The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-09-14

MilIviIle. - Nearly 5000 pupils en-
rolled in the public schools. Owing to
the crowded conditions the Board of
Education will speed plans for $780,
600 high school building.
Camden.-Many drug addicts from
Philadelphia, made desperate By the
absence Of peddlers from accustomed
haunts because Of the crusade against
them, are besieging druggists and hos
pitals here to obtain narcotics.
Glassboro.-The $3.50 realized by the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Shaw-Paulin
Post, American Legion, will be used
towards furnishing the post quarters
in the new community building.
Gloucester City. = John Corcoran,
cantor of the public school, saved the
Board of Education more than $500 by
doing repair work about the buildings,
so the board voted him $3.50.
Gloucester City.-The Haddon town
ship Board of Education has requested
the school board here to care for the
112 grade pupils from Gloucester
Heights until the new school building
at the latter place is finished
Magnolia-E ". d. f. Stoery of Up
land, Pa, has been called as pastor of
the Baptist Church here and will ac-
| cept. The board of trustees will pur-
4 chase three lots at Lincoln and Cam
den avenues for new edifice.
Asbury Park-Charles R. Zacharias
was elected president of the Wanamas-
sa Community Association. of North
Asbury Park at the annual election.
Other officers are: L. Roy Martin, vice
president; George E. Wilson, treasurer,
I and William Koester, secretary.
Millville-That the glass plants here
will resume operation as soon as coal
can be obtained is indicated by the
placing of fires under several furnaces.
/ Camden. = The monthly report of
William Miller, clerk, shows not mar
| riage license issued in Centre town.
| ship during August
Wildwood A. Clegg, forty-two
years old and for ten years truant Off
Ger of the city schools, died from heart
failure while working around his farm
on Seashore road, near here. Clegg
had also been special officer and
served an enlistment in the United
| States cavalry. He is survived by a
widow and II children.
Trenton. Chancellor Walker has
just granted final divorce decree to
Mrs. Francis E. Cordova of Atlantic
Highlands, who brought suit three
years ago against J. Frank Cordoya, a
| former Methodist minister of South
River The former clergyman createf
a sensation eight years ago by eloping
with Julia Browne, a young member
| of the choir of his church.
Jersey City.-Robert Ambry, clerk
| in the city clerks Office, was held in
$1,000 bail by Judge Markely in crimi-
nal court on a charge of issuing worth
less checks. William Roche, a clerk
In the surrogate's Office, was held on a
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses. The complaint was made
by a barber, who received checks
amounting to 500 from Ambry.
Hackettstown-An explosion In the
ammonia plant of the Althano Humus
| Company, fertilizer manufacturers,
caught fire that wiped out three of the
company's buildings here with damage
estimated at 100000. No one was in
jured. Twenty carloads of celery and
large store of provisions for the en-
ployees were part of the loss.
Trenton.-Mrs. Bertha N Rich of
this city has brought suit for $4,000
against the Interstate Fair Associa-
4 ~ fe y
of her husband, Walter A. Rich, who
was killed October 2, 1920, by the dis
charge of machine gun, part of war
trophy exhibit at the fair. Rich was
shot down before the eyes of his wife,
with whom he had gone into the tent
| in which the exhibit of weapons was
| displayed. An investigation of the fa-
tality was conducted by military au-
| thorities, but little developed.
Harrisonville.-The harvest home
| here netted the church about $3.50.
Glassboro.-Dr. e. NJ Duffield war
veteran and first full-term mayor of
this city, has decided to be a candi-
date for reelection, after having an
nounced that he preferred that some
body else run.
Pedricktown.-H High school pupils
from this place and vicinity will be
transported to the Pennsgrove school
by bus.
Gloucester City.-The Fairgrounds
at King and Monmouth streets closed
for the season with special exercises.
Pitman. Excavations are under
way for the foundations of the twen-
| ty-room high school building here.
Trenton.-The New Jersey Chill
| dren's Home here has been stocked
with white potatoes for the winter by
| the Women's Bible Glass of Woods
| town Methodist Church.
Mantua-Several accidents have oc-
Cured to children here playing on the
new concrete street, and the township
authorities will issue warnings that
| the law will be strictly enforced as to
! speed