The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-02-15
Neu, Jersey
State Briefs

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Vineland recalled the old days
when Howard Snyder appeared In an
old-fashioned sleigh with the Jingle
bells"
At the meeting of the Gloucester
City Children's Welfare Association
it was reported that about 1000 resi-
dents had been enrolled in the mem
bership drive
The Camden county free library
has placed Ill books in the school at
Brooklawn and they will be distri-
buted to the residents Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
The net valuation taxable in Mer-
chantyille for 1923 is $3,598,445, an
increase of $437,7s3 over 1922. Elk
cept in a few instances the increase
is all from new properties.
The total assessment of real estate
In Woodlynne borough is not as large
4 as that of last YER, and the Camden
County Board of Taxation has given
notice that it will inspect the prop
critics before making revision.
Pleading for a 10-cent trolley fare
for the poor railway company"
Frank Bergen, counsel for the Public
] Service Railway Company, opened his
arguments before Thomas G. Hatght,
sitting as special master at Newark.
He elaborated upon the covering
! power" of the railway company and
told of the great territory 1t served.
Charles NJ. King, aged seventy
/ three, for twenty-five years Surro-
gate of Passaic County, died at his
home in Paterson. He retired from
Office in 1910. He was one of the
| organizers of the Phelps Guards and
was a member of Hamilton, Mecca,
Lincoln and North Jersey Country
clubs and the Masonic order. He
was lifelong Republican. His wife
and two sons survive him.
A bill to GUST Colonel Schwarz-
kof and Major Kimberling as heads
of the State police is offered by AS
semblyman Powell of Burlington
/ The measure provides for the trans
forming of the department from a
military to police organization. The
bill provides for a new superinten-
dent with the rank of major, and an
assistant to rank as captain, and
stipulates the superintendent must
have had fifteen years experience as
a police officer or county detective.
What is believed to be the largest
illicit liquor making plant discovered
in this part of the country was seized
by Federal agents in large barn on
the New Durham road, between Rari-
tan and Piscataway townships. 1t Is
said that the plant belonged to New
York bootleggers, who have been
supplying saloons and restaurants il
Plainfield. Four men escaped, leay-
ing the stills in operation. Two
1900 gallon stills and one of 500 gal
Ions were included in the equipment,
which probably is worth $4,000
AS a part of the attempt to close
Hudson County theatres Sundays,
several ministers at Union Hill sent
letter to Police Commissioner Ed
ward Meyer and Police Chief Fred
Menge, calling their attention to the
laws governing theatres on Sundays.
Assemblyman Oliver Randolph, a
negro, of Essex County, is the author
of a concurrent resolution directing
Attorney General Thomas F. McCran
to make an investigation of the ac-
tivities of the Ku Klux Khan in New
Jersey.
Rev Michael ]. O'Donnell, who
served st. Joseph's parish at Keyport
for more than 80 years. died suddenly
of heart failure at his home, aged six
ty-seven. Father O'Donnell came
from Lambertville nd was well
known throughout Few Jersey
/ Plans for the proposed aeration and
filtration plant for the Gloucester City
water works, T. remove the sediment
! from water from the artesian wells,
were explained at the meetin of the
chamber of commerce by pcwitt Vos-
| bury, engineer
Samuel Bleakley, farmer living
/ between Blenheim and Almonesson,
proved ownership Of the automobile
which hit a pole and turned over at
Broadway and Linden street, Glou-
| cester He claims that it was stolen
| in Camden.
Miss Florence Tanck, : graduate
of the Trenton Normal School, has
been elected physical training teacher
in the Egg Harbor City public schools.
| For the month of January an attend
ance of 1913 per cent was attained in
| the schools.
Mrs. Margaret Woolbert Bartlett,
/ wife of William H. Bartlett, former
director of public safety of Atlantic
| City, will receive fortune estimated
at $1.000,000 as the result of deci-
sion by Vice Chancellor Leaning. He
sustained the ruling made by Judge
Robert Ingersoll some time ago when
he was on the bench of the Atlantic
county orphans court that the will of
the late George Truman Lippincott,
former resort banker, making Mrs.
Bartlett, sister of his dead wife, the
CHIEF beneficiary should be admitted
to probate.
The members of the Bridgeton Dab
liza Association we're guests at ban
ouet of the MillvfIle horticultural So