The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-12-25
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

mander of Captain James MacFar-
land Post, No. 70, American Legion,
Burlington, at the annual meeting OF
the organization.
/ Medford's first father and son ban
guet was held in the Grange Hall
under the auspices OF the local
Y. M. C. A. Rev. Frederick A. War
den, of Moorestown, was the prih-
cipal speaker.
The various factions in Delanco
which have been disputing over the
erection of a new school building
seem to have reached an agreement.
i Nineteen sets of plans are out and
bids will be opened. Recently
$125,000 bond issue has been author
lied.
Three hundred feet of the concrete
road near Scott street, Riverside, will
be torn up by a telephone company
in order to lay conduit. Permission
was given by the County Board OF
Freeholders with the understanding
that the company pay for the proper
relaying Of the street.
! Burlington police force have been
appointed delinquent tax collectors by
council
There were more Christmas trees
on sale in Gloucester City than in
several years.
| The members of the Gloucester
/ City Lions Club were given surprise
when they appeared at the American
Legion home to attend a special ban
quet and found their wives awaiting
them.
The Ladies Republican Club of
West Collingswood and Gloucester
Heights has received its charter and
] the members had big reception.
| The board of health of Brooklawn
has before it plumbing code which
! will come up for final reading at the
next meeting.
Falling from roof while painting,
two weeks ago, proved fatal to Ed
ward Davis, Of Sayres Neck, who died
in the Bridgeton Hospital. He is sur
vived by eight children.
/ The Salem County board Of agricul-
ture has nearly 600 paid up members
and efforts will be made to increase
it.
! Bonuses for paid borough officials
at Pennsgrove, established during
the war boom period, are to be abol-
ished in 1925.
William G. Mann 3D. of New Or
leans, La, has been cut off from an
estimated S75O,OOO estate by the will
of his mother by adoption, Mrs.
Emma Mann-Vyne, of Summit, daugh-
ter of the late Colonel William d.
Mann, publisher of Town Topics, of
New York City The will. which has
! been filed for probate in Elizabeth,
creates fund for the Arthur Home
for Blind Babies at Summit and In it
$500 is left to each of the servants
in the Summit home OF Mrs. Mann
Vyne
The story of a tugboat dumping
scows OF mud at night into channel
off Great Dead Light, Raritan Bay,
which by day time is being dredged
out, will be told before a Federal
Grand Jury, customs officials said.
The customs men, who caught the tug
| Cleopatra dumping three scows of
mud in the channel, will ask prosecu-
tion against tile tug captain and crew.
They reported that the mud scows
were taken into the bay from the
Pennsylvania railroad docks at South
Amboy, but declined to reveal their
ownership.
Sewer mains have been laid nearly
the full length of Broad street, Glass
boro, and trenches will now be opened
on other streets if weather permits.
The Black Horse Boulevard Asso-
citation and the business men and mu-
! nicipal governments. assisted by COM
mittees from Gloucester and Atlantic
counties, are ready to renew the fight
at the session of the legislature next
month to make the pike part of the
State highway system. The bill, in
4 charge of the three assemblymen
and Senator Woodruff. will be intro
! duced early in the session, and there
is good reason to believe that it will
be passed.
| AS a rule taxpayers throughout the
! county are some what lax in the pay
ment of the second half of this years
taxes Collector Woolley of Wood
bury states that unless taxes come in
/ better it will be necessary for city
council to borrow large sums of money
to meet its obligations. Constable
MCGEE has been directed to call on
delinquents and to collect amounts
due, with interest. The borough coun-
ell Of Woodbury. Heights finds itself
about $4,000 short.
Green Miller, Kentucky prohibition
chief, was found not guilty of assault
with intent to kill by a federal court
jury at Newark, which deliberated one
hour and Is minutes. Miller, who
lives in Louisville, KY, was tried be-
fore Federal Judge Bodine on the
charge in connection with the shoot
ing of two West Olange grocery
clerks December IS, 1921, who Miller
alleged attacked him while transport
ing gin he had seized as prohibition
agent at Newark.
Tho yHompn'a Civio Rnttarmant As-