The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-07-19

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discussion at the midsummer meet
ing Of the Gloucester County Pomona
Grange art fiickleton.
The County Board of Freeholders,
in regular session at Atlantic City,
voted to call for bids for paving the
Absecon Boulevard with asphalt
blocks. The f~reeholders adhered to
their decision despite opposition from
the State Highway Commission and
other interests opposed to the use of
this material.
The will of the late General Lewis
T. Bryant, former state commissioner
of labor, probated in the Office of the
surrogate at Mays Landing, leaves
the entire estate to his widow, Mrs.
Mary L. Bryant. The document Is
brief and makes no reservations. Ac-
companying the will was the state
ment that the estate had been ap-
praised at $4,000, but it is generally
believed that its value is much
greater.
The Township Committee Of Dept
ford decided that self-appointed traffic
cops can no longer otficiate in that
section. For several Sundays men
wearing badges have been holding up
lines of cars on the roads around
Blackwood Terrace and Almonesson,
making unnecessary congestion, until
one of the committeeman investigated
and found hat a number Of young
men are wearing badges that do not
carry any authority.
Road houses and saloons in the sub
urbs Of Camden and along the route
to Atlantic City are doing more bust
ness than at any time since prohibi-
ton is supposed to have gone into
effect. They are not required to pay
any city, county or government license
and are doing business Sundays the
same as on weekdays. The road
houses are surrounded nights with
automobiles and the clinking OF glasses
shows that those on the inside are
having lively times.
Japanese beetles have appeared in
thousands at Haddon1eld, destroying
gardens and all forms of vegetation.
Specimens were given to the county
agricultural department for examina-
ton. Since then the insects have
greatly increased in number and are
~devouring rose bushes, grape vines,
corn, lettuce, cabbage and hay on out
lying farms.
Sheriff Redding and State Trooper
Jeson raided the disorderly house on
the Mill Lane road, about a mile out
side of Cape May, known as 1.-The Red
Onion" Florence Howard, alleged
proprietress, of New York, and Peggie
Martin, of Green Street, Philadelphia,
were sem to Cape May county jail in
default of 1000 bail. William Con-
way of Camden, alleged dope peddler,
also caught in the raid, was taken to
Jail.
Wilbur Thompson, seven years old,
of Washington avenue, Gloucester
City, narrowly escaped death when
struck and hurried twenty feet by an
electric train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad between Market and Powell
streets. At Cooper Hospital, Camden,
it was found that he escaped with
painful injuries of the back, arms and
his COnAAtAOA 10 AOb SGT
ous The boy was on his way home,
and, after a fast freight had passed,
started across the tracks, failing to
see the passenger train.
Acting Secretary of War Davis ask
ed officers in charge of the training
camp at Camp Dix to appeal to the New
Jersey State authorities in an effort
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Droughts during June seriously de-
creased the production of truck crops
in New Jersey, according to the State
Department of Agriculture.
Several south Jersey fire companies
have been invited to participate in the
housing of new motor apparatus by
the Cedarville fire company.
Millville Kiwanis Club will hold an
outing at Atlantic City next month
and have as guests a host of children
who have never seen the ocean. The
idea was proposed by President Biv-
ms.
A daily vacation Bible school start
ed at Paulsboro, to continue four
weeks, with all of the local Protestant
denominations cooperating.
Catherine Mueller, aged forty-three,
died in the Railway Hospital from
blood poisoning, which developed
from an insect sting received while
she was working in her garden.
The Blackbird, a speed boat COM
peting in the race in the Raritan river
at Perth Amboy, caught fire just as it
was about to cross the line a winner.
1t sank after an explosion.
The Fourth Regiment band of Cam
den gave a concert for the inmates Of
the Camden County Insane Asylum
and Almshouse at Blackwood,
Charles Culkin and his wife, Ruth,
both eighteen, were arrested at At
lantic City as fugitives from Bradley
Beach, where they are charged by the
parents of the girl with the theft of
500 and jewelry.