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NEW JERSEY STATE BRIEFS

/ mon hu bwn made to er*anUe • roluatecr Kr. depart men: at Fra*ktarUle as the result of recent Area. The annual town dinner > .* the Had donfleld <Xrte AaaocUtlon »1*I be held tn Art tuns' Hall on a date ia April The eran'-eUatlc rampalsn that ha* been rarMed on lor Are weeks at 8a

•rat'd rail, in one at '.he churches. Secaore of ao much lUneaa tbrenrh•tit the county the annual Cremsn'i banquet at Pltmaa has beet, poat

poned until further notice.

Becanae of several cakes of i . theria at Carney's Point, the health aotborltl^a have closed the schools and will not permit the gathering of

children tn nubile place*

Pitman Lodge. F. and A. M, celebrated the tenth anniversary of receiving its charter by raising the t-.ro hundredth member Tuesday nigh.. Burlington carpenters have voted against any reduction iu wages this Fear. The scale is 80 cents an boor. Mrs. Lydia I. Henderson, one • Bridgeton's moat aged dttsena. ha Just < el eh r* ted her ninety-fifth blrtb8a; She U in fairly good benlth. Roosevelt Post. American Legion.

la needed in Tinciaad. and Cetontaader E. H MacMUlaa has appointed a i mlttee to wx tor !t.

vlriory at Engtewr^.] In all erenta. winning the New Jersey do -r Ice seating cfcamnlooU-ip wUli C total of 120 pair. >. The tourney stm held cnoer the auspice- of the Middle Atlantic Skating Asnortatfor The meet, postponed from January 21 and 22. was run off in one day,

Robert K. Arnold of Lyndborst, owner of the tug Harbinger, end Arthur Cobhem *T Boston, her skipper, were held by United Suites. OommUsloncr Smory m C2JOO bail at Newark on charge* of attempting to smuggle liquor Into the Collet - State*. Ar (.hid furnished bell bet the skipper could not. and an* sent to the Eaari eouety JaU. Mias Matilda Rothell. eighty-three years old. and her slater, Mias Leone, sixty-three rears oM. succumb'd the aasre day to pnromoula at their home in West Cape May. They were former Phi I a ov phi a resldentt,. but bad reaided at the shore a lumber of years. Fanneiv are alow In placing orders for fetUlrer for spring planting. It 4s expected a normal acreage win be planted. Frark Kane o; 114 New Street and Jr mas CrnR of 9 Wanes street. Newark. are 980 richer t« the result of finding a diamond necklace valcsd at FA500 lost by Mrs. Cltrence Tearance of Rutherford. One of the stjoes. which they had sold to a stranger for a dollar and a *n*aj of frmnkfart<n> and coCee. was traced by the police to a Newark pawnshop, where ‘1 had bv -n pledged for *8. \ While the y. W C. A. commmdcy Lone at Pompton Lakes is rioaed the

and the girls' gymn*«iani and dam. tag classes wUl meetf In the gymnasium am’: dob room on the second floor of the Emmanuel Elnsudn Memo rial Library. The house has beet, ordered Cosed by the board of managers for the .enter for various reasons, the coat of 1 vetting being one. At a meeting of the Sast Millville Civic Leugue, recently organised. It wss decided to build a cosy clubhouse. Retford Wood. Jr, bus arrived borne at Pennagrove after an sl-aence of two years In the Army of Occupation, accompanied by his German wife end Child. *'otortst* at Pitman are to display town name plates on their auto :sgs under a plan started by the Board of Trade. The Pemsgrore firemen's band will have a mode benefit for funds to get additional uniforms for an members hip. # A conference of the Clay Commission and Board qf Health of Millville has been called to plan lor a clean-up week next momh. Frank Gsrrftuc*. his wife and five chill dren are Confined to the boose at Woodbury with various maladies, none serious, but Garrlguev says “If* a family reunion each day." Members of a committee of Industrial relations of the New Jersey Slave Chamber of ComiAerce, la a report made public at Newark, cautioned all employers to avoid “anii-aulou coercion" and to eo-operate with the wo«krrt in evrey possible way. The repori was written afUr au eight moiiihe* •nrvey. Cattle dealers who accumulated great quanMtlea of bide* In the pa<T four years Buw ere gradually getting rid of I hem. Ore man near Ivartr town jold his at a loss of tbjuuu. accepting 5 cents a pound for the Mine hides for which he refused hi. offer of 88 -vnu two years ago. Other skins which he could hare sold at one time for $7 each went for 81. At the next meeting of Gloucester City Council MU* will be received (or a motorised fire iruck to cost about M.OU0. State Prohibition Director Charles Brown oi gwedeahoro bar I •eon rv-eic-t.-d chairman of the Orange picnic cuumilnee. Ai-hvg Chief »v' Police John I*. Murphy. on Instruction* from the mayor, Tb lted several newsstands at Summit and warned the proprietors again-t •Piling or exposing for sale certain objectionable pub’.cation*. The proprictor* removed tivem from their conn-

tars.

I Ten per rent wage reductions <*eVccma effective Feorunry 15 for 1,500 employees at the Tletjen A Lang dry- , docks. Hoboken. It has been *nnouncret The Wooobnry Board of School Estimates Is considering i-n appropriation of 920,000 for the pnrphase of the T. W. C. A. bonding -nd premLet for a greater piaygrcjud for the high

school.

Plftnan bo.-ough officials are said to be looking with favor upon a movement started by the Board of Trade for paving part of Holly avenue, one of the town's principal thorough fares, during the spring or summer. A prediction was made by a realdent of PhJUIpsbuig who for e number of years has been active In state politics that Marshall Miller of Bloomsbury Is to be named me prosecutor in Hunterdon county to snceed Harry J. Able. The latter, whose term will expire daring the coming m s P.epubllcsn, while Mr. Miller Is a Democrat. Police were stationed at the Fourth cvenne crossing of the Erie Rsllroau «t Newark to prevent removal of the tracks. Commlssicaer T. L. Ravmond of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements said the Erie bad Just completed a bridge over the Pasilc River, azvd that it was feared tbe road would change Its route tThat,’' be said, “would not le agreeable to the dly.* Four saloonkeepers, alleged to lave sold poisonous liquor which canted the doth* of five Degrees, were charred with manslaughter at Newark. Joseph Argoftlna and Joseph Nafti were charged with causing the death of Charles Fergosen. They were 9o.ono bah each. Solomon Juffe and Max Etkens wore chargeo with canting the deaths of Bessie Moore. Minnie Germain and Pooert Pattereon. They were held in 910.000 Ul each. Thomas W. Smith, science teacher and physical director at tbe Bnrllngton High School, white resignation recently demanded by tbe Beard of Education on the charge that he told “taw" Jokes In" a s<-N>ol minstrel show, has been served with notice of a severance of his teaching contract tinder the three months' cUnae. Smith, who presented his resignation, later withdrew It before the board could take action. irhn O. Bigelow, whose appointment as prosscuior for Essex county to succeed j. Henry HarrUon was confirmed by the New Jersey senate, anthat for tbe present he wlU retain the present asa.BUnts—John A. Bernhard. A. Leslie Price and Wilbur Mott. Mr. Harelaon, who has remained In charge of the office pending the confirmation at his successor's appnlnmmt, has ieit for Fiorina for a month's vacation. Despite frequent storms of the winter the-present generation cannot recall .hen water In swamps and tn the Wliislow section was so low. Hus fact. If la claimed, la retpondble for the slmcst desperate condition of wild animals and never before was It so easy ;o capture ra«s t-oon, muskrats etc, and within tiro weed no leae than a dosen 'possums have bees caught prowling about poultry yards at Winslow. The .Salem County Board of Treeboiders received a * emoustraoce to giving 'ts approval to tbe remorrd of the old covered qridge over Salem River at Market street, this city, and replacing It with a concrete structure. Tbe romonstranee was In the form of a reoolutlcn of the Salem Woman's Club, arvl also a petition numerously signed by tbe *omen of Salem. It has bee, planned to hold tbe six-ty-second anniversary cl the Secono Pres’, ytertaa Church, Camden, on March 12. Sitting close together before tbe lighted gas range in 'he kitchen ,vf their East Rutherford borne, Theodore Doremok, sixty, and his wife Reoecck. fifty-five, were found dead. The lighten consumed most of the oxyceu In the room, death being doe to suffo-

cation.

Tbe United Fire Company of Mount Ephraim has already sold bonds to the amount of 81,500 to purchase rioter apparatus. The aetmte. by a unanimous rota, adopted the measure Introduced by Senator C. D. While of Atlantic county appropriating 8VW.000 as New Jersey's share la participation with New York In tbe Joint authority plan for New York port. The bill now goes to the

house.

Large numbers of softshetl crabs, ashed on the beach, lisve been gathered by residenfli of Ocean City. < To give work to unemployed the City Cemtulaaloo adopted plans for construction of storm sewer system In West Millville. Burglar*, operating with a Jimmy, looted the South Somerville houses of Cfasrlea A. WorraJi and Trowbridge Calnway. New York broken-, some ume during the past wee's, carrying of. silverware, linen and oilier huuaeLold effects valued at several ti.ou-k-ind dollara. This became know.-i wh«u caretakers, living In the nelgotxirhuod. discovered that windows had been fmved and the boures systematically raiuaibed. Both ha.i been dosed since October. The Owen tlass plant at Glssalxiro Is running thre: shift* a day and turning ou; Immense quantities of fin-, ware. There Is a good outlook for the glass trade, particularly in ma-ohlne-made ware, much of vrhlcb la for : the soft drink trade. | Records of the railroad station for I the last ten years were destroyed j when fire wrecked the freight station { and war, house if the Central Railroad •f New Jersey at Somerville. The l-lar^, of unknown origin, had spread j tl roughou. the structure when the J firemen arrive*!. Tbe damage was k»i tlimit*-1 at tiadno

tn Hungary. , 2—Army leaks manned by National

rota patrolling Newport, Ky.. tosnppreaa rioting to cosmertion with strike of steel t at Bolling Field. Washington, playing volley ball tn the toow. dressed in bathing suit

1—Judge Theodore Breutuno of Gcardsmea patfoUtog Newport, Ky„

NEWSIEVEWOF CURRENT E'tEHTS Arms Conference Ends and Its First results Appear in an

Order by Denby.

STOPS WORK M BIG SMPS

| to the papal throne ja 8t. Peter'* basilica and asaomptiob o." tbe triple | crown was accompanied by all tbe ' stately ceremony that has grown up ; about the crowning of a pope through | the centuries of the Cathsflt church's

| history.

Since the new- pope la am aefcaowl-

Pop* Pius XI Is Crownad to et. Petsrts Baailica—Secretary Weeks Shows Flaws in Ford's Muacla Shoals Offer—Oovtaino Revenue for

By EDWARD W. PICKARD A chievements of the esufereaee era of ru dentin nd lag In which preparedness for war will yield to moral preparedness for peace, said Presider.t Harding to the delegates at their last nsiou oc Monday . “Your achievement Is supreme/ he

: bo reaction |« regret or Hayes et New To*

t ever can Justify resort to

tween the charcO and the Italian gov-

relatloas will come daring his reign. This, though not especially desired by

church would greatly benefit bees use tbe pope wsaM be free to visit ocher couatriea. Isarricank to Roane bepe that Plus XI may even eras to thto country the flret pope over to visit tbe

‘ chain sd a pope was made by tire saesad cotiege before be end tbe c^ber Anwrh-wj cardinal* couto reach Rome, oac these U Ulk of dkaaglny the rwpel csoatitutioo so that this seunot happsa la tbe fumre. The awldeut may also be responsible for the report that tie* more American cardinal* are to be created soon. Tbe to this coonec-

arma Ton have written the flret deliberate and effective expression of great powvrs. to tbe conaciec. tlouaoe** of peace, of war's uttei fuUUty, ana challenged the sanity of ranipetltive preparation for each other's destroc-

rrv. cv directly to the hope he had previously expressed that an association of nations would come from the conference, he predicted a continuance of national dlacuatioo to carry for-

ward the work.

Before Mr. HarC’ng made hi* ad■eas the five treaties agreed upon by

when tbe Pres'drnt condudeJ Secretary of State Hughes declared the conferenic adjourned sloe die. It la up to tbe United States senate to put the stamp of approval the work accomplished by tbe con. ference. President Harding Indicated that be would transmit to It without delay tbe treaties, and the eteerlng committee of tbe senate, which met with him Tuesday evening, promised that they should here the right of way until tbe tariff MU ts reported. The debate probably will be proion~-d. hut there seems little reusoono doubt that the treaties will be ratified. The first tangible results of the conference appeared Wednesday, when Secretary of the Navy Denfcr. under direction of the President, ordered the suspension of work on eight battleships and six battle cruiser* now under construction, pending final action on the naval treaty. When the treaty has been ratified the contract* for the ships will be canceled. Tbe bnlldl ig operations stopped by Hecretair D*e» by's order have beer, costing the goverumsat about 8S.OOU.0UO a month. Of the eight battle-drips, one will be complet'd later—rttfc-rr tbe West Virginia or the Want-In glue. The Coiorario, vt uich is alin,,*; completed and Is nut 1 Included In the Hat. also wUl be £.>• l-hcd. Two of the battle cruiser* »re I to lie competed as airplane carrier*. Of the foreign countries represented it; tbe conference the only one woe re there se&us to be any organised op|io- ' ml,m to the trestles la Japan. Huron hakamoto la lead!nr the oppnalthsi In : the bouse of i»-er* and crltirixed **•- j verely the tigreenients reached. I're- ! Inter TakalutdU and hi* minister* met the attack aiilj. The premier -utd | that the governuM-ut did nut claim the j neifcreoc* unqualmtd sui*v*«, I \i. ned from an Individual standleNiit. ••ut that It did believe, with the poMera, that the i Mere tbe UTSt sle|, lirMlug peiur- and tuic unV-standiii; fur the Japan, like tn. I nltad etaua. W St-Jiiied itiortrtM-U'Mi work an tic new

cupilot ship*.

A •‘HILLS UATTL •to. >•* caxOnal archblkho|i of Milan, w as cruwiied pope under the name of Pius XI on Fehriary 12.

H RNRY FORD'S Offer fsr the taktog over of tbe. goveynmert's nil rat* phmt at Ibscie Shoals rrrr referred to the agrtcvttaeal committee Arrept—ce of the offer wws urged by Senator Ubderwood of r, end It

would

it- But jary affairs comarittre the Ford prophaving bard sledding Secretary of War Weeks was called there

• wi!

That Ford will pay 86*00.000 for that portion rtf the Katcis 13 boa is project which has already coat the

fa tbe federal courts, the sc.ate Judiciary committee hs- decided to recommend an to crease of IS to the ■umber of United States Judges. Three new Jadgrehtpn. eeconflng to tbe plan, will go ome each to tbe fotiovtog dletrirts: Msasachueetia, eaatera Ntw Tsrk. aoaditru New York, easteni Fenaoclvaai*. oortbenv Texrs. ewatera

la Ceaoa next month, preparations lor the opentor of the meeting nmdw by tbe Italian gorernt tbe cityh hotel* and 'other* along the Italian Riviera at far as Rapalln are being raqnlaltio(.rd. rapid transportation and communication arranged and the anciast palace put In o-der foe the sittings of tbe conference. Ba Areczano. formerly ambasiadar to United States. It general secretary to chargs of local

Is trying to balance cause few «tf them recognize the fetation of tbe general recovery of Kcrspa to tbe recovery of Germany.

tween tbe Iri-fc the Ulster cause they had not learned that pstitieil prisoner* sentenced t, death a* Parry had been reprieved. m wi Meclifted with the army of Irian rs.ubUc invaded Ulster

That the government, to complete the project, must spied 840.000.000 to 850,000.000 additional, which Ford win repay under exceedingly liberal terms. That the govern roen, can real lac between S&OOfrQpO and FMjOCODOO salvage oc tbe project which Ford wnact

for tbe Warrior river plant and boring property than Ford is wtiltag to pay for the entire Muscto

retury said he would vote to accept It If he thought certainly It would produce cheaper fertiliser for tbe farmers. but that be was greatly In denht as to *iis, and be believed Fbrd and his engineers also were uncertain of It. He added that he would soon submit offers for Muscle

T entative estimates of the cost of tbe proponed soldiers* botJUf oisce 1» at 8350.000.000 a year, end the Republican member* at the house ways and means cmnuritiee spent a lot of time last week .llwusslng bow this was to be obtained. President Harding made It clear to the leaders that tbe bill must Include « provision !or the raising of the necessary revenue, and that It must not be too oppressive oa the public; be agreed with Keontsry Mellon that a bonus based oc foreign Umds la out of the question. Likewise. the plan of raising money by any form of general sale, vax is going Into the discard, for a majority of tbe UepabUcous evidently are , ppoved to It. Cousrquenily tbe majority members of the (tuuiulttee have agreed that various •lu-ellaie-ous taxes Khali be Imnot ja decided Just smut these shnll be Chalnoau Fordon favors an tecreared tax on tobaceo sod cigarettes, u tag on real et> tat* traiiaactiotui and u light tax on stock and l-Ktd transfers. Other member* urged taxes on gasoline and bunk checks, a federal automobile licetue tax l<ared on borsepou-.-r. and an increase tn first and second claaa psstegr rates.

also a lot of ato ting. A few sf the c.iprjred men w<re reiesaed at bac tbe otbare were held, softf* „ as hostage*. Natural!y. tbe aorttora counties at once blazed vfeh tier, a

mem of the Irish Free State was not responsible tor the kidnaptags. not could it prevent them. It was bcBcrefi by some that the attack* were ptasaed largely to erebemw. Michael Collins and his collet gae*. Owes CDuffy. rhlcf of s»eff of tht Irish rtpubUcan army. Issued this

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horn*. 3S; roegh. s ©22: winter, 2 in*., at

Ducks, muacorv gni s^ougre young 28; white parage, j

Pigeon*, per pair, Md, 80®*fct. yowg. S0©»6. Guinea fowj.- **0%. rewfc. i

EOfrRUc; and*. Hi Iba 7v.rluys. choice bans, ftlhs. « 18c: young gobbles. 4*V oW t thin, crooked breast. 36.. Gem land and Virginia, per ih. to

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Pennsylvania. No. X, p ©i.SO; Near York and h

L do. 921SO240: aaUva <

No. 1. do. S2.2&O2A0; 1

Maryland ard Virginia. ! do. 8298-S; Southern ] Cormleka, 8MO022Q; red > 02-2S; an sections. No. 2. do, 2 aD sectiow*. No. 1. per 1 8I28©L«; No. 2. do. 82911 toady varieties, per h-fl, I

94.7S. Sweets, North C par bet, 8494^0;

MaryUnd and Delawai*. do, | Xastera Shore Virginia, do, I Tams, an section, par Ini,.* sweet* and yams, all sect do. <29225. Sweets. aH a L j*r bn. hamp. s’ 2591 ril settlor*. No. 1, do. per hamp. fLS 91-50. Swmu and vs **'———

No. 2. do. 609975c.

NHW YORK.—Wheat—Na t tU No. x hard. 8L»H Na 1 Vaaitob*. und No. 2 mLed dunret^XUl. c. L f. track. New York, to arrive. Co.t—Bpot firm; No. 2 yallow a No. 2 volte 72*e, and Nir. t «ta« HX. e. L /. New Y*.5k, airrML Octs-Spot quiet; Nta 2 whlle. 489

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Hay-Bteady; No. L 82792ft Hfc X 25927; No. 8. 24928; thippiag. 819

XI.

“That there shotrid be spoctaneoua and detertulnnl action la Ulster Is not tturprlslng. Tto patience of ocr peo pie there ha* beer, sorely tried lately by cm .iii-wd rakts, arresu and tortures Inflicted upon them by age.its of the northern goveruuent. “The majority of -hose in prison in Belfast and Derry are suffering because they carried out my tAderv while I wti. ilmiwm officer, to .avtect the Uvea »»»d property of ChtboUc Civilian* trow :>ie ravage* c f Orangr mobs when those who are Imnisled wUh law and order refuw* in give protect km.” UlaSer and the Free State are at.Y disputing over thv aettlemem of the boundaries of Ulster, and there U •ome talk by Briildi MBrtala of calling on General flmuta to medUte S MItETAUY OF THE THEAR URY MELiAlN anusqnrevf i as i ueek that the government win p., oft tne Mitory 8%, |cr cent Umds mi m IwTore Juoe 15 next, and after that date the, wUl cease t„ brer interest The*.- bond*, of which there civ wlK>ul 4400JW1.CU0 outstanding, were U-™4 May JU. 1819, and mature May 2ij iois bnt the goven-nx-iit reserved ,he right to call them for n-demptiun this yrer At any time i^-fore Jim- 15 the bonds VU: be redeemed by the federal n »- •»« —-nw i„„.

tret. 27He: do. ertw. (tt a_ do. flrtts (88 to « s.-ore). 1 P«<Jting stock, curront t 29H92L

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firsts. 4*947: mat* momrtr un« nearby Wust*n hcim-ry mMttx. firiti. *- — 1 —iraawMK

7 browns, extra*. 51952; Stats and

color*, firsts to •bows. 489V; refrigerator ftrets. to&U.

troth 1»H9»H; dfc Brertge nm. 18 H 912: State whole aflk tolu*. spalais. 19H920H: d* mwu age ran. 18 H 032. Lire Poultry—Braftaab 88927--ch;ck«r». 2T92t; row* boaters IT; ttrksym 46. PHILADELPHIA. WhaU—Na. red winter tlJlff: xg: do gSLrKci 81.2591.88. Udra-No. 2 tor export. 88945’ No j. go. 82H944: No. 4. 829«’ Xa 2 retow. local, UfrsCH. Ho fettow. 8(9*7. Oau—No. 2 white <5H948c: No white. 44944%. **•2—Timothy, Mp. £. 822922; ' NO. ?. 8209*1; a-miK 81891C: grade. 1.4914; clover mixed hay.Ul mixed. tW I89U; No. 1 raixsd. 82( 2L U bee’s—New York whole kfacer flat*, held. JJc; do. fraah. * ©21H: fab- to good. JS920: lot born. 2192SH: single daistes, held. 822: do. fresh. 26*99H-

UVE STOCK

BALTIMORE — Calve* — Choke, tend, weight veals, par to. choitatoen. fat veais. ;8^.#H; W*‘o **>0d. 10918H: heavy- a«oo:b. tot calve*. 8910; heavy, rough calms. B

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Ho**—Straight. 89X9C: aow*. to •« quality. 6*07: stAg* und ooars. 498: live pig*, as u> olae and qw-iUy- 129 12: ‘boat*, w u> *1^ and flualHE. »•

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