The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-06-26
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

board or Nurses, succeeding Mary
Stone of Hackensack.
huge tarantula, said to be half
as big as a mans fist, was In com.
plete possession for time of the
home of Mrs. Anne Care, in Camden.
The insect leaped from a bunch OF
bananas she had purchased.
Louis Rommel, former president of
the Puritan Guarantee Corporation
of Newark, convicted of obtaining
money under false pretenses was
sentenced to serve ten months in the
penitentiary.
There was a windfall for the en-
ployees of the city hall, Jersey City.
when the City Commission boosted
the salaries of all those making less
than $4,000 per year. The jump was
an even $780,
Ten-year-old Bertha Galaida, of
Woodbridge, was drowned when
raft on which she was playing with
several other children capsized. The
raft was being foated in four feet
of water at the bottom Of a clay pit.
The other children managed to reach
shore in safety.
Strawberries are flooding the mar
ket in southern New Jersey. Growers
are giving berries to anyone who will
pick them. All kinds of birds, par
ticularly robins, catbirds and meadow
Iarks, are having great feasts in the
berry fields At Greencreek and
Goshen acres of berries are rotting,
while in Cape May they are selling
virtually at any price that is offered.
Enraged 5ecause his wife, Eliza
beth, would not turn her pay envelope
over to him, according to- the police,
Steven Iancsi, 40, of Trenton, shot
and seriously wounded her, and then
ended his own life. At st. Francis
hospital it Is believed that Mrs,
Iancsi, who is the mother Of three
children, will recover.
Three Indians felt the call of the
wild for few moments when their
automobile, driven by Prescott Van
Wyck, twenty-four, Summit, was
pursued from Butler to Hackensack
by motor vehicle inspectors and made
the target for several shots. Van
WICK, was held in $500 bail on
charge of driving while drunk. The
Indians were not held
An audience of five hundred left
quietly when fire broke out in the
operators box at the Playhouse,
moving picture house in Dover.
The operator was burned about the
face and hands when, opening the
door of the box to play an extin-
guisher on the fire. he was met by
burst of flame.
Samuel Foster and Nathaniel
Small, of New York, who were ar
rested on the charge of robbing sew
Nral places in Cumberland and Cape
May counties were arraigned before
Justice of the Peace Wilson at Mill
vile. According to the police, %
stores and homes have been entered
and several hundred dollars stolen.
Throughout New Jersey, the rate of
building in the larger cities has gone
up, with the exception of two or
three places where there was a de.
crease in 1923 as compared with 1922.
The ratio of families provided for to
population has shown wide variation
in the different cities of the State,
the figures for 1928 showing Hoboken,
with 1.3 families per 10000, at one
extreme, and Irvington, with 515.S
per 10000, at the other.
AS the result of consolidation of
the schools the South Harrison town
ship Board of Education will sell two
old schoolhouses and the grounds at
public sale.
The Gloucester City Board of Edu-
cation and teachers marched to the
Baptist church with the Al members
of the graduating class and heard the
baccalaureate delivered by Rev. T.
Keith of Cherry The congregation of
the Presbyterian, Methodist and Bap-
fist churches and the P. E. Church of
the Ascension united in the service.
The Fairview Civic Association will
request the Board of Education for a
room in the school for library. City
Librarian Keller has promised to fur
nish the books.
With impressive ceremonies final
services were held when Tabernacle
M E. church, Third and Pearl streets,
Camden, passed out of existence as a
place Of worship. Next day workmen
began the demolition of the edifce to
make way for the approach of the
Delaware river bridge.
The senior class of Roxbury High
School, Succasunna, made gift to the
school of framed picture Of the late
President Woodrow Wilson at class
night exercises. The class president,
Shepherd Loose, made the presenta-
ton and Supervising Principal Atwood
accepted it.
Major General Hugh L. Scott. chair
man of the State Highway Commits
sion and United States director of In
dian reservations, will leave Prince
ton shortly for tour of the western
Indian reserves. He will be accom-
panied on the trip by his grandson,
Hugh Scott I'd, and John Carnochan,
Iohr, Carnnchan