The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-06-15

pirate the additional amount, as the
school is greatly needed.
Despondent after months of illness,
isolated from relatives, DR.. Helen Eng
lIsh, said to be member of a promi.
nent family at Sc: lde Heights, com
mitted suicide by hanging in the attic
of the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Groom, with whom she had been living,
200 Stacy street, Burlington. Accord
ing to reports reaching the police, the
young woman had been under treat
ment for nervous breakdown in the
State Hospital at Trenton prior to com
ing to Burlington
Federal Hall, the first of a group of
buildings of the New Jersey College
for Women, was dedicated at New
Brunswick In the presence of women
from all parts of the state. The pres
entation was made by Mrs. Arthur 3.
Proal, president of the Federation of
Women's Clubs, and was accepted by
Mrs. Mabel S. Douglas, dean of the
college.
AS climax to a clothing strike at
Vineland for month, Fort Belona had
Max Greenburg, proprietor, arrested
on the charge of saying "I'll burn you
harder than you were burned before"
whatever that may mean. On the way
to the Justices Office the men made up,
and the strike was settled on the spot.
The force of 200 men went to work.
Alfred Gaskill, state forester and as
sistant director of the state depart
ment of conservation and development,
rendered his resignation, to take eff
feet July 1. Charles P. WILDER of Tren-
ton, state fire warden, will become act
ing forester. Tie retiring forester has
been in the state service many years.
He plans to regain his health by trav-
cling.
City Assessor Roland Roberts, one
of the leading residents, diel sudden
ly in the Brewer Hospital, Woodbury.,
following an operation for placing a
piece of his shinbone to his spire, when
some of the vertebrae had decayed.
The operation seemed to be a success,
but pneumonia developed. A. short
time ago a little daughter of MIR. and
Mrs. Roberts died suddenly, and short
ly afterward Mrs Roberts parents died
within two weeks of each other.
Eight-year-old Charlotte Peters, who
has been suffering from diphtheria for
five years, is getting better and soon
will 90 to her home in Bloomfield, ac-
cording to DIR. William Runyan, in
charge of the Essex County Isolation
Hospital, Newark, where the little girl
spent her long siege.
That mothers with babies might at
tend the Parent Teachers Association
meeting at the Broadway public school,
Gloucester City, high school girls at
tended the babies.
The electric siren purchased by Nj
agara fire company of Merchantville
has been placed on the tower.
Raising more than $1,000 in ten min
utes was the achievement of Fire Com
pany No. at Collingswood in the cam
paign for Independence day celebra-
tion funds. And it was all cash, drop
ped in bags by willing citizens.
Miss Lillian Hill of West Walnut
avenue, Merchantville, will have charge
of the Y. w. c. A. summer camp at
jamestown, N. Y, at the opening Of
the season on July 1.
An old flimfiam game was worked on
the proprietor of the Merchantville
Tire Shop by seven men, who stopped
for gas and oil, and cheated him out
of $40.
The fund of the Gloucester City
Chamber of Commerce for the two
Camden hospitals has reached ST.
741.37.
While working in the wire mill Of
John A. Roebling Sons Company at
Trenton, John Berras, fifty years old,
piece of wire in vat of liquid when
in an unknown manner the wire be-
came charged shocking him to death.
The proposal to erect a two-room
brick addition at cost of $4,000 to
the Pompton Plains School was ap-
proved by majority of twenty-nine
votes at Pompton Plains at special
district school meeting in Pau Re
we're Hall, called by the Requannock
Township Board of Education The
vote was 153 for, 124 against, with
seven ballots thrown out as improper
ly marked.
John L. Compton, head of the print
ing firm of his name in Jersey City,
died at his residence, 295 Academy
street, Jersey City, aged sixty-two.
He was Knight Templar and :: men,
Der of the Old Guard of this state.
Special Deputy Bank Commissioner
Larue Vredenbergh died at Somerville
from pneumonia. Mr. Vredenbergh
was one of the most widely known
bank examiners in the state and for
the past five years had been engaged
in the affairs of the defunct Mutual
Trust Company of Orange. He was
sixty seven years old.
What is considered one of the record
catches of the season in the Delaware
bay for hook and line fishermen was
made by a party from Pitman, who
brought into Fortescue 43S fish. mostly
croakers and weakfish. In the lot were