The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-12-10

| ing supper.
A large addition is being erected TO
the buildings of the South Jersey
Farmers Exchange at Woodstown.
Coal is so scarce in Salem county
that the citizens of Alloway are cart
ing it u miles from Pennsville.
Many acres of potatoes were nipped
by the frost, and the Salem county
farmers will be heavy losers.
Fifty building lots in Williamstown
have been sold recently, and many of
the new owners will erect houses.
Banks in Camden and Gloucester
which operated Christmas clubs are
preparing to make payments within a
few days so that the members can do
their Christmas shopping early.
The Gloucester and Woodbury. Turn
pike Company has been making i'm
provements to its turnpike from the
Gloucester tollgate TO Brook'awn. The
state expects TO take over the turnpike
next year.
Unable to find any financial institu-
lions to bid upon per cent bonds,
borough officials at Glassboro have de-
cided to offer the bonds lover the
counter" to individual investors. The
issue is for purchase of a site for
community house.
Judge Davis at Woodbury. dismissed
the appeal of the heirs of the late
Esther e. Cowgirl of Paulsboro, who
had contested the will, which devised
the bulk of her $4,000 estate to Rev.
Dr. Alexander Corson, former pastor
tendent. The case has occupied the at
tention of the court many days.
Attorneys representing creditors,
principally Japanese raw silk houses,
filed at Newark an Involuntary petition
in bankruptcy against the Berlet Silk
Yarn Company of Paterson, with an
office in New York The liabilities are
said to be 100000 and the assets $780,
GEO. The company is one of the largest
silk concerns in Paterson. Federal
Judge Lynch appointed Nicholas
Hughes of Paterson receiver for the
company.
Governor Edwards granted Stephen
Carrigan a second reprieve, which will
permit his death sentence for the MUIR
der of Florence Hicks in Essex county
to be reviewed by the Court of Par
dons in December. He had been SEN
fenced to die the week of December 7.
1t is the understanding in Trenton that
Judge Osborne and Prosecutor HART
son of Essex have asked that the death
sentence be committed.
Milk dropped . cents a quart when
the price TO consumers was made 10
instead of 10 cents Pints will be re-
tailed at s cents. The Interstate Pro-
ducers' Associat ton, which met in Phil
adelphia, decided on the decrease.
The contract for making extensive
improvements to the detention house
of the Bureau of immigration at Glou-
cester City, which will cost about $75,-
600, has been awarded to a New York
firm.
The death of Mrs. Cooper H. Prickett,
wife of Cooper H. Prickett, grand mas
ter of the New Jersey lodge of Masons,
occurred at the home of her husband in
Burlington. The deceased has not
been in the best of health for some
years-in fact, since their son Joseph,
young man, passed away five years
ago.
Superintendent Frank A. MacOmber
of the Colony for Predetermined Males
at Four Mile, Burlington county, is
hopeful of getting a band organized
among his charges Some of the in
mates are now able to play instru-
ments, and others show musical abili-
ty, and all he needs is an experienced
teacher.
A number of cases of diphtheria are
reported in Paulsboro.
Storekeepers estimate that fewer
than 100 turkeys We're sold in Glouces-
ter City for Thanksgiving day.
The old grist mill at Turnersville.
idle for long time, will be operated
again this winter.
Members of the Masonic fraternity
have organized a social club at Pauls-
boro. Headquarters will be obtained.
AT a recent sale of household goods
of the late Lorenzo Robbins, at Divid-
ing Creek, 5000 in gold was found in a
coffee pot.
The new house of Hope Fire Com
pany, at National Park, is nearing
completion and will be dedicated
about the middle of December.
The Woman's Auxiliary of Malvern
Nabb Post, American Legion, Millyille,
had its first community sing IN the new
rooms of the post.
With Colonel ANTHONY r. Kusers
large and splendidly kept preserve at
High Point and the New Jersey state
game reservation and 10000 acre for
est preserve in the northern part of
the state, the addition of the MacDOn-
ald-Farrington lsreserve and the efforts
they propose to eXpend upon it will
give further certainty of a plentiful
supply of game in upper New Jersey
in the years to come.
a petition will be presented TO
Borough Council, National Park, at its
next meeting urging a tax of 81 per
hive he placed on bee owners in the
borough. Bee-hives have become so
numerous that some residents claim
the bees are becoming a nuisance.
Most of the borough officials have
hives and many of the leading resi-
dents, and it is doubtful if the petition
will he granted
At the school election in Almones-
son voters defeated the proposition of
borrowing $1,000 for the purchase of
two auto buses for the TRANSFORMATION