The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-02-07


| The Bridgeton Chamber Of Com
merce Is balloting for directors by >
primary conducted by mail.
The new Tatem public school, Had
donfield, has been opened after de-
lay OF several weeks, due to lack Of
equipment
The Cape May volunteer FIRE depart
ment, one OF the oldest organizations
in the state. held its annual banquet
Maple Shade police have received
enc Of the trained police horses from
the Camden department, and Leroy
Jackson went on duty as mounted
policeman.
The Center township committee ap-
pointed IL special officers at its meet
ing at Mount Ephraim Six were APP
pointed for Brooklawn.
Uniforms. shoes and other articles
belonging to three players Of the Ham
monitor basketball team were stolen
from an automobile while they were
in a restaurant for a midnight meal
following game at Westville.
A largely attended meeting of tax
payers of Chester township was held
in School No. 2, Maple Shade. when
the township committee passed on the
budget for 1924 after considerable OPP
position. Appropriations amount to
$3O,34420, an increase OF 1904 20
over last year
Center township police, led by Cap
tain Sharp and Constable GLADDEN.,
made raid at Lawnside and arrested
James Daley, Sr., Harry Daley and
Jefferson Mallott, all colored, on the
charge of having and selling intoxi-
eating liquors. Recorder Shoemaker
held them under $500 bail for court.
w ]. Lyons, New Jersey labor lead
er, serving a three year sentence in
the state prison at Trenton, was unan-
imously reelected president Of the
Building Trades Council
Notice has been given to stockhold-
ers of the Booth Glass Manufacturing
Company, which made glass special
ties at the old Swedesboro glass
works, that a meeting will be held
February 26 for the purpose of dis
solving the corporation.
Daniel Sullivan, whose attack upon
Glassboro girl last summer gave
Glassboro residents wild night, has
been sentenced to 18 months at hard
labor in the state penitentiary.
Rev. Cedric Miller, who Is TO be-
come pastor of the Blackwood Presby-
terrain church, preached his farewell
sermon in the Swedesboro Presby-
terian church His family was tender
ed a farewell reception.
Part Of the proposed Black Horse
boulevard to the seashore is soon to
be utilized. The Board Of Freehold
ers of Atlantic county at a recent
meeting decided to improve and pave
the Moss Hill road. which parallels
the White Horse pike from Leads
Point east Of Absecon to Dacosta,
south of Hammonton
Elsie and Eleanor Wilson of New
Brunswick, seventeen and nineteen
years old respectively. were taken to
the Girls State Home at Clinton after
they had pleaded guilty TO charges of
robbing the Pennsylvania railroad sta
ton at Middlebush and general store
at Blackwell's Mills on the night of
January 49, Frank Santanello of New
Brunswick, who pleaded guilty TO the
same charge. was fined $50 and put en-
probation for three years.
The New Jersey legislature closed
the fourth week of its deliberations.
passed the estimated half way mark
of the session and received on the
final day for the introduction Of bills
more than $50 new measures. Both
houses, over the governors veto,
signed the Richards senate bill EN-
towering the Bridge and Tunnel Com
mission instead of the attorney gem
eral to appoint counsel for the com
mission
The question of mercantile tax is
agitating the minds of business men
of Ocean City. The city has proposed
such a measure twice within the last
few years. but it has been strongly
opposed.
Union evangelistic services are be-
ing conducted at Clayton under the
direction OF the local pastors, assist
ed by Austin Hughes. singing evan
| gelist.
Forty-four members of the Pedrick-
town Baptist Sunday school set an
other record for the school by attend
ing every Sunday last year.
OF 81 fire alarms at Pennsgrove
during the last year only % caused
any real damage, and the fire loss for
/ the entire year amounted to little
more than $1,000
The Gloucester City Chamber of
Commerce and Lions Club have join
ed to urge city council to consider the
matter of resurfacing all Of the streets
| in the city with asphalt Most of the
streets were paved 20 years ago at a
cost of 100000, and now they are be-
ginning to show the effects of the
! heavy traffic.
Federal Agent Lang and state
trooper raided two houses east of