The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-11-06
NEW JERSEY
STATE NEWS

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prison road camp are now construct
ing a gravel road through Norma.
| The United fire company of Mount
! Ephraim is collecting old newspapers
to sell to replenish its entertainment
/ fund.
The Bellmawr fire department was
| called out three times in as many
| days by fires in the fields and woods.
1 The annual donation day for the
/ Burlington County Home for Aged
Women at Burlington was observed.
The Pennsgrove Library Associa-
ton has purchased $3.50 worth Of new
| books with proceeds from a recent
rummage sale.
| J. c. Martin, who resides on Maple
avenue, Merchantville, has sent COM
| plant to council that buses with
| solid tires passing are slowly shaking
| his house to pieces.
Several bids for concreting Cove
| road have been received by Merchant
vile borough council. Owing to a
misunderstanding among the bidders,
| however, all must be thrown out and
new ones asked.
The senior class of the Gloucester
| High School entertained parents and
! students at baked bean supper in
! the American Legion Home to raise
funds for the trip to Washington.
Borough officials and firemen of Ell
mer have been inspecting modern fire.
| apparatus in other towns with the OBJ
| ject Of purchasing motor engine.
Game Warden Loder OF Egg Harbor
City, accompanied by Warden Small.
arrested Frank Mace, seventy years
old, of Vineland for hunting without a
license, being an alien. Magistrate
Strouse fined him $50.
The Gloucester City Board of Edu-
cation has transferred As pupils to the
building at Monmouth and Ellis
streets, which is being used for school
purposes.
A conference of 80 training teachers
from all parts of south Jersey was
held at the Glassboro Normal School,
with DR.. j. ]. Savitz, principal, presid-
ing.
A new road, an extension of Cooper
street from the railroad to the Bur-
lington pike, is under construction at
Edgewater Park It's cost to the coun-
ty is set at $4,000.
The League of American Drivers
has been organized in Bridgeton, with
Enos Paullin, president; Thomas H.
Powers, vice president, and Horace
Fox, secretary and treasurer.
Workmen digging the trenches at
National Park for the water mains
are finding many snakes. Eight were
found on Lincoln avenue. Boys killed
two fve-foot snakes on Hessian ave-
nue..
The store of Miss Mary Whiting
ton, Broadway and Cumberland street,
Gloucester City, was entered by
thieves and looted of books and tab
let's, most of which were found under
the railroad station.
The government reservation at the
river front, National Park is being
put in shape for permanent preserva-
ton to make the former battlefield a
shrine. The Whitall mansion is also
being repaired
Khan ceremonies were held at the
funeral of Jacob Henry Clark, mem
Der of the Glassboro High School fac
ulty and head coach of the football
team, who died from injuries received
in football practice. Services had
been held earlier at his late home in
Woodbury..
About 1000 teachers from north Jer-
sey will attend the State Teachers
Association at Atlantic City November
20 II.
Various civic organizations will aid
in the program which will take place
at the breaking of ground for Mont
clairs war memorial on November II.
The Maplewood township commit
tee will not oppose the proposed po-
lice-firemen's salary raise, to be voted
ON at the November election.
"Deader'n door nail" was the COM
| ment of Councilman George Reed of
Kearny after the council had unani-
mously passed on final reading the or
dinance which rescinded a measure
designed to permit the expanding of
| $4,000 for a survey of the meadows
in an effort to ascertain the cost of a
viaduct that would connect Newark
turnpike and Lincoln highway.
Officials of Union county, in New
Jersey, said that an investigation
would be begun to determine whether
or not criminal negligence had led to
the death of Ernest Oelgert Of Eliza
beth, who died following period of
toxic delirium declared to have been
caused by inhaling gas at the expert
mental laboratory of the Standard Oil
| Company at Bayway
| William j. Cosgrave has become
steward of the Newark Athletic Coun-
try Club, to fill tie vacancy left by
| Charles D. Miller, who left the club
when his term expired October 15
Julius Forstmann, one Of the wealth
lest and most prominent men in Pas
| sale, has resigned his position as di-
rector of the Passaic National Bank
and Trust Company SO that no ques-
ton might be raised as to his eligl-
bility to be candidate for presiden-
I al IL