The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-01-07
Neu Jersey
State Briefs

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Frank Hague of Jersey City to urge
the appointment of another woman ON
the Board of Education.
Two members of the Union County
Tax Board, John J. Collins and Fran
els v Dobbins, together with the sec
rotary, James B. Kelly, inspected a
number of properties in Summit to de-
termine if the assessments were prop
er.
The Public Welfare Committee of
Camden council has the assurance that
practically all of the mummers' clubs
of Philadelphia will parade in Camden
on New Years afternoon, when the
first big pageant of this character will
be held in that city.
At a representative gathering of
members of the bench and bar in chan
Gerry chambers the career of John
Franklin Fort, closed when the one
time governor and jurist on November
II succumbed to long Illness was re-
hearsed in eulogistic addresses and
epitomized in resolutions to be entered
in the minutes of both the supreme
and Essex county circuit courts.
Lewis Sherman of Paterson, passen-
ger in an automobile driven by his
cousin, Alfred Hyde of Cambridge,
Mass, WAS killed and Adolph Seine
weis, pedestrian, was fatally injured
when the machine collided with an
other at a street intersection in Cliff
ton
Refusal of James Doolin, Garwood
hotel proprietor, to sell James McCor-
mick, member of the Garwood police
force, drink of liquor caused the po-
liceman to drSW his pistol and shoot
the hotel man through the stomach,
the GarwoOd police reported.
Announcement was made in Belvi-
dere that the Empire Iron and Steel
Company had shut down for an indeti-
mite period. More than 300 men are
affected The oxford foundry also
suspended operations, throwing about
10 employees out of work.
For the reason that the questions in
volved are Of a purely legal character
and must be settled by the courts the
Public Utilities Commission has dis
missed the complaint of Mrs. NJ. Ben
nett, who sought to compel the Public
Service Gas Company to furnish sew-
ice to her home in WestmOnt.
Federal agents dispatched from
Washington have arrived in Bayonne
for an investigation of the death of
John F. McGuinness. prohibition en-
found in Newark bay with a bullet
hole through his head. The investiga-
tion was started at the instance of JO-
seph 2. Tumulty, secretary to the
President. who is Il relative of the
widow of the prohibition official.
Agitation for moderniZed fire de-
partment to supplement the new mu-
nicipal water system has been the di-
rect result of the fire which gave Pit
man such a scare, and the matter will
he taken up Immediately by borough
council
An agreement between the New
York and New Jersey Bridge and Tun-
mel Commission and the Erie railroad
covering the acquisition of certain rail-
road property for use by the commits
sion for Hudson River tunnel purposes
has been reached, Commissioner John
f. Boyle of the tunnel board ANNOUNCE
ed
Opposition to daylight saving was
voiced at a meeting of the Camden
County Board of Agriculture
Two men were captured and two
escaped from a posse that surrounded
the First National Bank of Midtown,
following an attempt of the men to
rob the institution.
Mrs. Joseph NJ. Riker, sixty-six, wife
of the president of the Manufacturers
National Bank of Newark, was killed
and her husband, siXty-nine, fatally
injured, when they were struck by a
trolley car near Lincoln Park, describ-
ed as one of the city's most dangerous
spots. Several other persons have
been killed by street cars at this point.
Isaac Van Rosenberg was sentenced
to ten days in Jail at Paterson, after
he had admitted adding a fictitious
robbery to the states mounting crime
list by telephoning the police a re-
port of holdup that did not occur
Imposing sentence, Recorder Young
announced he had just received word
from the defendants wife that If he
wished to make Christmas merry for
the family, he would incarcerate ,RO-
senberg.
Charles e. Wolf has been appointed
assessor of Lodi TOWNSHIP in place of
A. c. Hollander, resigned. The job is
not a very lucrative one as the town
ship is one Of the smallest in Bergen
county. Some years ago the town
ship extended from the Hackensack
River nearly to the Passaic River but
the citizens had a severe attack of
borough fever and Hasbrouck Heights,
Little Ferry, Moonachie, Lodi and
TeterhOrO were carved out of the town
ship, leaving the original township a
mere shadow of its former greatness.
Woodbury. and AImonesson women
are preparing big boxes of good things
for the soldiers at Camp Dix.
As a step in the campaign TO pro-
vide legislation beneficial to the work
ing women in New Jersey during 1921,
report just issued by the National
Consumers League and the Consum-
Prs' League Of New Jersey denounced
the surroundings of working women
in the textile mills of Passaic. The
report criticized the manufactur-
rrs for The black disgrace" of EN-