The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-23
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

purchase memorial building instead
of erecting a shaft
Cooper H. Prickett, for several years
a member of the Burlington City
Board of Education and its president,
resigned Increase of business duties
had made his withdrawal, he explain
ed, necessary.
The Home and School Association or
Bordentown, which is waging CAM
paign for site for the proposed new
High School, has interested number
of lodges. To further the campaign
the association held mass meeting in
city hail.
Baptists at Woodstown have increas-
ed the salary of their pastor, Rev. q.
III. Thompson, from $1,000 to S1,2oo a
year.
For being struck in the mouth with
q bar of iron, which knocked out four
real teeth and broke two false ones,
Henry Cooper, Washington work
man, was allowed compensation of $12
a week for 16 weeks, S2S to replace the
teeth and S12 for surgical treatment.
The Millville Womans Club went on
record as favoring the ratification of
the national suffrage amendment with
out state referendum.
]. Frank Cutter, a wholesale liquor
dealer, has appealed to Burlington
common council for the return of $500
of his 1919 license fee.
The Millville City Commission has
roa 70 ha 20 n pnard of
Conservation and Development an
amendment to the present law increas-
ing the rate of wages for forest fire
wardens from 40 cents to 60 cents an
hour and helpers from 20 cents to 40
cents an hour.
The 1920 budget of the Warren
County Board of Freehoders calls for
two new roads between Oxford and
Buttzville and between Hope and
Blairstown.
The Judson Tractor Company of
California, with offices in New York.
has purchased the plant of the Stand
ard Process Steel Corporation at Phil
lipsburg.
Mayor Edgar S. Waters of National
Park has bought the business of a To-
,,al dairyman and now has routes in his
home town, Westville and Noreg.
Organizers of the Interstate Milk
Producers Association have formed a
temporary organization at New Egypt.
Because of scarcity of coal at the
Evan Church the weekly prayer meet
ings are being held at the homes of
members
So many additional families have re-
Gently located on the Seabrooks farm,
was opened, with Mrs. Pearl 3. Daw-
son teacher.
PaulsbOro sewer contractors have
struck quicksand and water in the se"-
ton bordering on the river, and it Will
be spring before the work can be COM
pleted
The National Park Board of Educa-
ton has instructed an architect to pre-
pare specifications for an addition of
two rooms to the schoolhouse, making
q six-room building. The cost is not
to exceed $4,000.
Seven applicants took the civil serv-
Ice examinations for carriers on free
delivery routes which the post Office
department will establish at Pitman on
March l. Two carriers and a substi-
tute VIII be appointed.
Audubon business men are organic
ton.
Francis ", son of DIR. F. Vernon
Ware of Millville, has passed an eX-
animation and will enter a navy radio
school,
Two women, alleged Communists,
were arrested by federal agents at
Passaic and taken to Ellis Island to
await deportation proceedings. Four
children accompanied them. The pris-
oners were Mrs. Daniel Artychuk of
Wellington, whose husband was arrest
ed in last weeks raids, and Miss Ber-
tina Wilds.
An omnibus corporation which has
obtained options on all motor bus lines
in Middlesex county and which plans
to build up motor traction company
as a rival to the Public Service Com
pany's trolley monopoly was organized
at New Brunswick. DIR. A. L. Allen of
New York is the president of the con-
Germ, which is known as the Middlesex
omnibus. 1t is claimed that half the
100000 stock has already been sub
scribed.
State Commissioner of Labor Colo
mel Lewis T. Bryant is speeding up
plans to have the state diagnostic in
dustral surgical clinic at Newark
ready within few weeks. The indus
trial clinic will occupy the entire third
floor of what has been known as the
Federal Municipal Employment Blu
reau. A temporary clinic has been in
operation on the second floor of that
building for the last two months, I'M
der the direction of DIR. John NJ. Bas-
sin. Although the temporary clinic
was only open on Mondays, during the
short time it has been in operation 156
injured workmen's cases have been
disposed of
Nenturing out on the river ice, Pa
trolman Wallace of Burlington retriev-
ed IL suit case, which many persons had
imagined indicated tragedy, only to
find it filled with rags and stones.
a resolution calling for the resigna-
ton of the members of the Excise
Commission of Burlington, presented
at the organization meeting of the
council by Councilman Joseph Brotz, a
former saloon keeper, attracted much
attention in local political circles. The
resolution, which was referred to the
city solicitor for his legal opinion, is