The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-10-02

| bershlp drive.
Work is to be rushed upon new
brick banking house for the Elmer
! Trust Company at Main and Front
streets.
Protests are being made to National
Park council to the extension OF the
water pipes for about mile 20 the
creek section because of the heavy ex-
pense.
Four Philadelphia boys, who gave
the names of Peter Weber, Charles
Mccartney and Arthur ard Walter
Smith, were arrested near Laurel
Springs for taking grapes from the
vineyard of Lucius Parker. Squire
Jackson let them so on their promise
never to steal anything in Jersey
again.
Dominick Knestaut of Paulsboro
was fined $40 in the Gloucester police
court for violating the traffic laws on
Broadway and almost running down
Traffic officer Gwin. Conrad Schu
bert, Brooklawn, and Louis Nolte Of
Staten Island were each fined $40 for
failing to observe the traffic signs.
The official returns from Cumber-
land county reverse the count for the
Republican nomination for the assem-
! bly, and give Henry A. Hettinger
majority of 294 over Assemblyman
David G. Blizzard, Jr., of Port Norris
The final figures are: Hettinger,
6,582; Blizzard, 6,288.
Mrs Lucinda Irwin, wife of G. Hen
ry Irwin, died at Long Branch, aged
seventy. She was one of the three or.
ganizers of the Monmouth Memorial
Hospital and had been president of
the Hospital Auxiliary at Long Branch
since it's organization.
The Wenonah Military Academy
opened it's twenty-frst year with the
| largest enrolment in it's history, and
81 years ago start was made with
! just a handful of students. 1t has
grown until now 1t ranks with the
larger military academies of the coun-
| try.
A new realty company for develop
ment in and around Hurffville has
| been incorporated with authorized
capital of $125,000.
To save money for taxpayers three
members of the Brooklawn Board OF
Education replaced broken windows
in the schoolhouse.
| Recently a large poultry building on
the farm of Herbert and Bernard Wen
| ger, on the Elmer-Willow Grove road,
Daretown, caught fire at noon from
| an unknown cause The building.
which was rs by As feet and two and
one-half stories high, was destroyed
with several large incubators and 9TH
| er equipment. That same night
| large barn on the s. H. Wright farm,
| on Dutch Row, near Elmer, was also
burned. The property is occupied by
Frederick Smithcore. The estimated
loss was $500.
| A vast army of worms, which some
claim are the army worms, similar to
those. which swept the section in 1917,
| is devastating timber at Winslow, at
lacking black oak and stripping the
| trees of all small branches and foliage.
Millions can be found lying in the
roadways, destroyed by motor cars.
| Princeton University opened its one
hundred and seventy-eighth year with
almost 1000 students enrolled and ex-
| pectations that the freshman class,
now numbering more than 500, will
be the largest in the history of the
university with the admission of about
| 30 more first year men.
Frank Watkins, Jr., twenty-nine
years old, was killed when his auto
mobile was struck by a Pennsylvania
railroad train on an unguarded cross
ing between Millville and Vineland-
| Watkins, who was alone, was thrown
many feet and his car was demolished.
| Burlington fremen have collected
about $2,100 in their weeks drive to
raise So, 800 for expenses Of entertain
ing visiting firemen at the parade
| there on October IS.
The Public Service Railway Corpo-
ration removed the summer cars from
the Gloucester car barn, which is soon
| to be torn down because of its dilapi-
| dated condition.
Taxpayer Of Cape May met in Phil
adelphia to protest against the $780,
| 900 bond issue of tho city commits
| sioners to widen the Boardwalk and
| beach drive The complaint is that
the tax rate is so high that property
owners do not care to retain their
!
! possessions.
The members of ths Congregational
| church, Maple Shade, have extended
a call to Rev. Frank S. Ritter, pastor
of the Congregational church of Jer-
sey City. The church has been with
out a regular minister for several
months since the resignation of Rev.
Edward G. Heal on account of impair
ed health.
Ethel, five-months-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Bota, was fatally
burned at Phillipsburg when her
three-year-old brother, Tony, set fire
to the bed in which she was sleeping
with her two-year-old brother, John.
Tony was playing with matches on
the second floor, while the mother
was washing clothing on the first
/ fiOnr She smalIed smoke and found