The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-10-25
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS


pupils at the Redwood public school.
Seniors of the Woodstown High
School have arranged for a series of
entertainments during the fall and
winter to raise funds for sightseeing
trip to Washington, D. C.
A contract for erection of new
edifice was awarded by Christ Luther
an Church, Fairview, to E. j. Kritz-
berg, Of Philadelphia, for $4,000 The
building will be of red brick, so by
so feet.
At meeting Of the Gloucester
Township Committee many property
owners appeared asking that the
Lower Landing road, from Chew's
Landing, be widened A survey was
| ordered
A new 10-room school building to
relieve crowded conditions is needed,
according to some members of the
Pennsgrove Board of Education, who
have had tentative plans prepared.
Robert Henry, an itinerant umbrella
mender was committed to the county
| jail for Is days in the Gloucester Po-
lice Court because he laid down to
sleep in a Burlington street and,
stretching, broke store window.
A library is being equipped for use
of the students at the new State Nor
NAL School, Glassboro
Survivors of old Company F, N G.,
of Salem, are arranging for reunion
| and banquet early in November.
| Colonel ID. Stewart Craven has been
chosen superintendent of the First
Presbyterian Sunday school, Salem.
A large preserving and canning
plant and a cold storage plant are to
be erected at Canton by Frank H. G.
Shrimp.
report of the Camden police de-
partment for September shows 176
arrests for drunkenness, on a par
with the days antedating prohibition
A cafeteria has been opened at the
South Woodstown public school Hot
nestle science are served daily at
small cost
The proposed new line of Black
Horse pike, from Chews Landing to
Blackwood, with a slight curve at
Timber Creek, to avoid a sharp curve,
| is meeting the approval of the people
behind the projected new boulevard to
the sea.
Charles Leavitt, planning expert,
working in Camden in company with
city officials, made an inspection of
| the waterfront to obtain a comprehen-
sive idea of what may be done in de-
veloping the city's great advantages.
The Pusey & Jones Co. has t<ken
an appeal to the State Board of Edu-
cation from the assessment of $1,594,-
| 900 on it's idle shipyard in Gloucester
| City for this year The company
wants it reduced to $S24,24O.
Charles R. Noe, Sc years old, chair
man of the board of directors and for
several years president of the Me-
chanics' Trust Company, died at his
home in Bayonne after brief illness.
He had been a Masonic member over
| so years, one of the oldest in the state.
Bloomfield Joseph Sisom, of Oaklyn.
state chess champion and winner Of
| the four-state chess tournament play
| ed last summer at the Waldorf-As-
toria, New York, married Miss Mary
E. O'Neill, daughter of Michael j..
! O'Neill, of Logan, at a wedding at
tended by many friends of the couple.
The new filter plant at the Glou-
cester City water works was started.
! Bicycle thieves are still operating
in Gloucester City, and the police be-
| lieve the wheels are being sold to
some dealer.
Independent Republican and Demo
cratic voters in Fairview have start
ed their campaign to elect Arthur N.
| Ashmore a member Of the county
Board of Freeholders. "Stickers"
will be used.
Suit was entered by Mrs. Mary H
! Munyan, of West Deptford township,
Gloucester county, in the Circuit
Court, to recover $4,000 each from
the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad
| and Public Service Railway Com
! panies as compensation for injuries
received by her two children, Thomas
| and Mary, who were aboard trolley
car which was struck by train at
| Mantua
Application lot CudIl0N lOi d new
national bank in Ocean City has been
approved by the Government authori-
| ties. The incorporators are Russell
H. Nulty, Edward M. Sutton, Clar-
ence Dubois, ]. Howard Slocum and
John j. Foster. The capital will be
! 500 900 and the surplus 100000.
DR.. Adolf Lorenz, Viennese ortho-
pedic surgeon, VIII supervise clinics
at the Newark City Dispensa-y every
Thursday morning, it was announced.
He will make Newark his New Jer
sey headquarters.
! The October grand jury, at Mount
Holly, liter indicting Jack Savinar
of Riverton. on a charge Of desertion
that involved his wife and six chill
| dren, took uo a collection and gave
Mrs. Savinar S54. In the preliminary
! presentment made by the jury before
taking a recess there we're a bills
Or haiuC linuar casaa