The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-03-19
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

The Wildwood city commissioners
have informed the Consolidated Fish
cries Company, which is erecting a
menhaden plant on Richardson's chan
mel, that if it proves obnoxious the
city will ask the courts to restrain its
operation.
The old Stiles homestead at Maple
Shade has been sold and will be RACED
for site for a hosiery mill.
A castle of the Knights of the Gold
en- Eagle has been organized at River
side, with George Boz chan as presi-
dent.
The Visiting Nurse Association has
purchased a $4,000 dwelling at Broad
and Lincoln avenue, Palmyra, as a
home for the visiting nurse and her
assistants.
The congregation of the First Pres
byterian Church, Ocean City, has
raised the salary of the pastor, Rev.
DR.. r. S. Snyder, from $1,000 to $1,000
year.
For injuries sustained in a trolley
collision Rabbi Jacob Mickenman of
Camden was awarded $3.50 in his suit
against the Public Service Railway
Company in Camden. 1t was asserted
the rabbits injuries prevented him
from filling an engagement to preside
over Jewish holiday services.
Led by influential citizens, with
Judge Edward G.. Waddington as the
spokesman, the delegation that went
to Washington to urge charter for
new national bank at Woodstown has
learned that the application has been
granted. The fight has been waged
for more than ten years, and on two
or three occasions a charter seemed
almost certain only to be upset by the
strong opposition put up by friends of
the present bank.
The will of the late William V. S.
Thorne, filed at Morristown, makes
bequests of $4,000 to Yale University
and the Presbyterian Hospital, New
York. Other New York organizations
named are the Society for the Relief
of the Half Orphan and Destitute
Children, $4,000, and the Madison Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church, $4,000. A
local hospital and the Y. NJ. G. A. get
S25,O 900 and $4,000. Mrs. Therese X.
Thorne, the widow, receives $4,000
and life interest in the Thorne home
at Morristown The residue of the
estate is divided into three parts, one
each going to the two children, S.
Keyser and Therese Thorne. The
hi,,I TO hn widow for lifo and
reverts to the children on her death.
Death has taken six grandchildren
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parker of
Buddtown, near Vincentown, during
the last month, and during the same
period Mrs. Parker's mother, Mrs. Sa-
rah Bozarth, died. One daughter lost
three little girls and another two,
while son lost an infant daughter.
Influenza and pneumonia were the
contributing causes in all seven deaths
No quarter will Je given opponents
of the proposed new borough charter
for Glassboro, according to the deci-
sion of the boomers, who expect the
bill to incorporate to pass the legisla-
ture and be signed by Governor Ed
wards Charter boomers have handed
down the ultimatum that they will not
support any one for the municipal of
ces who has opposed the move
With promise of an early thaw to
improve tracking conditions farmers
and sportsmen in the vicinity of Med
| ford are planning a series of big fox
| hunts.
Charging that George Vogel, Dem
when he was dismissed as superintend.
| ent of the sewage disposal plant al
| Pennington, the. State Sewage Works
Association has asked the state de-
| partment of health to make an inves-
| tigation of the case. Vogel, it is al
| legged, was relieved of his duties for NO
other reason than that his politics
were Objectionable, and Theodore Bel
| lis, a Republican, although not a IL
censed operator, was named to succeed
| him.
The highway between Riverside and
Bridgeboro is torn almost to pieces by
the concentrated wear and weather ac-
ton. The Burlington-Ca pike is
| in equally bad shape. The River road,
reconstructed late last fall from River
| ton to Beverly as the foundation for a
semi-permanent road may have to be
| again rebuilt in certain sections and
| probably regarded its entire length.
| Drivers say that the stretches of con-
crete and sheet asphalt road show no
additional M nthnr had nffaats
While Judge Richard Doherty sat in
his chambers in the Hudson county
court, Jersey City, waiting for a jury
to render a verdict in a murder trial
the stork paid visit to the Doherty
home, leaving boy and girl 1t was
the fifth time in ten years that Judge
Doaerty had become the father of
twins, six girls and two boys. On re-
ceiving the news the jurist fastened
to his home, leaving Peter ]. Sullivan,
the court clerk, to await the verdict,
which proved to be disagreement.
The Merchantville Woman's Club
has voted to raise funds for a scholar
ship in the New Jersey College for
Women to the pupil in the Collins
Tract School who makes the best term
average.
A community building with perma-
nent headquarters for Captain James
MacFarland Post, American Legion,
will be Burlington's memorial to war
heroes, the committee having reached
| this decision and planned to at once
procure a site from funds in hand. The