The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-09-12
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STATE BRIEFS

81, 900 and the Millvflle City Commits
sion instructed City Solicitor Miller to
appeal the decision.
Although the Paulsboro Board of
Education has raised the salaries of all
teachers there are still several vacan-
cies in the corps and substitutes have
been engaged for the opening of the
schools.
Clayton citizens who defeated the
proposed memorial community building
for local service men at a special cleo
ton are urging that an entirely new
committee be organized and funds be
raised for a suitable memorial by pub
lie subscription.
The watermelon crop about Pauls-
boro has proven failure and many
farmers say they have not taken as
much as $25 from their product.
Paulsboro has sugar famine and
there is much complaint among house
wives. who are unable to do any pre-
serving
Employees of the Vacuum Oil Com
pany at Paulsboro will receive a 10 per
cent. increase in wages, the third raise
within year.
Judge Howard Carrow, of the Cir
cult Court, has announced his fall itin-
erary as follows: Salem, September
16 to %; Bridgeton, September % TO
80; Mays Landing, October l to 81 !;
Mount Holly, November 3 to 81 j; Wood
bury, Novmeber "a to December s.
Mount Holly Friends have purchased
six sheep and put them in the burying
ground in the center of the town, get
ting the grass cut nicely and raising
the sheep for market.
A child welfare station has been es-
tabished at Carney's Point, with Kath'
ryn H. Burke director. She will also
do nursing in the schools.
Vineland public schools opened for a
ten-months' term. The Board of Edu.
cation has purchased private resi-.
dence and fitted it up for backward
class with view to giving the retard-
ed children special instruction.
Mrs. Mary 2. Garwood, for num-
public schools, has resigned to accept
a position in the Salem schools.
The male members of the Mt. Hope
NJ. f. Church, Salem, are to raZe the
old brick edifice to make room for ii
modern structure.
Frank Hubin has presented the
Pleasantville fire department two
handsome pennants which he designed
for the city.
There are 10 StOwawayS at the de-
tention house of the Gloucester Immi-
grant Station, the majority of them
booked for deportation. Most of them
came on ships from the West Indies
and Jamaica.
The Billingsport firemen cleared
about $1,000 from a carnival they held
last week. The proceeds will 90
toward the purchase of new apparatus.
w. J. Mattson has been elected
truant officer by the Paulsboro Board
of Education, and the compulsory
school law will be rigidly enforced.
Cottagers at Wildwood Crest are
agitating the erection of a new pier to
take the place of the structure de-
strUyed by fire two weeks ago
The Gloucester City fire department
will hold a carnival to raise funds for
expenses.
There will be three trolley zones in
Moorestown under the new rules
The Millville Board of Health has
decided to ban pig raising within the
city limits.
A large motor truck belonging to
James Hens, of Moorestown, while on
its way to New York with a load of
gas tanks to be recharged, took fire
near Eordentown and was destroyed.
The truck was valued at S2400.
Sarah Brennan, the 1S-year-old girl
who was reported to the Gloucester
City police as missing, has been located
at the home of sister in Philadelphia.
Harry Cook, Jr., of Gloucester City,
while cunning for blacbbirds near Mt.
Ephram killed blacksnake, which.
he claims, measured six feet.
Rumor has it that the tracks of the
Salem and Pennsgrove Traction Com
pany will be extended to the dye works
of the DUPONT Company at Deep
Water in the fall.
Albert c. Lewis, owner and manag-
ing director of the Colonial Theater,
Seaside Heights, has leased the Birch
Opera House, Burlington, for moving
picture house.
Petitions filed by the Atlantic county
Democrats at the office of the county
clerk show they are to have a full
ticket for the first time in several
years. Lafayette ] Brown, of Atlantic
City. will be the candidate for the
senate and for the assembly they have
enlisted returned soldiers, Lieutenant
Louis G. McCOrkle and Albert MCGEE.
both of this city. Charles ]. Collins,
of Somers Point, is the organization
candidate for state committeeman, hut
he will be opposed by Chas. II. Moore,
OF Atlantic City.
Red Bank avenue, Woodbury., is to
be improved with a concrete road from
curb to curb.
a lawn fete in aid of a fund for
memorial to Abram Morgan, who died
in France. was held at the Baptist par
sonage, South Seaville.
Forcing an entrance 10 the art store
of NJ. A. Bachelor, on the boardwalk
Atlantic City, thieves got jewelry and
other loot valued at more than $4,000
it was announced by the police. The
theft occurred during the half hour the
proprietor spent in Il restaurant. He