The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-08-28
NEW JERSEY
STATE NEWS

DOrO, home TOT nearly SShIuAJ "
members of the family of glass manu-
facturers, is being remodeled for use
as dormitories for instructors and stu
dents at the State Normal School.
The new concrete bridge over the
creek on Red Bank avenue, National
Park. is almost finished, and the roads
will be reopened for traffic
The annual carnival held by women
of Woodlynne Melted $154.6O toward
furnishing the new Methodist Eplsco-
pal Church parsonage.
The Brooklawn Board of Education
has granted permission to Borough
Council to hold its meetings in the
front basement room Of the school.
Rev. DIR. George Harris, pastor OF
the old Tabernacle NJ e. Church, Cam
den, is mentioned as a possible sue
cessor to Rev. c. v. D. Conover at the
Wenonah Church, who leaves to be-
come moral instructor at Pennington
Seminary.
Negotiations have been completed
by Glassboro officials for the purchase
of the Glen Lake water plant, former
Iy operated by private interests.
The Westville Republican Club at
a meeting by a vote of IA to IL in
dorsed Congressman Patterson for re-
nomination over former Prosecutor
Wolverton, who is opposing him. The
club decided to invite both Patterson
and Wolverton to address it at a fu-
ture date.
County detectives raided 80 cigar
stores, saloons and pool rooms and
seized AZ slot machines at Atlantic
City.
Director of Public Safety La Barre's
drastic orders to the Trenton police
that they must use more vigor in the
suppression OF. lawlessness on the part
of new negro residents of the city has
caused the launching of brand new
movement in town, while citizens
have begun the formation Of clubs in
various wards with the idea Of keeping
out negro neighbors.
Universal observance of standard
time in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware will be sought through leg
islative enactments by the Moving
Picture Theatre Owners Association
of those states, it was announced at
the closing sessions Of their annual
convention in Atlantic City.
About a thousand chickens were
burned to death and $4,000 damage
was done when the main building of
the chicken farm of Arthur Eckel at
Madison was destroyed by fire thought
to have been of incendiary origin. All
of the chickens were white Leghorns
of the best stock.
Thomas Wiley, thirty-one years old,
Westmont, received injuries which
caused his death an hour later in the
West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital,
Camden, when struck by a motor
truck while crossing Haddon avenue
near his home Wiley was an en-
ployee of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany at the main office in Philadel-
phia and was on his way home when
run down.
Census Bureau give the city of New
ark a population of 445, sos on July /,
which is a gain of more than $1,000
a good-sized city in itself-over the
official return for 1920 If the cities
and towns which are practically parts
of Newark were annexed there would
be in New Jersey a city Of close to
$4,000 inhabitants.
The il, non-rig1d dirigible of the
navy, returned to the naval air sta
ton after taking part at maneuvres
at Sea Girt incidental to the last Gov
ernor's Day of the season. Governor
Silzer was taken for ride aboard the
blimp.
The New Jersey Guernsey Breeders
Association reports that there have
been four advanced registry records
completed this year by four Guernsey
cows at Upton Pyne Farm, which is
owned by Percy r. Pyne, Of Bernards-
Vile
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the two-story brick building
of the Charles s. Merton & Co. hat
factory in Railroad avenue, East Ruth
erford, at an estimated loss of $780,
900, part of which is covered by in
surance
Ensigns Irving Wiltse, Gerald Linke
and Lawrence Bailey, of Plainfeld,
are en- route to Northern waters on
ships Of the Atlantic feet that will
act as escorts to the American round
the-world ayiators.
An aged Jewish school teacher was
struck and fatally injured by an auto
mobile carrying newly married
couple on their wedding trip in New
ark
With the view to eliminating the
mosquito breeding spots along the line
of the Passaic & Delaware branch Of
the Lackawanna, between Berkeley
Heights and the West Summit station,
Chief Inspector Russell W. Giles, Com
missioner Edwin S. Farra and Inspec-
tor ]. Wesley Knox Clark, of the
Union County Mosquito determination
Commission, and c. E. Gosline, track
engineer of the Lackawanna, have in
spected the territory.