The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-19
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS


The Woodstown Chamber of Com
merce has sci April rs for annual
cleanup day"
The Vineland lodge Of 'Elks in city
hall discussed details Of the proposed
boy scout work.
The rear wheel OF a towed automo-
bile crushed William Stevenson OF
Trenton to death at Bordentown.
The question OF water mains for
National Park will probably be voted
upon by borough council at its May
meeting.
A large tract was burned over a
few miles out of Williamstown. Fire
wardens and farmers kept the flames
from spreading into timber tracts.
Woodstown citizens expect the new
community lake basin to be ready for
flooding in about a month, by which
time excavations will be completed.
Frost caused considerable damage
TO water bound macadam roads OF
Sussex county. County Road Super
visor r. Leon McKeon said. Men will
start at once to repair them. The
damage is especially noticeable on
roads kept clear of snow by the coun-
ty, he said. On the shoulders Of the
roads, to which the snow was swept,
there was no evidence Of frost, while
the center vas heaved up.
Already there have been a few
threatening forest fires in the lower
counties, but transforms
have served as a protection for the
woodlands. Now that warmer, drier
weather Is coming. fire wsrdens have
Increased their vigilence. In Cum
berland county the fire wardens are
using the lofty steel watch tower be-
low Millville.
The schedule announced for Camp
Silzer, at Sea Girt, follows: Stan
corps and departments, July TAugust
as; headquarters F~ffty-seventh in
fantry brigade, July 1928; headquar-
ters' company, Fifty-seventh infantry
brigade, July 7-21; One Hundred and
Thirteenth infantry, July 7-21; One
Hundred and Fourteenth infantry,
July 1923; One Hundred and Fourth
engineers, July 2S-August IL; One
Hundred and Second cavalry. August
11-25; Forty-fourth division signal
company, August 11-25.
Fred Ellinger, fifty-six years old, of
Wildwood was sentenced by Supreme
Court Justice Black at Cape May
Court House to life Imprisonment at
hard labor in state prison. Ellinger
shot and killed Mrs. Patrick Nc
Keown, thirty-six years old, mother of
six children. with whom he was in
fatuated, in the kitchen of the Free
mont hotel, Wildwood, On March q.
He later confessed the crime.
Senate President Wallworth and
Speaker Evans announced the per-
sonnet of the special legislative COM
mittee which will investigate the con
tracts awarded by the old State High
way Commission for the Amboy and
Hackensack bridges on the state high
way system. Senators Richards, At
lantic, and Bright, Cape May, togeth-
er with President Wallworth, repre-
sent the senate, with Assemblyman
Chamberlin. Essex; Welsh, Hunter
don, and Speaker Evans.
Plans and specifications for the
proposed new Memorial High School
building are about completed and will
be submitted to the Board Of Educa-
ton for approval. The building,
which will be dedicated as a memo
rial to the 2S Millville heroes who
made the supreme sacrifice in the
world war, will be a two story struc-
ture and, it is estimated, will cost
about s350.000 when completed.
A movement has been started to re-
vive the Glassboro Chamber Of Com
merce, very active a few years age
The special election at Oaklyn hav-
ing decided In favor Of an additional
appropriation OF $4,000 for the new
schoolhouse, the Board OF Education
will award the contract.
The Shekinah Glee Club of Millville
will entertain in the high school audi
forum at Cape May Court House on
April &c.
Highland Park. will have a substa-
ton Of the Gloucester City pos office,
beginning April 16.
George Arone, self styled ersonal
representative Of Florence Zeigfeld,
Jr.. was convicted speedily in Cum
berland county court at Bridgeton OF
obtaining $1,000 on false pretense
from Mrs. Emma F. Hotchkiss I
Vineland. Arone Is said to have gath
cred in $500 from a score Vine
land residents. He said he had the
sole rights for producing ! motion pic
ture of Sally"
Prosecutor " escott in Camden ap-
pointed Lawrence T. Doran, long IN
the service, as chief Of county detec-
tives. The promotion carries an in
crease in salary. Detective Gribben,
In charge of the Identification and rec
ord department, was also given an in
e in salary. "In promoting De-
tective Doran," said Prosecutor Wes-
colt, 81 felt that his services in the
prosecutors Office were deserving OF
recognition" Doran has done efec-
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