The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-02-01
NelU Jersey
State Briefs

The members of the Middle town
ship high school football team of the
last season were banqueted at Cape
May Court House by the women mem
bers of the faculty
Gibbstown fire company has Install
ed a powerful radio set in the fire.
house.
Jacob Porch of Gloucester City, who
served 30 days in the Gloucester
county Jail for driving an automobile
while intoxicated, refused to tell
where he got his drinks when arraign-
ed before Mayor McNally, so he was
sent to jail for Is days more.
The Asbury Park City Commission
has voted to withhold financial sup
port from the private owned Asbury
Park Hospital pending an investiga-
ton of alleged mistreatment and
negligence of charity patients.
The Matawan Board of Education
authorities are considering plans for
a $4,000 high school building.
Rev. William T. Abbott. eighty
seven years old. celebrated quarter
century activity in Asbury Park
Lodge, F. and A. NJ, and 81 years in
Masonry at special ceremonial
meeting.
A straw vote to determine the de-
sires of Palmyra people on the cleo
ton of a mayor incident to the adop-
ton of the borough form of govern
| ment resulted in George N Wilmer
receiving majority. James Hartley
and William H. Cook received an
equal number as second choice
The Bellevue hotel at Cape May
Court House has been sold by Joseph
Kelly of Philadelphia to |. Tenen-
baum, Cape May merchant.
At a special election at Thorofare
the voters of West Deptford township
by vote of 106 to % decided on a
four room schoolhouse to Re built at
Verga at a cost of $4,000.
Members of the Millville Horticul-
tural Society are planning to foster
the growing of flowers at the state
prison farm at Leesburg.
The Asbury Park City Commission
has leased to Ruff H. Brewer grass
plot near the Boardwalk and Casino
for three years for pony track.
Fifty carloads of material have ar
rived at Woodbury. for completion OF
the State road from Penn street to
the connecting line with Route No. s.
Builders have heard report that
40 houses are to be erected at Chest
nut Ridge, near the State Normal
School at Glassboro.
A 1857, school budget has been
adopted by the Asbury Park Board OF
Education, reducing the school tax
rate % cents.
Rev. Walter Nickless, pastor of the
Newport NJ E. Church. has been ask
ed to return for another year.
Signboards welcoming motorists to
Pitman have been placed at the main
approaches by the Rotary Club.
The Cape May Court House gram
mar school is closed because OF
measles.
Some of the Woodbury. High School
teachers have asked for increases OF
salary without stating what amount
is desired.
A site has been purchased by the
Township Committee, on which a
town hall will be erected at Gibbs
town.
Louis Adalbert Clinton, director OF
extension work at the New Jersey
state agricultural experimental sta
ton, died in Detroit. Professor Clin-
ton was fifty-four years old.
The Millville City Commission
adopted the annual budget amounting
to $167,S0 an increase of $4,000
over that of last year
William Rapp, of Millvile, who fell
downstairs and fractured his skull
while visiting friends in Camden, has
died.
The whole town of Linden is talk
ing about the suspension of Nicholas
George, chief of the fire department,
and there is diversity of opinion as
to the justice of the action.
Despite an increase in ratables OF
S2.O2S.647 over last year Nutley can
expect a substantial increase in its
tax rate for 1923.
Orange educators were saddened
last week by the death of Miss Anna
S. Birdsall, directories of the kinder.
garten class at the Park Avenue
school. that city, for more than
thirty-five years.
Though the coming commission
election is still four months off, there
is marked activity in political circles
in preparation for what promises to
be the greatest day at the polls in
PASSAGES history.
William L. Blancha md Mrs.
Blanchard of Newark and South
Orange have sailed on the steamship
Homeric on a cruise to the Mediter-
ranean that will carry them we'll
around the world during the four
months or more they will be absent.
The Hudson county courthouse was
seized by Deputy United States Mar
shall James j. Donnelly to satisfy a
Judgment # $1,24719 obtained against
tho Iorsev Civ Board of FreehOlders