The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-01-28
Ne,U Jersey
State Briefs

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Valley Creamery, is building an am
monia plant for cooling milk.
Isaac A. Hoffman, and son are in
stalling new mill machinery at Long
Valley by which they will make rye
-four.
Opposition to a proposal now before
the New Jersey Bankers Association,
involving the presentation of three
bills for enactment by the present leg
islature, has developed in Monmouth
county.
Recommendation for an increase in
the number of probation officers to
combat the increasing tendencies of
men toward wife desertion is contain
ed in the annual report of John j.
Gascoyne, chief probation officer of Es-
sex county, filed in Newark with Judge
Martin.
The Singer Manufacturing COmpa-
ny, makers of sewing machines, EN-
ploying 5000 workers at its main
plant at Elizabeth, announced an i'm
mediate reduction in wages of 20 per
cent.
Decision to readvertise for bids for
the laying of eight miles of pipe and
the construction of filtration plant
and reservoir for the new borough wa
Ter supply at Wharton was reached by
Mayor Il. William Rosevear and the
borough council after conference
with Alexander Potter, consulting en-
gineer of New York. Bids received
January 1 were rejected as being too
high. The new bids are returnable
January 81.
Ten million dollars for the Newark
bay development was asked of the
United States Senate Committee on
Commerce when seven members of
that committee were taken on a
cruise over the entire water front, in
Guiding the Passaic and Hackensack
rivers and the Kill Won Kull, to get
first hand knowledge of what it is all
about.
William f. Lommason, financial sec
rotary of the Pompton Valley Commu-
nifty House Association, has sent a let
ter TO members calling attention TO the
y
in Pompton Lakes by the Y. w. G. A.
and asking If they desire to transfer
their membership or have the money
paid returned. The letter states that
the house as conducted by the Y. w.
c. A. will serve the PomptOn and Ram
apo valleys
After serving Al years in the en-
ploy of the Dunlap Hat Company, re-
Gently taken over by the Knox Hat
Company, former Councilman Isaac f.
Bartlette of Railway has been retired
on pension.
State Prison sentences of three
years and eight months to seven years
were given Harry L. Bitzberger and
Jerome Il. Chaffee at New Brunswick
otter they had pleaded guilty to rob.
bling a Midtown bank on December 20
They We're arrested in New York sew
eral weeks ago. Bitzberger later es
capped, but was reeaptured in Provi
dence, r. l.
During the campaign Victor Kugler
candidate for mayor of Woodbury.
promised the voters that if elected
mayor he would fill the first vacancy
in the Board of Education by naming a
woman. He was elected and carried
ont the promise by appointing Mrs
May Henderson to succeed NJ F. Cat
tell, whose term expires next month.
A conven on hall is to he included
in the plans for the stadium a Mary
land corporation proposes to erect ri
Atlantic City at a cost of S5,000000
This was announced by Harry Latz OF
the Hotel Alamac, who is slated to he
the head of the corporation. The
bowl, said Mr. Late, will be one of the
largest in the world, capable of seating
10000 persons.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of Hope fire
company, National Park, has present
ed four dozen chairs to the company
for use in the assembly room
Vileland's Poultry Association has
appointed f. A. Spear. w. ]. Ctckina
and B. s ELS to take up the subject
of chicken poX and ask the Legislature
10 make an appropriation to wipe out
the rlalady.
itN NalOhNt1ttl NsOunNs 1NhtlCiS
Association has elected these officers
President, D. T, Steelman; vice presi
dent. Edward Louis: treasurer, d. W
Davis secretary 1 L. Handle.
Presbyterians of Clayton have called
Rev. Mr.. Brown of West Virginia tC
the vacant pulpit. The dominic has
accepted, providing the expense o,
moving there is paid by the church
The salary has beer fixed at $4,000 anC
manse free.
Three indictments were returned a
Mays Landing against James J. Muir
ply, the Camden man arrested bulf al
hou- after he is alleged to have hell
Up a trolley car in NentnOr The TIVE
additional indictments charge hin
with carrying concealed deadly weap
ons and with robbing Thomas vii
liams, a jitney iriver, near Margat
City. Murphy r eaded guilty to carry
ing weapons ana to removing the troll
ley pole.
John Rice, pror'irent Fairfield town
ship resident died I his horne in Fair
Ton at the age of ninety-eight years
The inte?ment was at Clayton.
In the Paterson district alone les
than 5000 of the $1,000 workers in tn
silk Industry are eno. Dyed at the pres
ent time This is due, it is said. t
the failure Of the men to reach tn
mills 40 m mites earlier.
To assist former service men in fl
Ing out their applications for Victor