The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-05-23

The body of the man found mangled
by Susquehanna train at Dundee
Lake was identified at the morgue in
HackenSack as that of Fausto Veroli,
forty-four years old, of Nicholson
street. Lodi The Identification was
made by his widow
Two Upper Montclair men were kill
ed and the wife of one of the victims
and a third man narrowly escaped
death when their machine Skidded on
the wet pavement at a point on the
Paterson and Newark turnpike known
as the Dead Mans Curve" just out
side of Little Falls The dead men are
Arthur b. Dunn, forty, and Carl II.
Farley, thirty-five, both of Upper Mont
clair.
The Westfield Rifle Club is arrang-
ing for field ny at the Cook farm on
Memorial Day. The local company of
militia reserve will shoot with the club.
and lunch will be served for the benefit
of the District Nurse Association.
lhe dead worlds war heroes from
Vineland now number %, and that
HldilA IlttS anu '''N ~
ing placed in Landis Park Memorial
Circle in their honor 1t is planned to
hold dedicatory services on May 30.
Something of a precedent was estab-
lished by the New Jersey Board of
Public Utility Commissioners when 1t
dismissed the application of public
utility company for increased rates.
The boost was asked for by the PriGce-
ton Water Company, which petitioned
for authority to raise the annual mini
mum charge of So to each consumer to
Sc, with propo nate increases for
other classes of service
At New Brunswick the United States
Housing Corporation built 1872 houses,
within five minutes of the railroad sta
ton by motor bus that rent for from
SOB to $50 per month. The houses are
said to be thoroughly modern, with gas
and electricity, large lawns and wide
streets: four, five and six rooms, with
BATH and some of them are rented by
tenants who commute daily to New
York
Judge Edward X. Mills at Morris
town granted the applications of otto
Peters for a hotel license in Pequannoc
township and of John j. Grouse for a
hotel at Lake Hopatcong. Both were
new applicants for old stands and the
applicationS had been continued from
Tuesday of last week. The application
of Peter w. Guzzardi for ii hotel Ii
cenSe in Mt. Arlington borough was
continued for one week.
County Superintendent of Schools
Ralph Decker announced the following
apportionment of state school moneys
for Sussex county the coming year:
State school fund. s., 113.I7: state APP
preparation, SS34.19; railroad tax, So,
S04. %; 80 per cent state school tax,
SCI, S25.71; reserve fund, $7,929.S0; in
tereSt on surplus revenue, S232l.24; to-
tai. $101, S29.66.
Competitive examinations for free
scholarships in Rutgers College will be
held in the Office of Ralph Decker,
county school superintendent. in the
courthouse, Newton, June >, 6 and Z.
The examinations will begin at 9 Il. H.
i lie SCuOldl SHIPS are OItu " thhhi
dates for degrees of bachelor of arts
bachelor of letters and bachelor of
science.
The Phillipsburg Board of Trade has
gone on record as favoring the freeing
of the Delaware river bridge between
Easton and Philipsburg. With this
idea in view committee has been ap-
pointed to communicate with the state
authorities.
Ais. Elizabeth A. Allen of Hoboken,
principal of local Public School No. A.
founder and defender OF the teachers
retirement fund md credited with be-
ing one of the mott widely known wo-
men of New Jersey. died at Riverlawn
Sanitarium, ,tersOn Miss Allen had
been i'll for seven months, and her
death was not unexpected.
Despite the action of the United
States supreme court in suspending all
injunctions against Postmaster Gen
eral BurleSon TO restrain the collection
of increased telephone and telegraph
rates pending a decision of suits be-
fore that tribunal testing the constitu-
tonality of the rate making powers,
the Public Utility Commission is going
on with its suit in the state courts to
prevent the collection of increased tel
ephone rates.
The High School of Burlington was
closed and all pupils ordered vaccinat-
ed as the result of the discovery that
'een Kane of Beverly, pupil, was
suffering from what was believed to
he light case of smallpox. Although
Miss Kane has not be- in school for
several days, the Board of Education
decided to take every precaution.
The farmers dance at Franklin
vile was the event of the season. and
the town hail was packed. Girls wore
aprons, sunbonnets, and some came
with long "panties' with ruffies reach
ing far be wv the SKIRTS like grandma
used to wear, while the young men
wore overalls and straw hats. present
ing a rustic scene throughout The
dancers wanted the 'p-tO-date jazz
music, just the same, although some of
the more elderly women wanted just
the old plain waltz"
John II. Hendricks, eighty-one, ia
Their of the postm" ster of New Bruins
wick. died there after a long illnnes.
He had been promneI in local poll
tics.
Adjutant General Gilkyson has an
nounced that part of the Seventy
eighth Division. consisting of the
Three Hundred and Third Train Head