The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-07-18
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STATE BRIEFS

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Some Salem county farmers are hag-
ing trouble harvesting their grain be-
cause of the fields being leveled by
last weeks high winds
| Walter Baderacco, the Vineland run
| away boy, for whom all of south Jer-
sey had searched for two weeks, was
found at Glassboro.
After detourng through fields and
roundabout roads for more than year
| farmers and others are now using the
new concrete road between Turner
| vile and Cross Keys.
The Union Grove camp meeting
opened at Aura, to continue until July
Is, with Rev. Howard w. Sweeten of
Ashley, ILL.,, as the principal evangelist
and Mrs. Tacie L. Clifford of Jersey
| Shore, Pa, as the singer.
| Charged with selling cider with a
'.kick," John Brandriff and his wife,
who conduct restaurant at Millville,
were fined 500 and costs each by
Mayor Whitaker
| L. A. Burdick and wife. after an au-
tomobile trip of thousand miles, have
returned to their home in Hammonton,
bringing with them a pair of young
eagles, which they picked up in help
less condition in the Pocono noun
| tains.
The city commissioners of Jersey
| City have been made defendants in
certiorari proceedings brought in the
supreme court by Samuel Wilson of
that city to test the validity of the
commissions renewal of liquor IL
censes to more than 100 applicants.
Wilson alleges that the action is in vio-
lation of the war time prohibition act
of Congress and the federal prohibit
ton amendment to the constitution.
County agricultural agents, as far as
could be ascertained, have had few or
no complaints made to them of the
seventeen year locust doing any per-.
ceptible damage. The usual season of
egg laying by the female adults the
operation which causes the greatest
damage because of the eggs being laid
deep in the new wood of trees, is now
nearly over, and the chances of the To-
Gust appearing in hordes, as had been
expected, is considered unlikely
An order authorizing the Rural Tele
phone Company of Swedesboro to in
crease its rates to provide additional
revenue of 81. 400 year was issued by
the State Public Utility Commission.
The original petition OF the company
asked for an increase of 30 cents a
month for each subscriber in Woods
town, Swedesboro and Mullica Hill.
The increase allowed amounts to about
% cents a month.
Not less than 5000 men, women and
children were in bathing in the >Dela-
ware river at National Park at one
time Sunday. They wore all kinds of
| suits The bathing houses could not
handle the crowd, and many made
lightning changes and donned bathing
suits behind trees and in the bushes.
Tractors are getting so numerous in
South Jersey that they present PROB
lem in respect to their movement over
the roads, and supervisors have noti-
fed the owners to keep the big ma
chimes off the roads There is an old
state law restricting the running of
tractors on state and county highways,
and this law has never been altered or
amended since tractors have come into
such general use, being originally en-
acted to regulate thrashing machine
outfits.
Yorkship Village, Camden, was
opened this week to the public for the
first time. About 200 of the homes are
occupied
The Millville bottle works will break
ground for a new factory in East Mill
willie this week and will rush the plant
to be in readiness for the fall blast.
If he cannot soon find a house to
which he can move his family, Prof.
Carman Ross of Doylestown, Pa. re-
Gently elected supervising principal of
the public schools of Collingswood, will
not accept the position. For several
weeks a steady house hunt has been
made in efforts to locate him comfort
ably without the desired results.
A playground for children has been
put in operation on the camp grounds
at Ocean City and all the youngsters
are invited Games and physical ex-
ercises will be under the direction OF
Miss Elyse Thompson of Brooklyn.
The plan has been adopted by the city
and the Ocean City Tabernacle Asso-
citation, and arrangements are under
the supervision of Rev. DR., Ferguson
of Philadelphia, superintendent of the,
| association.
State Chairman Edward c. Stokes
has suggested to Warren c. King that
he and the other Republican candi-
dates for the governOrship can ar
range state convention among them
selves for the. purpose of discussing
the issues of the campaign if they
| want TO do so. The suggestion is con-
tanned in ii reply TO recent letter of
Mr.. King, in which he asked that an
other pre-primary convention be held
by the State League of Republican
Clubs for the purpose of hearing the
| candidates.
Rev. Charles Bratten Dubell, for
| mer rector of the Church of Our Mer-
ciful Saviour at Carney's Point, who
went out as chaplain of the old Third
Regiment, New Jersey National Guard,
with the rank of captain, has been pro-
NOTED TO major with the Army of DC
cupation al Coblenz.
Following the arrest of Charles