The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-03-05

| nection with the Betterment League.
| Absecon council passed its annual
budget without any protests. The to-
| tai is SS,705, an increase of about ST.
700 over last year.
Equipment for the carriers for the
free mail delivery service at Pitman
! has reached Postmaster PancOast, and
the service may start on March l.
| Game Warden George Phifer is maxi
! ing an effort to locate the owners of
| two dogs which killed two doe deer at
Cumberland. Both deer had been shot
| during the season and were crippled
| That the tax rate at Millville will be
increased so points by the proposed in
| creased salaries of the public school
| teachers was announced at a meeting
of the City Commission. The budget
is $151 900, an increase of $3S 900 over
last year.
Shippers at Bivalve declare that
there has never been a better market
for oysters than now and that they are
bringing record prices. Fer me re than
month the boats were unable to reach
their dredging grounds owing to the
| ice, and the reserve stocks were de-
! pleted.
| The vital statistical report of Hack
ettstown for 1919 shows &c births
against 60 in 1918 AZ deaths against 56
in 1918. There were Is marriages COM
pared with 8 in 1918. OF the deaths in
1919 nine were of persons over eighty
years and % between sixty and seven
ty-five. Only four who died were un-
der five years old
After hearing testimony against Bar
ney Kotkin, truckman, of Newark,
charged with receiving goods stolen
from an interstate shipment United
States Commissioner Matthews raised
his bail from $1,000 to $4,000 Ac=
cording to American Railway Express
Company detectives, Kotkin has been
the receiver of stolen goods other than
those mentioned In the complaint,
which are valued at $4,000.
A jury in the Union supreme court
! circuit before Judge Silzer in Elizabeth
! trying the suit of the borough of Ros-
ellie Park against former Collector
/ Harry F. Langhans to recover an alleg-
| ed shortage in his accounts of some
thing over $4,000 gave verdict of
$50, $50 in favor of the borough. Lang
has been convicted of ENLIGHTENMENT,
and his appeal is pending. He is in
the Union county Jail in default of bail.
George Weiss, for many years head
of the North Plainfield police depart
ment, who week ago was suspended
for conduct unbecoming an officer and
inefiiciency, was formally presented
with charges by the borough counsel.
The charges, drafted by Walter l. Het-
field, borough counsel, were preferred
by Clifford W. MCGEE, chairman of the
police committee.
Soldiers at Camp Dix, who saw
promise of a trial of unusual human
interest through the defense by an
eighty-year-old attorney of William
Simmons, former cook at the remount
station, charged with killing John
Smanenetto, kitchen helper, were dis
appointed to learn that the veteran
lawyer, James w. Owens of Annapolis,
Md, had withdrawn from the case.
Colonel Owens has issued a statement
announcing his withdrawal and ex-
planning that he came into the case at
the solicitation of the young soldiers
parents, who were old friends and
clients in Annapolis, but that the pris-
Oner, regardless of the assistance of
his parents, chose Robert Peacock, a
| Rnrlin pfnn Ia n
him.
Stricken while in the office of DR..
Harry Wilde, a dentist of Newark,
where she had gone to have tooth ex-
tracted, Mrs. Clara Book of IS High
land avenue was taken to the City Hos
pital and died a few hours later.
Death was caused by apoplexy.
With $50 signatures to the petitions
| for borough form of government out
of voting population of 1876 the move
ment for incorporation taook definite
| form at meeting of charter boomers
In the High School in Glassboro.
Those back of the movement declare
that the number of signatures assures
it's success. Notice of intention will
be published this week, and in ten
days formal application will be made
| to the legislature.
The machine at Hoboken which
broke all worlds records for troop en-
barkations is being dismantled When
that machine was working at its-maxi-
mum capacity during the summer of
1918 there were 32,313 men and women
who went to make up its myriad of
cogs Now there are but a few hun
bred officers, enlisted men and civilian
employees remaining, and these are but
marking time until the government de-
cides what disposition to make of the
plant, through which 3,001,05S soldiers
were embarked and debarked.
| A jury at Elizabeth in the trial be-
| fore Judge Silzer in the circuit court
| of the suit for $4,000 damages brought
! by William Cook of Railway against
former Mayor James B. Furber of that
city for alleged false arrest decided
| that there was no cause for action
| The suit grew out of a clash last June
between Mayor David H. Trembley of
Railway and certain Socialists, who,
| despite the mayors orders, started to
hold an open air meeting in Railway.
| Officials of the Plainfield Recreation
Commission, which has been fostering
an industrial basketball league in
| Plainfield this winter, plan 70 form a
baseball league of eight teams.
William T. Cole, publisher and ed
| flor of the EatontoWn Advertiser Ea