The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

| daily by hundreds of New York com
muters, will be known hereafter as the
! Watching avenue station. the change
having been made at the request of the
residents of the district. The change
serves to perpetuate the original In
dian name for that part of Montclair
| The town seal of Montclair bears the
name of the three first settlements
| Cranetowg Watching and Speertown
The senate passed the measure OF
Senator Mackay of Bergen providing
ways and means for the construction
of the New York-Jersey City vehicular
tunnel under the Hudson in conjunc-
ton with New York state. The Mac
kay bill is in line with Governor Edge s
administration plan.
There is demand for more tennis
courts and other recreation centers in
the suburban towns as result of the
experience of the workers last sum-
mer, who found plenty Of time for
sport after supper At Pitman the
Cottagers' Association is considering
the demand for additional courts on its
athletic field. a big recreation center
for Philadelphia business men who
commute.
1t is the opinion of mental experts
who have examined j. Raymond
O'ConnOr, the nineteen-year-old news
paper worker charged at Trenton with
sending matchmaking letters through
the mails. that he is insane. This is
shared by members of O'Connor's fam
lily, who applied for the test. 1t is I'M
derstoOd, however. that the federal au-
thorities are not inclined to accept this
finding, and there is about to begin Ii
fight that will make criminal history in
this district of the United States court.
O'Connors exploits have already
aroused attention in the whole eastern
part of the country,
Nonresident labor leaders are barred
from Passaic, it was announced by
City Commissioner John II. Kehoe,
who expressed belief that radical mem
bers of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Of America in New York were
attempting to gain control of the strik-
ing wooden workers.
A. Fl. Powell, who will be instructor
for the Salem school garden pupils this
season, is giving daily Instructions in
preparing soils, planting seed and cul-
tivation.
The buildings at the Salem county
convict camp have been painted by the
inmates, and an additional building has
been erected for the guard and his as
siStants
The Bridgeton Liberty Loan Com
mittee has organized, established head
quarters in the business district and
has already begun a preliminary pub
LEFTY campaign.
A Redwood farmer who stored
sweet potatoes heavily last fall hauled
past week and brought home an even
ST 500 for them
Father Edmund Killian of st. Bona
venturas Monastery is dead in st. Jo-
seph's Hospital Paterson. His was the
second death in two days of priests at
that institution, the first being Father
Richard Flanagan. Both priests were
victims of Spanish influenza and pneu-
monia.
Palmyra is completing plans for the
construction of 100000 sewer sys-
tenn
On order of the State Public Utility
Commission trolley fares in New Jer-
sey viii be reduced to cents, with II
charge of l cent for transfer. The
Public Service Railway Company has
been charging cents since last Octo-
Der, and under the terms of the boards
decision at that time it was to be re-
duced on April /.
The Jersey City commission recently
adopted resolution offered by Com
missioner A. Harry Moore to acquire
upward of 100 acres of water front
meadow land on Newark bay and the
Hackensack river, between the Bay
onne city line on the south and the
Central railroad tracks on the north
the property TO be acquired for future
shipping for city owned docks.
Unanimous consent in the house was
given for the introduction of bill by
Assemblyman Young of Monmouth to
raise 81 100000 by bond issue 10 pur-
base the right of way for the New Jer-
sey ship canal from the Raritan river
to the Delaware river. The bonds are
to run for 20 years TIE bill carries Il
refe. endum, submitting the PROPOSE
ton to the people at the polls.
The Haddonfield commissioners have
a Il
ing the borough five instead of four.
Motor boat owners in South Jersey
have been notified that they must pay
the new federal tax on power craft
used for pleasure purposes by April 20.
Miss Judith McComb and Miss Mary
Roberts. high school teachers, are ed
iting history of MooreSown's part in
the war. which is being compiled by
senior class students.
A combined chorus of chOirS of Vim
centOwn, Pemberton and Lumberton
churches will sing the Easter music at
st. Martins Church, Lumberton. Eas-
ter Monday morning
A couple of shad were caught in the
Maurice river cove and fishermen feel
that there will be run in few days
The vanguard of cottagers has ar
rived at Pitman, and number of the
summer homes i'll the camp meeting
grove are being opened.
Allan A. Ryan of Ill Broadway
New York, son of Thomas f. Ryan,
made the highest bid for TAT shares OF
enemy stock of the Heyden Chemical
Works at Garfield at the sale by the