The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-09-18

Durg pant OF the NulCdDlL6 HOTLldU0
Cement Company when he was caught
in slide of rock and buried His
body was dug from beneath the heavy
material by fellow workmen.
New York may extend subway into
New Jersey for 10000 Hudson coun-
ty commuters.
George Quick, forty-fve, of New
ton was killed instantly when his
head was drawn into corn cutting
machine and cut in halves at Raven
wood Farm, near Morristown. Quick,
who had operated the machine four
years, was engaged in filing silo
on the farm when he met his death.
He had shut off the power and raised
the hood to look into the machine.
Under their own momentum the
knives were still revolving, and when
he slipped his head was drawn into
the machine
The Progressive League protested
the proposed withdrawal of express
trains to and from the shore resorts
in Cape May county during the win
| ter by the Pennsylvania and Reading.
1t is understood that unless the rail
roads continue the present service
business men will boycott the rail-
roads and arrange to have bus line
run between Cape May and Philadel
| phia. with connections at Stone Har-
Dor, Sea Isle City, wildwood and
Ocean City.
Reporting on the elimination and
protection of grade crossings in New
Jersey from September, 1920, to the
present, James Maybury, Jr., chief Of
the bureau of Railroads, State Public
| Utility Commission, stated that %
crossings, IA being Of the most dan
gerous type, had been removed. The
work was completed at cost Of ap-
proximately S6000,000.
Never in the history of the Camden
county jail has it been so crowded as
at present, and Warden Powell is
wondering what he will do with any
additional "boarders" who may hap
| pen to be sent in. There are now 40
! persons in the Jail as compared with
the previous high mark Of 1875 in 1918.
What is known as 40 cell block" has
never heretofore been used, but now
! it is filled, while prisoners are sleep
ing in hammocks stretched across the
corridors.
Thirty-two crossing eliminations
are under way in Paterson, Somer-
vile, Perth Amboy, Great Meadows,
Newark, Athena and Little Falls.
The estimated cost of removing these
is $9,535,O00.
At the present time negotiations
are in progress for the abolition of 81
other crossings in Passaic, Ruther-
ford, Crawford, Morgan and Elizabeth
port, involving an outlay of S14,435,-
600.
The Gloucester County Firemen's
Association will celebrate its tenth
anniversary with big program 1T
Glassboro Thursday night, October
16.
Borough council at Woodstown will
seek a successor to Eugene w. Bas-
sett, who has resigned as street SUI
pervisor after several years service.
The Gloucester City Lions Club de-
cided to send a miss Gloucester" to
Woodbury. on Halloween at the re-
quest Of the Eureka Triangle Club.
The teachers and principal of the
Runnemede school have requested the
parents to allow no family dogs to
follow the children to school.
Charles W. Latzgus of Gloucester
City is being indorsed by most all the
| Odd Fellows lodges of south Jersey
for senior warden of the grand lodge.
The Woodlynne Board of Health
has asked all the citizens to be vacci-
mated and offers to vaccinate free any
who will call at the Office of DR..
Moore, health officer.
Work will be begun at once upon
a frame schoolhouse at Auburn, Sa-
lem county The old building has been
RACED.
John Hennion, 65, was killed
when a freight locomotive struck him
on the Erie railroad between Haskell
and Pompton Lakes during the night.
Charged with taking an automobile
| without consent of it's owner, Oakford
Day Of Haleyville was sentenced to 80
days in the county jail by Mayor Eel
mey of Millville.
The street committee of Gloucester
city council will probably have the
corners of all streets intersecting
Broadway rounded to eliminate acct
dents and the breaking of inlet covers.
Black bass "fingerlings" from the
state hatchery at Hackettstown have
been placed in number of south Jer-
sey lakes by game wardens.
The Wildwood public schools re-
opened with an estimated enrolment
of 1900 An additional room is being
arranged in the Holly Beach school.
Because of the heavy traffic Wash
ington and Westminster avenues,
Gloucester City, have been made one
way streets by order of city council.
The Board of Health of Gloucester
township is planning to have a resi-
dent nurse appointed by the State
Board of Health.
Blowing a lamp out and retiring for
the night, Edward English of Aldine
on arising xt morning found that
I tba Ian,n had exnIodad and burned