The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-09-05
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

The retail and wholesale license OF
the AbSecon Hotel has been renewed
by council despite war time prohibit
ton.
The membership campaign for the
Warren Service Mems Club, at Phil
lipsburg. has closed with an enroll
ment of 80.
DIR. E. E. DeGrofft has been reap
pointed medical examiner Of the public
schools of the Observation-Disclosures
district
An innovation scarcely dreamed of
50 years ago is the installation of a
piano in the Friends Meeting House
at Woodstown.
Salem county roads suffered terribly
from the recent storms. and it will cost
thousands TO get them restored to good
condition.
The state sinking fund has taken
the $4,000 worth of bonds for the
erection of school house near Mon
ROCKVILLE. Salem county.
The Mothers Club OF Carney's Point
will hold carnival on September 16
at the dupont Clubhouse, and feature
will be a baby show.
While bathing at Cross Banks in the
Maurice River, Emma. thirteen-year-
old daughter of the late Hamilton Ell
lott, was drowned. The girl stepped
into hole and sank as her smaller
brother looked on. pOwerless 10 aid her.
The body was recovered.
The steamer Sylvan Dell. of the
Gloucester Ferry, still lies with five
feet of water in its hull in Salem
Greek. and 1t is doubtful if any further
attempt will be made TO raise the
boat. which may be eventually sold for
junk.
No attempt has yet been made TO
raise the tug Morris. which sunk in
Delaware River near Washington Park
during the storm last Tuesday night.
Nor have the bodies of the engineer
and steward, who were drowned, been
found.
The city officials of Gloucester and
other nearby towns are taking a hand
In the movement to have the work re-
sumed on ships al the shipyards, and
all kinds of appeals are being sent TO
Washington.
As a result OF investigation by the
Camp Dix sanitary inspector, head
quarters has forbidden all officers and
men to patronize the Hut Hotel at
Wrightstown.
Nine aliens who served with the
American forces during the recent war
have been granted citizenship papers
by Judge Kelley. OF the Warren County
Courts
William H. Oidfeld. sixty years old,
an old resident and proprietor of the
Lyndhurst Hotel. Wildwood, for nearly
a score of years, is dead. He is sur
vived by widow and one daughter,
Mrs. Alice MacCullock.
Arrested for stealing peaches from
the orchard of Alfred Haines, near
Moorestown, by Officer Ward, four
young and espectable-lOoking men,
with an auto truck, from Philadelphia,
were fined $3.50 each and made TO
pay for the stolen peaches by Recorder
Thompson. The fellows pleaded that
their names and addresses be kept un-
der cover so their families would not
learn OF their disgrace.
New Jersey highway program for the
current year includes 100 miles Of i'm
proved roads, at cost of 10000
The appointment Of George b. Hurff
of Hurffyille as superintendent of the
census for the First Congressional Dis
trict. comprising Camden, Gloucester
and Salem counties, caused some sur
prise in some political circles, as it was
expected TO 90 TO a Camden man. Mr..
Hurff has been one of the Democratic
leaders of South Jersey for years and
is regarded as in every way capable Of
filling the post with entire satisfaction
The Gloucester County Board Of
Freeholders declined to act upon the
petition of William c. Smith of
SwedesbOro for freedom from the coun-
~ Jail, where he was committed few
weeks ago on failure TO pay the Il
ance of a fine OF $500 and costs for
four alleged violations of liquor laws
at his hotel at Woodbury. after that
town went dry"
Falling from a Savannah avenue
trolley car as she attempted to alighr
at Troy avenue, Tentnor. Annie
Schwartz, a domestic. landed in heap
on the pavement, sustaining a fractur-
ed skull and died in the City Hospital
Is minutes later. The young woman
was employed by Mrs. A ]. Benswan-,
ger of Philadelphia. summering at 107
North Troy avenue. She was a resi-
dent Of Philadelphia.
The high cost OF living is believed to
be responsible for wholesale thefts of
fruit and vegetables in the farming
districts Of South Jersey, and many
farmers have appealed to the authori-
ties 10 assist them in breaking up the
depredations. Watermelon patches
have particularly suffered, and the
growers complain that the thieves de-
stroy more than they carry of.
Alvin Beers. q farmer. narrowly es-
capped death and his two horses were
killed when they were struck on a
grade crossing Of the Pennsylvania
railroad M Carpentersville. Beers re-
Gently bought the horses for 500.
The committee on site for the pro-
posed beach front hotel in Ocean City
has agreed to take tie R. r. Soop strip
of land at Seventh street and the
beach front. extending 10 Atlantic ave
nue.. A meeting Of citizens will ne held
in the city commissioners chambers to
discuss plans and formally launch the
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