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SOL. LXXIII. No. 9, $1.59 Per Year. HIGHTSTOWN, M E R C E R COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1921. Price 4 Cents. Whole No. 3,754

WIFE SHOT IN LEG, PLAINS- DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER Columbus Farmer Bank Building BORO MAN DISAPPEARS OFFICIAL FIGHT FILMS Potato Pickings Gored To Death Contract Awarded The Middlesex county authorities Coming to Strand Theatre Mon­ are looking for John Schancz, of By C. T. McCt{e day and Tuesday, Aug. 22-23. BillS) W ill & Co. Plain.sboro, to question him about Tliesc pictun's art' said to be more By Ferocious Bull his wife, Susie Schancz, being wound­ A Broad St. Station official of the just the same as were used fifty satisfying than a seat at the ring Over Fifty -E ig h t Thousand ed with a bullet and also about a Pennsylvania railway company pro­ years ago. Automatically, farm ma­ side because you really see much Harvey Comp Trampled Under Hoofs of Enraged Bull in Barn­ Dollars. Bank Paid Fifteen still .and several quarts of liquor mulgated a ruling that freight car chinery has been greatly improved, more of the contest than possible Thousand for the Ground.— found in his homo. The woman is doors must be boarded up solid three but structurally it is as rotten as with the human eye. yard of Samuel Pew Near Co­ Vault Will Cost Over Ten in a Trenton hospital with a bullet in feet from the bottom of the car; it was fifty years ago. First you see all the preliminaries lum bus. Thousand Dollars. her right leg*. not even a crack; not even an ap- Cast iron, with a tensile strength of to the star contest, then you see the Investigating a report coming to erature for air circulation is per- 10 or 11 thousand pounds per square big fight as'it really took place, and Attacked by a mad bull in the Wills, Bill and Company, contrac­ his office that there had been a mur­ missable. Now a ruling of this kind inch and soft steel with a tensile finally you see the fight ns caught barnyard of .Samuel Pew, near Colqm- tors of Philadelphia, have been award­ der committed at Plainsboro, County is not only preposterous, but it is strength of 60,000 pounds per square by the high speed camera. This ver­ bus, Harvey Comp was killed Sun­ ed the contract for the new hank Detective David of New Brunswick rediculous; ventilation at the bot­ inch are used, as they were fifty sion projects on the screen so slow­ day before fellow workmen could briilding to he erected by the First went to the Schancz homo and found tom of the car is absolutely neces­ years ago, while the materials enter­ ly that it is po.ssible to follow every rescue him. His body was badly Kational Bank of Hightstown. The Mrs. Schancz in bed with her wound sary, especially when the potatoes ing automobiles, or other non-crim­ blow from the lime it was started mangled and his ribs were broken, one of the ribs having punctured a contract price is over $58,000 and bandaged, while under the bod was are dug green, as they are at this inal constructions, are made from until it landed. does not include the vault, which a rifle with its stock broken off. Look­ season ,of the year, and for this poor materials ranging from 60,000 to 20,- Another thing the camera clearly lung. will cost another $10,000 to $12,000. ing around further, David said, he benighted Broad street official to 000 pounds to the square inch, in discloses is that Carpontier not only Comp’s body was virtually buried The new building will bo erected found the still and the liquor, to­ specify airtight boarding, for the con­ tensile strength. staggered Dempsey in the second in the ground by the infuriated ani­ on the ground known as the Smith gether with four barrels of mash, ditions under which we are working In their career of crime, for the round with one blow, but once again, mal, which was about to charge him property. Main street. , The lot is 62 which he destroyed. at the present time, is unreasonable. past three years, the manufacturers in the same round, he came very again when several men, armed with by 200 feet. The bank paid the Andrew Budie, the farm hand, said If they will modify .their ruling of farm machinery have doubled the close to the world championship. guns and hay forks, drove him away. Smith estate .115,000 for the ground. he heard the report of the gun and and allow an inch space between prices and, if possible, the materials Very much closer than any one at Comp, who is employed on the When completed the bank will have ran to a neighboring farm to give the the lower boards of the car and six are poorer than ever. The list price* the ring side gave him credit tor. farm, had gone into the barnyard to an investment of about $100,000 in alarm. He declared the woman’s hus­ inches above three feet it will be sen­ asked for repairs afford profits rang­ Another interesting feature of these attend to bis Sunday work when, ground, building, vault and fixtures, band left the house soon after the sible and meet the requirements of ing from 500 to 3,000 per cent. 1 pictures is the remarkable close-up without any warning, it is believed, Martin Nolan has completed the shooting and that ho had a revolver the growers at this time. The local of­ have two Hoover diggers , which were study of the crowd of 90,000 people the bull attacked him. He was destruction of the old fraihe building, in his hand. ficials are allowed no discretionary put in good repair before we began who had gathered at the arena from knocked down and so badly injured which was more recently occupied Schancz ran up the road and dis­ powers and are compelled to insist digging; we have been digging five all parts of the world, many of them he was unable to move or make any by the Hightstown Tire and Repair appeared in the woods, Budie said. on the Broad street rulings being days with one digger and during being international celebrities. outcry. The man was dead when Shop, Turner’s Bakery and Edward Shortly after that, Budie told Detec­ carried out. The inspector from that time 1 have been to town 37 Thesd pictures will be at the Strand rescuers reached him. Ralph’s bartershop and poolroom. tive David, he heard a shot in the Jamesburg reports any infractions times for repairs; the number of Theatre for two days, commencing The animal which killed Comp The building contractors will com­ woods. The detective organized a of the ruling, as promulgated by parts 1 have had to buy have amount­ Monday, Aug. 22. Two shows each badly injured Austin Potts of Bed­ mence operations within the next posse and searched the woods, but no Broad street, and the local officials ed to 177; this, mind you, is to keep evening. ding, about a year ago. lew days. The sub-contract for the trace of Schancz could be found. are compelled to refuse to bill out one digger at work! The bull was purchased by a Mrs. Schancz, when apprised of butcher Monday morning and will excavating will be let this week. The the car. 1 have tried other makes of dig­ P. 0 . S. of A. CONVENTION Budie's statement, asserted she had bo killed. dirt will be moved to the rear of the gers and they are just as rotten, or wounded herself accidentally. She Shippers can do this, however,— Aside from his wife and two small lot and used for filling in purposes. N. they can hold the railway company worse. The thirty-third annual sessions of said that in making the bod at 10 children, Mr. Comp is survived by his C. Schlottman was given the plumb­ responsible for any loss due to a There is nothing peculiar about the State Camp of New Jersey, o’clock in the morning she threw the parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Comp ing contract by the general contrac­ the construction of these diggers, or Patriotic Order Sons of America, pillow over her head and knocked the falling' market, it they will board of Columbus, and a sister, Mrs. John tors. The construction work will be the service they are to render, that were held in Alexander Hall, one gun off the mantlepiece. It was dis­ the car doors in a reasonable and Joy of Allentown! rushed. would prevent their being made to of'Princeton University’s finest buld- charged in the fall, sh