The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-01
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During August there we're 3,2SS
deaths reported to the state bureau
Of vital statistics.
Bound Brook High School reopened
with an enrolment of more than 500
the largest number ever recorded
there.
Thirty-eight persons committed sui.
eide in New Jersey during August,
the State Department of Health an,
nounced.
The Linden Post of Veterans OF
Foreign Wars was named after John
Russell Wheeler, the first Linden mar
to die in the World War.
Purchase of a site for the Newark
International league ball club at a
price of $150,0OO is announced. A con-
crete stadium is to be erected.
Albert S. Davis, ousted supervising
principal OF the Boonton public
schools, has been engaged to teach
history in Dumont high school.
Rev. r. j. Beazley, of ~Jobstown,
who was chaplain of the state senate
last winter, has been invited to be-
come pastor of the New Monmouth
Baptist Church.
A search warrant revealed stills at
the home of Harry Waxman in Long
Branch, and Acting Recorder Henry
Schoenlein fined him 500 on a charge
of "disorderly conduct"
Four alienists agreed, at Newark,
that Harrison Noel was sane enough
to aid in the defense against the
charge of numbering Mary DAILY, six,
and Raymond Pierce, negro chauffeur.
At a special meeting of B%rooklawn
borough Council plans were rejected
for the erection of three private gar
ages and a plumbing shop in Haakon
road because it is restricted property.
The city manager form of govern
ment was defeated by a vote Of 2 to |
in a holly contested election at Ocean
City. Business men favored the plan.
The vote was 673 for and 1,279 against
the proposition.
The State Board of Commerce and
Navigation has fixed the rate of $87
a cubic foot for riparian lands in
Bayonne along the Newark Bay,
wanted by the city to make a fill and
extend its water front.
Eminent physicians and surgeons
testified before the Bright Legislative
Committee that the New Jersey State
Hospital for the Insane was the most
progressive institution in the world
for the care of the insane.
Lindley M. Garrison, former secre-
tary of war, has sold his estate in
Long Branch for $4,000 to get away
from the u%nsightly buildings of fish
ermen which have been erected ada
cent to fashionable estates.
Only a few hours after the con-
irmation of her son, Albert H. Hol-
land, as prosecutor of Morris County
was reported from the state senate,
Mrs. Morris Holland died at her
home in Morristown. Mrs. Holland
has been ill for a year.
Former Prosecutor Walter L. Het-
field Of Union County took up his
duties as Lay Judge on the Court Of
Errors and Appeals. Mr.. Hetfeld was
confirmed by the Senate in special
session to fill the vacancy caused by
the retirement of Judge William
Clark. The appointment is for six
years and the salary is $40 a day.
Edmund B.. Wuensch, 39, a weaver
is back on his job at Union City fol-
lowing a 40-day fast that he under
went in an effort to cure his catarrh.
To all appearances, he was none the
worse for his experience, although
mill physicians stated that he had lost
thirty-three pounds. Wuensch's work
has not suffered, his employers say.
Old Bill in Harmony Township,
%1fty-seven years old, is said to be old
est horse In world.
Vineland has spent $4,000 on a
new fire alarm system, and now the
residents want a $4,000 traffic system
installed.
Former Attorney General Thomas
F. McCran died suddenly at his home
in Paterson. Acute indigestion was
the cause of his death.
Sweet potato growers in Glouces-
ter county are preparing to store
largely of this years yield, believing
the price will advance later.
Henry e. Overton, an Orange ac-
countant, died in st. Mary's Hospital,
Hoboken. He was found i'll in the
Lackawanna Railroad terminal.
Motorists from New York are said
to be prospecting in the swamps Of
Burlington county, endeavoring to
substantiate a legend that gold vas
found there 80 years ago.
Harrison w. Noel. who confessed
that he killed ~six-year-old Mary Daily
and Raymond Pierce, a negro chauf-
feur, was arraigned before Judge E.
c. CAREY in Newark, but his coun-
sci, Merritt Lane, refused to plead to
the indictments on the ground that
Noel was insane.
For shooting out one Of the eyes Of
his sweetheart, Mamie Campbell,