The Monmouth inquirer., 1919-09-25
New Jersey
Items


ers have pending an ordinance provid-
ing for general bond issue of S6O,OOO
Turnerville.-The school has just re-
| opened. As no teacher was obtainable,
Mrs. Thomas Scott is in charge
Gloucester.-Tro l, Boy Scouts, is
preparing for a big celebration and
athletic meet for Thanksgiving day
Millville.-Despite the high cost OF
material, this town is exeriencing the
greatest building boom in years, as
the demand for dwellings and apart
| ments is far exceeding the supply.
INSTRUMENTATION several months
preparation it is said that the Booth
Glass Manufacturing Company, which
bought out the old local works some
time ago, will put the factory into
blast by October /.
Gibbstown-Th workers engaged
in the manufacture of dynamite at the
DUPONT plant have been laced on
nine hour day schedule owing to
boom in business.
Paulsboro.-Th West Jersey Bap-
fist Association win hold its annual
convention in Taylor Memorial Church
on October Z and s. Rev. G. S. Miller,
pastor of the local church, has ar
ranged to have the delegates admitted
to the Hog Island shipyard, located di-
rectly across the Delaware river from
here.
Salem.-The local Chautauqua was
a gratifying success in every way, and
as evidence of public interest more
than hundred prominent men and
women signed as guarantors for next
years Chautauqua, although but 30
were required by the association.
Gloucester City.-Dr. J. A. Beck,
medical officer of the Board of Health,
vaccinated a number of children
whose parents claimed they could not
afford to pay for it, and the. youngsters
are now at school
renton.-GovernOr Runyon repudi-
ated the action of Adjutant General
Gilkyson in preparation for mobiliza
ton of the state militia to quell dis
turbances at Camden and Burlington
because of enforcement of the fare
zone system.
Paulsboro.-There is a scarcity of
workmen at the plant of the Mantua
Chemical Company, which is being in
creased to twice it's present capacity.
Vineland-J. E. Abbott, state divi-
sion fire warden for this section for
several years, has been transferred TO
middle Jersey division, and Major
Leonidas Coyle, who saw two years
service, succeeds him.
Orange.-Richard f. Colgate, sixty
five years old, president of Colgate &
Co. of Jersey City, which was founded
by his grandfather in 1906, died in his
home in West Orange. He was gradu-
ated from Yale in 1877.
WoOdbury.-James II. Hutchinson,
civil war veteran, evidently believes
in preparedness. Some time ago he
ordered a monument erected in the
Wenonah Cemetery, and the stone has
just been set 1t is of granite with
raised letters, complete with the eX-
ception of the date of his death. Just
now it looks as though it might be
many years before the stone will be
completed, as Hutchinson is ''only"
seventy-seven years old, and he rode
his bicycle to the cemetery to see that
the stone was set according to his
wishes. He rode a wheel because the
trolleys were not running.
Vineland. - J. P Heritage of this
place has accepted an offer to teach
blind soldiers in the Red Cross 1nsti-
tute in Baltimore in craftsmanship and
marketing.
Observation-Disclosures of crime in con-
nectiOn with the finding of the body of
pretty seventeen-year-old Verona Lamb
in Crops lake were dispelled by Coro-
ner Wagner, who after an investiga-
ton concluded the girl, finding that she
could not have the same privileges as
other girls, because she was a ward of
the New Jersey Children's Society,
threw herself into the lake in a sui
cidal frenzy.
Pitman-The Finance Committee of
the Pitnam Welcome Home Committee
has already received nearly $1,000 in
contributions. The canvass for funds
was directed by Edward H. Gurk.
Mauricetown.-C Charged by Charles
Fort, sealer of weights and measures,
John Fl. Bailey, coal dealer, was ar
rested and gave 5000 bonds for a fur
Their hearing.
Pitman.-Although the Pitman Cot
tagers' Association officially ended its
season on Labor Day, 50 many fami-
lies have remained that another twi-
light song service will be held
Merchantyille.-Som Somebody put one
over on the Half Hour Reading Club,
which undertook to establish a curb
market. Members of the club had ar
ranged with number of farmers to be
in front Of the town hall with produce.
Then the farmers got notice that the
plan was abandoned, with the result
that when crowds of women went to
the expected curb market with their
baskets there was but one farmer on
hand. Who got the list of addresses
and sent out the fake notices is not
known