The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-04-01

speedy recov very.
Lawns about town are beginning to
green up.
The New Jersey Automobile and
Motor Club is talking of an endur-
anee run of 1000 miles for this spring.
A body of twenty-five men united
can do more for community than
one hundred not united.
Good Friday, April II, will be a
legal holiday, for the first time in the
history of New Jersey.
A movement is said,to be on foot to
secure national prohibition. The
signs are in the air. At the Taft and
Takahira dinner, at Trenton. there
were no alcoholic beverages served.
Arrangements have been completed
for the Fifteenth New Jersey Volun-
teer Veterans Association excursion
to Washington ID. g., Richmond,
Petersburg and Fredericksburg. The
excursion train will leave Newark at
0 A. NJ. on May 10 and will return May
90. Special arrangements have been
made for women.
Don't keep news stored away in
your mind and then find fault with
the newspaper for not publishing it.
The newspaper editor desires to pub
lish all the news but he is not able to
print what he does not know about.
He is not mind reader.
Within twenty miles of New York s
City Hall there is population of
1000, 900 Jews. more than III all Amer
ica besides. 1t is the greatest aggre-
CATION of Jews III any one spot on
earth, being eleventh of the en-
tire Jewish population of the globe.
The hobo has been having fine
time of it in the city this winter lin
ing up with theunemployed in the sour
kitchens. A few days Of mild wealth
or, however, will incline him to &c
country-w ward and follow his usual oc
c.aotion-roaming abont and begging
his living.
By a new law, signed by Governor
Fort last week. it is now Il misde
meanor to furnish to any person IN
der eighteen years of age, cigarettes
or cigarette paper. The penalty fol
so doing is $50 fine and three months
in the county Jail, one or both as the
Court may direct.
The Madison Eagle printed last
week nearly an entire page of Let
tiers from the People" Why don't
some of the people of Lambertville
get busy and send in dozen or two
letters every week? We will be glad
to print them If they are Of general
interest.
In some of the larger cities efforts
are being made to divert some of the
unemployed men and women to the
country, where labor is always in de-
mand, and at fair wages, on the farms.
Men who lack trades will have more
money at the end of the summer at
$50 or $25 month and board than
from the 81 .25 or 81. so a.day they can
earn in the cities. This is the time Of
the year to cut loose from the cities.
Thousands of farmers in New Jersey
and Eastern Pennsylvania are in
need of help.
County Clerks, even those whose
Offices have abundance of room, says
the Newtown Register, are now re-
joicing over the bill which is now in
Governor Forts hands. providing
that all papers and ballots more than
five years old shall be sold for waste
paper. In every County Clerks of
flee there are accumulations of old
ballots and poll books which are alb.
solutely worthless and which occupy
space very much needed. The bill
authorizes house cleaning that will
leave but five sets of ballots and
books at any time.
A trial of fire extinguishers was
had at the l.. A. &. grounds on Fri
day afternoon last for the benefit, OF
the Board of Engineers OF the fire de-
partment and the board OF education
of this city, who are about to pur-
chase several of them for the use oil
our city schools. There were three
to enter the contest-the Rex, repre-.
sented by Thomas Thorne, the Diggs,
by William Burd and the Minimax by
John Noble. A fire was started Of old
barrels saturated with kerosene oil
and they all did good service. There
was a good attendance to witness the
contest.
Henry Dorman, aged 100 years, the
oldest living veteran Of the Civil Wal
will not want for the rest Of his days
Through a special pension bill recent,
ly signed by the President he will re-
ceive $50 month for the remainder o.
his life. The old soldier had beer
able to earn few dollars in addition
to his pension of $50 a month which
he had received since his discharg,
from the Seventh Michigan Cavalry
two years after the war began, until
year ago. The old pension err wa
scarcely known until his name wa
mentioned at meeting of the Media
of Honor Legion, when the Judge ad
yocate of the legion decided to inves
tigate Dorman's record. While b
had not been awarded any medals. b.
served until wounded while his regi
ment was in action in Virginia. Fou
sons had enlisted, one dying in LIB
Prison.