The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-08-09
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS


meeting will continue for ten days.
Organizations Of volunteer fire
company with rs members was effect
ed by residents of West CollingswoOd
4 Heights.
Workers Of the Camden District A..
NJ E. Sunday schools held two-day
convention at Woodbury..
Efforts are being to revive the Glass
boro Chamber of Commerce through
interest that has been aroused in the
Malaga highway paving project.
The annual fair and carnival of the
Blackwood Fire Company to raise
funds for new equipment was held on
the grounds of the Masonic Communi-
ty Club.
The choir of the First Presbyterian
Church, Gloucester City, carried out
| program of vocal and instrumental
music, which was broadcast by radio.
An all-night bus service as been in
augrated between Federal street ferry,
Camden and Gloucester City.
The Halloween committee Of the
Eureka Triangle Club has fixed Octo-
Der 81 as the date of the celebration
at Woodbury. this year.
Twenty colored Sunday schools, or
ganized at the South Jersey Colored
Combined Sunday School Association,
held their first annual meeting at Al
cyon Park.
The Freeholders are asking for bids
for resurfacing the Crown Point road,
for which there has been such a de-
mand from residents of Verga
At the meeting of the Centre Town
ship Committee property owners on
the Bell road were given 80 days to
have sidewalks laid.
Ralph Card and Adam Hitchner,
Woodbury. young men, left In car
for Denver.
Miss Helen Kinsler, Of Haddonfield.
has left for Korea to take up mission
airy work for the Presbyterian Church.
Under Sheriff w. Harold Leap, Of
Swedesboro, is the first candidate to
formally announce himself for the Re-
publican nomination for sheriff in
Gloucester county.
Motor inspectors in Camden passed
357 applicants for auto drivers IL
censes at the weekly tests.
Members Of the senior and junior
girls clubs of the Community Church
of Clementon are on weeks camping
trip at Kirby Mills.
st. Johns P. E. Church, Camden,
has invited Rev. DR.. Camille Ester
nolle, Of ST. Luke's Church, Westville,
to become its pastor.
An effort is being made to have
summer grounds for children estab-
lshed in Collingswood with the school
properties turned over for this pur-
pose. A fund to provide for instruc-
tors to be placed in charge of the
Fairgrounds has been started with
subscriptions from Mayor Thomas w.
Jack, who has Endorsed the plan; Earl
R. Lippincott and DIR. Edward B.
Rogers, and already several hundred
dollars has been realized.
A sideboard, weighing 700 pounds,
was carried away by thieves from
farmhouse owned by Frank M. Lyster,
of Philadelphia, along the Delaware
river, Tsouth of Paulsboro. The
thieves had made a previous visit and
carried away a grandfather's clock
and other heavy pieces of furniture.
Lyster says he has a big pipe organ
in the house and has asked Sheriff
Clark to devise some way to keep the
thieves from carrying that off too.
Judge Mecum adjourned sessions of
month of August
M j. Hart of Summit, a candy sales
man, was held up by two men while
driving his automobile near the Clin-
ton Country Club, and with revolver
robbed him Of $40.
Under Sheriff Harold Leap, of Glou-
cester county, who lives at Swedes-
boro, announced his candidacy for
sheriff
The Colonial Manor Fire Associa-
ton has added several members and
started move to build fire hall and
procure apparatus.
The Gloucester City Lions Club had
a banquet and outing at Silver Lake
Park, Clementon.
Edward B. Hoff has been appointed
sanitary inspector of the Palmyra
Board of Health.
Charged with threatening to burn
the barn Of Henry W. Ridgway, at
Swedesboro, Holloway Ray is in the
county jail In default of bail.
The Camden County Board of Tax
alton has allowed the appeal of st.
Mary's Catholic Church, of Gloucester
City, for the removal of the assess
ment on land on Browning's lane that
has been transformed into cemetery.
Secretary Herbert Hoover has been
invited to address the Camden Cham
Der of Commerce at the first fall mem
bership meeting to be held the latter
part of September.
The Gloucester City Lions Club has
begun contest to select Miss Glou-
cester" for the Atlantic City pageant
in September.
The annual rally of the Cold Spring
Brick Church will he held August IL