The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-03-06
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

wood, for the use of upper classes in
studying phases of school work
A contract has been awarded by
harrington borough to James M. Cas-
tie for hose cart and pumper for the
fire company at cost of $5,072.
The members of the Woodlynne
Parent-Teacher Association were the
guests of hte fathers at an enter
tainment in the school hall.
A civil service examination will be
held in Gloucester City Saturday,
March Is, for postmaster at Black
wood The salary is $1,000, and the
position has been vacant since last
July
The Wildwood city commissioners
are considering the creation of a de-
partment of public welfare under the
dictatorship Of woman. Fraternal
and civic bodies composed of women
will be called upon for advice.
A series of independence Hall litho-
graphs by Joseph Pennell has been
purchased from the annual exhibition
of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts by Mrs. ]. Fiji
THAN Tatem of Haddon1eld, who will
present them to the Haddonfield High
School.
Harry M. Kalbach, seventy-one,
died at his home on West Poplar ave-
nue., Wildwood, after a lingering i'll
ness. He was one Of the pioneers of
wildwood and the first superintendent
of the West Jersey Electric Company,
in which he was chief engineer for 10
years.
Petitions for signatures to call a
special election on the question of re-
storing the aldermanic form OF gov
eminent in Newark are being cirou-
lated in II of the 16 city wards. New
ark at present is under commission
form of government. Advocates of
signatures in a month to call the cleo
ton.
The sewage disposal plant at Phil
lipsburg is out of commission as a re-
suit of mash from a secret still some
where in the town having been dump
ed into a manhole in the hill section.
The officials would not tell where the
mash came from. The machinery at
the plant, becoming clogged, broke
down before attendants discovered the
trouble.
Robert Beck, an eight-year-old boy
living at Runnemede, was struck by a
lumber truck. He saved himself from
being run over by grabbing the axle.
He was bruised.
Paul Hurchick, thirty-five years old,
a foundry worker, married and father
of five children, died suddenly under
peculiar circumstances at his home in
Phillipsburg. County Physician Cum
mings after investigation announced
that death was caused by wood alco-
hol' poison from bad hooch County
officials are trying to learn where he
purchased the hqur.
An increase of $239,595 in operating
revenues for the month of January
over the same month year ago is
shown in a statement issued by the
Public Service Corporation for it's sub
sidiary companies. The operating
revenue this year totaled $7,S15,207
For the two months ended January 81
last the subsidiary companies show an
operating revenue of $79,347.478, an
increase of $434,022 over the two pre-
ceding months.
The annual Chautauqua festival at
| Pitman will be held March lib
Red Men of the Logan tribe at Ped
ricktown attended service in the M. E.
church, and the pastor, Rev. John
Naylor, spoke.
Prices charged for coal in some Of
the south Jersey municipalities were
as follows: Moorestown, $14.50; CO.
lumbus, $14.5O and STATS; Beverly,
STATE; Riverside, Riverton and Bur
lington, SIS; Camden, Merchantsville
and Mount Holly, $3.50; Wildwood,
$15.75.
Bus passengers last year in the city
of Newark numbered about 100000,
or 100000 more than the total car
| ried in the other areas counted, which
are Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken,
Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Perth Am
boy, Paterson, Passaic and Camden.
The salary of the Oaklyn chief of
| police has been increased by the COM
| missioners from $1,250 to $1,000 and
that of policemen from $1,000 to ST.
| 400.
Governor Silzer signed special or
ders designating a court of inquiry,
| requested by Colonel Edward Phillips
| of Newark, commanding the One Hun
dred and Thirteenth Infantry, to in
vestigate statements made by ar
mory employees rejecting upon the
conduct of Colonel Phillips. The
court is composed Of Colonel Lewis
B. Bayyantyne, One Hundred and
Second Cavalry Newark; Colonel
Orison NJ. Hurd, One Hundred and
Fourth Engineers, Englewood, and
Colonel Samuel g. Barnard One Hun
bred and Twelfth Field Artillery,
Merchantville. Lieutenant Colonel
Theodore McC. Marsh. judge advo-
cate generals department, Newark,
has been appointed recorder.
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