The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-02-04
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NeTulcI Oh guilty against Richard
Black, former city detective, upon two
indictments charging him with grand
larceny. The verdict was reached at
the end of the fourth day of the trial.
The jury was the first mixed one, hav-
Ing three women In its personnel, to
find defendant guilty.
Henry Eisman, George Sweezy and
Charles Kerner officials of film comDa-
MES at Bayonne, whose exploding plant
caused the death of two persons and
Injury to several others, were arrested,
charged with manslaughter.
Frank ]. Hitchner, a prominent
farmer of Salem county, was instantly
killed by circular saw. Hitchner
owned portable saw and went around
the country cutting wood. He was adj
iusting belt for the days work when
his coat caught in a protruding bolt
and threw him backward against the
revolving saw teeth. His back was
cut wide open.
Candidates for misunderstanding in
South Jersey are looming fast but are
worried over the fact that most all the
offices are under civil service rules
They are sending letters to United
States Senator Edge and Congressman
Patterson and Bacharach, urging that
something be done to cause President
Elect Harding to take the offices out
of civil service so that worthy Repub-
licans can be given berths.
A decision by the state commissioner
of education will be necessary to set
tie the dispute over the recent election
to bond the township for $4,000 to
erect a schoolhOuse on the Seabrook
farms. The project was defeated in
one election, but on the second vote
showed 243 ballots in favor of the new
school and 236 against it.
The Cape May County Chamber of
Commerce will work enthusiastically
in support of Assemblyman Boswell's
bill to establish a motor or automobile
route connection with the improved
highways of Delaware from the south
ernmost point in New Jersey, whereby
direct route for tourists from the
South Atlantic states will be made.
Gloucester City Board of Assessors
filed the books of this years assess
ment with the Camden County Board
of Taxation. Increases bring the total
to over $S,000,000.
About 300 children have been en-
rolled in the new parochial school
opened at Pennsgrove.
Former Assemblyman David H.
Egans, the new master of the State
Grange, is paying official visits to
South Jersey subordinate oranges.
A program of greater activity is
planned for the Cumberland County
Board of Agriculture now that the
membership has been increased to
more than 1000 as a result of the re-
cent drive. A number of committees
have been appointed to look after i'm
portant matters, while the executive
committee of the county board has
been increased to 10.
Tony LOrelli. John Parker and John
Abel of Millville, who held up a Del
mont farmer and relieved him of $12,
were sentenced by Judge Logue to
three months in the county Jail, and
Henry Gillen, younger member of
the quartet, was committed to the
State School for Boys Julius Baehr,
for receiving stolen automobiles, was
sentenced to three to ten years in state
prison and Ira Jaggers, for forgery,
three months in the county Jail.
In the state drive among Sunday
schools for additional members Glou-
cester county leads, according to the
latest reports, with Somerset a close
second.
Charged with selling intoxicants at
his store in South Melville, Harry
Sainsott was sentenced by Mayor Eel
ney to 90 days in the county Jail and
fined 5000.
The National Park Board of Educa-
ton has decided to employ solicitor
and proceed against parents who neg
lect TO send children to school regu-
larly.
The Gloucester council has instruct
ed City Solicitor Letzgus to sell about
100 lighthouses on the river at Market
street mainly owned by Philadelphians
no have failed to pay their taxes for
periods of from one to three years
The Haddonfield Board of Education
has obtained comfortable quarters for
lower grade public school children in
the First Baptist and the First NJ. E.
Churches and will include in its budget,
to be presented before the voters in
February proposition to erect a new
school,.
Burlington county has developed the
first departments OF its various munich
palities the most efficient cooperation
obtained by any similar organization
in the country, according to reports
made to the county association at a
meeting in Delanc'. Better roads and
motorized equipment have not only eX-
tended protection to rural sections,
but have doubled the protection of the
cities and towns by making additional
help available witt in a few minutes
when needed
Capt. James Lawrence Chapter,
Daughters of 1912, of Haddonfield APP
propriated 500 to the fund for the
starving children of Europe.
The Diehl Manufacturing Company
of Elizabeth announced a 20 per cent
wage reduction among LOO employees
of its dynamo and motor plant.
Warm lunches are now being served
to pupils at the Clayton schools
through an arrangement made by the
local parent-teacher association.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Stratford