The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-06-15
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Many property owners at Highland
Park, suburb of Gloucester City, have
| filed appeals with the Camden county
Board of Taxation against their assess
| ment.
Charles Urban, an aged man, who
escaped from the Burlington county
asylum at New Lisbon, was found in
Haddonfeld by Chief of Police Dennis
and was sent back.
The Wildwood Improvement Society
has petitioned the Pensauken township
authorities for appointment of an Off
Ger for that section.
May was busy month at Cooper
Hospital, Camden. The report of the
board of managers shows I'll opera
tions performed and 3,348 treatments
in the accident and out patient depart
ments.
The Gloucester City Chamber of
Commerce gave to each CT the Camden
hospitals $1,35625, collected in the re-
cent drive
At joint meeting of the Merchants
and Civic Betterment Committees of
the Gloucester City Chamber of Com
merce it was decided to ask every
church and organization to join in the
Independence Day celebration.
AS result of the traffic control of
the White Horse pike by the STATE po-
lice accidents have been practically
eliminated, Colonel Schwartzkopt, COM
mander of the police, claimed in an ad-
dress at the weekly luncheon of the
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Notice has been issued for special
election to be held Friday, June 16, at
| Woodlynne to decide whether bonds
shall be issued for street improve
ments.
Another dog, believed to have been
in fight with the animal that bit two
children and resulted in the quarantine
in Pensauken township, developed
rabies and was killed. The animal was
the pet of William Miller of Union ave
nue..
Most of the merchants of Woodbury.
will close their stores Wednesday aft
ernoons during June, July and August.
+ The Vineland Rotary Club entertain
ed the "a members of the high school
graduating class at dinner The boys
gave their school yells, and the club
urged all to take civilian training so
that this country could muster 6,OOO,-
600 soldiers overnight
The last of the furnaces at the old
glass factory once operated by the
Moore Brothers at Clayton are being
torn down and the bricks sold for
building purposes.
summer vacation Bible school is
| again to be conducted at Pitman under
the direction of the Cottagers' Associa-
ton
| DR.. Arthur L. Wescott of Atlantic
| City and DIR. Walter F. Barry of New
ark were appointed by Governor Ed
wards to the State Board of Registra-
tion and Examination in Dentistry. Dr.
Westcott succeeds DIR. John G. For
Jsythe of Trenton. DIR. Barry succeeds
DIR. Franklin Rightmire of Paterson.
Daniel H. Hills of Spring Lake was re-
appointed to the State Board of Phar-
macy.
An immense school of porpoises en-
tered the Delaware bay and created
much excitement among the anglers off
Fortescue. Veteran fishermen say they
have never before seen so many in the
channel. The school extended more
than two miles, and the gambols of the
porpoises produced a nooise like the
surf
The fourteenth annual exhibition of
patients work at the State Village for
Ebileptics was conducted at Skillman
under supervision of the village.
License to set up 360-meter radio
broadcasting station has been Obtained
by the municipality of North Plain
field, Mayor Smalley announced. The
outfit will be used for police and civic
purposes, Mayor Smalley said North
Plainfield is the first municipality in
the state to take out license for
limited broadcasting station.
Alleging disobedence of orders, the
newly elected Socialist mayor, James
B. Furber, of Railway suspended Chief
of Police David H. Ramsey for thirty
days without pay, pending hearing
by the mayor In the near future The
suspension grew out of the alleged
failure of the chief to prohibit certain
games of chance at the American Le-
giOn carnival.
The congregation of the First Pres
byterian Church, Gloucester, is pre-
pairing to celebrate it's seventy-fiftn
anniversary on June 26 and 81.
Tax collectors in Gloucester county
report that the first half of the years
taxes have been paid readily, while
number have paid in full for the year.
That the concoction seized In his
barn by federal agents was merely
| medicine for his sick cattle is the con-
| tention of Lawrence Stiles, farmer,
of Heislerville Cumberland county, ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Iszard at Atlantic City on
charge of violating the Volstead law.
The agents said that they didn't taste
the mixture, but Judged its contents
by it's odor." Stiles waived hearing
and was held for the federal grand
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