The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-08-16
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS


special meeting to discuss the cree
ton of what are termed chicken
coops' along some of the main en-
frances to the city.
Gloucester City will have IA teach
ers on half time when the schools re-
open the first week Of next month be-
cause of the increasing enrolment.
Rev Samuel H. Miller, graduate
of the Collingswood High School and
| Colgate University and a member Of
the First Baptist Church. has accepted
/ call to the pastorate of the Belmar
Baptist Church.
There are now 81 girls entered in
1 the Miss Gloucester contest conduct
ed by the Lions Club of that city.
Fairview had another free open-air
concert, and street dancing was en-
joyed. A street was roped off and ev-
erybody had good time
Extension of the electric lighting
system to newly-deveIoped sections of
Blackwood is contemplated by the
Township Committee, which has re-
quested the electric company to give
the town more lights
Purchasing Agent Pelouze Of Cam
den awarded contracts for the winters
supply of coal for the various depart
ments, stating it has been done at
saving of $1,000 to the city.
Camden police are looking for thief
who visits the graves of the New Cam
den Cemetery and strips them of fiow-
ers. One family reported 81 geraniums
taken Sunday.
The Hammonton Board of Educa-
ton, after receiving figures as to the
number Of pupils likely to come from
! the school districts of Hamilton, Bue-
ma Vista and Winslow townships, has
| decided to accept them at the same
rate as last year.
To raise money for the new church
| fund St. Joan of Arc Church of Fair
view will have carnival August II to
continue for three days.
The Board of Education of Glouces-
! ter City last year received $3.50 In
tuition fees from pupils coming from
other districts.
F. Stanley Bleakly, Camden sta
| toner and clubman, announced his
candidacy for the Republican nomina-
ton for sheriff.
All permits heretofore issued from
| the office Of the mayor in Camden
have been transferred to the tax re-
ceiver's Office The police will here
after approve permits for poolrooms,
carnivals, circuses, fireworks and pa
rades.
The Welsbach Company plant,
Gloucester City, is idle all oflthis week
while the company is making repairs.
About 800 girls are idle.
The executive committee of the
| Hammonton Chamber of Commerce
will select girl to represent Harmon
ton in the Atlantic City pageant in
| September.
To ascertain the value of oil on a
! shell road, the section from Hancock's
/ Bridge to Salem is to be treated this,
month.
A movement is under way at Col
| lingswood to have new schools, now
under construction and others now
designated by numbers, named for ear
ly settlers of the vicinity. A commit
tee has been appointed by the Board
! of Education to select suitable names.
Some names of early settlers suggest
! ed are Isaiah Stone, Robert Zane,
Thomas Sharp and Mark Neville.
The Gloucester City fire department
| lost 800 feet Of hose at a recent fire,
and it is believed it was carried away
| by one of the visiting fire companies
| in mistake.
Woodstown borough officials have
opened negotiations with the Electric
| Company of New Jersey for improved
service for the town.
Thieves have been stealing copper
wire from the government buildings
! at Washington Park.
The Mite Society of the Elmer Pres
byterian church cleared $685. from the
recent lawn fete.
/ Girls have taken over Ramp Karney
under the leadership of Miss Jeanette
! Shoemaker, Miss Ada Truncer and
Miss Mary Elwell
Harry Kille of Center Square, an ex-
pert fruit grower marketed his first
peaches in Wilmington.
In electing Miss Freda D. Smith of
| L1nheld, Pa, as commercial teacner
Egg Harbor City has filled every po-
sition in it's school system.
The State Board of Health has ask
ed that the bottom of the reservoir at
the Gloucester City water works be
made watertight.
The Hammonton Board of Educa-
ton will purchase a third notorious
for the transportation of pupils to the
schools.
Carl Yoder, an aged carpenter, fell
from a scaffold on new house on
Glover street, Woodbury., and was
killed
Gloucester City council has ordered
the water works committee to make
connections with the 16 inch water
main running to Brooklawn, SO that
/ plenty OF water can be had for fire
purposes in case of emergency.