The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-02-13
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

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Moving pictures are not permissible
even as a church attraction on Sunday
| in Pennsgrove If admission is charged,
according to Mayor Hunt.
Rev. Arthur Northwood, pastor Of
the Chestnut Level Presbyterian
| Church, has accepted a call to become
pastor of church at Newark.
Because of the icy roads in New Jer-
sey dealers in automobile accessories
say they have broken all previous rec
| ords in the sale of tire chains during
the last fortnight
With improvements estimated at
100000 almost completed, the capacity
of the Canister manufacturing plant at
Phillipsburg has been increased from
100000 cans day to 100000.
Railroad men about Sea Isle juno
| ton say they never experienced such
winter in their work Big gangs have
been necessary night and day to thaw
out frozen wires that operate the sig
| nails.
The Lee House, Phillipsburg, one of
Warren county, has been closed for the
| first time in more than half century.
A number of buildings at the Wood
| bury bag loading plant are being de-
| molished, and the contractors are Of
| fering the material for sale.
The Phillipsburg Board of Education
has a budget of S133,260 for the year
as compared with $74,6SO last year.
Gloucester county farmers have been
warned by the State College to look out
| for frozen seed corn, caused by the wet
| and freezing weather.
Woodbury. has house shortage not
| experienced In the memory of any one
| Fifty houses that would rent from $50
| up could obtain tenants in day.
Upper township, Cape May county
probably has the smallest budget of
any municipality in the state, the total
| being only $4,S40, and it will be neces-
sary to raise by taxation only $72647.
The frigid weather has caused loss
| Of many thousands Of dollars to the
| oyster shippers of the Maurice River
| district. The vessels remain fast in
| the ice at their wharves, and the re-
| serve stocks on the floats are complete
ly depleted Oysters in the markets
| are now coming from southern waters.
Lowell, thirteen-year-old son Of L.
w. Newkirk, president of the Pitman
| Board of Education, fell from the roof
| of a new building and broke both
wrists. He also received a bad cash
| over one eye. The lad already suffered
| fractured rib from a recent fall He
| also broke his arm few months ago.
Mrs. Esther Miller Blake of Atlantic
| City, charged with the murder of her
| five-year-old son by throwing him into
| the ocean from the Ventnor pier on De-
cember II last, was formally commit
ted to the State Hospital for the Insane
at Trenton by Judge Robert Ingersoll.
| Mrs. Blake was pronounced insane by
a commission of doctors appointed by
| the court
| Camp Merritt, the largest embarka
ton and debarkation camp operated by
the United States army, has gone out
of business. 1t had record Of caring
for an average of 100000 soldiers every
month during the busy period of the
war. The camp was established in Au-
gust, 1917, as a concentration point for
troops preparing for overseas service.
1t was located near Tenafly, about IS
miles from Hoboken, thus making 1t
ideal for embarkation and debarkation
purposes. Approximately 100000 fight
ing men passed through it.
State and municipal officials from
New Jersey urged the House Rivers
anu Harbors COMMITTEE tn recommend
funds for the construction of ship
canal across the state connecting Tren-
ton with Raritan bay. No action was
taken on the request. Under the pro-
| posal made to the committee the fed
eral government would pay the cost of
constructing the canal, estimated at
from $20,000,0O0 TO S30.000,000 and
the state would provide right of way.
The Woodbury. Board Of Education
is DESTROYS of procuring two acres ad-
| joining the High School property on
which to build a new grammar school
| and an athletic field A committee
has been appointed to look into the
proposal
Coupling up his automobile with
| grindstone to get quicker results,
Jesse Steelman, fifty-three years old,
wealthy farmer, of Sculville, ten miles
| from Atlantic City, started the engine
and began sharpening an ak. With a
crash the grindstone split, and pieces
were hurled through the sides of the
| garage. One large section struck
| Steelman in the neck, completely be-
| heading him.
Senator Arthur Whitney, chairman
of the Joint Appropriations Commit
| tee Of the Legislature, in statement
| issued at Trenton warns heads of
state departments that in the future
| there must be no lobbying with a view
| to overriding budget recommendations
| of the governor. The recent budget
message had hardly been in the hands
of the legislature when the members
of the Appropriations Committee were
besieged with supplications to have
the items recommended by the COVER
nor increased.
The haddon township budget call
ing for $17,672.5S has been adopted.
This is an increase of 81 900 over 1919.
Game Wardens Conner and Phifer,
who arrested a hunter for shooting a
doe deer, presented the venison to the
Millville and Bridgeton hospitals.
Detective work done in New York
by Sergeant Sheridan of the Summit