The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-02-11


proprietor of every place raided.
The state board of public grounds
and buildings will ask the legislature
for an appropriation of $4,000 to
complete the commission of Miss Vio-
let Oakley for the mural decorations
for the supreme court chamber at
Harrisburg. The state already has
$27. 800 available for the purpose. The
preliminary sketches for the decora-
tions will be submitted to the state
art commission and the decorations
are to be ready within the next two
years.
The Giles Manufacturing company,
of Shamokin, makers of hosiery, FL
ed a petition in bankruptcy in the
federal court at Sunbury, according
to George e. Dephen referee for
Northumberland county. Assets are
given at $4,000 and liabilities at
$4,000. Business depression is CIV
en- as the cause.
Andrew J. Levengood was appoint
ed temporary receiver for the Doty &
Scrmgeour company, manufacturers
Of surface-coated paper, at Reading.
The assets are placed at S1S5,373.20,
and the liabilities at $13S, i70.59.
Fifty negroes were arrested in Al
toona in a series of raids by the po-
lice, but all but u were discharged
after proving they had jobs. In po-
lice court the others We're sentenced
to 30 days, but sentence was sus-
pended upon promise to leave town.
The state forestry department has
announced that competitive examina-
tions for free training in forestry at
the State Forest Academy will be
held in Harrisburg in June. This
school is the only one of its kind
situated on its own tract of timber,
having a laboratory of $4,000 acres
of forest, and it is the only state
owned and supported forest school in
America.
Peter Carlin, pipe filter, was kill
ed and his helper Michael LAWN,
was seriously injured when a scaffold
on which they were working col
lapsed at a steel plant at Pittsburgh,
The men who were repairing an over
head steam pipe, dropped 35 feet.
Pennsylvania state police arrested
S456 persons In 1920 against 1897
in 1919, according to the annual re-
port Of Major Lynn G. Adams, the
superintendent, who says the officers
recovered stolen property valued at
more than S475,OOO The Butler
troop led in number Of arrests, having
21O5, while the Greensburg troop
made the best record in recovery of
property.
J. f. Wilson, postmaster at Upton,
was assaulted and robbed in Altoona
by two strangers who volunteered
to take him to a restaurant. They
beat him on the head and dragged
him into an alley and took 500 in
money and $500 in negotiable papers.
]. B. Hill and George Gates were ar
rested charged with the hold-up.
Jailed on the charge of numbering
her husband, Mrs Jemina Bresh, a
one armed woman who admits three
marriages in % years, has been re-
leased from the Fayette county Jail
in Uniontown, following her exonera-
ton by a coroner's jury. She said
she shot to save the life of her baby
and herself.
Forty-seven leases on land in var
ious sections Of York county were
entered for record in the office of the
county recorder at York by the Mag
ms Da+ro1aurr oo,ppoDv II ic ctot
ed that the company expects to drill
for oil on the leased land
Coroner Schmehl reported 50 sui
cides in 1920 in Berks county, COM
pared with % in 1919; 81 more auto
mobile accidents, six fewer railroad
accidents and two motorcycle acct
dents, the same number as in 1919.
Fire destroyed the Sacket school
building near Kane. Thirty pupils
watched the fire with delight, the
best skating and coasting Of the sea-
son being at hand. 1t is believed
tramp, seeking shelter from the cold,
started the fire First arrivals at the
building said that above the crack
ing of the flames they could hear the
monograph playing within.
Dazed and half frozen girl aged
about 10 stumbled into the home of
Mrs. f. P Harmon, of Youngstown,
near Latrobe. At first she said she
could NOT remember who she was nor
where she came from, but later gave
the name of Lelah Bettevich Ques-
toned further she gave other namse
and at different times designated
every village and borough in this vi
cinty as her residence. She was
taken to the County Home near
Greensburg, where she will receive
treatment for her frostbitten feet and
hands, while an effort will be made
to determine her identity.
Thirty-fve barrels of whisky were
confscated by agents of the United
States treasury department in a raid
on the plant of the Gentle Chemical
company, in Scranton. The govern
ment men visited the place upon the
instruction Of Col L. G. Mutt, chief
of the United States narcotic field
forces. The conhscated liquor is
valued at $4,000.
A son born to Mr.. and Mrs. John
n. Walker, of Pennington, Clinton
county, was their fourteenth child. ten
Of whom are living.
The Brownsville Water company has
asked the public service commission for
an advance in rates.
State authorities have cancelled