The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-07-11

organized al the Community House,
/ Bordentown, by returned soldiers with
! these officers: President, Captain
/ Harry {. Ships; vice-presidents, Ma
/ jor Robert Z. Sievers, Harry Brakeley.
Jr.; secretary, William r. Flynn ;
4 treasurer, Charles F. Gallagher
/ The post office at Hainesport has
/ been discontinued because the govern
/ ment has been unable to get a post
master at the salary that the govern
! ment regulations permit, it having
/ been about $500 last year. The mail
! will hereafter be distributed from the
! Mount Holly office and it is likely that
another rural carrier will be put on.
The 11S trust companies, q savings
/ banks and a state banks of New Jer-
/ sey are in prosperous condition with
I increased deposits, resources and in
| vestments. according to a statement
! Just issued by Frank II. Smith, State
Commissioner of Banking and Insur-
! ance. These institutions have done a
large business in Liberty Bonds, thrift
and war savings stamps and govern
ment certificates.
DIR, Frank NJ. Donohue, leading sur
geon Of st. Peters Hospital In New
| Brunswick, died at his summer home
at Cedar Crest, near Bound Brook, of
/ heart disease. He was found on the
| floor unconscious by his wife and died
| before physician arrived. DR.. Dono-
/ hue was born in New Brunswick In
/ 1Sl1 and QFp1naf0H from 10 Naxr-
! York University in 1888. He was q
member Of the New Jersey Medical So
ciety and vice-president of the Peo-
| pies National Bank of New Bruins
| wick
Near the scene where he preached
| mis- first sermon, in 1869, Rev. D. w.
| Sheppard celebrated his golden iubi-
lee in the ministry with special serv-
/ ices at the Baptist Church, Alloway.
/ Neighboring churches and pastors par
/ ticipated in the celebration, and there
We're addresses by Rev A S. Allyn of
1 Bridgeton. Rev. George NJ Owen of
! Elmer, Rev. DR.. Joshua E. Wills of
Daretown and Rev II. r. Myers of Sa-
lem. Mr.. Sheppard also gave a review
| of his ministry.
/ Rev. Philip S. Smith, for many years
I rector of ST. Barnabas Z. E. Church,
| Burlington. babe farewell TO his par
ishioners preparatory to leaving for
his new charge in the Virgin Islands,
where he will have charge of mission
/ airy and educational work of the
| church
Mrs. Mary Brady at the AIizpah Ho-
! tel, was preparing 10 close the bar for
/ the night when three masked men en-
/ tered and pointing revolvers com
manded her to throw up her hands.
| When she protested one of the bandits
/ fired and bullet struck her in the hip.
/ Mrs. Brady's fourteen-year-old son,
| who had retired, heard the noise and
selling a shotgun ran TO his mothers
| assistance. As he appeared in the
/ doorway the desperadoes blazed away
at him, bullet passing through his
/ hand. When the youth retreated the
men barricaded the barroom door, taDk
| about $500 from the cash drawer aad
escaped.
The contract for new edifice for
the Mt. Hope A. NJ. E. Church of
| Salem has been let at $4,000. The
present edifice will be demolished.
A concrete sea wall is TO be erected
along the river front of the Delaware
General Ordnance Depot at Perkin-
town.
Miss Lillian Fisher was appointed
policewoman by Mayor Smith of Wild
wood, and will take up active duty
within the next few days
Joseph Carbine and Joseph BeIo of
/ Milmay were fined $50 and costs by
! Justice of the Peace Long for carrying
/ shotguns in the woods, not being nat
uralized citizens.
/ A few early tomatoes are being pick
ed by farmers in Gloucester county
The Merchantville council has decid-
ed TO resurface a number of pav-d
streets, AT a cost of $4,000
The Bell Telephone Company was
granted permission to erect poles on
Geneva avenue, Westmont, by Haddon
Township Committee.
Six prisoners have escaped from the
AoAhlC IiSob l0iA III, lNtl2 LttSbu IA - hui
ing the past few days, according 10
| bulletins received by the police in
South Jersey towns.
Burlington county timber dealers at
last are finding a use for the thou
sands of chestnut trees killed by the
blight other than cutting them up for
firewood They are marketin large
quantities of the big sticks for tele-
graph and telephone poles, investiga-
ton having shown, it is claimed, that
the dead trees become well seasoned
in the open.
The four-year-old son of Mrs Adam
Carpanski strayed from his home in
Manville Mrs. Carpanski's neghbors
searched all night with lanterns in the
settlement and the outlying country
for the boy. Next day a Waterman
making his rounds in the yards of the
Colonial Creosoting Company found
the body of the child under a pile of
railroad ties The authorities who in
vestigated the case believe the boy at
tempted to climb to the top of the pile
of ties when it toppled over and crush
ed him to death.
About 100 boys and girls have en-
tered the pig raising contest, of which
George r. Fine of AIerchantville is the
leader. They are organized under the