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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
Meeting of W. c. T. U.

The Lambertville w. {. T. U. will
meet in the Kalmia Room Tuesday
June 18th at 8 P. M Mrs. G. L. Eye
will present Flower Mission Work,
Mrs. Harry S. Petrie, will give an
account of w. C. T. U. work in ia
pan, Mrs. Wms Conover, will tell of
the Social Purity Department and its
work, Temperance in Sunday Schools
will be given by Miss Keith Brown.
All are invited bring your White Rib
bon news, and other Magazines.
The States have ratified Federal
Prohibition Amendment in. 1918 are
as follows, Miss. Va. Ky. S. C. Md.
Mont. Tex. Del. S. Oak. and Mass,
c. W. Vawter, deputy U. S. Marsh
all, at Tanana, Alaska, says he ex-
poets to see the jails completely en-
piled of prisoners in the near future
on account of the dry law in Alaska
The 13 hundred brewers in u. S.
the last year before the war used
more than 100000 tons of coal and
last winter churches, homes, schools.
factories, and great plants suffered
and were compelled to close for lack
of fuel. Yet the brewers had coal,
when its worlds need was greatest
the brewers alone used 4,090,057,
701 lbs. of life saving material.
Many patriots today who cannot
fight in the trenches are giving the
income of one day each month for
the boys over there, (the salons de-
stroy the boys.)
Who is responsible for the aims
houses, and orphan aslyums prisons
want and woe? All the gold in the
world cannot pay for some of the
ruin and wrought.
Are the names of our great brew
cry owners defendants of Plymouth
Rock, Anheuser Bush, SchIitz, Pabst
Huebner, Hoster, Moerlain. Who
owns the brewers in our country? So
outrageous are the efforts of the
liquor business to ply its money MAX
ing trade among the soldier boys,
boys that the government has been
compelled to say that drink could not
be sold to men in uniform. Texas has
established a ten-mile zone about her
training camps so bold and law defy
ing had the saloon became.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
No Tax on Cats.

The cats of Hunterdon county
will continue to roam free of tax,
and County Tax Commissioner B.
Frank Barley, of this city. sleeps
better nights nice he has been able
to assure the farmers of rural Hun
terdon that Assembly Bill No. 245,
passed by the House was defeated
in the Senate. 1t had been widely
printed that the bill was a law, and
if there's anything that the farmers
of Hunterdon object to more than
another it is any interference with
their supply of pussies, so that Com
missioner Barley had his hands full
in this section explaining why the
Republican party was entitled to
continue in office if its representa-
tives had passed such legislation.
The war and other matters of like
Importance were temporarily shelv-
ed so that undivided attention might
be given to the cat fight" Mr.,
Barley finally secured assigned state.
ment from Secretary of State Tho
mas F. Martin as to the failure of
the bill, and now whenever he sees
man Tor woman) approaching with
blood in his eye he unfolds the Off
cial document for their inspection.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
B. and L. Prosperous.

The forty-second annual report of
the Centennial Building and Loan
Association, submitted at Monday
nights meeting, showed an interest
ing and healthy condition of this
organization. The total assets are
1882, 1853 10, of which $348, 594. rs
comprises loans on mortgages. Loans
on shares amount to $500; United
New Jersey Railroad and Canal
stock, SO, 100; Consolidated Traction
Company of New Jersey $50 bonds,
So, 100; Morris & Essex 31996 bonds
2,670; West Jersey & Seashore R..
R. Co. 40 bonds $4,01O; City of
Camden 40 bonds, S1,0O2.5O; u.
S. Liberty Bonds. S., $50; dues I'M
paid, 81 ,657; interest due and un-
paid, 81, 548; fines unpaid, $122.96;
accrued interest, $396.74; insurance
taxes, ETC., due from borrowers,
$282.97; furniture. $25; cash in bank
$3.50. At.
The liabilities include instalIments
due shareholders, $317,844; profits
due shareholders, $64, 30S.32; ma
tured stock. $600,75.
The net gain for the year was
SIS, 604. 81, or 4.5459o The total
receipts for the year were $114,8 $50.
AZ, of which $5S,7S came from dues
on shares; $22, OF from interest
on loans; $4,000 from mortgage
loans matured, and $7,379.94 from
mortgage loans repaid.
Of the disbursements there was
loaned on mortgages, $25, 900; ma
tured stock. SAG, 800; cancelled stock
dues repaid, $13,555; cancelled stock
profits paid, 81 .447.3S: taxes paid
for borrowers, 81 1903. 90; presidents
salary, $50; treasurer's salary,$ 400;
secretary's salary, $500, and other
miscellaneous items making up the
total. The association began the
year with cash balance of 81 ,3O7.
OF in the bank, and closed with SIS.
130.47 on hand.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
If you want to make Lambertville dry
put an X after YES.
John
BarleycOrn

The Detroit Times" published an
apt obituary notice of John Barley
corn, when that city, eighth in popu-
lation in this country, went dry May
l. Extracts from the obituary are
given:
"All we can indite about the now
pulseless John Barleycorn is that he
lived in a glorious age-which he
betrayed, shamed and defiled.
Being pioneer and money
maker, he gathered politicians and
newspaper supporters about him.
He entered homes, banquets, and
armies as a friend. He claimed
protection and permanence as a vi
tai business institution. When bold,
outspoken men and women de-
nounced him for filching plenty from
firesides, the glow from women's
cheeks, strength from manhood, in
tegrity from legislators and mayors,
he and his hirelings drowned their
brave protesting voices with cries of
fanatics!' personal liberty!' and
the like.
And so John Barleycorn lived on,
rearing a frightful progeny. Of
the evil brood disease, pauperism.
insanity, prostitution, poverty, de-
generacy. bossism, were well-known
offsprings, spreading over the land
like blight.
But there came day when the
keeper of the tap-house trembled,
for the people rose up like strong
man after sleep. Legitimate bust
ness babe John Barleycorn be gone;
industry denounced him as an Old
Man of the Sea on its shoulders; the
Army and the Navy of the United
States drummed him out of camp
with traitor branded upon his
forehead.
1T was really merciful-more
merciful than he ever was to his
millions of victims-to sentence
John Barleycorn to death. The
world was getting to be a mighty
lonesome place for him. Friendly
faces were few; and their sincerity
questionable. AS he walked alone,
grim specters of his miserable past
confronted him.
So it behooved John Barleycorn
to wall Pm only in the way and to
go off and die, leaving the sunshine
of better day to disinfect the
place where his fostering carcass
lay"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
Notes Of the War Work Committee.

The War Work Committee is
able to report progress as the re-
suit of its appeals of the past week.
1t is still far short of the number it
ought to have and sadly deficient in
the number of larger subscriptions.
Watch the movie slides for some
brief statements of what the Com
mittee is doing and what you must
do if it is to continue it's work.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

A most pleasing party was held
Thursday evening at the home of
Miss Henritta Pickett, 60 Delaware
avenue, and after period of games
and amusements, refreshments were
served. Those present were the Miss
es Jessamine Mcdonald, Clara Moul
Marian Jones, and Grace Chandler.
and Messers. Fred Lentz. Frank Hun
ter, Paul Isenberg and Lloyd Glass,
all of Ursinus, College, Collegeville,
Pa, and the Misses Henrietta Pick
EFT and Marian Cummings, of this
city.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

The Presbyterian Foreign Mission
airy society will hold it's closing meet
ing Friday June 7, at p. M. with
Miss Anne Nc Ilvaine, of Trenton as
speaker. Miss Nc Ilvaine, is no
stranger having spoken here before
has travelled extensively in the Orient
and is interested in Council of Nation
al Defense and war garden work.
Her thrilling experiences in the
Orient will delight her hearers. All
are invited.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
Motor Truck Parcel Post Route.


1t has been officially announced
that in about ten days an auto truck
parcel post mail route will be estab-
lished between Philadelphia and
New York. The route will pass thru
NewHope, Lambertville, Pennington
and other important towns.
The truck will pass thru here in
the afternoon and will carry produce
eggs and all perishable articles.
The route has already been made
up and all arrangements made for
its start in the very near future.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

The Boys Club of the First Pres
byterian Church spent Monday even
ing at the Manse. Military Drills,
puzzles, andrefreshmentswereenjoy-
ed by all. Two letters were read from
Corporal Russell Vancamp, their
former leader.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

Mrs. Hulda Davis, has returned to
her home on North Union street
after visiting relatives in Rosemont.
Mrs. Charles Holcombe, of Clinton
street entertained the M. E. Foreign
Missionary society in her home
Thursday evening.
Mrs. George Hartpence, of North
Main street, visited her husband,
who is undergoing treatment at st.
Francis hospital, Trenton, and found
him much improved.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

Mrs. Levi Brown represented the
Kalmia Club of Lambertville at the
annual meeting of the State FEEDER
alton of Woman's Clubs held on
May 16, II, 18th in the Baptist
Peddie Memorial church of Newark
N. j.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

Miss Anna Hauser, of the New
Jersey State Agricultural College,
at New Brunswick, will give de-
monstration in the making of new
desserts, at the lecture room of the
First Presbyterian church, on Mon
day afternoon, May 27. at 2,30
o'clock, and the general public will
be welcomed.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

The Post Office will be open from
7 A. M. to 10 A. NJ, Thursday, May
both. 1918, Memorial Day. No City
or Burial Deliveries. One collection at
IA. M. All mail deposited in the
Post Office will be dispatched on re-
gular schedule.
James A. Cleary, Postmaster
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

New work will be taken mp by the
Community Chorus at its meetings
on Wed. evenings during the early
summer.
Everyone who can sing is cordially
invited to become member of the
chorus. Singing begins at 8 o'clock
There is no expense attending men,
bership.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

The Local Option League will hold
a public meeting in st. Andrew s
hall on Wednesday evening, June 5,
when Senator Harold B. Wells, of
Burlington county, will speak.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

Men between the ages of 81 and
45 who are DESTROYS of obtaining in
struction and training to fit them
selves for commissions in the United
States Army will please send their
names at once to William H.Fulper,
Pennington, N. J.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

Beginning on Tuesday next the
workrooms of the local Red Cross
will be open every Tuesday after
noon from 1.30 to5 o'clock as we'll
as every Thursday afternoon.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23

This is the story of the association of liqnor and
crime Figures for the whole country say that liquor
causes so per cent of all crime 1t is wonder that
John Barleycorn getting unpopular and that there
are few mourners at his funeral
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
HAPPENINGS OF
LAMBERTVILLE

Elm street, IOr week or so. lney
were former neighbors for many
years in Easton, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minor have
returned to their home on York
street after visiting relatives in
Holmesburg, Pa, for week.
Elmer Kitchin, the former we'll
known milkman, of Cottage Hill,
has taken a position with tire
company in Trenton.
Miss Anna Shank, of South Union
street, is spending few days with
Fenwick Pew and family in New
Hope.
Joseph Ottarson, of Geneva, N. Y,
is visiting his son and daughter-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ottar-
son, of Elm street.
Irwin Stout is building bay win
dow to the second story of his home
on Perry street, which is a notice
able improvement.
Mrs. Harry Yerkes. of George
street. and Mrs. Leroy Fisher, of
George street, spent Friday in Tren-
ton.
Roscoe Templeton, and family
have moved from this city to New
Hope.
The Misses Isabella and Mary Scott
have moved from Al Clinton street
to part of W. F. Hayhurst.s house,
81 North Union street.
Mrs. Ida Lane, who has been SER
iously i'll at her home on Washing
ton street is now improving.
Mrs. Clarence Hackney, and Mrs.
Hhineas Thorne, of York street,
have been visiting at Camp Dix.
Floyd Higgins, former resident
of this city, but for some time past
located in Frenchtown, called upon
old friends here on Wednesday.
Archibald G. Smith, head of Smith
& Sons Corporation, has purchased
two new autos, Cadillac seven pas
senger sedan, and a Buick coupe.
Thomas E. Burns and Miss Nellie
M. Kernes, both of this city, were
married at st. Johns r. C. Church
on Wednesday afternoon May, 18th
by Rev. William H. Lynch.
Adam Scheetz and family, of Tren-
ton, spent Sunday with the formers
brother, Arthur Scheetz, on Button
wood street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Wolfinger,
and sons Norman Albert and Robert
of Easton, are visiting j. w. Crook
and family, on North Union street.
Joseph S. Herring, of New York
city, spent the weekend with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
VanNatta, on Church street.
Mrs. Harry E, Van Horn, and Mrs
Janney w. Farlee, of North Union
street, spent Friday at Camp Dix,
with their sons, Richard Van Horn
and Horace Farlee.
Mrs. Samuel Patterson and son
Joseph, of North Union street,
spent Friday with friends in Trenton.
Miss Hannah Swallow, has return
ed to the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry H. Swallow, on
North Union street after spending a
month with relatives at Montclair,
Phillip walters was taken to the
State Hospital, at Trenton, for treat
ment on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Zahler and
son Alfred and daughter Margaret,
and Miss Anna Gilbert, of George
ST., spent Sunday in Atlantic City,
Mayor Frederick Garrison and son
Frederick, Jr., of Bordentown, and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Howell, of
Trenton Junction, were Sunday Wis
itors with Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
Beatty, on North Union street.
Mrs. Harry Slack. has returned to
her home on Coryell street, after
spending couple of days with rela-
tives in Trenton.
John Kline, of New York, spent
the weekend with his father, Jacob
B. Kline, on Bridge street.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
and some of his victims
C. w. Hendrickson
Warden of
Mercer County Workhouse
Trenton, N. j., May 6, 1913.

Trenton, N. j., May 6, 1913.
After receiving your letter l have gone
over nv books for the nine years that have
been warden at the Mercer County Work
house and | find that rs per cent. of the
prisoners we have received have been ar
rested for disordery conduct coming from
the influence of drink before they were ar
rested.
Yours very truly
CLARK w. HENDRICKSON,
Warden of Mercer Co. Workhouse
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-05-23
Drive him from Ldmbertville on June 18th

This advertisement is ordered and paid for by
the Local Option League of Lambertville, N. J.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-28
100000 Men
Foe Had Freed
Rush to Allies
Prisoners to Be Fed by u. S.
When They Reach
American Lines

AMERICAN ARMY OF ocCuPA-
TlON, Nov. 27 (By The Associated
Press).-More than a million and a
haif prisoners Of various nationalities
have been released by the Germans,
according to estimates based upon re-
ports received by the American Third
Army.
VI this number approximately $780,
900 will pass through the American
lines and will be fed by the Ameri-
cans. Most of these prisoners are
French, English, Italian and Ameri-
cans. The army, assisted by the Sal
vation Army, the Young Mems Chris
tan Association and the knights of
Columbus, is shouldering the bulk Of
the task.
Food Question Serious
The population Of the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg already has been doubled
by the arrival of the army of oc
cupation. The question of feeding the
former prisoners is taxing the Ameri-
can transport facilities, owing to the
fact that the new lines of communica-
tion cross No Mans Land and be-
cause the Americans are getting
further each day from the base of sup
plies! 40
The wants of released prisoners as
they pass through Luxembourg are
being looked after by the boys sing
ing societies there, corresponding to
the Boy Scout organizations in Ameri-
ca. School buildings and other pub
lie structures are being utilized The
prisoners are given hot meals and
quarters for the night and then sent
on their way.
The Luxembourg people are bearing
this expense with the help of funds
provided by the government. The
prisoners are to be furnished railroad
transportation from the Grand Duchy
whenever possible. The American
army has agreed to transport the re-
leased British prisoners to French
ports
In Nancy thousands of the home
wardbound prisoners are being cared
for and given baths in the municipal
bathhouse, which is in the hands of
the Y. NJ. C. A. The Knights of Co.
lumbus and the Salvation Army have
established quarters at various places
along the lines to feed the prisoners
as they are marching toward France.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-28
Walsh Would Keep
War Wage Basis Up

WASHINGTON, Nov. 81
w Frank P. Walsh, joint
chairman Of the National War La
Dor Board, said tonight that. Ia
Dor must not be expected to re-
turn to the pre-war basis of wages
and working hours. The only
hope for safe. orderly national
development, he declared, was in
the maintenance of present wage
levels and continuous improve
ments of labor conditions.
Investigations conducted by the
War Labor Board, Mr.. Walsh
said. show that the lowest possible
wage on which a worker and his
family can subsist in health and
reasonable comfort was seventy
two and half cents an hour
based on the eight-hour day.
This would be $34.8O for a forty
eight hour week.
Mr.. Walsh predicted that there
would be no return to the pre-
war level of costs of necessities
within five years, at least, and
said that, even with the reduction
in living costs, the present wage
standards must be maintained, for
then "the workers in the average
industry will be receiving only a
fair return for their work."
New-York tribune., 1918-11-28
Official Announcement Of
Governor to Come Before
End of Week
More Than 10000
Petitions Received
Half of Them From Men
and Large Percentage
Asked Complete Pardon

Practically every element of doubt
with reference to the fate Of Paul
Chapman, the sixteen-year-ol con-
demned Brooklyn murderer, has been
eliminated. The Communication of his
sentence may confidently be looked for
before the end of this week.
Governor Whitman, who will return
to Albany to-day, has had the Chapman
case under consideration all this week.
1t is understood that more than 10000
petitions asking for clemency for Chap
man have been signed, and about half
the signatures were from men. A large
percentage of the petitions asked for
complete pardon.
Waited for Conrts
The Governor adhered to his early
decision that so long as Chapman's
appeal for new trial was before the
Court Of Appeals he was not warranted
in acting on it. Since the decision of
the highest court few days ago the
Governor has had the matter on his
mind almost constantly He has read
every line of the evidence, and prob
ably is more familiar with all it's de-
tails than any one, with the possible
exception of District Attorney Lewis
of Kings County and Matthew W.
Wood, young Chapman's lawyer. There
are two things which have operated
most potently in favor of clemency
for Chapman.
First-His youth, and the possibility
that the adolescent period had wrought
unseen complications that court evil
dence left unrevealed
Second-The fact, disclosed by those
in position to know, that he never
had been chastised for wrongdoing, and
that, to use we'll known and express
sive term, he was Spoiled child"
On the Other Side
Against these two main points was
the undisputed fact that he seemed to
be rational human being, and that
the murder he and his companions COM
mitted was premeditated and was of
the most revolving character.
Another phase of the case was that
If Chapman was not electrocuted the
news would be flashed across the coun
try that criminal, if young enough,
might be immune from capital punish
ment In the State Of New York, pro-
vided legal counsel and friends fought
hard enough to keep him away from
the electric chair.
The Governor was confronted with
all of these major considerations, be-
sides an almost infinite number of
minor ones, and it is understood that
he has given young Chapman the ben
eft of all doubts, and that should Chap
mans future demonstrate the clemencv
was mistake, the Governor will have
the consciousness that. if he erred at
all, it was on the side of humanity.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-28
Fighters Being Mustered
Out as Fast as They Re-
turn From Front
Ultra Radicals Are
Reported in Minority
Liebknecht's Reds Are Said
TO Be Outnurnbered by
Conservative Factions

AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPA-
TlON, Nov. 27 (By The Associated
Press ALL German soldiers, with the
exceptions of the classes of 1898 and
1899, are being discharged as rapidly
as possible, according TO reports reach
ing the American Third Army. These
two classes will he held in service until
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg sees fit
to discharge them
The schedule Of rehabilitation in
Germany is being carried out as rapidly
as the troops reach their various head
quarters.
The classes of 1898 and 1899 com
prise men of thirty-nine and forty
years of age. In peace times the torn
of service in the active army is seven
years, two in the ranks and FIVE in the
reserve. AS under the arrangement for
normal times only two classes would
be under arms in any one year, the
proposed discharge Of oil except two
classes would reduce the German army
to peace strength, except for the war
losses of the two classes.