The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-12-26
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STATE BRIEFS

! bank examiner.
| A Christmas party for the children
at Carney's Point is being arranged by
| the Mothers Club.
Under the direction of the Chamber
of Commerce, pay up week. was OBJ
served at Woodstown.
I Residents of Maple Shade have
| formed an athletic association for the
| purpose of having a field for sports
and to build tennis courts.
| AS the result of a trip to Washing
! ton, Assistant Postmaster Harre Brod-
water, who got in close with the postal
authorities, another carrier will be
put on in Woodbury..
A special committee appointed by
the towns Welcome Home Committee
is still searching for suitable site for
proposed play park as memorial
to Glassboro war heroes.
The State School Department is
planning for a continuation school for
boys and girls who quit school for
work in Gloucester county, but the
county superintendent has fourteen
names, and these have received work
ing school.
To avert a threatened epidemic of
scarlet fever Marlton public schools
have been closed until the Monday
following New Years.
Opposition has developed to the
proposition of the Woodbury. Civic
Club to make the minimum salary of
grade teachers $1,000. The Board of
Education asked for opinions of tax
payers and are getting them.
The Phillipsburg commissioners
for the collection of garbage to Martin
F. Sleight for $27 ,4SO.
The tractor demonstration being
held in South Jersey has been inter-
fered with by rain, but where the ma
chinery has been shown it has Gre
ated a favorable impression.
Swallowing piece of meat that
lodged in his throat caused Alfred b.
Sewers, a municipal employee of Mount
Holly, to die of exhaustion that fol
lowed spasms of choking continuing
for over an hour. A physician worked
over Sewers for an hour and a half,
dislodged the meat and used pull
motor, but could not save him. The
piece of meat was not large.
I Lifting an injured companion upon
his back, 13-year-old Jacob Welsh of
Burlington carried him half mile to
his home, rather than leave him while
he summoned medical aid. The victim
of fall while the boys were at play
was Thomas Rafferty,, of East Burling-
ton. A leg was fractured in the ac-
cident.
Public schools at Palmyra may not
reopen after the Christmas holidays
unless the Board of Education meets
the demand of teachers for a definite
increase in salary, with minimum
of $1,000. Parents of pupils, especially
those in the high school, are much
agitated over the rumors of threat
ened "strike," the teachers declaring
they cannot live on present incomes.
The School Board is considering
joint petition of teachers for salary
| reimbursement, with the minimum at
81 200. One teacher, in a separate
petition, asks that her salary be in
creased from $1,100 to $1,000. Gram
mar school teachers demand a flat
Increase of 500 each a year.
1t has been decided to stop work on
the building of st. Peters new church,
Woodbury. Heights, because the ma
sorry cannot be done.
The Pennsgrove Chamber of Com
merce has appointed a committee to
visit the railroad authorities to urge
the erection of a modern station
The women's organizations of Wood
bury have started move to give the
poor families happy Christmas, and
contributions are asked for.
With bigger tax rates looming in
many South Jersey municipalities for
| 1920, citizens are puzzled to know
what has been the effect of the new
state law, whose trainers predicted
| that it would bring into municipal
| taxes. Until the new law became eff
| fective this year and made it obliga
| tory for collectors to sell properties
| upon which taxes were delinquent, it
was an open secret that in some mu-
inequalities there were properties upon
which no taxes had been paid for
years.
Indictment Of Mercer county officers,
| providing evidence is found to substan-
! tiate charges contained in the report
of the investigation conducted by for
mer Judge Frederick w. Gnichtel, was
recommended by Supreme Court JUS
| tice Trenchard in his charge to the
grand jury The probe followed Pc
tition investigated by six of the seven
members of the board, George w.
Royle, director of the board, alone dis
senting. Judge Gnichtel in his report
charged that Royle was guilty of acts
involving moral turpitude and that all
the other members, together with 9TH
er county officers, were negligent and
inefficient in the discharge of their du-
ties
Mrs. Florence V. Burr of Moores-
town has been chosen matron of the
Salem County Memorial Hospital.
A Collingswood grocer is offering a
pound of sugar free with So worth of
goods.
Andrew c. Reber, who pleaded gull
ty to the murder of Katie Potts near
Pennington on January 49, 1914, was
sentenced to 20 to 80 years in the state
prison by Justice Trenchard in Mercer
court, Trenton Reber shot the wom-
an following d quarrel over her failure
| to loon oIiva q fro in tho houca in