The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-10-09
NEW JERSEY
STATE NEWS

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construction Of which will be started
next spring 1t is estimated that ST.
100000 will be needed.
Miss Anne E. Boice, for many years
a director of the Baptist Home for the
Aged in Roseville, died at her home
in Plainfield.
The State Public Utility Board
granted permission to the Public Serv-
ice Transportation Company to oper-
ate 40 buses in and near the city of
Newark. Three BUSES will be oper-
ated on the Monroe street route to
Passaic The change was agreed to
by the Passaic city council.
The body of Jacob Horn, sixty, who
had been missing from his home for
a week, was found III the Delaware
and Raritan canal near Bound Brook.
Relatives who identified the body ex-
pressed the belief Horn had fallen
into the canal in the dark.
The coroner's jury at Vineland in
the case of Frank Walking, the jit-
neur who was killed by a Pennsylya-
MIA train, rendered verdict censur-
ing the railroad for exceeding the
speed limit, ten miles an hour in the
borough, and recommended brighter
headlights on the electric trains.
Federal Judge Rellstab, sitting at
Trenton, fined the Pennsylvania rail-
road $4,000 following the company's
plea of guilty to violating the % hour
law in 222 instances.
General Joseph H. Brensinger, sew
enty-eight years old, died at his home
in Jersey City of pneumonia, which
developed from cold contracted a
week before while attending a mill
tary reunion in Philadelphia. He was
a brigadier general of the New Jersey
National Guard, G. A. R. veteran
and recently principal in Jersey City
schools.
Thomas w. Atkinson, ninety-three
years cid, one of the oldest and best
known residents, died at the home of
his granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Cath
cart, at Yardville. Death was due to
pneumonia, with which Mr.. Atkinson
suffered for over a week. Mr.. Atkin-
son was oorn in Mount Holly Deem
Der 1, 1880.
Steps toward the purchase of the
water system were taken following
recommendations of a report by w.
De Witt Vosbury, engineer, made at
a meeting of the citizens water COM
mittee, Collingswood, investigating
the advisability of municipal owner
ship. This is the most important step
ever considered by the municipality
and will have wide effect on the pros
perity and development of the town.
Congressman Frank Patterson's
majority over Charles A. Wolverton
for the Republican nomination in the
First district is reduced 95 by discov-
cry of an error in tabulation made by
County Clerk Brown in Camden. VOL
verton has obtained an order to re-
count the votes in the district.
Miss Eleanor Boone, twenty years
old, of Pittston, Pa, nurse at Mercer
Hospital, Trenton, died in the institu-
tion from what physicians say was an
overdose of drug. She had complain
ed of a severe headache and was Civ
en- tablets, which did not relieve her
suffering. During the night she be-
came very i'll, and it was found that
she had taken so much OF the narcotic
that nothing could be done to save
her.
Directors of the Carney's Point
Pennsgrove Y. M. C. A. and their
wives held their annual banquet.
The Glassboro post Office was moved
to new quarters in the Middleton
building.
The annuai banquet and reception
of the Fiat A. A. of Gloucester City,
composed mainly of former high
school students, was helo in the Amer
lean Legion hail at that place.
An old lodge hall erected on Main
street, Pennsgrove, in 1849 is being
torn down to make room for a two
story brick building for the Masons.
Airplane flights were held fro17
field at the edge Of Woodstown with
new four passenger cabin plane oper-
ated by commercial concern.
Charles E. Schultz, president of the
Hoboken Savings Bank for 40 years,
died in his home in Montclair of acute
indigestion. Schultz was born in Mid
dletown, Conn.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
was hello blameless for the accident at
Crawford on August 81, when pas
senger train was derailed, killing four
persons and injuring 26 others.
The Erie Railroad Company through
its attorneys has submitted to arrest
on warrant charging unlawful trans
portation and possession of liquor.
The public school teachers of Cape
May county had an institute in the
new high school in Ocean City. State
Commissioner Enright, DR.. w. A Ack-
erman and Assistant State Commits
sioners Schaeffer, O'Leary and Camp
bell were among the speakers.
Prompt action has been promised by
the Woodstcwn borough council to-
ward the refilling Of the memorial lake
which was accepted as a gift to the
town at a recent election.
Decorative sign noStS hearing tho