The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-02
Hunterdon County and Nearby

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The annual meeting of the Lebanon
vile Vigilant Society will be held in
Odd Fellows Hall at Lebanon on JAN
uary 3rd.
DR.. Isadore hopkins, of Califon,
was seriously injured last Friday
near Naughright, when his car backed
down a little hill and rolled over
twice, bruising and scratching the
doctor He crawled from under the
car, which was badly broken, and
soon got help from nearby.
Stephen Torop, a Lehigh Valley
Railroad section hand, was instantly
killed by an express train near Flem-
ington junction last Wednesday morn
ing He was working on the tracks
with the section gang when the ex-
press passed. 1t is not known just
how the accident happened, but it is
supposed he failed to get out of the
way in time and was struck.
The West Portal prison camp was
closed on Monday for the rest of the
winter, and all the prisoners We're
transferred to Trenton and placed in
the state prison. They were taken
away in auto vans and accompanied
by four automobiles filled with armed
guards. The water pipes had frozen
throughout the barracks, and it was
found impossible to heat the buildings
properly. All state road work being
zone Iii Hunterdon county by the con-
victs is abandoned till spring.
The congregation tof the Mount
Pleasant Presbyterian Church last
week received the munificent gift of
$500 from Miss Keziah Henarie, of
Trenton, which proved complete
surprise as most agreeable Christ
mas gift to the church.
John j. Shoemaker, aged twenty
nine years, was killed at four O'Clock
Monday afternoon, while at work at
the plant of the Warren Manufactur-
ing Company, at Finesville. He was
employed as a paper maker and in
some manner unknown to his fellow
workmen was caught in the heavy
betting machinery and hurled to his
death. The unfortunate workman
was married only one month ago.
Miss jeanette Crater, principal of
the Annandale public school, formerly
of this place, injured her back and
spine by falling upon the icy concrete
walk. There was no school in her de-
partment for couple of days last
week. Further trouble was added to
the school when the heating appara-
tus froze and burst.
The Post Office Department has no.
titled the Tewksbury township COM
mittee to repair roads on the route
through Cokesbury and Mountainville
under penalty of disseminating rural
mail service over that route.
"My husband used to make up vile
songs and sing them for the benefit of
the neighbors," is what Mrs. Marie
Hermann, formerly of Whitehouse,
told Vice Chancellor Griffin, in Jersey
City, was her reason for busting" the
piano, when she was testifying in her
own behalf at the hearing of the di-
vorce suit brought against her by
Anton ]. Hermann.
With terrific explosion that could
be heard all over town, a Baker heat
err in passenger coach on the South
Branch Railroad blew up last Wednes-
day morning at the Somerville depot
while the train was being made up
The heater went through the roof OF
the car and the conclusion wrecked
the windows of six or eight passenger
coaches standing in the yards at the
time and scattered the debris all over
that neighborhood.
The Clinton Democrat saws: "The
list of "a income tax payers posted
in the post office this week looks
small beside the list of automobile
owners in Clinton, which leads the
mind to one of two questions: "Hov
do they do it," or "Why don't they
pay their income tax?"
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