The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-11-20
NEW JERSEY
STATE NE VS.

! made many lads happy at the annual
father and son night" held by the All
Saints Mems Club at Legion hall
! Wenonah
A Eve pound pike was caught in the
pond at Cedarville by Wilbert Rich
man, who is seventy years old, but
still an enthusiastic angler
A Lions club is being formed at
Pitman through the efforts of the
Gloucester City Club.
Presbyterians at Swedesboro are
conducting drive to raise $4,000 for
a new Sunday school building and so
cial hall.
The new wigwam OF Matoaca Tribe
of Red Men, Westville, was dedicated
with special ceremonies. State off,
GERS and members of other tribes at
tended.
To raise money for the needy poor
at Christms.s time the Ladies' Aux
iliary of the Brooklawn Protestant
Association is holding a charity ba-
zaar
A public meeting is being planned
by the Woodstown Chamber of Com
merce to promote the movement for
getting the Boy Scout work establish
ed in the town.
A petition is being circulated among
residents of Bridgeport for electric
lights. and proposal has been made
for running line from Swedesboro
by the Electric Company of New Jer-
sey.
When official returns are compared
it is said that Pitman will make a
strong bid for the Republican banner
to be awarded In Gloucester county
for getting out the largest proportion
ate vote
Rum Chaser No. 2301, built at the
John M. Rogers works, Gloucester
City, was turned over to the govern
ment and was sent through the canal
to the Sandy Hook coast guard sta
ton.
The machinery and equipment at
the south yard of the New York ship
yard. in the upper end Of Gloucester
City, are being sold and an effort is
being made by the government and
the corporation to dispose of the land
and buildings for other industrial pur-
poses.
The funeral of Frank ]. Stewart,
the young man who was killed by a
train which struck truck at Glouces-
ter City, was the largest seen this
year. More than so automobiles car
ried the muorners. In st. Mary's
church high mass was celebrated by
Rev. Joseph Sutliff, and knights
Columbus and Holy Name Society at
tended
operation of nine buses on South
Orange street, six on the Port New
ark route, and one to Irvington, all
al Newark
improvements that will mean much
to the industrial development of Bur-
lington began when ground was
broken for the erection of a $780,
GOO addition to the plant of the United
States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry
Company, part of an extensive pro-
gram which will make Burlington the
center of the iron industry The
building under construction will be
used exclusively for the manufacture
of pipe by the deLavaud process.
Seven hundred or 800 men will be en-
ployed in the new plant, requiring the
erection of more than 100 houses.
These will be built by the company.
The men Of the EVAN church will
serve an oyster supper and hope to
surpass the women, who recently
served one.
The New Jersey Federation of
County Boards of Agriculture will be
represented at the national eonven-
ton of the American Farm Bureau
Federation in Chicago by Howard B.
Hancock of Greenwich.
The Rotary Club and Exchange
Club of Salem combined to give 'fa-
ther and son" banquet.
Odd Fellows attended a special
service at the Pennsgrove Baptist
church.
The senior class of the Gloucester
City High Schcol entertained the
teachers and other students at dance
and reception in the city hall.
A reception was rendered Rev. DR..
Nathaniel j. Sproul, the new pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church of Sa-
lem.
City detectives raided an alleged
speakeasy at 2215 Arctic avenue, At
lantic City, and arrested Louis Kline,
found in charge. Next door the detec-
tives found a new still ready to be set
up.
With Merchantville growing in
homes and business establishments
with great strides, the recently organ
lied Business Mems Association has
begun comprehensive campaign to
make the municipality the most pros
porous of its size in this part Of the
state" The slogan, Cooperation
benefits ALL" has been adopted and
will be displayed upon metal signs
hung in the windows of the members
places. Virtually every business man
in town belongs to the association.
The organization also plans to publish
q weekly naWGnanQr