The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-06-13

| City. a member of the rug firm of Bres-
| lin Brothers. has been appointed to
| take charge of the drive for Irish free
/ dom for South Jersey by the national
| committee of which he is a member.
He has charge between Trenton and
| Cape MAY and is busy organizing.
Joseph Brody, twenty-one, lost his
| life in a curious accident at his home
| in Dover Brody was taking an electric
massage treatment in metal bath tub.
| Others in the house heard him scream
| and found him unconscious in the wa
ter Coroner George Gardener said
that short circuit had been caused by
the water.
The fact has just been made public
that Vice Chancellor Merritt Lane of
New Jersey and Miss Geraldine Garri-
son, daughter of Supreme Court JUS
tice Charles G. Garrison, of this state
were married at Newark on January
80. The ceremony was performed in
the office of City Commissioner Thorn
as L. Raymond by Police Judge Frank
A. Boettner Commissioner Raymond
and his secretary, Fred G. Stone, were
the witnesses
A four cornered contest, which is
calculated to make pupils "ail around
farmers" is being conducted in con-
nection with the agricultural depart
| ment of the grammar grades in the
central school, Woodstown. The pupils
are being organized into clubs in calf
raising, pig raising, poultry culture and
gardening respectively. The clubs are
being directed by F. A. Wangler, in
structor in the agricultural courses
here
Fishermen have found many dead
croakers floating in the Delaware bay,
and it is believed the fish have ventur-
ed up the river into contaminated wa
tiers, but the old fishermen insist that
this species do not go into the river.
The authorities have been informed of
the situation. however, and the matter
will be looked into.
-Four delegates to represent New
Jersey at the convention of the Ma
tional Association of Fisheries Com
missioners were appointed by Governor
Runyon. Those appointed are: Alfred
B. Smith, Atlantic City; Frank r. Aus
tin, Tuckerton; George A. Mott, Tren-
| ton. and Charles R. Bacon of HaddGn-
| field
When James Hanson of Somerdale,
enlisted in the army over year ago,
he had fine jet black hair When he
came home a few days ago it was
thickly sprinkled with gray. He says
the change was due TO fright and ner-
vous strain when he went over the
top on the Fourth of July.
The Cape May County Chamber of
Commerce has taken up the matter OF
mail facilities for Goshen, and efforts
are being made to have the pre-war
schedule restored.
Young men at Pennsgrove have or
ganized a Suburban Club" and will
erect a clubhouse, % by 20 feet, at
Deep Water Point
Work on Salem's new standpipe, one
of the largest in the state, has been
started. 1t will have capacity of
100000 gallons of water.
Absecon Council passed an ordi
nance on first reading fixing fee of
$25 on all mercantile business, includ-
ing signs erected along the new boule
ward
Purchase of the Wallace farm, adj
joining the Lawnside Cemetery,
Woodstown, will make possible in the
future a 80 acre addition to the burial
| grounds.
William Spencer, who has been ar
rested "a times in ten years in Glou-
cester City, according to the police
| records, was held under $500 bail for
court by Mayor Anderson on the charge
of assault and battery on Joseph Mil
Ter, an aged man.
When Coroner Cunningham went for
the body of Joseph D. Nenna, who was
killed at Landisville by Vincenzo A i
ca, TO take it to Hammonton for an
autopsy Jack Marracadion blocked his
way with a shotgun. The coroner
backed gracefully out of the house and
sent for a constable, who finally quiet
ed the distracted relative of the slain
man. Marracadion was locked up in
Mays Landing Jail while the autopsy
was being performed.
Prospects of the state legislature of
Pennsylvania ad Jting the joint legis-
lation with Delaware and New Jersey
to place a closed season on sturgeon
fishing in the Delaware bay and river
for five years fail to stir many protests
from fishermen along the Jersey shore,
although a few of the crews that have
been lucky enough to land some of the
big fish this spring are protesting that
IMAM made laws will not bring back
the sturgeon"
There were 25 fatal and 2,006 non
fatal accidents in the industrial life of
New Jersey during the recent month
of April, for which the statistics have
just been compiled, according to the
announcement of Labor Commissioner
Bryant. OF the total 10 fatal and 1,104
nonfatal accidents occurred in facto-
ries and workshops, fatal and 419
nonfatal in building and construction
work. In mines and quarries one fatal
and nine nonfatal accidents were r.
corded
An ordinance licensing boarding
houses for infants and maternity
boarding houses was passed on first
reading by the Camden Board of
Health.
The $1,000 ton combination cargo
and passenger ship Wenatchee, launch
ed at the New York Shipyard in Cam
| don was chriStenad with hottie of