The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-10-24
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

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| Guarantee and Trust company as
| trustees, was refused by the state
| board of public utility commissioners
After having tried the plan of hav-
ing municipal ball field and play
| grounds during the past summer, clti-
| zens of Elmer will petition borough
| council to purchase plot for perman-
| ent public recreation. Under the pres
ent plan, council leased a field for the
| local base ball nine for year.
That the liberality of folks in the
| Oranges is responsive to deserving
| cause even after the heavy tax upon
| it in war days is indicated by til,
| generous contributions being made to
the $250,O0O campaign of Orange Me
| merial hospital.
Here is a tip for the woodcock
shooter. Go to West Orange and IT.
the valley east of Pleasant Nalleyway
Sou will find some birds. The low
| iands there have been shelter.ng quite
| a few during the last few weeks. If
| you enter Pleasant Falleyway from
Bloomfield avenue, dent look for the
| birds until you have passed Eagle
| Rock avenue.
Tide runners, as the fall weakfish
| are called are moving south, but they
do not come into Newark bay. At
the several fishing places off Sandy
Hook they are biting well, and some
large fish have been taken from the
| pier at Long Branch and the surf
south of that place.
United States Commissioner Lewis,
before whom all violations of the pro-
| hibitiOn law are presented, said that
practically all beers and wines now
sold in Atlantic City will be banned as
soon as the measure passed by con-
gress becomes a law, which is expect
| ed within ten days at the most. Com
missioner Lewis is of the opinion
that dealers who sell beer and wines
In defiance of the law will be arrested
and vigorously prosecuted.
Three burglars with high-powered
automobile entered fur store at At
lantic City and stole stock valued at
$4,000.
Mystery that has surrounded the
killing of Private John Smaneatto
attached to The ren.1mt station. Camp
DIX, was cleared. officers of the army
intelligence depar ment say. by a
statement of William P. Simmons
head cook of the remount to the effect
that he stabbed Smaneatto in self
defense in fight near the camp.
Resolutions protesting against the
return of the seven-cent trolley fare
were adopted by the Lincoln assoc'a-
ton in Camden. The association also
agreed as a body to continue the pres
ent boycott until the tive-cent fare is
restored within the city limits.
The winter timetable in the Tren-
ton division of the Pennsylvania rail
road has gone into effect Only two
additional trains were placed on this
division.
At conference between John Fort,
of Camden, chairman of the Fort
Nassau monument commission and a
committee of Gloucester City council
1t was decided to hold the unwilling
exercises of the shaft and tablet at
The city square. Gloucester Saturday.
November -. There will be a plrade
starting in Camden and ending at the
monument.
Salem has landed new industry,
one that will manufacture Il conoanut
oil shampoo. The concern will come
from New York and temporarily To-
cate at the Salem Glass works. EN-
plOying 100 hands, mostly women.
The mutilated body of John Sauna
neatto, q private of the quartermas-
ter's corps, was found by farmer
| outside Camp Dix in a field The sol
der, who was attached to the Camp
| Dix Remount station, left the camp
on pass last week and the condition
| of the body strengthened the belief
that he had been murdered. 1t bore
| several stab wounds and the throat
| was slaShe1
Representative Ernest r. Alderman,
of Plainfield, was a passenger aboard
| the MaurPtania when she left New
| York for France several days ago He
is accompanied by Mrs Alderman and
expects to return early in November.
| The purpose of the visit is TO make a
brief study of conditions in Franco,
Italy, Belgium and Switzerland.
A thirty-foot channel from Port
| Newark through Newark Bay and the
Kill Won Kuli would end all uncertain
ty as to the immediate continuation of
meadow development and the estab-
lishment of an important water-and
rail terminal there.
Fire did damage estimated at be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 to the plan
| ing mill and contents of Louis Van
Nest in Plainfied. The fire was dis
covered by John Doyle, who was on
his way home The tiremen at one
time had as many as eight streams
on the building, a two-story concrete
structure.
The Salem chamber of commerce
has endorsed the free library project
which will be voted upon at the cleo
ton in November.
Subscriptions are being solicited for
a new national bank at Woodstown
and a majority of the 100000 stock
has already been pledged.
This is ''Go-tO-Church" month in
Wenonah and the churches have thus
far been filed to seating capacity
There is a movement on foot to
consolidate all the brass bands in
| Efneland and make one organization