Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-08-07
Village Gossip

Miss Mabel Binner, who has been
visiting her father and mother, Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Dinner, of Edgewood
lane, returned to Chicago Saturday.
Those three pistol shots fired by
somebody on Edgewood lane last
Wednesday night, awakening and
startling the whole neighborhood, are
still mystery, though if murder
was committed it was probably that
of one of those yowling cats that
have been in evidence there of late.
Walter Binner and his family arose
very early Sunday morning and went
out on the cliff to see the sun rise,
taking along picnic breakfast They
saw the cliff all right, but whether
or not they saw the rising sun is
matter that Walter is keeping to him
self.
Such sights as you see on Ander-
erson avenue, these motoring days!
On Sunday a girl whizzed by, driv-
ing one of those flying bathtub af
fairs, on three wheels. In the tub was
man with perfectly bald head and
long, floating whiskers.
"A band of gypsies-the largest
ever seen in these parts-went
through town last Saturday after
noon. They inquired the way to New
York which was cheerfully given them
by a resident of Anderson avenue
who kept one eye on his clothes line
and the other on a beautiful fortune
teller who was singing "Tipperary."
Well, no, there never was another
two hours any hotter'n last Monday
from four to six! Fiddler's Green,
sevenmilesbelowhade wasn't mark
er to that sizzling period.
Allan Carson and Martin Lyon
were taken a-crabbin' by Charles
Logan last Monday afternoon over to
the Hackensack river. Their catch
was small.
We'll, of all the rains! The one
that hit this section last Wednesday
morning was the dadrattingest ever!
oh! that D. A. Carson rain crow
bird! The worthy Palisade editor
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this American beauty of the Northern
woods so much of late, he must now
see with what crafty cunning the
greyhound of the air plans his cooling
calls.
Herbert Middleton says his Dodge
car is wonder. He recently travelled
to New Hampshire and back, doing
over 800 miles without a bobble, and
going over $50 miles some days
easily.
Mrs. r. G. James and daughter, of
Clifton Forge, Va, are guests of
their cousin, Mrs. Charles Thomas
Logan.
Baby Lillian Anderson is also off
on a summer vacation. The neigh
bors miss her dreadfully.
The most observed and admired
flower garden in Palisade are the
two raised beds of nasturtiums plant
ed and nurtured by William Beck
mann, near the Supply Market.
Some of Charles Logan's and Paul
Berkey's Columbia fraternity broth
ers were in Palisade calling Monday
evening last,
Mr.. B. E. Brady left Friday night
for a weeks stay in the White Noun
tains. He is a guest at house party
along with Miss Carrie Giles at JEFF
ferson Landing, Maine.
The F. H. St. Johns returned to
Palisade and spent Wednesday night,
returning to their summer home the
next day.
Miss Mildred Brady left Friday
night for Lewiston, Maine, where she
will spend couple of weeks with Miss
Beatrice Callahan, chum of hers
at St. Elizabeth's convent, Morris
town, N. J.
Well, no one can say Mr.. James
Ouigley is not good house painter.
Just take look at his house-that's
all.
The grounds around the Rauten
strauch home are beginning to look
very handsome. This is the only
home in Palisade with an independent
gas plant of it's own. The generating
tank is isolated from the house, and
the machine operates perfectly.
Herr William Beckmann is no lover
of a hot wave. He says 80. No
wonder! He's buster than the proven
bial bee in a tar bucket.