The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-07-20
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

During July and August the Weno-
nah Ppublic Library will be open in
the afternoon only, except Saturdays.
The Gloucester City public schools
will reopen Wednesday, September 8.
with more new teachers than ever be-
fore.
A move Is on foot to have life guards
on the beach at BilIingsport during the
summer. There have been numerous
drownings.
Powder makers and their families
had community celebration at Gibbs
town, parade and games for the chill
dren featuring the program.
Brooklawn now has five mail cOllec-
tions daily, getting as good service as
Gloucester City, from which post Of
flee the mail is delivered.
Because no suitable place can be had
in Woodbury. the Gloucester County
Poultry Association will hold Its an
nual show at Gloucester in December.
Found guilty of operating an auto
bus past standing trolley car, Harry
Dixon of Fairview was fined $40 by
Recorder Stackhouse in Camden.
The coast guard crtter Kickapoo,
which has been off her station at Cape
May nearly month, being repaired at
the Baltimore yards, will return to
Cape May on August 10.
Pupils of Roebling and Florence
public schools face half sessions and
Overcrowded rooms next fall as re-
suit of the second refusal of citizens to
approve bond issue of $4,000 for a
new central schoolhouse.
The Gloucester township committee
meeting at Blackwood raised the sal
ary of Collector s. B. Godfrey 800 and
that of the assessor, J. s. Chew, 5000
a year. The committee decided that it
could not grant any other increases be-
cause the tax rate is now higher
Under direction of game wardens
5000 young black bass from the state
fish hatchery at Hackettstown have
been planted in Sylvan lake, Burling-
ton; Vincentown lake, Little Pine Mill
lake. Browns Mills; Smithviile pond
and Rancocas lake, Rancocas Park.
The gravel road from Glasboro to
Malaga has been coated with dust
allayer.
A motor buss will soon be placed in
service between Port Norris and
Bridgeton, replacing the abandoned
trolleys.
Holding the power of the state to be
sovereign, Chancellor Edwin Walker
at Trenton permanently enjoined Jer-
sey City from interfering with con-
struction of the vehicular tunnel be-
tween Manhattan and Jersey City.
More than 80 of large number Of
motorists were found without proper
licenses when stopped Sunday by mo-
tor vehicle inspectors on the shore pike
below Millville.
The concerts given by the Swedes-
boro band Wednesday evenings, under
the direction of the chamber of COM
merce, are drawing crowds from neigh
boring districts.
Hector Lefever, a poultryman of
South Vineland, was astounded when
on opening his henhouse door a big
hen hawk flew furiously into his face,
nearly knocking him down The hawk
had been locked up with the chickens
at night, but did not disturb them.
After vanishing Lefever, the would-be
thief few away.
James Stone, small child of lIill-
vile, was terribly burned about the
limbs when his clothing was ignited
while playing with matches.
Action toward obtaining the reap
portionment of the department of in
stitutions and agencies of approximately
100000 saved by it in operating ex-
penses, structural work and increased
receipts for patients at the various
state institutions the past year was
taken by the board of control at its
organization meeting in Trenton.
Louis Smell, of Newark, Lacka-
wanna railroad clerk, was drowned in
an ashpit in the freight yards at Jer-
sey City. He stumbled into the pit
lust after an engine had dumped its
fire into five feet Of water. Smells
cries attracted two enginemen, who
pulled him oft, but he died few
minutes later.
Chester J. Ahein, thirteen-year-old
son and only cAild of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Rhein of 10 Ruth street, Irving
ton, was buried alive in the dooryard
of the summer home of his parents at
Monmouth avenue and Cedar street,
Oceanview, near Atlantic Highlands.
The boy had dug hole in the sand
about five feet deep and had started to
undermine it With the intent in which
to play Indian when the wet shore sand
caved in on hirn.
Prominent club women Of New Jer-
sey have joined forces with the state
department of agriculture, through its
bureau of markets, in an effort to
check profiteering in food products.
The purpose In to inform the public,
by means Of publicity, as to the fair
price of eatables. To accomplish this
about thirty wwmen, affiliated with the
State Federation of Women's clubs.
composed of about 200 women's organ
izations in the state and the New Jer-
sey League of Women Voters, have
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