The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-04-17


road was denied on the ground Of be-
ing purely .oeal improvement
To assist Union county in building
the Scotch Plains -rcad of concrete,
full width, from Scotch Plains to
Plainfeld, $4,000 was set aside, and
similar amount was allowed Mon
mouth county toward two miles OF
concrete between Freehold and Smith
burg, on the Shore road from Tren-
ton by way Of Allentown. Monmouth
county will also get $4,000 for the inn
provement of Reckless Place, Red
Bank, connecting link between State
highway Route No. and Harding
road
Dates for Camp SiIzer
Adjutant General Frederick Gilky-
son, with the approval of Governor
Silzer, issued general orders for the
annual encampment of units of the
National Guard.
The One Hundred and Fourteenth
Infantry Regiment, of which Company
H of this city is part, will be at
Camp Silzer, Sea Grit, from July IL to
26. The One Hundred and Thirteenth
Regiment, with headquarters in New
ark, will be at Camp Silzer from July
to 10. Both regiments, comprising
the Fifty-seventh Infantry Brigade,
will be in camp from July II to 10.
The annual camp of instruction will
open June 1, continuing until June g.
From June to- IL the rife camp Of
instruction will be held.
Major General Quincy A. Gilmore
of Atlantic City, commander of the
Forty-fourth Division of the National
Guard, will go to camp July 5, main
tanning divisional headquarters until
August %. State staff corps and de-
partments will remain in camp during
the period divisional headquarters are
there.
Other encampment dates are July
5z25, headquarters of Fifty-seventh In
fantry Brigade; July 5-19, headquar-
ters company, Fifty-seventh Infantry
Brigade, One Hundred and Thirteenth
Infantry; July 1926, One Hundred and
Fourteenth Infantry; July 1929, One
Hundred and Fourth Engineers, One
Hundred and Nineteenth Medical Reg
iment; headquarters company Forty
fourth Division, One Hundred and
Nineteenth Motorcycle Company, For
ty-fourth Division.
August 9-23, One Hundred and Sec
ond Cavalry, Forty-fourth Division
Signal Company; September 1928,
Battery F, One Hundred and Twelfth
Field Artillery.
The One Hundred and Twelfth Field
Artillery, less Battery F, will have its
encampment at Montauk Point. Long
Island, N. Y, from August 1924
Silzer for Periodic Medical Inspection
Governor Silzer has signified his
approval of the campaign being
launched for a periodic medical exam
ination Of every man. woman and
child in New Jersey and offered every
possible assistance.
81 have learned with interest," the
governor says in a letter to the New
Jersey Committee on Periodic Health
Examinations, "of the campaign
which you have begun in the fight
against disease and i'll health. | am
much interested in your plan of en-
couraging periodic examinations, at
least once in each year, so that the
individual may be apprised of his or
her condition of health. l do it my
self and | advise others to do it.
after all, no one can expect to be
happy unless he is healthy, and no one
can expect to be healthy unless he
takes care of his body"
The committee is sending out cir
cular and application blanks to indus
tries, lodges and fraternal orders.
Companies to Cut Rates
AS promised six weeks ago, the
public service gas and electric COM
panies filed with the Board of Public
Utilities Commissioners schedules de-
creasing rates, effective May 1.
If the new rates are approved by
the commission consumers of public
service gas will obtain the commodity
cheaper by 5 cents thousand cubic
feet. Electricity for lighting will drop
l cent kilowatt hour after the first
20 kilowatt hours in each month and
up to $500 kilowatt hours a month
For lighting, the base rate of cents
will apply to only 20 kilowatt hours,
instead of 500 kilowatt hours as at
present. Succeeding steps after the
first 20 kilowatt hours will be s, 7.
and 5 cents, instead of the prevailing
9, 8, z and 6 cents respectively. Re-
auctions are also made in both retail
and wholesale power rates.
Stevens Institute Appeal Lost
Affirming decision of the Hudson
County Board of Taxation, the State
Board of Taxes and Assessment dis
missed the appeal of the Stevens In
stitute of Technology of Hoboken for
cancellation of 1922 and 1923 tax as
sessments levied against an athletic
field.
Two tracts of land are used by the
institute as practice and exhibition
fields in connection with the depart
ment of physical education. The SUI
preme court in previous case held
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