The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-09-25
NEW JERSEY
STATE NEWS

WOOQ TOau.
volunteer fire companies in south
Jersey are choosing delegates for the
annual convention of the State Fire
mems Association.
The Pitman M e. Sunday school,
one of the largest in south Jersey, has
decided through its official board to
hold its sessions Sunday mornings In
stead of afternoons all the year round.
The Fairview Civic Improvement
Association awarded about 500 in
prizes in the better lawns contest.
Three Judges made the awards.
A weekly baby clinic is being held
in the fire house at Gloucester City
every Wednesday afternoon by wei
fare nurses employed by the Board Of
Health.
Florence Poole, two years old, Fair
view, who was one of the victims of
the supposed mad dog, was taken Ill
and will be given the Pasteur treat
ment.
The Center township joard of Edu-
cation has issued an order that all
pupils and teachers must be vaccf-
mated before October 5.
The treasury of the Salem Y. M. c.
A. was enriched by donation Of SSH
from the Ku Klux Khan of Salem coun-
ty.
General Secretary William t. Gala
way of the Salem Y M. c. A. has re-
signed. to take effect October 1, and
the directors elected A. B. Whittridge
of Dorchester Center, Mass, his uc-
cessor.
William ]. Wallace of Newark filed
his nominating petition with the sec
rotary of state as the Presidential
candidate of the Commonwealth Land
party. His running mate for the vice
presidency is ]. C. Lincoln of Cleve-
land, o. At the same time Mr.. Wal
lace filed the petition of Herman G.
Loew of Newark, who is candidate
on the same ticket for United States
senator.
Theodore McNear, seventy, who
had lived alone in bungalow at Port
Golden, two miles from Washington,
was found dead in bed with a bullet
through his heart. William Cashier,
a carpenter, who was working for the
aged man, discovered the body and a
80 caliber revolver lying in the bed.
State police who took charge of the
body declared the shooting to have
been suicidal.
The West End New York Board of
Education cIamped the lid on teachers
in the high school acting as selling
agents for book publishing concerns
or offering articles of any description
for sale to the pupils.
Construction of new stills for the
making of whisky in and near Ham
monitor has been suspended until
after the forthcoming election. Build
ers of stills have been paid fat
hourly wage, but recently demanded
an increase. Buyers refused to pay
the added cost, and the result has
been a virtual strike" by the still
builders.
Brooklawn borough council passed
an ordinance imposing license fee of
s25 annually on each passenger bus
operating from that place to Camden.
Another ordinance was introduced to
change the name of Hannevig avenue
Gilman John Murray, who lost his life
three weeks ago while in the act of
trying to save a woman bather at
Spray Beach.
The Atlantic City Chamber of Com
merce has declared war upon crooked
Boardwalk auctioneers.
A parade of three divisions was
Carney's Point and Pedricktown unit
ed in a colorful celebration of De-
tense Day.
In order that some corrections and
additions may be made National Park
borough council has deferred the
awarding of the contract for the new
water plant.
Councilman Charles Schiller, chair
man of the fire department committee
and former member of the Board of
Health of Kearny, has died
Just tell them that you saw me,
but you didn't see me saw" read the
note which Sheriff Robert Kidd found
fastened to a ball and chain which
| had adorned the ankle of Lewis
Wight, colored when brought back to
the Salem county prison camp, from
which he fed three years ago.
On their way to Factoryyille, Pa,
! to be married, a woman was carried
to her death and her fiance was crit
ically injured when their automobile
plunged from the road into ditch at
| Ramsaysburg.
Anthony Wesley ST., of Blenheim
has received a letter from his son,
| Anthony, Jr., seventeen years old,
who ran away year ago, saying, that
he is in New York driving taxicab.
One hundred and fifteen boats came
to Atlantic City from all coastal
points in New Jersey and took over a
million seed clans from the polluted
waters running for nearly a mile
along the Ventnor canal. The clam
mers had authority from the State
Board of Health to rake the waters
/ for small clans.
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