The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-12-25

Brooklawn Borough Council to install
a call system in the borough for the
police and fire departments.
Residents OF Fairview have asked
the police to investigate the actions
of some of the school students and
4 young men who linger about York
shire Square, displaying fas-.s OF
wine and whisky.
The board of directors OF the At
lantic City Y. M. G. A. elected Albert
| e. Chamberlain, general secretary OF
the Bush Terminal branch, Brooklyn,
as general secretary to succeed
James p. Stubs, resigned.
Bicycles ridden on the streets at
Wenonah after dark must carry
/ lights, and Mayor Ogden has given
notice that the ruling will be en-
forced.
Funeral services for Congressman
elect T. Frank Appleby. who died in
Baltimore hospital. were conducted
at the First Methodist Episcopal
| Church ,Asbury Park, by Rev. f. A.
Demaris. Senator Walter e. Edge
and former Senator Joseph S. FIRE.
linghuysen were among the attending
friends whose number exceeded the
capacity of the church. Burial SER
vices followed at Old Bridge, Mr.. APP
pleby's birthplace.
Three armed robbers at Bloomfield
who drove their automobile headlong
into that of their victim and then
laid down smoke screen to cover
their escape held up the paymaster
OF the American La France Company
and escaped with an $500 payroll.
Jersey justice again lived up to its
regulation for speed when George
McNamee, taxi driver, was sentenced
to six months in Jail and fined $25,
less than three hours after he at
tempted to assault Julia Roller, 49,
! year-old immigrant, now living at 2216
| New Spring street, Port Richmond,
S. /. The girl, who speaks little Eng
ltsh, hired the driver to take her from
Hoboken to Jersey City, where she
intended to visit relatives. On tbs
outskirts of Hoboken, McNamee
drove his cab into vacant lot and
there attempted to attack Miss Kol-
Ter.
Activity of Federal Government in
New Jersey liquor scandal may be
| result of Coolidge's order.
Contrary to the usual procedure
| when New York banking houses got
a large percentage of them, banking
/ institutions of New Jersey subscribed
for all of the $9,0OO,0OO bridge, tunnel
and road bond issue, it was announced
at Trenton.
Because she had made a hard
/ Court fight, Daniel B. Smith, of East
| Grange, president of the abandoned
Jersey Central Traction Company,
sent Mrs. Mary Hutchinson, of Pas
sale, personal check for $21.137 for
the accidental death of her husband
in July, 1921 John Hutchinson died
following injuries sustained when he
was struck by trolley car of the
company near Keansburg, for which
the Supreme Coure recently affirmed
lower Court award of $4,000 to his
| widow. The traction company was
unable financially to meet the claim,
HIGH was made good by Mr.. Smith.
State and private accountants
worked on books Of the Industrial
Building and Loan Association of
Hackensack in an effort to check
reported shortage of from S280,000 to
1884, 900 in the institutions accounts.
The proposed investigation by the
United States Attorney Generals Of
flee of U. S. Attorney General Walter
G. WINES administration in New
Jersey now overshadows the Weehau-
ken rum running investigation, which
led to the order from Washington for
the INJURY.
Teachers and parents representing
Runnemede, Bellmawr, Mt. Ephraim
and Lawnside schools attended the
meeting of the Center township Board
| of Education and protested the pro-
posed increased hours in the schools.
A movement to separate Stratford
from Clementon township and form a
borough of the district took definite
form at a mass meeting of residents
in the fire hall. The borough PROPOSE
ton has been agitated for some time.
due to political stagnation in the
township, which has retarded the de-
velopment of the various communi
ties and held up public improvements.
In the absence of her mother, who
had gone to the post office, five-year-
old Blanche Irene Lewis played with
matches at her home in Juliustown.
The matches set fire to her clothing
and the little one was burned all over
the body. When the mother returned
she found the child charred from head
to foot. Neighbors assisted the fran
tic mother to take the child to the
Burlington County Hospital at Mount
Holly, where she died She was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lew
is.
Oyster shipping has about reached
it's peak in the Maurice River Cove
district, where trainloads are now be-
ing shipped to the city markets daily
Occasional warm days have worried
the shippers and made the market