The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-30

| Wells SlNlHS SuUltlell wafer.
On completion of the new school of
Maple Shade the Betterment League
will plant a community tree and avoid
the expense Of procuring one at Christ
mas each year.
The modern school building at Mon
rOeville, built to replace the old struc-
ture destroyed by fire last year, is
| about completed and will be opened on
February 2
Salem county has advertised for bids
for the construction of a concrete road
from the canal bridge to Churchtown,
in Lower PENIS Neck township, the
work to be started in the early spring.
The Millville City Commission APP
proved the Sinking Fund Commission
purchasing $4,000 worth of third Lib
| erty loan bonds.
The Maple Shade Fire Company re-
ceived the handsome colors Of the
State Militia Reserves from it's officers
at its monthly meeting.
Few of the gravel roads of South
Jersey are passable for motor traffic.
The long stretches of smooth, hard
surface which delight the motorist dur
ing the greater part of the year are
now a series of Deep frozen ruts, i'm
periling the vehicle and its riders who
dare make the attempt to traverse
them.
Denial of charges that the undertake
ers of this country, from pecuniary
motives, were behind the movement to
have Americas soldier dead returned
/ from France was made by John F. Mar
tin of Elizabeth, president of the Ma
tiOnal Funeral Directors Association.
Farmers of those sections of Burling-
ton and Camden counties infested with
the japanese beetle and against which
the Federal Board of Agriculture is
proposing to place an embargo to pre-
vent shipping any fruit or vegetables,
are preparing a strong protest to the
proposed action, which, they claim.
means financial ruin to many farmers.
Prospects of an ice famine next sum
mer seem quite remote this January,
with thousands of tons of fine ice piled
up along the shores of the Delaware
river and still more available for har-
vesting ON the fresh water tributaries
and the inland lakes and ponds. There
Is lack of facilities for storing the
natural ice, however Comparatively
small quantities of ice have so far been
harvested, and most of this has been in
the rural districts.
While thawing out frozen switch at
Winslow Joseph Doneo, aged twenty
eight, veteran of the world war was
instantly killed by one of the Readings
Atlantic City f1iers The body was seen
by onlookers to bound into the air, fall
upon the tracks in front of the engine,
mangled beyond recognition. No faml-
ly survives.
Rev. George H. Humanson, repre-
senting the citizens of MoorestOwn, has
addressed a letter to President McCar-
ter of the Public Service Railway Com
pany asking that trolley cars run the
entire length of the town instead of
stopping at Chester avenue and COM
polling passengers for the eastern sec
ton to pay another fare on the cars of
the Burlington County Transit Com
pany, which maintains an hourly serv-
| ice.
| His skull fractured and many bones
broken in an automobile crash near
Nays Landing, John Farmer, an en-
ployee of the government plant at Bel
coville, died in the City Hospital at At
lantic City. William Hubley was driv-
ing and claims that he was forced into
telegraph pole to avoid collision with
another machine running at high
speed. Captain Mcclure, in charge of
the Belcoville plant, is making an in
vestigation.
For more than a week the fleet of
oyster boats at Bivalve and Maurice
river have been fast in the ice.
Many traps set for muskrats along
Cooper creek by Westmont boys have
been stolen in the past two weeks.
Mrs. Albert H Dell has been re-elect-
ed president of the Woodbury. Visiting
Nurse Association; Mrs. Joseph j.
Summerill, vice president; Miss Eliza
beth Saunders, secretary, and Mrs.
Warner Cooper, treasurer.
The Collingswood Parent-Teachers'
Association Endorsed a letter to the
Board of Education asking that all
teachers salaries be increased TO the
minimum of $1,000. There are -
teachers getting less than that amount
Louis Steinbricker, member of the
Atlantic City Board of Education, has
been selected by the city commission
ers as successor on that body to DI.
Underwood Cochran, who died a few
weeks ago.
Mrs. Robert \. Irving of Haddon-
field, Camden county chairman of the
Woman Suffrage League, will assist
state suffrage leaders in organizing ed
ucational classes among women to
teach them citizenship.
George Pomeroy of SwedesborO
caught four muskrats, the hides of
which brought him 81 each and tie
carcass a half dollar.
Rev. William C. Phillips of Frank
ford and Fred Hatton of Wissinoming
have been assisting at union revival
meetings in Locktown
The Phillipsburg Board of Education
has granted a general increase of pay
to the superintendent, teachers and
janitors.
Boys of the Swedesboro 7. NJ. c. A.
are planning for their second annual
minstrel show.
All the ice houses around Swedes-
boro are about filled with ice from 9 to
u inches thick.
Rev r Harrison Decker of NIiIIyilIe