The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-11-28
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

| established in Long Branch last May
at the Army and Navy club closed.
Twenty convalescents were sent to
government hospitals. The club will
remain open three months for the use
of Camp Vail soldiers and members of
the American Legion. Since opening
the community service has cared for
$50 soldiers, with an average of forty
week. The American Legion &C.
cepted the Army and Navy club offer
Of the use of the community service
building.
Pledges and subscriptions amount
ing to $6533 toward permanent home
for the United Spanish War Veterans
were announced in Newark by Cap
tain c. Albert Gasser at a meeting of
Camp Mitchell in the first Regiment
armOry. The camp has already made
part payment on a three-story brick
building at 30 Franklin street.
Considerable feeling has been arous-
ed over the announcement that the
Community Service, Inc, of New Jer-
sey has inaugurated a campaign in
New Jersey to raise 100000 by as
sessing each individual oganization
capitalization 1t has caused general
opposition from local organizations
throughout the state.
Because of inability to obtain
teacher for the one-room school in
lower Montville township the board
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ton of Supervising Principal James
f. Dodd has closed that school and
| opened a fourth room in the upper
Montville school. The pupils are be-
ing transported. This is the second
school to be closed by the Montville
board for lack of a teacher. The Tay-
lortown school was opened only few
days
Burlington Presbyterians and men,
bers of other denominations paid a
tribute to the memory of the late DR..
Paul J. Styer, for more than thirty
years prominently identified with
church work in that city The serv-
ice was held in the Presbyterian
church, of which DR.. Styer was an
officer and superintendent of the Sun
day school.
Closed three years ago because of
wartime conditions, Atlantic City
night schools reopened, with "Amer-
canization" as the chief study.
Salem County Memorial hospital
closed its second months business
with a record of 103 admissions.
The Millville city commission has
building of a sewer system and dis
posal plant in West Millville.
The Ocean City commissioners have
sold the 100000 bond issue to the
Ocean City Title and Trust company,
the highest bidders at $1O0k.
Several Millville manufacturers
were notified that cars of bituminous
coniscated pursuant to an order of
the government.
Peter Fl. Hagerty, five times mayor
of Phillipsburg, was rendered a recep-
ton by his children in honor of his
SEVENTEEN birthday anniversary.
Mayor Ladd, of Woodbury., has We
toed the new sewer ordinance because
in his opinion it needs alteration on
technical grounds.
Negotiations have about been COM
pleted for the purchase and freeing of
the bridge over the Delaware river be-
tween Lambertville and New Hope, it
was announced by John A. Campbell
of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania
bridge commission. The price of 1928
900 offered by the commission is sad
to be satisfactory to the owners and
there remain only few details of the
transaction to be completed. 1t is
probable, Mr.. Campbell said that the
collection of tolls will be discontinued
within a month.
For many months the officials of the
Presbyterian and the Methodist Epis-
copal churches of Pennington, have
had under discussion the ways and
| means of combining or federating GER
tain work of the two churches for the
more advantageous method of handl-
ing it and for the betterment of the
community. The result was the ap-
| PollltliCAl iSNChliy VI JUllll CoI1HlIl-
tee consisting of three men and two
women in addition to the two pastors,
to be the directing head of this feder-
| ated work
Jails in South Jersey which have be-
gun TO empty are not likely to have
their usual winter rush this year, ac-
cOrding to police authorities and ru-
raj constables, who declare that this
region is experiencing a dearth of
tramps, who usually comprise the high
| percentage of 'winter boarders' at the
| prisons. Some of the oldest con-
| stables, who recall their experiences
following the rehabilitation of the
armies after the civil war and again
after the Spanish-American war, had
| been predicting that the tramp nui-
sance, which almost entirely subsidized
while the war was on, would crop out
again this year.
Voluntary petitions in bankruptcy
were filed in the United States court
at Trenton by Charles A. Rudolph, of
Camden, and James B. Reilly, of At
lantic City. Rudolph's petition shows
liabilities of $4,000 and assets of
$235 Reilly has liabilities of S129,777
| and assets of S22S7.
A weekly paper is being written and
edited by pupils of the Port Eliza
beth public school.
| Individual hon of