The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-10-31
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

After faithful service for thirteen
years, Salems official clock on the
tower of the First Baptist church is
to be repaired.
Some Of the old dormitor.es al the
Dupont plant, at Carney Point, are
being RACED and taken to Newark, Del
Mrs Annie Schoeneberger OH, Of
Harmony, has been acquitted Of a
charge of bigamy in the Warren
county courts.
Pennsgrove citizens who have ar
ranged for a welcome Home" for the
service men have decided not to wait
until Thanksgiving day for the cele-
bration, but to hold it on Saturday
afternoon, November 1.
Dairy farmers have organized the
Warren County Hostein-Eriesian as
ISOLATION.
The Pitman Highlands Chemical
Engine company has asked for an al
lotment of fire hose from borough
council, which now has supervision of
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A new chapter Of the Tri-County
Hunters and Anglers association has
been formed in Milford, Hunterdon
county, with Herbert D. Stem presi-
dent.
Miss Armenia L. Risley, of Pleas
antYille, has been appointed grade
teacher in the Pomona public school
until February, when she will enter
Philadelphia training school for
nurses.
The Westmont Fire company has
made a second donation Of 500 to
the Haddon township memorial fund.
Miss Keziah Featherer, of Bridge
port, has been elected a teacher in
Paulsboro public schools, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Miss Beatrice Few.
Solicitor Avis reported TO Westville
borough council that up to this time
he has been unable to get the state
public utility commission to fix a date
for a hearing on the railroad cross
ing at which safety gates are de-
manded
Farmers near Paulsboro are having
no difficulty in getting their corn
husked, as men employed at the indus
trial plants who finish their days
work early in the afternoon take adj
vantage of the opportunity to make
q little extra money.
Stricken with peritonitis. Miss
Gladys Stafford, of Collingswood, was
rushed to Cooper hospital, Camden,
and was operated on at midnight, but
died.
Isaac Sturr, veteran of the civil
war, and his wife, of Elmer. observed
their sixty-frst wedding anniversary
at their home. They were married at
Paterson on October II, 1858.
Rev. W. E. Pettitt, of Eastport,
Long Island, has accepted the pastor
ate of the Mt. Pleasant NJ E. church,
Pleasantville, TO succeed Rev. W. L.
Morton, who resigned to 90 TO Nc
ConnellsviTle, Ohio.
At the next meeting of the National
Park Fire company there will be an
interesting debate between proIhinen'
residents on the question as 10
whether clubs should be allowed to
continue in the town.
Clark s. Wilson. fireman on the
Trenton division of the Pennsy,ya
mia railroad and residing at Trenton.
was killed while drilling cars al
Freehold He had his head out the
cab window and came in contact with
a steel coal car, crushing his skull.
Ernest Cigarelli, cashier, and vii
liam Wagner, manager of the Newark
tool-making branch of the Western
Electric company, were held up by
two men, one of whom escaped. The
payroll of S2S51 was taken from the
man caught when he was found in a
cellar.
Yineland is to have a carload of gov
eminent clothing as soon as the cham
Der of commerce puts up a bond of
indemnity. This is the first town iii
South Jersey to be so favored.
The Smith Rolling Chair company,
of Atlantic City, is the defendant in
a suit for $4,000 damages brought
by Miss Florence Richardson, of
Camden, to be tried in the United
States district court in Newark, on
November /. The suit results from
an accident on the Boardwalk on New
Years Eve, two years ago. Miss
Richardson claims she was thrown
from a rolling chair and sustained Il
broken wrist and internal injuries
In consequence, she claims, she is IN
able to play the piano, a favorite
pastime prior to the accident
Authorities are investigating cir
cumstances surrounding the delivery
of a bomb by an expressman TO Mrs
Moses c. Blanchard, a clearinghouse
keeper. 1t was addressed to H. S
Noble, in her care, and was marked;
Rush. Open Immediately" Mrs
Blanchard said she knew no such
person as Noble. She opened the
package. which contained a quantity
of cigarettes, tobacco and, in the cen
ter in a dark leather casing. bomb
and fuse. Sheriff Chardavoyne dOus-
ed it in a pail of wafer
The trolley zone fare fight at Cam
den has drained the region of most of
the iitneys. which had fiocked to
Pennsgrove in great numbers at the
opening of the powder boom in 1914.
For the fist time in five years the
streets are almost clear of the dash
ing its" and busses Many OF the
iiney men decamped in face of what
they declared 10 be oppressive ordi-
nances- enacted by the borough coun-
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