The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-03

the presbyterian Ouufcu spoke.
The Civic Association of Runnemede
Is already discussing Incorporation az
a borough at the next session Of the
Legislature. A committee was APP
pointed and will make a report at the
next meeting
Mayor McNally of Gloucester City
II being doomed as a candidate for
Congress on the Democratic ticket in
the First district
Dr. Frank w Westcott, who had
been Union county physician for 20
years, died at the age of seventy-five
in his home in Fanwood For 3S years
he was a member Of the Fanwood
Board of Education and wac at one
time on the Board Of Health, the
Union County Republican Committee
and was trustee Of the Baptist
Church. He is survived by daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Rainier.
The vice squad, headed by Captain
ates. raided three alleged disorderly
houses at Atlantic City and arrested
1s persons after an exciting. search
and pursuit Four inmates were taken
from a house in Surf place and six
from two houses in North Carolina
avenue, north Seven men were held
as witnesses.
Miss Sarah Askew, assistant state
librarian. spoke at Glassboro in the
interests of the local free library re-
Gently established through the efforts
of the Civic Association.
The Pennsgrove Borough Council
has made formal request to the State
Highway Department to make Main
street, in the borough limits, part OF
the Harding Highway. to be improved
and maintained by the state.
F. D. Mitcham of Vineland, driver
of the truck which ran down Thur
man Hutchins of Camden at Glouces-
ter City and also destroyed a fire
alarm box, was ordered to pay for a
new box and for other damage done,
in the Police Court.
Automobiles are killing off a num-
Der of squirrels at Pitman which for
merIy frisked about the borough PARK
or along the paved thoroughfares
where the summer traffic is heavy.
The body of Matthew Callahan,
seventy-fiye years old who was pass
ing the summer with his daughter at
Bradley Beach, was found by persons
hunting magnolias in the sand hills
near Asbury Park Mr.. Callahan. a
retired shoe merchant of NeT York,
is said to have been mentally afflicted.
He had been missing five days. The
county physician pronounced death
due to exposure and exhaustion.
Irving Fischer, 26, of Bayonne,
was killed and three men were in
jured when Tischler's car ran into a
bakers truck on the Marlboro road.
near Freehold. Fischer died of a
broken neck. His companions, Lester
Vultee of Bayonne and Myers Fried
man of the same place, and Louis
Cohen of Freehold, driver of the
truck, were taken to the Long Branch
hospital
Application will be made to the
Public Utility Commission for per-
mission to operate bus line between
Highland Park and Camden, as the
! Public Service withdrew its buses
from the Gloucester route.
John A. Stengel of 80 Randolph
| place. Newark, for twenty-eight years
treasurer of the Feigenspan Brewing
Company of Newark, died in the
Ann May hospital at Spring Lake,
following an appendicitis opera
ton performed June IS. Although
blood TRANSMISSION was resorted to he
was unable to regain his strength.
He was 40 years old and leaves a
wife and two children.
The Gloucester City Lions Club is
arranging a picnic for the children.
The bathing season opened at the
Delaware River front in Gloucester
City and the river at Westville and
National Park also was we'll patron
lied
Plans for The biggest firemen's
parade held in South Jersey in recent
years have beeL announced by the
Burlington County Firemen's Associa-
ton, the event to be held in Burling-
ton later in the summer in lieu OF
county picnic. The date will be set
to correspond with the housing of two
new bumpers by the local department.
Daniel Concver, Inlet skipper shot
by detachment of coast guards a
month ago, died in the City Hospital,
Atlantic City, after having been I'M
conscious for several days. Conover.
according to the guards, refused to
halt his boat which they said was
loaded with liquor, when they ordered
him to put about. He ignored shot
across the bow, and in the second
volley his hip was shattered by steel
jacketed bullet.
Injuries alleged to have been sus-
tanned by August Mort. OF Jersey City.
while engaged as a caisson worker in
the employ of the Passaic Valley
Sewerage Commissioners, due to abb
normal and high air pressure, form
the basis of a suit brought in the
Supreme Court to recover 100000
damages. Mort charges that other
narrated thp air