The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-07-25
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

by jury, Mrs. Helen NJ Addy, held a
prisoner for five days in the Sussex
county Jail at Newton ON a charge of
lefrauding William c. Riehl, proprietor
of the Hotel Durham, Lake Hopatcong,
of board bill Of $780, was arraigned
before Judge Allen r. Shay in Special
sessions and fined $50 A friend paid
the fine and she was released.
Certiorari proceedings in the case
of Frederick Harwood of Newark,
state secretary of the Socialist party,
who was fined $50 by Police Judge
Orlando H. Day for attempting to
speak in the streets of Railway, will
be heard before Judge Carlton b.
Pierce in Elizabeth. The technical
charge against HARDWOOD was that he
interferred with police officers in the
performance of their duty.
The memory of the seventy-three
Bayonne soldiers killed in tee war
was honored in Washington school,
Bayonne, under the direction of the
chamber of commerce. Parents and
other relatives Of many of the boys
attended. Prosecutor Pierre p. Gar
ven was chairman and the principal
address was made by Governor VIII
liam N Runyon. A silk service flag
containing seventythree gold stars
was presented to the city by De Witt
Van Buskirk, president of the cham
Der, in behalf of that organization.
Robert J. Talbot, director of public
safety, accepted it.
Upon application of Hyman Kramer,
trading as H. Kramer & Company OF
passaic, Vice-Chancellor Lewis has al
lowed rule returnable at Jersey City
July % requiring the Roselle & Linden
Cooperative League to show cause
why Francis A. Gordon's appointment
rs temporary receiver should not be
made permanent. The complainant is
creditor of the league to the extent
of S4I2 and claims that the defendant
concern is insolvent and that its liza
bilities aggregate $1,000. He also,
charges that the defendant concern al
lowed a judgment of $1,I96 to be en-
tered against it last May by Harry
Zlotnik of the township of Linden.
htSlueIllS are tdh1HS NdhtaSC VI
an opportunity to lay in their winters
supply of coal at an exceptionally low
figure by purchasing it from dealer
who is bringing it to Paulsboro by boat
and disposing of it before it is unload
ed. The dealer says that in this way
he is enabled to sell coal much cheaper,
as the expense is much less than by
rail.
Bernard Raven, seventy-SiX years
old. of Blawenburg was burned to
death in flames which destroyed his
home. 1t is believed burglars fired the
house after robbing the aged man, who
is supposed to have had large sum of
money In his home His son John, re-
turning home, discovered the house re-
duced to ashes and search revealed the
charred remains of his aged parent.
David Meskill, ninety-one years old,
veteran of the Civil War, died at
the Home for Disabled Soldiers, Kear-
nv. He was admitted to the insti-
tuition from that town ten years ago
and had been i'll most of the time
since. About five months ago he was
stricken with total blindness. Sur
viving is a daughter, Mrs. Catherine
Halleck of New York. The body was
removed to the daughters home. Mr..
Meskill served in Company d, Fifth
New York Volunteer Infantry.
Approximately $3,500,000 will be
available for the building and main
tenance of New jerseys highways this
year, it was announced at Trenton. Or
this sum $460,000 will come from gen.
eral state funds and the balance from
the motor vehicle fund.-
Wheat, rye and oats are among the
few Jersey crops that show normal
condition of growth and vitality and
give promise of q full yield per acre.
Reports indicate a cut of ~ per cent
in the acreage of late tomatoes, while
the yield of peas, white potatoes, APP
pies, peaches and pears will also be
considerably below normal.
The total production in New Jersey
of strawberries this year was 80 per
cent of the normal yield, while that of
blackberries and raspberries will be
about 81 per cent Of the usual produc-
ton.
Charley Jung of Jersey City is EN-
barrassed by demand just made by
his Chinese laundrymen for an in
crease in wages. According to Char
| ley, they want $40 a week, Sundays
and holidays off and no work after 6
| p. m.
| For the purpose of attracting people
| from other states to New Jersey, both
as visitors and as permanent residents,
| the state department of conservation
and development has organized Land
! Registry Bureau. The function of the
bureau will include locating and listing
all farms for sale or rent, finding
ready made farms at low prices for re-
| turning service men and others inter-
ested in farming, recommending wild
land fit for farming which can be
bought at low cost, indicating locations
for new industries and advertising the
states great attractions.
Crabs were never so plentiful in the
| Delaware river at Billingsport, and
moonlight grabbing parties are in
| vogue.
Notification has been received By
| State Comptroller Bugbee that the
war department will distribute to the
various states cannon, machine guns
| and other military equipment captured
| by American troops in France in pro-
portion to the number of men repre-