The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-08-22
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STATE BRIEFS

preacher, Has DttH appointed OlutIdi
dog catcher of Merchantyille.
The DUPONT Chemical Company at
Gibbstown laid off additional hands
because the work is diminishing.
Stow Creek voters have decided to
build new road from the town hall
school to Roadstown, at a cost of 3d.
600.
Negotiations are being made by the
Williamstown Board of Trade with a
firm that is considering starting a
foundry.
Nearly half of the 5000 needed for
on Labor Day has been raised at Will
Jamestown. .sss4
Millville Board of Health has given
ten days notice TO property owners to
connect with the sewer, after which all
who have failed to obey will be prose-
cuted.
The automobile of DR.. Joseph D..
Lawrence of Merchantville, which was
stolen when he was at Asbury Park,
was found abandoned near Freehold in
bad condition.
Believing that Woodbury. needs more
homes, DR.. J. c. Curry is opening a
new street from North Maple to Laurel
and will erect several residences, cost
ing about $1,000 each.
The Board of Education of Pleasant
Vile appointed Margaret s. Rehberg
and Dora J. Love grade teachers,
James NJ. Nelson science teacher, Sam
uel O. Myers supervisor of manual
training and Miss Leah Crammer a
second grade teacher
A five acre tract has been purchased
along the Reading railway at Williams
town with a fund raised by citizens in
terested in the Board of Trade and will
be used as site for an iron foundry to
be operated by the Pusey & Jones
Company.
As a result of the victory of advo-
Gates of improved school conditions at
Vincentown at special election, the
state Board of Education has released
the state moneys due the township,
and arrangements will be made to
erect new building at once.
Negotiations are being made by the
PennSgrOve Board of Trade with man
ufacturers of shirt waists, who offer to
remove the plant there if satisfactory
arrangements can be made as to a
building and female help.
Confident of the future business
prosperity of Wrightstown because of
the governments decision to make
Camp Dix permanent post, directors
of the Wrightstown National Bank,
whose building was burned a month
ago, have decided to rebuild.
Some peach growers are marketing
ripe fruit, unsuited for shipment to
distant points, at 81 a basket in South
Jersey towns.
A concrete road is being laid by the
DUPONT Company from the lower canal
bridge to Deep Water Point, In lower
PENIS Neck township
Under direction of James Fl. Birch,
Jr., an energetic campaign for the sale
of thrift stamps Is to be pushed in
every section of Burlington county.
Frightened at the steam calliope of
a carnival company, a horse belonging
to John Gregio, an East Vineand
farmer, ran block and dropped dead.
The two nights carnival held last
week by the Catholic Church at Wood
bury brought receipts of about $1,000,
and it is believed the net profits will
be $1,000.
Residents of Highland Park, a SUBJ
urb of Gloucester City, have organized
Methodist Episcopal Church. Serv-
ices will be held Sundays in the fire
house until a new edifice is construct
ed
Jersey City will issue 100000 bonds
for buying food from the government
and selling at cut rates.
Although he was promoted to cap
taincy several months ago, before his
discharge from service, notice of the
fact has just reached DR.. John S. Con-
the Medical Corps overseas and spent
several months at the front. He will
hold his new rank in the Officers Re-
serve Corps.
Recent excessive rains caused eX-
tensive damage to crops of almost ev-
cry variety throughout New Jersey,
according to the monthly crop report
of Alva Agee, secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture. Two-fifths of
the wheat and one-third of the rye
crops We're In the fields during the ex-
cessive rains, and 10 per cent. of the
hay suffered damage in the field.
Truck crops suffered severe injury.
A writ of certiorari TO review an
assessment of $1,000 on the grounds
and improvements of the Lawndale
Cemetery Association, Pilesgrove town.
ship, Salem county, was allowed by
Justice Black in the supreme court.
The tract consists of an acre and a
half, and exemption is claimed under
the act providing for such exemption
for cemeteries. The levy of the local
board has been affirmed by the county
and the state boards.
Several clashes occurred between
silk strikers and police at Paterson.
The first arrests by the federal au-
thorities for alleged violation of the
war time prohibition act were made at
Trenton when John l.. Thompson, pro-
prietor of the Lafayette cafe, and an
aid, Frederick w. Curtis, were taken
into custody by Special Agents Lewis
and Sprague of the department of JUS
tice. The men We're arraigned before
Federal Judge Davis, pleaded not gull
ty and were released on $1,000 bail
each for further examination. If con-