The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-10-04


Fourth street, Bayonne, died in Bay
onne Hospital of tetanus, said to have
originated with vaccination. A girl of
nine is suffering with the disease, Of
unknown origin, in the same institu-
ton.
While casting her vote in the New
Jersey primary election in the Fourth
district of the Third ward in Public
School No. 2, Third and Erie streets,
Jersey City, Mrs. Catherine Ward Of
$40 Jersey avenue dropped dead.
Vigilance of nurses at the Elizabeth
general hospital averted a panic when
fire broke out in a clothes closet. The
blaze was hastily halted by nurses
and many patients were removed
from the wards.
Frank Unhoch, twenty-three, &C,
cused by the Elizabeth police of being
the driver of an automobile which ran
down and killed a woman, was held in
$1,000 bail when arraigned in the Eliz-
abeth police court on a charge of man.
slaughter.
When Right Rev. Thomas j. Walsh,
bishop of the Trenton diocese, went to
lay the cornerstone of st. Joan OF
Arcs church al Fairview he had to
perform the ceremony with a substi-
tute stone rovided by the contractor.
The original 200 pound stone is said
to have been dropped by members OF
the Ku Klux Khan into a nearby creek,
and despite efforts of detectives it has
not been recovered. About a month
ago a large cross was set IN fire at
midnight in front of the church site.
Philip Banks, ~sixty-eight years old,
janitor of public schools at National
Park, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the temple in a work
shop in the rear of his home. The
shot was heard by his family and a
son found him on the floor dead.
Banks for many years was employed
at League Island navy yard as a
wharf builder. He retired a year ago.
In July he was appointed janitor of
the schools. For a week he had been
acting rather peculiarly, but his fami-
ly can assign no lease for the sui
eide.
In a record issued by the State
Board of Health at Trenton it was
shown that the city of Elizabeth had
the smallest infant mortality rate Of
any ely in New Jersey and Trenton
the highest. The rate of deaths
among babies under one year in Tren-
ton was 1877 deaths per thousand and
that of Elizabeth 66.7. These two
cities are compared by the Board of
Health because they are almost the
same size.
Surrogate Reeves in Camden pro-
bated the will of Charles M. Gable of
East Camden, in which ST, 900 is left
in trust to his widow. The balance
of $50, 900 goes to a son, Harry J.. Ca
BILE.
Mayor McNally of Gloucester City
swore in four high school students to
act as atrol officers on Broadway.
Attorney Rufus Thompson has been
appointed referee in the bankruptcy
merchant, who failed a few weeks
ago.
The movement started for a Great
er Gloucester City is rapidly bearing
fruit. Gloucester may secure the ad-
v~antages of the great increase in pop
ulation likely to follow completion of
the Delaware river bridge. Officials
of the city are anxious to take in a
number of outlying communities, and
an ordinance was introduced as the
first step to annex Highland Park.
Residents of that community recently
held a referendum vote on the ques-
ton and gave an overwhelming ma
jority for annexation.
A new front is to be placed on the
courthouse building at Cape May
Court House, and the offices of county
clerk and other officials will then be
housed in the building.
The Camden Chamber of Commerce
is planning an effective organization
of the retail interests of the city, with
a rating bureau to keep tabs on dead
BEATS"
Two buses are being used to trans
port students from Malaga, Iona and
Franklinville to the Clayton High
School.
The Glassboro Citizens Military
Band and the towns Athletic Associa-
ton will receive about $500 each as
proceeds of their joint carnival.
The judges at the annual country
fair of the Victoria Methodist Church,
South Westville, announced that Miss
Elizabeth Taylor was the winner OF
the most popular girl contest.
After many complaints by residents
Of lack of gas the Public Service Gas
Company informed the Borough Com
mission the trouble is of a local nature
and will be Immediately remedied.
The South Jersey Bank of Black
wood, when opened for business, when
business men, residents and farmers
made an inspection of the new build
ing AM equipment. e. Frank Pine Is
president.
The contract for the new edifce to
be built for Christ Lutheran Church in
Fairview will be awarded this week,
and work will be started next week.