The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-02-04

rolled in the community "Y' at Car
ney's Point, despite the recent migra-
ton of workers and their families
c. Waldo Bachelor has been elected
president of the South Jersey Radio
Association, made up of operators in
Camden, Burlington and Gloucester
counties.
Whitall, Tatum & Co, glass manu-
facturers gave notice that factory No
10, at South Melville, will be blocked
for an indefinite period.
Department of agriculture diplomas
have been awarded to a. HOrnor &
Sons dairy, New Lisbon, for two ex-
hibits at Trenton, the dairy's cream
scoring 97.3 per cent and its milk 81
per cent.
Maple Shade has sent notices to
property owners to lay pavements in
front of their properties, and the dis
tinction of being the only town in the
state of its size without sidewalks will
be ended
The Diamond Social Club at Vine
land has bought the Liberty block,
Lands avenue, In which the club has
had home for quarter of a century.
James Taggart of Fries Mill, killed
hog that weighed over 600 pounds and
two ten-months-old porkers that weigh
ed $50 and 3S5 pounds respectively.
Welfare Union Church, Yerga. at a
special service burned the church mort
gage of $1,000 The church is now
free of debt. The church was organ
lied in 1917
Hot lunches are now being served to
pupils of the Woodbury. Heights
schools, and at Pedricktown a kitchen
outfit has been installed in the school
for similar purposes.
The women's auxiliaries of Millville,
BridgetOn and Vineland American Le-
gion posts have formed a county or
ganiZation, with Mrs. Frank Sheppard
of Millville as president.
A big cut in appropriations for 1921
has been effected by the borough coun-
ell of Pennsgrove. Last years budget
was $40, 705.40. 1t has been cut to S27,-
23462. The biggest cut is on streets
and sidewalks, $4,000 from the amount
spent last year.
The Cape May County Chamber of
Commerce at Cape May Court House
adopted a resolution favoring the bill
introduced by Senator Whitney in the
state senate TO appropriate $4,000 fol
taking over and equippfng the agricul
tural colony at Woodbine, now owned
by the Baron de Hirsch fund. to be
used by the state for the care of feeble
minded men.
County Sealer of Weights and Meas
ures w. B. Holmes caught Weintraub
& Sons, Vineand, sending short weight
coal The first fine levied by Justice
De Witt was SO, and the firm was re-
quired to pay $50 and costs.
Despite Haddonfield's ordinance
against one story business buildings,
Cyrus D. Marter proposes to erect four
on land bought from the Magill estate
on Kings Highway East.
There was record attendance at the
winter meeting of the Cape May Po-
mona, or county grange, in the South
Seavilie Hail. Cape May Court House,
over 300 being served at the banquet.
Between sessions the new state mas
ter, former Assemblyman Egans, Off
ciated. In his address in the evening
he said the state grange Is out for sew
eral things and the full force of the
membership was enlisted for it. Among
them is opposition to light saving and
a state constabulary. They will work
for two farm owners as members of
the State Fish and Game Commission
and square deal for farm products.
An offer of $4,000 Is understood to
have been made for the property of the
Clayton Shoddy and Cotton Mills Com
pany, formerly operated by David Pot
ash and now in the hands of a re-
ceiver.
Milford taxpayers are confronted
with a rate jump nearly one-third over
! last year. The budget for 1921
amounts to $1,000, or 50, 1875 more than
| last year.
The will of the late William Smith,
who was severely wounded in the Gus
ter fight with Indians and who had
lived retired in Woodbury. for many
years, makes several personal requests
and leaves the balance of the estate to
be invested for a fund for worthy
needy of the city.
The first move in Gloucester county
TO reduce salaries of school teachers,
which jumped after the war, was taken
by the Board of Education at National
Park. The members, discussing the
annual budget, decided that the sala-
ries of teachers should be reduced 500
year and that of the principal 5000,
since many firms are reducing ex-
penses by lowering wages now that
the cost of living is coming down.
S. B. Swan and John r. Jones, men,
bers of the Board Of Education of
Ocean City, state that they will resign
on the board to which Mrs. A. Ran
dolph Fogg was appointed few days
ago to succeed w. w. Adams, whose
term had expired. Swami says that he
was opposed to woman suffrage and
does not care to sit on the Board of
Education with a woman. Jones also
says that he was an opponent of wo-
man suffrage.
Frederick J. Potter, sixty-seven
years old, former president of the
First National Bank, Bordentown.
former supervisor of the Pennsylvania
railroad is dead from paralysis.
Considerable opposition has develop
organizations at riverside to the pro-