The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29
NeuU Jersey
State Briefs

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were closed while the teachers assem-
bled at the normal school, Glassboro'
for the county institute.
Bridgeport is promised electric cur
rent on December /. Poles have been
erected and electricians are working
night and day to be ready.
The body Of Joseph Como was found
hanging in his home at Raritan. Alec
Troth, a friend, said Como had been
Respondent because of Ill health.
East Orange officials sent a large
corps of men to the municipal water
shed at Millburn to fell trees for q
possible fuel shortage. Wood will be
delivered to homes for $40 a cord.
The body of Mrs. Elsie Kimmee. 55
years old, of Helmetta, was found In
the Delaware and Raritan Canal at
New Brunswick. she left the home Of
friends to go for a walk Saturday
night.
Allen Crissey Of Salem, former sec
rotary of the Salem-Cumberland-
Gloucester Holstein-Friesian Associa-
ton, has been chosen head of extern
sion work east Of the Mississippi Val
ley for the National Holstein Associa-
ton.
The one hundred and third annual
synod Of the New Jersey Presbyterian
Church closed at Asbury Park with a
resolution scoring the recent report
of the Federation of Churches touch
ing on prohibition, 1t also heard DR..
Marina S. Poulson, New Jersey Anti
Saloon League head, score corrupt
politicians"
An award Of $4,000 was granted by
q jury in the United States District
Court at Trenton in the suit instituted
by Mrs. Efie H. Blauyelt Of 1882 East
Nineteenth street, Brooklyn, against
the Breakers Hotel Company, Atlantic
City. She asked $4,000 for burns al
legged to have been sustained as the
result ( carbolic acid being used for
distinction purposes.
A motor truck crashed through a
fence on the State pike at Deerield
and crushed to death Courtlandt
Coombs, 33 year old, who was riding
on the machine. Coombs was a store
keeper on the Deerfield pike and was
riding to Philadelphia with George
Dantinnie, driver of the truck. The
latter jumped before the truck over
turned and escaped with a few cuts
and bruises.
Resolutions unfolding the Volstead
act and denouncing a recent report
on prohibition submitted by the Fed
eral Council Of Churches and a report
by the judicial committee generating
Rev. DIR. Henry Mellon of the First
Presbyterian Church, Atlantic City, of
all charges lodged against him by a
layman OF his church, featured the
closing session of the one hundred and
third New Jersey Presbyterian Church
Synod at Asbury Park.
While the rest Of the world is wor-
rying about the coal shortage, the
residents Of East Orange are cutting
down trees from the 5000 acres of
woods owned by the city and carting
them to their cellars. The city of
East Orange last year planted 1876, 900
new trees to prepare for such emer-
gencies as the existing coal shortage
and for the preservation Of the woods.
Burglars looted the Hillsdale post
Office of $500 in cash and about $1,000
in stamps.
Christina Rutiglianc, Jersey City
baby, died Of strangulation recently
as she a being taken to the city
hospital in an ambulance. She had
swallowed a toy.
Ducks have been flying along the
Delaware River for the past few
days and several flocks Of geese have
been heard in flight during the night
by Delair residents.
"Dapper Dan" Collins, on trial in
the United States court for conspiracy
in connection with the running of rum
cargoes between the West Indies and
this country, was acquitted at Trenton
by a jury which deliberated only fiji
teen minutes.
The American Christian Industrial
Association, organized for the welfare
Of the children of Philadelphia and
Camden, is preparing to purchase
about 200 acres Of land In the vicinity
Of Turnerville or Blackwood for a va
cation centre.
A value Of $500 was set upon a nail
in a decision rendered by Judge
Myron G. Ernst in Second District
Court, Jersey City. But the nail be.
came worth It's weight in gold, or
more. because it was enclosed in a
~huckleberry pie alleged to have been
baked by the American Pie Baking
Company of New York and sold by
Samuel Dino to Mrs. Nellie Spinello.
Annexation to the borough of Mer-
chantville has been asked by the resi-.
dents of Merchantville Heights ami
South Merchantville, which are now
in Delaware township. Appeal has
been made to Merchantville borough
council and steps are to be taken to
place the matter before the voters
for a decision. The petitioners saw
that they are not able to get needed
improvements and these would al;
come If they are taken into a larger
municipality.