The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-01-14

To save $4,000 yearly in wages 200
employees of the Pennsylvania rail-
road lines in Camden have been laid
| off
Hammonton council has increased
the salary of the overseer of the poor
from SIS per month to $500 per year,
that of the town clerk from 500 to
$3.50 and of the tax collector and treas
urer from 5000 year to $1,000, all to
go into effect Immediately.
William Headley of Salem was com
mitted to Jail by Vice Chancellor Lean
ing in Camden in contempt, growing
out of the mans failure to comply
with an order to pay his wife S12 Il
week. Headley is alleged to be $3.50 in
arrears.
In u minute session in Newton
the Sussex county Board of Freehold
ers reorganized and selected Robert
Smith of Sparta as its next director.
William Hiss, retiring member, was di-
re actor last year. The board reelected
its present counsel, Henry 7. Rays.
Other officers will be selected at n
meeting to be called next week.
Police Recorder John H. Lander, Re
publican, who sentenced three mis-
chievous boys in West Orange to fore
90 Christmas presents, then relented,
has lost his job.
Within few hours of the time set
for the marriage of Henry Russell
Brick of Medford and Miss Helen G.
I Atkinson of Mount Holly in the Bap-
fist Church in the latter place Benja
min Clark Brick, grandfather of the
bridegroom, was found dead of apo
plexy in the bathroom at the home of
his daughter, Mrs Henry 3. Wright,
| on Broad street. Mr. Brick had been
in failing health for some time.
Camden firemen have been placed on
the two platoon system, working in
night shifts Of II hours and day shifts
| of ten hours The men have been
striving for years to obtain better
working conditions, and the platoon
! plan was provided for by the council
which retired.
Unable to find a market for $4,000
worth of ) per cent short term mu-
nfcipal bonds to be used for erecting
! community house for local service
men, Glassboro council will increase
the interest rate to per cent, a local
| bank having offered to take them at
| that rate.
Gardner Driv r of Pensauken town.
ship, was elected secretary of the Cam
den county Board of Taxation, sue
ceeding John S. Roberts, who takes up
his duties as license clerk to succeed
Harry Simpson. The latter has been
made assistant city clerk, succeeding
Morris Odell, made city clerk.
Supreme Court Justice Charles c.
Black granted a writ restraining Mill
vile from purchasing the plant of the
Peoples Water Company. 1t is made
returnable at Trenton January 10.
Hundreds of glass workers of Mill
vile, who a month ago anticipated
steady employment until July !, are
/ idle as the result of the cancellation
of large orders for bottles The only
glass plant in operation is the Whitall
Tatum Company.
Four months ago Samuel Polsky's
hotel at Folsom, three miles from
Hammonton, was dynamited and burn
ed, with a loss of $4,000. PolsEy, his
wife and child barely escaped. Polsky
refused to leave and opened a new
store Recently this was broken into
and robbed Of several hundred dollars
worth of goods The thieves also en-
tered the Folsom post office, stealing
500 worth of stamps. and ransacked
the home Of William Gauntt, stealing
| iewelry and clothing.
That the state roads are in better
condition than ever before is evident
from a statement issued by Chairman
George L. Burton of the State High
way Commission.
The zone big union" idea as applied
to school teachers of New Jersey was
suggested by DIR. E. C. Broome, chair
man on educational progress of the
State Teachers Association, address
ing the annual meeting in the High
School auditorium at Atlantic City.
John Henry Kelson, nine years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs John Keson Of
Washington, broke through the ice on
the Morris canal Other children ran
for help. The boy was pulled out after
he had been in the water about five
minutes. He was revived after being
| taken home.
Penned in the cabin of the travelling
crane of which he was the engineer,
james Peluso of Elizabeth was carried
to the bottom of Staten Island Sound
when the apparatus toppled overheard.
Peluso was burie in the mud.
Contractors and builders are busy
on Five Mile Beach, and operation pro-
ceeds in a rapid manner because lum-
bermen have made concessions in
prices, and the contractors have a
large number of orders on hand.
Creation of two important bodies to
deal with the whole question of law
Iessness will probably be the outcome
of the conference of $50 or more mu-
nicipal and county officers held in
Trenton to discuss crime conditions in
tt state.
The borough commissioners of Vine
land granted the Bell Telephone Com
pany a franchise for - years. In re-
turn the company has promised ex-
tended and better service.
Farmers in South Jersey are hoping
that they are not being overlooked in
the traffic survey now being made at