The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-06-18
swwaMmmaaaasa
!. NeuU Jersey
:: State Briefs
mmMMMMMMMMNAMM q y

ed to have tried suicide because NC
could not control his temper, got tnli-
ty days in jail at Atlantic CITY.
Tangible evidence that the eta.e
Highway Commission and the EIls
Railroad are in substantial ACCORD
with respect to the terms OF the pro
posed agreement for the approach "
the Holland Tunnel in Jersey CITY was
afforded when the commission direct
ed advertisement for bids for the nrse
section of the work to be undertaken
Robert w. and ]. Seward Johnson,
brothers and members of the surgical
supply firm of Johnson & Johnson
New brunswick, announced that they
will leave for Newfoundland to search
for William Washburn Nutting anu
three companions, who have oeen
missing since August 10, 1924, wnen
they sailed from Iceland to cross tne
Atlantic in a 40-foot sloop.
That the men employed by W. j. >.
Crichfeld, contractor, have ignored
his instructions not to tear up streets'
under course Of Improvement, Tor any
greater distance than was necessary
was the information given by CITY
Surveyor Clarkson to the City COM
mission Of Bayonne.
o. o. Bowman, one OF Trenton 3
leading banking and industrial ng-
ures, was dangerously injured at the
Broad Street National Bank when he
fell through one of the revolving door
WAYS and sustained fracture OF MS
left hip.
Brooklawn Board of Education has
elected Mrs. William v. Hill mem
Der. to succeed Mrs. Sarah M, Strick-
land, resigned, to resume teaching.
Believing that beauty pageants
should not be encouraged, City Man
ager Paul A. volcker Of Cape May has
announced that there will be no beau
ty sent from there this fall to the At
lantic City pageant.
State troopers are investigating a
triple crash at Clayton which resulted
in the injury of Webb Brown and the
wrecking of three cars.
Although arrested on April "a
charged with driving an automobile
while under the influence Of liquor
Ezra Johnson, so years old, South
New Hampshire avenue, Atlantic City,
was not given hearing until recent
ly, the case having been twice post
poned.
Members of the Westville Board Of
Education and business men, former
students, attended banquet and re-
ception rendered to Miss Abbie JUS
tfce, a teacher for twenty-five years.
She was given $25 in gold.
John Black of Perth Amboy was
killed at Somerville when an electric
wire caught him under the chin and
caused him to fall to the roadway
from atop a high motor truck on
which he was riding
Petitions placing Eugene A. Smith
of Morristown in nomination as the
National Prohibition party's candidate
for Governor at the November cleo
ton have been filed with the Secretary
af State. He designates himself as
'Smith-but not AL"
J 1AbCA bWO WCCAS VI .COuSlQSIdIlOA
Albert H. Holland of Morristown, ad
interim prosecutor, announced that he
had selected Charles B. Ward of Den.
vile, formerly of Morris Plains, as the
first member Of the new prosecutors
staff
State headquarters of the American
Legion at Trenton announced recently
that report of the United States EN-
! ployment Service Of the Department
of Labor shows 100000 as having
found employment during the past
year through the federal government
working In cooperation with state
agencies and the American Legion.
A thousand pound swordfsh was
found tangled in net containing an
1 8OO-pound shark about two miles Oh
Belmar recently. The swordfish was
the largest ever taken here. Lester
Wolcott and w. P. Bennett, fishermen
in a small boat, narrowly escaped be-
ing capsized during their fight with the
monster. They finally killed it with
an axe. The shark was IL feet long
| A series OF amendments to the
State Constitution were urged by Gov
ernor Sulzer in an address before the
New Jersey State Bar Association in
convention at Atlantic city recently
Other speakers included Judge Albert
W. Johnson, Of the United States Dis
trict Court for the Middle District Of
Pennsylvania; Melvin M. johnson. q
the Boston Bar; Ralph E .Lum. q
Newark. and the retiring president
W. Holt Apgar, of Trenton.
Revelations Of child employment on
South Jersey truck farms, its accom-.
panying evils of poor housing and
Wholesale and persistent violations 81
state laws by Philadelphia agencies
with even more startling disclosures
promised, were contained in prelim.
mary report submitted to State Labor
Commissioners Mcbride at Trenton hy
Russell J. Eldridge, State director =,
employment. now engaged in inyesti
eating working conditions Of these
agricultural communities.
BENJAMIN Keyser, Of Lancesta,