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

A recommendation that a branch of
the Federal Employment Bureau be
opened in Bloomfield has been made
by Miss Marjorie Dykeman. secretary
of the League for Friendly Service of
Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, and the
Home Service Committee of the Red
Cross Need of the bureau exists not
only for returning military men, but
for those who engaged in war work at
industrial plants, it is claimed.
A charge of murder was made by
Captain McRell of the First precinct
against Charles f. Rose, an employee
of the Newark District Telegraph Com
pany, who shot Andrew Crittenden, a
negro, at the wholesale drug house of
Roeber & Kuebler Company. Critten-
den died in the City Hospital, and an
autopsy by Deputy County Physician
Miningham showed death was caused
by bullet wound In the left lung,
where the bullet was found.
More than $4,000 has been subscrib-
ed at Newark to the Roosevelt Memo
rial Institutional Temple fund it was
dulipuiittb lIdSS iIttlll1S VI COlOI-
ed people In the Board of Trade rooms.
Miss Marietta Higgins of North
Branch Depot has resigned as principal
of the public schools at Neshanic Sta
ton to take position as teacher in the
Dunellen schools.
An election has been called at Sea
Isle City for June 10 on petition for the
recall of Mayor r. w. Cronecker who
has been mysteriously absent from the
city since last May. Since his disap-
pearance the city has been run by the
remaining two commissioners, Irving
Fitch and James T. Chapman, and the
election is to fill the third place and
the mayorship.
To put Newark abreast of the times
and in the fore front of cities in the
study and treatment of all forms of
nervous and mental ailments is the
purpose of the new Bureau of Mental
Hygiene In the department of health
of which DR.. Christopher G. Beling has
been appointed director by formal ac-
ton of the City Commission.
When Marion Bloom, seven-year-old
daughter of Isadore Bloom, of Trenton
tripped while crossing the trolley
tracks near her home she was caught
beneath car and so badly injured
that she died. One of the child's arms
was torn from the socket, and she was
otherwise cut and bruised.
An appeal for old baby coaches, or
for coaches not likely to be used again,
has been sent out by the Cinnaminson
Summer Home, where tired mothers
are taken to rest and regain their
health. The appeal is signed by Miss
Caroline BuZby, MoOrestown.
Swedesboro will vote Tuesday, June
10, on the question of buying the water
plant of the Woolwich Water Compa-
ny. The service has been anything but
satisfactory for two years, and at times
there was barely enough for household
purposes.
Judge Edward K Mills of Morris
! town revoked the sentences imposed on
Ernest A. Dupuis and Harry Heinzman
| of Philadelphia of not less than three
nor more than seven years in state
prison for burglary at Dover and in
stead sentenced them TO the Morris
county Jail for six months. Judge Mills
said he took this action because further
investigation had shown that they were
not implicated in the attempt to break
Jail last Sunday, which he had consid-
cred in imposing his former sentence.
At the time they were sentenced both
denied any part in the Jail breaking
scheme.
Miss Jane B. Donnell has been elect
ed principal of the HightstOwn public
Schools to succeed Miss Helen d. Gro
yer, resigned.
Ground was broken for a 80 by 40
foot addition to the Friends Meeting
House at Mickleton, to be used as
school.
The Merchantville Parent-Teacher
Association has elected these officers:
Mrs. William Robinson, president;
Mrs. Fred Baker and Miss Mary Por-
ter vice presidents; Mrs. Frank
Henry, secretary Mrs. Arthur Craig,
treasurer.
Millville police raided poolrooms,
barber shops and other places where
punchboards were in operation. The
proprietors were summoned before
Mayor Whitaker and fined
A special election will be called by
the Glassboro Board of Education 10
provide an extra appropriation for
higher salaries for teachers, not in
Guided in the annual budget
A summer camp will be established
near Clayton for members of the
Gloucester county Y. w. C. A. groups.
A bronze tablet viii be erected in
the auditorium of the new school at
Laurel Springs by residents in honor
of the boys who served in the war.
Gloucester City dealers notified
their customers that the price of ice
will be 10 cents for u pounds "deliv-
cred on the step"
John Stein, a native of Germany
and scheduled for deportation, was
paroled from the detention house of
the Gloucester immigrant station 10
work for farmer.
There will be l. graduates from the
Ocean City High School at commence
ment exercises in June.
The Glover Club of Salem had its
annual planked shad dinner at the
Salem Country Club. Covers were
spread for 80.
Plans for the proposed soldiers and
sailors memorial gymnasium building
at Collingswood have been received
by DR. Grafton E. Day, representative