The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-06-05
NelD Jersey
Items

Magnolia. for the purchase OF
motor pumper for the Magnolia Fire
Company were made at a meeting OF
the welfare committee of the com
pany.
Carney's Point.-The graduating
class of the Lafayette Grammar
School visited places of historic inter
est in Philadelphia.
Brooklawn.-Th Brooklawn Com
munity Association will ask Borough
Council to issue no permits for erec-
ton of any Industrial establishments,
as the residents desire it to remain
a residential centre.
Blackwood. Blackwood Fire Com
pany will celebrate it's thirtieth ami
versary and dedicate it's new hall Sat
urday, June IA. Invitations have been
sent to all companies in the county.
notwithstanding on the petition
of the Lehigh and Hudson River Rail-
way Company. the Public Utility Com
mission has ordered the closing TO
vehicular traffic of two grade cross
iDgs near. Buttzville. Warren County.
Brooklawn.-Br Fire Com
pany, of this place, is running short
of funds for operating expenses, and
plans are under way for drive.
Gloucester City.-About thirty fire
companies from South Jersey will
take part in the big parade when the
new engine is housed.
Collingswood.- Plans for big
Fourth of July celebration were made
at a meeting of citizens in the bor-
cugh hall.
Camden,-The Pitman Masonic
Club, composed of members of the
order from Camden, Philadelphia and
other towns, has opened it's enlarged
clubhouse for the summer and an
nounced big program Of activities.
Gloucester City.-The Gloucester
City Amusement Company has been
formed and taken over the four NOV
ing picture theatres in the city. The
incorporators are Philip Kalikman, Jo-
seph Varbalow, Harry and Samuel
Varbalow.
Dover.-The Board of Education Of
Dover Township. Ocean County, cleo
ted Sidney R. Harris as member
to succeed the late William Howard
Jeffrey, president. The Township
Committee appointed Harold L. Briu-
ley, solicitor, as Mr. Jeffrey's success
sor.
Greenwich-The West Jersey Pres
bytery will meet at Greenwich on
June II when the question of the mer
ger of the First and Calvary Churches,
Camden, will be decided
Trenton State summer schools for
teachers, under direction of the State
Board of Examiners and approved by
the State Board of Education, will be
conducted this year in Ocean City,
Glassboro and Newton, beginning
June 80. Residents of New Jersey
and non-residents who are under con-
tract to teach in this State may attend
the schools without payment of fees.
Others will be assessed SIS for one
course and SIS for each additional
course
Newark Martin Wright, crippled
slayer of Edward Hallock, pleaded
guilty to second degree murder in the
Essex County Court of Common Pleas
here and was remanded by Judge
Porter for sentence. The maximum
penalty is thirty years imprisonment.
Wright sat in chair on the second
floor of his home at 335 Bergen street
March 81 and shot Hallock because
of his friendship with Mrs. Mia Egg
bert, Wright's daughter.
Gloucester City.-The senior clsss
of the High School, numbering thirty
nine, went to Washington for three
days trip, in charge Of Charles Maier,
secretary of the Board of Education.
and his wife.
New Brunswick.-A number of
melon growers of South Jersey will
attend field day at the State College
here, when an expert will show how
to grow $50 or more marketable
melons to the acre.
Trenton.-An assessment of S19,425
for 1928 against the Sisters of the Or
der of st. Dominic for property in Sea
Isle City was upheld by the supreme
court. The Cape May County Tax
bOdIQ anu IllS OIdLS DOClQ VI dAGo
and Assessments previously had up
held the levy. Members of the order
spend their annual vacations at the
institution, pay a weekly sum for
board, and this removed the order
from the classification of charitable
organizations entitled to tax exemp-
ton.
Atlantic City.-Henry Young, Chi
nese laundry owner, of Atlantic ave-
nue., was arrested by Detective Webb
on warrant sworn out by his white
wife, charged with DESERVING her and
their six children. With Young at the
time was Florence Weaver, nineteen
years old, bobbed hair and pretty, the
white wife of another Chinaman, who
s.ccuses her of misconduct with Young.
Mrs. Young, in her complaint to Mag
istrate Paxson, charges her husband
with taking her and the children to
Philadelphia and then deserving
them. She borrowed sufficient money
to return to Atlantic City, she said,
and discovered her husband living