The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-03-26
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS
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March 1, have been advised that the
proceedings were illegal and that or
! ganization must be held April l.
The annual dinner of the Cumber
land County Board of Agriculture has
been postponed until March % The
| principal speaker will be f. J. Cattell
of Philadelphia.
The Junior Choir, which renders
music Sunday evenings, is one of the
strong features of the service in the
| Franklinville NJ. L. Church.
AS soon as the weather will permit
work will be started ON the iron foun-
dry in East Millville, to be the largest
of it's kind in South Jersey.
Through its own efforts the Tatem-
Shields Post, American Legion, Col
lingswood, has acquired permanent
headquarters at 81 Haddon avenue.
Miss Bessie Larkin of Collingswood
opened two weeks evangelistic cam
paign in the Second NJ. Z. Church,
Millville.
Master builders of Burlington coun-
ty at meeting in Riverside, announc-
eu lllt wage SCGtlC lOl jun ihNAi NtfA
penters for the year beginning May 1
at so cents an hour, with the privilege
of working nine hours a day.
The Cape May County Board of
Freeholders has instructed the county
engineer to prepare plans and specift-
cations for cement base roadway on
| Central avenue between Thirty-fourth
and Fifty-fifth streets, Ocean City.
A deputation team from the Univer-
| sity of Pennsylvania will be in Pitman
on March % to wind up a series of spe-
| cial evangelistic services in the Bap-
fist Church.
Gold rings, suitably engraved, for
all local service men have been rec
commended to the Riverton council by
the Community Memorial Committee
recently appointed.
Firemen of Clayton expect to have
their two new pieces of motor appa-
ratus by spring or early summer, the
order having been sent in by the Dor
| ough council.
Mrs. Mary Madden, Millville's old
est resident, will celebrate her ninety
seventh birthday next Sunday, and
many guests will attend.
Two hundred persons were driven
| from their homes in New Brunswick
| as the result of the Raritan river over
| flowing its banks. The lower business
section of the city was flooded when
| the water reached five feet above nor
hop IF faDtnrins
closed down because of flooded boiler
rooms. The damage reached tens of
thousands of dollars.
Action of the Republican conference,
made up of members of the State Com
mittee and county chairmen, in Tren-
ton in virtually approving the candi-
| dacies of United States Senators Edge
| and Frelinghuysen for two of the four
New Jersey delegates-at-large to the
| Chicago national convention caused a
furry in political circles.
The New Jersey Public Utilities
Commission in Trenton sent a commu-
nication to the Interstate Commerce
Commission in Washington requesting
a public hearing to determine the rea-
sonableness of the proposed fare in
creaSes from this state to New York
city by the Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad Company, to take effect
April t.
Notwithstanding there was about %
inches of frost in the ground, Mrs.
Caesar Weisbrod has a snowdrop in
bloom in her garden in Westmont.
The Salem County Cow Testing As
ISOLATION has grown TO such proper
tons that an effort will be made to
start a branch.
Work of completing the turnpike be-
tween Maple Shade and Moorestown is
to be resumed as soon as the frost is
out of the ground
PittstoWn farmers have organized a
dairymenS league, with Brevoort Como
yer president and Clifford Snyder sec
rotary and treasurer
The Melville Board of Education ap-
pointed Homer Boertner of Tamaqua,
Pa, member of the high school fac
ulty.
Joseph Gerace, charged with assist
ing his son to escape from the Salem
county road camp, is under $500 bail
for court.
Mr. and Mrs. A. r. Opido, an elderly
couple. were found dead in their home,
1872 South Chalfonte avenue, Atlantic
City. the rooms filled with gas. Opido
lay in bed and his Wife on a couch near
by. The authorities became convinced
after an investigation that the deaths
were accidental
Bishop Thomas J. Walsh Of the do
cese of Trenton, announced the ap-
pointment of Rev DIR. William J Fitz-
gerald. for the past five years rector
| of st. Pau's Church, Princeton. as fr-
removable rector of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception, Camden In
connection with the appointment Bish-
| op Walsh announced that the title of
dean has been conferred upon Dr.
Fitzgerald, succeeding the late Right
Rev. Mgr Michael Mulligan.
Jacob Steinburg and wife of Glass
boro, under suspicion for some time
Of keeping a "blind tiger" We're ar
rested and placed under $500 bail. Of
fcers made a raid and found nine
quarts of whisky, a quantity of Jamai-
ca ginger and several bottles of wine.
Pyne Poynt Park, Camden, is to be
placed in splendid condition with funds
TO be derived from a bond issue for
100000. The city owns 20 acres of
ground there and has recently acquired
five additional acres of riparian rights