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

| within the next few days.
Bridgeton.-The City Park Commits
sion is erecting band shell in the city
| park, and will provide free municipal
| band concerts during the summer.
Pleasantville-The societies of St
! Peters Church donated $110 to the
fund for Irish freedom.
Pennsgrove.-To get ideas for pro-
posed new borough hall for Penns-
| grove, Mayor Fisher and committee
of councilmen inspected Swedesboro's
fine new municipal building.
| Woodstown.-Th councils of the
Junior Mechanics of Salem county have
| organized an association, and a field
meeting will be held in this town
Tuesday evening, August 5.
Fineland.-The minimum salary Of
| the school teachers has been raised to
| 5000 a year.
Millville.-The first Jersey tomatoes
brought So a basket.
Cumberland.-All the work of the
| County Tax Board is tied up since the
death of its president, George Hamp-
| ton, and Governor Runyon will be
| urged to make an early appointment,
who must be a Democrat.
neutrality-suspicious. are clamorIng
| for better curb market. Up to this
| time only two or three small loads
| of produce have been brought in on
| market days, and these last only Il
short time. Farmers claim that better
| prices are obtained in Philadelphia
| markets
| Bridgeton.-Juvenilec crime seems to
| be prevalent in Cumberland county.
| the youngsters committing various
| thefts, some of them of a serious ma
ture. Six boys are confined now in
| the county all of this town thus ac-
| cused
Millville.-The city commission has
| pending an ordinance for paving more
| than a mile of additional streets with
| vitrified brick at a cost of about $780,
| 900.
! Absecon.-The borough council will
act on the ordinance requiring business
men to take out a mercantile license
at its July meeting.
Bridgeton.-Th Elks have organized
a marching club TO participate in the
| national convention parade at Atlantic
| City July 10.
Millville.-Sergeant James Durham
entertained at turkey supper num-
/ Der of his comrades who fought in his
| company in France. The Cllese OF
honor was Lieutenant A Kennsleman
| of Passaic, who commanded the unit
| after Captain Shoemaker of Bridge
| ton had been killed at Chateau Thierry.
| West Burlington.-Struck by a troll
| ley while walking on the track, Lode
Duninas died later in the Zurbrugg
| Hospital at Riverside.
mberland-County farmers lost
| heavily by the tieup of the railroads
| by the strike of truck drivers at New
| York. 1t Is estimated that $4,000
worth of perishable produce was lost.
MiZpah.-Mrs. Mary Brady, at the
| MiZpah Hotel. was preparing to close
the bar for the night when three mask
! ed men entered and pointing revolvers
commanded her to throw up her hands
| When she protested one of the bandits
| fired and a bullet struck her in the hip
/ Mrs. Bradys 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, a bullet passing through his
hand. When the youth retreated the
men barricaded the barroom door, took
about $500 from the cash drawer and
escaped
Notwithstanding TO a report Is
sued by the New Jersey Weather Blu
reau, the lack of rain in the state in
the past two weeks retarded growth of
corn, potatoes, oats and grass.
Merchantville.-The council has de-
cided to resurface a number of paved
streets, at a cost of $1,000
Asbury Park.-United States Sena-
tor Robert NJ LaFollette of Wisconsin
has been withdrawn as a speaker at a
concert to be given by Anna Case,
| opera singer, in the Ocean Grove audi
forum on July 5, it was announced
here by S. Hurok, managing director
| of a musical bureau whi,l leased the
building.
Trenton.-The suit of William S.
Gulick against the freeholders of Bur
lington county to restrain the erection
of the so called Chesterfield bridge in
such a manner as to practically de-
stroy the value of his mill dam on
Blacks creek has been advanced to Il
final hearing in the court of chancery
after having Jagged along an entire
year Upon application of counsel
Vice Chancellor Backes has set July S
for argument
Somerville.-The four-year-old son
of Mrs. Adam Carpanski strayed from
his home in Manville Mrs. Carpan-
skis neighbors searched all night with
lanterns in the settlement and the out
lying country for the boy. Next day
Waterman making his rounds the
yards of the Colonial Creosoting Com
pany found the body of the child under
pile of railroad ties The authorities
/ who investigated the case believe the
/ boy attempted to climb to the top of
/ the pile of ties when it toppled over
and crushed him to death.
Gloucester-A few early tomatoes
! are being picked by farmers in this
| county.
GlaSShorO. -AfiSS Elsie Tomlin. who