will be eligible for the Rev. Fred Bowen, pastor and Herbert R. llothenberfr. Tan Slat Harbor Post'332, Jlepartment the five-star award for show- of the Morganvllle Methodist Thla column Instituted at who have formed the law of New Jersey, was organized ing perfection in the five-point Church, to have a Bible Vaca- the request of the Matawan Thursday evening in the Le- program of service which in- tion School for two weeks be- Fire Department will be pub-partnership ot Phllo and Roth- Area Residents gion Home, Summerfleld Ave., cludes patriotism, citizenship, ginning July 8. Dally sessions •bed monthly to Inform the enberg. will be located at 28 Laurence Harbor. discipline, leadership, and le- will be from 9 a.m. to 11:30 sldents ol the - borough ot West Front Bt., Keyport, on 1 Rollln E. Rathbun, SAX: gionism. They are to'take an a.m. e meetings And activities of Visit Watcnvitcli chairman, was assisted by An- July l. The newly redecorated active part hi the observance le Fire Department, lnclud- Mr.'and Mrs. Joseph ^ drew Carver and Jack Olsen The I. A. H. Club of the Mor- ig Its companies and aaxtl- in the preparation and super- of all holidays, national, relig- and family, Westfleld, jnd Mr." ious tmd special, and be en- ganvllle Methodist Church will irlos. vision of the 25 charter mem- spend Tuesday at , Windward and Mrs. Paul Blahota. Jr., bers, who range in age from couraged, to form athletic The following member* of and Miss Mary Lou Dlahota, teams. Beach,-The group will leave six months to 19 years. . , the church at 10 a.m. and re- he Matawan Fire Department and John Blnliota, Browntown, Election of officers was' held Platoon C will include, from turn at 4:30 p.m. The trip will ave successfully completed a spent Saturday as guests of and Joseph John DiQiovannl, firstyear-of-school to 12-years- be made In private cars with course In fire fighting at the their uncle, A. Ballnt, and Laurence Harbor, was named of-age. Their 10 ideals are pa- Mrs. Raymond Weniel, advis- Monntoulh County Firo C o 1- Mrs. 8. BMBCBII, Wttterwltch, captain; Joseph John Mollis, triotism, health, knowledge, or to the club, in charge. lege: Midway Hose Company- Atlantic Highlands, at an out- Laurence Harbor, first lieuten- training, honor, faith, helpful- Alfred Adler, Lawrence Bach- door barbecue and awlmroln? ant; Kollin ,E. Rathbun, jr., A covered dish supper In man, George Petrosky, Louis ness, courtesy, reverence and honor of the installation, of new party. In the evening, Mr. and. LaTUrence Harbor, second lieu- comradeship. They also will Pazlcnea and John Chochi; Mrs. llahota attended a birth- tenant; Jolm Robert DiCiovan- officers was held at the June observe holidays and partici- 19 meetlrj of tho Ladies Aux- ock Si Ladder-Vcrnoa Elli- day party for L. A, Dtckenton, nl. Laurence Harbor, adjut- pate la learn-to-swlm. c am- son, William For man, Fred ant; William Lawrence Fos- iliary of the Morganvlllo Vol- Mldtllctown. ' paigns. and such contests as unteer Fire Co, in the fire Forman, Joseph Kaclrek, Nick ter, Laurence Harbor, finance training, honor, faith, helpful- 'ranclsco! Haley Hose Com- officer; Francis Michael house on Tennent Rd. Mlas Albert Hopkins. Browntown, ness, courtesy, reverence and Palma Blllottl was presented Uny-Jlmmy Hourlhan, J o o acoarella, Qeorue Viator, gud Miss Pain U n a n o y, A~U,i ICIMIIKJ, LuureuCC HsrbOlT comraacsnip. Tiiey also will with a wedding gift from tho Princeton, were sponsors fo r . s erg tin t-at-arms; Jack observe holidays and partici- organization and a donation of 'at Longo, John Whelan, An- gelo BcalEo. Many of these Patricia Aim Hopkins, dnuuh- George Olsen. Cliff wood pate in learn-to-swlm cam' 150 was given the firemen to ter of Mr. and MrB. Richard Beacb, chaplain, and Russell palgns, and such contests as be used for electric lights. men Also attended the Fir e College Field Day and won » Hopkins, Cream Ridge, at Uift Jerry Nannarello, Cllffwood, bicycle riding, roller skating, "When toy Want Ad said bring two character DcDots Methodist Ciurth, - historian. Morganvllle Cub Scout Pack prize In A contest there. soap sculpturing, carving, ar- references — I meant other than members of your baseball team defeated the St. llolmcaon, by Dr. Harrison 9. All male descendants, adopt- chery tournaments, marble own family!" Mary's team, Ke/port. at the On June 6th Hook and Lad' Decker, district superinten- tournaments, etc. ler and Haley Hose Company ed sons and stepsons of mem game on Monday nlgbt. Mor- HERBERT B. BOTHKNBERQ dent, Sunday. The Infant is At* bets of the American Legion, Platoon D is for members ganvllle played a home game lad a Joint drill where they bert Hopkins' niece. Ahd auch male descendants of below six-years-of-age. This at the DeVltte Military Acad- iractlced with charged lines office ipaco formerly housed Mrs, Nicholas Arnco »nd 'rom ladders. veterans who died in service group will enjoy flag drills emy field on Wednesday with the Keyport staff ot the Pru-son, James, attended the Mid- during World War I, World and patriotic pageants suitable LH Lions Club Firemen To Take the same team. On June 10th Chief Frank dential Insurance Co. dlesex County Extension Coun- War EC, the Korean Conflict, or for their age, and participate On Monday night Mr. an d dray, Jr., had ft combined fire cil 411 Club outdoor supper , who died subsequent to- their in toy contests and a toy rhy- Installs Officers Part In Parade Mrs. Robert Owens, Tennent drill at the Matawan Publlo Mr. Phllo and MV? Rothen- Thursdny evening nt the Loif honorable discharge from such thm band. Other activities for Rd., entertained In celebration School. Attending this d r 11 berg have been associated to- Cabin, Rutirorl Agricultural service, will.be eligible for this group Include pet shows Officers of the Laurence The regular meeting of the of their son, Ronald's, gradu- were Cllffwood Volunteer Fire gether in their Keyport prac- Farm, New Brunswlok, membership in "The Sons of soap bubble contests, and toy Harbor Lions Club were In- Cllffwood Volunteer Fire Com- ation from the eighth grade Company, Oak Shades Fire tice since July 1048, Mr. Phllo, Miss Marilyn Oiuib, daugh- The American Legion." races. stalled Monday evening at the pany was held Tuesday even- Their guests Included Mr. andCompany, Freneau Indepen- Shore Point Inn, Keyport. ing in the Cliffwood Fire ter of Mr. and Mrs, Herbert .The members are to be di- The athletic program for all Mrs. Martin Smith, sr., Mr dent Fire Department, a 11 Oaub, recently returned home vided into age groups, Platoon age groups include baseball, Edwin Baumann, Past Dep- House. Final plans were made and Mrs. Martin Smith, Jr borough equipment and one for the centennial celebration ftom a plane trip to Nassau, " A being from senior high football, volley ball, handball, uty District Governor, led the and children, Miss Elizabeth piece of apparatus from Key- Tho Bahamas. of the Township of Matawan. port to stand by for emergen- school class age and upward. basketball. IcittenbaU, hockey installation committee from Owens, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mr. and Mrs. Paul Blnhota, The greatest responsibility of Junior golf, photography, ten- the Sayrevllle Lions Club, to be held Thursday, Friday Miller and children, all of Mor- les. This drill showed com- and Saturday, July 4, 5 and 6, K., Mr. and Mrs, Paul Bluho- ••-this:age group is that of fur- nis, ping pong, soccer, boxing, which also Included Edward ganvtlle and Mr. and Mrs.plete co-operation between the tn, Jr., and son, Jolm, spent nlabing a squadron leadership wrestling, pushmoblle and Melrose, William Bailey and All members now are com-Thomas Smith, Keyport. three towns In tho event of an pletely uniformed for the cen- Sunday visiting Mr. and Mri. and leadership for the lower- scooter races, horseshoe pitch- Carl Gilbert, past presidents. Mra. Martin Smith, Jr., en- emergency. ' Joseph llnkac* »nd family, age platoons. Their activities Ing, swimming, and model air- tennial parade to be held Sat- The new officers are Wil- urday, July e. tertained on Tuesday evening Hook It Ladder Auxiliary Clrccn Island. John remained shall Include a model airplane plane building. liam Coleman, president; Ar- in celebration of Mr. Smith's ended Its present season with to spend tho week ns a gueSt. •„ "Program, amateur radio, pho- Meetings will be held t h The company has an- and Donnle Miller's birthdays. tography contests, S.A.L. Rifle nold Lauer, first vice presi- an annual dinner on June 10th Sunday evening, Uifl Illfthotn* first and third Saturday after- dent; Walter Harris, second nounced to the residents of the Present were Mr. and Mrs t the American Hotel, Free- visited Mr. and Mrs, J»»K '" Clubs, Americanism councils, noons in the Legion Home. In- midnight point area of Cliff- Martin Smith, ar.v Vivien and -national oratorical contest, 'ice president; William -Koch, hold. Ki'ulak, Freehold, . '•*•'• stallation will be held Satur- third vice president; John Dl- wood Beacb that a new fire | Michael Owens, Mr. and Mrs. Congratulations to Mntawan Junior baseball. Legion serv- day at 2 p.m. followed by Cilovannl, treasurer; Kenneth alarm box has been Installed : John Wilson, jr., Mr. and MM, ice," Participation in Boys' buffet supper. on the corner of Lakcshore Donald Miller and son, Mr, Township on their 100th anni- .State' and S.A.L. caiqp counci- McKenzle, secretary; James versary which will be celebrat- lors or assistant counselors. Eligible residents may con- Armstrong, tall twister, Dr.. and Laurelhurst Dr, Ti" and Mrs. Clifford Relchenber- ed on July 4th, 6th nnd Oth, Can tact the chairman or any and Caslmtr Samolyk, lion call codes are 4-2, ger and son, and Martin III, with a big pnrude on tho 6lh Platoon B will include mem- member of his committee for tamer. Isadore Qnrber and All members and friends of Christine Anne, and Barbara In which all members of tho bers, from 12-years-of-oge up further details. Donald Macrae were elected the Cllffwood Fire Company jynn'Smlth. Department arc Invited to par- children get to the board of directors for a ore cordially Invited to visit A social gathering was held ticipate. Be at your firo house wo-year term. the fire house on Saturday at the homo of Mr. and Mrs,no later than 11:45 a.m, on MFJA'IN A. I'lllLO cancer? Pakistan Girl Visits . Ruth Crawford Given Retiring president Johh pi- nightrJuly 6. Joseph Guth, Jr.,. Harbor Rd. Saturday, JKilyJth, If you wish County Scout Council Reader's Digest Award Giovanni presented the presi- ~Ffre~"ciii6"YofHfie Wir COAL PRICES Ihii Is the time to buy — before hot weather comesl Soe us for our special price, Now you can choose fust the, model you want Put «n Wa-MJMi tiM» ahewa. twi * G*t prompt Installation ... No delays or discomforti HoMll't tteuUlnw XI binol Cut «ll <>» GOING UP JULY 1st • Hutftincr 303Slld« Projtttof natural color and .hid Utu'l in your tilf. Brilliant XOwut piolaetisn. 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Swartzel, Jr. 267 Main St, Front St. * RYAN BROS Ifolmdel ltd. at Kit, 4cr**t From fUftarnr til Br»*d HI., • llailet KKS-II** KB M1H ^MAT 1-1.857 rwon. 119 Main St. MotaWan KE 7-2104 KE 7-1109 m ••"' «\y '•'••' • • M Save Last Year's Baseball Teams Sponsored By Matawan Township PAL Atlantic Tile LObKING IT OVER Clings To Lead Hunting License Matawan-Keyport softbajl MONMOUTH PARK had over Keyport, Allan turned up Dr. A. Heaton Underbill. Dt. in the current Jersey 8 h o T e rector, State Division of Fistt Fare Twelve June 27, 1957 League pennanferace e r e^w ieen operating for 11 racing tighter this week as the lea- lays as this was written over League baseball «eason play- and Oame, Department of gue-leading Atlantic Tile Co. weekend. Racing li not ing first base for the Freehold Conservation and Economlo team was defeated for the uite on the same early-season Legion team..Allan wa« first PAL Nine Looks first time. Fiber C h e m 1 ' » 1 ane as It was last year. In Backer' for the Matawan High Development, today urged urned the trlcfc. 8-3. This put 58, a total of 42 Javorites, nine of 1955 that stretched the young hunters who plan to To Oriole Game he Tilemen only half a game lad come In to win after 102 MHS diamond streak to 35 hunt next fall not to throw Matawan Township PAL ihead of Smokey's-SUver Dol- aces or an average as high as »tralght before bowing to away last year's hunting li- baseball team moved ahead in r, Keyport. The battle foT per cent, quite unusual.' Perth Ambqy 3-1 In the Tri- rst place between the -two his was attributed to the fact Cpunty Beml-final, Allan ex- cense. Little Bigger, League play this Dr. Underhill declared that •week, winning two games to iok place nlHazleiZFAie ,hat Jimmy Stout had Just re- pects to enroll at Trenton recover from their bod start o. field Monday nlgbt. Atlan- ired and Willie Hartack had State College next fall where unless persons between the; when they werejshurout by Ic Tile edged It out, 7-8. lulled out, leaving Sammy he will be a classmate of Bob age of 14 and 21 can produc* tho Keansburg Yankees. They Both games were tense loulmetls without a truly.. up- Gold, Maroon and Steel pitch- a 1958 hunting license when, trimmed Highlands, l:3, be- ruggles. The Fiber Chemical ront rival as a jockey there, er of last season. Incidentally, they file an application for a. hind the slants of Jack YateS layers picked up single .runs [e accordingly won 30 out of Bruce Phillips,: who caught for 1957 license, they will be re- last week, then scored 0 v e r i each of the first three inn- is first 91 races and the pub- the Keyport Baseball Club in quired to undergo a course: in. •- the powerful StiJMary's, New gs. Hits by Tom Garito and c plunged oh his horses'. driV- tie Jersey Shore loop last sea- hunter safety instructions in/ Monmouth, combine, Monday, 'ony Rosato gave them one g some down to favorites son, now is backstopplng for gun safety. 6-5, in a game held to four- the first, Julie Rosato's at would have won at higher the Freehold nine -and the The law provides that an ap- lomer was another in the sec- rices with other jockeys. This plicant for a 1957 license to end-one-half innings due to ear only 23 favorites came in Holmdel boy expects to get a darkness. nd. Atlantic Tlie scored in the tryout with the Philadelphia hunt, who is above the age of third on a brace of walks and Win after the first 88 races, 14 and below the age of 21, ' The big objective of the PAL uttlng the fthillies July 2. So also will team now is the game with. wo infield outs, but Fiber percentage to 28 must produce a 1956 hunt- he'm had their third run on e cent. Jack McCarthy, ace hurler for the Matawan Orioles, defend- But 24 Second Freehold Regional High last ing license, or a cbrtificata - ing champs of the league. Bilottl'a double and Tony ibolces came in to win, so the stating he has completed sat- HBalse's single in the third, spring who now hurls for the The Orioles played at Belford Tlie boys on this Little Bigger League team, have their team equipped by funds raised by icrcentage for the first two county seat legionnaires. Dave isfactorily a course in g u n Monday night and led, H-8, the Matawan Township Police Officers Benevolent Association and they are managed by * rrors permitted Fat Longo aces was over 50 per cent, safety. • patrolman on the force. , nd Tony Nappi to score tying Cashill, a Robertsvllle b"oy, when the game had to be call- The team, left to right: Kneellnr: Joseph Willett, Charles Garafano, Charles Hanson, ot bad for the form players, who played with Freehold Re It also was announced any ed on account of darkness. It uns for Atlantic in the fourth, loulmetls was not doing so Michael Hanson, Richard Banger (mascot, sitting), Garden Sutherland, Richard Vena, Larry ut then, Boots Springsteen, gional, is getting a D o d g • r person in this age group who . will be resumes-Saturday. The Behr,' Patrolman Francis Cherney (manager). Standing: Charles Wathlngton, Frank Riccl, ood, for he had.13 winners in tryout today. has lost his previous license Orioles.won their first two m the mound for Fiber C,bem, a first 52 mounts or"one in John Kucharek, Roland Peterson, Donald DellaPletro, Robert Jackson, John Yates. Frank tare down to blank the league- Will be required to complete i games handily, defeating Lomond, another member of the squad, was absent when this picture was taken. mr tries against one In three the course in gun safety to Washington Forge, English- leaders the rest of the way.; ies last year. No one has The decisive blow came In FREEHOLD Is in the pro- qualify for a certificate. The town, and St. Mary's. ome along to replace Stout cess of planning an annual tUte Division of Fish and Junior Loop Formed lie fifth, It was a home run by nd Hartack, so Boulmetls The PAL players took the llottl with a man on. Fiber "Oldtlmers" day to bas e- Game does not keep records of measure of Jay Abbes, one of Vvo-Ycar-Olds . 6. Lions Lose till dominates the racing licenses issued in -previous Rarltan Bay Junior Lea- Jhem added two more on er- ball. Among those invited to the more promising younger cene. But his lesser success participate *re Hen D an e ears, because license stubs cue was organized formally ors by their opponents. This nan last year accounts for the pitchers In the area. The game Week At Track Their Pitcher nade the big upset victory and Art Manuel, Keyport, are recorded by issuing was tight all the' way. Bob Monday at a meeting at udden upsurge of horses that agents'- names rather than Pete's Hall, Union Beach, to late for them, and Tom Deitz, Matawan, as Jackson scored in the first for Horses new to the racing Union Beach Lions junior e second picks, mostly bayshore baseballers who unners. provide baseball for boys 1G- Ivtslon baseball team lost. torses that would beat his the PAL nine .on his hit, a sac- :ene will appear in the fea- : played on a Freehold team Young hunters also are ad- rifice and an overthrow. St. to-19 years of age in the bay*, -5, to the Aces at Belford Sun In the battle for first place nounts any day "if Jockeys re events at Monmouth Park Honday, Smokey's-Silver' Dol- In the days when semi-pro Ised by the state Division of Mary's had scored twice' in shore area. lay, In what will proba-bly be rei'e equal. ball flourished. It hardly Fish and. Game not to wait un- the first on a hit and two er- the next week. On, Satur- Six teams comprise the he last game Hank Gunsauls lar got away to a big first lnn- ,ng lead when Tony Stelfan, • * • seems possible that we til the upland game season i rors, so another PAL lun in ay the $20,000 added Colleen league. With their manag- pltch-lor some time. He should have to explain who draws near to, participate In the second on a walk to Chuck itakes for two-year-old fillies ers, they are Lou Man i's as slated to enter the armed itching for Atlantic, walked DOC CREAMER no longer ieveri of the first nine men to will .fashion championship the trio Invited are, but with the required Hunters Safety Hanson, an error and Larry Middletown Bombers, Phil rvices this week. the passing of time, they Course. Game wardens and li- Behr'8 hit tied the score at five-and-one-half furlongs Is Cassldy' I. Union Beach During the last week the ace him. Harry Andrews' rap basketball teams at St. Jo- :heduled. tot a run back for the league- seph's School, Keyport. Nor may have become no more cense agents are prepared to two-all. . • Lions, Ray Snover'g Belford ions also made their debut in than names to the present- furnish information on the pro-' The usual Wednesday mld- A.C., Lou Nahna's Holmdcl e N. J. Semi-Pro Tourney, eaders in the first. They wip- will he be sending' Red St. Mary's barged ahead :d out the 4-1 deficit in the Banlccatliollc High cage day generation. The three, 5inm as well as the names of eek feature is by-passed in Arrows, Ed Sanders M a t a- 'hey added Hank Cleary, Bll- with Stan Carhart, Keyport, a g a 1 n in the third, scoring Eastmond and George Ruth econd when Wheezer Burns, teams onto the court to keep instructors In each county. A three limes on three hits, a vor of an annual event for avan Rams and Ray Hays' lulling for Smokey's, also the Caseys respected f o e- and Hank Schanck, Mata- letter to the State Division of Keansburg Crescents. Jack their lineup for this' joust walk, and an error. The PAL uly 4, which falls on a Thurs- truck a wild streak, forcing men In the tough Catholic wan, were .without peers in Fish and Game at Trenton al- Moody, superintendent of :YO team. South River, but It baseball in this area. Beine Knlayers got a run back In their ay this year. This-race, is 'lth the B e n 1 o r St. Mary's in a run with passes. Gene Di- H-l g h Schools competitive so will bring the required in- Tialf of the Inning on Wathlng- tho Mlddlctoivn Township jlambattista then cracked out circuit. Doc has taken Job invited also to play in Free- formation to the young hunter. he Tyro Stakes, at $'20,000 Recreation Commission, was iled to help them in the com- hold are Hank Petty and Joe ton's lilt, a walk to G a r d e n ie'tltion with-the senior grade double to seep the sacks and with the new Notre Dame Sutherland, and an error. dded, f o r two-year-old colts named commissioner of the wo more runs counted on hits High School in North Tren- Stryker, who played for the ipositlon. Chet Kolo, the bur- 1 Braves when they were in Car Overturns v Then they "came from behind hd geldings, Tlie holiday pro- league, righthander of the South iy Nappi,. Steffan and An- ton, ' to open this coming a second time in the fourth Itlazzl Is chairman of the Irews. Home' runs by Charlie September. He will be head Boston, and Dave Cashlon,' rnm goes beyond the event of lver team, had no trouble in in charge of arrangements, Harold Crlne, 46, Broadway, for the winning margin. A league and Cassidy, vice lahklng them, 10-0, as his fast Vailing in the third and Butch basketball coach. It is easy walk' to Behr, Jackson's hit IO Fourth to include three days chairman. "Snover will serve 3ouchard tied the game at six- to understand'" why he made Is going a long way back to Keyport, w.'a s admitted to e :shot third strikes past 17 bring back sterling stryker, Monmouth Memorial Hospital, and a hit batsman loaded tho handicap feature racing, the as secretary and Nanna. as ut of 27 Union Beach batters ill, but Atlantic pulled out the the' change, aside ffom the bases. Another walk forced In mg-fellow, a turf race at $20,- treasurer. Inning run in the sixth on advantage In salary that he Atlantic Highlands, who with head and face injuries face him. suffered when liis, car over- a run, then Watblngton. crack- DO added for three-year-olds The season will start July Its by: Ang Sca!zo,JUmgo.-and no doubt will be gaining. L p.l.a y- e-d...with >lhe-Glants— nd up at a mile being listed' 7. Each team will be^unl- A.homcrJjy_ Jim.Inman, for- larmen bavtno. N6tfe"~Dame~'H|gh" will "have" Pittsburgh"and-St- Louis back turned when he foiled-to nego-- ir"July 5 and the Mblly^Pltch- formed and Insured. The lea- icr South Amboy High star, in the enrly 1920s. Vlnnie tiate a curve on Route 79 la two more runs and win his Atlantic Tile Co. (8) facilities lor athletics in gen- Timberman, Bert Humph- Marlboro Township Sunday own game. : Handicap, a $25,000 added, gue will play American Lea- lth a man on in the first put 'ush for fillies and marcs, ab r h eral and basketball In par- ries, and Johnny Paladlno night. Members of tho Mor- 'Matawan PAL (0) l gue rules and have nuld CYO team on its way to ticular that will outstrip ree-years-old. .and up, is on ictory against the slants of' •ndrews, lb 4 2 2 are other former minor lea- ganville First Alft Squad ab r h umpires. those of most colleges. A gue players from this area le card for July 0. unsauls and Cleary. The olta, 2b ' . ,3 0 0 transported Mr. Crine to t h » Bob Jackson, ss 3 2 2 coach -will havo every facil- who have consented to par- hospital1. Meanwhile all eyes will to? Ions will try their luck again zo, ss 1 ity with which to .w or k. Peterson, lb .,.. 2 1 ,p ils weekend in tourney play, ticipate. . .. • M. Hanson, c i 0 0 Joking ahead to the primary estlnp, rf . 3 Creamer has roots in the ont of tlie Monmouth Park Sunday Racing Gunsauls' final''-pitching ef- C. Wathlngton. p 2 1,0 jongo, If ! 2 area,'so to speak, for he was NOVA.SCOTIA-bound vaca ;eason,, the $100,000 added irt for the. Beacho'rs faltered brought to St. Joseph's from DellaPletio. cf 10 0 i the final inning alter CoacM. )avino, cf, 2 tlonlsts who might want to Monmouth Handicap to be runBack At Stadium ilGlambattlstai'3b • 3 coachine a seminary team in stop off to watch a game of Sutherland, cE ' ,10 0 July 13. . - hll Cassidy's club had led Princeton. Red Bank Catho- "C. Hanson, If ~1~ 1 0 ; Stock car racing goes on full lost of the way, appi, 3b 3 ball pitched by Hal Del.M, Three top-flluht stakes-win- lic wlll-.be In a bad way In Vena, rt . 2 0 0 summer schedule this week Tho Beachers got away to 3teffdri, p ' . •• "'• 3 Matawan, .'are advised .that the ning fll!lCB head the list of the coming year for Joe Bol- name of the town whfire .fce is. Beer, 3U , .I'll end with,Sunday;night in ad< heaead on n.run in the "third! gen.-lts director 01 athletics nominees to the Colleen, Mrs. 23 db'ipir.mound^dujy jn^tlie Noya, AUTHORIZED B Wfa . ^BM W DEALER New Jersey Na turd I Gas Co. FARMERSeMERCHANTS TRADING'S THRRIFIC RIOHT NOW. Edwardsen Faces received Beach •without her husbmd duce tfct discounted " LEGAL NOTICE Cites Wrong Date, building sUg i Probation For »nd bad had two drinks. sUwment" ln court »» indicat- Stato Prison Term seven permits issued during Slept, Soundly ' ing be must have known It Being the »ame premlie* conveyed (continued from page one) o the iaid Annie L. S. Tienl and May for »52,925 worth of Dew The Keyport lawyer also got was a negotiable Instruments] :smt» Trent by Deed dated June 15. Charges Squashed Edward R. Edwardsen, 34, tbe bouse at that hour. .She he was signing, Magistrate «« nd recorded In Book 1448 oi construction. cknowledgement from Mrs. for M^vmoulh County on PBBC of 765 Sherwood Dr.', Clilf- Dog Packs Running protested her love tor too child Calamari she had slept sound- Foster said he would dismiss Motion by Vincent DeMalo, wood, Monday received a two- and said she was only oppos- he case July" 9 unless the uno 27, 1057 Fifteen Matawan. attorney, to dismiss A complaint by W1111 am y from the time her husband SECOND TltACT to-U>ree»ye*r state prison term ing tt be taken from its horns MomnouUi County Prosecu- remises situate lying and being m all charges against his client, after being convicted of re- Beedle, 5 8 Ravini e Dr., that eft until 11 a.m. the next day tor's Office found reason for Tuwntltlp of Matawaii, In the Mrs. Lillian Nelson, Woodbine dog packs were running at in the middle of the mght. when he returned with Capt. J, inly bt Monmouth and State of LEGAL NOTICE ceiving $351.50 worth of stolen Under examination by his the action to be continued. .-.v Jcraey, known and dt'SiKilBUn Dr., CUffwood Beach, was large la his neighborhood TU Edgar Wilkinson, townsl.lp po- JII a.map entlUed "Map ot Clitiv.'u&d goods. His wife, Eileen, 30, attorney, Benjamin Kantor, HelKhta. iltuatsd at ClUIwood. Man' .cutrlx uf th« rRlale of the nuld granted by Magistrate Luther referred to the police depart- lice. Mr. Kantor wanted to Magistrate Foster gave sus- 1 Valter A. Newman, deccuned, notice who was convicted of the same Keyport, Mr. Calarmari said pended sentences to wilrai mouth County,. New Jersey ' IHIHV in A. Foster, Matawan Township, charge Jujie 4, received a sus- ment. Mr. Beedle maintained knov- if Mrs. Calamart were ;he office of the Clerk of MnnmuUlh a liertby Hlvtn to the creditors ol Thursday. Mrs. Nelson was ar- that tbe packs menaced traf- his wife apparently came s concerned as she claimed Lester and Jether Thompson, ?ounty on July 12, lull, Mnp no.mid dfcoitKftl to present to the said pended indeterminate term to home in an ugly mood and .4. L»t> Nat.1. Lot sa uinek "I" aa ilo JSxecutrlM thtir claimt under' raigned under the township or- fic, otiier dogs and small chil- to be about the child's w e 1- both of CliffwooiS, for causing ith wUliin six tnonVhs from this Clinton Reformatory. Both had pushed him and the child laid down on said map loiicther with dinance for using oflensive dren in the area. He urged an are. why she had slept sound- a disturbance at Flo's Bur &III rlRl.t. title one] Intonhi I,,- and to late,- • ' : • sentences were imposed by tteti; June i. 1S9T out of bed. Re said he was Orlll, ln an alleged scuffle ilia future roads and avenues adjoin s and abusive language In a Monmouth County Judge Elvln Immediate and continued pa- y all that time without Inquir- K tu.th* renter line thereof. , M^rlw AivU«nvtte Newman, way to disturb the peace. trol of the borough due warden hurrying with only his trousem ing as to h e r daughterjs over a watch. Ruth Johnson, DolniJ tlio s*ni4 im-mlncs cotiveyeit IS futintaln Avenue, R. Simmlll. in the area. and one shoe on to get away whereabouts. also charged, was dismissed „ James mid Annfti Trent by Deed Matawuit. N. J. The complaint was made by riotnl Miiy SS. lu.iil ami rec»rne SAVE Lancaster Brand Ready-to-Eat, "Shankless" GREEN STAMPS Smoked Hams FOR PICNIC Shankless Biitt Portion Portion ITEMS! Ib. Ib. Outdoor Grills, 1% Books 29 Picnic Baskets, 4!4 Books 39 Whole or Full Half 59c, Cenfer Slices 99c : THERMOS SHANKLESS, this means the shank end is removed along with excess fat. To begin with, it's cut from young, tender porkers, Untrertal, pair of smoked s-l-o-w-l-y to give that distinctive, old-fashioned imoked ham flavor. When you buy a Lancaster Brand you get the finest! pint vacuum bot- tl« MKI ribbed $ KRMS HOUPAY VIKQINIA BAKED COM, plastic cups. CANNED HAMS JK1 5.29 Mb. IIM •3.55 10-lb. •!» »99c |i/4 Books Oven Ready f» |A« many, many Bther feature! nan 4 to 16 lbs. 1 •I four nearby S&H Stamp Redemption 43 Store. The pick of the nation's finest flocks! Enjoy a delicious turkey for Sunday dinner! Broad breasted, giving you more white meat! FICTION TL___ Lancaster Brand . —-Stories by 3 Famous Authors "U. S. Choice'Beef" Ib. v * MARGARET CU1XIN BANNING 39 "It's Different in New York" Lancaster Brand Chuck Roast Is mighty mouth-watering fare — always tender, juicy, f la vorsome! * FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES • "Bestlesa lady" PCARL S. BUCK Boneless Cross Rib Roast £?&«- lb. 79c "Honeymoon Blues" Legs or Rumps _' . _ . - NOW C ON tM> ^FROSTED FOOD FEATbltES Veal Roast - 49 fast© O' Sea "! SALE For a tasty change for Sunday dinner. Fraiikfurterc"N"STH1 "*F£?9k WhitinjrFillet & 35c p Potato Salad 29c Lobster Tails lOVi-or. 89c Tatte O' Sea Cole Slaw iS£2i.w 29c Fish Sticks Big 16-ox. pkg. 49c m> jTntanmimMftWtBmiiimwuiiirunn Jim FROZEN FOODS HORMEL BINEST FRESH FRUITS AlSD VEGETABLES Complete Chicken Dinner BIRDSEYE •.•edn : All for SPAM FRYER ^ IDEAL IDEAL Brand . $|29 PEAS !^'" IDEAL FRENCH •«m Complet* 85 RIPE FRIES - Packag* Vacuum packed. Our finest quality.. Specially priced. Buy more and save. PACKER IDIAL Apple Sauce'>'and 4'^49c Mayonnaise •"£ i« 37c T 65c Watermelon LABEL ORANGE JUICE Evap. Milk "3* 6 «", 75c Charcoal tl. 32c '^ 77c or IDEAL b Halves 45e BRAND MlllC Carnation, N«ill« Jte.ni 4<3C Briquets " , 47c LEMONADE each Quartan 25« Miracle Whip t 33c T 55c Tuna Fish "Vlr : For a fine flavor, lip smacking treat. Ydur c Round th* 46-01. Chotco Apricot-Orange Juice Clock cant' 10-99 Plums Buy now and save at this special low price. Hand ^ 614rbx, ^| C# Fancy Stuffed Olives Pfaced ' poll *#«#* Limes for Ideal Sliced 15-ox. 5 19c IO-OI. Hunt's Fruit Cocktail 2 cans' 39c iii.ii Strawberries 2 pkgi. 39c 8-OI. Hunt's Tomato Sauce 6 cant • 49c ••;•• _;./•.;;.' - •. DAIRY "" . ••• .. . : , BAKERY . MAYONNAISE Ideal Fresh, White, Grad $e A Pullet • Danfih Pecan . - Hom-do-lit* $100 Ring 45c 10c Off Daol 3 T quart jar Strictly fresh. Rushed from nearby farms! Freih from oar own •»«# SALAD DRESSING Domestic Supreme Old Munich Swiss Cheese Ik. 49c Rye Bread Sharp Cheese ib 65c Produce and Buhery CIlflA* Kraft DeluneWMN 4Q«t € jrlcii tfftcllv through wllvvS or. colored. 8-ox. plcg. OuC Mm loaves 4# J : Sat., June 29lhf olhert : Kraft Fresh from our-owh bakery. Special! "Ham or through , Sal,, July 6th XJ1 Cheeze-Whii jar ch«ess on ry« lolvej your picnic problem! Shop at Your New Keyport Acme-Routes 35 and 36 Plenty Of Free Parking TOWNSHIP M AT AW A N THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION — PAGE ONI Matawan Township Created By Act Committee Planning Centennial Celebration Mayor Marz Describes Township's His Honor, Tho Mayor! From Portion Of Raritan In 1857 Past; Says Future Fairly Secure Extreme Northwest Municipality Lifetime Resident Has Served On In Monmoulh County; Borders Middlesex Governing Body Nearly 25 Years Matawan Township was cre- After nearly 25 years as a and Route 35 uml for years his ated Irom a portion ol Raritan member of the governing telephono wns the only one Township on Feb. 23, 1857. It Pageant Planned body, and a lifetime as a resi- within the radius of a mile oi Is the extreme northwest dent of tho Township of Mata- so and everyone wns permit- township In Monmouth County wau, Mayor John Main, Jr., and Matiuvan Township's west At High School qualifies as an expert on hap- cd to use It." The Mnyor has and northwest boundaries are penings past and present In tenod to ndd that the neigh- the county line of Monmouth Will Depict Events Uic township, bors usrd the telephone only and Middlesex. On the north- In Township History The affection and admiration In emcracnclcs, east it Is bounded by Baritan of his fellow townspeople are Nelthliurly Spirit Shown Bay, on the east by Baritan A capacity audience Is ex- reflected In the fact that he "An emergency call came and Holmdel. Townships and cctcd to attend the spectacu- hns been olectcd to tho Mtita- for my father from Now York on the south and southwest by lar pageant prepared for the wan Townslil|> Committee by nt two o'clock In tho morn- Marlboro Township. Matawan Township Centennial more than comfortable mar- ," M n y o r Mnra rotated, The=T0nty stream of any Im- Celebration d e p 1 c-t.l n g the gins for eight consecutive "Mr. Luesch got up out of portance Is Matawari^ Creek tories and glories of Mata- terms nnd has served as tho bed, dressed, wulkcd a dls from which the township de- van Township from Its early presiding officer since 1035. To lance of nbotil four city blocks rived Its name. ... : beginnings in the time, or the the casual observer, M.n-y.o r nnd delivered the lneBsago to Matawan,Township was cre- Indians until the present time; Marz nppciirs to bear -the my father. I wonder If any of JOHN MARK, JR. ated by an Act passed in 1857. he tableau, heralding the "weight of official duties light- us would do that today." Irst evening activity of the ly, but tho record of sti-ndy. which also created Holmdel As Mayor Mam grew up. ho Township, both" being formed lentennial Celebration, will be progress and modernlr.ntlon iff tho township proven Unit li 1 saw conditions In tho t o w tv of territory taken from Rari- lven at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, ship Improve* slowlj nnd than Over 6(1 Units In tan. • •.••"- * .•'."' ; .. : • uly 4, In the Matawan High lcadcrslp has been astuto - as well as iiopulnr. "tlio depression slopped us .-'••., Act Quoted ichool auditorium. cold." Ho recalled nt t h ft Grand Parade The portion of. the. Act r" re- The pageant, which will fea- time that out of a populntlon ure songs, dances and anlma- Mayor Mnir. during his ad ferring t o tha Township ol ministration lins seen M a tn 3200,-there were about "000 Many Bands -Will Matawan sets forth " All ion of. historic Incidents, which Relief nnd tnx collections •ere stepping stones in t h e wan Township grow from :•» that part ol the Township of The general committee, Including officers, planning tho three-day celebration to marl: very small rural nrcn, over- dropped to approximately 41 Be In Lino July 6 . Rarlton contained within the ilstqry of the township. Is un- the -centennial of the incorporation of the Township o(/Mnlawan Is plclurcd above. Heated lire, [er the direction of Mrs. .Her- In the usual order, Joseph Lovcro, treasurer; John Caracelolo, .corresponding secretary; i'aul Over OP..ludlvldunl. detach. , , following boundaries ar.rt lines Thomas Cahlll: Mrs. Ethel Boyle; Stephen I. Kallcta, Salvator'o Vena. oughs of Mntuwnn nnd Key- "Thul wns aboiit t-iio piotut'1 that Is to say, beginning In the lert Glttins, a member of the mcnlii, complete with apparat- Standing, left to right, are, John I). Kcnner; Jack Armltng«, vice clialrman; Mayor John port, to tho- present wltcn- It I took office in ID:H." ho us, lUixUliivleu, band iiul float! division line between the Town- Matawan High School faculty um lopped Matawan Borough Taking part In the presentation Marz. Jr., honorary chairman; John Nicholson, secretary; Roy Matthews, general chairman, said. "Wo were loaded down will step oft nmavtly nt I p.in, ships of Marlboro and Raritan and Philip Oumbs. • " populatlon-wisc nnd' etinallcd with tax arrears and Ilils situ- at the northeast corner of said of the pageant wilr be Mata- Balurdny, July 0, In tlio Drnnd Keyport, It also Is rapidly tvllon continued until nbo.u' Pnrndn which will bo n main Township of Marlboro, near an High School students, act- overtaking neighboring munic- al township figures who are 1030 when the defense, pro (datura In tlio MtUllwtin Town- the house of Samuel B e e.'r's Schedule Of Events ipalities In community devel- gram swung Into action a n from thence running in a nor- epicted in some of the scenes Early Entries In ship Centonnlnl Cclclirnllon, It entennial Group opment, . -. radically everyone could Ml WI\B announced by John II, therly direction in a straight nd semi-professional enter- Here's a handy timetable Barn In CHItlwooil of events scheduled tor the a ]pu, Then tax .opUecttona m Kroner, pnrndti eViiUvmavi uni - line to the intersection of the alners. Beauty Contest Mayor Marz was born In tho creased nud grndually t li road leading from Beers Cor- Tableaux will depict actlv- Matawan Township Centen- Completing Work Cliffwood section of tins town- Biniid mainlinU •_ —:.,<"--- nial celebration July 4, 5 township's financial posltlo ner to Mount Pleasant, .ties of Indians who inhabited Brunettes Dominate Various Committees ship whero his family owned a improved." Tho panda will form on At- with the road leading from the Matawan-Keyport area and and 6, . . large farin, He was tho son o( lanllu Avc. In from of III* ; Brown's P a i n t to Holmdel The Pretty Group . Thursday, July 4 Planning Celebration Blurts Operating Mntivwan Towunhlu Uo>\ R nl used a trail stretching from tbi tha \»V* Mr, anil MVB, Jo On I'.UBII Ua»l» . thence north along the center sea through M a t ft w.» n an< 10,»,tn.—Baseball •> m o. • i •:• VhoJJnp. ..fit. ""of" the Iast"namea f bad "to the -c Judges -who -are partial- to e¥wort^' Townrtrtp =Ma«r«r;rnnd-h»a tout- broth* fotfeom B"c\V "appibxirhlvVeiy iivb 7 Matawan' Townships to" the foot brunettes are going to have a 2 p.m.—B eaull Contest, people scurrying about very CM and four sistors. ITD.IB 'dilute the UiirHps," 'fti'd 'y imrndo is cchedulcd to' rridvir intersection of said road.; with hills, approximately four miles nuwrleil to UID former Miss the road leading from Median difficult time selecting a win- Cllffwood Beach Fool. / busily gathering material nnd or said, "About WO the Stale down Atlunllo Avc, W f,ow»r to the south, 7:30 p.m.—Fatreant, Mata- ads, havejn|y. _one _th!HK .. on Marjorio Anne Hamillpiu Legislature passed nn Act eiv Main St., nevosii Slx^ Corner!.... lcsvine"ts^ the "MtddletoNim •'••••' * Other. Tableaux in the '.'Miss Matawan Point and Keyport Plank Bd. wan High School Auditorium. their mind nbout now, and "1 can remember when nbllng munlclpnlllles of tho nnd up Broadway In (Cpyport Other tableaux, depleting thi Township" beauty contest 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. — Block that's a momentous occasion Route 36 was a snnd road. Tlio Ntatt o to loNue bondds to llnulnu - lo Went Vront Ht, Thou It will northwesterly direction In £ history or the township, wlli straight line to the north o which will be featured at the Dance, Cllffwood Fire House. which will bo celebrated by roads Uicn were Indlfforcnlly diitc oulntntidlng notrn. T h 1 s proceed nlonn Old Amboy nd, include the burial of private Matawau Township, July" 4, r>, mnlntalncd by the munlclpall (continued on page flvo) Mohlngson Creek, where II treasure by Captain Kidd, th beginning of the Matawan Friday, July 5 (coiuiuucd on page five) emptied Into Matawan Creek, Township Centennial Celebra- 10 a.m. _— Baby Contest, and 0, at Us centennial cele- tics. It was not even graveled 'irst purchase of ft tract o bration. .- .. . ,, and In about 1D08, If four oars down the middle of the Creek land which today comprise! tion; Three brunettes are Matawan - Keyport Recrea- where It empties into Raritan tion Center, Lower Main St. John Marz, Jr., Is honorary went along the highway past Township Plot In Borough Matawan Township by Henr; among the early entrants, ac- our farm that.was 'trcmond- Bay and Middlesex to the line !la.rk, the growth or tobacco 1 p.m. — Children's Rec- chairman of the committee; ol the^Townshlp o! Marlboro, cording to Mrs. Joseph Loef- reation Program, Cllffwood Roy Mat'hcyvs., general chair- ouo' traffic," Mayor Moris and brick Industry, entertain- nald. . (continued on page nine) ment In the community before fler, committee chairman. Avc. field. man; .Jack Armltngc, vice .(continued on page nine) "Miss Matawan Township" 9 p.m. • 1 a.m. — Block chairman;- J-o ha'-Nicholson, He recalled one s u m m er Dance. Oat Shades Fire- secretary; Joseph L o v e r o. when tho highway mill wan a will be selected at the Cliff- house, Loner Main St, \ treasurer and John Cartio- dirt ro&dvbut UftKlo Imd iilck- Baby Contest Part Recall Namqs Of A wood Beach Pool on the morn- Saturday; July 6 clolo, corresponding s e o r c- cd up a Jfttlo. Them was- n Half Century Ago ing of July 4. Tile girl select- 1 p.m. — Grand Centennial tary. .:• •[.• . • . • largo hole In tlio road direc- ed, as the prettiest among the Parade, starling at Atlantic tion opposite tho Marx farm, Of Celebration Numerous committees have "W h c n ll ruined the enrit Many present day resident entrants, will rclgn over the Ave. been set up by tho officers to 10 p.m. —.Mammoth Fire- would 'plop' Into the hole and To Select King, of Matawan',.Townshij) ha festivities during the three-day sco that each and every phase get stuck. Tim di Ivors -would their f jrebearers living In this" works Display, on the bench of the celebration will be Queen, Runners-Up celebration and will ride In a at Cllffwood Beach, get out, 'llni'ii (lusloi'.'i inul nil, same section over a half cen- handled with the utmost care. sco our farm house and come tury ago, it was revealed In a ;pecial car at the head of the On tho general committee aro • One of many highlights of th grand centennial parade July C •lor help. My fnlhrr woultl hook Matawan Township Centennial survey made especially for the Mr. Marz, Mr, Matthowa, Mr, up hit team of horsrn to Iho Celebration will be the b a b centennial celebration section The early, entries, all brun Block Danees, Armltage, Mr. Nicholson, Mr, front of the cars nnd "y n n k of The Matawan Journal. ettes, are'Carol Hammond, 14 Lovcro, Philip Dumbs, Paul them out.' This got to lin nui'l contest, sponsored by the La Thomas Cahlll, Btevc Kallcla, dies Auxiliary of the ,O a Among the prominent fam- year-old Cllffwood Bench beau- a frcquonl iiccurriMicp 11> t» John Kcnncr and Sulvatorc when Sunday camn my father Shades Fire Co.; in co-opera ilies living In Matawan Town- ty who resides at 33 West Con- Fireworks Set Vena. tlon with, the centennial com ship at that time were Arrow- ourse; Janet Morgan, 17, of kept the horni'.-i hnrncnued nl smith, Avery, Barker, Berk- Activities Planned Various Committee! duy and on a rulny dny wouli mlttee. 22 Sweetbrlar St., Cllffwood. The contest will be.held Fr steln, Birch, Boyd. Brown, Over Three Days Daniel Downey Is chairman nvcraKU pulling four or five day, July 5, at 10 a.m. Th Burlew, Carroll. Clark, Close. and Andrea Savel, 14, of DO of tho trophy committee, as- cant out of the mud." ]''rr»k iteogrntiliy \vn« ereulcil nliiiul SO yf*r»- »»o when Collins, Crowley. Also Dic; West Prospect St., In the Riv- sisted hy Mrs. Ethel B o y I e, Itccallu Drnrrtril, lli'iii'li ne (Imllrlllnl liy nmm), owned liy finiiirr MuUwim 'I'invll- children will parade before thi Two block dances and a nlilli (lommltteeniiiii l,*wU II. Hlniilfr.• WM PM'fnt'll' whMl.-»n»- Judges' stand erected in fronl trich, Diletf, DISanto, pisbrow, er Qardens section of the town- spectacular display of {I f'e- Don Oulstl, Mrs. Gloria Bun- Dolan, Dety. Dunham, Dunn. "I I'cmiiinbcr the b t' n n li iiMilliin or all mirniniiillin iimperljr win iniidn liy Mntuwnn of the Matawan-Keyport Rec- ship. works to culminate tho Mota- gcr, Charles Elfh'uidrr, li n d when II wan almost di>solnto, HolulIKh, reation Center, Lower M a i Also Errlckson, Fardon, Ga- Judging July 4 wan Township Centennial Cele- Mr. Qumbs; Frederick Zobct, hut fit 111 popular wllli the St. Three Judges will select th vin, Godfrey, Gordon, Gra- Applications for the "Miss bration July 4, 5 and 0 have chairman ol the decoration boyn." the Mayor mild with n Mu&t rculdentn of thin nrea un llmo and the properly child with the best all aroum ham, Grites, Gundrum. Others Matawau Township" contest, been planned'by tho gcncrul committee Is attainted by Mrs, chuckle, "Wo used to ui> nwlm- know Unit the Moniuiili uf Mntu- linn dimmed iiwiltirnlilp. appearance, personality, am Included Haley, Hagerman, a feature of the centennial committee. Block dances will Ann finvlttky; Mr. Armltage mliiK In the cvcnlnus after our wnn In nlnuiriL completely mir- TOWIINIIIP police. pntrulH pntt be held on the evenings of July cutencss. Hawkins, Heights, Heiser, Hen celebration, were accepted by Is cttMrinnn ol the rclresh- work wan done. Tliorc would rnunded by the 'I'liwiihlilp pi tin.' pviipmly, now uwncd iiy 4 and 6 from D p.m. to 1 a.m. Carl V. Wcniier, Knyport. ,!)•• All children must be" res derson, Henry, Heuscr, Hul- Mrs. Loefflcr, Cllffwood Dr., ment committee, bo a Kioup of ID ur 12 buyn Mntuwnn, lint lew me awuro sart. Also Ivlns, Johnson. r,uiiM< Mlildlenex ltd, la IliP dents of the township or on Cllffwood until Monday. The Cllffwood Ave., In front of Parndo commlltcc In inude nnd maybe out bathing suit Hint a piupeity of BOW) niiunra parent must belong to a volu Kane, Kearns, Keller,. Kelly, judging to select "Miss Mata- among u»." ii'tPuL luutn ttoroiiii thn liof- the Cliffwood Flro House, will up of John Keniinr. i:li"lnnan; feet licluiiglog lo the Uiwunlitp teer organization In the towc Klanberg; Korienhaus, kuhns, wan Township" Is scheduled to be roped off Thursday night. ouuh from llic west lo tho nil K. Schneider, William M « I r, Tlifi first cur Mnyor Matt, In completely uiilToundcd by ship. Entrants ' must be be Lambertson, Maogs, Martin, take place at 10 a.m., Thurs- July 4, and revelers -vill dance 8am DcllaPIctio, I'ctcr-Vdm could ri'iiicinbiT I" tlio C'llff- «)ile.i of the lownnlilp, tween the ages of one and five, Martz, Marz nndMelmc: day, July 4, at the Cliffwood to tho music of Iho Mcloalren. wood eci.Uoii wns a 1013 model UK! Imiouuli, Itri'iinl Of Clvlu Hrrvlee and a small registration fee Is and James lllchardson; nolle- In addition there were Beach Pool. Laurence Harbor, who have lllng committee, Fred Zobcl, Btudouaknr owned by the Ititc Tills freak "IJIIII'B ey»" gco- Mr, Htenilin'n record ol i!lvlo to accompany the entry blank O'Hearn, Powers, R e g a a, Prizes for the winner Include been engaged to provide mu- Ilnrvcy Htlllwnugon and tin re- Binpliy wan crcntud apprnxl- .M'l'Vll'n liliown tllllt he flunrd which Is to be sent to M r t. chalrnan; Mr. Cahlll, co- Reid, Ronson, Ryan, Bhafto. a special season pass to tho sic for both dances. . chairman. Mm. 8. Andernon culled that the lutn Lewis II. nintely 30 yearn UKO when Ihn the ! lulit to nlIIy with hli> muni- John Dzwll, chairman, 33 Shaw, Slnnet. 81over, Smith, pool, offered by the Cllffwood fllfmlri lind it 1012 Intcilia- borriUHli nnnexed n Iftiue men elpullty. He nerved ng a tni'iii- Woolley St., Matawan, by July On Friday evening, July 5. and Mr, Marz, district ono; Stemler, Stlllwagon, Stokcs- Beach Co. and a U. S. Savings Lower Main St., In front of Mr. Downey, district two; tlunal truck. of Ihn liiwnnlilp on the noitli. ber iif the guviMiillig body of bury, Sullivan fnd B y m n e s Bond, offered by t li e Brown the Matawan Township H o « e Mm. Virginia Hellcgaard, Mrs "In ihoiio dny» iicoplo wero The plan at that tlini- win to Urn township for mum tliun 'iH PrlitB To Be Awarded Also Taneey, Tlchenor. V » n Publishing and Printing Co.. and.. Chemical Co. tiro house in Ocrtrudo Loclllcr and M r I. real neighborly," llo »old, "A extend ulllllles lo thn new nrcn yuan i>ud fur ninny of Ilium Mrs. Dzwll announced that Brakle, Van Cleef, Vanderven- publisher! of The Matawan Oak "Wades also will be clear- Hose Venn, district three, man named Jacob Ixjcucli had for development purponnn. yonrn nerved an the prpulnliiK ths king and queen each will ter, Verbeck, Ward. Wbalen. Journal and The Keyport Week- ed for dancing. Refreshments Mrs. Ellen Kcnncr Is chalr- tlio flrnt tclciihoiK. He lived Rt The area annexed wns thnt offlnir. Ho -»l»o nervi'd for % (continued on page nine) Wilson, Winters and Wymbs. ly. (continued on pago three) (contlnued on page five) the corner of Cllf/wood Ave, weal of Uiko IJefferta, along (.•()iif>l(|er«ble period mi a menw Middlesex lid, Thn Ute. Lewis ber of ihn MaUwnn Tiiwnnlil(> II. (ileinlrr wnn chairman (the Ilnarri of Kduculloii. Members Of Township Committee position now officially deslg Mr. Bleniler owned und The spring after.National Ga- mouth, New Jersey, printed by and that he would not part will birthQLIheLStandard-from-lhi zette ceased publication in Philip Freneau,, subscription; It as long as he lived. pen of Rufus Ogden, forme: 1793, its editor, Philip Freneau, Twelve Shinnlngs, per annum, Workmen's Advocate postmaster and first mayor ol poet of the Revolution, returned payable ha,lf yearly, George H. Evans about 1831 Keyport who was then 81 years to Mt, Pleasant, and soon after "This volume Is bound In printed the Workmen's Advo Issued a circular prospectus for sheep, and is well preserved cats in Middletown Point, ac- old. He wrote In part: a proposed newspaper to "be both in respect to the printing cording to an item In The Jour Decided To Start ?»per _ owrLRtJJe MMonmout h 0% and the Binding. It was Issued naLApr.J4.J880, crediting thi .-^Whlle I was driving tn lli from May 2, 1795, to" Apr. 30." Eette and East Jersey Intelli- Information to The Democrat stage;I had .as a passenge.r'Mr gencer -which was to be pub- 1796, as a "weekly." The.pub- Edgar Hoyt in 1844 establish. lished every Tuesday as 6oon licatlon was discontinued, ac- cd the Middletown Point Union, Henry Morford;who was as 500 subscribers could be ob- cording UsTJle—deelaTaUotnr "a-weeklyrwhich" was continues clerkr-for hlsrfatiieiTCaptT-Wi tained at $1.50 a year. Tliere the editor, with, the last Issue about two years, after whicl Ham Morford, who kept a stcrt (Apr. 30, 1706), owing to the the press and material were at Chancevlllc, now New Mon fact that "the necessary num- moved to Stamford, Conn. (P ber of subscribers not having 4, vol. 2, History, of Monmoutl mouth, Henry being postm&s- appeared to defray the expen- County, 1922, New York, Lew ter, and also of a literary turn ses of the undertaking, the Is Historical Publ. Co., Inc of mind, we got to talking at editor—with—some—resretrTie=- -The-Monmouth-eounty-Histor time about starting a paper dines a further prosecution of leal Association approximate; his plan. ' So that this volume, Sept. 18, 1845,. as the foundlni Keyport. Finally we agreed which really constitutes a date, bated on its possessioi that It would be a good thing year's Issue, Is the only exist- of Vol. 1, No. 8, of dafe~Nov to do, .' • Present Matawan Township'Hall (left), at 93 Atlantic Ave.. proved by the township committee" and the proposed structure ing copy .of the _newspaper_of 8, 1B4S. • "He then 'made arrange- was built in 1905 and Is used by (lie township lor municipal meet- will be built at the corner of Suydam PI. and Lower Main St. that period. A weekly called t h e Oliv ments to '•'cate at Keyport, bu ings and offices and houses the police department. This small It will provide space for a meeting hall, police headquarters, Couldn't Locate Mount Pleasant Branch was in existence 1 for some reason changed his wooden building has proven far loo small for the business of "I cannot locate. Mount 1847'8, and apparently prior tc the township today. " Jail cells and other municipal offices. Bobert C. Edwards, Pleasant on the map of New that as the earliest copy in pos plans and located in Matawan • Plans for a new municipal building (ricbt) have been ap- Fair Haven, Is (he architect for the new building. .. Jersey, nor can I learn that it session of the Monmouth Coun A man named O'Brien also.got is a United States postoffice, ty Historical Association, thai a finger in tbe pie and I think so I thought that you might be for Oct. 7, 1847. is designate that for a time he ran a paper Do You Remember When Your Milk Was Delivered This Way? able to do so, and would be "New Series, Vol. 3, No. 1 at Matawan acd Keyport, I interested as a newspaper pub- whole number 105.- However, cannot recall the particulars lisher In knowing the facts there ire. Instances where pap- but the Standard was soon which I give. • . ers used this "new series moved to Keyport in a building "The volume, one-and-one- term dishonestly to imply owned by Dr. Drlggs on the half Inches by 8-by-10-inches, greater age to a new publica- corner now owned by A. Salz." tion, FIIILIP FRENEAU is printed on a good quality of The Atlantic and Monmouth paper, and of clear type, the Democratic Banner County Advertiser was started Is no evidence that this plan letter "8" is of the old style Before 1848 George C. Waite in Matawan by Euinund matured, but in the following "F." • 1 started The Democratic Ban- spring there appeared Mon- "The newspaper was Issued ner It Monmouth County Adver- O'Brien between 1853 and 1855 mouth County's first newspap- during the administration of tiser which' he sold to George and continued some time, then er, "The Jersey Chronicle." George Washington as Presi W. Bell (brother of David A moved to Keyport, and ceased The first number issued bore dent of the United States. It Bell, Journal founder) and publication. A copy has been the date. May 2, 1795, and it contains some of his public ad Charles W. Fountain In the found bearing dateline "Mid- continued to appear weekly for dresses as also some of the spring of 1851. It was a six- dletown Point, Oct. 23, 1855." a year when lack of support proceedings of Congress which column paper, 24-b,y-38-luclies. Jacob R. Schenck purchased forced Its suspension. Vol. 1, was then In session, advertise- Mar. 25, 1852 Bell & Fountain No. 1 comprised eight pages, the press, equipment, and ma- ments for run-away slaves sold It to Henry Morford who terials, and moved the office seven-by-elght inches, and lat- soon after changed the name (with one cent reward), the back to Matawan where in er issues were larger. Printed opening session of Princeton to New Jersey Standard. An by Freneau himself and Academy, of the arrival of atlas in 1851 shows its office 857 he published the "New specimen of handsome typo- vessels from England after a on the corner of Main St. and Fersey Weekly Times," inl graphy, this has long been a six weeks' voyage with the lat- Paris Ave., Matawan, soon 8 T added to the name collector's item. est news, the commencement Next to the Monmouth Demo- ti Middletown Point & Key- In The Journal of Oct. 23, of Princeton Academy, Sept. crat, Freehold, which celebrat- rort Advertiser." It ceased 1913, the following article ap- 30, 1795, with the names of ed its 100th anniversary In the publication in 1802, during the peared which may prove "of ex- those upon whom degrees were 1930s, the Red Bank Standard, Civil War. . • treme Interest to Freneau bi- conferred. " which has ceased publication bliographers and biographers. Federal, State Information was tbe oldest newspaper in New Jersey Times HasBound Copy Of Chronicle "The issues contain much in- the county. It was founded In The Journal of Apr. 3, 1880'. • -H.~ B: Mitchell, -Harrisburg, formation of a public nature 1851 at Matawan as the New arr!cd an Item reading as fol- Fa., has a bound copy of The referring to federal and state Jersey Standard by Henry Mor- ows: Mr. Jacob R, Schenck, Jersey Chronicle which was affairs. The debates in Con- ford and about a year later ;ditor of the Toms River published by Philip Freneau at gress are exceedingly interest- moved to Keyport where )emocrat, and about 17 years Mt. Pleasant, now Freneau, In Ing, criticisms of President Charles W. Conroy was the edi- go editor of a paper in Mata- 1795-98. Mr. Mitchell was anxi- Washington and his adminis- tor. Then In 1859 it established wan called the New Jersey It's a good thing milk still isn't delivered this way In the horse-fly bite caused many accidents and run-awajs. In the ous to show where Mt. Pleas- tration are not infrequent. its home in Red Bank an d Times, has been very ill for lummer, particularly with the humid weather that has struok early 1900s It was considered a very brave act to catch a run- ant, N. J., was located and there it has had many publish- two or three months-with his section the past few weeks. "Old Dobbin" Is pictured away horse. Dobbin is polling the milk wagon of Sprincdala "If you can locate for me lymptoms. of consumption." ibove, complete with a fly net that swayed under his tody and Farm which carried Woolley's Aerated Milk to township resi- falling to find it on the map Mount Pleasant, near Middle- ers, including David A. Bell, wrote to t h e Point Pleasant founder ot The Journal, and "Scholars of Collegiate Insti- iround his legs to brash off the files that followed him. A dents in olden days. town Point, Monmouth, New ute" Issued the Monthly Offer- Beacon, thinking the editor Jersey, I should be pleased to the 1 a. t e Herbert F, Brown, might «lve him that and other formerly associated In the pub- Ing Irregularly during the httvevtho Information. How school, jit least In' 1858 ant) Baby Parade In Days Gone By intormaUon. Mr; M Ho he 11 near It Is to .Point Pleasant 1 lication ot The Matawan Jour- _wrqte In part: " nal and The Keyport Weekly 1859, copies tpr'toose'Tear! be do not know. ' Ing in the collection" of t h e The "It has occurred to me that The Information desired in from the death" of his" father B. F. S. Brown,' to 1928. and Monmouth County Historical you would be Interested to the last paragraph was sent to Association...... know thaC I have In my owner- the gentleman, and also a sug- former publisher of The Key- ship,- (received no -a valued gestion that he add this valued port Enterprise. In January, 1936, he sold the Standard to & Bight years before the first heirloom) a bound volume of book to the Freneau collection s s u e of The Journal, 1861 [• newspaper called the "Jer- In the Matawan Public Library company represented by Sid- ney Wain. • James Warner was operating a sey Chronicle" which was pub- and in his reply, Mr. Mitchell commercial prlntshop In Mata- CONOVER lished at "Mount Pleasant, stated that he had received the May 11, 1916, The Journal wan, according to an Item In 'near Middletown.Point, Mon- bound volume from his father published an account of the The. Journal of Apr. 5, 1875 chronicling a visit he paid to his former home. He apparent- Steamer John B. Collins On Matawan Greek About 1915 y was'ln business in Matawan Lumber Company in 1864 a3 a political document turned up In 1904 which con- tained "an oration by £-; Hon James W. Wall, delivered at Keyport, Feb. 22, 1864, and printed by J. F. Warner Sc Son aook and job printers. Middle town Point, and sold at the store of George M. Bedle." The Monmouth County His- torical Association in Its pub llshcd checklist of county news papers In Its possession, re cords Vol. 1, No. 2, of the Matawnn Agriculturist, of date Map Of ToWHShip, Borough May 1877, which leads to the assumption that this monthly may have been started In pril ot 1877. Whether this was is sued by The Journal is not known. At least one newspaper aro to-dispute- the field. with The ARJ TJIJV Journal but Its name Is not recalled by Matawan's best sources of historical informa- tion. The paper was published by the late William H. Era- mom, a Keyport printer. It lasted for less than two months some time between 1901 and Serving the building needs of 1904. , the community for .over 50 years Congratulations is proud to send on your 100th ANNIVERSARY Congratulations to the TOWNSHIPoiMATAWAN On Its 100th ANNIVERSARY Conover Lumber Co. FROM r-miNIMTlON TO FINISH — E8T. ISM m "Where Your Dollars Have More Cents" GALE GAS CO. LEGEND , ~ ' • -— TOWNSHIP BOUNDARY.1916 First & Atlantic Sts., Keyport MAT 1-6200 — —— — •- 6O*0 BOUNDARY. I9J6 X ZfCAU arttHC&s Highway 351 at Countf Ttbad Cliffwood •-"• Tel. KE 7-0500-01 notriAL nmrtus r* THURSDAY/JUNE 27,1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION — PAGE THREI The Ladles Auxiliary, which, Cliff wood Volunteer Fire Company had been Inactive, wai reor- The Matawan Journal Started In 1869; ganised in 1947 »nd isslsUJ the firemen In raising funds to pay off obligations end b u y needed equipment, The pres- Operated By Brown Family 67 Years ent officers ot the '* a d I e • July, 1869, The Matawan the Job department. A cora- Thi Brown Publishing and Auxiliary are: Mrs. Thorns* - Ven», president; Mrs, B 111 j Journal was started by David leta engraving department Tinting Company employees, A. Bell. and most of tbe de- Brsiepnlak. vice.president; Mr» has been Installed, A Comet •hose efforts bring The Mata- scendants of those first sub- an Journal and Tbe Keyport Norman Wood, recording Beo* with a teletypesetter, a perfor- rotaryf Mrs. Ethel B o y 1 e, scribers have continued those Weekly to its readers, number ator for the teletypeselter; a treasurer: Mrs. John Nichol- subscriptions until The Jour- Miss aeraldlne V. Brown, nal has grown to be Uke one son, financial secretw'y, ".,n d o 5 B Junior Ro'.a.rjr 16-page associate editor, works with of.the family. The first publl ewspaper press with the neo- Mrs. John Bunfer,...jprfiPftrt»_. ier. news staff, which includes "e'lrrkV" cation was a little four-column ssary equipment to operate monthly;, a year later it, was Irs. Roanne V. Titus, George made a- bi-weekly; a year lat- and a scan-a-graver, also, . McCarthy, Douglas P. Sen- Marked ZStli Anniversary er still it was enlarged to 24 re recent additions. ll: Kenneth P. Martin Is ad-, CUffwood Volunteer Flic Co. columns and made a weekly Lately* change in headlines ertislns- manager: Mrs, Mar- la a member of the N. J. Stata • — which sold fdr ?1 per year In In The Matawan Journal was aret M. Stultz, receptionist; Pli-omcn'a Relief Association, 1879 the size was again en- its. Susannah A. Ely, book- the Monmouth county F • r e- om Cheltenham to Bodonl men's Association and observr •> larged, this time to 28 col- •pe. -.' ' \ '• -.. :eeper, and Seymour T,, Pap- umns, and the subscription s, staff photographer. d Its aBthnnnlvcVswy .at- » price raised to $1.25 per year. William L. Mofrls Is me- xlcurntion and pnradp In 1952. Bon As Many Tho first officers of *-ho com- The paper originally was Pares As Required ihanlcarsuperlntenaentrTliom- pany- were Frcdevlcl? W, -Kor» - called "The Journal and Mata- The Journal, at first b_n V y is R. Hart, assistant lore- enlmus, presiaonti Charles W. wau AavertlEei"*~with~BH~~ElF pur sheets of four columns an, Is chief compositor, oth- oBUr*, vice president! Jatnei graving of a ship sailing on a sach, now is an eight column rs In the composing room are . Powers, leobrdlnB sooi-e- troubled sea. worked into the* taper, the same as many met- Mandel Lamhut and E'm 1 1 tury; Butlodgo'P, auldrn, \\> design of 'he masthead. Tbe ropolitan dallies, and like chuster. nanola! secretary; M ' o h a e 1 . last issue of the first year of hem,--has the equipment to Sayben, treasurer; JohD 3, its monthly appearance, the un as many pages ar the oc- In the typesetting depart- s, property'clerk; Froderlcli name was changed to "T h e :asion requires. Both The ment are William H. Betts, R. II e R o in a n, sergcant-at" . Matawan .Journal and Monthly Journal and The Weekly car- Clllfuood Volunteer Fire Co. nulldlnr, which \v»i completed In 1028, l> shown abovr, along arms; John D, Koarns, Lewli Advertiser." With the follow- al equipment of both papers r., and A. Thomas Clayton, with the equipment the company maintain!, -_. Shortly after, that he installed y from" twelve to twenty II, Btemlnr and Charles Met- ing yea*, an entirely new type ages per issue. inotype operators, and Miss Early In 1927 a meeting was tare, si-,. Mrs. Fred Koiten- ghtlng equipment wns pur- tli.g, trustees; John Mars, Jr., ot head was born which \ monotype, a machine which 'If It has been of service to race B. Conway, teletype held to plan for the formation aus, Mrs. John Smith, Mrs lnscd In 1047, As nn economy toicman; Wilbur Kulins, first used until 1856. casts type, one • letter at the community, at first In erforator. Mrs. Charlotte M. of a fire company In Cliff- larvey Stllhvaggon, Mrs. John ime, in place ol setting type ioasuvo tho company pur asslstnnt and William Knanis, This was In the days before maller way, and gradually In Holmes Is proofreader. wood. On Mar, 31, 1027, the irown, Mrs. Charles Mcttlng nscd a Ford ol'ii.'ils on second assistant, the first train ran down the by band. This was the f 1 r s t a greater-way, it always has Charles L. Titus and Angelo first regular meeting of tho ra, Samuel D I 1 k s, Mrs. machine of Its kind In the .liloh it had Installed a B00 Tho oftlcers of the -ompanj coast through Matawan or the been the earnest desire of the . Durante are.pressmen and newly-formed company was 'hrlsttno Zlenler, Mr:, Anne county: After World War I llonp u m p it, 300-gallon at tho present tlino I r o I u d * telegraph was Installed. Mata. lublisber It shall continue to itereotypers, in the newspaper held at the CUffwood School Johnson, Mis, John Kearns, •ostor tank, and additional wan was a trading past but de- inotype was installed. This is srAnno Fischer, Mrs, Jnno John Nicholson, nresldentt ie of an ever Increasing serv ind Job department. — and on June 14, 1027, the comL pended largely on its water machine which sets and 'lark, MrB, A. Krnmmor, Mrs. iilliinent, Both five truoKs Thomas Davidson, vloo pve» t ce and instrument of leader- Several correspondents aid pnny was Incorporated and e painted white, tlio stand Ident; CUaiica Molting, tft- facilities for transportation to casts, not a. letter, but a line, hip for all that is good and adopted the official name, r'atson Barber, Mrs. Augustus distant points. As the news is at a time. the news staff of The Mata- euser, Mrs. Homer Mntto d color solcoted by the com Hording 6i'orelftiy; Oooril progressive in Matawan and CUffwood Volunteer Fire Co, any, and both are equipped Hnusinnnn, tinnnolal Jcore- reviewed over the Intervening Larger Plant Needed an Journal In bringing to Its oil, Miss Nellie Colllna, Miss surrounding country, for Its coders a wider news cover- No. 1, Inc. rtth two-way rndloa. [nry, ciuvrlca Bliliistor, troat- • years one can see the rapidity After Mr. Brown's d'e a t h whole life has been to honest- tfortha Mar?., Miss Mary Pow of progress that has come ige". Mrs. Halph W. Herriclc The new company-purchased rs Miss Lonl Martens, Miss JJurlng tho years of World uror; thoinna Vena, propertj when his children, tc w h o m y serve this community, and clerk; nirmmt Bohar, aergaanU both to the county at large the business had been left, in- ind Mrs, Elmorc Kattner cov- a one-ton Dodge-Graham fire 2nthcrlno etiUwnmion, Mrs. h-i; II, tho comnany was let and to,this section. In return Is grateful for t h i truck with a IBOgallon pump- iVllly Martens and Mis. Jnir.:i vlth a small forco as the at anus; Alex Ollanul, olwr** corporated as the Brown Pub- valuable support given it b; r Matawan; Miss Marie lain; Tliomns Vena, oook; Al- ishing and Printing Co., founi Oaub, Browntown; Mrs. Mar- Ing apparatus, BO-Ballon boos- iVaters. 'omiger members loft for wa Purchased Journal In 1890 the community. ter tank nnd 600 fed Of two- rvtco. With tho aid ol Junlo fred Poutiouo, chlot; William Feb. 15, 1890, the late' Ben; the old quarters too inconven in Smith, Jr., Morganvllle; The fiit.t flic a]aim was an Hmllli, dnpmy clilof; JonpU ent for the needs of the. time, and-one-hnlf-lnch hose. The nd nuxlllary flioinon thi oorn Jamln F. S. Brown purchased The Journal was born ov Mrs. William A. Fritz, who fire truck was housed In Thom- ion railroad tlio placed on the Venn, captain; John McOlrty, The Journal from Mr. Bell a larger and modern printing any managed to knep ttolni Ilvsi iin\it(tt>niil: Henry Klein, the drugstore of George Bel, ecently replaced Mrs, Wll- as Ryan's givrago In CUffwood. egaiy-piopprtj on Route 3D ntir tho end ot the war w Wlien assuming control Mr. plant was built and practically brother of The Journal foun* am Rttlniitid, Choesequake La'er Eaglo Hoso Co,, Kay- sm'ond llcutonnnl; Jnlui Ken* Brown said; "We shall place all new, moderr equipment in- Mr. Uyav was one of llm first ha youugci' m MATAWAN BOROUGH i. „j, J* Proudly Extends Sincere Congratulations To 1 > 'i TOWNSHIP OF MATA WAN '.'. ."•• -.--"•"•. i Although the Mata^ans have been separate for over 60 years and are separately governed, both have moved forward together in spirit toward^progress and prosperity* Spafford W. Schanck, Mayor Mrs. Genevieve Donnell Ralph R. Dennis *' Grayson Vqn Cleaf James H. Hauser Robert Colot Cyrus K. Brown ys * l ti r * / - Members Of The Matawan Borough Council • . • •'-.••• r THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1957 PAGE FOUR — CENTENNIAL SECTION THE MATAWAN JOURNAL Matawan Township Hose & Chemical Company No. 1, Inc. Cretaceous Formation In This Section "Miss T h e Matawan section of Creek, Hohingston (Hoblnston) posits formerly more exten- "Tbls Is mainly a truck soil, Monmouth County is what is Brook, and later Mohlngson sive. the porous nature ot the sur- known to geologists as the Creek. Is sassafras fine sand "The upland soils, being de- face making It warm and cretaceous • formation, which except the extreme tip which rived largely, from the under- early. To a very small extent Includes the plastic clays and Is made land, and the neck, lying beds necessarily have it 1« suited to the jheavier Matawan several.velni or beds ol marl. which Is mostly sassafras been Influenced by their lltho- crops which require more (Report of Prof. George A. sand. logic character. Many of the moisture and longer growing Cook/' State Geologist, f 6r Mostly Sassafras Sand types Include materials from season. Early potatoes with 1868.) * East of this variously nam- more than one formation, but favorable moisture conditions there is a close relationship n The cretaceous formation In ed creek, there Is mostly sas- do well, tho the yields are not' Towns - New Jersey•• extends-•• obliquely safras- sand" -ana "Keyport between the formation and the soil in many Instances. Owing, nearly as large as on the across the state from Rarltan sandy loam From Lake Lef- heavier types. One of the and Sandy Hook Bays on the ferts dam to the Rarltan Bay however, to the narrow belt formed by theoutcrop of each main'tfuck crops is aspara- northeast to the head of the on both sides of Matawan gus, which with proper man- Delaware Bay, near Salem, Creek is tidewater marsh. formation, the unconsolldated Beauty Contest on the southwest. character of the beds,"'t'h e agement gives excellent The following Is from" the shifting of material on the sur- yields. Peppers are grown on This formation In New Jer- Soil Survey of the Freehold face by water and w^lnd, the large acreages and yield well. sey, consists, ol-a.-series. of. beds Area, by H: Jennings,-J.B. removal over wide areas of all or strata," lying conformably Carrots, turnips, cucumbers, R. Dickey, and L. L. Lee, U.S. except a thin veneer of the melons, and cantaloupes a 11 upon each other and all have Dept. of Agr., Bureau of Soils latter deposits, ond the arti- ....-a gentle descent or dip to- Field Operations, 1913. p7 et give good yields when care Is wafds the southeast, they are* al, "The Freehold area lies In 'IcIal-mixing-oMarge-quantl-^aken-to-pravent-rapld-Josses • earthly In form, except where the coastal plain province, the ties of marl with many soils of evaporation or when raln- the mineral of the strata has geological'formations of which aunng more than a century ol fall Is abundant. Fruits ca n been cemented by oxide or are, in this reglon,_c_h!^fly un- cultivation, the soils do not be grown successfully. iron Into a kind of sand stone consolidated and nearly hori- uniformly show a closely fixed Sassafras Sandy Loam CLIFFWOOD or conglomerate known local- zontal .beds of greensand relation to geologic formations "This soil Is adapted to a ly as Ironstone. Ironstone is marl, clay, sandy clay, sand, and their boundaries. .. wider range of crops than any mainly ferruginous sandstone and gravel! These can be Less Nitrogen, other type In the area because Carbon In Subsoil and conglomerate, and around grouped in two classes-Under- oJ its heavier texture and con- Members of the Matawan Township Hose & Chemical Company No. 1. Inc., which'serves POOL i Matawan Is found capping lying and surficlal formations. "Prom a general survey of sequent better conservation of the residents of the Oak Shades section of Matawan Township, erected a new fire house' in 1951 many of the high hills with the analyses It will be noted "Owing'to. their slant of 25 moisture and organic matter; on Lower Main St. The building is pictured with the company^ equipment. the pieces that are broken off that there 'are, without excep- it Is not considered as strong to 45 feet per mile, and to the tion, less nitrogen and carbon Residents of the Oak Shades er, from the City of Long auxiliary include Mrs. Irene Strewing the hillsides and nc- inequalities of the topography. a soil as the sassafras loam ' ' cumulating in the valley. In the subsoil than in the soil. but on account of Its earllness section of Matawan Tdwnshlp Branch. - Dzwil, president: Mrs. Helen the former appear at the sur- The organic matter near the discussed the need for a fire There Is also a strata of Iron- : and relative easy cultivation A new fire house, also on Low Segoskle, vice president; Mrs JULY 4 face In narrow, Irregular surface represents crop resi company in their Immediate stone under somt of the sub- It has been used extensively er Main St., was built by the Barbara Dennis, secretary; soils' under a depth of two feet bands which have a general dues, green manures and vicinity for many years, but It member* In'1951 and the com- northwest-southwest direction. farm manures, for growing potatoes particu- Mrs. Mary Nlcol, treasurer. or more. The deposits are Ir- larly the earlier and better was not until Thomas E. Kear- pany now has a 1055 Ford fire regular and seldom large and Since they dip toward the "A large porportlon of t h e ney headed a concerted drive truck, 750-gallon pumper and a southeast, the lowermost, and varieties. Other crops which that the company was.formed are mostly used by farmers samples tested are acid, Indi- have been grown extensively 1933 Scbacht, SOO-gallon pump- and local building contractors hence the oldest beds outcrop cating an entire absence of on Dec. 3, 1918. er. at the northwest and succes- are corn, which gives good for which reason no statistics lime In the carbonate form. lelds, grass, clover, peaches, Mr. Kearney called a meet- •The company has been a are availabe as to the extent sively younger formations are .Where lime Is present It is Ing at his work shop on Maple member of the N. J. State Our Heartiest found to the southeast. The and apples of different varie- of use. (The Mineral Industry probably largely In the form ties, especially early autumn PI; and the group organized Firemen's Association s.l n c e of N. J. of 1933, Bulletin 42 formation:: outcropping north of silicates. as Oak Shades Fire Co. No. 1. 1928. of a line from the headquar- sorts. Truck crops are also Geologic series, Dept. of Com- Sassafras Sand grown successively on this The name later was changed The present officers are merce & Development, State ters of the Manasquan River "This soil "Is well drained, to Matawan Township Hose & Louis Varca, president; Nich- through Blue Ball (Adelphla), ype, tomatoes being produced Chemical Co., No. 1, Inc. of N. J., p. 11) warm and early, and well to some extent. In former olas Longette. vice president; Plastic Clay Outcroppincs Jerseyville, Pine Brook, and adapted to truck growing and The chart ariraembers, L. Annie 1 aarglulo, secretary; Congratulations The, plastic clays which Oakhurst are of the Cretace- years heavy applications of especially to early market marl were made to practical- Arose, Thomas Martin, Wil- Samuel DellaPietro. treasurer; form the lower strata of the ous age. ' gardening. Early tomatoes, liam Whalen, George Wlmlen, Thomas Falco, financial secre- cretaceous formation have ly all the lands In the area. Steven Sullivan, James Short. tary. Agricultural Influence peppers, sweet potatoes, gar- This resulted In materially In- outcropplngs In Matawan. "Three beds of quick sand den peas, melons, and cucum- Charles A. Arlano and Thomas .The Ladles Auxiliary of the These clays Include fire, creasing the productiveness of E, Kearney elected as officers, marl ranging In thickness bers are grown to a large ex- the soils temporarily, and to Matawan Township Hose & to our alum, potter's, and tile clay. from 20 to 30 feet, constitut- tent. Thomas Furey, president; Mr. Chemical ^o. was started In There also are beds of light this can be credited In part ing three layers within the "The application of large Kearney, vice president; 1932. The members assisted colored sand with which are the high productiveness of this George Whalen, secretary and the firemen in raising funds associated fossil trees and lig- cretaceous beds outcropping amounts of stable manure, soil, even to the present day. In the area, have an Import- supplemented by chemical fer- Mr. Sullivan, treasurer. to purchase equipment and al- Sister nite. South of the plastic clays Colts "Neck Series ant Influence on agriculture. tilizers, Is quite essential for The organization of the fire so completely equipped the v are outcropplngs of clay marl, "The soils of this, series are kitchen In the fire house. They are composed In a large the successful production of characterized by the brownish company was greeted with en- which is o dark colored clay thusiasm by tho community as When the original fire house sparingly Intermixed w i t h part of mineral glauconite crops of this type. Unless the red to dark red color of the The and, owing to their dark-green season Is an^ especially wet well as the members and by burned, all records of the Aux- greensand. '"• '"' ~""'~ surface material, and by_the. January 1013, the firemen bad iliary were lost or destroyed color and former utilization as one "general crops " are likely bright red to deep red color fertilizer, they have been to suffer from drought to a purchased a lot on Lower Main but it is known that the first The area of the original set- and.friable to moderately fri- St. and erected a fire house. In president was Mrs. Emma tlement of Matawan, which Is widely recognized. They are marked extent. The soil has a tendency to drift and should able structure of the subsoil. November 1922, the company Arose and the first secretary, the present downtown district, underlaid and overlaid by Usually the color resembles leavy beds of sand which be protected as much of the purchased Its first motorized Mrs. Frank Weber. and lies between Matawan that of Iron rust, particularly equipment, a Seagrave pump- The present officers of the TOWNSHIPof MATAWAN Creek (Lake Lefferts) and form broad belts of soils both time as possible by some lorth and south of the green- growing crop. Winter cover In the lower part of the sub- Gravelly Creek (Lake Mata- soil, and In some areas this wan), Is divided in about and belts, while the latter are crops are thus Important. but the wild salt marsh grass- Sassafras Loamy Sand color Is quite pronounced. Its equivalent in lime Is re- halves by Main St. and the separated by narrower belts quired to correct this acidity. es that grow on it are often if sandy materials due to thin- 'On account of the light tex- These Boils typically occupy portion northwest of Main Bt. undulating, to gently rolling Muck l\ harvested for various uses." Is all sassafras sand, while ner beds of sand separat- ture this soil drifts to' i o m e ng the greensand beds from extent and as a result ot wind areas, are well drained, and "Muck is dark colored, usu- There are numerous marl Celebrating 100 Years Of southeast of Main St. Is Key- are easily tilled. Greenish ma- ally black, and consists large- pits of. various sizes thruout port sandy loam.' The higher one another. The presence of action may vary In character marine shells and ot bones ot with slight differences In ele- terial in noticeable.In the low- ly of vegetable matter. The this section, which were dug ground around Freneau • Bio* ; dark colored material usually and used'Instead ot fertilizer tton' 1B sassafras satiay loam, extinct swimming reptiles vation. It 1B .easily cultivated er subsoil In places. particularly In the marl beds responding readily to the ap- "The dralnmte-ot the -colta extends to the depth ot about from a very early period to while mostof • the- other land as well us the marl Itself. Js plication ot manure and com- Neik loam is^ji.suaUy good, eight - inches," where—it be-~ fairly recent times; when'the Friendship —-____£_; Jn the .Freneau section Js sas- conclusive evidence of the ma- mercial fertilizers. A large the topography and, elevation comes dark brown, the brown high price of labor made It safras loamy sand, almost up rine origin of these forma- acreage of tomatoes, aspara- favoring a ready runoff of ex- material belnr underlain usu- cheaper to buy commercial to the Marlboro Township line, tions. gus, peppers, eggplant, straw- cess water. .The subsoil Is ally at a tout eighteen to fertilizers. However, with ris- where there are small patches berries, watermelons, cantal- slightly Impervious antt^ re- thirty-six Inches by gray sand ing prices of fertilizer and a Service - of sassafras sand, Shrewsbury "The superficial formations oupes, sweet potatoes, sweet tards the loss of moisture by or gray and drab sandy clay, surplus of unemployed labor sandy loam, Keyport sandy consist of scattered Irregular corn and other truck crops Is percolation. Practically all. of or clay loam. ' ' the marl pits could be used to loam, and sassafras sandy areas of sand and- gravel, grown for market annually, on this type Is under cultivation. "Muck, where under drain- advantage. ' loam, and a small area ot more or less clayey In texture this type. It Is considered one of the ed, supports a dense growth Authority: Chemical Compo- Progress ' muck. and generally yellowish In col- best soils In the area and la of white cedar, birch, maple, sition of ttJ Soils of the Free- The land northwest of Mata- or, which, overlie the eroded Sassafras Fine Sand adapted to a wide variety of and many other water loving hold t rea In New Jersey, pub; wan Creek Is Colts Neck loam, and beveled edges ol the un- With the general sloping general crops. If plowed at plants, especially coarse grass- lished 1918, by the New Jer- -sassafras sandy loam, Key- derlying formations. They rep- topography which prevails the proper time good tilth re es. Where drained It gives ex- sey Agricultural Experimental port sandy loam and Keyport resent deposits laid down at where this soil Is found, and suits. Alfalfa, timothy, clover, cellent yields of com, pota- Stations, (New Brunswick loam, with a gravelly area in much later period than the Its loose, porous structure, corn, and wheat all give good toes, grass, celery, onions, N.J.) Bulletin 309; Soil Survey the northwest corner of the underlying formations, b u t moisture Is readily absorbed results, Peaches are grown at cabbage, and other truck of the Freehold Area, by L. L. boro. The peninsula between nevertheless sufficiently long and the excess water escapes the higher elevations. Apples crops".' Lake Matawan and the stream Lee and J. E. Tine, Bureau ot ago to permit extensive ero- by seepage. In no case Is It also do well. Tidewater Marsh Chemistry and Soils, U. 8. De- east thereof, and parallel to sion, since the areas now necessary to resort to ditch- „ "Tidewater marsh is of no variously known as W irl s d n ing or draining the fields. Shrewsbury Sandy Loam partment of Agriculture, Ser- found are only remnants of de- 'As with all the Shrews- value for use In agriculture, ies 1927, No. 33. Mayor John L. Chamberlain bury series this soil Is charac- terized by the gray to grayish- Donald Macrae • Michael Staats Matawan Township First Aid Equipment brown or light-brown color of the surface material and by D6n't Forget the mottled gray and yellow Horace Anderson • Edward Scanlon to mottled reddish-drab, yel- low, and greenish-yellow color THE PAGEANT of the subsoil. It occupies rel- Members of The atively low areas or slight de- pressions, In which the drain- nge Is Imperfectly established, THURSDAY MADISON TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE particularly In the cases of the heavier soils. The surface portion may be well drained, July 4, 7:30 KML but usually the lower subsoil remains wet or soggy. This soil Is adapted to corn, pota- toes, hay and grain, and truck M.H.S. AUDITORIUM :rops. .. .. ' Keyport Sandy Loam . Stories and Glories of Matawan "This soil is characterized iy the grayish-brown to brown olor of the surface material, Township Will Be Depicted. iy the yellow color and friable itructure "»f the upper subsoil, and by the drab or mottled drab and yellowish color and plastic structure of tho lower" ubsoll. It is usually well Congratulations— drained In spite of the uppar- ent lmpervlousness of tho tough lower subsoil. It usually occupies relatively low situa- MATAWAN TOWNSHIP Thc three modern nmbiilanrrq mid (he old ambulance, (far right), which In used (o carry tions and much of Its surface 1912 International Jieavy equipment, owned liy Hid Mutnwun Township First Aid anil Rescue- Squad nro shown In Is undulating or nenrly level. front of tho building where (hey uro kept, It Is adapted to truck crops The Mntnwan Township age, Peter Kuchai'ek n n d gcr, assistant captain; Eilmond such as tomatoes, peppers, cu- cumbers and melons. General first Aid and Rescue Squad Charles ISWIander, trustcos; Ryan, second lieutenant; Joe Tho first International els! These Golden Anniver- was started In 1954 with a Mr. Schneck, cnpUIn; "Mr. farm crops and fruits arc Drugas, chief engineer; Thom- grown to some extent. There Truck wan hull! In 100J. sary Internationals offer second-hand ambulance n n d SavnBn, assistant captain; fresh new siylini front to llttlo else besides hope. T ho Thomas Wheeler, first lieuten- as Tnggart, Mr. Kucharck are small arc-as of Keyport Today, 80 years later, squad has pnvlnyed that mocl- ant uncl Mr. EKliuulcr, second Mr! Hunger, Edward Andcr loam and Keyport clay loam there are over 1,100,000 back. More comfort Inside. : est beginning and today has lieutenant, son, Albert Prlsk, Mr. Wheel In this vicinity. The lonm Is Intornationnls on (ho rond! Grcai new power under usually well drained but the . three modern ambulances, an TJib first year tho squad was er, Alfonso Cuomo, trustees. There can hardly be the hood. Plus the tradit- old ambulance used" for cany- play loam la sometimes In ional performance and dur- organized tho untiunl report Tho Ladles Auxiliary of the need of drainage. In chemical better testimony to (he Ing heavy equipment, and a showed 39? calls nnswerod, Matawan Township first Aid ability (hat make Internat- rescue boat, Ench ambulance composition they are quite Quality of lnltniatlon.il 151)1),5 manOiours- contributed and Rescue Squad was organ- similar though tho loam con- T r a o k a than (his trem- ional Trucks, over the la equipped with a two-wny and 2134 miles traveled. Dur- ized Apr, 20, 1054. There were radio. tains considerably moro nitro- endous acceptance by (ruck years, cost least io own. ing that year thcro wcro 70 14 charter members and the gen and carbon than the clay In addition to furnishing" fire,calls, 10 accident calls, first officers were: Gloria operators everywhere. The new International l loam. Both contain more of "Anniversary" Line li the first aid and ambulance serv- 1G5 emergency transportations Hunger, president: Boatrlci these elements than the light- And now International ice In the township, the sqund and 152 other typos of trans- Schneck, vice president; Dolly oilers new proof ot eniln- latest and greatest achieve- portation. In addition t h e er types of tho Kcyporl ser- answers fire calls and main- Wheeler, treasurer and Lcola ies. They are, however, low In eerlnc and manufaclurlnr ment In a continuing foe- tains a blood bank at M o n- squad loaned wheel chairs, Snvago, secretary. phosphoric acid and lime. skill—In new A-Llne mod- cess story . , . the story »f mouth Memorial Hospital, ennes, crutches, hospital beds Tho main function of tho Both contain a fair amount of International Trucks! Long Branch, which Is avail- and portable Initiators. auxiliary Is to assist t h potash, tho average for the able to any resident of the ' The squad owns property on squad. It also participates In soil being more than twelve township, Amboy ltd. and future plans parades, civic and social af- tons, and for the subsoil about Tho first officers of t h o Include erecting a modern first fairs of tho township, aid building. fifteen tons per acre to tho •quad were: Hoy Matthews, Tho present officers are depth of six and two third president; John Kenner, vice The present officers are: Mrs, Eycly Smith, prosldent Inches, If such soils are RARITAN GARAGE president; Edward Cooper, Mr. Matthews, president; Mr. Mrs. Joan Thompson, v I o properly managed, potash Authorized Dealer For Chrysler—Plymouth—International Trucks »ecrctary; Jnmea Frost, (rens- M a u r e r, vice president; president: Mrs, Ethel Boyle 1 Charles Meeker, secretary: treasurer; Mrs, Jenny Cher suits shor'd not be required |to :'»•*«•''•'''J'» ;LII:'i. J ••'' '"'' ' Tradort and farm Machinery* >; •••• >M< ..'.-• •• •"< Sehntek, Charles Jt a u re r, Mr. Cooper, treasurer; ' Mrl y,financial soarotary, and 'afiy'isfreat extent. A ton lot Main and BedleRd.j ,,. i;i,J:,: .,.,.,<:.•.>:,.;,,„ /. ... ,.•, .Mr,:h :fl|Jf]»n.d«r,.,c,»pt,«ln;,,John, Bun,-, Mra.,,Buhger, secretary. ground •limestone per. ncre, or THURSDAY, JUNE 27f 1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL : CENTENNIAL SECTION — PAGE FIVI county celebrities and the win- and auxiliary, Matawnn, Mr., Mrs. Frank Tiemann Write Present/Future Horned Of Guadalcanal "Post 4745, Y.F.W. ners of the Miss Matawan First Aid'Squad with auxil- Townshlp'and baby contests. iary and band, Keyport Poit Other units, In the order In 4247, Veterans of F o r e 1 g tt Township History From 1857-1957 which they ar» slated to ap- Wars. Neptune City Fire De- pear in the line of march are: partment and auxiliary. Deal Mr. and Mrs. Fr auk Tie- Elizabeth and until moving to Matawan Township Fire De- Fire Co., Monmouth Beach. mann, 186 Greenwood Ave.,, the township had spent most partment, auxiliary and band; Fire Co, and tho Port' M o n- Cliffwood Beach, hpve been of his life in that area. Mrs. Guadalcanal Post 4745, Veter- mouth First Aid Squad. residents of Matawan Town- Tiemann was born in Harmony, ns of Foreign Wars, auxil- Also, Marlboro Fire Co. and ship for only eight years, but a small town in Northern New today they can equdl and prob- iary, band and_porps mothers: auxiliary, Engllshtown Fir* Jersey. Matawan Township First A 1 d Department with band and ably top most natives or long- Before moving to Matawan time residents In their know- Squad, auxiliary and band; auxiliary, South River First Township, they resided for six Matawan Township P o 1 1 0 e Aid Squad. Unexcelled F 1 r • ledge of what has happened in years In an apartment in Ro- the township during the past Athletic League, Girl Bout Co., Neptune. New Brunswick selle. One day the; decided Troops 209 and 211, Brownlo Fir* Reserve, Shrewsbury 100 years. that they were tired of an They make no claim to be- Troops 214 and 230, Cub Pack Hose Co. No. 1, Woodbrtdg* a-partment and would like to 10, Cliffwood Royals, -Cliff. Emergency Sqund.Fair ..Ing..historians,..but -Mr.• and live ina house, preferably, near R wood Angels Field Club and Haven Volunteer Fire Co. with Mrs. Tiemann smiled some- the water. They came to Cliff- ;...i Woodmen of the World, Camp band and auxiliary, Middle- what ruefully and said that wood Be a c h In May 1949, 51, Keyport. town Township Fire Depart- they were "caught in a weak bought their present home and moment" and agreed to com-have resided there since that Oilier rarllulpullng ment, Oakhurst Independent pile the history ol the town- time...... , Ort imitations Hose Co. No. 1, Sayrevlll* Also, Unrltan Day L, 1 o n > Emcrgncy Squad, Irdnbound. ship, the book which has been Before his retirement this published in connection with Club float, Laurenco Har- Ambulance Squad, Inc., year, Mr. Tiemann had been bor Fire Co.. with auxiliary Oceanport Fire Department, the centennial celebration of emoWed -as line construction •the incorporation of the Town- and band, Mntawan-Keyport Melros* Hose Co. No. 1 » n d foreman by Public Service Elks Club float; Freneau In- band, - ship of Matawan. • Electric and Oas Co, In Eliza- T dependent Firs Co., Isclln Also, Long Branch Fir* De- "Last February, Roy Mat- beth. He vras employed-'by The picture'at the left shows tbe present home of members iLadlts Auxiliary. The right sketch U the proposed.new build- First Ald'Sqund, Huilot Fire thews, general chairman of the that firm for approximately SO partment, lied Bank Ftrat Aid ot Guadalcanal Post 4745, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Its |lnr which will be the fulure home of the Vast. Co., Keyport First Aid Squad, Manalapan Township celebration, came to our house years and his son, Harry E. Squad, Hanson-VanWlnklo- with a book that had been Tiemann, a resident of Scotch Guadalcanal Post 474S, Vet- service to veterans, has a dis- a trophy to the Cliffwood In- John Kelly, conductress; Mrs, Fire Co. No. 1, Community Munnlng Co. float, Laurenco Junior Drum and Bugle Oorpt, published on the 250th anni- Plains, is carrying on a father- erans of Foreign Wars, was tinguished record of service to dians. Little League team. Walter lscmnnn, guard; Mtsj Harbor First Aid Squad on d son traditlor and presently Is Freehold First Aid Squad and versary of the Village of Mata- started Dec. 10. 1945 at Vac- tiie community, It has spon- Besides Mr, VanCllef, past Angelina Gulsllano, secretary; auxiliary, Kayport Firs De- wan and asked us If we would employed by Public Service. sored, or assisted In sponsor- Miss Jean Calamarl, Mrs. Wll- partment, apparatus, auxiliary tho FarmlngdaU Fir* Co. and carelll Hall, Matawan, with commanders who have served auxiliary. compile a similar history of The Tiemanns '•ive two chil- Warren VanCllef, the first Ing, the annual Christmas par- Ham Qratton, Mrs. Mildred and band. the township," the Tlemanns Guadalcanal Post, Include Sanls and Mrs, Edward Coop- dren and four grandchildren. commander, The post had Its ty for children, donations to Amos Sttiltz, Paul Dell, Mi- Also, Union Beach First Aid said. Their son has three children, headquarters in Matawan un- various charitable organisa- er, color bearers; Mrs, chael Kldzus, Alfred Pouzenc, Charles Maurcr, patrlotlo In- Squad and auxiliary, Keaus- ~ They had Just returned from a daughter, Nancy, and two til 1950 at which time they tions, donations of b 1 o od to Joseph F,I Lovero, Myndert burg Fire Department and Centennial Group helping their son and his I ami- sons, Richard and Stephen, and structor; Mrs. Alfred Pouzeno, were changed to Cllftwooa, Matawan Township Blood Bonnema; Charles Candlloro flag bonror: Mrs, Allda Clicto, auxiliary, Union Beach Post (continued from page ono) Meetings were held for a year Bank maintained by the Mata- and Robert Fletcher. The pre-musician; Mrs, Catherine 321, American Legion and fir- man of tho advertising oom- at the Cliffwood Civic Associ- wan Township First Aid and sent commander Is Frank Schwarz, historian. Ing squad, Morganvilld Inde- mlttoo; Climlii Candtloro, ation building and then tbe Kescue Squad, the organiza- Pasllaro. pendent Flro Co. and nu chairman of tha entortaia- The present officers, w h o lury, Matawnn Borough Fire present post home on H a w- tion of the V.P.W. . J-U n 1 o r Auxiliary Formed In 1050 ment committee; Mr, and were Installed Apr. 27, 1057, Department with auxiliary nnd Mrs. Frank Tiemann, history thorne St. and Cliffwood Ave. Drum and Bugle Corps. The The Ladles Auxiliary to Include: Mrs. Joseph Blenkow- was purchased In 1951. post home also has been made band, West Keansburit Fire committee; Mrs, KllunUetb, Guadalcanal Post was formed skl, president; Mrs, Irene Co. and auxiliary, North Con. available for use during pub- Mccham, senior vice p r o a I- Olttlns, chairman, Mrs, ffitual Plans now are being made AUK. 8, 1950. There were 25 lervlllo Fire Co., Moreanvllle Uos'lo and Mr, Caraoololo, by the post for the construc- llo health clinics and for meet- charter members. dent; Mrs. Harry Kern, junior ings of the Brownies. First Aid Squad, FrechoU. Flro pageant committee, tion of a new and modern post The first staff of officers vice president; Mrs. Raymond Department and Hie Union home at the present location The post has given' O o o d were: Mrs. LeRoy Unischled. Qrosholz, ti'onatirrr: Mr». Elln- Beach Flic Department, with Citizenship awards, plaques, president; Mrs. Ethel Volpe, o-'iotlr Hubert, chaplain; Mrs. auxiliary units nnfbnnd, .Parents should enter t h • 1 * to be used as a headquarters children, ntic.i ono'to-flve, In and for the rehabilitation of medals and citations to out- senior vice president; Mrs. Ernest Sclu r. conductress: Mrs. Roberta Collins, guard; Also, AHonlmrst Fire Co.. tho liuby content., bolnR tpon- veternna and various commun- standing township citizens and Mlchnel Kidxun, Junior vice president; Mrs. Dorothy Uni- Mrs, Bernard Dunne, M r «. Wayside Fire Co,, Morgnnvillii Hnrod by tho Onk Shades Fir* ity events. awarded a trophy in 1950 to Volunteer Fire Co. and auxil- the Monmouth County Cham- fy, treasurer:. Mia. Alice Charles Hobby, Mrs, Joseph Co. Auxtllmy In oo-oporatloa Since Its organization th e 1 Lovero, trustees. iary, UUleiSllvar Flix Co, No, with tho centennial commltUjo, post, in addition to the usual pions of the Little League , and Hausmann, clinplaiu; Mn, serviced near Matawan Bor- wanted Immediate action. on a lomnlo crate lit order to Providence Huplisl Church Mayor Marz ough. The only paved roads Uroualit Children To Meetings furnish water, road and otlioi were maintained by the comi- "The women enforced Iho lecessllles for the township " (continued from page one) ty and all the rest wore grav- The Mayor commented !w 1th action enabled the township to equests, demands nnd p r o- el. You can Imagine our prob- tests of their menfolk by bring- pride on plans of the newly s(art to operate on a cash lems, low tax collections and created Recreation Commis- basis. . • . ing babies and small children then, as nuw, everyone 'hoi-. to t o wnihl p meetings- and sion and added with proper Y MrT,rMrsTFranlt tiemann are shown above working on tnc 'In 1936 the federal govern- lerlng' for Improvements.' ammlng the small township clvlo fervor, "Our Little Lea- • history of the Township of Matawan. ment booked P.W.A. and First Motor Equipment hnll. The meetings suro were sue to n m has won ulna W.P.A. projects for municipal- The Mayor said the first ly move into a new home and their daughter, Mrs. T. A. Chu- lively with thif women telling straight. They oro 'licking Hie ities and as a result of these motorized equipment for the us off with raised voices and panta' off the other teams," attributed trjelr "weak mo- pa, East Orange, has a daugh- roads, purchased in 1034, was 1 programs, the township laid the crying of babies and nol.io Mayor Mara nolod tho flnnii- ment * to fatigue from this ef- ter, Virginia. ' , water mains In The Cllffwood a Chevrolet dump truck used fort. Mrs. Tiemann, who finds of restless young children add- clnl situation of Ilia township Mr. Tiemann's main Interest and Oak Shades areas and to haul gravel. He said in 1930, ing, to the din, it hard to refuse any appeal a caterpillar road grader was Is stable, but while collections Is in his home, but he says that both were tied in with the Key- nave Improved greatly, the f o r public service, hesitated port water plant." purchased and remained In "Gradually River Gardens he hnsn't had time to know has become a real part of the Increase has been "In lino with and then said doubtfully, "I'd how he will enjoy his retire- service for 20 years. "We are love It, but I don't have any Accordlng"to Mayor Marz, pretty well equipped today, township. The roads, a quag- present day costs. He conolml ment, because he has been so the original W.P.A. water main ed, "The future ot Iho town- idea about such a Job." She two dump trucks, a new grad- mire of mud at first, havo 1 busy working on the history. project amounted to $50,030, been paved. They havo a new ship In fairly secure, hocnviNi thought it over for a few more of which $20,000 was an out- er, two front end loaders and minutes and .-finally said, "I'll Mrs; Tiemann is'- an active a back-hoe." sewer plant. Today tho resi- we expect to havo additional member of Bayvlew Presby- right grant from the federal dents are well established, Industry settle here and t h e try." Mr, Tlemarn, who had government and the township As the financial picture development of tho township been retired for a little over terian Church, treasurer of the their Investments arc sound Women's Presbyterian Associ- covered the remaining $32,000 brightened, the township im- and worth more than when wll) bo guarded cloudy In 01- a month, agreed to act as co- with, bonds. He said that on proved roads gradually until dcr to maintain good, souid chairman. Without the con- ation and president of the Cath- they were made," With satis-, erine Close .Circle of the the open market today, this today very •tew are left unpav- 'faction Iho Mayor noted that tax economy," stant help and advice of her $58,000 project has a value of cd. Mayor Mnrz estlmnted that husband,—Mrs.,Tleini»nn says church. She Is the township's most ot tho youiw people aro representative on the board of tt. quarter of a million dollars. B5 per cent.ot the .••gads.ln_tho Uking on • active part In mu- she never could have managed the • Matawflh Free Public Li- Other sections of the township township are hard-surfaced. nicipal" affairs and today there Over 60Hnits In to compile the material, infor- were tied in to the Matawan "In 1935, we established, a brary . and served as welfare is very llltlo dissatisfaction in (continued from 'pnffo ono) mation, stories and pictures for chairman of the township's Borough water plant and now police department when It was Uie_dcy_elqpment. the nook.— • to Prospect St., Cllffwood, to Civil Defense for three years. the populated areas arc com f o u n d that special officers For more than IB years the pletely serviced with water. could not handle the police South Concourse, Cllffwood "We, were literally snowed A member of the Ladles Aux- township officials liavo had Ave, to where It will disband u n d e r," the, Tiemanns said, iliary ol Guadalcanal Post Water Plant Ready Soon work of the township proper ly," he related. "The depart- continuous complaints about nt tho Cllffwood Ave. athletlo "We must have received hun- 4745, Veterans of Foreign Wars, "Our own water plant in the (lie inadequacy of the township field near the New York and dreds of pictures to sort Cliffwood area will be In oper- ment started with three men, Mrs. Tiemann is a past presi- has been Increased to six, and hall. At ono meeting Mayor Long Brunch railroad right-of- through and stacks of material. dent of Mulvey-Ditmars, V.F.' ation soon," Mayor Marz said, Marz said a man about s I x way, "The plant Is located where 90 as the township expands t h I s ProvldcncB Dnpllat C'lmrcli, ip In Freehold, Th» nov. Our house became a shambles W Auxiliary In Railway, was feet, four Inches, threatened to Mr, Kenncr reported a total as papers' piled up In every per cent of the consumers re probably will have to be en- Third Avo,, Cllffwood, win or- II, )), Durncsii wan tha ftrat chief companion of the Com- larged further." "break my nock" If the serv- of 14 gnincl prlr.c'8 ' will bo available space." panions of the Forest of Ameri- side. More than 4000 of the ices and tho hall weren't Im liunlzed at a mnellim hold nt pntitoi'. some 6000 residents of the Garbage Department Created awarded by Ilia Judge* who the homo of Mis, o o a r g o Tho pro.nenl pastor In t h • . Mr. and Mrs. Tiemann said ca for two years, and Is a The Mayor said that a gar- proved. "I Uiouulit It necessary will wnlcli tho parade from a they spent so much time at the member of t h e Maggie-Jiggs township are located In tbe Smith In Cllffwood, Plnim for Rev. J, C. llmitlny and offi- Cllffwoofl area." bage collection department to retain my n e c k," Mayor reviewing stnnd, which will bo Monmouth County Historical Cootlcttes, Asbury Park. Marz said calmly, "so next building a chinch wero formu- cials of t lie church I no Hi do R, was created, which Is operated erected In front of tho Cliff- Inted at this nicetlnis. In 11)27 Association in Freehold that The Mayor pointedout that fall we finally will get the new wood Fiic Co. Mm II u u H o. A, Hnllimie, ilinliinan, and II, Besides her work on the his- by the township. "It has prov- tho oliurnh filed Incorporation M, Fleming, aocrotnry, they began to feel it was their tory, Mrs. Tiemann has sub- because of the terrain of the en a great saving to have mu township hall. It will be local Prizes will bo given to tho, •_'hbme away from home." mitted newspaper reports on township, difficult problems nlclpal collections, Instead of ed on Lower Main St. and best apponiing fire company, "We Interviewed and inter- the meetings of the general have been posed In the surlac hiring a private contractor," Suydam Ave, constructed of ladles unit, first aid aqua (I, viewed, talked to everyone we centennial committee; selected Ing of roads and development he added. cinder block with brlek fne- lndlc.'i auxiliary unit, chil- MATAWAN TOWNSHIP BABY CONTEST coufd about 'the o 1 d days,' the colors, maroon, white and of public utilities. The town' "You have to have the faith ing. The new hall will provide dren's organization i -id aorv- gold for the cover of the his Icn organization in the Unit of spent houra telephoning to get ship has 50 miles of roads to ot the people and the co-opera adequate cjuarters for the col- I Nmnt ,,., ,,.,,,,.... An ,,,,, Information." they said, "It tory book, which lately were keep in condition ,ln contrast tlon of the township officials," lector, township clerk, police march. In addition, |>rlzcs also was a lot. of work, required a adopted a^the official colors to 13 miles In the borough. He the Mayor said thoughtfully. department, jail celln, a meet- will bo given for I tin mutt for the celebration and "In her said a water or sewer plant in ing room which also will Bervo btmu'.ifjil and moot unique I Addrrm ,,.,,,,,, , ••> •••>•. great deal of traveling around "Whenever I went to t h c m float, the bent band and bent but we enjoyed it because we spare moments," she wrote Cliifwood can't be used to with a problem, they went as a court room, private the lyrics for the centennial service other areas and that chambers for the municipal drum nnd bugle curpn In lino, | Application and .50 roglitratlon fee must learned a lot about our town- along." He said the situation Hurclul Awards ship and r. was all very In- song. factor has made development in the township was progress Judge, a private office tor tho teresting." slow because of the cost. ing calmly until 1D51 when the police chief and there will be Other awardn will Im uivon bo tent to Mn. John Dzwil, 33 Wool ley St., Mr. and Mrs. Tiemann paid 1 Mr. Tiemann was born in hearty t-'bute to the members "When I took office In 1934 newest of the developments, rooms available on the first to tin lire company mil flint Matawan, by Tuesday, July 2. of their committee who assist- there was not one motor-driv- River Gardens, started. floor for future use. aid nquad traveling Hie moot ed in compiling and sorting the en unit in the road, depart- "You may remember our Wllllnr To Kit eel rilnlanef'H lo iinrllclpute In itlllCHJ history material. They wore ment, only a horse-drawn grad problems then," the Mayor On Tomato Cimtii the Krnml purndr and fur com. Centennial Pageant Mayor John Marz, Jn; Com-er. There was no police "de- said with a grin. "We were "After listening to a long nnnlcs dluiilayhiK the olds it 1 Child mint lir n rimldrnt of MnUwnn Towimhlp of mltteeman Stephen J. Kalieta; partment, no garbage collec- flooded with complaints. Most liiinuiRun ni u in c a 11 n g ol fire apnnriitmi mid * q u Ida piifiMil iiin.t lielmii to. • .volunteer orimiliatlon In Mrs. Rose Wcnzel, township tion and not one foot of pipe of the new residents w e r o how necessary » new h a 1 ahowmti Iho oldcnt amhiiliinri'. tho towinlilp, MHS Auditorium clerk; Mrs. Ralph Coward; Mr. for distribution of water," he city people. They were little was," the Mayor recalled, "I Tho Mutnwiin 'i'ownf>hlp Po- Muni lio lielwrrn 1-J jnnrn-of-mti, and Mrs. Charles Melting; the said. "Ttic only water service Interested in the problems of remember telling one critic lice DepiuliiiPiit will li'iid till! .Ki-lllKlrntlun fen of .SO numl be •Pill with IliU tppll- Rev. Francis Osterstock; Dr other sections of the township pmiiile followed by tln> color was in Cllffwood Beach, fur- lliat rirhl tlimtci must come ell tlon, , ""' Thursday, July 4th Frederick Zobel and Alfred nished by a private company, but they knew what they want- first, I don't mlilcl administer Riiaril.Oi'und Manual, town Pouzenc. and a few residences were ed for River Ooriicns and they Ing Kovcrnmciil II I liuve to nil fillip offtrlalN nnd ntiitit n nit Lx Congratulations — ON YOUR 100TH BIRTHDAY Congratulations TO MATAWAN TOWNSHIP From The Oldest Bank In Monmouth-County THE FARMERS & MERCHANTS Ye Cottage Inn NATIONAL BANK -:- MATAWAN Home Of Good Cooking Keyport Mombor Faderal Dopotil Iniurance Corporation . PAGE SIX — CENTENNIAL SECTION THE MATAWAN JOURNAL THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1957 • -~"'iJn- — ~.\~ HERE'S YOUR INVITATION A j i • \ ••• ••' 1 i • • i -T THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY JULY 4" JULY 5"" JULY 6™ 10 A.M. Baseball Game 10 A.M. Centennial Celebration 1 P.M. Grand Centennial Parade Cliffwood Avenue Field Baby Contest Starts At Atlantic Avenue 2 P.M. Beauty Contest Matawan-Keyport Recreation Center Cliffwood Beach Pool Lower Main Street j - Matawan Township ; _. Will-Feature - Contest OpenJ o All Youngsjters Ranging In "- • Police :.. t _ ^yr/7, 7:30 P.M. Pageant Depicting ^ , Age From 1 To 5 Years. ".-"",, ."~~ First Aid Squads —— "/':,// J:._11I Fire Company Units J_._i__l Progress of Matawan 1 P.M. Children's Recreational ; . • with Apparatus and Auxiliaries Township During The Past Program ...;..',.;•• .V.1 Bands . ," Century. Little League Baseball Field Scout Units Directed By Mrs. Elizabeth Gittins Cliffwood Ave., Cliffwood Local Organizations Matawan High School Auditorium Games, Field Events, Contests Over 60 Units In The Line Of March Broad Street, Matawan 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. Block Dance 10 P.M. Mammoth Fireworks 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. Block Dance Matawan Township Hose and Chemical Co. Display Cliffwood Firehouse Oak Shades Firehouse Cliffwood Avenue ' , Lower Main Street On The Beach At Cliffwood Beach Dancing To The Music Of The Meloaires, Dancing To The Music Of The Meloaires, Spectacular Display Of Scenic Wonder Laurence Harbor. _ ; , Laurence Har^o|, And Defight. , THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1937 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION — PAGE SEVEH JOIN THEFUN! isf Centennial Committee Centennial Committee GOVERNING BODY Member Organizations ORGANISATIONS BKI'KKHBNTKI) BY Ji;|.;;^r'.Vj;jHoj[ipra^2Chp|rrnan" 1. CIIHwood Anteli nan Downer lien Oulnll iii.. ;..';;i'i:S.Genera.l Chairman• S, Mat, Twp. Hone A Irene IliwII Chem. Co, Hleffle Andrew* Oak Hhadea Ham I)»llal'lolro .;; ^.^^fi^VfVice Chairman Nick Lonielte 1, flirl Hoouta / Virginia llelkgaard ^$3^^^ i:. Y; 'Secretary Troopa »« A 114 / - Amy nimicbiird 4. Mai. Twp. Hpeo»«T\_/ Kennelli Hnhnoldrr : Police AIKOII, William Meier •;'. J oseph %overo* v ||ii j||^||"§^ B :^>Treasurer 1, Rarltan Pay-Llona Jack Armltag* ..Cluji i .-• llmrgo I'ouiena «. aiHwood Vol. Fir* Hone Vena '• Co., Ladlea Aux. ICIIeii Konnor 7. Veteran* of Foreign ' Joe l.ovcro W»r» . Clmrlei Candlloro 1, rareni-Tearheri Oerlrude I.eefllei . • ^^gCj^'iJST-;>y ^'; ; COMM • Assoo. Ann HavlUky 0. Mai. Tawnahlp Jolin nun - C'ommlltea Htev* Kallrta ' GENERAL C0MM1TTKK PARADE COMMITTEE Halvatore Vena ' v ; : ' John'Mar*;. Jr.;' • '• : ' ' • "-' John Kenner, Chairman 10, Cllffwcod Rojala I.awren«« Itogera tleorte Gumba < HOT Matthews K. Schneider ' • t'harle. Wjran- . Jidr*Arm.lt&jce . . • Wm. Meier Jl. Butler Mdge K*. 41 Milllp dumb* John Nicholson ' ,; Sam DellaPletro ; Kamuel Oumba Joe Lovero'v. - ' - . ' .—' -.'.",. Peter Vena STEPHEN KAUETA JOHN MARZ JR. SALVATORE VENA II. Mai. Twp, First Aid Charlei Klflandar Philip Gumba Jamea Biobardsoa Commitfeeman~"" tf«aad , Charles' Meeker Paul T. Cahm T. Mayor Committeaman Thoinaa Drown Steve Kalleta 11. Woodmen'a Circle Kllaabnlh Hubert John Kenner ADVERTISING Mae liter Salvatore Vena COMMITTEE 14, Cllilwood V«l. . John Kenner . Fir* Co7\ John NluholnM , • , / Mra. Ellen Kenner, IB. Woodmen tlih* Jack Arnillag* TROPHY COMMITTEE Chairman TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS World Clearm Wells ' - Daniel Downey, Chairman 11. Civil Defcm* John Kenner Mrs, Ethel Boyle ENTERTAINMENT 17. Klka Club Jack Armllag* Ben GuUtl COMMITTEE John B. Kenner, Astettor Ezra W. Karkus, Attorney Jotepli O'Krefo Mrs. Gloria Burner Charles Candlloro, 11. Cilirrwood Colored Samuel Oumba Charles Elflander Chairman Clvlo Amoo, / Philip Gumbs Rose K.Wenzel, Clerk Charles J. Kelly, Collector 10. Cub Knout*, I'aok Albert I'rlrr BISTORT COMMITTEE No. 10 Wrnlon Mundy ' 10, Hoy Bcoula ol America, (Irorge Wrlnbrenner . DECORATION Mr. * Mrs. Frank Tlemana Karl F. Heyier, Road Engineer Adotph Menzel, Police Chief Troop No. 10 Itnherl Trumpora , ' COMMITTEE II, Our Lady ol Ml. Domlnlik I'opp* - / Frederick Zobel, Chm. Carmel Anlhonr llrvln* Mrs. Ann Savllsky PAGEANT Luther A. Foster, Magistrate Willy Martens, Water Supt. U, 81. Anthony Hoclelr Frank Hlniil Mra. Elisabeth tillllas. tl. M. llocco Hoclely Urorge Dl 1'oal* . BEFBE8HMENT Chairman Craig Finnegan, Water Engineer HojntrMatteson, Building Insp. 24, Itarllan Day MOMS Mrs, M. Hindi* COMMITTEE Mra. JElhel Boyto Club Auxiliary , lack Armllage, Chairman John V. Caracciolo 21. Mai. Twp. Recreation Klhrl llojle Joseph J. Seaman Co., Auditor CommlHlon Frederick /obel Charles R. Short, Health Insp. 2(, Ilnllrd Mine Worker* George M«i:k SOUCITINO COMMITTEE of Amrrlca, Dint. 10 Fred Zobel, Chairman Faiil T. CabUI. Ce-Chalrman Thomas J. Sinnett, Collector of Rent Accounts Ernest Hodgson, Public Works Supt. Fiber Chrmlcal ('ornpanr Olatrlet No. 1—Mra. S. Anderun and John Man, Jr. 17, Knight* of Pythlaa Mack Jones (liarlm Wynn , Dlitrlct No. 2—Dan Downey 21. Kanlern M»r, No. 11 r.dna Ilogers Dlatrlet No. J-Mr«. Vlrjlna Helleiaard Dr. A. A. Captanian, Township Physician , ,-, Hra. Certxode Loelfjer ». Mat. Twp. Klr«l Aid (Irare Ittan Ml?. Roie Vena Auxiliary ' Marie Murker Jane ICIflmiilrr • ,...,,. .,-t , ' "'••.-,• THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1957 PAGE EIGHT — CENTENNIAL SECTION THE MATAWAN JOURNAL St. Joseph's Parish Founded Prior .Police Department Of The Township Of Matawan Don't To 1834; Rev. G. J. Kane Is Pastor Forget St. Joseph's Roman Catholic icated June 27, 1879. The ser- and a convent for the teaching in September 1950. Ho was faCSurch, serves Keyport s n d mon was preached by the then sisters built at a cost of $31,- born In Troy, NX., the son-of Matawan Township and Bor- eloquent Rev. Father McGlyn, 616 In 1928. The corner stone the late John J. and Margaret ough. The church was organ- New York. The collection on of the new school building was L. Kane. Father Kane re- ized prior to 1854. In that year that day amounted to $500. laid in 1924 by the late Bt. ceived his early schooling lh two acres ol land were p u-r- Old Rectory Razed Rev. Thomas J, Walsh, Bishop Troy. He attended Niagara .chased between Keyport and The old 'rectory, razed In of Trenton. University and the Seminary Matawan when this parish was 1931, was built In 1877 by Fath-. ..Father klnnane,...near, the of Our Lady of Angels at Ni- Pageant connected with the Diocese of er Spiering.-In 1882, sixteen end of his seven years of par- agara. He >ereived his; B.S. New York. acres of land were purchased ish administration, was strict- and A.B. Degrees and was or- for burial grounds. This en with a lingering Illness and dained to the priesthood May History also' reveals that as 30. 1931. early as 1851) services were ground now Is used as a play- died Sept. 4, 1929, in the At held In a public hall at Mid- ground by pupils of St. Jo- church rectory. Served Several Parishes dletown Point, now Matawan. seph's Parochial School. Appointed In 1929 As a curate, he was station- * The services were conducted' Father Splerlng was suc- Father Burke was appointed ed at St, Mary's, South Am- by the Rev. Patrick McCarthy, ceeded as rector by the Rev. Nov. 5-, 1929, by the late Rt. boy; St. Mary's, Gloucester; M.H.S. Auditorium Perth Amboy. Michael C. O'Donnell who di- Rev. J. J. McMahon. Bishop Holy Spirit, Atlantic City, and The first church building rected the destinies of the par- of Trenton, to succeed Father St. Mary's Cathedral. While was erected by the Very Rev. ish for 33 years, during,whlch Llnnano. Father Burke pre- at the cathedral, Father Kane Dean John A. Kelly, V.O., St. time he purchased the ground viously had spent 11 years as performed administrative walk Mary's Church, South Amboy. now used for St. Joseph's Cem pastor of St. Joseph's Church, at Sacred Heart In Vlneland, It was 3O-by-40-feet in size and etery, decorated the ohujoh Swedesboro, which had a mem; Our Lady of Perpetual Help later an-addition of 35 feet and. had three beautiful marble berehip of 000, comprising 100 In Bernardsville, Immaculaie •was built. After the present altars placed In the edifies. families. , Conception Church In Somer- vllle, St. Joseph's Church In Police Department of the Township ol Mala wan consists of a chief, captain, four patrol- church was erected in 1879 the The center altar and altar While at Swedesboro t b e men, and 45 special police. Pictured above, In the usual order, are Patrolman Charles Ariano, old building served as a school rail were the gifts of Anna Rev. Father Burke moved the Bound Brook and St. John's in Patrolman John Humane, Patrolman Balph Wallace, Chief Adolph Menzel, Captain J. Edar until 1928, and since then It Cbncannon in -1007. St. Jo- old frame church to the rear' LambertvlUe. Wilkinson, and Patrolman Frank Cherney Thursday lies been used as an annex for seph's side altar was a e 111 of the lot, renovated It and Father Kane was appointed meetings. from Patrick and Honors made a Sunday School and to~ St, Magdalene DePazzi A police department was or- Chief Menzel said that prior jr., recording and correspond- ganized officially In Matawan to the organization of a regu- ing secretary; Edward Ander- Township In 1935, and Thomas lar police department, he had son, secretary; Thomas An- July 4 F. Powers was appointed po- been appointed a special offi- lerson, treasurer; John Arrm> lice chief on Jan. 1, 1936. ! cer in 1925. "I was assigned to nge, jr., captain; Samuel The first full-time patrol- traffic duty on weekends and men, Adolph Menzel and Wil- holidays and my pay was at G u m b s, sergeant-at-arms; 7:30 P.M. liam Furey, were named to the rate of $2 per day; a day John Ruff, Jesse Hummer and their posts In 1935. Patrolman consisting of 12 to 14 hours," Jenneth Schneider, trustees. Furey died in 1937 and Charles he said. "In 1927 I was pro- Ariano was appointed as a pa- moted to captain and my sal- trolman in 1938. ary was Increased $200 per The present department year. I served in this capacity head. Chief Menzel recalls until 1935." that in the early days the two- C a p t. Wilkinson Is In Serving The Community man force worked 12-hour charge of the 45 special police- shifts every day. He said they men. He stated that the "Spe- Nearly A Half-Century served without a day off until cials" give four hours service 1939, when J. Edgar Wilkin- gratis to the township every son, now captain, was named week. as a special officer and as- After their free, service, the signed to duty weekends in or- men may be assigned to duty LOUIS STULTZ JR., INC. der to permit one day off for by Chief Menzel and are plac- the regulars. In 1942, c a p t. ed on the payroll for specific Wilkinson was named to regu- hours, if given assignments. ar duty and the force began The men are given a course of elght-hour-tours of duty. Instruction in police work and When former Chief Powers an ln-tralnlng program is car- left to serve in the U. S. Navy ried on as the men report for from 1942 to 1946, Thomas J. their free service and work Sinnett was named acting their required hours with chief. Mr. Powers resigned in members of the regular force. 1947, and Mr, Menzel was The Matawan Township Spe- named chief and. Mr. Wlllcln- cial Police Association was or- on, captain. Besides the chief ganized In 1953 by John Arm- and' oaptalnr the force now ltage","' Jr." The" "Association consists of four patrolmen, meets regularly and the first Charles Ariano, Ralph W a 1- officers were: Ralph Coward, lace, John Klnnane and Frank president; William Meier, vice Cherney, and 45 special police. president; Raymond Grosholz, White Oak Camp 51, W. 0. W, Organized In Keyport In 1908 The charter to White p a k Pletro, past consul command- Camp, No. 51, Woodmen of the er; Murray Bottari, c o n s.u 1 World, Keyport was^ jssued on commander; John Armltage Mnr.'24/. 1908." The camjf was advisor •"" lieutenant;" "Aft t.-Mf o" SI, Joseph's Church ivai built In 1879, and the Her. Cornelius the scliool was erected undeY the supervision of Ihtf Rev. Father J. Kane, (Inset!, Is the present pastor. The convent, far left, Kane. The rectory, right was built In 1931. ' organized by Michael Dietrich, Comer, banker; Herbert Hyer -wa« liulll in.lD28; the school In 1924 and a Inriro addition to Keyport, and the horrje office financial secretary;...J_» mes was In Omaha, Neb. Farrell, escort: Walter Trus- First Resident Pastor Devlin, while the Blessed Vir- recreation hall of It. He erect- Church, FlemingtoiT lii"April Tho first officers- were kowskl, watchman: John Delia Extends Congratulations The Rev. Patrick McGovern, gin side altar Was given by ed, equipped and paid for what 193B tfhere a. new church was George Smith, counsel c o m- Pietro, sentry; Mr. Armltage appointed July 1, 1878, was the Father O'Donnell in memory Is said to be one of' the most built and a regional convent mander; Phelps Cherry, ad- George Wells and John Sakow- first resident pastor and he re- of his parents. beautiful Tudor Gothic style established during his pastor- visor lieutenant; William skl, auditors;'Dr. J. P. Cooper to the mained until 1877 to be suc- Held Ir High Esteem church buildings In South Jer- ate. He was sent, as pastor, to Thompson, banker; Michael and Dr. F. W. Holman, physi- ceeded by the Hev. A. a. A church publication, writ- sey. It was built of Homesburg Our Lady of Lourdes Church Dietrich/ secretary; Samuel cians; George Wells,' captain Splerlngr. . • • es of the Rev. Mr. O'-Donnell, granite and trimmed with In- Mllltown, in Juno 1948, where, Wharton, escort; George Ma- of degree team; Mr. Armlt- Father Kelly earned for him- follows: "After spending 33 diana limestone, size 54 x D8 under the direction of the lato son, watchman; Louis age, district field manager and TOWNSHIP.f MATAWAN self a place In the R o m a n yonrs ns pastor of St. Jo- feet at a cost of $110,000, Most Rev. Bishop William A. Bmeads, secretary; F. Palmer 'eorge Wells, Mrs. Mary Hy- Catholic history of Monmouth seph's Church, he will ever be At the Keyport parish, aside Grlfflri, a church, school, con- Armstrong, William Wharton er, field representatives. County because of his success- remembered and remain alive from looking after spiritual du- vent and rectory were renovat- and William W. Conklln, audi- Lilac Drove, No. 55, Key- now celebrating its ful efforts' In carrying through In the hearts of its people. For ties, he paid the (17,000 debt ed completely. tors, and Dr. H. S. C 0 o 1 e y, port, Supreme Forest W o o d- church building programs at they, will recall often his wise remaining on tho new convent, In September 1950, Father physician. men's Circle was organized In Bed Bank, Long Branch and counsel^ his fatherly advice, and also built the new rec- _ flne-Wfts appointed to St. Jo- Joseph C. Root founded Keyport more than 25 y e a r s w~ Bouth Amboy. He also sqrved his eloquent Instructions on tho tory, which was furnlsh«C "seph's ChOTch In Keyport. Un- Woodmen of the World In 1890. ago. The auxiliary of the missions at Asbury Park, word of. God, his kindness, equipped and completed at a der the supervision of the Most William A. Fraser served as Woodmen meets in Odd Fel- Centennial Anniversary Highlands, Bea Bright.rSand}' love and faithfulness; but cost of $40,000, Rev. George W. Ahr, S.T.D. president from 1914 to 1932 lows Hall, Keyport. Hook and all Monmouth and above all his humility and Schwari Was Architect St. Joseph's Convent has been and during^his term In office, The present officers are Ocean Counties. Termed by charity, those beautiful virtues Catholics of that day as the The late Frederick J. enlarged and remodeled. a War Memorial Hospital was Mrs. Alvena Fitzgerald, presi- that characterized him most Schwarz, New York, was the Twelve additional classrooms, established In San Antonio, dent; Mrs. Elizabeth Hubert EstablUhad 1M» Qnalltr — W«lfht — "St. Paul of New Jersey," among his people and h 1 s Father Kelly died In St. architect. The builder was a modern cafeteria capable of Tex. , first -vice president; Mrs Mary's Rectory, South Amboy, brother priests. Ho departed John N. Wester, Metuchen, serving 700 children in loss Woodcraft's Influence ex- Olive Scott, second vice presi- Feb. 27, 1891. this life Feb. 3, 1923, mourned The contract was signed and than nn hour, and a new tends beyond the Woodmen dent; Mrs. Mary Hyer, char by nil." approved Mar. 31, 1031 and tho school auditorium and gymna- Camp Into the community, the lain; Mrs. Gertrude Dunn, Louis Stultz, Jr., Inc. "The present beautiful Gothic Tlio Rev. Joseph A. Linnane building was finished and oc- sium with a seating capacity state and the nation by sup- past president; Mrs. Mary OIL BURNING EQUIPMENT AND BEBVIOB church has dimensions of was the Immediate predeces- cupied Nov. 8, 1031. of 1C0O have been added to the port of local and national char- Farrell, treasurer; Mrs. Anna FUEL Oil. — KEEOSENE — GOAL 105x35. Its height, including sor of the Rev, John P. Burko. Father Burke was elevated school. ities and public welfare enter DellaPletro, financial secre- POULTRY, DOQ AND MILL FEEDS the spire, is 134 feet and the During the former's steward- to Monsclgncur In 1946. H 1 s Assisting Father Kane at St prises. Woodmen of the World, tary; Mrs. Rose Peterman, at (eating capacity Is 750, The ship tho cemetery was Improv- death occurred in August 1S50. Joseph's are tho Rev. John J Life Insurance Society, Is a le- tendant. and Mrs. Ann Boehs 213 Broad St H»MH WIM Keyport cost of the building was re- -eU and beautified, a school was Tho Rev. Cornelius J. Kane gal reserve fraternal life auditor. Field workers a r ''tinted as $22,000 and was ded Hendrlcks and the Rev erected at a cost of $75,000, was appointed to St. Joseph's Charles O'Shaughnossey. Insurance Institution and has Mrs. Hyer and John Armltage operated successlully for 67 Jr. . . ' years. Woodmen of the World Children At Cliffwood School In 1895 Or 1896 also present history medals Parents should enter t h e I and certificates to the- gradu- children, ages one-to-five, I ating classes of various the baby contest, being -pon schools. sored by the Oak Shades Flrj The'present officers of t h e Co. Auxiliary In co-operatlo camp are: Anthony Della- with tne centennial committeo We Congratulate The Township of Matawan ] , * On Its 100th Birthday L x I Your Patronage Has Aided In The Steady Growth of Our Business And We Extend Our Expression of Gratitude For That Patronage George Birch, Jr., Ki-yrorl, who lived In (llffwooil m a yolinir Mover, George Illrcli, ,Jr., MITIC Hcydl, Ilaltle Coward mill boy provided Tim IMalmvaii Journal »l(Ii (lio nliovc plcluro of ttmmn tioluiicus? Klcplion I,fouler, tnirlicr. can ho «pntlril in tlic back row. children In the Clltluood School In (ho year 1803 or 1B00. In tho Try to find Tom Gavin, Ma Mover, Unto Cox, Mury Hurt, Jim ASBURY PARK-NEW YORK TRANSIT CORP. . front row, enn you pick out Katlo Curroll, JOKIC Join's, MUKRIO Brown, Lizzie Ocrlol, Mny Kyun. Mary Gnvln, Dick llcuser, , AFFILIATED HO1I.O TKANSIT Carroll, May Mclnicr. Will Ilrgan, Mike Dietrich, Joslo Curroll, Andrew Miller, l.rn l{|nticnt>rrir. Tom O'llcrlii nml Dove Hen- nRssry, Another Ciivln boy In pictured but liU first name was Mclmcr, ChnrlCH Oirlfl, Will Oertel. Jack Ilyan, Llulo nol known, ,\. Phone KEYPORT 7-0797 - 7-0360 THURSDAY, JUNF27,1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION— PAGE NINE Karkus, township ittorney; Sorting Mail At Cliffwood P.O. Luther A. Foster, municipal Mt. Moriah Church Eight Major Industries Located magistrate; Dr. A. A, Captan- lan, township physician; Ho- mer Matt&son, building Inspec- In Township Of Matawan tor; Ernest E. Hodgson, pub- Industry In Matawan Town- lic works superintendent; Wil- prise on the part of George Township. The firm, which is ly Martens, collector of water ship, although limited, serves and Eugene Valanzano, town- the industries of the nation and located on a plot of two acres accounts and mter meter ship residents for the past 14 of ground on Harrison Ave. reader; Thomns J. Slrinett, some countries overseas years. through iis manufacture of com- now comprises approximately collector of rent, accounts nnd ponent products and processes Started by the brothers 11 110.000 square feet of floor Karl F. lleuser, engineer of used In almost "every indust- years ago,- the foundry Is lo- space."; ' •- • '" streets and roads. rial venture in the land. Pro- cated In a building with an The firm first was establish The Board of Health, com- . ducts manufactured in Mata- area of 4000 square feet and ed in the township In 1947 and posed of five members, Is man Township include iiling, is composed of a furnace room, presently employs an average headed by Mayor Mari6 electronics equipment, chemic- mold room, core unit, and met- of 20 persons in Its various de- Charles R. Short Is health In- al waxes, castings, electroplat- al finishing room. Overhead partments. Frederick Mauer spector and William II. Col- ing equipment and processes, railways are installed to per- Is the president and treasurer lins, registrar1 of vital stalls- mit molten metals to be car- of the firm with Mrs. Isabelle tics. •tar derivatives and others. ried from the furnace.room to Mauer as vice president and . . The Hansgn-VanWinkle-Mun- the mold section of the build- secretary. Montie Rutledge is The Local Assistance Board nirig Co., Church St., Matawan ing easily and quickly. plant manager, , • .has three members wltb Thomns J. Slniiclt as chair Township, has helped to make The Valanzano brothers were Another early Matawan the Matawan area known Township industry was the innn and Mrs. Mary A. Hycr, among the first foundrymen. In Welfare director; T here are throi ,hoiit American industry. the country to use a new car- Matawan Steel and Iron Co. There is hardly an electroplat- which in 1900 was situated on seven members on tho Plan- bon-dioxide set method of pro- Clifrwood Postmaster Frank Cararclolo, assisted by Wini- ning Board anil Harold J. Do- ing 'or anodizing operation in ducing sand cores used in the Church St. where Hanson-Van- the United States and many fred Smith, asslstanti.poslmaster, sorts mall it the post office Inn is chairman, preparation of hollow c as t s. Winkle-Munning Co. now Is lo- on Cllffwood Ave. Mr. Caracclolo IH anticipating .a cliunjro in foreign countries, that, does The new carbon-dioxide s e t cated. Il ft a s later moved the post office from third class to second class by July of nevt Tho mayor—also serves as 'not, In some way,.- reflect the method has increased the across the street and about 20 year and has Indicated the Tost Office Department is iilnimliifi chairman of the five-member - Influence of the Hanson-Van- plant's production from between years later It was sold to Wick- construction of a new post office to servo Mntinvan Township. Matuwan Township Scwcrngc Wlnkle-Munning Co. 400 to 500 per cent, according ham Co. and • since ljas sus- Authority. A Recreation Com The'•• present firm had Its to the plant superintendent. pended operation. Frank Caracclolo, Cllffwood s 5 u c of The Journal nn- mission was created last year Postmaster, is anticipating early, beginnings in.1911 when Serve Many Industries An important contributor to lounced Hint H.F.D. Route a. nnd consists of flvn members the Munnins-Loeb Co. was the change In classification of with Dr. Frederick C. Zobel us Orders come into the foundry industry from this section is the Cllffwood Post Office from n-care of driver Judson Reid, started with-about 75 employ- from all parts of the world the firm of Industrial Acces- ad been extended to take in chairman. ees. In 1918 it was changed to third class to second class by and from all types of industry sories. Inc.. Line Rd.. Matawan July of next year, In addition, Oak Shades. Tho added terri- According to records avail the A.P. Munnlng Co. nnd In which require specially manu- Township which manufactures able since 1010 those who 1928 it again was changed to the postmaster reported that tory made Mr. Reid's route factured parts and tools. Busi- silicone rubber products of plans already are underway to have served as mayor (chair- nit. Morlnli Church IN located on Center St., CIKtwooil, Hanson - Van Winkle • Mun- nesses, trades and industries various types. me-and-one tenth miles longer. man) of the Township Co m Rev. James Carter, (limetl, In piixtor, nlng Co. construct a new post office in served by the local foundry in- Cliffwood to replace the pres- • Frereau Vost Office mlttce Include: Thoinns J. 8in- Improves Dally Living clude electronics, aircraft, ma- ent unit." Work is expected to Records In the office of the ne.tt, Walter D. Brown, Paul. ••>-.,The firm's electrcplatineand rine parts, milling machines, get underway also Ln 1058. R. Dolan, Lewis H. eiemler. anodizing equipment, supplies elevator, plumbing, building Library Is In •hlef inspector,-U. 8. Post Of- William Hyer, sr. nrni J o h n and processes have Important and machine trades, hospitals The records Indicate that 'Ico Department, Indicate that Mnrz, Jr., present, mayor. -roles in the Improvement of and the shipbuilding industry. the Cliffwood Post Office was the Frencau Post Office, then GEHLHAUS.... Cliffwood School established Feb. 17. 1885, with Other members of the town- the dally lives of people' every- The foundry usually employs a portion of Matnwan Town- ship' committee since 11)10 In- where. Electroplating makes a staff of between 10 and 15 By May B. Domlnick John G. Deckert as the first A NAME AND TRADITION Library services in the postmaster. It Is Indicated that hip, waa established June 19, clude Jamca A. Powers, Wil- a-wide variety of manufactured men to turn out their products, liam C. Pomrel, John D. products look better* last long- all in aluminum or bronze, the Township of Matawan had the office received its f I r s t 1889, with Milton A. Fardon as their beginning In an agree- service on route No. 7003, by Keavns, Joseph MeQuiurlo, er and function more efficient- only two metals used in the he first postmaster, and that William J, RcRnn arid Stephen ly. ABC "plant. ment with the- Monmouth the Central Railroad Co. of County Library. A book sec- t was discontinued July 15, J. Kalleta and Salvatoro P. The bright finishes you see on The Cochrane Chemical Com- New Jersey, 12 trips a week. tion was maintained at t he The earliest record of com- 925. It Is Indicated that tho Vena, present commltlecmon. your automobile, home appli- pany, which this year is cele- office received its first in a 1 The township clerks since, ances, Jewelry^- cooking uten- Cliffwood School. In 1931, the pensation for Postmaster brating its 70th' anniversary, township voted to'give a year- service on'route" No. 7043, by 1016 hnvo been Daniel W, Mar- -sib and plumbing fixtures. was established in Matawan Deckert Indicated that he re- tin, SUphon J, Sullivan, Mvn ly appropriation to the Mats- celvcd $24.32 for that portion the Freehold It New York stem from electroplating. The Township from plants in New- Railway, about three, times a Ruth P. Sullivan Mills. James protective surfaces applied to wan Free Public Library for of the fiscal year 1885, during : ark and Jersey City In 1941. service. day. Available records do not A.fowors, Raymond F,.War- electronic equipment, tools and The plant which employs 25 which the office was In opera- nook, James Waniock, Jr., and hardware, far.m implements A, branch then was installed tion, show the earliest compensa- persons Is located on a 10 acre Jon of the postmaster at Fre Mrs, Weasel, present township slid airplanes are applied by an tract of land situated between at the Oak Shades Fire House, The postmasters and dates ; clerk, electroplating process. Hanson- with V . collection of several neau; It Is Indicated, however, Lloyd and Line Rds.; adjacent appointed were: John Q. Deck- that for the fiscal year ended Van "Winkle Munnlng Co. is a to the New York and Long hundred books. ert, Feb. 17, 1885 (establish- leading developer of many of The following year, It seem- Juno 30, 1893, he received Long Branch right-of-way. ed): Charles E. Clark. Jan. 11, »90.47. . these processes and Is a recog- ed feasible tc have the library 1886; : Christopher W I n-te-.r, Baby Contest Part The firm, headed by U. L. at the Cllffwood School, open nized and respected, force In Edv/ards as president, and M. June 20, 1889: Anna M. Win The postmaslevs and t heir fcontlnuod from |)«RO one) American industry and a virtu- two full days,:and one evening Jter, June 12, 1915: Jane L. dates appointed wero; Milton receive a savings bond, loving V. Edwards who is vice presi- each Week. The basement room ally anonymous contributor to dent, originally manufactured Gould tne, Dec. 14. 1021; A. Fardon, Juno 10, 1080 (es- cup and gift certificate. Run- .^better products of all kinds. „ was allocated, shelves built by George F. Keller (acting). tablished): William B. Watts, ners-ui) will be awarded toys compounds used for Insulating Interested township citizens The Atlantic Tile Manufact- electrical wiring. / The plant Jan. 24/1923; George F. Kell- Apr. 17, 1917: Harry M, Can- and- wearing apparel, A oar uring Co.. one of the foremost and furniture and books In- er, Apr. 20, 1923; Augusta Mo- non, June 25, 1921; Edward J. has been donated by Jolmnon now devotes most of Its pro- stalled from the main library. Industries In the township was duction to the manufacture of Grath (acting). May 2. 1924; McGrath. Oct. 2, 1922; Clifford li Olbbs. Matawan, lo trans- WILLIAM A. OF.llI.HAim UI-NllY F, GISHUIA1 started in 1910 on Atlantic Ave. petroleum waxes and asphalts Mrs. Inez Britton, who pass- Augusta McGratb, Oct. U, C. Kohlcr (acting), Dec. 22, port tho king and queen ln the by. Edward Barker, Charles E. ed away In 1950, for many 1924; Mrs. Hazel M. Schlld- 1022; Clifford C. Kohlcr, Jan. porado July 0. Tho Qolillmus fiimlly him been ix part of thin which are used widely by the community for a century, and ttUl owns property, Barker and Herbert aittlns In paper Industry In the nation years, '.vas In charge of the knecht' (acting), Jan, 27, 1931; 15, 1023; Richard D, Thomp- Among Matawan merchants branch, which circulated over Mrs. Hazel M. Schlldkncchf, formerly Uie old Oelilliaua Drlok Yard, In Matuwan IBM. the firm was sold to the and North America. J. Hemp- son. Sept. 24, 1023. donating prlMs are The Fam- Townahlp. Aa » youngster, oyer 15 years ago, tho Mosaic Tile Co., Zanesville, hiU is the plant manager. 7000 books -yearly. Oct, 14; 1931: George F. Kell- This office waa discontinued ily Restaurant, Mnttwin lato William A, Cluhlluuis delivered bread from hln Ohio, and at present operates Special Machinery For The children at the school er (acting), Mar. 24, 1938. July 16, 1025, and mall was or- Sporting Goods, Betty's Dross fatlior'H, HID lato Chuvlen (JolilllttUB, uaktny to Electronics were particularly fortunate in Mr. Deckert, a Democrat dered sent to Matawan, T he Shop, Malawtm Bootory, UOBB nations In Marlboro, Holmdol, Chnoncqunko, Mor ,tt i subsidiary of the Offio having library facilities as uanvlllo. Kcvnort and MaLnwun. There Ulfl faintly I'i r m, manufacturing Mosaic Special precision machinery also was agent at tho-C.I.If f- Froneauso 011 o n, formerly Maghan, Shermans ...WcBlorn. each class was "allowed to wood railway station. Mr called Mt, Pleasant, la now a Auto, HosUttor'B, Mld-T own mado and sold tho llrnt lea cream ln theno par In. c»raml Which Hu Served Tin Township Of Matawan For 88 Yean Together We Have Grown Aiid Progrb^sed And < >•( . AU In a day's work, as shown In the linotype room, with Grade Conway ably handles »nr teletype perforator ma- •',, v - ,. , the capable Bill Bells, (lefl», assisted by Tom Clayton,' (right), chine, which sels type on tape, to run through the Blue-Streak 1 Comet linotype machine. She Is letting copy (or the Matanaa "'•, . setting, type. In the foreground Is the Blue-Streak Comet Township Centennial Section. ,:. ' • ' linotype machine equipped with a teletype setter, through which i" ^ i tape hYrun, and turned out as type. -I I v , Oar: composing room Is shown-In action, as Emll fichustei, (lettl operates tbe Ludlow Machine. Manny I.amhut, trlghtl. Is Mrs. Charlotte Holmes, proof reader, Is sitting at her desk 1 «xamln)nt a flat cast for an advertisement to bo used In the In the proof room, reading a copy of an advertisement for the e>ntenhlal section of Tbe Matawan Journal. centennial section of The Matawan Journal. Our enrravlng- department has the latest In elcctionltooo en- srrnvlnr equipment, (rlghl). Including darkroom. The camera graving equipment represented by the Fairchlld Scan-n-Graver, Is not shown. This department Is capable of turning,ont repro- (lft) hih B1U Ml I h y , (left), which B1U Morrl» Is shown operating, and Uie lino en- ductions of all types to be used In job and newspaper printing. Tommy Hart Is oheoklni ads as he makes np one of the Shown above Is onr Job department. Angelo Duranle, find pages of the centennial section of The Matatvan Journal. pressman, feeds ono of the several job presses which handle all This ihot gives an excellent view of the composing room, anil types of Job printing. In the background, a Little Ulanl press , fame of Its equipment. oan be seen. This Is an automatic press which Is printing a Job ' while Angelo feeds another press. a ' '_?*' »'0'Mr« of otir slereotype room gives an Idea of the equip, rf toitoako tbe nlalfs for the nreas, GharllAiTHu*. «•-• • • -• •• •..'" **• familiar green. }ee»"of The' Keyport WeeUr an* W*V ,-,.», Is aluwn-at toe handlo of the lead pot, as be- *« !^- TI^-*'/ ,""!-» _»» mowo IIBOTS, i ueiiiv KUUWI>eU the. tokM nnniai ffsntitahuiM fof» rr primin prlntlngc sVhi orv a>«™iww«riM«i™M««»vmB Jtotmiat. Matswai n «inwJvoi'tiM, , nI sm «e«in orby many many, , ua su I tweno wendss urnIts way lhro««ti I $ plalo cast. 7 ' ' > *h 1 !•• T*»"»" mtcbsnloal lUMrlnMiident, - (Hghtl. Th« prett, purchased In 1(55. U capable of turning ont 1« page* toe streets delivering netnpapen. UaiuUy. al the l Ma check. Iho Ink on U* front paie. as GharUo Titus, jressman/l al a Unto, wlta a running sp«e4 of OT«r. ItM «•!>«• fl«r aornr. a.w akom iMutlaC *a»«f«.-U B.oky T.wler. ' THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL Established Since 1910 We Welcome The Opportunity To Join In Celebrating This Great Event \ THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF MATAWAN TGWNSHir , - AN AERIALVlEW OF.THE ATLANTIC TILE MANUFACTURING CO. •*-.; *• i ;,.*,, NEW TUNNEL KILN MEMBERS OV 20 TEAR CUJB , Atlantic Tile Mf(, Co. dedicated a new tunnel kiln as another >Up toward Lonr (Ime loyally to Allnnllo Tlln Mfx. Co. In Matuwan Townslilp la fxrni|illflcil liy mrmlii CONGRATULATIONS We Extend Congratulations To The Township Of Matawan On The One Hundredth Anniversary Of Your Progressive Community 1 Mi., 4 ( '"ill THE ATLANTIC TILE MFG., CO »**».(» »i f ATLANTIC AVENUE - MATAWAN Manufacturers Of Mosaic Ceramic Floor and Wall Tile mutt. THURSDAY, JUNE 27 1957 PAGE TWELVE — CENTENNIAL SECTION THE MATAWAN JOURNAL Items Of Yesteryear From The First Matawan Creek Bridge Built Did Captain Kidd Bury Treasure Near This Spot? First Issue Of "The Journal And Matawan Advertiser" In 1857 After Bitter Controversy Shows How Life Of Community Moved In Early Days (EDITORIAL NOTE) - "The Jour, We understand that Mr. Engine and building to ths (Cut to go with article was not available) nal and MaUwan Advertiser made trustees and members of the Its first appearance at Matawan. Wm. Spader had leased from (April 22, 1915) cated directly along the pres- U. 1.. under date oi JuJy, 1863. as a Mr, O. D. White, the lot where Washington Fire Co.; which monthly publication, issued by Davta were respontied_to by a very The location over Matawan ent structure on.the southwest A. Ben who also 'conducted a com- his residence and Stove Em- Creek, at which point trie new side of same. It will,have mercial printing plant in Matawan. porium formerly stood, and appropriate' speech of accept- and was the agent for (lie Globe Intends to move his Lumber ance from Wm. Spader, Esq., •bridge to be constructed by thirty foot roadway with Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Ne# treet car track in the center York. U" was > four pate sheet, Yard to that place. of the board. The engine was . the Board of Chosen Freehold- twelve Inches wide by eighteen and ers of Monmouth County, Is to and will be built •for traffic a hal/ inches deep, with four-col* One of the finest sights in then dismantled, and taken to be placed, has been used as a ,nd in the most substantial umns to the page, of sixteen inches :his section Is on the farm of the front of the Herbert House, deptlr and—fourteen ems width, and crossing point, for a very long manner. The trunnion pin will was hand'set, of course. * Mr. D. H. Wyckoff. He has where her power was tested time.' It'is" understood .tharttse e""IOW"ih'clVes' in "diameter. As a symbol of a community ulilcli about fifty acres of tomatoes, for throwing a stream. Then was then a port, the front page label which he engaged to plant for there was ^scattering to a n 6-if Indians which Inhabited this The bridge will consist of carried a large cut of a two-masted section of our county, were three stationary spans, each steamer rocking in the waves. The Dudley & Co., and lie pros- fro, as none of the crowd front—and—bauK uagcs~wer«~dev-oteti are lliat the 7:rop will —-thefirst touHp-it;- In-order -to about seventy feet long, "and to literary effusions, sometimes of seemed anxious for a shower- reach their brethren at Chin- in addition a double leaf local origin. very laree one. One bath, even, on a hot July day. Tills' magazine material was com- garora Point from Matawan bascule span of the Strauss mon to Uie newspapers of the pe- .lant gives Indication that it Unexpectedly, however, a Point.' ype^/hich will give a clear riod and continued to occupy space .vlll yield nearly a barrel of piece of the hose burst and In the local paper for many years. ,.•.. Long after the Indians had mobstructed channel for navl- Professional cards at thfat time also 'ruit. several of our worthy citizen's been driven out a raft was ;atlon of fifty feet. adorned the first page, as they did in Mr. R. Brown has received were so unfortunate as to get le metropolitan papers of the day, used to transport persona This type of "Jack-knife" or The subscription price was 50 cents the contract for building Dr. quite a wett from one side to the other. 'bascule" bridge is recogniz- year, "payable strictly in advance." Schackelton's house,, and is forget.. to m Following we give.the entire con- Along about' the year 1854 ed throughout the country as finta of the first issue, and in this ushing the work rapidly for- collation pre; . : the late John K. Kuhns, Clil'f- Ke best form of movable is in all the excerpts from the flics ward. pany by T. •wood, started a ferry by which n'ldge and it is remarkable i-hich w-e use In our "Looking Back, At a meeting of Matawan way in i-ard" column each week, ive have ! . he could transport wagons and or Its speed of operation, be- (reserved the spelling, punctuation, Division, No . 66, Sons of Tem- by the -apitallzatlon, sentence structure, and persons a c r o s s the stream. ;aiise It affords the best pos- ill else which portrays the style of crance, held Friday Evening, appreciation or it, nl o r e This mode of transfer was in ilble conditions for shipping me paper of the period, - and the uly 2d, the following officers strongly than words can do it. effect for a number of years, ind because the bridge itseir ipfrit of the times. were elected—W. P., John W. In the afternoon my address as the owners of the vessels .cts as the most efficient safe- Volume one, number one Hornor; W. A., E. Forrest was delivered in the M. E. . sailing in and out of Matawan gates for the roadway tr&l- ontained this editorial, en- Disbrow; B. S., E. E. Bran- Ihiirch, and a Fair and Festl- "or Middletown Point Creek, 'lc, the leaves of the bascule •itled "Our First Issue": nln; A. R. S., Joel A. Walling; ali held by the ladies, on the were successful In righting off span closing up the roadways Nothing attempted, nothing F. S., Charles-F. Wyckoff; C. Church grounds, which passed " the efforts of the people of mt.rely when the bridge Is rained. Years nave passed T. E. Shepherd. • off very pleasantly, and net- Keyport in having a charter Cllffwood Beach, once called "Money Island" Is located on the shoreline of Baritan Bar party or fully open. There are between Matawan and Whale Creeks. The area Includes Treasure Lake, pictured above, and ince the press has turned off The profits from the M. E. ted a profit of about three granted for a pay drawbridge. 1 r e a d y twelve of these according to legend. Captain Kldd was supposed to have buried treasure near this spot. news sheet in Matawan, Church Fair at Key Port, on hundred and fifty dollars. We Kcyport-Cliffwood Direct iridges built for neighboring Treasure Lake, situated in the midst of a wooded area, was for many years a favorite spot ind the time we think has uly 5th. were $375. might enter Into details con- The boatmen were aided In ountles within the State ol tor camping, picnics and bathinc. In tho winter, Ike lake was used for ice skating. ;ome for another effort to es- President Grant and family cerning the Fair but all was • their efforts to hold up the lew Jersey. ablish a Journal in our vil- arrived at Long Branch on according to. the usual routine ch&rter by the merchants of Bascule Or Jack-knife lage. We are living in an age Monday, July 19th. It is ex- except the Art Gallery; ln- it then Middletown Point, now The characteristic feature of if advancement and, energy, pected that his family will re- you might, for ten cents, get Matawan, as all wagon traffic this particular type of lift Lenni Lenape Original Settlers; ind our people have given, of main two or three week?. twice the worth of it in fun * ' was compelled to make the bridge Is the counterweights ate, several proofs of their and Joke, and go out, feeling long drive around Matawan to The Democrats are likely to' rhlch balance the two leaves mbition to keep pace with have a contest over their that you had been sold, and • Keyport via what Is known as n the same manner as the the spirit of the times. Within State Senatorial nomination yet gained largely by the sell. the P. V. Heyer farm at the Minisink Trail Traveled Route the past two or three years a upper end of Motawan Creek, rdlnary railroad crossing (September 10. 1930) The Unaml were divided In- )lack hair and brown eyes. from this county. The names Matewaii, Jull 20 furst, 1800/ rate is balanced. These coun- number of very important Im- that are the most prominent & 60 Mlstur D. Bell, at which place was the only The early explorers found a to eight sub-tribes. South of The hair was usually worn provements have been made. bridge at that time. ;erweightai are of concrete, are widely distributed Indian pop- the Raritan in Monmouth long but sometimes it was are Hon. H. s. Little, of Mata- I here yu ar goln tu be.edi- Suspended as a pendulum Glenwood Institute has been wan. and Holmes W. Murphy. At first when the question of ulation all along the Atlantic County lived the Naveslnks burned oft with the exception nlarged to one-third more ,ur fur a paper in our willage. » bridge was agitated, the rom a rear extension of the ieaboard. The dominant na- tribe. TJe word: Navesink of a scalp lock. Their color Esq., of Freehold. ime hapl tu here it. I wish.you sarrylng girder but, of means, where the land goes to was dark with a rather copper than Jts former size. O/u r Drum fish are destroying or sumbod! else, had bin ofle owners of the sailing vessels, ion in the eastern United Building & loan Association aided by the merchants ol course, these counterweights States was the Algonkln, who a point or angle. Another In- cast. They were swift on foot he young oysters in keyport n this here town sum 11 m e will not be seen, since they )ossessed the land from Lab- dian name for this Navesink and could carry heavy bur- has been organized, and we bay. ago. fur their Is a gud.manl Middletown Point, were pow- have now, after a successful erful enough to defeat legisla- are below the bridge floor and rador to the Carolines, east of region was Fortlpeck. The dens. A man seldom had a A serious accident occurred things goln on hear ,wat aut tu confined entirely between the the 'Alleghany Mountains to Naveslnks claimed the land beard, but when he did he working of two-and-a-half at Lockport on Friday after- be shode up, — If yu will put tion, which would permit the ears, over forty thousand dol- construction of the bridge for girders of the adjacent ap- the coast. The division of the rom Uie Harltan .River to pulled it rather than "nit it.-On noon. As Dr. Hodgson and this in your 1st paper.JI ;gess proach spans. Mgonkln which occupied the special occasions they would ars loaned on bond and mort- Mr. Yunker's son were riding a number of years, Barhegat Bay and concluding gage. This has led to the erec- lie se If 1 kant keep things ; About the year 1858 the late Altogether the appearance Delaware River valley was rom the evidence that is brot paint parts of the body, par- on horseback la opposite di- strate hearaftur. of the lift span will be very :nown as the' Lcnnl Lenape, ticularly the face. tion of a large number of new rections, they dashed against Joseph Rose, who had moved to bear on the subject, th a t I spose yu no weve got j>fin- from New York to the farm much the same as of a small ;nd all of what is now new and very neat residences in, each other with such force as section of Monmouth in and- ata they were mo- and upon the outskirts, of the glne hear tu put out fires with. known as the Rose farm and plate Birder arch, and It will Jersey belonged to them. about the southern. shore of to throw both horses to the Butt fore feer yuNiont, lie tell Their name "Lenni Lenape" dest, quick-witted and loyal to town. Last Winter, the merry who frequently went to New >e noted from the appended Raritan Bay, the Navesink their friends, but, treacherous earth, killing the doctor's al- yu & yore redurs sumthln York Ctly by boat from Key- :ut that the appearance of the signifies original people. "Len- and Shrewsbury Rivers, was augh and happy cheer gave most instantly, while the other about hur (Ime a membur). i 1" in the Delaware language In the last degree to their en- proof that the danger hereto- port, became Interested In the structure will be very pleas- a Mecca to which from a 11 emies. Tortures were borne was so Injured as to be ren- lined the cumpani wen it furst proposition, and created such ng. That the structure Is no ised as an adejectlve, means parts of the continent Indians fore risked for the sake" of an dered useless. Fortunately, commenst an hev bin a fire- "pure, original," "Len" with the utmost indifference. hour's pleasure In skating was a sentiment for the building of ;mall affair will be under- sojourned prior to its discov- They were lazy, but hunted, neither party was badly hurt. mun ever sents, as I sed be- _. -. the bridge that the "bridge itood from the fa.ct that each means our, and "ape" means ery by Europeans. The fou r gone and crowds thronged our There seems to be-more foar weve got a inglne; an the man, which, Interpreted Is fished and went to war. When party" were successful In if the above mentioned coun- great Indian trails in the state they traveled the women car- fine Skating Pond. This Sum- permanent boarders at the »- electing members to the Sen- original p! bur people." mer we do not have to depend sitlsens maid us a presant of terweights will have a weight ed to It. The Achklnkbacky ried the baggage together Long Branch hotels this year a butifull house" tu" put h"ur"ln ate and Bouse from this coun- of more than 100,000 pounds. .The national eplo of the upon our Keyport neighbor for than heretofore. Lenape sets forth the creation (Hackensaclc) Trail from ' the with their Infants bound to tu keep hur from rutln weve ty, _who>_had j»_]sw_ enacted The bridge will be operated board. The dress of the wom- ice; but, through the_ enter- -A child of Hrr J;-D oe-r-n empowering the company to of the world by the great northern reaches of "the-. Hud- prise of our friend. Dr. Oer- gothur in it an wear goltrtu r electricity "fay an "operator Manito, the creator of man son; the more notable Mini- en varied somewhat from was accldently drowned In a XiXTan fix it up nice, weve all- .-— build a bridge and charge toll. itatloned in the operator's that of the men. Skirts of tur- an, we have our village Ice cistern at Keyport, recently. This was In 1857. and of animals. There was sink Trail from the Great so got 35 gud membuis It mpr :abln on one side ol the bridge Lakes region, and '.he Karl- key feathers were commonly House. The parade; on Inde- peace for a time until an evil endence Day. called the at- Mrs. Daniel H. Ellis met a cumin, weve got too peses Charged Tolls Then ,nd all the latest safety de- Manito in the guise of a great an-Lopatcong Trail from the worn. They wore their hair in with a very painful accident of big hoes. T fete long tu suk The bridge, as a toll bridge, ices will be employed In the long braids, and would twine tention of town and" country to wattur.'an tew peses of smal , serpent brought about an southwest, all terminate at >ur beautiful fire Engine and oa Saturday night last. She was maintained for a number lcctrlcal and machinery overwhelming flood. Many Navesink in Monmoutn. While about the head a band of was going to the home ot her hoes 50 fete long tu squirt wa- ol years and up until the coun- iqulpment of the bridge. perished. However, a few es- the Indians were known to deer's hair dyed a bright col- uniformed F1 r e Company; daughter, who was 111 and in tur thru ft weve got a long box ty purchased It from the. com- The bridge is being design- caped by the kind offices of move from place to place dur- or. They wore shell b e a d s, and, following the procession, the darkness she mistook the with two big weals outside an pany and made It a free or ed by The Strauss B a s o u 1 e the turtle who conveyed them ing certain periods of time, painted their faces and often we had the pleasure of joining opening of the back stair-case too little wuns lnclde wich is county bridge. Bridge Company of Chicago, to solid land. There they found nevertheless, they had terri- wore rings In their ears and in the exercises of dedication tu put watur in and role our nose. They had little house- for the room door, and fell to The first bridge built was which are specialists in this themselves In a cold country tory recognized as the proper- of a fine two-story Engine the bottom of the stair with hots on. class of work, and tenders will from whence they Journeyed ty of particular tribes. The keeping to do, dug the fields, House, and the presentation of Now mlstur edltur the'n ]" constructed of wood, and last- Planted the seed, and oultivat- such -force as to fracture the ed until the year 1888 when it probably be asked within a southward toward the "snake ight to camp, and fish and it and the engine to the com- left wrist, make a superficial things weve got. an 1 would month or so. land." They crossed a great d the crops. It was left, to pany. The Rail-Road, too, like ter no of enl fire comparil was replaced by the present hunt was denied anyone in them to gather the Clrewood, wound on the head, and pro- Iron bridge at a cost of about The Quantities as estimated river In winter, reaching the ime of war and because ol claims a share In pur revue, duced internal injuries. She Is eny ware a round that kan put and of the spruce pine. Prom do the cooking and attend the and, though we have not yet out a fire, (unless they ar gud $19,000, At the, time the trolley by the engineer are as follows: this there was much wander- children. still in a critical condition. road was extended to South Structural Steel, Gullace and -his point they attacked the Ing about. heard the whistle of the loco- The Annual Fair of the Mon- bloers) with out a llttel wat- .-. ' Amboy an enlargement was Anchorage )eople of the "snake land" motive and Uie rolling of the lur. I say llttel, kause weve Villages and camp sites are The children wore little, If rain, yet we are Indulging In mouth Co. Agricultural Soci- . made by the county, whereby Bascule span .... 100,500 ,nd after a successful con- ound usually somewhat back any, clothing until three years ety will be held at Freehold, got nun. butt Qieyve go a big the trolley company was per- Fixed span 235.800 lb lucst settled the country and that which is the evidence of arell settln up town tu put From the coast. Many came of age. Animal skins things not seen as yet, and this year, on the Mth, 15th -& sum In, ef enuff shiid hapln tu mitted to use the bridge In 30,000 earned to cultivate maize. rom the Interior to pass the were useo with the fur on the 16th, of September. connection with the county. Cast shoes 1,000 From the "snake land" they imagine we hear the coming fall tu soke It tlte. an then it summer near the shore and Inside In winter and on the of the train, the shrill voice of Freehold has organized Trunnion and pins 3,000 moved toward the east ^by mite as wel be in the clowds As the Iron bridge when returned In the autumn by the outside In summer. The cdu the whistle, and the conductor new Loan Association. . fore us flremun kant reech It - built, was not meant to carry Trunnion bearings, arrlng against the Talega Trail and other cation of boys and girls, be nd by the aid of the Hurons calling, "All out for Mata- Two attempts have been kaus our big hoes an(t long the.traffic to which it .was sleeves, etc 4.000 routes ot travel. sides hunting, swimming, wan." Amid all the3e Im- made recently to burn the enuff, then subjected, it soon began Operating and lock Irove them southward. Then weaving, planting, speaking ollowed a period o! peace, but Probably these visitors provements, shall we not have school house at Long Branch, to show the strain which it machinery 12,000 came not so much for summer the language etcetra, was a paper? We have resolved to and a reward of $500 has been . now mistur edltur befo&r, a was compelled to carry, and ifter a time there was a dlvl- made up of learning to count, Counterweight, 50 cu. ilon among the people some recreation as for the purpose make the attempt, and see 1 offered. fire cums I want sum gud-go-',' it has been necessary to do yds. concrete 200,000 of obtaining oysters, clams, to reckon linear measure, to we cannot, by perseverance A Camp Meeting will com- ahedd-man tu malk It his biz- considerable work on the of whom went south and some compute time, and learn val- Reinforcing basis 800 to the west. The main body of sea-fish nnd fowl, and shell work our journal up to an mence at Farmlngdale, on ness tu se tu this mattu'r im- bridge to keep it in condition Electrical equipment: 2714 for the manufacture of wam- ues. Counting wag dono on th enlarged weekly issue; to Monday, August 9th. . eglatell, so bl the next lshu of lor use. For the use of the the people ultimately arrived fingers. A unit of linear mea- h p. operating motors, at the Salt Sea. the Atlantic pum which was taken in large plant the acorn, hoping to see Ex-Gov. Parker Is to deliver yore spisee sheet therl be bridge the trolley company 'lant flooring about.. 33,000 ft quantities from' the seashon sure was the distance from it grow Into the strong, un- an address before the Nation- sumthln dun. now, 1 doant pays one-half the operating Ocean. Here Uie three sub- the thumb and first finger ti Operator's house, ma- tribes of the Lenape finally and found Its way as a circu- yielding oak. To accomplish al Education Convention, want tu hev tu spoke of this expenses, repairs and the cost chinery, enclosures, lating medium oven to the the pit of the elbow. Dlstanc this, we call for tho earnest thing agin, an bye theas fu of any new structures which settled in the valley of Use in travel was a day's Journey which assembles at Trenton, navigation signals, Dataware River. tribes living west of the Mis- co-operation of our frlend3. on the 10th. of August., words ot sensure lie hold mi the Board of Freeholders felt etc ,5,000 sissippi, from sun-up to sun-down. pen fore the presant, allso the It necessary to erect. We spent a little Jme om Independence Day Inglne until further ackshun of Trolley poles, wires and Henry Hudson on his third The months were: Janu At Matawan pins '. 14,300 The story closes with the voyage to this continent, Sept. ary—squirrel month. Febru- day last week at Keyport, and the sitisens. ' • Trolley Shared It were pleased to find that ou It commenced before the Several m o n ^h s i-go the Substructure coming of tho white man who 14, 1000, sailed down the coast ary—frog m o n th,- March- day began. Seeming almost to Given undur mi hand fa seel Excavation ., 150 cu. yds approached them both liom and entered the harbor ol New shad month, April—s p r I n enterprise met with such gen- Board decided to replace tho eral favor, almost every • per- bo provoked that the Fourth this 20 furst day of Jult-1800 It present bridge with a new an Cofferdams, as needed the north and the south. York and his description of month, May—summer begins came on Sunday, scarcely had 69. ' ' concrete 100 cu. yds tho natives In this section June—summer, J u 1 y—h o son we called upon subscrib- modern structure, and the do Tho sub tribes of the Lennl ing for the paper. the holy day been rolled upon P. LOW SHERE (le., Plow •lgners of what Is known ai Reinforcing steer,... 1,000 1 Lonapo were the Minsl ("men sheds much light on their month, August—deer month the scroll of time to be no Share) Bascule, or "Jack Knllo Filing from 05 to 00 ft. 112 pts of the stony country"), the character. These are In th e September—autumn, Oc Loeal Items more, when we were aroused bridge were requested to sub Fender piles 45 pea Unaml ("fisherman"), and main his words: tober — month of vermin, No- A bungling attempt wa from" sleep by the ringing o: mlt plans, specifications, anc Timber In fenders, Unalnchtlgo ("people living "Tills day the people of tho vember—snow month, - a n made on Saturday, 24th lnst December—cold month. hells, i beating of the drum Lenni Lenape approximate prices for a ne about 0,000 ft near tho "sea"). country cja m e aboard, us to pass a forged check at th and the other familar concom- bridge. The whole machinery will b( Their totems were Minsl. seeming very glad of our •conr. The dwelling was not the Farmers' It Merchants' Bank itants of, our National holiday (continued from iilth column) Among the proposals sub operated from the operator tho wolf; Unaml, tho turtle: Ing. and brot grecno tobacco tepee of the plains. The char- In this village. An apprentice The first thing advertised for dried and then smoked. A milled was one from tin house, which shows in tho cul and Unalachtlgo, the turkey. nnd gave us of it for knives acteristic wigwam of the Len- mason was Immediately ar- the day was a parade of our very poor quality of bread Btrauss Bascule T ru n n 1 o Tho hand or guard rail wll This section of New Jersey and bends. They go In dcero apo was a shelter having a rested and taken to the coun- newly organized Fire Com was milled from corn meal Bridge Company, of Chlcngi be 2\'i Inch galvanized Iron was Inhabited by tho Unaml. skins loose, well dressed. length twlco its' width. It was ty Jail. pany.'We have already spoken and from the came meal they 111.- After the Board of Fro with globo fittings, and w IV! which word signifies the poo- They have yellow copper. made by planting In the There has been a division ol of this enterprise In another cooked a porridge called by holders and the rcprcscnta glvo the structuro a neat op plo down tho river. They were They desire clothes and are ground two rows of poles stock in the Matawan Propel them samp. This dish was lives of the Jersey.. Centr pcarance, very civil. They have a great article, and It now remains on- always given precedence In about fifteen feet apart and ler Company. A number of th ly Tor us to give a sketch. In adopted by the early settlers Traction Company had gone Cost To Bo $40,000 civic affairs over tho other store ot maiz or Indian wheat thirty In extent. These poles stock-holders took the S. A under the name of mush. over the various plans of Dclawurcs and were often whereof they make good brief, of the exercises. The Because of the slight changi were of ereen saplings, usual- Brown, as their share, a n corps, numbering thirty fire- The Lenape had discovered bridges submitted by ilie com- In tho location,of the brldgi spoken of as the Turtle Tribe. bread. ly hickory, and were bent to will run her to her old dock the use of dyes and these petitors, it wns the unanimous They " probably had two men, uniformed In red shirts, about 10 feet south of tho prc "The firth—this day many of a rounded roof and wlthed to- while tho S. S. Wyckoff w 11 black pants, and firemen's were utilized In tattooing, conclusion of the Board and cnt structuro. It wll! bo nccc council fires, ono at Cross- tho people enmo, aboard of us gether. Tho sides of the house continue under the control ol staining baskets, hides, blank- Uie trolley company that tho sary to straighten tho rond oi woeksung mow Oiosswlcks. hats, formed in line In front of In mantles of feathers and were covered with chestnut Fountain, Hornor & Sons, ant their Engine House, headed by ets and other fabrics. Btrauss Basculo Trunnion both sides or tho.brldgo, am Burlington County; and the dome In sklnnps of divers Bridge was superior to any other possibly at Warmcslng bark and braced and protect- freight from the new dock. the board of trustees. In an They had no god of love, but tho procuring of tho ncces3ar: sorts of good turres. Some e*tl with leaves, cornstalks, Some mischievous boy, oi lived In fear and dread of an other style or type submitted, land, and permissions are not (Morgan), on the Raritan Bay open wngon. At the word of came to us with hempe. They and banks of earth. There was boys, have on three or fou command, |hey took hold of evil spirit which they called tod a contract was mndo with under way. It will tako all th at Chccsen,uako Crook dies- had red copper pipes, tobacco nnquak). a door in each end of the do- occasions, raised the gates o! the engine, and followed the the Manlt'to. When there we're this company to furnish the summer to put In the su pipes nnd other things of cop- micile thru which the owner the Skating Pond, and let oul sickness, death, famine, hall plnns and specifications for structure, and the draw will per they did weare about drum and fife down as far as Tho legond of the Unaml Is crawled inside. Along the tho greater part of the water the residence of Mr. Wlltber- or severe prolonged old they probably be placed next, win- set forth In the following stan- their neckes. ter when the creek Is .-frozen, sides were bench-like dera- This has made It Imposslbl gh'er. the foreman. Then, clXr said the Manlt'to < was angry The preliminary drawings zas written by Klchnrd "Ths eighteenth—The people tions on which the occupants to get a sufficient supply ol er three hearty cheers tor with them. They believed l!n a were completed nod tho speci- and navigation closed us Adams, » Delaware Ii dlan: of this countrce camo flocking sat and where they slept. In water In the tanks for water their leader, they returned life beyond the grave where fications outlined, when It be- will bo lmposslblo to swim When the waters were so aboard, nnd brot us grnpes the center was a fire pit find Ing the streets. It Is the du and paraded through town to there was a happy hunting came necessary for the Coun- tho present draw jvheri th mlBhty and pomplons (pumpkins), over It an opening In the roof. of every one to assist In bring Mount Pleasant, and back ground for the virtuous, and ty Engineer to go to Chicago new onoUs bolng orected. As to reach tho mountain which we bot for trifles and Tho food of tho Lenape was Ing the perpetrators of t h 1 again to their; Engine House. privation and suffering for to go over same In conjunction It Is estimated that the tota nigh, many brot bevers sklnnca, and simple. He drank water and mischief to tho UKIU, t Ii a On the way, they were greet- tho3O who were not brave and with the Chief Engineer ollhe cost of the strucuro will b< And It seemed that all crea- otter sklnnes, which wo bot nto meat, fish, shcll-flsh. corn they may be dealt with nc ed with the waving of hand- good. Strauss Bridge Company. The about $40,000 When the lift tion for bonds, knives nnd hatch- beans, squash, pumpkin and cording to law, References: Phllhow- Ma. kerchiefs, the. presentation of work of checking up the iln'ns ur It is a positive barrier tc Surely then was doomed to melons. Meat and fish were We congratulate our friend wrenths, nnd bouquets, and cr, Chnrlcs A.—Aboriginal In- sad specifications wns done any vehicle which might, wltli dlo, "T Ii o twentieth—Ono of bnllctl and broiled. Coin was V. Austin Srhanck. on Ills Pa mnny pleasant smiles from habitants of Mon. County,— Use week by the County Engi- the old style bridge, torco.lt! Came tho turtle to our ICSOIJO. them had his wife with him usually ground Into r.ioal nnd tent Dust-Pan It Is one of tin tho ladles: while every starry Proceeding of the N. J. His- neer, and wo have been able way Into the creek as did the Drol u.i snfoly unto Innd, which sale so modestly ns nny then roasted or charred nt|d neatest Inventions we h a v flag received Uie gicctjig of a torletvl-.SQC.lcty, Vol. IX, No. 1; to obtiiln tliti following facts automobllo on the Passat For tlio Mttiiltou hnd sent of our country women would burled In storage pots lor soon In some time, and thr Kull. Irvlmf-a.,.. Editor, New 1 cheer from the- compnny. At In connection, therewith;... Bridge recently .In vhlch ac- him: doc 'In a strange.place.. ' winter use. Oysters, clams Irllllnn difference In -> ml. will tlio Engine HouM, some re- Jersey. A History; Ellti, Shift locution cident four persons were Now we're called t Ii o "Tur- The men were fine looking and mussels were strung, make every one prefer It to mnrkn were made on behalf ol Franklin— History of Mon. ' The new biklBo will bo Io- drowned, tle Clan." • r fellows will) brond shoulders, (continued In column' the.old,style, ,Uhc. cillic.ua,, presenting the mouth Co., N. J. . , • -i. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION -— PAGE THIRTEEN The Matawan Tour Plank Roads In Existence In 1846; Famous Cliffwootl Beach Landmark Frank Bcdlc Ran First School House In Cliffwood Union Beach Was Rival Of Section Line Of Si ages •• (October 30. 1931) rebelled aiid refused to pay duly 11. IHTf.'i ^ In 1846, plank.road compan- toll, In^nie cases they even Mr. Frank UeciU1, oiU' ies came into existence in this broke down the gates. The op- bus num. run:i o lint- «f s section, and the "Florence and position became so string that to llll'fi cllt'h tlUill, IHKi Will T Kcyport Co.," was incorporat- the turnpike coinpany was CfiiL-ttV- Uw- trMtirnrr:vt ~t; ho ed Feb.'14. 184G, with a capi- compelled'to compromise -SMUiiitU', by word btini lelt tal stock of . S20D.000 in 2000 at the postoftlco or ,1. H. Wol- The people were granted the i shares at S100 each. The ob-privilege ol using Ihe road lev's More. Tlio Nt \v Y o r k ject of the company was to alongside of the plank road, rulnR duilk't! urr itu'tiivctl , lay out a city on Rarita'n Bay- of the drivers, however, by ruilioaU every murmur build docks, dwellings and would use the plank road un- now, bv oui' news uncut. This toads, and establish a line of til they got in sight of a toll Is i\n lulvuntnut' M about oip,lu travel from New York to Flor- Bate, when they would switch ^I_enfifi_Qn.._the_Delaware ~ River- off-otr to the~pul)lic road and _ near Camden. thus escape the toll, The plank whose copies (id not come un- This company bought a road, however, soon began to til ovenini!. A luMillon h n N large tract o! Sand east of been prepared.lo nsk the Posl- decay and became worn out. mnster Oont'ral for u movnlnu The first school houw In Cllffuoml Is pictured abovfl. Till ', Keyport, mapped out about Again Dirt Bond 3090 lots' and advertised- them mull by ruilt'osid. Smith's picture WIIK takrii'liy (ii'nrsn lUrrh, Jr., Keynnrl, who uttended. It was then changed to a rnilrnad stivBe from Keyport llw school when 1K< was sevcli-yrurti-ulil. •at public sale.--There were turnpike and the Company col- fourteen ' stockholders and runs through Mtituwnn to the lected tolls for many years. bniitj every day,'ut a little utt- Is five per cent, minting." the i1 main cuti'-i's foi Ihu dclny .. Isaac C. Lloyd, of Florence, About two miles of it 'were .; was chosen president. er 1 o'clock for the conven- roiul an eiisy ono to travel. lint, work, sold, to the Keyport & Main- ience of Keyport business men The man) small rolls or shiirl > 'N. Y. t'.-Plilla. Uoifte ;; T wan Street Railway Co.. a wlshlnir to attend to liny mai- liills luivo been" Inken out, so . . :• Feb. 19.1852,.an ad to -in-horse car line, thus changing lers with our bnnkinp. Institu- thai tlio vision of drivers will 'corporfte tlie Florence and the conditions, by means of a tion. Mr. J, L. M, Domlnlck not be ftffoclod, as. exporltmei! lank Roads Freehold Plank, or Turnpike general law. and the people's has received the appointment has taught that the short dips coiUlmlcd fiom icroiitl ool.l Company became . a law. In property was used for a dif- of agent for- the' Ccntrnl Ex- lilric.jiJijsiuu-Wlilch comes--up Mutiiwan TIVH, Itniito this year afso a plank road ferent purpose from that for press, a ..brunch of. Adams Ex- BUdilenty, 'causing, many . ucol- company was incorporated to which it was ceded to the For many years, motorists on Route 35 have had thrir alk-iillon nltrucisd by a large Span- press, at tho Mntnwan depot, dents. Feb. 23, lino,—An net .to in- build a road from Florence to turnpike company^ _Tiie bal- ish sallcon en dry land. Some may think lluil It Is a wreck cast up From tlie sea hut brightly iihd ptu'knffes can now be Sent the , KuyDort and "Union City SINCE 1893 Jersey ventral Xoower& COMPANY We Congratulate You On Your 100th Birthday J. H. BECKEB, Iilc. i;i: : *1 THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION -~ PAGE FIFTEEN^ HIP OF MATAWAN .:;.;.„.„:/• I' 'V , ,' OF THE BOROUGH OF KEYPORT iiiiiiit-ANN • SHOPPE KEYPORT HARDWARE LOUIS I. PRAGER, O. D. 62 W. Front St, Ktyport 7-4027 20-28 W. Front St., Keyporr 7-2000 30 W. Front St., Keyport 7-2020 BARBER SHOP STAR BEEF CO. ATLANTIC APPLIANCE CO. 55 W. Front St., Keyport 16 W. Front St., Keyport 7-1289 ' ' Aidill No, J, T 31. Front St., Keyport 7-3012 ; PETE'S Inc. H. B. THOMAS CO. .44 W. Front St., Keyport 7-2700 2 W. Front St., Keyport WEST FURNITURE CO. First And Church St.., Keyport 7-0181 BAYSHORE STATIONERS BAR-RICH 36 W. Front St., Keyport 7-3598 The Corner Drug more CURTIS SALES CO. 1 W. Front St., Keyport 7-0509 62 E. Front St., Koyporl 7-4198 CONKLINS '"f i Men'« b Bojrt' Shop ZAMPELLO SHOE REPAIR 84 W, Front St., Keyport 7-1914 SACCO TAXI SERVICE W. Front St., Keyport Broad And Front Sti., Keyport 7-3680 or 0494 *• ••'.'' M & S MEAT MARKET ANDREW ULRICHSEN 32 W. Front it. Keyport 7-9523 Village Television & Appliance Co. 100 Beer* St., Keyport 7-2885 20 E. Front St., Keyport 7-3081 1 r Keyport Army and Navy Store W S. WALLACE <• : MM . Bam Store Men And Jlo»« 37 E. Front St., Keyport 7-3008 24 W. Frdftt St., Keyport 7-0700 „••' THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1957 PAGE SIXTEEN — CENTENNIAL SECTION THE MATAWAN JOURNAL port B.P.O.E. 2030, also *as St. James A.M.E. Zion Church Keyport Elks 2030 formed in 1951 and the officers Masonic lodge Matawati Township Water Supply are: Mrs. Robert "J, Cheno- wet-b, president; Mrs. Charles Started' In 1927 Formed In March •Sliimakj first vice president;) Butier Lodge 43, A n p 1 e n t Involved Matter For Many Years Dispensation -was granted Mrs. George Kurica, second Free and Accepted Masons. for tbe organization of Key- Water supply for Matawa would get $3150 revenue from Tbe third move, at the end vice president; Mrs. Walter Scottish Bite", Cliffwood, w a t Township has been au invol water rents from 17S new us- port Lodge, 2030. B-1'.O. ElkB granted a warrant of conslltu- of 1934, was by Oak Shades, on Mar. 14, 1957., A'concerted Vohdln, recording secretary; ed matter through the yea: ers In the township at the pre- wanting to be annexed to Key- tiin on Oct. 1, 19^7. because of the rambling ge vailing borough rental rate of effort to establish the Keyport Mrs. Charles Morrison. • finan- port so ,,the residents there Lodge had been made since Grand Lodge officers offici- graphical layout of the muni $18 per tap per year and $675 cial secretary; Mrs. f Edward might obtain water. But t fa e Nov. 8, 1956, by Walter Mese- ated at tbe installation of thi lpality and centering or popi additional from the rental of state frowned on the move Carroll, treasurer; Mrs. Wil- first oH'cers whdjncludet lation in diverse areas. . 27 fjre hydrants to thu town roll, of Freehold Lodge, assist- and Keyporfs even investiga- ed by Jack Olassford, William liam O'Shea, inner guard. Worshipful.Master Love L. ship. Borough operating cost; tion determined the ratables Matawan and Keyport start Thome, Joseph.Burns, Cecil Appointed officers are Mrs. Adams; Senior Warden Ar-' ed their own water system: on this service were set a to be acquired would not com- $1000, leaving tbe borough Daley and Ernest Jemlson. tbur Mouring, and J u n. I o j shortly after the turn of t h pensate for the expense of ad- Charles Koenig, organist, and Warden Edwart W. Worihasus century. The Matawan Boi with a net operating profit of ditional service, so this was Dedicated to the .purpose of Mrs. John CeccI, chaplain. $2825 per year, enough to pay dropped. helping their fellow' man and There are 43 members ol ougb. Water Department wa At the time of organization; Butler Lodge, whfch vts nam- organized In 1903. At that timi off the pipe extension costs in The water supply problem to uplift all mankind to higher five years. Ideals, «y group of 10 m • n 25 women were accepted as ed for Archie Butler At thi It was decided that the systen for the township rinaliy was time of its founding Mr. But- Could Not Be Dane known as the Jolly Corks met members. i ••-'•--• " could be better financed it salvaged by the coming of the one day In New York City la ler was Deputy District Grand were carried - along'Atlantic The borough's side of the' Works Progress and Public 1868. Prom this meeting, the Master for the State olNei Ave. in its entirety and ex picture in the early 1930s was Works Administration P r o- Fire Districts 1 tensions run into three town that this could not be done. To gram in 1935. PWA officials organization known as the Jersey. At. the present time ihip streets, Conover' ; do this, it was pointed out the- got an application for water Benevolent and Protective Or- In Matawan Township Mr. Butler Is one of'the. trus- Highfield Aves. nnd First St borough water department supply, from the township: der ol Elks emerged. At the tees of Butler Lodge present, time there are more Two fire districts were cre- The present officers are: Due object of this was to gel would have to become a pub- They investigated and found than 1800 lodges In the United )wo Industrial water users lo lic utility . for its operations tiat It only would be feasible States with a membership of ated in 1953 by action of the Charles L. Wynn,. worshipful tated In the township, Atlanti outside the borough limits. at the water rate Keyport was -Malawan—Townslilp-€e Ehlli^NGb Tile Co. and the Frank Ander- The borough proposal was to charging. It was dt&rmlnprt lor warden; Thomas L. Hunt- have-a-mastenneter installed 12380 leet of efghl-lncb p 1 p e tee. Under the fire district ion-milrr-onttrthe~tlne: The first officers elected by system/, the appropriations for ley, junior warden; James M, where the malm would enter ind 10,280 feet of six-inch pipe, the Keyport Lodge include! Richardson, treasurer; 8 am- Another was to gain the con- the ^ownshlp, have the town- plus accessories, would be the fire companies -are voted llderable number of h o u s o s Benjamin Klelnberg, exalte.d vrel L. Gnmbsi secretary; ship form its own water de- needed to supply the township luler; Joseph O"Kee[e,' lead- on and approved by the vot- then existing on these, streets ers. Nathaniel Johnson, chaplain; partment and have the bor- from Keyport connecting Ing knight; Dr. P. W. Holman, Earl A. Gumbs, senior, dea- us customers. Beyond th em ugh sell water to the t o w n- mains. ' • - all was woods for a mile until loyal knight; John Armttage, District I comprised the con; Alfred O. Richardson, ihlp In bulk at $2.75 per 1000 Jr., lecturing knight: Law- area In which the Mttawan Junior deacon; Ernest Frailer, one reached a patch of houses iublc feet. Cast Estimated At $38,111 Bt. James African Methodist ed and as the congregation settled around St. Jose ph's rence J. Beatty, secretary; Townahip Hose It Chemical tyler. '•_ '" Publication of the cost esti- Episcopal Zion Church, Atlan- grew, It was decided to build Eugene Hulse, treasurer; Co. is located and District J3. Church in Oak Shades. Then The township committee mated of $68,181 brought dis- a church. The church was there was more wooded area eld making a capital' invest- tie Ave., Matawan Township, Frank Leonardls; tiler; Joseph the area of tbe Cliffwood Vol- may. The township could nev- erected In 1351 on AUantlo Oambliio, inner guard; J » b a unteer "Tr- Co. until one reached the outskirts ment for mains and then buy- er begin to afford anything was formed In 1843 at a meet- Ave. t! Keyport, then near the ing water at such a rate would Ceccl, esquire: Walter Vohdln, In February 1954, a resolu- like that. Then the PWA direc- bis beld ip tbe horn* of Mrs. The Rev. W. R. Plnder Is chaplain; William Schrelber, Centennial Pagewrt Broadway and Front St. cor- uin the township. There ap- tor advised that the V. S. Gov- Matilda Conover, tion was adopted abolishing ner. lears to have been a good deal the present pastor ot the organist; Charles Morrison, Fire District I. ernment would supply all la- he meetings were contlnu- church. Justice of the subordinate for- if logic behind the township*! bor cost outright. This was a Fire District H continues to Did Not Expect Growth negation, as the rate today is um; Willlani Burlew, Harry operate and fire commission- MHS Auditorium It was assumed as a matter 520,000 grant. The PWA ad- Roberts, Edward Wlerzebeakl, nly $1.83 per 1000 cubic feet ministration also approved a Be on band lor the gigantic The grand centennial parade ers of the district are Peter C. • ti course there never would be .nd Mayor John Marz, jr., has Roy Matthews and John Rob- $32,000 loan from the federal fireworks display »t Cliffwood will take place on Saturday, erts, trustees. Vena, chairman; John Armit- > » growing together of t h e lenounced it. was an excessive July 6, at l p.m. it will start age, jr-., George Kahrs, Frede- Thursday, July 4th urea. It was expected confi- rapost by both Keyport and overnment to be paid off In Jiench on Saturday, July S, at Auxiliary Formed In' 1957 small installments to 1960 for at Atlantic Ave., and over CO The Ladles Auxiliary of Key- rick Wherleand Th e o do re dently that the houses and aatawan. The reasons w h y 10 P.m. "*'...• J-; ' . units will participate. Matthews. ._:_ plants -getting water from the tie borough saw fit to levy a the township's financing of the borough would be brought In- 12.75 rate back In 1S33 are onstruction costB. to the municipality through a lard to-discern. It would have With the federal government redrafting of the map, but; ap- eant $40 per tap water m the financing end,, Key- parently by sheer neglect, this iharge In*the township per pott's attitude changed and In was never done. •ear. 1836 an agreement was con- It left a peculiar situation in cluded whereby the Oak ; that the borough water plant In the face o! this problbl- Shades and Cliffwood area was operating outside the mu- ve rate, the township did would be supplied from the nicipality for a period of years urn elsewhere to see what Keyport standpipe. There now without functioning as a pub- :ould be done. It was found remains only $3000 worth of lic utility. When the situation e Perth Amboy Water Works the bonds to be paid off. it Runyon would sell the town- became a matter of conse- It was not until later days quence, It had- been an estab- hip water at 68 cents per 1000 but this Involved the that Matawan Borough be- lished fact too long to spilt le- came a supplier of water to gal hairs over," " necessity of setting an ease- . MATAWAN'S FIRST -TELEPHONE was installed in ent for running pipe across the township outside of the No more ideas on the sub- odison Township. The Madl- streets on Its perimeter, which 1891'in the Main Street drugstore ject of getting plped'water de- in Township Committee of It served as early as 1902 of C. E. Slater. Soon after, Matawan veloped in trie township until tat day did not accede to this Township .mains were run into had its second telephone, and both — the CUffwpod Beach develop- ea unless Madison Township the south section ol cliffwood ment" started in the mid-I920s •sldents along the way could after World War n and tied were on a party line connected to and the Cllffwobd Beach Wa- p the line. The Matawan irjto a Matawan Borough mas- the Long Branch • ter Co. was formed to serve ownship Committee could not ter meter from Ravine Dr, be- switchboard. tlie developed area. O r o w t h 9 such a capital undertaking cause Keyport water pressure' reached beyond the area serv- ir the partial benefit of Mad- as not sufficient to serve ed by the Morrlsey & Walker on Township, so the deal ;he Urea. development and those having ill through. houses In this area began to In later years, pressure olamor for water on the basis Ask Keyport For Water- trouble, especially in the' old Next was an approach In Mains of the Cliffwood Beach they were taxpayers and had Water Co. In Cliffwood Beach us much right to servico as 33 by 50 residents of Oak hades to Keyport for water. ave kept the township com- those In Cliffwood Beach mittee in.difficulty with resi- where the township had grsintr- :he water department ot Key- iott was quick to Join Mnt% dents getting .'only a r.u sty , i id-a franchise to a public util- ,van In refusing to oxtond lines rickle from their s pi go t s. __lty.-Naturnllyr-the-MorrJsey Bi hid tlie township, thereby ac- There have been petitions too, Walker firm had no interest in uirlng the status and tax-re- hearings before and orders txtending their mains into the ponslblllty of a public utility! from the Public Utility Com- properties of other developers, The Keyport terms, too, were mission to the township on wa- •o the problem became »tx»l- nly through supply by a mas- ter supply. Siclpal one. r meter, H'alcr Up To SI. Joseph's The concluding step In pro- Growth also had carried The Oak.Shades movo gress to water supply was tak- Keyport Borough to the rought demand in the town- en by the township committee 2. EARLY IN 1896 a switchboard was installed at Slater"* • -bounds -of Oak Shades and hip • for equal consideration last year when the municipal- drugstore, at first serving only three telephones." people living there became rom Cliffwood. This meant ity was bonded to erect a acutely aware that there was wo-and-one-half miles main plant on Cliffwood Ave. that Mr. Slater and Tom Moriarty, the drug clerk, water supply up to the bound- ixtensloc, part of it within the would serve the wbole Cliff- served as operators. ,. - ' _ ary at St, Joseph's Church oroush of'K^e y po r t. This wood area from an artesian «nd no further. They saw rought mention of a $30,000 well. (Ires put out by water fro m >roposlt!on and that was, municipal supply on the Key- mougb. In January 1934, the' Italian Societies Were port side while a few hundred wnshlp was back with a pro- yards farther up their proper- osition to the Borough of Reactivated 1948 a. IN 1898 the telephone was still a curiosity. The number of ties were engulfed due to Its Matawan, hoping that a polit- subscribers was increasing slowly. Only eight listtngB • lack. This was accompanied al change of administration Among the piomlnant organ- by disproportion In' fire Insur- ould be in the township's fa-' izations in Matawan Tdwnshlp appeared in the directory that year. ance rates. There was agita- or in the water matter. But which weld together both tion In Oak Shades also for did not. One of the council- church activities and soda).en- 4. TODAY THE the township to do something men depended upon to be fav- joyment of Americans of Ital- rable to the township's pro- ian descent are the well known PHONE is part . In 1029, Louis H. Stemler. societies of St, Anthony, Bt. chairman of the township com- )osal went over to the oppo- ition, killing all chances. Rocco, St. Lupo and Our Lady of most every- mittee, appointed a committee of Mount Carmel. to make a study of the num- This defeat of its water com- one's daily life. ber of user* available and the mittee's proposals nearly dis- Membership In the 8t. An- length of connections needed rupted the township In the en- thony Society and the St. Roc- > At last count and costs Involved In running suing year. Three proposals co Society Is drawn mostly there were about water In from Matawan Bor- o withdraw from the township from the Genoa sections of ough. By that time a con- wero sponsored. The develop- Matawan and Madison Town- 6,200 phones in iclousnesa of the legalities in- ment started by Jacob R.V ships. Tho societies of St. Lu- volved was beginning to weigh Lellerts, borough attorney po and Our Lady of lloui the Matawan OB Matawan council members. west ol Lake Lefferts, moved Carmel mainly are drawn This caused a fundamental is- or annexation to the borough from residents In the Matawan exchange ana, ~ «o It might obtain water. The and Matawan Township area sue that brought continued ne- proper. compared with gotiations lo naught. esidents approved tlv The township offered pro change, depriving the t o w n- The societies, whichlssistei 2,400 only ship of large ratables. fosola by which pipe would be In the preparation of the cen- 10 years ago. : extended from Matawan main Frencau Asks Annexation tennial celebration, were rep- heads by the borough. The Next it was Freneau. Til resented by George D. Pool township's proposal was In township sought to meet t h for St. Rocco; Frank B I o a 1. two forms. One involved lay- complaints in this area by tb representing St. Anthony and ing 6300. feet of alx-lncb mains formation of a water dlstrlc Domlnlck Poppo and Anthony lo serve both the Cliffwood which would purchase watoi Devlnofpr Our Lady of Mount Ave.. area and Oak Shades. Of from the borough ind dlstrlb Carmel. Among tho elders o: ute It through the -listrlct'i the St. Lupo Society Is 8. J - this, 600 feet'of the connection DISantD. main would be within borough mans. But a taxpayer's sul' limits.,The net estimated cost blocked this. Then a move fo to the borough would be 110 annexation was made, the pe- Don't forget to attend th 131.60. Against this the town- titions were approved and th three-day contcnnlal celebra ihlp. estimated the borough people voted. tlon In Matsuyan Township. A Typical Summer Scene On The Raiitan Bay , 5. MANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS are available these days to help you enjoy better Bervice. .Automatic Answering sets, low cost extensions, and jcxny time your club or group 'would telephones in color are just like to take a trip "behind the a few you'll find displayed at scenes" of the telephone central office your telephone business office. --just give me a call {simply ash tht operator to ton' nect you with Keyport 7—Offictal 50). I'd be glad h arrange a visit. And 1 think you'll find it a rewarding experience. WARREN W. MESSERSCHMIDT MANAQSM NEW JERSEY BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY ( Retldent* of tbe area are shown above, enjojlnf plcnlclor and swimming «n (he beach M CU/fwood. | THURSDAY, JUNE 27.1957 THE MATAWAN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION — PAGE SEVENTEEN J. McGraw, president; K » r I Schneck, vies president; Rob- Cliff wood Community MethodistChurch Raritan Bay lions ert Bentley, Harold D o la n, FirstMatawan School hi Record OfRoad Walter Swanson, Mr«. Hilda Tomasello. Mrs. Ethel Boyle, Organized In 1951Boy Matthews, and Calvin D. Dated1761; EnrollmentFort9$6-57I&2508 The Rurltan B«y Lions Club Pearce. Harry Troller Is sec- retary to the board. The first mention or know- the old Academy building un- was organized In MaUwan ledge oT a sehoalhoTise within Often one teacher had as the newspaper. Nobody shirk- Russell A, O. Btetler ii der the lease until 18T3. Cminany as 10 pupils in the win- ed. So tense waa the contest^ Township on Aug. 1, 1051, by su- tlie limits of MaUwan is found July 2 in that year the Dis- pcrintendent of the ter. that 00,000 newspapers were John Armluge, Jr., whs was Public Schools and tho total in * record of a road dated trict was authorized to raise tthe club's first president. Oth- Mar. M. 1781. "The road pass- Each district had three bought and stored in a Jersey enrollment is 2508. Tbe enroll- $2000 to purchase the lot and trustees who had entire con- City storehouse and not haul- er paat presidents Include Qus ed t&nragh Mount Pleasant to building and tbe school was ment of M«uwan High School trol of managing the school. ed to Matawan until alter the Mure. Harry May. Jr., Henry is 569 and Mr, Foster Is tb» „ Middletown Point Landing, known as District No. 47. or Need Centralized Sjsttm contest closed, in order ' >that near' the school house on said Hdidricks, jr., Ocorge Fleming principal. the Middle District and includ- Gradually tbe tfeed of re- Matawau rivals might not sus- Point." Exactly where this ed all children between dnUj und George POTOOIIC, Molvln Tlie newest addition to Ih • placement of the various - dis- pect her strength. Hlndlo now Is president mid system Is. the Memorial ecboolhouse stood Is not Bridge and the Methodist trict schools by one centralism known. Befoj-e ibis time. a. Episcopal Church. One h u n- On May 2 the piano arrived, Robert W, CavnnuuHh ht>3 been School, built In 11155 at a cost •d up-to-date graded system and a gigantic parade w as of approximately ^220,000. It PresByterisdh Church organiza- dred and eighty-three children became apparent. Many meet- secretary for the w ft s t six tion was formed, a house attended. held. The .piano was drawn years. Is loomed on the cast side ot ings were held in the various through the streets on one of the Matawan Elementary erected and a burial ground This two room ruildlng was schbolhouses and in old Wash- laid out OB a site of what stil! LupUn's trucks. At tbe school Sliue Its organization Riul- School, in tlie borough. The moved on the lot where the ington Hall, In order to give appropriate exercises were tun Buy Lions Club has spon- new school contains 12 class- is.known as the Mount Pleas- Charles Carman house stood tbe public an opportunity to held. Principal W. A. Miller, ant Cemetery on New Bruns- sored numerous projects. The rooms, ofllces tor the district on Church St., by James Con- hear and discuss both sides of B. F. S, Brown, vice principal club donated $3000 to the Dr. clerk and principal, and ft wick Ave. 1 over anil used as a barn. the question. The tfr a d e d J. F. Walker, j; Howard Hul- II u t ai (i Memorial Hospital, teachers' roaw. The late Asbury Fountain Later Norman Tice bought it school Idea was fiscally adopt- sart. county superintendent of Long Branch; furnished glasses Township school district (grand-uncle of Ross B. Foun- and he moved it to the ex- ed. The late Benjamin F. S. Morris County, and j-t he r s h4ol M*li'V)l HIM* tain* attended school in an old treme end of Church St. and BrowiL_thf Tati? Charles—E^i A. dinner was *rieT3 TstCTir—Thnradsty—ovef- «ade-a-dout)!e houae oj It. In- p the nrett who could not iifford liigly approved auother addi- hmi» that stood tn 1*15 niul» Close and several other sub- tlipm; paid expenses For n .•stu- northeast copier ol the bnria! structors in this school includ- stantial citizens were tbe the old Middle District School tion to the school system pro- ed Richard Homor, William and. whole suckling pigs were dent to nttend nutters "Univer- posed by the Board of Educa- lot. This site may have been prime movers in this project. sity, nnd arranged for eye op- the location or lie old school Hornor, James Bills, Tile matter was opposed stren- part of the menu. tion. Tho proposal included, Miss erations for three children. Tho purchase ot a ia-acre tract ad- boase'mmtloaed in 17SI. T*oe Mary Clark. Mrs. Julia Bur- uously by several large, prop- By 1908 Uie enrollment had so increased that many chil- local Lions.sponsored a tenm In jucent to the Cliffwood Etc- ccboolbouse. Urr, Fountain at- lew Rose, His3 Cassis Whit- erty holders who thought the dren were housed in what then tlie Little DlBcer LcftBuc for mentary School lor tho son- tended was in use (with re lock HendersiJot and W. A. oI4 schools good enough. At two years nnd now are spon- pairs) until about 1830, when Miller. ; -. the time it was reported that waa Geran'a Ball and now Le- atrucllon ot a 20 loom, two- gion Ball. These quarters soring n team In the Cliffwood stovji elementary unit, In ad- ' it was i ebuilt and used until On Aug. 1, 1850. a lot was the trustee* of Olenwood In- Little League. stitute were trying to defeat wej^e absolutely unlit' for dition, threp rooms will bn the two room school was purchased in the lower part of The club eo-opernted with nil added to the Matawnn HIg h erected a short distance away. the plan fearing inroads of_j school use as the building was The Rev. Dean Jeanblanc, (Inset), Is tlie new pattor of tlic the town on which was erected their number of day scholars. never Intended for that pur- Cliffwood Community MeUrodlst Chnrcb, He also serves as organizations In tho area, Hid- School. To Urianco the building *as No. 46 and the Lower Point School house pose. Parents began to com- psslor of the Grace Methodist Chart*, Union Beach, ing with the work and funds to program, voters approved » known as District No. 48, This Therefore to U8S, the flrtt plain and the school authori- help wltlt various projects. II »705,O0O bond Issue. ' * * District, extending from tbe centralized building, still la ties started » movement for an Cliffwood Community Meth- A pipe organ was presented donated a trophy for the an- addition to the graded school. odist Church, formerly the ,o the church in 101O by 6t. nual Thanksgiving t o o t.b a 11 There «u much and heated Cliffwood MJE. Church, wai James Methodist Church, New game between Motawan nnd oppositions. It was necessary to organized in t&e early 1840's Brunswick. This came about Keyport. The team '.Inning have seven elections b el or e and is the oldest church In tie largely through the efforU of three out of five Thanksgiving those working for the new Township ot Matawan. the Rev. Harry 8. Hcnck, pas- games will h a v> permanent school accommodations were The flrtt meetings were held tor of. the. New Brunswick possession of the trophy. Mata- victorious: The opposition was In a small scboolbousa in CUtf- Church at that time, and ft wan has two wins and Keyport. swamped by • six-to-one vote wood. but later, as the con- previous pastor of tlu C111 f- me, with the lattf? now hay- Centennial that finally Included every gregation grew, meetings wood Church, ng possession of~the trophy vote hi the district-. An addi- were conducted for & number The Rev. Richard A. Y»US- V the ytar. tion, constating of four class- of years In the Morrljtown sy, the pastor who left early The local club oo-»ponaora School. In 1854 a church was this month eamo to the _church with the other Lion'' Clubs Si rooms and an auditorium with built on property on Cliffwood In 10S9, Other pastor's who New Jersey nnd helps support seats for 400, was built at • Ave. purchased from John Feature 1 have served tho .hurch ilnce he N, J, Foundation tot Blind cost ol $31,000. Ivlns. Tie building was simi- 1887 Included Uio Revs. J. T. Women Summer Camp at Dfn- Hlcb School Needed lar in design to the present Price. R. B. Stutcllffo, Joseph vllU; Camp Happiness (or Again in 193} make-elMls ol church. Gafrlsori. L, A, Beamore, W. mind Men at Leonardo and every kind had been used, un- Among the early members W. Moffett, O. C. Maddock, J. N. J. Camp for Wind Children til the need for a high school and those credited with being O, Crate, L. O, Manchester, at Hockcnvay. building became Imperative. most Influential In establishing H, O. Williams, J. Stiles, H. S. Raritan Bay Lions CluD re- Block Dances But building costs were so the church were Mr. and Mrs.QRscoyne, Q. W. Pine, B, O. ceived an award In 1P54 irora high that the taxpayers felt it Thomas Porter, Jefferson Rog- Hill, W, C. McDrny, E. C, Pet- as Internal lonsl as the out- wise to defer action. The op- ers. Steven Bogardus, Henry erson, a. C, Poolton. B, P. standing' club in New Jertey ortune day, however, never Young, D. H, McAlpln* Wil- Sheppnrd. M, R, Eustlnck, II. 'or Its-membership drive and arrived. ." liam Hughes . and Hcndrlck. tJJJl 'or;- sponsoring - the Jnc&V-pr o- -JPinally, «vererowdlng--be- N. Brown. lectg. THURSDAY omc so critical that part-time The parsonage was built at Also the Revs. II, 3, Root, schedules were adopted and the tlrao of the Rev. J. B. John J. Neighbor, h. L.Hand, classes became so large that Adam's pastorate in 1893, In Joseph Mooio, William A. no teacher could more than I80Q while the Rev. N. W. Cobb, Rowland Hill, John Cur- First Matawan keep" school. Then the public Wlckward WAS pastor thohart, Edward Sterling Bayer, (continued from" fourth ci)l.> voted funds for a. new build- church was st''uck'Uy light- Oliver Cromwell Bowno, Ira Lillian Kline (Mm. F. Weber). FRIDAY ng. Ground was broken Sept. ning and so badly damaged Jacob S. Bmnllwood, Harry D. Tho board of education at 1923, and' one year later, that it practically laid to be J. B. 11)11, Frank Onnioit, this tlmo wan: *l!enry Arrow- Sept. 29, 1924, the building rebuilt, James II. Ward was Hummer, Herbert W. Handcrs, mnilh, prp.ildrnt; Oeome - D was occupied. chairman ol the committee In Harold Knappcnbergcr, El Shephero. clnrk; R I o h a v tl The high school, which cost charge of rebuilding. From wood c. Hocy, Franklin Bow Brdle, B.. P. 8, Brown, Wil- 1115,000' stands on an eight- that Urns to tho present tho en, Edward D, Hyena, WtliUm liam Coward, OeorKO A. Foun- July 4 and 5 ; :? , acre plot at Broad and South church has not been changed E.Webster; Paul S. Williams. tain, . CharU<* C. Kul.urt Anthony J. Niicclo, principal of the Cliff wood School, Is shown with the picture of the Sts. It is of colonial architec- materially, but there hnvc h E. Uncle, E. Jay Clmrlea K. Clone, 'Frank C J building In whith he has his office. - ' - . - " _ ture, built with brick, hollow been.. *v. :«umbpr ._of _ improve- Amey, no be rt-H, —Irwln, Bertie. tile and • reinforced concrete, ments Including 'new windows Charles 8, Orny and John 1" The tfutuwtm .Township •which extended fipm the Phil-' Methodist Church to Petticoat | use on.Broad St., was built. ami Is Vwo:and-one-"tiall stottea fews, and .a now entrance. An Fllesclirann. , Lane, .near the Catholic Board of Education nt th« ip'Freneau f»rm to OilLly The original building contain- high. ' ' - • •» adjoining Sunday School build- Trtio new nasioi Is the Hev present Umn consist* ol thi Bridge In 1885, it contained Church*, consisted of 229 pupils ed eight, rooms, not of fire- • Besides 18 classrooms, the Jng'silso ha3 been eroded. Dean Jeanbiitnc, following., members:.- William In 1855; This building, on Rab- 166 children THe first school-"] proof construction, and co$ t school has an auditorium with bit Lane and Broad St. still is liouse was moved to » J $16,000. seats for 527, and a large standing and has been convert- stage, three laboratories, a li- ed by Mrs. P. J. Devlin on ed Into a dwelling by Ernest Joseph F. Walker, who was brary, a cafeteria and gymna- Main St. and used as a barn Peterson, At one time it serv- principal in the ujjper district sium. wblqh now is torn down. For- ed as a lodge for Negro school, had much to do with Replace Wooden Building rnei Governor Bedle attended Knights of Pythias. Principals the consolidation. He practi- District No, 45 in cliffwood this school when Peter Ten-1 and teachers at the Lower cally, was bead of the schools, was Included in. the consolida- Eyck was.the leachei 'The! School Included Barnes Coyne. while a permanent head was tion program. The vooden second two room school was DeLancy WillEus (who later being selected, and organized building was replaced in 1012 THE moved to Atlantic Ave.'1 and1 was a lawyer at Red Bank), the classes to conform to the by a two-room brick building, since has been occupied by the David VanBrackle (father of new arrangement and the costing $8000. Clinwood's con A M £ Zion* Church Elwood VanBrackle), Elmer course of study to be given In tlnued growth made it neces- the old buildings under a grad- sary to build an addition ,ln The,'names ol many princi- Hendersbot. J. Henry Young. 1922. This four-room addltlon- Mrs. Ella Ivlna Clark (Mrs. 0. ed system until tbe sew build pals ^»nd teacl'erg still remain lug was finished. He also was of brick: jud hollow tile with in the minds of the older resi- C. Clark). Mrs. Mary Meallo vice principal and taught la terra cotta trim was erected BOROUGH OF KEYPORT dents of MaUwan. They In- MacDonald, Miss Ida Slater. the new school until he was at. a cost of $30,000. clude brides Mr. TcnEyck. Mrs. Sarah Pembrook Bot- engaged to teach In- Perth Stephen Arrowsmith, • C. B zong, Mrs. Ma Faye Levering There are 13 classrooms In Amboy High School. Before the present Cliffwood Elemen- Champlin. Mr. Pitney,,-Frank and Miss Laura Bergen. the completion * of - the new A Pioneer American Community Leonard. Miss Letson, Mr. tary School, housing grades building, the upper classes from kindergarten through Meyers, Mr. Hendershot, Jo- Erect ClUfwood Scliwl . seph Walker, Miss Laura Ber- were housed in the middle dis- seventh grade, all of which Before I82S trict building, which stood are operating on double ses- sen,;.>• Mrs. Emma' Anderson, The CUHwood School D 1 s- D, L. Detra, Miss Meyer, Miss tbe come of Church and sions because of crowded con- trlct No. 43, was erected be- Jackson Sts, Piol. W. A. Mill- ditions. The eighth grade, Gertrude Pullen, Miss McCon- fore 1825'on a lot on Cliff- achy, Phlletus Phillips. James er and Mr. Walker both were which normally Is In the Cliff- . Morton (father of Alfred Mor- wood Ave. just west of the located In that building. F, wood School, Is located at • 'ton), Joseph Dunlap (who present railroad track which Howard Lloyd, the fir»t grad- Matawan High School. There Extends Congratulations To whipped his son every day to was then a brook. It was mov- uate of the new high Behoof are 769 pupils enrolled in Cliff- ed across-^ the brook to Its wood. Anthony J. Nuccio succeed- ed Luther A. Foster as princi- pal of the Cliffwood School In 1054. At that time Mr. foster was named principal of Mota- wan High School. Mr. Nuccio, The Township Oi Matawan with the exception of t h e school year 1017-48'when he was employed In the Manue qu&n School, has been a mem bcr of the Matawan school system since 1043. Directly be On The Occasion Of Its fore his appointment as prin- cipal, he was director of ath- letics at Matawan High School, physical education In- structor and head coach for ootball and baseball. The teaching staff at the Cliffwood School includes Miss CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY Kathleen Burke, Miss Dorothy Hoever, Mrs. Edna Curry Mrs. Ruth Crawford, Mrs Joyce Walton, Mrs. Beatrice schneck. Mrs. Edith Irish Mrs. Doris Cooke,,Mrs. Mar- guerite Murphy, Mlns Laura Kuhns. Miss Mary McIIalc .Ruisell hi a. Sletler, (left Insei), »nperinlendent of (he MatawsiB Towruhfp School?, and Miss Antoinette Ccrralo, Ed Luther A. Foster, (rliht Inset), principal of MaUwan Hijh Kchool, are pictured above with ward Dalberg, Mlis Isabelle the MaUwan HUM School Building. Ivlns, Mrn. Mary II • y d c n William Blakc-HnBltlnii, Mr» Instill fear in the minds of oth present site In 1854, and In department, attended school Oladys Parker, Mrs. Elizabeth er pupils), Mr. Barres, Miss 1874, an uppdr story was add)- there, as did many other sub- Wclstcad, MIBS Anna Median Charles E. Applcgate, Mayor M)53 ed and was later destroyed by sequent graduates. Martin Dcmpsey, Jay sterner Cooke, Abram Packard, Francis FloMno, Andrew Dor Mary Rue, Miss Rose Cloke, fire. In 1885, there were IIS Waa Chlckerlng Plans ak, William Newman and Da Miss Anna Morton, William children attending school In In 1895, the New York Press vld Bernstein. Clarke. Miss Katie a, Murphy this district. held a contest to decide tbe most popular school In Ne w and Miss Ida C. Apgar; Before tbe days of graded Miller Flrit Principal Trcderick Rapp E. Dalton Graham Lease Academy Building Jersey (by virtue of having 1 public schools these four o 1 d the most votes clipped from William A. Miller was t h c In 1857 the stockholders of district schools and private first principal of the conioll the Collegiate Institute of Mid- Its newsptper). The prlie of- dated schools. HI* thorough Kenneth E. Joel Angclo LoPresto schools such as the Glenwood fered was a ChlcSterlng piano dletown Point leased its Acad- Collegiate Institute and pri- and efficient work kept him it emy building' to the Middle valued at tlOOO and Matawan that position until 1919. wh" mary schools in private homes won it by receiving 111,000, A. Maitland Walling Ellsworth Barker •District, then under the care were the only educational In- he retired. Teachers W 11 i of George W. Bell and pur- which was 44,000 more than school at this lime new* u. stltuttoos In MaUwan. >Th e tbe nearest competitor— Ham? chased a lot on the opposite teachers lb Uie;.o-"'district eluded Win Anna M I'/iReai estate development is by 1923. It struck Cliffwood lar was freely redeemable In ficed to kill plans for further Morrlsey & Walker firm tH- iitie topic of the hour In Mata- Beach. That area was still a, gold,, so that anything resem- "developments" tn the CUft- sttilted these tanks In Utver ;jsr«m Township today. Its mu- wooded one, mosqulto-rldden, bling the creeping inflation of wood area for a Ions time to Oardcns. Tlie tanks proved uii- iiaiiejpal government,' school and owned by Miss Eleanor today was n o t besetting the come. . \ Satlsfaclory, due to tlie e I & y authorities and taxpayers face Clark, New York, who stoutly populace. There were no After Cliffwood Beach, the condition of UID call, nnd the an- Issue of permitting a 1400- had resisted all approaches in rounds of wage increase fol next major development In the municipality was nerved no- home development in the her lifetime of those who would lowed by price Increases and township was on the shores of tice ttf the State Department Clark St.-Llne Bd. area wjiich buy these lands where th e again followed by wage in- Lake Lefferts, named far Ja- of Health it must Install '» will double the population if Cl^rk ancestral homestead creases that made the esti- cob V. M. Lefferts, Matawan package seucr sysem. all these houses are built and was located. She died in the mates of costs In school oper Borough attorney, who had No Flowoff From Laterals occupied. The developer,; Mil- early 1920s and her legatee, ations and In the operations of been a moving spirit in the Perculatlon lesU mucio, utt- ton Zerman. New York; one Mrs, Minnie S. Keyes, N.e w municipal government a night- creation of the'lakes. Mr, Lcf- er most of the homes were of the better known real es- York, was much less loathe In mare to the local taxpayer. fcrts offered for sale proper- sold. Indicated no flowotf from tate operators in the east, has the matter of disposing of the Hence there was not the hunt ties on tlie lake and in the aterals from the tanks could pledged water, sewers, paved property. The firm of Charles I there Is today for somebody lake .area on larger size lots be expected in the urea. Tho roads, s 10-room school and Morrises' and Samuel D. Wai- on which"~ t*~o unloa—•---d• -a ''par t' o-f- tlian in Cliffwood Beach and townsWp sewerage authority acreage for added schoo la ker. which already had offer- the costs, the developer, If he restricted t h e. building of accordingly came Into being and playgrounds. ed nearly 18,000 homesites to could be caught up with in houses on these lots to a bet- with authority to issue $150,000 buyers in their realfestatc ac time. ter standard. This was, In ef- In revenue bonds, backed by Compared with the early tlvitles, were successful in ob- lect, the first application of the credit of the township but days of the operations of de- Other Developments Start taining 340_acres'of the Clark A' local factor at the time al- toning and the acquisition of to be defrayed by tho owners ' velopers, this is a bounty In- Estate property. so at work was that the start- better ratables In the town- of the River Gardens homes deed for the taxpayer already ng of Cliffwood Beacli, which ship. . The Lefferts develop- over the estimated period of In the township. But he ques- In 1923 they brought John J. ment, as had been the case in usefulness of the utility. Watson, the landscape archi- with water mains and roads tions how much more he has supplied, soon- brought other Cliffwood Beach, invited fur- This situation moved devel- to pay for schools, for munlct- tect who had much to do with ther—devetopirrentS7~ttr~TOc5^ the conception of what is pres- developmentp s on TjpnTentntEs> 5 new position. " pa'r Improvements and serv- B & L slea Heights. River Gardens householders ices, that he will have to bearj ent-day Miami, to lay out the Brown & Langan, a Keyport lands for lot sales. The Mor- real estate firm..started Cliff- Brought In Water were loud in their demands K otter the developer has sold rlsey & Walker firm paid hat the developer be made to his houses, pocketed his profit, wood Beach Park, advertising The Lefferts-Lochslea devel- $200,000 _f : My Sincere Congratulations To .••.•.•-.-• • • - • • ' - * - t.- . ' .' .'-'.•..'' •*.'•'"' ;' ••';'-•• :•• . "" . .^ ! • ' -B ! ...•*'•-•• r_~? The Township of Matawan Progressive Manufacturers Of Nationally And Internationally Sold Chemicals Used By A Wide Variety Of Industries Watch The Industrial Development Matawan Builders Supply Co. Of Cliffwood In The Vicinity Of Our W. M. Strother, Prop. 25 Acre Tract Of Land. i 138 tower Main St. MAT 1-1993 Matawan THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1957 . THE MAT AW AN JOURNAL CENTENNIAL SECTION — PAGE NINETEEN iat the Angels had given * ered rapidly from its disasters, River Gardens Where The Royals Hold Forth Cliffwood Angels Modern Clubhouse home" to during- the trying and, by good management and Area MU Official ays. There was too much the voluntary labors ol its mining in and out of players. ruembers, ciime Into position Aids Little League But In the winter of 1945-48, to erect Uie fins clubhouse on Promotes Boxing cat plans were formulated, Cjnter Ave, New members, ex- Little League baseball came MaVa-wan Township is the 'lie membership of the club clunlvely from Cliffwood, jKere- to Matawaa Township live residence of tie State Ama- mped up to 65 and It took s odded to the roll. Then TlTB^f years ago. That was also when teur athletic Association Com- anclilse ID the Shore Semi- club found Itself In a position I. It started In itatawanT" Bor- missioner for this part of trie to Football League." to undertake beneficial actlvi- V ough through the Interest : of state, Frank Boyle. This, man Johnny Regan, former St, ties and finally community re- Jack Shea and Robert Hardie h a s performed noteworthy lory's player, was coach and sponsibilities, such as taking Township boys In tie areas ad- work for youth in Uie township lie squad headed off with two over the Little League Club joining the borough were made through the Cliffwood Boys rmcr Koyport High football that stands In Its name, eligible to play on the Ter- Club to promote boxing. riers, the flrst^Matawan Little umlnailes. Steve Kupuahy and today the organisation is K Through the years ;Dver a hun- "rank Fragnsso. Other hefty solid one with headquarters League team^The team won dred boys have been regular the Bayshore League champi- peratlves on tho roster of the and resources Uttle dreamed performers on amateur boxing rub/which?'averaged over 185 of In the days when a handful onship the first season it play- cards with bis help. Countless ed and this whetted the appe- ounds wore Diwe McOratli, of boys, organized it to g e t more have enjoyed the bene- >eacon close, Jim Dicilnmbat- themselves a little something tite lor the rest of the town- fits of "buddy" boxing as ship for something of the sort ista. Tony Senk.Augla Plttl- out of life in times when then younger boys. He co-operates s, Ernie VanSnnt, Bob Mo- was not much to bo Iiad, lor their boys. 'lth the Matawan Township rath, Bob Chcrncy, Joe The result was the forming Police Athletic League In the asey, oene DlGlambnttlsta, of the Pirates in 195S through ponsorshlp of this sport. 111 und Joe PlUlua, Leo Me- Cliffwood P-TA the interest of the River JSar- The boxing mentor's father, Jratli. Dun Kramer, Joe and ©activated 1946 dens Home Owners Associa- Hugey Boyle, was the world's Inn Zduntak, John snvltsky, atlierwelght champion' back tion. George Spoor, Ray Gros- A headquarters Is maintained for the stellar Cllffwood] Tho doun or so young bors wtio In 1934 orfanlied the Cliff- Ed Derechlalo, Carl Brndcr, After a period of Inactivity, nrtKe~lB90s; siffie, was brought lam OUks and John sclllck. hote. now business manager of Royals Tve." voda"~An THE OF THE Township of Matawan ' Business and Professional Men of The Borough of Matawan Johnson-Gibb OK Sales & Service Matawan General A uio Repairing • tiiialltr IJted C'»r» Sporting Goods Co, Motor Co. Valley Drive & Main St., Matawan 1-1770 • Aalhot)iti Chevrolet. oldsmoblle Dealer 180-182 Main St., Matawan 1-4446 110 Main St., Matawan 1-1040 Wm, G. Bedle & Son Mutual Contracting, Inc. Agency Haley's Service Station Transit Mix Concrete . •••• , Off Atlantic Ave., Matawan 1-6222 Park Avo,, Matawan 1-0273 "/ Main and High Sta., Matawan 1-9766 Van Brunt & Son Ten Eyck Ronson, Inc. R. 1. Cartan&Co. Motor Freight Tr»n«por*»tleo . lUdlo Knt TrlrvlMoo Kcrvlfe I'M. ti Vr»r» ?• Vean «f Service \ Broad and Little Sis., .Matawan 1-0064 , Mato wan 1-1600 i^w' •""^ 90 Main St., Matawan 1-0237 THURSDAY/JUNE 27 1957 ^ PAGE TWENTY -,- CENTENNIAL SECTION THE MATAWAN JOURNAL HdWevYon WlnkU-Mvnnlno. Gempony'* woln offiiM ond plant, lowt»d «» Ghur«h Sfrett h MoiowcM. Malawan laboratories ot H-vw-wv conauci rntarch ond d«va'upni>iu of nsn SIGJIO- plotmg and anodizing equipment, suppliei, and pro««w*l for vie by Amtrican Industry. NE GROWING OLDTIMER ... MATAWAN TOWNSHIP-FOUNDED 1857 FROM ANOTHER... HANSON-VAN WINKLE-MUNNING COMPANY—FOUNDED 182O tf? \ ''" v piled to electronic equipment, tools and i&rdware, farm Implements ana alrplanay, art r • The Hanson-Van WlnWe-Munnkg Company salutes Matawan TownsWp's Cenlury applied by an electroplating process. ' of Achievement, prpud to have been been pnrt of its hlstoiy of progress, and looking ( H-VW-M is n leading manufacturer of the equipment and supplies, a leading develop- forward, with our neighbors, to the continued growth of our community. er of the processes, which are responsible for theso handsome finishes, these protective H-VW-M has helped, In a way, to make Matawan known throughout American in« •urfaces. Like Matawan Township, Its history has been a story of growth, progress, dustry. There li hardly an electroplating or anodizing operation in tha United States and success. •nd many foreign countiies that does not, in some way, reflect the influence of th» Here In Matawan, H-VW-M not only makes equipment and supplies for an im- Hanson-Von Wlnldo-Munnlng Company, portant segment of American industry, but nlso conducts a continuing program of re* H-V^-M olectroplnting and anodizing equipment, supplies, and processes hava im- iearch. It looks forward to the future, developing better ways and means of electrc- portant roles In tho improvement of the dally lives of people everywhere. Electroplat- ' plating ... a recognized and respected force in American industry and a virtually, ing makes a wldo variety of manufactured products look better, laat longer, and funo- anonymous contributor to better products of all kinds. tlon moro efficiently. As part of Matawan Township's growing economy, H-VW-M, a progressive mem- The bright finishes you &cc on your automobile, homo appliance, Jewelry, cooking ber of the township community, is a good place to work, with'and among lriendi «o4 UUaslli, «ud plumbing flxturei item from slcctroplating. trha prottotlva lurfacat ap* „,, aaighboM. t( If 'I t'tt HAN8ON-VAN WINKLH-MUNNINO COMPANY * MATAWAN. H-VW-M nun* -_ »~ « • ^^^^^^^^^Z^"^