The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

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| Interested Eppinger gave $1,000 bail
and will have the conviction reviewed
by the supreme court.
| Shad fishermen along the Delaware
river may petition the United States
Fish Commission in Washington -
take some action toward stocking the
river with young shad during the next
few years, as they are growing scarcer
every year For years the government
| steamer Fish Hawk each season hatcf-
ed millions of young Shad and deposit
ed them in the river, but it has not
been in the Delaware in ten years.
Assemblyman Dallas G. Young of
Monmouth county has come out with a
statement claiming the Appropriations
Committee of the legislature is sacri-
ficing the progress of the ship canal
across New Jersey for the interests of
the Delaware river bridge and the
Hudson river vehicular tunnel.
The Cumberland county farmers
have been held up with their spring
work owing to the freeze. The soil
was so frozen that plows could not be
used
The Millville City Commission pass
ed an ordinance providing for $12,-
600 bond issue for the purchase of ad
ditiOnal fire fighting apparatus.
Road Supervisor Patrick of Salem
county is using a tractor in the repairs
of the state aid roads, which has been
found quicker ana better than horses.
The resumption of operations of sew
eral departments of the dupont pow
der works at Gibbstown, closed down
several weeks, has furnished employ
ment to large number of hands.
The Metal Products Corporation of
PaulsbOro has received contract from
the government to complete French
fuses, in working process at the time
the suspension order was received.
While in some sections of the state
peach growers say their crop prospects
have been utterly ruined by the freeZ-
ing weather, as the buds We're about
bursting into blossom, other big grow
erS express hope that the crop will
come through in good shape, the wind,
they declare, having dried out the bios
SONS SO that they could withstand low
err temperatures.
Officers Watson and Magee, who
have frequently been detailed to take
patients to the State Hospital, do not
want a repetition of their experience
when they left Woodbury. with Dennis
Jordan. On the trip, in an automobile,
the man suffered commissions and died
between Bordentown and Trenton.
They concluded to 90 on to Trenton,
and when the hospital was reached the
management at first refused to receive
the dead man, but the officers had pa
pers to deliver the body, which they
did.
Truck farmers who had taken advan-
tage of the open spring for early plant
ing are the biggest losers as result of
the cold. Hundreds of acres of early
beans and corn have been killed and
must be replanted
When Magistrate James Fl. Hen
Erickson of Westville was fined 500
and costs by Judge Davis at Woodbury.
he asked for another trial and furnish
ed the required $500 bail. Hendrick-
son was found guilty of assault and
battery on Walter Devlin, a guard at
the bag loading plant some weeks ago.
Groups of singers from the Penns-
grove Baptist Church are holding a Sc
ries of meetings on the streets to reach
the nonchurchgoers
Departments of the Florence Iron
Works, which have been closed several
weeks, have resumed operations, and
many men who have been idle went
back to work.
Woodbury. real estate dealers say
there is an unprecedented demand for
homes there.
Fire of an unknown origin destroy
ed TIE clubhouse of the Norwood Golf
Club at West Long Branch. 1t had
been closed since November and was
being put in shape for opening on May
/. The clubhouse was enlarged two
years ago at a cost of $4,000. The
loss will be over $4,000 The club
house was one of tele most complete in
the state, its membership being made
up of summer residents of Long
1bTdHCD anu nearby EeSOFtS.
Having resumed ecclesiastical stud
les, which he abandoned to enter Red
Cross service in Europe after failure
10 pass the physical examination for
the army, John w. Gummere, member
of prominent Burlington family, was
ordained deacon by Bishop Matthews
at ST. Marys z. e. Church, Burlington.
During the war and when Field Bat
fiery c was being formed at Woodbury.
The Eureka Triangle Club, through sub
scriptions, bought a field photograph
for the company, which was never
called The instrument is now in pos
session of the club, which has asked
the council to make disposition of it.
The fabricated steel freighters
Knoxville and Louisville Bridge were
launched at the Submarine Boat Cor
poration yards, Newark. A delegation
of Knoxville, Tenn, citizens, headed
by r. A. Wright, chairman of the Lib
erty Loan Committee, whose success
full activities won for the city the right
to name one of the vessels, Witnessed
the launchingS.
Haddon township tax rate is $40
as against S1.S7 last year and one of
the lowest in Camden county.
Burlington county farmers, disap-
pointed over the defeat of the house
bill providing for licensing cats, are in
dignantly resenting the claims of op-
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