The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-05-30

! York shipyard.
The SNAKE season" has opened in
South Jersey, farmer near Deerfield
having killed two blacksnakes measur-
4 ing seven feet in length.
Friendship NJ. f. Church, near Lam
disville, celebrated its one hundred and
eleventh anniversary with All all day
1 session and picnic dinner.
George Brewer, the Redwood young
man who confessed to stealing an au-
tomobile from James C. White few
weeks ago, was fined 5000 by Judge
| Davis, to be paid in installments of 50
| week.
Superintendent William c. Sullivan
| of the Pleasantville public schools Will
| appear before the city council at It's
! next meeting and urge an appropria-
| ton to equip the summer Fairgrounds
and the erection of a building on the
high school lot to supplement the gym
/ nasium.
| For the fourth time in little more
! than year the Pitm:r borough Off
Gals will have to find new superin-
tendent of public works, as Howard B.
Lang, the most recent appointee, quit
the job.
The two brass cannon in front of the
Woodbury. courthouse have been pol
ished like the "handles of the big front
door, for Memorial Day
Efforts are being made to have all
the foreigners at the Gibbstown pow
der works naturaliZed, but only about
! so per cent have thus far taken the
first steps
The committee arranging for big
Independence Day celebration in Mill
| vile in honor of returning soldiers has
tribution of $1,000.
Bell telephone linesmen are busy
taking out phones of subscribers at
Woodbury. who refused to pay the in
creased rate Of 20 per cent on the
| April bills. Most of the subscribers
paid, minus the addition In some in
stances the company has demanded
$3.50 for connection" although the
phone has been installed some years
Corporal S. Sterling Steward. one of
| the husky men of Sewell, who left
home just year ago to the day, re-
turned from Camp Dix. After good
nights rest he went back on the farm
and made things hum. Steward says
he has "hankered for farm life' ever
since he left.
Borough commissioners are making
concessions to the West Jersey and
Seashore Railroad company to con-
tinue its elevated road from Camden
! City Line into the borough for nearly
mile, with only Wayne avenue as
an outlet from Haddon avenue to the
Park avenue side of the town. 1t is
believed that the elevated will be al
| lowed to continue as far as Browning
complete the work.
The borough of Woodbury. Heights
seems to be a unit in the belief that
a sewage system is badly needed and
council has ordered survey.
A field day will be held by Troop
No 10, Boy Scouts of Philadelphia, at
Malaga ON May 30.
Merchantville Lodge. f. and A. NJ.
is making plans to build its own tenn
|
The Westville Christian Endeavor
| Union has won a banner for the larg-
| est percentage of members attending
| the recent convention in Woodbury..
The Millville City Commission re-
elected the principal municipal off
! GERS.
| Pupils of the Paulsboro High School
! CT nd Wi
the money for curtain for the audi
forum stage.
Exceeding the recorf made in the
! fourth loan, the Camden Women's
| Committee sold Victory bonds to the
amount of $910,s00.
Woodbury's one private hospital has
proven such a success that it is being
enlarged, and another institution is to
be opened.
Florham Leader, two-months-old
Guernsey bull calf, was sold at auction
at Madison for $4,000, said to be a
new record price for any animal of its
breed. Oak Farms and Hugh Bancroft,
both of Massachusetts, combined to
make the purchase, paying $4,000
Captain Arthur Buchanan of Tren-
ton, attached to the aviation section OF
the Signal Corps and now in Paris as
an attache of President Wilson's party,
was awarded the $4,000 estate left by
his father, James Buchanan, one time
judge of Mercer count.
In trying to board a Jersey Central
train, which was just pulling out of
the main station at Elizabeth, Ralph s.
Edmondson lost his footing and fell
under the wheels. Both his legs were
crushed and were amputated later at
the Elizabeth General Hospital.
Asparagus is bringing big returns to
those who grow ON a large scale.
Thousands of crates are being shipped
daily from the stations along the Sa-
lem branch of the West Jersey and
Seashore railroad, the principal ship
ping points being Woodstown, Swedes-
boro and Mickleton. One farmer neal
Swedesboro, who cleaned up $4,000
from his asparagus crop last season,
expects to do even better this year.
On a warrant issued by Vice Chan
cellor Leaning on a charge of being
800 in arrears in alimony payments An.
tonic Sposeto was arrested by Con.
stable Ford at his home at Elm. He
was locked up in the county Jail to
await hearing for contempt of court
The Gloucester and Woodbury. Turn.
pike Company is having trouble al