The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-06-08
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Three slot machines were confiscat-
ed by Police Chief Cox at the store Of
John Thomas, in Pensauken township.
Bids for the erection of the new
armory at Salem will be opened at
Trenton on June %.
The Center Township Board of Edu-
cation reelected Mrs. NJ. Mayne prin-
cipal of the Brooklawn schools, and
awarded the contract for the new
school to the Penn Construction Com
pany of Philadelphia for $4,000.
Franklin w. Driver, a farmer, of
Mullica Hill was awarded a verdict of
$4,000 against the Public Service Troll
ley Company in the circuit court at
Woodbury.. The jury returned the ver-
dict after long deliberation. Driver
was going north in Woodbury. with a
load Of produce on September 2, 1920,
when his wagon was hit and wrecked
by trolley car.
Additional motor vehicle inspectors
went on duty on the roads leading to
Atlantic City and other seashore re-
sorts. By orders of William L. Dill,
state commissioner, all speeders and
careless drivers will be arrested. All
persons arrested for driving while in
toxicated will be sent to Jail for at
least 30 days.
Experience has shown. said Superin-
tendent John Enright Of the depart
ment of education, that the old maxim
of "sparing the rod and spelling the
child" has been proved fallacy. Su-
perintendent Enright addressed the
graduating class of Lakewood Gram
mar School No. 1, which motored to
the state house, Trenton. He urged
the pupils to respect constituted au-
thority as a fundamental lesson in good
citizenship.
George H. Holler, manager of the
Eureka Theater in Hackensack, discov-
cred that the theater safe had been
robbed of $4,000 in cash representing
receipts of Monday and Tuesday. The
office door was open and the safe had
been turned over on its side, drilled
and opened with a "can opener"
Mayor James B. Gurger of Railway
visited the carnival grounds, where
shows are being presented under the
auspices of Railway Post, American
Legion, and stopped all gambling de-
vices on the grounds. Wheels of for
tune and all games of chance We're
closed, and the legion was notified that
two men must be put in each booth to
see that the games are not reopened.
While his parents We're attending a
wedding at Wharton, Frank Hornick,
ten-year-old son of Joseph Hornick OF
Boonton, was killed by an automobile
driven by Stephen Bitzak of Walling-
ton. The boy ran out from behind an
eastbound trolley on Main street, near
the Harris Iyceuin, into the path OF
the car, eye-witnesses and Bitzak said.
The Alumni Association of the Phil
lipsburg High School adopted a resolu-
ton favoring the appropriation OF
100000 for a new high school. The
secretary was instructed to notify the
Board of Education and the Board OF
School Estimate. At recent meeting
of the Board of School Estimate the
plan was voted down.
Municipal authorities expressed them
selves as pleased with the opening
session of Newark's' new night traffic
court. More than $500 was collected
in fines from about $50 persons at the
initial session. Members of the City
Commission attended the session.
which was attended jointly by Judges
Boetner and Murray.
The death of Robert 2. Harris, mem
Der of well known Princeton fam
lily, is indicated by the discovery OF
his fishing boat upon an uninhabited
island off the Canadian shore of Lake
Superior. Mr.. Harris, it is believed
lost his life in q severe storm which
swept the lake last August. While he
has been missing since that time, the
discovery of the boat affords the firsi
clew to his fate.
'I stick; do not quit" is the way
in which Arthur r. Wendell of Rah
way answered Mayor James B. Fur
ber's request that he resign from tht
Sinking Fund Commission. Both the
request and the answer were made in
letters. In asking Wendell to resign
the mayor wrote that in view of Wen
delPs numerous published diatribe:
against the present mayor take i
that it will be as offensive to you as il
will be to the mayor to be associated
on the Sinking Fund Commission"
Trial of the suit of the city of Bay
onne to recover $4,000 from the Fed
eral Shipbuilding Company of Kearne,
for water pipes laid to the company'I
plant in 1918 was begun before Judg,
William Fl. Speer without jury in th'
supreme court. After hearing testi
mony by Joseph Brady, Creighton
Conklin and Charles w. Bryan, Jr., TIL
court postponed the case. The defend
ant company through fo, ner Corpora
tion Counsel John Milton of Jerse
City and Lindabury, Depue & Faulk
of Newark, admits liability up to abou
| $4,000, but contends that its contrac
with the city of Bayonne calls for moth
ing more. The question is one of lay
and the construction put on the term