Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-05-27
Grantwood Notes
Tuesday is Decoration Day.

| TUESDAY is decoration Lay.
Remember the May Party at Could
rays field on Tuesday.
] The trustees of the Woman's Club
house fund held meeting on We'd
nesday morning.
Little David Roden, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Roden, of Palisade ave
nue. and Lincoln avenue, is expected
home from Englewood Hospital about
the middle of next week. David was
operated upon for double hernia.
| MIR. and Mrs. II. ii. Mutt have sent
out cards Tor a reception to Kew. and
Mrs. Edwin L. Lewis at their home
this evening.
| Rev. Il. L. Lewis will assist the
rector in the service at Grace Mission,
Grand View, tomorrow evening at
eight O'Clock.
Tennis is beginning on some of the
many courts OF the borough.
| Last Saturday Duncan and Roscoe
| McClave motored down to Princeton
to see the baseball game between
Harvard and their alma mater.
Councilman J. J. Cohn believes that
the automobile hack service between
I
the Weehawken ferry should be en-
couraged rather than made to pay
a heavy license fee.
Due to family bereavement Clerk
| Louis RENTER was unable to be at
the council meeting Monday night
| and Collector Sheehan assumed the
| duties for the evening.
George ii. Shorey left last evening
for Burnt Hills, Saratoga county,
N. T., where he will get his summer
home In readiness for his family who
will follow later. The Browning
School, New York City, in which Mr..
| Shorey is drawing instructor,
closed for the season yesterday
afternoon.
George Shorey, jr., will attend the
Plattsburg Military Camp during the
junior session in July. It is under
stood that John McClave will also at
tend; likewise Recorder P. J. Carney.
Miss Esther tombstone, teacher is
the eighth grade of Cliffside school,
e IS accepted the invitation of the
5oard of Education to teach the SUBJ
Ject Of domestic science in the new
high school next year.
| 1t is Understood that departmental
teaching, that is the exclusive teach
ing by one teacher of one subject, will
be introduced in the seventh and
eighth grades next year.
| Miss Esther tombstone is substitute
ing for Miss Nancy Bowman as
librarian of Cliffside Park library
| during the latter's absence at the
Librarians summer school at Asbury
Park.
The borough's cleanup last week
was very thorough and satisfactory
affair, thanks to Commissioner Lar
kin and his corps of workers. Ten
| big, heaping loads were removed
from Grantwood alone.
The little ones of Cliffside kinder
garten were given treat Wednesday
when Miss Brown and Miss Donald
son took them out for May walk to
park in Fairview. The children
visited school No. on their way.
A number of mothers were also in
the party.
Miss Frances Luke, teacher in Cliff
side school visited friends in Ramsay
on Sunday. Miss Luke taught in
Ramsay before coming to Clifside.
| The ladies of the Eastern Star en-
tertained their gentlemen friends of
the Master Masons at Grantwood
Fire Hall on Friday evening last.
Birds are the latest craze of the
school boys and girls. Bird walks
are being taken with the idea of rec
ognizing and classifying the bor-
ough's feathered visitors. The boys
are applying their skill to the max
ing OF bird houses and weaving bird
baskets.
State and county examinations fol
graduates of the eighth grades will
be held in Cliffside school next We'd
nesday.
Mr.. c. B. Hearn, of Knox avenue,
has been entertaining his brother and
wife, DR.. and Mrs. Richard Hearn,
who are here on a visit from Toronto,
Canada. The visitors left for weeks
stay at Atlantic City on Monday, ac-
companied by Mrs. G. B. Hearn.
Grantwood Tennis Club
The Grantwood Tennis Club was
entertained by Samuel Hodkinsin on
Tuesday evening and re-organized for
the season. Mr.. Hodkinson was
chosen president; Joseph Whelan,
vice-president, and DR.. j. E. White
secretary and treasurer. The court
on the southwest corner of Knox and
Palisade avenues is being put in shape
and will soon be ready for the clubs
use. The members decided on Tues
day to affiliate with the National
Tennis Association, and to arrange
for matches with teams of the neigh
bOrhOOd. The ten members were
royalty entertained by the president
at his home and enjoyed an hours
fun at his rifle range. The prize of
fered by him for the best rifeman ir
the party was won by Mr.. Bell. The
BOBBY prize went to Mr.. Whelan.
| The school teachers are lending
very valuable cooperation to the
committee that is engaged in raising
. funds for the annual school picnic
which is scheduled for the twenty.