The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-07-13
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STATE BRIEFS


voted to heldSa show the first week in
December unless the last week in No
vember Is later chosen.
Mrs. Theresa Soudcr, widow of
Thomas c. Souder of Millville, was
stricken with heart failure at her LONE,
died before physician could reach
her.
Isador Albaum, aliS s Jim Burk, of
Philadelphia, arrested in Wildwood on
a charge of having an opium outfit in
his home, was held under $4,000 bail
for court at the city hail. A number
of other characters registered in the
police files were driven out of town.
Banking and Insurance Commits
sioner William e. Tuttle, Jr., candi-
date for the DemC cratic nomination
for governor, favors the repeal of all
prohibition enforcement acts passed by
the New Jersey legislature and also
endorses a restoration of the five-cent
trolley fare He makes these two
vital issues the subject of a public
statement given out at Trenton.
Louis P. Bayard. former intercol-
legiate golf champion, died suddenly at
his home In Short Hills He was grad
uated from Princeton in 1885, Mr..
Bayard was secretary and treasurer of
til Short Hills Water Company, a gov
ernor of the Baltusrol Golf Club and a
member of the Princeton Club of New
York. His daughter, Martha Bayard
Is a we'll known tennis player, stand
ing seventeenth in the women's ma
tional ranking list.
Freddie Cincenco, Camp Dix barber,
is in the hospital with a deep furrow
along his scalp He was attempting to
remove cartridge that mad jammed
in his automatic with the business end
pointed toward his head. The cartridge
was discharged, entered the right side
of his head above the ear and followed
the skull line in a deep groove. He
has a painful but not serious injury.
Charles Mason, negro hod carrier,
living at 100 Orange avenue, Newark,
was arrested in Clinton avenue for
speeding in his automobile. He told
the motorcycle officer who arrested
him that he was sorry, but as he was
FIVE minutes late to work he stepped on
the gas to make up time He left $25
to insure his appearance in court.
While playing with a revolver at
Paterson twelve-year-old Thomas Ban
dine accidentally shot and killed his
seventeen-year-old brother, George, in
the home Of boy friend.
Alonza B. Fox of Burlington was re-
elected president of the Burlington
County Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals at the annual meet
ing.
Renewed evidence that prosperous
business conditions are at hand con-
tinues to be supplied monthly by the
office of Building Inspector Hancock in
the city hall, Trenton, and figures made
public show that during June permits
were taken out for more than half a
million dollars worth of building.
Plans for the reconstruction of the
River road from Scudder Falls to
Washington Crossing are reported near
completion by County Engineer Harris
and probably will be offered for ap-
provaI at the session of the Freehold
ers July 49, Improvement to 80 foot
width, 20 feet, being re-enforced con
crete, is contemplated.
| A drive for $4,000 for the large new
auditorium and music shell erected on
the old baseball grounds is being con-
Quoted by the Pitman Cottagers Assoc
citation.
Vor;o,,s nrrani1atiopc cnoEiuo NOM
bership in the newly organized Salem
county Chamber of Commerce will be
given representation on the basis of
five delegates, or members, to each
unit.
Two special officers have been sworn
In for duty ON the Grown Point road at
Verga Saturdays and Sundays. and
Justice of the Peace Seddon will have
an office on the pike.
The famous summer choir of the Pit
man Cottagers Association, which
sings at the twilight song services Sun
day evenings, win give an open air
concert on the evening of July 1sl as a
feature of the program at the annual
| picnic Of the Gloucester county Sun
/ day schools.
Clarence l.. Cullen, fiction writer aid
| former newspaper man, was found
dead of heart disease in his autome-
bile near his home in Deal. He went
| out for ride and when about q hum
dred yards from home apparently felt
the attack coming and stopped his car.
Mr.. Cullen had been on the staffs Of
several New York newspapers, includ-
ingNthe Times; World and Herald. He
is survived by his wife.
The New Jersey department of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Asbury
Park elected james A. Rikeman of Jer-
sey City commander at the closing ses-
sion Of the annual encampment. 9th
er officers elected were Senior vice
commander, Charles s. Whaner of
Trenton; junior vice commander, Pc
ter ]. Leyendecker of Paterson; chap
lain. Rev. William I. Abbott of AS
bury Park, department medical direc-
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