The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-09-05

President Wilson accepted boFefHoi
/ Munyon's aid in the fight on the high
( cost Of living.
Frank A. Souders Of Phllllpsburg,
has been elected principal OF Hacketls-
town high school.
The receipts from the Westnoht
Fire Company's Country Circus were
+ over $4,000, the largest ever.
Director Hines Of the railroads.
promised immediate investigation OF
/ the causes of the wreck at Ellnwood oi
I two sections of the Atlantic City excur-
sion train.
The four special officers appointed
for the National Park river front dur
/ ing the summer have finally been paid.
Twice council refused to pay because
of no available appropriation. The
bills were finally paid from the con
( tingent account.
William Gordon, who conducts cold
storage plant in Atlantic City, was
warned by the State Board OF Health
that he must either maintain his es-
adjustment in a more sanitary condi-
ton or suffer the revocation Of his IL
cense. Inspectors found in Gordons
warehouse 50 barrels OF beef and Is
. barrels of broiler chickens without
date of receipt. The floors and the
plant in general were found in an ex.
tremely unclean condition.
The Cape May County Chamber Of
Commerce is considering a proposition
to experiment with gas for the exter-
. mination of mosquitoes. The idea has
been advanced by former soldiers re-
turned from France who saw the eff
fects OF gas on grass and swampy
places There is belief that it will
rid the low places of insects.
One hundred lots belonging to the
North Wildwood Land Company were
sold at public auction by John A. Ack-
ley. The lots were on Twenty-second
and Twenty-third avenues and between
Surf and Central avenue, approximate
| ly one square from the ocean. Three
/ ocean front lots with riparian rights
were also sold. Prices ranged from
$3.50 10 S725.
Ill only a few days, "Tony" Celia,
VI l4lt Mile anu Il vi llilif
at Albany and Atlantic Avenues, Attain
| tic City. is dead. He was sixty-two
/ years old. a widower and is survived
/ only by an adopted son, Robert, aged
/ ten. Born in Italy, Celia came to the
! United States when boy, earned d
/ livelihood at first as a bootblaek and
went 10 Atlantic City in 1890, opening
a cafe. He assumed proprietorship of
the Knife and Fork in 1905
John Brodehead Woolsey. banker,
/ former state assemblyman and retired
/ gold and silver refiner, died at his
/ home, Newark. He was at one time
owner OF the Irvington Smelling and
Refining Works, but retired 20 years
ago. He was a director of the Irving
/ ton National Bank and the Mechanics
Bank of Newark. Mr.. Woolsey was
| president of the North Newark Build
ing and Loan Association. He was six
ty-six years old.
Twenty employees of the American
Express Company at Phillipsburg and
Easton have organized a branch of the
Brotherhood of Railway Freight Han
dlers, Express and Station Employees
The committee has decided to pur-
chase LOCO badges for the service men
at the homecoming celebration in
Woodbury. on October IL.
1t developed that number of Col
lingswood citizens are quietly working
in efforts to bring an amicable agree
| ment between the National Defense
Committee and citizens for the build
| ing OF soldiers and sailors memorial.
Application was made by 80 of the
| boys who have returned from service
| for charter for post of the Ameri-
can Legion at Millville. 1t will be
| named for Lieut. j. Marvin of that
city, who was killed near verdun.
One of the biggest real estate deals
| transacted in Camden county for years
is in negotiation at Haddonfield by
Earl Lippincott of Collingswood. who
is acquiring Freebooter Samuel Woods
property of over 126 acres at the en-
trance TO the borough The old Eliza
beth Haddon homestead and few sur
rounding acres will be retained by Mr.
/ Wood as his home The price is said
10 have been 5000 an acre This prop
erty extends from Haddon avenue to
the Haddon township line and includes
the old baseball park.
Three applications for the position
OF superintendent of the Phillipsburg
public schools have been received by
the Board of Education to fill the va
/ cancy caused by the resignation of
Henry ]. Neal, who has accepted the
prtncipalship of the Collingswood
schools
The first strike at Egg Harbor In
more than is years occurred when the
smoOthers in the Liberty Cut Glass
Works walked out after a dissatisfied
worker had been discharged. A gen.
eral wage increase of from Is to 20 per
cent will be asked, according 10 the
strikers. The company was planning
/ many improvements for the con-
venience and better working conditions
of its employees
At joint conference at MillvilIe be-
tween John Vol, national president of
the Glass Bottle Blowers Association.