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Go. HlatoriMl SoeUty THE LAMBERTVILLE RECORD ALWAYS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TOWN AND COUNTY. ESTABLISHED 1872. LAMBERTVILLE. N. J.. DECEMBER 9. 1910. PRICE TWO CENTS COMMON COUNCIL The regular monthly meeting of Common Council wan held in the Counoil Chamber on Monday eveuing at 7:30 o’clock. All membera were present with the exception of Mr. Ryan. The report of the City Treasurer was received and read. It showed a balance due the Board of Health Fund December 1st amounting to $50.25; Public School Fund account over drawn to the amount of $472.80, and a balance in the treasury on the 1st in stant amounting to $40.62. The report of the City Tax Receiver was also received. It showed as fol lows: Da. To duplicates and franchises.$41,798 93 Ca. Cash paid Treasurer.$38,683 11 Unpaid list attached ..:. 2,940 16 Sequestrated property. 11 18 Believed by County Board. 177 12 Cash on band. 36 66 The City Treasurer was autnorized to credit the Board of Health Fund with the sum of $200.00 as an appro priation for the year 1010, A supplement to an ordinance fix ing the salaries of oity officers was introduced and passed by Council. They are as follows: Mayor. $100 00 City Clerk. 350 00 Overseer of Poor. 75 00 City Treasurer. 350 00 City Solicitor. 150 00 City Surveyor. 100 00 City Auditor. 250 00 Chief Engineer, Fire Dept.... 100 00 The above list includes increases as follows: City Clerk, $100.00; City Treasurer, $100.00; City Auditor, $25.00: City Surveyor, $50 00, and a decrease in the City Solicitor's salary of $50.00, The Poor Committee was instructed to re-advertise for bids for the keep ing of the poor for the year 1911, as there were no bids received at the meeting. The report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department was received. The report stated that the plug of the Lambertville Rubber Company had been repaiaed, but the plug on South Main street and the one at Union street and Delaware Avenue are worthless, and should be replaced. Mr, McGowan Introduced on title a resolution calling for the payment of $10.00 to every volunteer fireman do ing public fire duty in the city during the year 1910, or said proportion there of as their term of service warrants, out of the money raised by general tax levy, to cover any losses that they and each of them may incur in at tending upon and putting out fires in the municipality under and within which they may be doing public fire duty. The coutract for tue collection aud removal of garbage for the year 1911 was awarded to Mr. Thomas W. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell’s bid for the coutract was $1,325.00 and was the only bid received. The trolley questiou was next taken up by Council. A communication in reference thereto was received from the Lambertville Business League, NEW HOPE. Elswortli Lippincott has the quinsy. Miss Mariou Oblinger spent last week in Trenton. David Burd is quite ill at his home on Mechanics street. Miss Mamie Cunningham spent Monday in Trenton. John Cryer, Jr., spent Sunday at Eddington, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cryer spent Sun day in Trenton. Mr. aud Mrs. Lewis Peze spent a few days last week in Washington, D. C. Ed waft! Naylor, of Lawrenceville, spent Sunday with Newhope friends Oliver Parry, wife and daughter, spent the week’s end at the Parry mansion. The new waiting room of the Trolley Company has been thrown open to the public. Mrs- Winn, of Plainfield, N. J. was calling on Newhope friends on Mon day. The regular monthly meeting of Bor ough Council will be held on Wednes day evening of next week. Miss Bessie .Dungan has returned home after spending a fortnight at Leighton, Pa. Miss Ethel Wallace, of Philadelphia, spent the weeks’ end at the home of her parents here, A beautiful program entitled “The Heavenly Song” is being prepared by the M. E. Church choir and will be rendered iu the church on Christmas night. The S. S. Social Club were entertain ed at the home of Mrs. George John son, on Bridge street* ou Monday ev ening last. D. B. Oblinger and wife who have been taking an extensive trip through sigued by Messrs. George W. Arnett and Walter F. Hayburst, President and Secretary, respectively, of said League, stating they have instructed tbeir subscribers to communicate with the Common Council their opinion that all increased facilities are benefi cial to the city, and that they unani mously approved of the proposition to grant to the trolley company the priv ilege to deliver freight within the city as proposed, suggesting, however, that the interest of the-city should be protected by ordinance providing that cars should not be allowed to stand in the public street; and if possible, they should be loaded and unloaded on private property. The letter further stated that they were also directed to suggest for the consideration of Conn oil that they would prefer the term for which franchise is granted to be less than fifty years and would also like to see provision made for a waiting room for passengers. The ordinance was then taken up for a third and final reading. Mr. Anderson offered an ob jection to the laying of the traok as called for on the maps furnished by the trolley company, bat the matter was finally adjusted to the satisfac tion of all concerned and the ordin ance was passed by Council. The ordinance provides that the trolley company shall lay its tracks on the east side of Lambert street to a point in the rear of the Elks Home, 231 feet from the center of the present trolley tracks ou Bridge street. The ordinance further provides that Hie Company shall lay its tracks to con form to the grade of said street and shall macadamize between the rails of said track, and for a distance of two feet outside of eaoh rail of said track and shall restore the street to as good a condition after the laying of said track as it was before said track was laid; that the franchise granted shall expire 25 years from the date of the passage of this ordinance; that per mission is hereby granted to operate over said track cars constructed for the purpose of transporting passen gers and freight, and that the work of constructing said traok must be com menced within 90 days and completed within 6 months from the date of the passage of the ordinance. The following bills were ordered paid: W. 8. Gallagher, postage, etc. $7 70 Lambertville Post Office, envelopes for Tax Receiver (addressed). 43 68 Lambertville Heat,Light £ Power Co 391 90 Mrs. Harry E. Phillips & Hon, 5 city poor people from Oct. 29th to Nov. 26th, at *4.00 per week per person 80 00 Patrick A. Cane, groceries. 30 00 William A. Ely, plumbing. 60 00 Columbia Fire Company, acid. 3 45 William B. Dimon. printing. 17 25 P. K. Hazen <fc Hon. 98 95 George W. Massey, coal. 3 00 Lambertville Construction Company 1 50 Michael Malone. 24 50 Thomas Mitchell, paving blocks. 1 00 John G. Stockton, stone, etc. 3 00 Harry V. Swallow. 1 00 P. J. Meehan, serving as special pol iceman. 2 20 Paul Vetter, uniform, caps, etc. 32 50 Street pay-roll for November. 47 45 All monthly and quarterly salaries were ordered paid. Council adjourned to meet on Wed nesday evening, 28th instant, at 8 o’clock. the vi «-st have returae<t home. They first went to Beloit Mich., where Mr. Obiinger hsd some business to attend to and then to Duluth, Minn., where their son, Clinton holds a position with the Marshall Wells Hardware Co. They report a very pleasant time. The second and third quarterly con ference of the Newhope M. E. church was held on Thursday evening of last week at which time the Rev. Dr. Frank Parkin, of Philadelphia, Dis trict Superintendent, was present and presided. After the regular routine of business the conference asked Dr. Par kin to use his influence to have the pastor of the church, the Rev. Jona than Dungan, retnrned for the fourth year, as he was a pastor that was not only loved by his own congregation, but by the entire community and his removal at this time would be a severe blew to the church. Notwithstanding the rapid spread of the prohibition idea, the annual re port of the internal revenue depart ment reveals thu last year the pro duction of distilled liquors was increas ed by 30,000,000 of gallons, while the increase in the number of barrels of fermented liquors was 3,000,000. Won der where it all goes? But what is most depressing is to be told that last year the increase in the number of cigarettes produced was 1,000,0(^0,000. Early shopping for Christinas en sures the sufe and prompt delivery of your mail packages. Every year it is the old story in the post offices of the country. They make special prepar ations for the holiday mails, but they cannot handle in the few days before Christmas all the matter that is piled in upon them. This fact is familiar to everybodw. Why not recognise it this year by shopping early and give Uncle Sam a chauce? BOARD OF EDUCATION. The regular monthly meeting of the Board was held Wednesday evening. All members were present except Mr. Shamalia. The Treasurer’s report was received and filed. The report showed that the school lund account was overdrawn to the amount $472.80 on the 1st instant. The report of the Supervising Prin cipal was received. The report stated that Miss Unger had resigned as teach er in the high school to accept a more remunerative situation at Clearfield, Pa. The Supervising Principal stated that Miss Unger had made an enviable rec ord with her classes this year and her departure was one of the most dis couraging events of the present year. The report further stated:—“It is not easy to see how we can maintain a uniformly effective system if teachers, as soon as they become really valuable are to be suffered to employ elsewhere hard earned experience which they have acquired with us. The question is simply one of salary and the condi tion of work now exisiting in Lambert ville. As I have often stated, no schedule of pay can be maintained in the high school. But the pay should, in each department, be sufficient to se cure efficiency. Without efficiency even a small salary is money wasted.” “I mentioned two months ago the probable necessity of employing an ad ditional teacher in the high school' for the remainder of the year. Several of the high school classes are too large for successful work and others are not and cannot be carried on for sufficient time. When the additional pupils en ter in January, this condition will be made still worse.” “Now that we are forced to fill a high school position it seems /to me that the entire matter should be care fully considered.” , The Board placed an ordet for 10 gallons of Chloro-Naptholeum, to * be used as a disinfectant in the schools. Mr. Augustus Blackwell was^unani mously elected to fill the vacancy oc casioned by the death of Mr. Bayard. On motion Mr. Samuel Moon, the following committee was appointed to draft a set of resolutions on the death of Mr. Bayard—Messrs. Kachline, Horan and S. E. Moon. Bills to the amount of $60.28 and the monthly and quarterly salaries were ordered paid. The matter of a new teacher to fill the vacancy occurring on account of the resignation of Miss Unger, was left to the Supervising Principal. The Board adjourned to meet at the call of the President. HIGH SCHOOL'ALUMNI. The second Annual Banquet of the Lambertville School Alumni Associa tion will be held in St. Andrew’s Hall, on Thursday evening, December 29th, 1910, at 8 o’clock. The three houses and lots at East High Bridge belonging to the estate of former Freeholder George W„ Hoffman at High Bridge, were pur chased at public auction by Martin W. Apgar, of High Bridge, for $840; Mr. Coudee, of East High Bridge, for $1,405, and Mr. Skinner, of Broadway for $905. UNCLAIMED LETTERS. Advertised Dec. 81, 1910. Sent to Dead Better Office Dec. 17, 1910. G. Gilbert, Guiseppe Levati, Baffaele Vaira. Jas. D. MacKay, P. M. The following communication from the President of L. H. S. Alumni Association was received by the Sec retary, and this way is taken to notify the members of the resignation of the President. To tlAe Members of L. H. S. Alumni Association: Dear Friends:— I hereby resign the Presidency of our Association. I find I shall not be at home duriug Xmas week, at which time the banquet will be held, 1 also expect to be out of town immediately after the close of school iu June. Hence I will not be able to be present at tile Annual Meeting. Under the cironmstauces I think it better that I should not hold the position of Presi dent. I thank you ail for the honor shown me and am sorry not to be able to fulfill the duties of the office. Very truly yours, Signed (Annie F. Stout.) INSTRUCTION for FARMERS Encouraged by the success of the Farmer’s Special Instruction trains which it has beeu operating during the past three years, the Pennsylvan ia Railroad, will on December 5th and 6th oarry the gospel of scientific farming a second time to the farmers in the territory tributary to the Popes Creek Branch of the Maryland Divis ion. During last winter’s educational campaign for improved methods in agriculture a special train was run over this same portion of the Mary land Division. Muoh interest w^»4r oused among the farmers and many requests for another educational train have been received. The Pennsylvania Railroad inaug urated its campaign for intensive farming three years ago and sirifce that time a large number of special trains and steamboats have been op erated on various divisions. The Oompany is confident that these trains havo been productive of much good and they will eventually become great traffic producers in that the farmers will secure better yields from their land than they are securing to day. The State Colleges are co-oper ating with the Railroad Company by giving the time of their professors who talk to the farmers and answer their questions based on their own particular problems. The Pope’s Creek Special train will leave Baltimore on Monday morning, December 5tb, and on Monday and Tuesday one and one-half hour Btops will be made at ten stations. At the end of each day’s trip a night session will be held at the last scheduled stopping place. At each stop four 45 minute Ieotures will be given in the two cars which have been converted into lecture rooms. One lecture in each car will be given simultaneously and the end of the first two farmers will be given an opportunity to change cars in case the specific lec ture they desire to hear is not to be given in the car they are occupying. The Pope’s Creek Farmers’ Special train will be operated by the Penn sylvania Railroad Company under the auspices of the Maryland Agricultural College, Department of Farmers’ In stitutes, of College Park, Md. It will be in charge of Dr. Richard S. Hill, Director of the College. Talks will be given ou “Dive Stock,” “Soil Im provement,” "The Market Farmer aud How Farm Produce is Sold,” and “The Growing of Tobacco.” Representing the Railroad Com pany will be Division Freight Agent John M. Gross, Superintendent A. J. Whitney, Jr., aud other operating of ficers of the Maryland Division. The body of Lewis H. Oavis, who died at the home of his eon, Frank, in Elizabeth, last Thursday afternoon, was brought to thia city Monday morning and funeral services were held iu Centenary M. E. church, liev. George Boddis. pastor of the First Baptist church, was the officiat ing clergyman. Intermeut was in Riverview cemetery, under direction of LaBaw. Mr. Davis was a former resident of this city, and for more than.twenty-five years was employed in the Lambertville Spoke Manufac turing company’s works. He is sur vived by a widow, two sous and two daughters. The cause of death was heart disease. WOOD TO WASHINGTON. Congresmau Ira W. Wood left for Washington Monday morning to be present at the opening of Congress. He intended going early last week but was kept at borne by illness from which he has now recovered. The Congressman was accompanied by his sister. Miss Ellen P. Wood,who is president of the leading woman’s club at the capital. They will reside at the Hotel Cochran, occupying the same suite they had last year. A new type of snow plow arrived iu Coalport last week. It will be used on the Belvidere Division of the Penn sylvania Railroad this winter. The new plow is built like a caboose hav ing an apartment inside. It is placed on two trucks and precedes the en gine instead of being fasteued to an engine like the old snow plows. This old method of attaching a plow to an engine takes nearly four hours’ work. With the new plow all this is hooked to a locomotive iu five miuutes, exact ly like the makiug up of a train. It has an air brake couuectiou and the plow is about six inches from the tracks. 2,404,617 IN JERSEY. Washington, Dec. 3.—While the official figures have not yet been an nounced by the Census Bureau, the estimated population of New Jersey is 3,404,617. WANT NEW LIGHT LAW. Residents of New Jersey are In one accord in their insistence that an eqnitable light law shall be placed among the statutes of the State. This remarkable demonstration is due to the efforts of the New Jersey Automo bile and Motor Club, which club orig inally demanded that the law shall require lights upon all horse drawn vehicles after dark. No ndequato penalty supports the present weak law on this important subject and there is very little effort to enforce the present law Automo bilists are required to carry substan frout and rear lamps and this regula tion is never evaded by motorists. Too many horse-drawn vehicles on country roads do not carry lights and in order to properly protect the auto mobile owner as well as the horse drawn vehicles a strict enforcement of the light law is necessary. Dan gers on unlighted rural highways should be eliminated and the club predicts the passage of an equitable light law during the coming session of the Legislature. Hunterdon County Court. The December term of the Hunter don County Court will open on Tues day next. The following is a list oi the causes noticed for trial: SUPREME COURT. Frederick L. Johnson vs. Gilbert A. Van Doren. Tort. Katherine Beagle, administratrix, vs. Lehigh and NVilkesbarre Coal Com pany. Tort. Catherine Wilson vs. Ernestina Waidman, administratrix. Contract. Elden W. Cooley, by his next friend, John W. Coyley, vs. John P. Lance. Tort. CIRCUIT COURT. Frank McGovern et al. partners, etc. vs. Flemington Electric Light, Heat & Power Co. Contract. Jacob Stassatt vs. Taylor Iron and Steel Company. Tort. Edward P. Stout vs. Norwood An derson. 'Port. Charles Carbano vs. Delaware Riv er Quarry and Construction Co. Tort. A statement issued by Commissioner Vivian M. Lewis, of the department of banking and insurance, shows that dur ing the past twelve months the re sources ot 128 financial institutions have increased by $15,860,545 and the deposits by $11,957,339. The same institutions have now aggregate re sources of $354,604,662 and deposits of $285,867,600. The report includes returns from eighty-four trust companies, nineteen state banks and twenty-five savings banks, the condition of which is shown at the close ot business on November 10. The comparison is made with November 16, 1909, when correspond ing reports were received last year. Some radical changes in the meth ods ot assessing property, which in clude the levying of assessments hy county boards, are recommended in annual report of the State Board for the Equalization of Taxes, submitted to Governor Fort yesterday for transmis sion to the Legislature, Jacob Htury, aged 80, was riding ou a load of cornstalks on the John L. Shurts farm at Potterstowu, Satur day, when he slipped and fell to the ground. He landed on his head and his neck was broken, producing in stant death. He leaves two (laught ers. Captain Harry \V. Schoeh, at one time First Lieutenant of Co. F, La bertville, has resigned as assistant mili tary keeper of the State arsenal, at Trenton. Residents of Lebanon held a meet ing a few nights ago and took steps toward organizing a water company at that place. The need of a permanent water supply for fire and domestic pur poses is badly needed at Lebanon Governor Fort will go out ot office on January 17 and he is planning to start for Europe February 1, to be gone about six months. The contract for the erection of the new depot at High Bridge has been awarded to Stein Bros., of Allentown, Pa. Their bid was $10,840. They do all the work, and the ground has been staked out. PERSONAL MENTION. John Tyrell, of Trenton, visited friends here on Sunday. Stephen J. McGowan has been vis iting relatives in Princeton. Mrs. Charles Treftz, of Trenton, recently visited friends here. The Princeton Field club basket ball team and the Lambertville team played a game last evening in Hol combe hall. The Epworth league of the Titus ville M. E. church are holding a fair and bazaar in the basement of the chnrch. Mrs. Harry Morehead and son, Glenn, is spending a season with her mother in Philadelphia. John HoiFerman »nd Christine Qnassi have returned from a four days’ visit with friends id New York city. * Charles W. Godown is spending some time with friends in Fleming ton. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Van Sciver and children, of Princeton, have been visiting relatives in this city. Charles Treftz and family have re moved from this city to Trenton. Leo McConnell, of this city, is tour ing.Europe- When last heard from he was in London, about to depart for Germany. The ladies of the First Presbyterian church cleared $121 at the pie and cake sale held in the lecture room of the church recently. Reuben Marshall fell and broke his shoulder one day last week. H. Raymond Solliday, of Trenton, spent Saturday and Sunday with rela tives here. Mrs. David Hoppock has been vis iting her sister, Mrs. Horace Stack house, of Phoenixville, Pa., for the past week. Clarence Hoppock, of New York City, visited his home on Jefferson street on Saturday and Sunday. The county board of taxation was in sersion in this city on Monday. Rev. Thomas S. Brock, pastor of Centenary M. E. chnrch, was in at tendance at the meeting of the Meth odist Brotherhood in Camden Mon day. A big rally and social for the Patri otic Order Sous of America, is plann ed for this evening, to be held in this city. Washington Camp, No. 1 of this city will entertain the teu camps in Hunterdon county and also those from Titusville, Hopewell, Phillips burg, Doylestowu, Pa. and Newtowu, Pa. • ' The Postmaster General has issued an order that shortens the time for the return of letters bearing the send er’s name and address on the outside aud all such letters addressed to cities and rural delivery are to be returned in live days. All other letters are to be held the usual fifteen days. A crusade has been started in the state against short weights and meas ures. Agents have canvassed the state and found a number of butchers and grocers violating the law. The agents are going from town examining all scales and measures. County Engineer Grant Davis, of VVhitehouse, lias been busy surveying the public road from Spring Mills to Riegelsville, which is a tritle over six miles in length. Citizens in that sec tion have asked to have the road im proved. It is probable that it will be one of the roads improved in spring. Last year about $3,000 were rece ived from gunners’ licenses in this co unty and turned over to the State trea sury. It it thought the amount this year will be fully as large. Some of our people believe that Hunterdon re ceives too little in return for the money exacted from the license system—that a just share of game birds and fish pur chased with the funds collected is not liberated here. Gunners, as a rule be lieve that each county should receive a share of game proportionate with the license lees extracted. More faithful observauee of sanita tion luws in the manufacture of ice 1 cream was advocated by Geo. Mc Guire, chief of the division of dairies and creameries of Now Jersey, before the National Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers at Atlantic City. Out or 51 icc cream factories inspected in the Htate during the past year, but 15 : were found thut met with the require ! ments of the law, he declared.