Yesteryear 100 years ago Indications are that the local election in Freehold in November will be of more than ordinary local interest due to the fact that there are several local offices to be filled and due to the further fact that in almost every instance a contest is promised. In accordance with the new primary law, petitions were filed on Saturday with Freehold Township Clerk E.W. Lawrence by candidates for the local offices and by candidates for delegates to the various conventions. For the office of township tax collector, Edgar I. Vanderveer will be a candidate on the Republican ticket to oppose A.J. Buck, the present incumbent on the Democratic ticket. John H. Drum and Lewis E. Packard have filed petitions to become candidates on the Republican ticket to oppose Henry Campbell and Peter F. Conover, present Democratic members of the Township Committee. Frank Buck will be the candidate for Justice of the Peace on the Republican ticket. He will have no opposition. The Republicans will likewise place no one in nomination to oppose Clark Conine, the Democratic candidate for assessor. There will be a big fight for constable. Three constables are to be elected in the township this fall. The Republican nominees will be John Fredericks and William H. Hulse. The Democratic candidates will be Austin P. Johnson, Charles B. Craw-ford and Peter Griffs. The survivors of the 29th Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers held their seventh annual convention at Asbury Park last Wednesday. About 185 of the Civil War veterans were present and many of them took their wives and families along with them. They were welcomed to Asbury Park by the Rev. M.L. Ferris, who represented Mayor Atkins. The response was made by James Campbell of Long Branch in behalf of Major Joseph T. Field, the president of the association, who was unable to be present. An address was made by the Rev. E.H. Kester of Long Branch, after which dinner was served at the Grand View Hotel. Major Field was re-elected president of the association. 75 years ago Freehold is much better off than a great many communities in the state in the matter of employment, we feel certain. Local industries have been running to such an effect that all regular employees have had at least some work, if not full-time employment in 1931. For factories, mechanics and laborers have of course caused a drop in income of these men and some of them have had to draw upon their savings to a greater or less degree depending upon their willingness or ability to cut down on their usual expenditures. However, there is not anything in the way of acute distress evident. The Overseer of the poor reports that demands upon her for poor relief have been little if any above the average so far this year. The coming winter may cause the situation to become worse because of the falling off in employment of mechanics and laborers depending upon outside work, or because they have exhausted their savings. Even at that there is no cause for any hysteria. How-ever, it might be a big help if each citizen gave some thought to the matter. The great majority of those who may need to have assistance this winter will be honest working people who want work rather than charity. Now might be a good time to plan what work can be found for those people, both by public agencies and private citizens. The number of unemployed will not be great and if each house owner could find use for a man even for a very few days during the next eight months we feel sure that most of those able and willing to work would be taken care of. It is understood that the borough government is seriously considering means of providing employment, rather than grocery orders, if and when the emergency comes, if it does. We are sure that members of the Borough Council will welcome suggestions as to worthwhile improvements which can be made through the expenditure of public funds, which might otherwise have to be expended directly for poor relief if conditions here should get very bad. One great difficulty will be to find work which can be done through the winter months. Another will be to find work for those not accustomed to doing manual labor, if many of those need assistance. 50 years ago With the dedication of the new wing of the Freehold Regional High School next Tuesday, another milestone in the history of education will be marked in the Freehold area. It is indeed appropriate that at this time we recognize and honor the man who founded our present public school system by the establishment of the John Enright Memorial Library. The man is John Enright, whose career and character has been an inspiration to the hosts of men and women in this community who received part of their education under his regime as a teacher and superintendent of schools, during the years of his activity here. Who, in 1871, was engaged to organize and teach in the first public school system in Freehold, and was head of the schools in this area until 1915. Who oversaw, during his regime, the construction of all the schools in Freehold, except the high school on Broadway. Education was not exactly compulsory at the time and the system was comprised mostly of one-room buildings located at various centers throughout the county. 25 years ago Free-flying hands and speech swept through Howell Township Hall last Wednesday and public speakers exercised the newly stretched public participation rules at township meetings. But in theory, the gong still sounds after five minutes of a public speaker taking the podium. Committeeman Peter Hanson was the only Township Committee member to object to that limit and requested that it be dropped from a proposed resolution which retained that restriction and abolished two others. He said he doesn't see any reason for the time limit because the committee has the power to "cut off unreasonably protracted, disrespectful and unruly" speeches. - Compiled by Dick Metzgar