The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-03-27
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

William Schneider, formerly justice
of the peace of Passaic, was arrested,
charged with having left that city with
$4,000 bail belonging to a bonding
company.
Mrs Edward Walker wife Of
Mickey Walker, worlds champion
welter weight boxer. gave birth to a
baby boy in ST. Elizabeth Hospital at
Elizabeth. Walker is in training at
Summit.
Edgar E. Lethbridge, Speaker of the
New Jersey State Assembly in 1907,
died at his home at South Orange, OF
heart disease. He was So years old.
Mr. Lethbridge had been i'll for the
past year
Mayor Hetrick, of Asbury Park,
president of the New Jersey State
League of Municipalities, called an ex-
ecutive meeting recently in Newark,
to discuss possible joint municipal
action against proposed telephone rate
increases.
Three armed masked men held up
John Bobbe. superintendent OF the
Bordens Milk Products Co. station at
Montclair, while he was on the way
to the bank, and escaped with receipts
of the milk station of between $4,000
and $1,000.
Farmers in some sections of South
Jersey are again complaining of the
scarcity of tramps, on whom they
depend for assistance in the spring
In getting in the early crops.
Former Mayor George w. Smith, of
Phillipsburg, announced his candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
Senator from Warren County. Poll
tical leoders said he would not receive
support of the Republican machine.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Shafer, of
Atlantic City, have filed suits in the
Circuit Court for $4,000 damages
againts Wilbur Davis and the firm of
Bell & Cope, hotel proprietors, for
whom Davis drives an auto bus. The
couple said in their suit that they
were run down by the bus on October
% last, and were dragged and seri-
ously injured
Camden saloonkeepers we're given
one day to comply with the ordinance
fixing a fee of $50 a year to dispense
Notwithstanding beverages. Chief of
Police Tatem is checking up on those
who dispense liquid refreshments and
has found 165 have complied, but
about 35 have failed to fork over, and
they will be subject to arrest and fines.
In a warm reform to the Camden po-
lice bureaus claim that ample protec-
on
James A. Mcmillan. head of commit
tee of citizens, recently declared that
but little has been done in the way of
providing more men. six policemen
have ben placed in plain clothes since
the many recent robberies," he as
serted Il am reliably informed that
these men are compelled to go on duty
in plain colthes after they have served
the city eight hours il uniforms on
the streets"
The Board of Education in Irvington
expelled high school pupil it was
learned, for bringing whisky to school
and drinking it there. The boy who
was expelled is fifteen years old. He
pulled out his flask at recess, it was
said, took drink and offered it to a
circleof admiring cronies, one of
whom was not too awestrieken to ac-
cept
The Woodstown chamber of COM
merce is nearing its goal of a mem
bership of 200 The annual banquet
has been set for May %.
A substatio7 of the Camden post of.
fee has again been opened in Fair
view, with Mrs. Mary Connolly in
charge
All the wreckage of the storm has
been cleared from White Horse pike,
and traffic IS regular below Magnolia
There was a detour for three days
Dr. Arthur l.. Stone of the depart
ment o. teaIth has promised the resi-
dents If Ieirview that baby welfare
clinic viii be opened there short v.
Two marble statues copies of orig
inals N lhe Louvre museum. have
been presented by Robert H Comey
to the Wenonal Free Public Library.
Woodbury. city stands first. with a
/. percentage of 80, and Harrison town
ship last, with 43 per cent in ratings
given by the state department of edu-
cation to Gloucester school boards for
their busine. methods.
Nearly 100 residents of Ocean City
went to Wildwood to receive first de-
gree as Odd Fellows for the new lodge.
All the civic bodies of Salem are CO.
operating for a proper observance of
Arbor Day, April IL, and efforts are
being made to have the Board of Edu-
cation plant trees around the athletic
field.
Civil service examinations we're
held at Gloucester City for the post
mastership at Blackwood and for
erk-carrier in the Gloucester post
Office Six applicants took the exami
nation for the former and IA for the
latter.
James Robinson of Philadelphia sas
committed to the county Jail in de,
fault of $1,000 bail, charged with rob