The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-02-20

II'A W. J1ph-F VI t4b oLciNt 'OlltSe
has been engaged as agricultural teach
er of the Pennington schools, succeed
ing Professor r. J. Potter, resigned
Miss Esther L. Hamm has resigned
as teacher of the Pennington High
School and will be succeeded by Miss
Nary E. Baird.
Gloucester city council has ordered
the Street Committee to beautify the
city square on Cumberland street,
where there are two monuments.
Thomas E Evans, a Sewel farmer,
has asked Gloucester City to pay him
1925 because one of his teams last year
turned over near the toll gate because
of the condition of the street
For the first time since it was passed
by borough council. more than ten
years ago, an ordinance requiring prop
erty owners to clean the snow from
their sidewalks is to be rigidly enforc-
ed at PaulsbOro.
Warnings have been sent out by fire
companies to residents of South Jersey
towns to use extra precautions against
fires while streets are clogged with
snow.
The construction of an additional
post Office in Trenton has been author
lied by the postmaster generals office
in Washington to relieve the great con-
gestion of mail, under which Postmas-
ter Hooper has been laboring in the
present building. The new office will
/ be located in Chambersburg and will
handle all mail for that section in adj
dition TO South Trenton and Broad
Street Park.
Joseph Greishaber, fourteen years
old, of Trenton was witiried TO his
death in belt at the plant of the Lu-
cerne Rubber Company, where he was
employed No one knows just how the
accident occurred. A workman heard
scream and, looking up, saw the boy
being carried toward the ceiling by the
belt. The lads head struck a rafter.
His neck was broken and his skull
fractured
The movement to have Glassboro,
still under township government, in
corporated as borough has reached
such a stage that it is now certain that
petition will be sent to the legislature
asking for borough charter.
A large red fox with white tipped
tail which Alfred Gray of Sickleryille
shot fortnight ago brought him in S14
from the sale of the pelt in Philadel-
phia. While nearly 20 foxes have been
shot in the neighborhood this winter,
hunters say that the red ones are be-
coming quite rare, most of those killed
being gray.
Sanford Tucker, seyenty-four years
old, left Hackensack to visit in Cuba,
n. Y, his brother John, whom he has
neither seen nor heard from in Sc
years. Both are veterans of the Civil
War and had believed each other dead
until a few days ago Sanford received
a letter from his brother telling him he
was alive and wanted TO see him. John
had traced Sanford through the Pen
sion Bureau. Two other brothers were
| killed in the Civil War
Gloucester City needs revenue to
overcome the loss of 81, 900 from fees
which were received each year from
| liquor licenses, and all kinds of bust
ness are going to be taxed The NOV
ing picture shows will be required to
pay increased fees. the rates for city
water will be increased, a mercantile
tax will be imposed on all kinds of
business, and all teams using the city
streets will pay licenses. The increas-
ed tax rate this year is due to the loss
of license fees and the increased ap-
preparation for schools.
Several sleighs appeared on the
White Horse pike and Camden county
roads the past week, attracting much
attention.
With the conclusion of argument in
the test case brought by Christian
Feigenspan, a corporation, attacking
the validity of the prohibition amend
ment and the Volstead enforcement
act, Judge Rellstab announced at
Trenton that the court will receive
brief in behalf of the Anti-Saloon
League. Request for permission to
file such brief was made at the open
ing of the argument by George A. Ho-
bart and opposed both by Elihu Root
and William D. Guthrie, counsel for
the Feigenspan company.
Palmer H. Charlock, postmaster of
Elizabeth from 1902 to 1914, died of
heart disease at his home, 633 North
Broad street, Elizabeth, aged seventy
one years For many years he was
with the brokerage firm of Harvey,
Kennedy & Co. of Elizabeth. During
several terms he served as clerk of
the New Jersey assembly, Mr.. Char
lock was a thirty-third degree Mason
and Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee of the Grand Lodge of New Jer-
sey.
The reelection of Comptroller Bug
bee was accomplished without jar
and in a few minutes He was nomi-
mated by Assemblynan Blackwell of
Mercer In a graceful tribute to his
| character as a man, his marked abili-
ties as a state official and his unsur-
passed record of three years in the Of
fee. Leader Barrett, for the Demo
Gratis. named Charles H. Gallagher, q
we'll known business man and former
state committeeman of Trenton. The
ballot was upon party lines.
The Haddonfield commissioners COM
pleted the annual budget, the amount
TO be raised by taxes. S53.305, being a
slight increase over last year.
The Gloucester City Board of Edu-
cation refused to break a rule and al
low the four children of Louis Bobo,
business man. to enter without being