The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-01-08

diers Home in Kearny He is sur
viyed by son in Newark
The city budget of Bayonne for
1925, introduced at meeting Of the
city commissioners. totaled $2,874,-
1880. The amount to be raised by
taxation was announced as $2,516,-
GAS go, a half million dollars less than
this year, meaning reduction in the
city tax rate Of from 81 to Sc per
| thousand.
The West Orange Town Commits
sion at its final 1924 meeting voted
that the office Of deputy commission
er, heretofore a part time position
paying $1,000 per annum be made
full time job and that the present in
cumbent, Joseph Harrington, be re-
tired at salary of 50, 100 yearly.
Enraged because the bartender of a
Kearny saloon would not sell him
New Years drink, Louis Westlake Of
Keansburg attempted to shoot up
the place and in doing SO shot to
death his friend, James Baker Of En-
dicott, NJ Y. Baker. when Westlake
fiourished his revolver, said, go
ahead and start shooting A second
later he was lying on the floor fatally
wounded. He died in West Hudson
Hospital. Westlake was arrested.
New Jersey dries are indignant at
the action OF the Weehawken town
council in re-electing Harry ]. Stearns,
one Of the IA men indicted in connec-
ton with the Weehawken bootleg
scandal, as chairman Of the local po
lice committee. Stearns was elected
by vote of to 8, the deciding ballot
being cast by himself.
James Rillig. thirty-tour years Old
of Pensauken visited Camden and
while walking along Market street
near Fourth fiyver In which there
were three gypsies stopped. One OF
the gaily bedecked women asked the
Pensauken man whether he would like
his fortune told" Rillig concluded
he would, and after the lines of his
| hand had been closely scanned he
was told he was coming into sudden
wealth" Then the three drove away
They had hardly disappeared when
Rillig found his pocket had been pick
ed of $50 in cash and personal belong
ings.
Three armed bandits at Newark
slugged L. Gertwagen, an officer of
the Waverly Building and Loan Assoc
citation, and escaped with $4,000 in
cash. The hold-up occurred as Cert
wagon left the company's Offices on
his way to bank with the money
collected at the nights meeting.
| Warren Bennett, veteran railroad
engineer, was killed by the discharge
Of his shotgun in his home in Pauls-
boro. His wife, hearing the sound of
the discharge, swung open the door of
shed and the body Of her husband
| fell into her arms. The coroner be-
Heves the gun was fred accidentally.
SpIintered glass from the wind
shield of his fathers automobile
struck and severed the iugular vein OF
James Stewart, aged six years, of
Passaic when the car was in collision
with the automobile OF Charles v.
Roberts OF Hawthorne, and the boy
died within half an hour at Passaic
| General Hospital. Roberts was held
in bail by the Clifton police on tech
nical charge of manslaughter
The appointment by Governor Sill
ger of Robert l. Cox of Montclair as
! president of the State Board of Edu-
cation to succeed the late Melvin Rice
of Leonardo is expected. Cox's cleo
ton by the board as president pro
tempore probably will precede his ap-
pointment by the governor, who at the
same time is to fill the vacancy on
the board which was created by the
recent resignation of John c. Van
! Dyke of New Brunswick.
| A. s. Marshall, OF Woodbury. gave
| citizens and members of the Red
/ Cross until noon January to raise
1 $500 to meet the $500 he will give
! for an ambulance
Small ponds in Gloucester City are
frozen over, and many of the young
folks tried out their skates received
as Christmas presents.
Hunt Theatre Corporation has
taken lease on the Fenwick Theatre,
Salem, from Arthur B. Smith.
A coroner's jury has exonerated FL
/ wood Crispen, Of Pedricktown, OF all
blame for the death Of Mrs. Sarah
Reighn by an automobile in Penns-
4 grove,
Three bids have been submitted to
the police committee of Gloucester
City Council for installing an electric
signal system TO direct trafIic in
Broadway. The lowest IS Frank M.
Stein. OF Camden, $4,530.
| Finished silk. valued at about s12,-
600, was stolen from the small mill
OF G. Y. Tilton. Of Phillipsburg A
neighbor discovered the robbery when
he found the door Of the mill open.
The door had been jimmied. The
state police think someone familiar
with the mill was the robber.
Norman Murray. charged with IL
legally transporting liquor and Helen
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