The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-07-12
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

WestviIle ministers have arranged
for union outdoor services during
August.
Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts. of Glou-
cester City, will camp for two weeks
at Palatine beginning Saturday, July
28.
For the six months period ending
June 30 reports show deposits aggre-
eating $50, $780, $50 in Camden banks.
Belmont Fire Company, Of National
Park, has received the new chassis for
the fire apparatus.
The Fairgrounds In Gloucester City
are more popular than ever and the
attendance much larger than last
year.
The first Jersey peaches are being
shipped at prices that make the grow
ers optimistic over the main crop.
Ramp Karney, for Y. NJ. c. A. boys
of Carney's Point and vicinity. is open
at Avis mill pond, lear Woodstown.
There are 40 in camp.
Stickers worded Everybody Likes
Fitman" were placed upon wind
shields of hundreds Of visiting cars
by the local Board Of Trade.
The Wenonah Borough Council took
up for final action an ordinance to
provide for the drilling of an artesian
well to supplement the towns present
water supply.
A vacation Bible school is open in
the Fairview Community Baptist
Church, and will be in session every
day to July q, with the exception Of
Saturdays.
Miss Edna Baessler has been elect
ed assistant to the supervising prin-
cipal Of the Woodbury. high school,
succeeding her sister, Laura, who re-
signed to take a college course.
Because of the menace from the
damaged steepie on the Glassboro M.
P. Church, struck by lightning more
than a week ago, that block is still
closed to traffic. The steeple will be
removed.
George HUFF, of Gloucester City, has
been appointed division chaplain Of
the Sons of Veterans Of New Jersey.
During July and August there will
be baby clinics every Wednesday and
Thursday at the Community Center
Building, Gloucester City, under the
direction of the State Child Welfare
Association.
Cape May county Democrats have
announced that Thomas Ludlam, of
Sea Isle City, will be their candidate
for Assembly. Assemblyman Ralph
Stevens, of Cape May, will again be
a candidate on the Republican ticket.
More than 100 children are regis
sered in the Summer Bible School OF
the Fairview Community Baptist
Church. The school will continue four
weeks, and the instructors are hesded
by Rev. and Mrs. Thomas N. Martin,
Joseph White, ffty-two, Of 434 Fifty
third street, Brooklyn, died in st. Eliz
abeth Hospital, Elizabeth, from burns
received while attempting to extin
guish a fire in the plant of the Inter
national Composition Co., Of Union
Township, where he was employed.
Fire of undetermined origin which
swept through a p~oolroom at Schel
Iinger avenue, Wildwood, wiped out
the Sweet block near the seashore
with a loss estimated at $175,000.
Bath houses, a seam plant, stores and
concessions were destroyed with an
additional heavy loss. Several per
sons were rescued from apartments
above the stores.
The annual camp meeting at Sea-
vile will be held from July 10 to 80.
Jacob X. Tryon went on duty as
Pitman's first motorcycle policeman.
Combined choirs sang at the first OF
the summer community services in
the Presbyterian church at Wenonah.
Plans for the purchase Of a motor
pumping apparatus have been made
by Oaklyn fire company No. 1.
More than 20 members are enrolled
In the chamber of commerce recently
organized at Newfeld.
Outdoor services, with all local
Protestant denominations participate
Ing, began at Woodstown.
After a little more than one hours
elaboration the jury that heard the
trial of Samuel Lesavoy of New York,
charged with stealing gems valued at
$40, 900 from a room at an Atlantic
City hotel, returned a verdict of not
guilty in criminal court at Mays
Landing.
"Goodby, friends. I desire that
everybody be happy. My teeth have
driven me crazy" This note, found in
the bedroom of John Eberschutz. thir-
ty-nine, a Newark mechanic, explain
ed the cause Of his suicide. Eber-
schultz had tied a rope to the head of
his bed, with the other end around his
neck, and then jumped off the bed.
Charles J.. Strahan, assistant state
commissioner of education, declared
that the election of the school district
of Long Beach township, Ocean coun-
ty, was Illegal on the ground that the
notices of the election were not prop
erIy published. The election was held
to vote for an appropriation Of a
budget of $4,000 and also for the ele-
walton of one member of the Board Of
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