The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-09-11

town National Bank, was appointed
cashier in place of Joseph r. Deacon,
who died suddenly.
Philip H Brakeley, Jr., who was
elected one of the commissioners for
Bordentown in 1921 when he became
mayor, will move with his family to
Manchester, N. H, October 1. He
will relinquish the duties of that of
fee.
Nearly 200 boys of Pitman Toasted
upon watermelon and held frolic at
the local park as guests of the Pit
man Rotary Club. DR.. w. ]. Burkett,
head Of the boys work committee,
and fellow Rotarians provided wag-
onload of juicy melons and the young
sters had their fill.
Assistant County Prosecutor Hin
k1e of Atlantic City took to task ST.
mon Faber, reformer, for conducting
personal" raids on alleged gambling
houses and obtaining insufficient evil
dence.
Overexertion in his successful ef-
forts to save Robert Cope, seventeen.
of Philadelphia from drowning in the
surf at Ocean City resulted in the
collapse of William Hamilton, sixty
two, an officer of the Southwark Ma.
tional Bank, Philadelphia. He died
in the arms of life guards who
brought him ashore. Heart disease is
believed to have been the cause
Angelo Granata, Jr., three years
old, who lived at Iyyside, was killed
by a local train of the Pennsylvania
railroad while walking along the
tracks to his home. After the train
was stopped the crew took the body
to the Ivyside crossing, where Coro-
ner Adams gave certificate of acct
dental death. The father lives but a
short distance from the station and is
farm laborer.
Howard Gilbert, a policeman OF
Northmont, Pa, has enlisted the aid
of the Atlantic City police to obtain
the wealth of William Malsberger,
sixty-year-old recluse, who was found
dead in his home there two weeks
ago. Although the man lived in hum
Bile circumstances, it has been dis
closed that he left considerable prop
erty. Gilbert says he has checked up
Malsberger's history and that he is
convinced that he was his fathers
half brother.
The so teachers of the Gloucester
City public schols were rendered
banquet and reception by the Board
of Education to bring the old and new
together and greet the superintendent,
A. N. Bean.
The home of George w. Sandoz,
Third and Asbury avenues, National
Park, was ransacked by thieves while
the family was at the seashore.
CDR" Jaque A. Gordon, drug clerk,
arrested at Atlantic City on a charge
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses from Miss Fay Bernstein of
New York, was held in $1,000 bail on
an additional charge, that of prac-
-ticing medicine without a license.
Gordon, a married man, courted Miss
Bernstein, became engaged to her
and was to have married her when
the girls brother-in-law discovered
the dup1icity. The man will now be
prosecuted by the State Medical
Board.
Charged with having a still in his
possession and making moonshine,
Kassal Weiss of 2426 South Seventh
street, Camden, was held in $1,000
bail by United States Commissioner
Armstrong. The charge was made by
government men, who said they found
a 100 gallon still and so gallons Of
whisky. Weiss denied the allegation
and said he had rented the room to
parties unknown, who disappeared
when the agents arrived. The agents
said his wife had admitted operating
the still.
Nathan Weiss, apartment house own
er in Weehawken, received a letter
from women who signed herself
"a Christian" in which was inclosed
So bill which, the writer explained,
was to reimburse the man for silver
dollar taken from the Weiss home ten
years ago, where the woman worked
as a servant. The money belonged to
Weiss's son, the letter added.
The New Jersey peach crop, includ-
ing the famous yellow peaches, which
will make their appearance in the
markets within week, will be sold
this year all along the Atlantic Coast.
The Jersey crop is ripening just at a
period when few other states are pro-
ducing peaches and Jersey growers
apparently are assured of good prices
for all graded fruit.
The Rev. Marina S. Poulson, former
pastor of the Congregational Church
at Ventnor, one-time head of the Anti
Saloon League in Nebraska, and active
for five years in the New Jersey Anti
Saloon League, was chosen superin-
tendent of the New Jersey League by
the State Headquarters Committee.
He took up his duties September 1.
succeeding the Rev. DR.. James K.
Shields, resigned.
Recorder Keller. of Clementon
Township, and Frank Bodine, a spe-
cial policeman, were arrested on a
warrant sworn out by Myer Kendall,
1906 North Sixth street, Philadelphia,
charging false arrest. Squire Huyett
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