The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-05-03

oruefea the Delaware, LackaWannd q
Hudson Railroad to reduce ferry
charges on vehicles and livestock be-
tween Hoboken and New York.
Mrs. Katherine Morgan Dix, 81 years
old, died at her home in Plainield. She
was a niece Of John Adams Dix, for
mer governor of New York, and the
daughter Of Colonel Roger Sherman
Dix of New Hampshire.
The extinction of the oyster, threat
ened by pollution from industrial
wastes, has been prophesied by DR..
Nelson of the Board of Shell Fisheries
and State Experiment Station at New
Brunswick.
> Farming districts in Gloucester
county are making a determined stand
against daylight saving. Some of them
may come over later, but for the pres
ent the county is going to run on old
time.
Completion of the elevation of the
tracks of the West Jersey & Seashore
Railroad over White Horse pike at
Camden City line was officially an
nounced and northbound trains began
to run upon it. Southbound traffic was
opened two months ago. The elevated
extension wipes out several dangerous
railroad crossings In New Jersey. The
White Horse pike, long a main artery
of travel to shore points, has been the
scene OF many mishaps since automo-
biles became popular.
The most singular alienation suit
| aUnT Ydnnrd0H fr 49, 1A1ts-~ - -
filed in the supreme court, Woodbury.,
and is to be tried in the Gloucester
county circuit. Mrs. Pauline Edith
Sarlo OF Woodbury. has instituted suit
against former Mayor Willard F. Cat
tell asking 100000 for the Toss of
her husbands love- charging Cattell
as being the cause of their estrange-
ment.
William H. Souder of B~ridgeton, IS
years old, well known in canning CIR
Giles throughout the east, died sudden
ly following a stroke OF paralysis. Mr..
Souder was at Rio Grande, Cape May
county, starting his canning there for
the season.
While playing poker at his home
Charles S. Mills, a prominent hotel
man of Asbury Park, was stricken
with a coughing spell which lasted 10
minutes. causing a blood vessel to
break. He died two minutes later.
The Camden County Board OF Taxa
ton will not tour the county this
year to receive and hear appeals on
assessments. The assessments in all
towns have been increased and il
there are many appeals the board
will visit the district and hear them.
The appeals from all and nearby sub
urbs will be held at the Court House,
Camden. There will be likely be
more than last year because of the
increases.
Angelina Del yecchio, % years old.
died in the Orange Memorial Hospi-
tai from poison, which, the police
say, she swallowed at the grave of
her former sweetheart in the Holy
Sepulchre cemetery. The girl was
found crying at the grave by Mrs. AL
ice Rupert, who had gone to the
cemetery to visit the grave of a rela-
tive. She told Mrs. Rupert she was
i'll and was assisted to the Office of a
physician nearby. He ordered her re-
moved to the hospital. Relatives OF
the dead girl say she has been de-
spondent since her sweetheart, An
thony De Lazzaro, was killed by a
railroad drill engine last August.
A demented boy, dressed in wom-
ans clothing and believed to have
escaped from the New Lisbon State
Colony for the feeble-minded, is re-
! ported to have been responsible for a
forest fire near Centerton which de-
stroyed two saw mills, ravaged valu-
able timber lands and threatened the
summer bungalow settlement at
Union Lake Grove.
The names of three women were
drawn on the Monmouth county grand
jury for the May term.
Italian women are helping Glouces-
ter county farmers setting u onions
and other light field work.
Hundreds of radio fans are up in
the air" over a notice served by the
Public Service Company that its poles
| cannot be used for aerials.
Sparks from an engine caused a
block of evergreens and most Of the
grass in a South Orange cemetery to
go up in flames. causing a loss Of more
than $4,000.
Bids have been received by the Had
don Township Committee for paving
Cooper and Center streets and Crystal
Lake and Virginia avenues, West
mont. The lowest bid was $780, 29.
An ordinance prohibiting roller skat-
ing on the paved streets of Millville
went into effect, and the police were
instructed to see that it is enforced.
Sea Isle city commissioners have
contracted with the local band to play
on the Boardwalk two nights a week
during July and August.
The electric cross to be erected in
the tower of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Ascension, Gloucester
City, will be a memorial to local boys
who lost their lives in the world war.