The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-10-03
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Camden and Gloucester ShlpyafdS are
using bicycles to reach their work, and
racks have been reserved for them in
side the gates.
South Jersey growers say this week
will about wind up the peach season,
all the fruit having been picked except
in few orchards where there are ex-
ceptionally late varieties.
Orders have been received at Swedes-
boro to start the glass works as soon
as possible, and reports say the plant
will run full handed all winter.
The police and health authorities of
Gloucester City have started crusade
against drivers of ice cream delivery
wagons who allow salt water to run on
the streets.
The Haddon Fortnightly resumed its
business and social activities at
meeting held In the Indian King, Had
donfield, with the new president, Mrs.
]. Linton Engle, presiding.
Howard w. Pierson of Thorofare
has been reappointed district president
Of the P. o. S. A.
Experiment" of zone fare system in
Camden may be abolished owing to
public boycott of the lines.
Gloucester City storekeepers report
that their business Saturday night was
the best in months, as residents did
not go out of the city to shop because
of the trolley situation.
Superintendent Unger finds there
are enrolled in Cumberland county
public schools 1881 pupils, of which
Millville, Brldgeton and Lands town
ship have IS per cent.
A petition containing the names of
several hundred residents of Gibbs
town will. be presented to the Green
witch Township Commission requesting
It to create public playground for the
children of the town.
The agricultural interests of Cape
May county are Framing fair to be
held on the fair grounds in Middle
township on October 10 and II.
Declaring that crops on his farm adj
Joining the local gas plant at Paulsboro
have been greatly damaged by the
fumes and waste tar water, Alfonso
Grasso will enter suit against the bor-
Ough. Grasso alleges that the borough
has allowed the waste water to flow
on his lands.
The City Commission, Millville, de-
eided to take drastic action to elimi-
nate poles in Vineland turnpike which
the Bell Telephone Company has neg
lected to remove after notice served
more than year ago. Unless the
poles are moved within ten days it is
likely that Director of Streets Hates
will cut them down.
All the buildings on the farm of Har
ry Bachelor, Clayton, We're destroyed
by fire. Five horses and 80 hogs per-
ished, and the loss is estimated at $780,
600 The blaze is supposed to have
started in the barn from some I'M
known cause and spread so rapidly
that there was little chance to save
anything. The dwelling house caught
and was also destroyed The family
fed in their night clothes saving moth
ing. The farm is owned by John Red
row, and Bachelor was a tenant. He
had small insurance on his stock and
implements. Some residents claim that
sparks from a locomotive started the
fire
The Ocean City commissioners have
pending an ordinance providing for a
general bond issue of $4,000.
J. e. Abbott of Vineland, state divi-
sion fire warden for that section for
several years, has been transferred to
middle Jersey division, and Major
Leonidas Coyle, who saw two years
service, succeeds him.
Boosters for the new South Jersey
Normal School, Glassboro, are not like
ly to see dirt fly on the project before
the next legislature convenes, accord
ing to reports from authentic sources
to the effect that the State Board of
Education has some rather elaborate
ideas for the buildings for the schools
and will not start work until 1t has
more funds in hand The board will
ask for an increased appropriation.
In a proclamation issued Governor
Runyon calls upon the people of New
Jersey to extend material aid to the
homeless and destitute of Corpus
Christi. the Texas town devastated by
the recent hurricane, He asks that
contributions be forwarded TO State
Treasurer William T. Read, who for
this purpose will serve as the resident
treasurer of the American Red Cross
in this state.
The future huckleberry will be as
large as the ordinary size blackberry,
cording to Miss Elizabeth White of
New Lisbon, who has been cutlvating
them with this in view. She is one OF
the owners of the big Whites bog and
is looked upon as an authority on buck
leberries. For the past two years she
has offered prizes to huckleberry pick
ers to bring to her bushes that bear
berries as large as half inch in cir
conference.
The Woodstown Society of Friends
has arranged for series of ten lee
lures, beginning in October, by Ebert
Russell OF Swarthmore
Despite the high cost of material
and labor, Millville is experiencing
the greatest building boom in years,
as the demand for dwellings and
apartments is far exceeding the sup
ply.
After several months preparation
1t is said that the Booth Glass Manu-
featuring Company, which bought out
the old Swedesboro works some time
ago, will put the factory into blast by
October l.
There is a scarcity of workmen at