The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-08-02

/ City has decided TO change the route
/ Of the entrance of the new Absecon
boulevard from Virginia avenue to Del
aware avenue. In all probability the
entrance win be paved with asphalt at
the same time the freeholders pave the
/ boulevard
The police have released Mrs. Daisy
Hall of Upton place, Railway. and Mrs.
Pearl Daniels Of the same address,
both colored. after having held them
as material witnesses In the murder
Of Mrs Halls husband, Joseph Hall.
The latter was slain in the backyard
of his home. The prosecutors Office
has asked County Physician f. w.
Westcott to make another probe for
the bullet, so as to determine If It Is Of
the same caliber as the revolver found
under bed in the Hall home
A writ of certiorari questioning the
constitutionality OF the state sweat
shops law was served on Justice Suili-
van by Alexander Freedberg and Moe
vogel, Jersey City clothing manufac-
turers, who have been fined 500 each
and sentenced TO so days In Jail for
alleged violation OF the law. The writ
will serve as a sta. Of execution Of the
sentences until 1t is argued November
7. Prosecution of other sweat shops
caseA also will be held up
Forest fires which ragged furiously
in the vicinity of New Gretna, Atlantic
county, for two days were completely
extinguished. heavy ,downpour Of
rain completed the work of fire ward
ems begun three days before The loss
is heavy.
John Watson, formerly City Record
er, an auctioneer and secondhand fur
niture dealer Of New Brunswick, was
almost instantly killed and three other
men, all Of New Brunswick, were
slightly injured when their automobile
struck telegraph pole and turned
over on the river road near New
Brunswick.
Fire at Gloucester destroyed three
buildings, with a loss estimated at
$4,000 before a downp0ur OF rain
checked further progress Of the flames
which were threatening a dozen resi-
dences. The buildings burned were
the garage and motor car salesrooms
Of IA Polivnick. the frame building
occupied by the Gloucester Grain.
Dairy & Feed Company. and the resi-
dence Of Leroy Page.
Mute evidence of boys Intellectual
effort to save his brother from drown
ing was found In the Passaic River
near Summit, when the clasped bodies
of Frank Hackenburg, seventeen years
DID, and his brother Paul, twenty-one
years old. both Of Summit, were recov-
cred near Johnson's Bridge by Lester
Genung, fourteen years old. their
chum
Newark officials declared that plans
have been perfected to put large
number of additional jitney buses into
service in event OF strike of trolley
men employed by the Public Service
Railway Company.
/ A forest fire raging over a Is mile
area near Chetsworth endangered the
lives Of scores of persons. who we're
forced to Zee. Volunteers were called
from miles around to check the flames
The Woodbury. Rotary Club has ar
ranged for fishing trip to Fortescue.
The state highway department is
widening the road between the old
Gloucester toll gate site and Brook
lawn.
The shore service autobus began OPP
Grafton at wildwood. The coaches OPP
crate between Atlantic City. Wild
1 wood, Cape May and intermediates
points. The company promises all
| year round service and during the
summer service from a. m. to IL
D. m. The run is scheduled as two
hours between Atlantic City and Wild
wood.
Wenonah boy scouts returned from
a ten days outing at Ocean City.
Machinery is being moved from the
dupont plant at Lodi to the dye works
at Deepwater, Salem county.
Neighbors have helped Charles
Manguson, whose buildings and live
stock on his farm near Clayton were
destroyed by fire recently, get started
again.
Work will be started shortly in Had
| donfeld borough on a $4,000 sewage
! disposal plant and outfall sewer in the
| Batesville section.
Fire ruined the factory of the Dia-
mond Match Company at Railway.
Damage was $4,000.
William Towers, aged thirteen, OF
/ 229 PearsaH avenue, Jersey City, was
4 killed when struck by lightning at the
summer camp OF his parents at Cul-s
vers Lake, Branchville.
The United Textile Workers Of
America and the Associated silk
Workers are in the midst Of bitter
war for labor supremacy in Paterson.
The six span wooden bridge built
more than half century ago over the
i Delaware river between Stockton and
/ Center Bridge, Pa, burned when
struck by lightning.
The Y. w. c. A. camp at Fries Mill.
which usually closes the middle OK
August, will be kept open uLtil Sep
! tau7 her i because of so many applica-