The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-05-08
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

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Ferries are running between Fort
Ticonderoga and Larrabees Point and
between Montcalm Landing and Orr
vile, Crown Point and Lake Cham
plain.
Thomas Honohan. secretary Of the
State Firemen's Association, died at
his home in Frankfort. aged seventy
seven years. He was charter mem
Der of the association, which was or
ganized in 1872.
What is said to be the first organ
ICED independent movement to push
Governor Smith for President has
been made by the Smith for Presi-
dent Club of Oswego. This organiza-
ton has circulated literature acclaim
ing that the governor is worthy to be
nominated by the Democratic party.
Between 10000 and 100000 tons Of
freight, loaded in barges. await open
ing of the state barge canal system,
giving promise of tremendous in
crease in canal traffic this season. it
was announced.
Charles Blood, lightweight and at
the time Of his retirement two years
ago the oldest coroner in the state.
died at Dunkirk. Mr.. Blood served as
coroner of Chautauqua county for 43
consecutive years. He was prominent
in Masonic circles in western New
York
Jolted from the seat of heavily
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Rochester, William Cornell fell be-
meath the wheels of the vehicle and
was killed instantly
William Garrison, sixty-fve, an Erie
freight conductor Of Hornell, was kill
ed instantly by the Binghamton Car
bondale flyer in the Erie yards at Sus-
quehanna, Pa.
Dr. Perlia E. Garlock, well known
physician of Schenectady, died in the
hospital at Schenectady of acute dila-
ton of the heart after an operation
for acute appendicitis. DR.. Garlock
attended his practice throughout the
day and FASTENED to the hospital for
the operation when his calls had been
completed.
The Albany Kiwanis Club has
placed welcome TO Albany" signs at
the main entrances of the city.
The Ticonderoga Fish and Game
Club has planted several million
whitefish fry in Lake George. Sew
eral thousand also were planted in
Wooster pond and in Lake Champlain.
The club has acquisitions for trout,
bass, pike and other fish for planting
this spring
Dr. Henry A Cotton, medical direc-
tor of the State Hospital, in a report
on his investigation of the escape of
the four convict patients from the
criminal wing of the institution, be-
lieves that the men received outside
aid in their getaway, and that they
were furnished with ropes with which
to scale the high wall.
More than one hundred persons, in
Guiding veterans of four wars, at
tended the dinner in Burlington in the
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall
when members of the Captain James
MacFarland Post gave a testimonial
banquet to the board Of trustees Of
the Memorial Hall Association.
The last OF the old stables at The
once-famous race track, Gloucester
City, has been torn down to make
way for several dwelling houses.
A convention that will bring to-
gether a large number of young peo-
pie from the churches of Hunterdeu
County will be the annual meeting af
the Christian Endeavor Union TO he
held in the First Presbyterian Church
in Lambertville.
Governor Silzer has received a seq
ment of the famous Washington elm.
which is presented to the State OF
New Jersey by the City of Cambridge.
Mass.
John A. Coll of Phillipsburg, Lee
high Valley railroad brakeman, was
awarded $4,000 damages against the
railroad as a result Of receiving S
crushed foot when rod on box car
broke and injured him at Allentown
some time ago.
Embalmed and reposing in hand
some casket two feet long. with silk
ribbon tied about it. Fannie, a fifteen
year-old black and tan dog, the prop
erty of Mrs. c. P Madden of the
Beyer Apartments, Atlantic City, was
buried in the S. P c. A. cemetery at
Linwood in the presence of score
of admirers. The dog was long pet
of Mrs. Madden and her neighbors-
The memorial gift of this years
graduating class to Princeton Univer-
sity viii be an Insurance policy writ
ten upon the life of each member, it
is announced. The policies will be 20
year endowment plans, payable to the
university. Stephen K. Little of New
York city is chairman of the memo
rial committee making arrangements
for the gift
Henry G. Weaver. former Pennsyi-
vania railroad clerk and confessed
embezzler of company funds said to
total from $4,000 to $4,000, was sent
to state prison for from eight to IL
years by Judge Marshall in Mercer
court. The padding of payrolls, which
,.-ac 10 have haau his met hOd