Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-04-19
VILLAGE GOSSIP
The English sparrow's soliIoquy

| lowing in my monday sun bath by
now. No wonder old Miss Robin Shiv-
erS. She can't find any straw yet.
| been around all winter picking up
crumbs. | wonder where's all the
horses gone! | knew lady who
throws US SparrowS wheat and bread
all cut up every morning. l just love
her, especially when it's snow on the
ground. | thought March was bad
enough for wind, but April has it beat
this year a mile. l packed up my Win
ter coat, but wish hadn't. There
go those boys with baseball bat and
gloves. Spring must be here.
PaIisade Fourteen Years Old.
Thursday, April II. 1t was in 1905
on this date when the Charles T. Lo-
gan family moved into their present
home on the corner of Bluff and Cum
bermede road. The family consisted
of Mr. and Mrs Logan, Charles II.
Logan, Jr (since deceased), and Mrs.
Logan's daughter, Henrietta Davidson
Reynolds. 1t was IA cold, windy day,
With high northwest gales and inter
mingling snow tlurrieS and brilliant
sunshine. The snow driven by the
wind was mostly blown into the Hud-
son river.
Following the Logans came the II.
the ID. a. Carsons. That year also
| found many new houses going up. and
before 1906 many more families had
moved i'll, including the Tamses, the
Pencils, the RoedeleS, the Hunickes,
the Foeppels, the SpitZeS, the Wool
colts. the Dinners, the Dodges, the
w. X. GoodmanS, the PhelpSes and
others not at the moment recalled.
| The little village had its fullest
growth in 1908 and 1906 Since then
the realty slump prevailing every
where has kept the village back, and
at the present time building material
and abnorInally high taxes through in
CAPABILITIES of assessments held on by
! impossible petty politics, are the two
| factors that scotch the wheels of prog
reSS.
The politics we have is unpardOn-
able. But at that this is only a con-
dition that may right itself and there
is brightness ahead.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Evans. moth
err and father of Mrs. Ernest Sibley,
left on Tuesday of this week for Mon
tana, where they will live with their
daughter Mrs. Hacker, mother of Ser
geant and Corporal Ralph Hacker.
who went through the war in the
| Twenty Division. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Evans have been in rather
| feeble health for some time, but both
are now much improved. They will be
missed by their many friends in Pail
sadie, who appreciate them for their
sterling worth They are elderly peo-
pie of the old school and have charac-
tiers far beyond the ken of the average
people one meets in this day and gen
GRAFTON. May they have Il pleasant
| journey to the west and some day re-
turn to Palisade.
| been living in Il MOrSemere cottage
during the period of the war with her
mother, Mrs. Evans, Sister-in-laW of
Mrs Ernest Sibley of PaliSade, will
shortly leave for her home in OklahO-
ma Her husband, who was recently
discharged from army service and who
arrived in this country several weeks
ago. has Just been elected city attorney
at Oklahoma and is so actively en-
gagged in the work of the Office that it
was impossible for him to return east
to accompany his family home. Cap
tain Lillard is very prominent in Okla
homa politics and no doubt has many
higher honorS awaiting him in his
adopted state.
james Stewart is still in Paris en-
gagged in Y. NJ c. \. work Mr.. Stew
art felt the call for his laborS in the
war appeal about the middle of last
year and went over, sacrificing his
business interests to do so. He sends
reports to the effect that the Y. NJ. G.
A. organization is still doing great
and wonderful work in France. His
many PaliSade friends would like TO
see him home again, and so would his
family.
1t rained rather hard all the after
noon and evening Wednesday. with a
driving wind from the east.
The f. Yancey CohenS are back from
Il several months stay in the south.
They spent some weeks in New Or
leans and IL longer time at Fairhope,
Ala, the single tax colony, where Mr..
Cohen picked up many practical ideas
of how single tax really operates. He
will later tell of his observations
through this newspaper.
The other night we'll dressed. tall
man came along Bluff road about s
o'clock He went west To the yellow
lire car tracks, paused IL little while,
looked around, then came back to the
corner of Cumbermede and Bluff road,
turning north. stopping Il minute in
front of the Logan home and looking