The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-10-11
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

tribes and degrees of Poachontas, /. o.
r. M, was held at Mays landing.
The sum of $1,000 has been raised in
Gloucester City for the Japanese re-
lief fund.
The Monmouth Club Of Gloucester
City entertained a number of guests
at a pigroast at its headquarters, Fill
more and Morris streets.
The report Of the Camden Health
Department shows a total OF GA CON
tagious diseases for September, as
compared with so for August: Scarlet
fever and tuberculosis were respon-
sible for the increase.
Gloucester Township Committee
will hold a SPECIAL meeting October Is
to act on the application of owners
for the widening of Lower Landing
road at Chow's Landing to a width OF
30 feet.
Assessors of the taxing districts
must now start their work of making
TIE assessments for next year. The
assessments must be made of the real
estate as 1t appeared Otober 1, and
the books must be finished by jan
uary 10.
State motor inspectors in Camden
licensed ITS automobile drivers.
Thirty-two failed to pass.
After a long talk by William O'Con-
nor, a field clerk of the State Board Of
Taxation, the Gloucester Township
Committee decided to defer action on
the question of a tax assessment map
for the township until the next regular
session.
The extractor began excavating be-
tween the trolley tracks on North
Broadway Gloucester City, to build a
new Foadbed and paving between the
tracks. The Sta Highway Depart
ment recently paved both sides of the
street, hanging the grade.
Anthony Franio, 81 years old, of
Lewis street, Camden, was held in
$500 bail by Police Judge C1eary. The
police say they found some white
mule" in his cigar store.
American Legion posts in Camden
'ounty are preparing for a big Armis-
tice day celebration Saturday, Novem-
Der 10. Representatives of a number
of posts formed a committee to ar
range for united celebration.
The water department of Gloucester
City had connections made with the
16-inch main to Brooklawn so that
people in Riverview Heights may have
a better supply.
Rev. ]. L. Keit4 Mcleod pastor of
the Pleasantville Baptist Church for
four years has accepted a call to a
church at Bloomingdale. His resigna-
ton was read at the meeting of the
congregation.
Delegations of Masons from South
Jersey are planning to participate in
the laying OF the cornerstone of the
George Washington Memorial at Alex
andria, Va, on November /.
Rev. David H. Shock, for many
years superintendent and manager of
the camp-meeting grounds at Pitman,
has resigned. Miss Anna Williams,
treasurer, has also resigned.
Mayor Mueller and Fire Marshal
BREEDER visited the schools in Egg Har-
Dor City to investigate fire conditions,
a report of which is to be sent to the
State convention.
Work is being pushed to complete
before freezing weather the concrete
piers of the bridge across the railroad
tracks at North Woodstown.
A building and loan association is
now assured for Runnemede, a grow
ing suburb of Camden, on the Mount
Ephraim pike.
The Young Mems Progressive
League is making plans for its usual
Halloween parade and carnival at
Ocean City. There will be a number
of prizes.
At a dinner held at Beasley's Point
the male school teachers of Atlantic
City appointed a committee to organ
ize a schoolmasters' club.
Because of the danger of bringing
the gypsy moth into New Jersey, no
Christmas trees from New England
will be permitted to be brought into
New Jersey after October l..
Admitting guilt of a charge for
which they were indicted, Raymond
Wilkinson and Gladys Munter were
fined 5000 each by Judge Eldredge at
Cape May court house.
Patriotic societies and school chill
dren held fag-raising exercises at the
Pitman High School. The exer-
started at 2:30 p. m. and there
was a short street parade. The
of Education announced a pub
lie inspection of the new buildings
for October II.
Expectations that an anti-klan
demonstration would result from the
.ill-feeling aroused by a meeting in
the Roseland Methodist Protestant
Church, when a Ku Klux Khan repre-
sentative made an address, were real
lied when fifty Roseland citizens
staged a protest meeting in the street
in front of the borough post Office.
An efigy of a hooded figure, CARRIED
In imitation of the robes of the khan,
was strung up and lashed securely
to the arm of a telephone pole.