The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-10-30

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may appear on the ballots given
voters in New Jersey November 4.
! Although the doctor withdrew from
the race for the United States senator
ship, under the law there is no legal
way of emitting candidates name
! from the ballot after it has been GER
! tilted by the secretary of state.
Patrick B. Delany, leading electrical
inventor, friend and associate of
Thomas A Edison, died at his home,
1877 Scotland road, South Orange, from
a heart attack which had kept him
confined his home for ten days.
/ James Screnci, aged four, was kill
| ed instantly at Mount Holly by the
bus of the Wrightstown, line. The
driver, Harry Clay Brunt of virgins
/ town, was released under bail on or
! der of Coroner Rogers of Bordentown.
Fare increases proposed by the At
| Iantic City Suburban Railroad Compa-
ny between Atlantic and mainland
points were suspended by the Public
] Utility Commission until January %.
The postponement, it was stated, is
to permit an inquiry to determine If
the proposed increases are just and
REASONABLE.
The Presbyterian Synod of New Jer-
I sey gave unanimous approval to the
| pension plan for aged ministers and
their families proposed by VIII H.
j Hays, arbiter of motion pictures, who
! is chairman of the general assembly
commit ee on ministerial relief Hays
has agreed to raise $15,O0OOo0 to
| finance the fund provided approval is
given by 1000 Presbyterian churches
i and their ministers to the plan.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Burke, widow of
John Burke, maker of Burke's Irish
whisky, died at her home in West
| Orange, aged eighty-six. Her maiden
name was Elizabeth West
For forty odd years John MARBLE Of
Atco lived beside the traffic laden
White Horse pike and was never even
! bruised by any of the millions of BIZ
! cycles, motorcycles, motor cars and
trucks rushign up and down that
! speedway. MARBLE, however, visited
/ Philadelphia and is now in the Episco-
pal Hospital suffering from frac-
tured skull, having been struck by
! hearse en- route to a funeral
Damages of $1,000 obtained by Anna
/ O'Brien, Atlantic City trained nurse,
/ against the owner of an apartment
/ house for injuries received when she
slipped in pool of water in the house,
were sustained by the supreme court,
Trenton. The nurse resided in the
Arnold Apartments, Kentucky and Pa
cific avenues, and declared that the
water had collected from a leak of
long stand ng in the roof. The com
plainant suffered a broken hip, which
/ permanently famed her.
John Vogt was fatally stabbed at
North Bergen his stepfather, Otto
Eusch, utcher, who stuck meat
knife into his chest. North Bergen
! police said Vogt sacrificed his life for
his mother. the blow being aimed at
her. Eusch escaped in an automobile,
but was caught later. He was charged
with murder and held without bail
Howard Little, thirty-seven, of Rah-
way, salesman for the Standard Oil
Company, was killed instantly when
his automobile was struck by a north
bound Contra. Railroad of New Jersey
train at the Bayway crossing of the
Long Branch division.
Hundreds OF commuters, whose
patronage makes Pitman the busiest
stop for electric trains on the West
Jersey and Seashore railroad, will ask
the company to place an umbrella
shed over the platform on the west
side of the tracks.
Reports submitted to the Glouces-
ter City Board of Health by DR.. ]. A.
Beck, health officer, showed no new
cases of smallpox and that only the
one case exists
The pupils of the Brooklawn school
were ordered vaccinated by the Board
of Education, and two doctors visited
the school and vaccinated a large
number.
Firemen and borough officials at Ell
mer are considering the purchase Of
modern motor apparatus for the local
company
There are 1,156 pupils in the Ocean
City public schools. OF these ISL are
in the senior high school and 286 in
the junior high.
The Swedesboro Chamber of Com
merce wound up its carnival after q
successful run of two nights.
Four men broke into the Washing.
ton clothing shop at Hoboken, made
away with merchandise valued by the
owner at $4,000 and were arrested at
the Hoboken station when detectives
saw one of them wearing a new over
coat with sale tag dangling from
the lapel
The Fred H. Bateman Company has
purchased a part of the Grenloch
plant of Bateman & Co. and will
shortly resume the manufacture of ag
ricultural implements.
A barking dog foiied Chris Morris,
middle aged, of North Woodbury.
when he attempted to hang himself
Nsighbors heard of Morris critical
condition and learned that he had