The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-01-11

as receiver OF the Gloucester Ferry
| Company. John A. Waters will be
! continued as superintendent apd serv-
| ice will soon be resumed.
The Mount Ephriam Baptist Church
will extend call to Rev. e. D. Capper
of Philadelphia to become perma-
nent pastor.
The annual Asbury Park Business
Mems show will be held in the Board
walk Casino, January 20 to February
8. 1928.
Residents of Highland Park have
the assistance of Congressman Patter-
son in their efforts to get sub-sta-
ton Of the Gloucester City post Office
Auto bus licenses expired at the end
of the year in Gloucester City, and to
date only one owner has taken out a
new one.
/ State police are running down cleWs
| which indicate their claim that VIII
liam Battles, nineteen-year-old negro,
/ confessed slayer of Mrs. Charles F.
| brigham. of Orange, had some con-
nection with the murder OF eleven
year-old jeanette Lawrence, OF Flor
ham Park near Madison, year ago.
state troops and local police secured
the negro section OF Madison search
ing for traces of family named Bat
ties. which is believed to be closely
related to the prisoner.
The Supreme Court, Trenton. set
aside verdicts amounting to $3.50, re-
| covered in the Camden Circuit Court
| by William Z, Roster and his wife, OF
| Camden, In suits against the Phila-
delphia and Camden Ferry Company
While a passenger on the ferryboat
Bridgeton, Mrs. Roster slipped on the
deck and sustained injuries. The fall
was supposed to have been caused
by a hole in the deck, but the court
held that testimony was against the
existence Of such hole.
There were 3,402 deaths in New Jer-
sey during November, according to re-
ports filed with the State Bureau of
| Vital Statistics. There were asa
! deaths among children under one
year, 2O2 of children more than one
year, but under five years, and 1880
deaths of persons sixty years old and
over. The death rate for the month
was 1920, as compared with 1910 for
| October, 978 for September, 1898 for
August and 9.93 for July. Suicides
were twenty-six in October and thirty
five in November. Pneumonia claim
| ed 106 lives in October and 1873 last
month.
Dominic Chianese, so, tried three
| times at Trenton to end his life under
trains, according to railroad officials
and is now in hospital suffering the
| loss of his right arm. Insomnia is
| believed to have caused his alleged
attempted suicide. Chianese, it is de-
clared, attempted to throw himself
before three locomotives but each
time was brushed aside. He is of
large size and it is due to his huge
bulk that he probably owes his life
Assuming an attitude of open de-
flance of the court in legal matter
under consideration, William Bartlett
of Lumberton, was committed to the
county jail at Mount Holly for 80 days
for contempt by Judge Wells He is
former Freebooter and at present is
a member of the Lumberton Town
ship Committee.
Selection of Frederick M. P. Pearse,
of Metuchen, as his private secretary
was announced by Governor-elect Sill
ger. He, for many years, has been on
terms of intimate friendship with
Judge Silzer and is lawyer of long
experience and, prominence at the bar
practicing in Newark. He is As years
old.
The State Board Of Health approved
the plans and specifications for pro-
posed five mile sewerage system in.
West Millville to cost 100000.
The Salem County Protective Assoc
citation has elected these officers
President, S. S. Flitcraft; vice presi-
dent. H. v. Foster; secretary and
treasurer, E. C. Moore; executive com
mittee, H. v. Foster, Ira S. Duell-
Warren Richman, A., d. Borton and
Walter B. Crispin.
Postmasters in all south Jersey
towns have notified residents that
after this week no mail will be deliv-
cred to homes where there are no
boxes.
The Cumberland county grand jury
returned indictments against Benny
Meale, John Ballard and Randolph
Stewart for violation of the prohibit
ton law; Alonzo Blizzard, Harry
Blizzard and Edward Pierce for bur-
glary.
Efforts are being mae to form a
P. o. S. of A. camp 1t Williamstown
or Clayton.
Six boys were before Mayor Ander-
son of Gloucester City, four charged
with throwing lime on the car of Ed
ward Candy, 211 Essex street, and
two were charged with taking tickets
from a moving picture show. All
pleaded not guilty and were released
upon their promise to be good.
Rudolph Neeser, tea years old, OF
Morristown was SO badly burned when
his fancy costume was ignited from a
candle at party at the Morristown