The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-07-26
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Wn0T or balrVleW WaS nelu III luS
school auditorium of the company
holding the Mortgages purchased from
the government.
A large artificial ice plant, the first
for the town. started operations at
Pitman.
Under the direction of the Camden
County Board Of Freeholders work
was started ~repaving River avenue
and Cuthbert road.
To check ~diphtheria the Gloucester
City Board Of Health will use the
Schick test on the $500 school chill
dren If the school board will approve.
Workmen began the demolition of
the old Ocean county jail building at
Toms River to make room for the
modern $4,000 structure the Board
of Freeholders will erect.
OF AL applicants for drivers IL
censes examined by State motor In
spectors in Camden all but IA passed
the required tests.
The National Park Fire Company
has started a campaign for funds to
buy a pumper for use when the water
mains are laid.
According to petitions fled by Cam
den autobusmen with the Public
Utility Commission, the various lines
operating in the city and to suburban
points are planning consolidation as
one organization.
Eight applicants for the position of
secretary-manager of the Camden
Chamber OF Commerce were before
the special committee headed by
Harry C. Sharp, which is to select a
man to succeed William A. Searie, re-
signed.
A temporary span has been pro-
vided to carry traffic across the rail-
road tracks in the northern end of
Woodstown while a $4,000 concrete
bridge is being erected by the State
Highway Department.
A flag was presented to the new
State Normal School Glassboro. with
public ceremonies on the school cam
pus with former service men from. all
parts of Gloucester county and local
citizens participating. A street pa
rade from the local quarters of Shaw
Paulin Post, American Legion, to the
ground preceded the outdoor cere-
monies. The flag was presented in be-
half of the post by DR.. Charles D.
Pedrick, a former commander and
was accepted by DR.. J. ]. Savitz, prin-
cipal of the school, representing the
State Board of Education.
Application was made by the Fed
eral government to the State Board
of Commerce and Navigation to fix
the cost per acre for a grant from
the State on the Delaware in the
vicinity Of Fort Mott. The govern
ment intends to establish a disposal
basin at the point in question and has
been dredging in the Delaware. Col
onel F. C. Boggs, district engineer Of
the United States Army, advised the
board that the made ground, esti-
mated at 555 acres, should be held by
the government for future purposes.
Federal enforcement agents made
three more raids in Bergen county,
and found considerable whisky, wines
and what they termed high powered"
beer in each instance. The places
raided and the proprietors were the
Garden Manor at Oradell, John D.
Agnostino: Hillsdaie Inn at Hillsdale,
Frank Ferera, and the Century House
at Emerson, w. D. WEIGH and ]. L.
Sullivan.
Shippers have been notified by the
Pennsylvania railroad that a large
icing station is t. be established at
Woodbury. for refrigerator cars con
signed to distant points.
The remainder of the old buildings
at Washington Park used by the gov
eminent during the war as a bag load
ing plant are being RACED by a con-
tractor, who recently purchased them.
Arthur B.. Taylor, an overseas vet
eran, has announced himself a candi-
date for city treasurer on the Repub-
lican ticket at Salem.
Growers estimate that for a few
lays this week there will be a daily
shipment of about 5000 crates Of to-
matoes from Swedesboro.>
Newfeld's new public library on
Catawba avenue has been opened.
The police of Gloucester City ha g
been asked to stop horses roaming at
large at night, destroying lawns and
doing other damage.
Twelve Camden public schools are
crowded. according to a report made
by research bureau experts. who have
been working in the city several
months. There is also a shortage OF
81 teachers.
Declaring that the state must take
care properly of its wards, Governor
Silzer promised to investigate the cir
cumstances surrounding the farming
out" of william McGahey, Is years,
who performed hard work on a farm
in Dela ware for two years and asserts
that he received only $2.75 in wages.
McGahey was paroled to a farmer in
May, 1921, from the J~amesburg State
Home for Boys and was found by Pa
role Officer Charles Traine, April 81.
working for nearly nothing and shah
billy dressed.