The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-08-15
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

the new term starts in September.
Gloucester City dealers met the de-
mand of residents and sold ice at their
places of business between s and 10 30
o'clock in the morning.
After serving several years as prin-
cipal of the 9yilliamstown grammar
school Miss Rilla Bugbee has resigned
TO retire under the pension fund.
Miss Gertrude Tolbert, who resigned
as principal of the Pleasantville High
School, has been appointed dean of the
women's department of Dickinson Col
lege.
County Engineer Cattell has about
completed surveys for the old Carpen-
tiers Landing road from Gloucester to
Mantua, connecting with Route 6 of
the state highway.
Arrangements are in progress for
the Cumberland county fair and farm
ers' picnic on August % and %. Adj
dresses will be delivered by Governor
Runyon and United States Senator
Frelinghuysen.
Anglers claim that Go per cent of the
brown trout raised at the Hacketts-
town state hatchery and shipped to
Millville to be liberated in Union lake
were dead when the containers were
opened
The housekeepers and storekeepers
of PleaSantville have been asked to
conserve ice, for the supply is getting
scarce.
A unique anniversary celebration
planned by the Pitman fire patrol will
include a moonlight picnic at Lost
lake.
Williamstown will hold its welcome
home celebration for local boys In the
service on Labor Day.
While moving grass In front Of his
home at Washington Abraham Shrope,
forty-fve years old, dropped dead.
The Canister Manufacturing Compa-
ny of Phlllipsburg has begun the cree
ton of clubhouse for its employees.
Producers of milk in Phillipsburg
have made the price to retailers rs
cents gallon on farms and 80 cents a
gallon delivered, an increase of l cent
a gallon in each instance.
The committee appointed by the
Board q. Trade of Ocean City to select
a site for the proposed ocean front ho-
tel announced that the plot of r. r.
Sooy. with frontage of 300 feet on
the Boardwalk, between Sixth and
Seventh streets and extending to At
lantic avenue, had been chosen.
In response to a demand for more
wages the Phillipsburg commissioners
have granted employees of the street
department increases.
After his automobile had been
knocked into a ditch by motor truck
on the Lincoln Highway, about mile
above Morrisville, William F. Wallace
of Washington charges that he was
blackjacked by the driver of the truck
who then made his getaway.
Farmers around Mount Royal who
have tomatoes left in their early
patches are hustling to get them to the
wharf. There is lively scene each
day, and the quantity brought in IS
surprising. Growers receive % cents
a basket, which will go long way to
"helping out" in what was supposed tc
be a total loss. There are still thou
sands of baskets lying in the fields
Help is still scarce.
New Jersey tax valuation is S3,032,
t64, 104.
Seaville soon will have its first in
dustry, as brick making concern i:
erecting a plant.
Collingswood's court of honor has
been removed from Haddon avenue
and the one in West Collingswoot
soon will meet a similar fate.
Pleasantville council has appointed
Harry D. Brown inspector of sewer.
at salary of $40 a month.
AS mark of appreciation of hi:
service abroad with the American
army and more recently in the arm.
of occupation Sergeant Herbert VOL
Der, a young Burlington county wa
hero, was presented with gold watcl
by the Burlington County jewish Com
n1unity Association at rally at Ran
eocas Park, Mount Holly. Young VOL
ner was a former member of the New
Jersey National Guard. The presen
tation speech was made by Samue
Fox of Burlington.
Under an order of the Glouceste
City Board of Education all pupils o
the public schools must be vaccinatet
before they return in September
Some parents have taken exception t.
the order, claiming that their children
have been vaccinated during the pas
three or four years.
Purchasing agents from Baltimore
canning concerns and stationed at tn
wharves along Mantua creek, Pauls
boro, fatty refused to purchase toma
toes carted by farmers owing to tn
poor condition of the fruit.
Anglers are enjoying great catche
of black bass in Union lake, Millville
some of the specimens weighing a
high as six pounds.
Mrs. Ellen E. Shovel has been ap
pointed a poStmiStress of AbSecon aft
er acting as postmistress for nearly
year
The interior of the old Salem count
courthouse is being thoroughly reno
waited.
John Dennis of Easton, Pa, wa
| fined $50 and costs for huntin
groundhogs in Warren county with
1918 license.
An increase of % per cent. has bee
| granted 800 weavers of the Standar
Silk Mill at Phillipsburg. The finish
| orc have bpep .rivpn % Der cent an