RARITAN MOST PROGRESSIVE TOWNSHIP WITH THE SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER LARGEST IN GUARANTEED THIS AREA CIRCULATION "The Voice of the Raritan Bay District" VOL. III.—No. 50. FORDS AND RARITAN TOWNSHIP FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1939. PRICE THREE CENTS To Be Toastmaster COLONIA MAN FAILS SIX CANDIDATES WAGE VERY QUIET IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT Oak Tree Residents Plan Rumoured COLONIA.—Robert Paul, 72, oi BUT STEADY CAMPAIGN FOR BOARD 14 West street, this place, failed in an attempt to commit suicide some For Fire Board Changes Once-Overing time Sunday night by cutting his throat with a pen knife while he The Townships! ... OF EDUCATION ELECTION TUESDAY lay in bed. By Special Correspondent He was discovered by his son, OAK TREE.—Interest in the Oak Tree election of Business engagements knocked the snooping racket Aaroe, Filer and Turner Running "On Record"—Mrs. Rudolph with whom he resided. for a row in the bath tub this week . But we managed to Dem ares t Being Backed By Various Organizations In The aged man was rushed to the Fire Commissioners is growing daily. It is understood that dig up a few squiblets that are plenty warm—if you can Township—Polls To Be Set Up In All Sections. Perth Amboy General hospital there are eight candidates for three vacancies. Two are trace them ... A certain Fords couple, in the habit of where he was treated by Dr. D'- regular vacancies in the three year term and one for a VOTING HOURS 6 P. M., TO 9 P. M. Amico and remained in the hos- term of two years to fill out. the term of William H. Reed phf-f-f-ting and then un-phf-f-f-ting, is rumored to soon pital. who resigned under fire and for whose arrest on charges go on the phf-f-ft again . Then there's the Clara Barton WOODBRIDGE.—Although the Board of Education of forgery and embezzlement two warrants have been is- guy who runs steady with a girl friend's girl friend, Dot. election is just few days off, Tuesday, February 14, to be sued on complaint'of Joseph L. Pengel and John T. Deer- . Here's hoping he can continue to get away with it. exact, the campaign on the surface, is one of the quietest FORDS CITIZENS ing, Sr., Treasurer and Secretary of the Board of Com- in years. It is understood ,however, that some of the can- Modem refrigeration is said to be essential, but we missioners, respectively. didates are conducting dignified house-to-house campaigns The shortage is approximately have altogether too many cold feet now in Wood- while others have secured promised support from various RAISE $128 FOR$3,500.00 but as no records of re- bridge township . Police Chief Charles Grandjean ceipts and expenditures have been GROUND BROKEN organizations, all of which is supposed to be "off the kept for years, the exact sum is bundled more than 15,000 police records of the past record." not known. six years into a new vault the oth-er day. The records The three candidates seeking WORTHYJAUSE Mr. Pengell is at work trying to FOR TOWNSHIP'S are used in: reference work . Raritan Township reelection, Aridrew Aaroe, James MARCH OF DIMES AND straighten out the tangle and piece Filer and William B. Turner, are Chrtatwuen together the missing records of his school kids are plenty lucky. The board of education BUDGET REDUCED PRESIDENT'S BALL IS obviously banded together judging RARITAN TOWNSHIP.—Mayor predecessor, Robert Krogg, and NEW FIREHOUSE decided to give them a day's recess, Monday, Febru- from sample ballots being distri- Walter C. Christensen has been SUCCESSFUL bring them up through his own ary 13, in. observance of Lincoln's' birthday, which $15,000; BOARD buted with "X's" against their selected toastmaster for the an- incumbency to the end of their fis- ALBERT DAVIS PRESIDES names. Filer, of course, is an "old- campaign( i year March 1st. falls on Sunday . February 22, Washington's birth- nual Lincoln Day dinner to be FORDS.—To aid the ca AT SHORT CEREMONY: timers" on the board, and has the held Monday evening, February against infantile paralysis this petitions for three new candi- day will also be a school holiday. faculty of coming through with 13, at the Hotel Pines, under the community raised $128.16, with a dates has been signed and are WORK STARTS MONDAY TRANSFERS DEBT majorities term after term. Aaroe, auspices of the united Republican President's Birthday Ball and the ready to be turned in to the sec- A couple of Oak Tree married women can be seen is best known as chairman of the RARLTAN TOWNSHIP.—Work $38,578 SERVICE DEBT IS IN clubs, of the township, while the March of Dimes fund, Mrs. Bern- retary. U is understood MY. Krogg walking daily along the superhighway. Wonder why . athletic committee of the board, guest speaker of the event will be hardt Jensen, general chairman, and Herman Wuest, the two mem- on the new $35,000 firehouse at We have been told that a New Brunswick (Fords) avenue HANDS OF TOWN COM- while Turner has given the board C. Raymond Lyons, announced yesterday. bers whose terms have expired arc Plainfield avenue and Simpson MISSION his experience as a real estate and Final returns were made Tues- running fcr re-election. street was begun early this week male and a dame from the same thoroughfare are soon to insurance man. Russell Walker, township tax- day night at a meeting in her Edward F. Arnold, of Oak Kills after officials of the board' of fire be blended . Harold G. Hoffman's birthday party the assessor, who is serving as gen- commissioners of the Civst fire dis- RARITAN TOWNSHIP. — Ac- Of the newcomers seeking the eral chairman of the affair, an- home on Ford avenue. A favorable one of the new men is a native ol other night was positively the beginning of a boom to re- cording to the 1939-1940 fiscal] positions on the Board, Mrs. Hilda nounced yesterday that a large report was made on the birthday Batavia, N. Y., son of John Arn- trict and RaiiUui Engine Company No. I broke ground for the new turn him to the governor's chair next year .. We predict- school budget, approved Monday R. Demarest is the best known. She turnout is expected. ball held in School No. 14. old of that place. Graduated from u 1 Syracuse University with a M. A., building with a silver spade, Sat- ed that months ago ... It won't be long now before that night at the meeting of the board ha"~s bee n a very ~~"active membe*~ r o"f Proceeds from the March of Assisting Walker is the follow- Dimes were reported as follows: in 1924, he took a pest graduate stork comes in for a three-point landing at a certain Keas- of education in School No. 3, the the Democratic party in the Town- ing executive committee: Recep- ship and one of the valued mem- School No. 7, $17.53; School No. course at Columbia University, Albert E. Davis, president of the bey home. township will be required to raise tion, Mayor Christensen; enter- 14, $8.13; Hopelawn school, $8.11; $210,918 this year, nearly $15,000 bers of the Jeffersonian Club. Mrs. tainment, Police Commissioner taught Chemistry at the College of fire commission, was in charge of Demarest has tried to obtain a Keasbey schcol, $12.08; Fords Wo- the City of New York, and is bythe ground-breakind g and address- It has practically been established that Tax Collect- less than last year. Victor Pedersen; dinner arrange- man's Democratic Club, $5. Total board position before and was de- ments, Commissioner James C. profession a research chemist. At ed the group 'briefly. A short cere- or Mike Trainer will seek re-election . .. Yes, and that It was anticipated that the bud- feated by a slim margin. It has expenses were set at $56.98. present he is employed by the'mony followed*. get would be raised $25,000 over Forgione and tickets, Commission- C. Albert Larson will fight for the Republican nomina- 'been the contention of her back- er Henry Troger. Assisting on the birthday ball Commercial Solvent's Corporation! Work on the building was tion to oppose Trainer . Also, that a young Wood- last year's figures by increased tu- ers that it would be advisable to committee were: Mrs. Howard of New York. He has been as resi-! scheduled to start last Wednesday, ition rates and possible loss of have another woman sit on the Madison, Mrs. Frank Dunham, but a last minute change in plans bridgeite will contest the G. O. P. nomination with state monies. The board made the dent of New Jersey for 14 years board' with Mrs. Asher Fitz Ran- Mrs. Raymond Mundy, Mrs. Char- and has lived in Oak Hills three by the board delayed the start un- Larson . .. That Tommy Fee, of Keasbey, a Democrat, slash after discovering a financial dolph, who has been outstandingly les Kish, Mrs. Ralph Liddle, Mrs. regulation in its new government- and one half years. til Monday when a large force of will face Committeeman Jim Schaffrick in the com- successful. PISTOL TEAM TO C. A. Larsen, Mrs. .C. Fries, Mrs. Thomas J. Henderson has lived WPA men was expected to begin mitteemanship race . That Committeeman John al set-up and transferred the town O. Poldolski, Mrs. William Brose, ship school service debt of $38,- Walter Manaker, another con- in Raritan Township for more, excavation.