The Monmouth inquirer., 1918-05-16
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Feeling that an injustice Is being
done through continued failure to call
upon approximately 5000 skilled work
ers equipped by previous training for
employment in shipyards, enrolling or
ficers Of the United States Public Serv-
ice Reserve In New Jersey adopted res
olutions at a meeting in Trenton call
ing attention of the Washington au-
thorities to the situation.
The physical department of the I.
NJ. G. A., of which r. L. Meermans Is
the head, plans to teach every Plain
field boy how to swim. Free swimming
classes for all boys between the ages
of ten and fifteen years will continue
the rest of the month.
In special school election at Hack
ensack a provision was adopted for a
$4,000 fund to be paid in 500 bonuses
to school teachers. To legalize the
procedure the money was voted for
current expenses" 1t is to enable
the teachers better to meet war time
costs Of living. The vote on the pro-
posal was 593 to II. OF the voters 369
were women.
By carrying 10 of the city's % dis
tricts and three of the five wards the
dry forces emerged victorious in the
East Orange local option election by
a majority of 173. In four other eiec-
tions the .'drys'' carried Woodbury., 718
to 47S; Greenwich township, 173 to
1876, and Milford, Hunterdon county,
104 to "A, while Paulsboro went "wet," !"
1926 to 377.
A spark from brush fire landed on
q building In the Hohokus race track
In which several hundred tons of hay
was stored, and in short time. the
plant was a mass ef ruins. Many of
the buildings, including the clubhouse,
were reduced to ashes, and the sta
bles were partly destroyed. The pad
dock and grandstand remain.
George D. Terrill, for As years con-
ductor on the New Jersey Central rail-
road, died from heart disease at his
home in Dunellen. Mr.. Terrill, who
was seventy five years old, ran the
Somerville local for 25 years. He
leaves a widow and daughter.
Broken hearted because the local Sc
lective Service Board rejected him for
service, Carl Benson, twenty-seven, of
Paterson, ended his life with gas.
Nelson b. Gaskill of Trenton has
been commissioned a major in the
Judge Advocate Reserve Corps of the
army.
Having pleaded guilty to slashing
his wife's face, Salvatore Petrocco of
173 Kansas street, Hackensack, was
sentenced In the Bergen county courts
to from two to seven years in the state
prison.
The Vantage Township Board of
Education has voted to close the
Woodbourne school at the end of the
present term and transport the IL pu-
pills to Lewisburg. This is the fourth
school in the district to be closed in
the last II months. Last year the
board voted to close the schools at
Jacksonville, Glove and Pond. Eleven
schools remain in the district
Lie west XN0W 1OIh oOdIu VI lLQu-
cation adopted resolutions putting IT.
sell, on record as willing to offer any
thing within its power to the govern
ment. The resolutions applied particu-
larly TO the West New York schools,
which the board is willing to turn over
to the government for conversion into
hospitals if the war department so
chooses.
Gloucester is planning for large
and impressive observance of Memo
rias Day, with committee headed by
Mayor Anderson. All the organiza-
tioi.s in the city have agreed to par
ticipate.
Governor Edge expressed the opin-
ion that in the employment of convict
labor and arranging for more ad-
vanced road building methods the
department can cooperate to great
advantage with the state highway de-
partment. One suggestion was that 1t
might be possible to line the highways
with trees as part of the road building
specifications.
An evening class in accounting has
been established by the Pusey & Jones
Company at its Gloucester ship plant.
Reports show that Atlantic county
leads the state in the percentage of
schools which have organized Junior
Red Cross auxiliaries.
The special train which carries
workers to the new Ways Landing mu-
u{finn plont from Atlantic Cifv and
way stations now has eight cars The
working force is being increased daily.
Considerable woodland was de-
stroyed by forest fire which swept
many acres of Bethel estate and that
of Charles P. Esibill, in West Millville.
Two mon xupro q arrnstad while taking