The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-12-24


years pastor of the Elmer Baptist
Church, will preach his farewell SER
mon on December &c.
| Proceeds of three day fair by Pres
byterians at Williamstown, which end
ed Saturday night, will be used for re-
furnishing the church
A granite boulder, erected in honor
Of the young men of Harrison town.
ship who served In the war, was I'M
yelled with appropriate ceremonies al
Mullica Hill. Citizens, school children
and patriotic organizations participant
ed. The speakers were Judge Garfield
Pancoast and former Senator Joshua
G. Haines, both of Camden county.
The Gibbstown Women's Club has
elected these officers President, Mrs.
| A. w. Belts; vice president, Mrs.
George Gibson; secretary, Mrs. P. H.
Groggins; treasurer Mrs. Frank G.
Lewis. Members from all over South
Jersey assembled ,at the Moose Home
in Woodbury. to take steps toward col
lecting a fund for the New Jersey
building" at Mooseheart.
A jury in the Cape May county court
awarded William Schenck of Millville
| $1,000 damages against David Haley of
Dennisville. whose automobile run
down and killed Schenck's little daugh-
ter near Eldora last April.
The big powder plant at Gibbstown
is now working on five day a week
schedule, and the workmen will be sat
isfied if the situation gets no worse.
Mayor Anderson of Gloucester City
issued 25 additional permits to resi-
dents to carry guns for their protec-
ton during the crime wave.
Considerable interest is shown in the
union revival services now being held
in the First Presbyterian Church,
Ocean City DIR. W. T. Bartlett of
Nashville is conducting the meetings.
! Owing to lack of orders a tube fac
tory at the South Millville glass works
of Whitall Tatum Company went out
of blast for an indefinite period.
The st. Anthony Society, organized
| by Italian residents of Glassboro, has
| enrolled large membership. Peter
| M. Grille has been elected president.
In her suit against the West Jersey
and Seashore Railroad Company for
$4,000 damages for injuries she claim
ed to have been sustained when thrown
from an electric train at Wenonah sta
ton ON July 3, 1919, Mrs. Kathryn A.
Taylor lost out, the verdict of the jury
being mo cause for action" 1t was
shown that Mrs. Taylor stepped from
the train before it stopped
One of the largest single sales of
postage stamps took place at the New
ark post Office when Chief Stamp Clerk
Frank S. Hand sold to one of the larg-
est corporations in the city over $10,-
600 in postage stamps. 1t is believed
that this is the largest single sale of
stamps ever made at one time.
There is popular but erroneous i'm
preston that the work of the State
Board of Children's Guardians, in so
far as widows pensions are concerned,
ceases when relief is ordered granted
by the court. In fact, the number of
such pensions revoked on recommen-
dalton of investigators almost totals
the number of new applicants, accord
ing to the board
Shooting a large water fowl in a
pond near Medford, Stanley Hiles and
Arthur Crispin were astonished to find
they had bagged bird of species
very rare in this part of the country.
The bird, supposed to be western
grebe, is slightly smaller than a wild
goose, which it somewhat resembles in
appearance. The hunters are having
the specimen mounted.
Gloucester City milk dealers have
followed Camden and Philadelphia
dealers and reduced the price two
cents a quart.
The State Art Department hopes to
lie instrumental in placing fine PIC
lures, etchings, OF engravings in the
halls Of the New Jersey State College
for Women, as well as in high schools.
Art departments in clubs, by cooper
ating with principals and local school
authorities, can accomplish much good
work along this line, with happy re-
suits to all concerned.
A delegation of thirty-fve negroes
appeared at City Hall, Jersey City,
seeking the proper officials with whom
to lodge protest to what they called
racial discrimination" in verbal
curfew law order issued by Chief of
Police Battersby. The order, which,
it was announced at first, called for
the detention of all male negroes found
on the streets after 9 o'clock p. M,
who were unable to give proper ac-
counts of themselves, was later ex-
planned by the chief as being much less
stringent and applying to whites as to
negroes.
Three thousand negroes o. Jersey
City, inceEsed at the order of Richard
I. Battersby, chief of police, that
policemen round up all suspicious
looking negroes found in the streets
late at night, ere protesting against
what they deem discrimination, and
say they will ltmand Battersby's re-
moval from Mayor Frank Hague and
TIE city ccmmissio Lers. Chief Batters-
by said the order was the result of
crimes by negroes, but denied that any
discrim- nation vas meant, saying he
meant to keep all crooks from stopping
off in Jersey City.
The new concrete road from Mantua
to Mullica Hill has been completed and
is open the entire way, connecting with
the state highway between Woodbury.