The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-12-11

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raises dividend rate.
The new 100000 school building at
| woodbury. Heights is expected to be
ready for occupancy early in the new
year.
There were 1,724 pupils enrolled in
the Gloucester City public schools
last month, with average daily at
tendance of 1879.
Gloucester City Democrats are pre-
I pairing to honor President Wilson's
birthday on December 20 with a ban
/ quet and reception in the City Hail.
Bootleggers working with alleged
! protection and aid landed cargoes at
Weehawken valued at more than $780,
j 100000 from Rum Row vessels dur
| ing the past few weeks, officials in
! vestigating New jerseys police scan
dial declared.
/ City Counsel Miller, Of Camden, mas
given an opinion that it is legal to
provide awards in increased pay to
firemen and policemen who distsn-
guish themselves in the city's service
The State Highway Commission or
New Jersey has sanctioned the propo-
sition to pave the New York-Atlantic
City road in 1926 The contract, the
largest ever given at one time by tne
state, will involve 35 miles of road,
from Toms river to the edge of the
i meadows at Mullica river. This will
provide a continuously paved high
way from New York to Atlantic City,
project for which civic organiza-
/ +inyc houo Iono FOUGHT
Figures compiled by the State
Board of Canvassers shows Jersey
! plurality of 377,419 votes foA Cool
/ idge over Davis, in the Presidential
| election, and the plurality for Edge
! over Donnelly, in the United States
Senatorial race, was 276,9S6 votes.
Recount of votes cast in Burling-
toms recent sensational mayoralty
battle started in the City Hall, under
/ the supervision Of Supreme Court
Justice Katzenbach and the Burling-
ton County Board of Elections.
William Napoleon of Columbia,
| Cal, an instructor in the Bordentown
Military Institute, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
near the Pennsylvania railroad sta
! ton at Bordentown, according to the
police. G. M. Mccoy, railroad en-
| ployee, heard the shot and found Ma
! poleon in clump of bushes. He car
ried him unconscious into the station,
where he died an hour alter.
! The state Board of Utility Commits
sioners at Trenton denied the applica-
| ton of Charles Dabaghian for per-
| ht,o ho-
tween the Fourteenth street ferry,
Hoboken, and Hackensack plankroad,
! West Hoboken, between $50 and 1880
a. m. and 4 and p. m. Dabaghian
| failed to show there was public ne
cessity for this service.
Nationwide cooperative marketing
among farmers ito preserve agricul-
ture and prevent serious food short
age" was advocated by State Senator
David H. Agans, master of the New
Jersey grange, in his annual address
| before the convention in Atlantic
| City.
| Three young men held up Jacob
/ Kirchner with -evolvers at his hotel
opposite the Erie railroad station, Ar
/ lington, robbed him of 81 200 and es-
capped.
Real estate operators who violate
the ethical standards of the profess
sion should be Immediately expelled
from membership in their local real
estate boards and their business ac-
| tivities prevented by a strict enforce
ment of the law, according to Charles
! G. Edwards of New York, president
elect of the National Association Of
Real Estate Boards, in an address be-
! fore the annual meeting of the New
/ Jersey Association of Real Estate
Boards in Atlantic City.
Efforts are being made to collect
| funds for an automobile for Miss
Grace Adams secretary of the Glou-
cester County Sunday School Associa-
ton
The new water pumping station es-
tablished by the Glassboro council is
now pumping to supply residents in
the Glen Lake section.
Rev. e. w. Rumsey of Jersey Shore,
Pa, has been elected pastor of the
| First Baptist church of Salem to sue
coed Rev. Powell H. Norton, who has
gone to Hightstown.
The Presbyterians of Swedesboro
have raised $4,000 for redecorating
and adding a social hall to the church.
Work will begin in the spring.
Kaighn avenue from Fourth street
| to Broadway, Camden, is to be brill
liantly lighted under plans made by
the city commission.
Monday was the last day for the
| navmnnt of taxes for the last half of
the year in south Jersey before pen
atty is added.
Following weeks illness from
pneumonia, James ]. Barrett, a lead
ing highway builder and treasurer of
the New Jersey Construction Associa-
ton, died at his home in Trenton.
Elizabeth Donnelly, the five-year-
] old Northmont girl who was burned