The Lambertville record., 1920-04-02
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS


A birthday party in the Billingsport
church yielded $3.50.
Woodbury. real estate men are still
swamped with applicants for homes in
that city.
Bids are out in Westville for mon
ument to service men, the cost not to
exceed $1,000.
Albert B. Munyan, one of the largest
property owners at National Park and
colonel with the American Rescue
Workers in Philadelphia, is dead.
Three new garages are about to be
opened in Glassboro, where there are
already five.
Well and strong, with full use of his
five senses, Michael Peterson celebrat-
ed his ninety-third birthday at the
Methodist Home for Aged and Infirm,
Collingswood.
The Citizens Memorial Committee
appointed by Riverton council finally
has agreed upon a shaft as the commu-
nifty tribute to local service men.
Charles A. Wright is chairman of
subcommittee named to present de-
signs.
After % years uninterrupted public
service in Atlantic City, u years as
postmaster and 13 years divided be-
tween the former councilmanic regime
and the present commission form of
government, Mayor Harry Bacharach
has decided to step down and out. The
mayor will not be candidate for re-
oil tA ie,e.io in,
May, he declared in a statement just
issued. This decision is final he says,
land has been made only after the
most serious consideration and consul
tuition with my friends and business
associates"
"Where Sea and Pines Meet has
been adopted by the Chamber of Com
merce as the official slogan to boost
Toms River Nearly 300 slogans were
submitted and prize offered the au-
thor of the one selected, but the Win
ming slogan was anonymously present
ed.
Another small sized blizzard checked
all hopes of farmers getting down to
business, and about the only evidence
of spring on the average farm is the
activity about the hotbeds. The frost
was well nigh all out of the ground up
to the blizzard, and some farmers
hoped to do some plowing, but the
freeze-up following snowfall of
about three inches upset all calcula-
tions.
DIR. A. A. Mutter, president of the
Kearny Board of Health. arrested be-
cause he prescribed more than a pint
of whisky to a pneumonia patient in
ten days, declared that his moral obl-
cation as a physician outweighed this
great American law''-the national
prohibition lawn his mind, and that
he still believes he was morally right
in what has been termed violation of
the law.
Jitneys are virtually banished from
Pennsgrove under the new ordinance
passed by the borough council, which
prohibits motor vehicles carrying pas
sengers for hire from operating on the
main streets The jitney men are or
ganiZed and will fight the ordinance,
which was passed at the request of
merchants and citizens, who protested
AGAINST reckless driving. Another
strong objection to the iitneys was the
complaint that they were cutting deep
iy into the patronage of the Salem and
Pennsgrove Traction Company, and To-
cal business men feared that the COM
pany might have to suspend its trolley
service.
Frank T. Elwood, who was shot and
killed in Kansas several weeks ago by
a detective who was attempting to re-
cover $1,000 worth of silver cached in
the woods, has been identified by the
bureau of criminal Identification of
Leavenworth as Frank Hart, the noto
rious Bergen county burglar.
The debating team of the Clayton
High School will debate with Woods
grafton.
Moorestown residents have petition
ed the Pennsylvania railroad to have
the evening train to Philadelphia ar
rive in time for theater.
The annual banquet of the Glouces-
ter County Firemens Association was
held in Woodbury. at Paul's hotel. The
speakers were State Treasurer Will
liam I. Read of Camden, Senator
Sturgess and Assemblyman FODDER,
John Senf, president # the Camden
County Association, and Charles Salin
of the Delaware County Association.
Taking cognizance of reports pub
lished and verbally circulated of the
proceedings of the grand jury now
probing alleged gambling and munich
pal graft at Atlantic City. County
Judge Ingersoll informed the jurors
fhat they must hereafter more strictly
comply with their oaths of secrecy re-
garding their deliberations.
Camden county has been big gain
er since official fee system was abolish
ed, the treasury having been enriched
$4,000 by the Office of County Clerk
Patterson alone The yearly financial
report submitted to the Board of Free
holders also showed that the clerks
office has been conducted at profit of
S6,356.6S the past year.
Officials of the West Jersey and Sea-
shore railroad announce that the pack
age service will be extended to Mill
Vile
Palmer Campbell of Hoboken, vehic-
ular tunnel commissioner, and j. p.
Snow, one of the assistant engineers to
the commission, discussed the Hudson
river tubes for vehicles at meeting