The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-01-31
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

The budget for Gloucester township
as fixed by the township committee
shows total OF $33 ,559.06. an in
crease of about 5000 over last year.
Another survey has been made of
the line between Chews Landing and
Hilltop for the proposed change in the
Black Horse pike to eliminate the two
bad curves.
cast Of more than 100 boys and
girls of the Woodstown High School
will present the operetta "All at Sea"
February IA and Is.
An automobile stolen two weeks ago
from Harry Stewart, 1874 Kenwood
avenue, Camden, was found by state
police ditched at Lawnside.
Gloucester township Board Of
Health has had barracks built for IL
guards on duty at Erial, where tie
smallpox epidemic exists. No addi-
tional cases have been reported.
/ Mrs. Grace Culin of Gloucester City,
! past worthy matron of Cloud Chapter
of the Eastern Star, has been ap-
pointed grand matron for the chap
tiers south of Camden.
William w. Randolph, fifty-nine
years old, consulting engineer and
! public utility expert, died in East
Orange He was member of the
1 American, the Pacific Coast and the
Southern Gas Associations.
Platt Van Colt, eighty-one years
old, veteran of the Civil War and
for years deputy fire chief in Brook
Ign, died at his home, 126 Highwood
avenue, Ridgewood. He became a
fireman when the department was or
ganized in 1852 He leaves a wife,
son and daul hter.A The funeral will
be held Wednesday.
Showing deficit Of $352,998.S4, the
Public Service Railway Company filed
Its report for November. 1923, the sec
ond month of operation under the
cent and 10 cent fares Statistics
were filed with the Public Utility
Commission. The deficit for Novem-
Der, 1922, when the 8 cent fare was in
operation, was $8,911.25. The total
number of revenue, passengers car
ried was 32,978,377 and transfer pas
sengers 144,430, a total Of 33,122,S07.
Passenger revenue aggregated ST.
751,07129 and transportation revenue
/ $1,754,246.S2.
Francis Pennypacker, eighteen
years old, died at Camden from burns
received as a result of the explosion
of an automobile gas tank, which he
had been examining and into which
he let fall sparks from his cigarette.
Two farm wagons and small garage
were destroyed by fire, which spread
from the burning automobile.
Franklin futile, seventy-eight years
old, head of the Caxton Book Publish
ing Company Of New York city, died
at the Halstead hotel, East Orange,
where he had made his home Mr..
| Tuttle was Civil War veteran, hav-
ing been wounded while carrying the
flag in the battle of the Wilderness.
| In spite of his wound in the groin he
mounted a horse, which few min
utes later was killed under him by
cannon ball. Mr. futile is survived
by his widow and two sons.
Forty-four pedigreed wire haired
terriers, many of them blue ribbon
winners, were killed in fire which
destroyed the barns and shed of L. V.
FRANKIE, owner of the Wire Haired
Kennels on East Ridgewood avenue.
Ridgewood. The loss on dogs was es-
timated at $4,1O0, partly covered by
insurance.
The Parent Teacher Association
will fit up the Chapel Heights school
with electric lights.
Francis Buckingham has resigned
as active head of the Franklinville
Sunday school, of which he has been
the superintendent for Is years, and
John F. Mute has been given his place.
Owing to vendors OF questionable
securities 1ocking to New Jersey, di-
rectors of the Camden Chamber OF
Commerce prepared request to the
Legislature for blue sky" laws SINH
lar to those in operation in Pennsyl-
vania
Celebrating the fourth anniversary
of the prohibition act, Samuel Wilson,
of Newark, spoke in the First Baptist
Church, and c. Rowland Munroe, di-
rector of legislation for the Anti-Sa-
loon League, in the Central Baptist
and Kemble M. e. Churches, Wood
bury.
The annual budget prepared by
Gloucester City Council calls for to-
tai of $25O,621.16, of whic amount
s172,6S5.66 is to be raised by taxation,
an increase of about $4,000 over last
year.
Many grangers attended the mid
winter meeting of the Gloucester
County Pomona Grange at Swedes-
boro. An interesting program was
carried out
The Maple Heights Improvement
Association has feen formed at Maple
Shade with these officers: President,
Jerome Bauer; vice president, James
Heap; secretary, Harvey A. Downing,
and treasurer, Howard Wilson.
Maple Shade Police Department has
purchased one of the Camden police
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