Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-30
VILLAGE GOSSIP

HOW S IDdJ I! ne was dShGd.
Il never get enough to eat
James V. Wolcott was on visit to
providence Tuesday.
Mrs. Lula May left her tiny Pekinese
with Mrs. Carson this week. What a
contrast between this diminutive pet
and old mike !"
There have been four men and two
women commit suicide in Palsade.
The d. Ducourdroys left for their
new home in Scarsdale, n. Y, on We'd
nesday last to the regret of their many
friends.
--Ye editor was in Fitchburg, Mass,
last Tuesday. It's great, old manu-
featuring town of about forty-five thou
sand population, where every pound OF
t3Ae fine white paper is manufactured
that is used to print The Ladies Home
3ournal, Saturday Evening Post and
9ihe Country Gentleman. One family,
the Crockers, own all the paper mills
and have for generations. Every boy
Croker has to start in as a workman
ri day wages and pay his own board.
A nuRber of the CrockerS went to the
war and one, popular lieutenant, was
KILLED, leaving a young wife. Inc
strangest thing about Fitchburg is that
it is independent of labor troubles OF
any description, thought it has 40
manufacturing plants Everybody is
we'll to do and strikes seldom bother.
gritchburg is noted for its superior
vublic schools, and "Rolling Rock" a
huge boulder atop of a high cliff look
ing down on the town LOCO feet. There
is a cannon and a flag pole up there.
On the Fourth of July they fire the
cannon. Fitchburg is very pictur-
esQue city and 40 per cent of its popu-
sation is Finnish. Finnish children
are adept scholars, but the race is
without social standing, aims or am
bition.
The Hacker Boys Back.
Glenn and Ralph Hacker, nephews
OF Mrs Ernest Sibley, got back from
their stay of several weeks with their
parents in Montana last Tuesday night,
having left their former home on the
Thursday previous. They had an
tneventfuI trip back East, but were
glad to finish their long ride. They
found everybody in the West happy to
see them and sorry to have them come
away again. The brothers went
through the war together with the gal
liant Twenty Division as En-
giaeers, and no one gave better ac-
ee;at of themselves than they The
,oys will assist Architect Sibley in his
arge contracts now in hand for
schools, including the big 100000 high
,cho0l at Hampstead, L.
a. A Prowler.
Tuesday night about 8 o'clock. or a
title earlier, Mrs. Guhse had darkened
aer home for the direct purpose of
out of the window to see if
anyone came around. She did not
have long to wait, for pretty soon an
automobile rounded the corner near
sle house, coming from Anderson ave-
aue and stopped about fifty feet north
minutes another man came from over
toward Anderson avenue, and spoke
10 the man in the auto. Then the
auto drove away to the south, and
the second man slowly edged up to-
ward the Guhse garage. BY this time
Mrs. Guhse still at the window, with
"a pistol in her hand, and being entire
!y alone, except for the children, be-
gan to get bit nervous with no man
around. She threw a quilt over her
Aead and telephOned to the Fort Lee
police in low tone and then took her
place at the window. The man still
stood near the garage as though wait
ing for some one. Then the telephone
Yang so loud and long that Mrs. Guhse
thought it could be heard Il mile. She
finally got up and answered it. 1t was
IA neighbOr asking how she was-and
she could not exactly tell at that par
4icular moment, for she felt the chill
Of real loneliness. In no time at all,
however, policeman hove in sight
ant the agony was over. 1t wasn't Il
very enjoyable experience at that.
Nothing more was seen of the man.
IuSoSStiOhN.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles II. Speyer an
n0unce the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Arde Louise, to DR.. Fletcher H.
Burdett The marriage is to be Sep
tember %, 1919
Capt. S. E. Darby, writing from Bar
ie-Duc, France, August 6, says: Have
had wonderful trip through the bat
jlefields. This city did not escape the
Futhles hand of the war. Verdun. st.
Mihiel and Romaine, where our boys
lie sleeping, were visited also
From Paris, August 10, Captain Oar
by wrote: "Just returned from 600
mile auto trip through the batlefelds
The ruins are beyond adequate de
Scription. Visited Quentin Roosevelts
grave. Best regards"
Policeman Tom Curran was the
saeans of securing for the Guhse family