The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-02-20
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

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II in 1917.
Total casualties in the world war for
New Jersey were i0,166, with III Off
GERS and 2,214 men dead.
Mrs Margaret Hague, mother of
Mayor Hague of Jersey City, died at
her home, 15S Coles street, Jersey City
She was eighty years old and had been
i'll two years.
The employees Of the Gloucester City
water works and the paid drivers of
the fire department have filed requests
for an increase of $40 a month in
wages.
Thieves took % chickens and two
pigs from the farm of n. X. Davidson,
| on the edge of Morristown, and he has
offered reward for the arrest of the
| thieves, who came during the night in
| a wagon.
Upon a charge of assault and battery
preferred by his wife, who had recently
returned from a hospital after a Sc
rious operation, Stanley Mclean of
| Paulsboro was committed by Magis-
| trate Vanneman in default of $500 bail.
The Williamstown Board of Educa-
| ton has made up its budget. to be vot-
ed on at the school meeting on Feb
ruary "a, calling for $4,000, more than
double that of last year.
Sixteen automobiles carrying work
men on their way from Paulsboro to
| the powder works at Gibbstown were
| fast at one time in large snowdrifts.
Workmen were sent from the plant to
dig them out
Ice is piled several feet above the
public wharf at Billingsport, and oldest
residents say that it is the first time
for many years.
Pupils of the Pleasantville school
who reside outside the district will be
required to pay tuition fee of $25
| this year.
Americanization of the Hungarians
of Trenton on an extensive scale will
be greatly facilitated by the erection
of the new $4,000 Magyar Home, Hud-
| son and Genesee streets. The work of
construction is progressing rapidly not
withstanding the severe winter, and
| the contract calls for finished build
ing by July 1, when the Hungarians of
the city will have elaborate exercises
in connection with the formal opening
| of the house. The cornerstone laying
| occurred several weeks ago
Twenty-Five saloon keepers of Tren-
| ton have surrendered their licenses to
the city owing to prohibition, and to-
| tai refund of S5,SS4.14 in fees has been
made to them. Twelve other applica-
tons for refund of fees are pending.
Anthony Laricks, a jeweler of Vine
| land, went to bed in his usual good
health and at midnight aroused his
wife with a moan, dying before ply
stefan could be summoned. He was
forty-eight years old.
Prosecutor Kelsey has been advised
| by Justice Kalisch that he will be in
| Mount Holly during the week begin
ming February % to conduct the trials
| of William s. Simmons for the murder
| of John Smanenotto at Camp Dix and
| Thomas X. Gilmore, William L. Mar
tin and Colbert Fontaine for the muir
der of John Warmwood, jitneur, near
| NTeOGStlOND. 1nt lIIdIS VIII Dt IHEI {
formalities in compliance with the law,
as all have made confessions. Gilmore
was advised by telegram that his moth
er had dropped dead at her home in
Brooklyn upon hearing definitely of his
| fate
| As several serious accidents have
been narrowly averted as a result of
drivers allowing boys to hitch their
sleds to automobiles, the PaulsbOro au-
thorities have taken steps to stop the
| practice.
Permanent organization of the Glass
deferred until the committee on by
laws completes its work.
The Millville Board of Education re-
| organized with Mark Branin president,
| W. Scott Wheaton, vice president, and
Newell Corson, secretary.
Dissatisfied with the refusal of the
Board of Education to grant the teach
ers an increase of 5000 year, the Ex-
ecutive COMMITTEE of the School and
Teacher Campaign announced at New
| ark that it had adopted a resolution in
which it declares that the proposed in
| crease of $500 does not meet the criti-
cal situation confronting the schools
| and that 5000 is the minimum increase
| that will allay dissatisfaction in the
| teaching force. The meeting of the
Executive Committee was called after
| it was learned that the teachers were
not even assured Of a $500 increase.
The Interchurch Institute of Re
ligious Education opened in the First
BAPTIST Church at Haddor for free
tuition to any minister, layman or
church and Sunday School worker in
| Camden and adjoining counties. The
enrolment at the opening showed 533
taking different courses, and this
swelled to nearly 600 The institute
is being held under the direction of
the American Baptist Publication So
ciety, and the instructors are among
the most noted ministers and laymen
from all sections of the country.
A heavy coating of oyster shells is
being placed on the old Democrat road
| near Gibhstown.
Three-fourths of the S2,25O Haddon
township memorial fund has been OBJ
tanned and the statue will be unveiled
on Memorial Day.
Paulsboro will enjoy another build
ing boom as soon as the weather per-
mits, as contractors say they have con-
tracts for many additional dwelling
houses.
The Hightstown post Office was