The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-03-04

ready for herring.
A campaign for new members is be-
ing vigorously waged by the Palmyra
Parent Teachers Association.
The Cape May County Democratic
Committee unanimously Endorsed Coun-
ty Judge Henry H. Eldredge for reap
pointment and decided to recommend
Major Edmund o. Howell, Jr.. for men,
Der of the Board of Taxation in place
of Edward L. Rice.
st. Johns Catholic Church. Lambert
vile, has purchased from the Stryker
estate the large lot and buildings at the
corner of Union and Bridge streets, adj
! joining the church, for $4,000.
For playing truant fourteen-year-old
| William Kohlenberg of Camden was
held for the juvenile court by Recorder
| StackhOuse. 1t was testified that the
boy had been in attendance but 81
days out of 1873 days.
Sentence to the state reformatory
and a $1,000 fine were imposed at Pat
erson on Alfred Hyde, eighteen years
old, a high school student of Spring
field, Mass, who was found guilty Of
manslaughter in connection with the
death of one person in an automobile
collision last December. Two others
also were killed in the crash.
The city of Lambertville was in
readiness to sell the property of the
New Jersey Northern Gas Company
e. hut
before the time the company produced
funds to pay its bills in full.
Woodstown Chamber of Commerce
has petitioned the borough council to
equip the fire department with chem
ical engine.
Women of Wenonah are gathering
cast off clothing for mountain children
at Olive Hill, Ky.
The First National Bank, Mays Land
ing, has installed burglar alarm big
enough to arouse the entire commune
ty.
The town commissioners of Phillips
burg have adopted an ordinance appro-
priating 100000 for sewer work.
Coroner Brewer is holding $1,591,
taken from the clothes of James Or
Vile Starr, who dropped dead at Wood
bury over week ago.
Harmonious Board of Education
has presented no printed report for
three years, although instructed so to
do.
The salary of the town treasurer of
Phillipsburg has been increased from
$3.50 to $1,000.
Four additional special police officers
have been appointed by Mayor Hunt at
Pennsgrove.
Within short time it Is expected
the Board of Commissioners of Mont
clair will make another move toward
procuring for the mountain town a
supply of water which Will replace that
now furnished by the Montclair Water
Company and which has been pro-
nounced by the Board OF Health as I'M
fit to drink in it's raw state.
Director of Finance Bert DAILY Of
Bayonne, under authority from the City
Commission, will make formal appiica-
ton to the state department of cOnser-
walton and development for permission
to use the Ramapo water shed as a
source of supply for the city.
The TaconyPalmyra Ferry Company
has awarded the contract to the Della
ware Dredging Company to make the
fill for the approach of the ferry land
ing on the Jersey side, and it is ex-
pected to have this part of the work
finished before May l. Charles A
Wright, one of the board of directors,
said that it was fully expected to have
the ferry in operation by early sum
mer
The public schools of Bloomsbury,
that were closed during the past couple
of weeks because of an epidemic Of
scarlet fever in IL at borough, have been
reopened. The majority of the chill
dren that were housed with the all
ment have fully recovered. Many ac-
tivities in the town had to be postponed
during the heigh- of the epidemic.
Another meeting was held in Eliza
beth of Union county citizens to act on
the request of the local chamber of
commerce to 'levise ways and means to
check the operations Of hold-up men.
1t was decided to go on record as IA
voring the bill of State Senator Case
for state constabuIary.
The annual convention of the State
Federation will be held in Atlantic City
from May II to IA, inclusive, with
headquarters In Haddor Hall. Mrs.
George F. King. president of Contem-
porary of Newark, is chairman of the
program.
Work on the new steel water tower
which is being erected at Hightstown
by the Pittsburgh-De Moines Steel
| Company is progressing rapidly. The
90 foot tower has been completed, and
the 100000 gallon tank is now being
built on the tower.
To stimulate interest in home gar
dens and the identifying of the viii
lagos and countryside, the Union Broth
erhoOd and Village Improvement Asso-
citation at Carneys Point secured Rep
resentative c. G.. Jordan chairman of
the Committee on Agriculture in the
Pennsylvania legislature and owner of
a fine model farm, to deliver an adj
dress at the Community "Y" at an
open meeting,
The Porch Club of Riverton now
owns beautiful clubhouse, the use of
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