The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-02-15

The Trenton City Commission has
authorized the expenditure Of $129.-
$50 for additions and improvements
to the water supply system The ma
jor portion of the work will be in the
hotel district
The Millville Municipal League has
gone on record as opposing the pro-
posed erection OF a war memorial
building to cost 100000 at this time.
Because there is much work to do
to restore the Vineland Presbyterian
Church damaged by fire the congre-
cation invited Rev, S. c. Dickson to
an anniversary supper and presented
him with an automobile Tuesday
night.
Judge Smathers in Criminal Court,
Atlantic City, granted the request Of
Prosecutor Gaskill for night sessions
that the docket may be cleared Of
liquor cases. Over $50 violations OF
the state law wait disposition.
Eleven Atlantic Highlands and
Bedford men, who Assistant United
States District Attorney Arrowsmith
declares were arrested in the act of
smuggling to land conslgnments Of
liquor from the rum feet of Sandy
Hook. were indicted by the Federal
grand jury at Trenton.
Harry Morgan, arrested Christmas
night for driving car while intoxi-
Gated and who was out awaiting the
appeal of Magistrate Byrnes' SEN
tence of six months, was resentenced
at Cape May court house by Judge
Eldredge to three months
Raymond Adams, leader Of the LIB
erty band, Gloucester City, received
more than 200 letters from people
throughout Pennsylvania and New
Jersey saying they had enjoyed the
concert broadcasted from Phila
delphia station.
John D. Appleby, divisional pro-
hibition chief of New York and New
Jersey, has been directed to show
cause by Federal Judge Lynch, in
Newark, why certain liquor seized in
Hoboken, on September 8. should not
be returned to its original owner,
Henry Bunker, of No Sc Garden
street. 1t is alleged the liquor was
seized after Bunker's house had been
entered by prohibition agents armed
with a defective search warrant.
William Clifford thirty-fve, car
penter, who has been living alone
for several years in Jefferson avenue,
Woodbine, was found murdered in
his bedroom on the second floor of
his home. He had been shot twice.
The discovery was made by his faith
er, Israel w. Clifford, lightweight.
veteran of the Civil War, who went
to see whether his son had recovered
from a recent Illness
Thomas Mccarthy OF New York,
found guilty in Criminal Court. Mays
Landing, on charge Of conspiracy
to blackmail Robert L. Haney, a
wealthy Philadelphia, in a hotel at
Atlantic City few months ago, was
sentenced by County Judge Smath-
ers to from two to three years in
prison and fined $1,000. Isaac H.
Nutter, prominent New Jersey negro
leader, asked Judge Smathers to ex-
onerate him from imputations cast
upon him by witnesses during the
trial The court refused.
The pig raising industry of Secau-
Gus is threatened with extinction by
an outbreak of pneumonia and chol-
era that already has killed more than
two thousand young porkers. The
town has about seventy stock raisers
and all have suffered heavy losses.
The New Jersey Stock Farmers
Company is the heaviest loser. More
than a hundred thousand pigs are
raised in Secaucus annually and
marketed throughout New Jersey.
Pupils at the Glassboro High School
have reorganized their camera club.
An electric motor has been Installed
to operate the draw bridge over the
creek at Paulsboro,
strong delegation from Glouces-
ter county went to Trenton to urge
passage of a bill to have the road
from Westville to Gibbstown and on
to Pennsgrove ma e part of the state
highway system.
A further outbreak Of measles. with
rs children reported i'll, resulted in
the closing of the Swedesboro public
schools for ten days.
Skating is again safe on ponds in
south Jersey, and there is enough
snow for fine coasting.
The Model Blouse Company Of New
York city has purchased site in the
central part of MiIlville and will erect
a large factory.
William B. Quinn, director Of pub
lie safety. Jersey City, announced he
is planning installation Of radio sta
tions over which police and fire
alarms may b. turned in. The sta
tons will be located in every fire dis
trict and olice precinct, he said.
The fact that physicians have rec
commended clans and clam broth for
@flu" and grip patients, as well as
for children afflicted with measles,
has put the Jersey clam market at
record breaking point. Diggers at
Bivalve and Green Creek, the two big
clam centers of south Jersey, are