The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-05-01

DDuV Was IeCONGI6Q dDOul al muir
later
At the meeting Of the National Park
Board Of Education Samuel Sterling
was elected a member to succeed Mrs
Josephine Cleveland, who resigned.
The latter was chairman of the Teach
ers' Committee. The two women
members of the board are Mrs. Harry
Ulrich and Mrs. L. Stodd.
Chancellor Walker. Trenton, has ap-
pointed Leonard O'Brien. of Summit
to succeed the late Christopher j. Tip
pier. of Elizabeth, as jury commits
sioner of Union county.
The Public Utility Board, trenton,
approved fhe application Of the New
Jersey Power and Light Company. OPP
Grating in Somerset and Warren
counties, for permission to issue $685.
900 first mortgage 5 per cent bonds
and $4,000 par value per cent cumu-
Istive stock The stock is to be sold
at par. ard he bonds at not less than
so per cent of par.
Motor vehicle agents and inspectors
were notified to observe daylight saw
ing time Office hours in conducting
tests for prospective motorists In
Trenton, where municipal resolutions,
call for the change. Standard time
will prevail in some South Jersey
agencies where daylight saving has
not been adopted.
Civilian rife clubs and dsvotees Of
the rife may use the Sea Grit ranges,
when organized units are not utilizing
them, between June 10 and September
3d. Adjutent General Gilkyson has is
sued such instructions in Trenton. APP
plicants are required to make arrange
ments with Inspector General Spencer,
of Passaic, prior to June for as
signment of dates.
Headquarters Of the New Jersey
Naval Militia were transferred from
Jersey City to Camden. The change
follows the election of Capt. Francis
NJ Hoffman. of Camden, succeeding
Capt Edward MacClure Peters, of Jer-
sey City, as commander.
Inauguration of a stamping ma
chine at Trenton. for official state
business, is expected to result in
saving Of some 81 800, which hereto
fore has been the estimated annual
loss in postage stamps by state de-
partments.
Lucius F. Spencer of Passaic. who
had commuted on the Erie Railroad
for fifty-five years and was leading
in the roads novel oldest eommuter
contest, died at his home in Passaic.
| His daughter had Just entered him in
the contest. He was 80 years old.
Alleging the death of Mrs Martha
Lipinski, Of Secaucus, on December
Is last, resulted from radium left in
her body by mistake for period Of
| twenty-six hours, Roman Lipinski, her
husband, sued in the Hudson County
Circuit Court. Jersey City. to recover
! $4,000 damages from the Paramount
Surgical Sanitarium. Jersey City.
One thousand delegates are expect
/ ed to attend the annual meeting Of
the State League Of Building and
Loan Associations in Atlantic City.
May 80 and 81. The delegates. many
of whom will be women, win repre-
sent 1,400 associations.
Michael Walker. father of Edward
| (''Mickey'') Walker, welterweight
boxing champion, died of heart fail
ure while reading a newspaper in
cafe at 1.O31 Magnolia avenue,
Elizabeth. He was forty-eight years
old He is survived By his wife,
| Elizabeth, and one son. A daughter
was drowned three years ago.
In sight of scores of commuters
waiting at the Brick Church station,
| East Orange, Miss Helen Pickenback,
twenty-three years old, of IS North
field avenue West Orange. fell under
a Lackawanna Railroad train. Both
legs were cut off above the knee
The Glassboro council has purchas-
ed the small water pumping plant and
| system operating at Glen Lake. at the
edge of Pitman, for price said to be
$4,000.
On charge of possessing liquor
and wines and selling from his home
in Westville. Louis Bansfeld was
committed to jail at Woodbury. by
Commissioner Avis. The arrest was
made by Mayor Heal of Westville and
County Detective Scott.
Memorial Day exercises in West
vile will be held at the Soldiers Mon
ument at Broadway and the Glassboro
pike. The American Legion post will
take part.
The Pensauken township committee
will place traffic officers at Burlington
pike and Cove road and Marion pike
and Browning road.
Poisoning of II dogs in the West
Side. Collingswood. in two days.
aroused storm of protest from own
ers and lovers of animals, and re-
wards have been offered by owners Of
| more valuable CANNES for information
leading to discovery Of the prisoners.
Some. of the dogs were valuable. high
bred animals.
Mrs. Frances N. Hall, widow of the
Rev. Edward w Hall who was muir
dered year and = half ago at New
Brunswick with Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills,
returned to New Brunswick Sunday,