Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-10-23
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bumper crop Of apples, and storage
houses are rapidly filling.
Brooklawn Board of Education will
meet Monday evening, October rs, to
receive additional plans for the pro-
posed addition to the school.
Members OF the New Jersey Poul-
try Association, OF which ]. l. Lyle
of Piainfield is president, started on
their fall tour of inspection of poultry
farms.
The Westville Board of Trade en-
tertained borough officials and bust
nessmen at a banquet for the purpose
of discussing the building boom and
the Crescent boulevard.
Thomas Hatfield, librarian of the
Hoboken public library since its es-
tablishment in 1890, died at his home
in Jersey City after an illness of two
years He was sixty-six years old.
The Public Service Railway Com
pany covered the unused track on
Warren street, Gloucester City, with
cinders, SO that the street may be re-
surfaced without taking up rails or
ties.
The proposed preservation of the
Barnegat light In Ocean county has
become an issue in the contest for
state senator between Mayor Henry
H. Cross, Democrat, of Seaside Park
and Senator Thomas A. Mathis, Re-
publican.
The New York Telephone Company
shout GEE 0O0 mn fou ,,oxxr
construction in the first nine months
this year; New Jersey, $40, 100000; up
state New York, $500, 900; Westches-
ter county and Connecticut, $780,
300; Long Island, $2,100,0OO and New
York city, $33,9OO,OOO.
DR.. John M. Thompson, senior resi-
dent physician at Overlook Hospital
when Harrison w. Noel, slayer of six
year-old Mary DAILY and Raymond
Pierce, left the institution and held
responsible by the freeholders for
Noel's having remained at liberty, was
locked out of his office at the hospital.
Mann act charges at Trenton
against Roscoe Carl Ziegler, former
Ku Klux Khan Kleagle, and Miss Mar
garet Roberts, the former of whom
deserted his wife and two children,
while the latter Tilted her fiance and
eloped with Ziegler to Ell Paso, Tex,
have been dropped by the government.
Caterpillars are turning white with
little red on their bodies, an indica-
ton of mild and open winter with
few snowstorms, is the prognostica-
ton of Manuel Card, veteran rural
mail carrier at Pompton Lakes. He
believes the touch of black on the
tail of some of the caterpillars indi-
Gates the worst part of the winter
will come late in March or April
At the close of the one hundred and
seventy-ffth anniversary services in
Blackwooi Presbyterian church Miss
Henrietta Leslie, in recognition of SIS
years service, was presented with a
rocking chair by the congregation.
Miss Leslie was a teacher in the
schools 60 years, and many former pu-
pills were at the service Rev. D. s.
Kennedy Of Philadelphia delivered the
closing sermon.
Harrison w. Noel, twice committed
to asylums and once to the psyche
rathic ward of Bellevue Hospital, will
stand trial in Essex county for thu
murder of Raymond Pierce, a negro
chauffeur After sanity hearing
with distinguished alienists testifying
on either side Judge Edwin C. Caffrey
found Noel competent to assist in his
own defense and gave the opinion that
he is able to comprehend his present
position.
Electric street-lighting system has
been installed in Columbus, replacing
oil lamps which served for half
century.
Churches at Wenonah have been
united in survey of the town and
every family has been invited to at
tend some local church.
The Brooklawn Parent-Teacher AS
ISOLATION has purchased a stereopti-
con machine for the school and will
purchase piano for the lower grades.
The two-masted schooner Thomas
ton, captured near Atlantic City with
400 cases of whisky, is moored at the
wharf of the immigration Station,
Gloucester City.
DooSt0A udy program lc@euiS ~
the opening meeting of the season for
the Pennsgrove Woman's Club. Mrs.
Ralph Willis, president, announced
that the club aims to double its
present membership this year.
The West Deptford Township Com
mittee was requested to grant permits
sion to the borough of National Park
| to extend its new water mains into
the township. The matter was re-
ferred to Committeeman Parks.
Sustaining charges of cruelty made
by Rev. DR.. Stuart l.. Tyson, formerly
of Princeton and now connected with
st. Georges P. e. Church, New York
city. against his wife, Anna Gertrude,
Barton B. Hutchinson, special master,
| of Trentnn has recommended that the