The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-06-26

Bridgeton. Five schools are to be
used, with three teachers assigned to
each.
But five contagious diseases were
reported to the Gloucester City Board
of Health the past month.
Camden and Gloucester county
oranges are arranging for big meet
ing In the Stare Normal School, Glass
boro, when the sixth degree will be
conferred.
A special election will be held at
Woodlynne Tuesday, July 1, on pro-
posed appropriation of $4,000 for
four-room addition to the school build
ing.
A woman's exchange is being con-
Quoted Saturday mornings by the
Glassboro unit OF the League of Wo-
men Voters.
The junior class of the Gloucester
City High School rendered a reception
to the graduating class in the City
Hail.
A movement has been started at
Highland Park, suburb of Glouces-
ter City, to obtain sewer system and
disposal plant.
Cumberland county folk joined Vine
land in holding charity ball for New
comb Hospital at Rainbow Lake
The Bridgeton Hospital directors
have awarded the contract for an adj
dition to the institution to A. D. Nc
Clelland & Co.. Philadelphia, at a bid
of $117,610.
Fifty per cent of the graduates Of
Bridgeton High School this year have
signed up for higher schools or col
leges. The Glassboro Normal School
will receive many of the girls, while
thirty-three boys and thirty eight girls
will enter more than a score of col
leges and professional schools.
Prohibition Agent Hope and Cam
den police visited garage at 234 Ste
ven street and seized forty cases OF
wine and empty barrels. Two big
wine presses were also taken. No
arrests were made, but summons were
issued for Anton Details and Joseph
Icovella.
Collector NcGear has collected
s252,000 in taxes in Bridgeton. which
is more than $4,000 above last year.
Bridgeton has no delinquent collector,
as McGear annually gets them ALL
Robert Montgomery, chief of the
Blackwood Fire Company for seven
years, was presented with a gold
watch by the department as mark OF
appreciation Of his services. Assem-
blyman E. Frank Pine made the adj
dress.
While trying out new bathing suit
on which she had worked for two
weeks Mary Olszak of Trenton, four
teen years old, was drowned in the
Delaware and Raritan canal near her
home. The body was recovered an
hour later.
Mrs. Mary Kean, ninety-nine, one OF
the oldest residents In the section,
died at the home of daughter in
Hackettstown.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
founding on June II, 1874, of the In
dependent Order of Foresters was
commemorate in Newark with a jul
bilee celebration at Dreamland park.
The Jersey City police moved in the
death of three-year-old Ruth Kennedy,
who succumbed at the Greenville Hos
pital after eating some of the deadly
sons of guns" firecrackers which
make a cracking noise when one
steps on them with the heel.
Because her mother refused to al
low her to attend a motion picture
show Louise Berner, sixteen, of 80
Humboldt street, East Rutherford,
went to the attic of her home and
fired a bullet through her heart. She
died on the way to the Hackensack
hospital.
Mayor Horner has issued an order
prohibiting the sale or use of juvenile
pistols in Brooklawn.
Elwood-Kindle post, American Le-
gion, has presented a purse to Rev.
Edward o. Clark, who served as post
chaplain for more than four years, and
who leaves Pitman to take up new
charge at Chevy Chase, Washington,
d. C.
A damage suit for $2,400 has been
brought by Joseph Klein of Philadel-
phia against John H. Smoker resi-
dent of New York State, who is visit
ing in Franklin township, as the re-
suit of motor accident on May 81.
The Gloucester City playground
commission has decided not to use the
Fairgrounds on Ridgeway street this
year because the new grade school is
being constructed on the adjoining
plot
Permission was granted the Lion
dale Bleach Dye and Print Works by
the mayor and borough council Of
Rockaway to connect with the bor-
ough water supply for fire purposes
provided double check valve, subject
to the approval of the state Board Of
Health is installed
Unlimited bus privileges were grant
ed the Public Service Transportation
Company by the borough commission
ers of Haddonfield at their weekly
meeting, when it was decided to per-