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VOLUME XXXVIII. NOa 46 RED BANK, N? J.V WEDNESDAY, MAY 10,1916. •«*•• PAGES 1 TO 10 session-is going to ,be n less interest* ing pnstimo than tending garden and s "putting up" fruit. Each child will 7 get the product of her or his labor, RED BANK FIRM GETS UNUSUAL and the best specimens of vegetables and canned goods will be exhibited at CONTRACT ATJSANDY HOOK. the county agricultural fair. The Building 115 Feet High and Contain- ground for the gardens was plowed ing Ten StoWei Being Moved for a Fridayrnnd-an-eager-knot-of ques- Distance of Half a Mile on Soaped MEW JEHSEY. tioning youngsters followed the Timbers by Thompson & Matthews. ploughman up and down the furrows. 1 One of the biggest moving jobs The members of the two clubs arc ever undertaken, hereabouts is being Those Clubs are under ihe Direction of IVJiss Stolla Mullin, Mildred. Sanborn, Lil- performed at Sandy Hook by Thomp- lian Holmes, Florence Layton, Mary Bpn &' Matthews of jKed Bank f pr the Mouscr, Mary and Frank Kelly, Helen Western Union telegraph company. Florence Brand—Similar Clubs Formed at Lincroft Vaughn,. Maud Norman, Rudella The Red Bank firm is moving an ob- Holmesj Milton and Russell Tomlin- servation tower forfa distance of half —A Garden Club Organized by the Junior Holy son, John Ryon, Tennont Fenton, Jo- a milo. The toweii is 115 feet high seph Mullin, Harold White, Carl Win- and has ten stories, It is moved by flame Society of St. James's Parish. ters, Clarence McQueen and Chester being slid on top af.timbers. 'These' Riddle. ' timbers are soaped and are almost as The children of the seventh and sire to can. These vegetables and by Mr. Mullin is near the school- slippery as ice. Four teams and 21 eighth grades of the Leonardo high fruits will be canned at the sessions house It will be divided into sec- men are employed ;on the job. This school huye organized a garden club of the canning club. Those who buy tions for each member of the garden contract, together • with moving a and a canning club. This garden club produce for canning must keep an club, and prizes will be given to the house at Sandy Hook for the tele- and canning club is said to be the expense account of the articles children wno raise the biggest crops, graph company, amounts to ?15,000. largest In any rural school district in bought and each member of the club The vegetables will be turned over to Thompson & Matthews have just the state. In addition to these clubs must, at tho close of the season, write the canning club, and prizes will !ie completed a number of artesian well the children of the Lincroft public an account of the,season's canning given for the best canners. The contracts, among them being a well school have organized similar clubs. work, giving a detailed statement of children of Lincroft are agog with six inches in diameter and 248 feet Tho Lincroft children are. in lowor expenses and receipts. The expenses excitement over their two new un- deep at Matawan for the Magnolia grades than the • seventh and eighth are to include not only the cost of the dertakings. Almost all of the older metal. company. This well produces grades, and they attend tho Lincroft goods canned, but the cost of the pupils have joined cither one or the a flow of 100 gallons of water a min- school in Middletown township, while cans and of the spices, sugar, etc., other of the two clubs and some have ute. A well 214 feet deep and ten tho seventh and eighth grades attend used in canning, The receipts are joined both, Apparently their inches in diameter has been made for the Leonardo high school. to comprise the value of the canned studies in practical farming und the Monmouth mutual supply com- The canning club wos started at goods according to current market canning are the most popular of nny pany at Red Bank. The well has an the Leonardo high- school last year prices, Miss Fannie Cooper will at- of the subjects they are being output of 150 gallons of water a with about twenty members. Miss tend sessions of the canning club taught. minute. A well 225 feet deep' and Florence Brand, the agricultural about once a month arid the latest de- The work will be done principally eight inches in diameter ir being teacher at the school, was local di- vices and the latest knowledge re- after school hours and during the driven for the Biondi company of rector. Miss Fannie Cooper and quired in canning, as evolved at the summer vacation. Judging by the in- Cliffwood. • PHOTO" Br ANDREW R. COLEMAN. Miss M. O. Hauser, who are at- state's experimental station,, will be terest displayed' by the youngsters, ..tached-to the state.experimental atu-_ usedjn. conducting .the canning-oper- plnyirig-games when school is not in Three abandoned artesian wells tion at New Brunswick, went to Mid- ations. All the work will take place which are part of the municipal water dletown- township several times to in the domestic science department Red Bunk Garden Club. plant at Keyport were put into com- give demonstrations of canning. At of the Leonardo high school and an The Junior Holy Name society of mission last week by Thompson & The picture above shows a house on Shrewsbury avenue, just south of the Red Bank borough boundary, those demonstrations the children did exhibition pf the canned goods will St. James's church is organizing a Matthews. These wells are 4hi owned by Cheston A. Simmons. This house was formerly the Charles M. Patterson house. It has been re- air the work, under the supervision of be made at the close of the season. garden club, somewhat on the lines of inches in diameter. Each well now built and enlarged at a cost of $14,000. It has eighteen rooms and is of the same pretentious type of archi- their instructors, At some of these • During tho past winter several the garden clubs organized at Leon- produces 200 gallons of water a min- tecture as the houses along the Rumson road. So many changes were made to it when it was rebuilt that it ute. The wells were drilled 25 years demonstrations, - particularly at a meetings of the canning and garden ardo and Lincroft. About one. hun- is virtually a new house. It has been entirely re-enclosed with shingles, and a large addition has been built meeting held at the home of James C. dred boys from nine to seventeen ago nnd had been idle for a long time. clubs were held. When the canning on the east side. New quartered oak floors have been laid throughout, and the bathrooms have been finished Hendrickson, there were a very large is done each member must have a years old are members of the Junior The borough paid ?900 for having number of spectators. regulation white canning cap and Holy Name society. .Father Casey, them repaired. in tile. Porches with tile floors have been built on three sides of the house. This year work on a larger and apron. At one of the meetings last the assistant rector of St. James's The artesian wells which supply the Mr. and Mrs. Simmons moved in the house last week. They rented a house at Shrewsbury while the church, is the leader of the boys in more elaborate scale, has been under- winter at which Miss Cooper was water for thS- Takanassee hotel at alterations were being made' to their own home. In addition to these alterations, a large number of other taken at the Leonardo high school. present, the caps and aprons were cut this movement. He has offered a Long Branch oro being reconstructed prize to the boy who has the best gar- by the Befl.BoJik firm. Thompson & changes were made on the property. The barns and outbuildings were rebuilt, and the largest barn was The garden club numbers 87 mem- out and these have been made by the J bers and the canning club has 75 children jmd are ready for use at the den and additional prizes will also be Matthews are'-olso laying a concrete moved to a new location. George W. Sewing was the architect and contractor for the changes to the house members, The garden club is oper- first canning pf vegetables. At ene offered. Most of the boys live at foundation fbriHrs. H. E.Gibb's new and outbuildings. He is now putting the finishing touches' on the job. A new dam has been made for a lake, Bod Bank, but a few are residents of ated in connection with the agricul- of these meetings the members of the house at Eumson Park, and are build- which is on the place, and a sunken Italian garden, with a rustic arbpr, is being constructed. '..." tural work in tho school. During the canning club were divided into three the surrounding villages and country ing a bulkhead'225 feet long for Mrs. winter the manual . training class groups.' One of these groups con- districts. The work of establishing Walsh-of-" Locust Point. Thompson • llr. Simmons is a comparatively new resident of this section, he having bought the Shrewsbury avenue made a very large hotbed frame and sisted of all the boys in the canning the gardens will probably be begun & Matthew's:now have fifty men on property about four years ago from Charles M.

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