The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-07-05

liam Clark, forty-fve, 11s Bloomfield
street, Hoboken, on a charge OF muT.
der in connection with the death OF
his common law wife, Mrs. Mary
Clark, last March.
With the 5000, 900 gallon reservoir
that supplies Plain6eld and nearly a
dozen other towns dry as a bone and
with no relief promised, a serious wa.
ter scarcity faces that part of New
Jersey.
Joseph Champion, thirteen, Kearny,
vas drowned while swimming in the
ice pond at Delawanna, between Pas
sale and NutIey.
A cross, believed to nave been
placed by members of the Ku Klux
Khan, blazed on the lawn of st. Pat
rick's Roman Catholic Church, Glou-
cester City. Woodbury. police discoy-
cred the cross and summoned Rev.
Charles J. McCorristan. rector OF the
church.
John Hagan, health officer of Jersey
City, reported to Mayor Hague that
more than 1000 children, many in Ill
health, are working in home sweat
shops" in Jersey City. Mayor Hague
ordered that all firms giving out work
TO these unlicensed children be prose-
cuted A large part of the contractors
are in New York.
Weddings viii be performed at IA
gain rates by Rev. William Langwith,
pastor of the Middlebush Reformed
church, until July Is. In an
ment in the Somerset Church News, a
publication issued at New Brunswick,
Rev. Mr.. LangWith states he will per-
form $40 weddings for $8.49 and IS
ones for 1888.
The Mageshakey lumber yard and
three one-family dwelling houses near
by were destroyed, with a damage of
$4,000, by a fire which started in the
lumber yard at Carteret.
The heat got Paddy and he died.
Paddy was Newark's veteran draft
horse, famous for his fall into a man
hole at the Pennsylvania railroad
plaza, Market and Alling streets,
while pulling snow last February.
Paddy cost the city about $4,000 be-
fore he was brought safely to the
street.
Norman ]. Gilfor, twenty-five, who
had been boarding at West Orange.
committed suicide by shooting him
self. He left the following note for
his sister, Mrs. Helen Abrams Of
Orange: Dear Sis have been a fool
n wasted my money on girls in Phil
ly. l guess this is so long forever.
Brother joe"
Richard ]. Chaplin, mayor OF Mount
Arlington borough and q former state
assemblyman, was held under $1,000
lating the state prohibition law. De-
t~ectives from the Office Of Prosecutor
Bolitho swooped on the Mount Airing
ton hotel at Lake Hopatcong and
claim they found liquor. Frank Shaef-
fer. proprietor Of another hotel at
Mount Arlington, was held on a SINH
lar charge. Liquor valued at more
thar IS, ZOO was seized at the two ho-
tells, according to the county detec-
tives.
It was announced by City Clerk Al
fred White in Camden that prices of
lots in New Camden Cemetery viii be
Increased 90 per cent.
After IS years a teacher of drawing
in the Camden High School Miss Myr-
tie E. Nye has been retired on a pen
sion by the Board of Education. A
minute of commentator for her long
service was adopted.
Benjamin Falco of Carlsbad paid q
demure young woman he met in the
IJ-5r1, &-k1 e7ln e. -~s,~z LII
Of sale to a large feet of motorboats
in Newark bay. When he went to in
spect his property the guards told
him Of the hoax.
The drive Of Allen Irving Morgan
Post, American Legion. of Westmont,
which has brought in over $1,000 to
date, has been extended in an effort
to complete the fund Of $4,000 to can
eel a mortgage on the clubhouse.
Work on the addition to the Oaklyn
public school is progressing rapidly
and will be finished for the opening OF
the fall term.
Because of the organization of a
community association the Civic I'm
provement Association of Highland
Park win disband.
A house numbering system has been
agreed upon by council, and Clayton
property owners viii receive numbers
free of cost.
Fifty permits have been issued for
picnics and social affairs in knights
Park. Collingswood, since the opening
on Decoration day.
While the new concrete road from
~Swedesboro t othe bridge at Woods
town has been completed it will not
be opened TO traffic for a week.
H. Fay Babcock has been elected
custodian of the Woodbury. Courthouse
to ELL the vacancy caused by the death
Of Adon w. Cattell.
A four-wheel brake test at the con
vention of the American Society of
Automobile Engineers came to a sud
den stop at Spring Lake when state
police arrested Marshall Guillemon of