The Lambertville record., 1920-04-02

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William Humphreys, aged eighty
years, who had driven stage between
Swedesboro and Auburn for 40 years.
is dead
Mrs. Mary Madden, Millville's Oldest
resident, celebrated her ninety-seVen'h
birthday with family reunion. Mrs.
Madden has not missed meeting OIL
the Malaga camp since its orgahlza-
ton, more than so years ago.
Mrs. NJ. Virginia Gaskill of Vineland
talked about dying ever since her son.
Jack, was gassed and killed by the
Germans during the war Mrs. Gasklil
went to bed as well as usual and died
about midnight from heart failure. she
was fifty-two years old and leaves
young daughter and son.
The disappearance of sixteen-year-
old Peggy Austin from her home IN
Toms River a few days ago was clear
ed up by the arrest in New York OF
Charles Breslaw, nurse, thirty-two
years old, charged with her abduction.
The girl was taken to the station mousse
with Breslaw and there collapsed. Her
parents were notified and went at once
to New York to get her.
The Gloucester County Health Asso-
citation has been formed, with head
quarters in Woodbury., with members
from all parts of the county. work IS
to be started at once to stamp out
tuberculosis in cooperation with the
state organization. These officers nave
been elected: President, Mrs. &. w.
Cresse; vice presidents, DR.. j. Harris
Underwood and Mrs. Milton J. Ebert;
treasurer, D. w. Davis; secretaries,
Mrs Richard Kincaid and Mrs Will
liam Lacey.
Because their fathers left all to their
stepmothers two Ocean county men
have started contests of the wills and
have filed caveats in the orphans
court, Toms River. When George A.
Betty died recently he left his entire
estate to his widow by a second mar
riage. His son, Theodore, will fight for
share of the big estate. Charles A.
Seymour, Sr., having left his entire
estate to his second wife and made her
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first wife, will contest the will.
Prominent officials and citizens are
stirred up over charges made in open
court before Magistrate Roehrig that a
dozen gambling houses are in full oper-
alton in Riverside and that the alleg-
ed proprietors enjoy immunity from in
reference because of political pull"
Citizens propose to ask the grand jury
to investigate the charges.
Representatives of business and COM
mercial interests have organized the
Palmyra Business Mems Association.
George n. Winner has been elected
president, and the other officers are:
Treasurer, John H. Etris; secretary,
Frank Chambers.
The 10 parent-teacher associations
in the Lands township school district
met at Vineland and formed a united
society, principally to boom the Child
Welfare League. Mrs. ]. l.. Kee was
chosen president Harry Gillespie and
Mrs. Joseph Unsworth, vice presi
dents: Mrs. J. A. Vanaman, secretary,
and Miss Harriet Doughty, treasurer
Politicians are hustling at Glassboro
to line up votes for the first election
under the new borough charter, which
will be held Tuesday, March 30, when
full set of officers, from mayor down,
will be chosen. Two rival tickets are
in the field, one headed by DIR. f. NJ.
Duffield, a former captain in the Army
Medical Corps in France, and backed
by the original borough boomers, and
the other by former Sheriff Robert
Meade, chairman of the Township
Committee which is to be abolished
under the borough government.
Extensive preparations are being
made by Allen 1. Morgan Post, Ameri-
can Legion, of Westmont to entertain
the Fire hall on the night of March &c
At the annual election of members
of the Board of Burlington Island Man
ayers Harold T. Blinn and Joseph H.
Johnson We're reelected commission
ers and David V. Holmes treasurer
DR. Harlan S. Miner, chairman Of
the Near East campaign in Gloucester
City, reports subscriptions still in
creasng and the city will oversub-
scribe its quota.
The Burlington County Democratic
Committee has indorsed Prosecutor
Jonathan Fl. Kelsey for reappointment,
but is unable to agree on candidate
for the County Tax Board.
Two short sections of concrete paw
ing to be laid in Woodstown and Ell
mer will cost total of 500, ,11765, the
lowest of four bidders being the Sam
uel Campbell Company of Bridgeton.
The grove section at Ptman has had
to be cut out Of the free mail delivery
service until the postal department
provides an additional carrier.
The committee of the Westmont Fire
Company appointed to install siren
alarm have ordered a $3.50 apparatus,
to be delivered within three weeks.
Quickly found guilty of murder in
the first degree in the Camden court,
Michael kostynski, thirty-six years
old, was Immediately sentenced by
Justice SWayZe to die in the electric
chair in the state prison during the
week of April IS. Kostynski shot and
killed Mary Kozabul, his boarding
house mistress, in her home, 1915 Nor
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