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

the theme of a debate between the
students of the Millville and Vineland
high schools on March 10 at Vineland.
a strong Y. NJ. c. A. has been organ
lied at Delanco.
The Merchantville Field Club has is
sued bonds for the purchase of the fine
stone stable formerly the property of
the late John ]. Burleigh. 1t will be
moved to the grounds and remodeled
for a clubhouse.
The Haddon township Board of Ed
ucation has granted the teachers and
janitors bonus of So a month for the
balance of the school year.
The railroad company has placed
''long arm to one of the safety gates
on Cooper street, Woodbury., to halt
early morning commuters who make
wild dash for trains at times.
Because majority of the voters of
Lower PENIS Neck township could
not agree upon a site for the proposed
new school building at Pennsville the
project has been temporarily side
tracked.
Five teams of the Pleasantville
Chamber of Commerce will canvass
the merchants to raise the balance of
$7O0 needed to buy a plot for a new
silk factory.
There are snow banks frozen solid
two feet high on some of the streets in
Gloucester City.
On a charge of driving lame horse
Antoine Kolinski, sixty-four years old,
of Palmyra consented to have the
horse killed and was discharged when
in Camden. Agent Bodine of the
Anti-Cruelty Society made the charge.
Organization of the Mercer county
branch OF the Hiram w. Johnson
League of New Jersey has been COM
pleted, and headquarters will be
opened In Trenton. Walter Firth, Jr.,
member of the local committee, has
announced that he is candidate for
| district delegate to the Republican
convention in Chicago and that he is
irrevocably "wet"
The price of soft drinks is now to
be increased in Camden county towns
and other south Jersey places. The
| West Jersey Bottiers' Association an
nounced that new rates would go into
| effect, and retail dealers will increase
| their prices accordingly.
The annual report of Chief Barnett
| of the Atlantic City fire department
| shows that fire insurance companies
| last year collected in premiums ap-
| proXimately as much as has been paid
| for fire losses in the past 10 years
The amount paid in premiums for
1919 was ,$665,000 while the total fire
losses from April 4, 1904, to December
81, 1919, were $750,750
| After waiting nearly four months,
the West Jersey and Seashore Rail-
| road is having automatic danger bells
| and lights installed at the Swedesboro
pike grade crossing, over the tracks of
the Salem branch, north of Clarks-
boro, where IA persons were killed on
the night of October 81 and u others
badly injured, four Of whom died.
Delanco paid a tribute to its war
heroes by unwilling a bronze memo
rial tablet bearing the names of the
service men. The affair followed a
reception at the town hall, where
| Judge Harold B. Wells delivered the
address. Service men were guests Of
honor at a banquet in the social par
lors of the Presbyterian Church.
Township Committeeman ]. H. Maui
was POSTMASTER.
More than 400 students were served
with meals by the domestic science de-
| partment of the Pedricktown public
schools the past month.
Gloucester post, American Legion, is
trying to obtain the names of every
one of the 406 local boys who served
in the recent war.
Federal prohibition agents studying
situation in New Jersey, where the low
! er house of the legislature passed bill
legalizing the sale of 31a per cent beer.
A flood is feared at Caldwell and
other towns along the upper valley of
the Passaic river if thaw period of
several days should occur.
| Women may be given a chance to
| try their hand at sweeping the streets
at Atlantic City if members of the
| Building and Common Labor union,
which comprises city street cleaners.
insist upon their demand for an in
crease from $3.50 TO So a day. The
city has made it's street cleaning APP
preparation for the year on the $3.50
a day basis, and officials believe they
can find plenty of women to massage"
hard paved streets if the men throw
up their jobs.
When she awoke Mrs. Frank Stage
of Bloomingdale found her ten-day-old
baby dead in her arms. Her physician,
DIR. Thomas B. Miller, said Mrs. Stage
probably held the infant too close to
her breast while she slept and it had
| died of suffocation. DIR. Miller added
| that two years ago another infant of
| Mrs. Stages of the same age was ac-
cidentally suffocated while it slept with
| its mother He said that when Mrs.
Stagg awoke the baby had been dead
several hours. Mrs Stage was so dis
| tracted she has been continually under
| the care of physician.
Because of a long-standing dispute
| over a bill between G. E. Smith and G,
| p. Keighley, prominent business men
of Vineland, II other business men SAT
| as an arbitration board. The verdict
was sealed, not to be opened until the
| IA partake of a supper.
The amusement pier in Wildwood