The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-03-27

| Tor new state Normal school this
year.
Gloucester City Council at an adj
journed meeting granted 80 applica-
tions to owners of busses to operate
in and through the city. The applica-
tons all complied with the new ordi-
nance requiring fares to be specified
and schedule of trips filed Each ap-
/ plication specified that the fare will
4 remain cents The members of the
council feared that higher rate might
be charged by the Public Service, but
the Public Service Board can estab-
| lish rates.
Anna L. Dayton, whose father, the
late William I. Dayton, served as am
bassor to France under President Lin
| coin, died at her home in Trenton of
! injuries received in fall ten days
ago. She was eighty-seyen years old
She was a member of New Jerseys
oldest families. Her father was active
In Republican politics and was can.
didate for Vice President in 1856.
Four men found guilty in the Fed
| eral Court at Trenton on a charge of
having attempted to shake down" a
saloonkeeper in Edgewater were SEN
fenced at Newark by Federal Judge
| Joseph l. Bodine- Their attorneys inn
mediately filed notice of an appeal
and the defendants were released in
bonds of $4,000 each pending action
upon the appeal
Despite the insistence of his widow
that Woodford E. Shreye, Camden,
general agent of the Public Service
Ga sand Electric Companies, did not
take his own life, Coroner Allie Adams
has issued a certificate of death from
suicide. Shreve was found seated at
the wheel of his motor car two miles
below Westville with bullet wound
in his head and pistol in his hand.
Charles Melvin Johnson, fifty-seven
years old, former councilman and well
known throughout Monmouth county,
died at the Monmouth Memorial Hos
pital in Red Bank. He was the pro-
prietor of the Seaside Hotel at High
lands and had been a member of the
Mystic Brotherhood Lodge of Masons.
is wife and four children survive him
The funeral was held at his home The
burial was in Fairview Cemetery.
The Camden county bridge over
Newton creek, between Camden and
Gloucester City, has been repaired so
that the motor traffic is much inn
proved.
Owners of radios at Fairview COM
plain Of an amateur broadcasting sta
ton which interferes with other sta
tons
The Gloucester City Fire Depart
ment has started plans for big hous-
ing ceremony when the new engine is
received.
Former Assemblyman Willard T.
Gibbs of Clementon has obtained a
rule for writ of certiorari to have
the Supreme Court pass on the assess
ment upon Clementon Park, over
which there has been long dispute
The will of Edward Pierson of Eliza
beth, in which bequest of s75, 900 was
held by Vice Chancellor Backes at
Newark. Only few small requests
were made to relatives who contested
the document. contending that it had
been drawn when Mr.. Pierson was i'll.
The Belmar Braid Mill was totally
destroyed by fire at a loss of $125,00O
from an unknown cause The loss in
Guided large shipment of silk and
machinery. night shift had left the
factory at 3 a. M. an hour after which
Patrolman Berger discovered flames
on the second floor of the two7story
brick building A night Waterman is
missing.
The Salem and Pennsgrove Trac-
| ton Company has been given permits
sion to extend its tracks to Riyerview
Beach, a summer resort at Pennsville.
Two grave diggers at North Airing
| ton staged lonely battle in the Holy
Cross Cemetery, the loser being lock-
ed in tool chest by the victor An
undertaken released him.
The contract for laying sewers end
water mains on portions Of Morris,
Mercer and Eighth streets, Gloucester
City, was awarded to William Robin
son by the council.
The Public Service Transportation
Company mas purchas ID the bus oper-
ated by Walter Fries from Camden to
Highland Park
A school police department" has
been organized by Mayor Long of
Pennsgrove, the members being boys
of the high school, whose duty It is
to see that pupils are protected from
traffic. Clair Diver is the chief.
Rev. Eugene Hill, pastor emeritus
of the First Reformed church. Gar
field, and Civil War veteran, COM
mitted suicide at his home by cutting
his throat with a penknife, according
to report made by police. Mr. Hill,
who had been in failing health for
several years, was seventy-seven ~ears
old. Although he was taken to the
Passaic General Hospital within a
short time after being found by his
wife on couch, he died on the way.
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