Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-11-20
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pace with the rapid growth OF P1tman
was presented for the consideration OF
council
The Brooklawn Board of Education
received six sets of plans from as
many architects for the addition to be
built to the present school at cost OF
about $S5,000
Frank Hanley has donated plot OF
land to the Darlington Park fire COM
The department has also been do
mated bell and apparatus.
DIR. NJ F. Lummis has been appoint
ed member Of the Pitman borough
council by Mayor Edward H. Gurk. He
will fill vacancy caused by the res
ignation of Councilman Walter w.
Haight.
Issuance of automobile registration
plates for the year 1926 in New Jersey
will begin November Is, following the
custom instituted last year, according
to an announcement by State Motor
Vehicle Commissioner William L. Dill.
Collingswood's commissioners at
their weekly meeting passed on first
reading an ordinance providing for
the acquisition of several acres of
land in the Vineyard Farms tract to
be used for extension and improve
ment of the borough water system. A
pumping station and artesian wells
are to be constructed.
Mrs. Eleanor La Rosa has brought
suit for divorce against Anthony La
Rosa, proprietor of the Follies Ber-
gere Cafe, before Vice Chancellor In
gersoll in Chancery Court at Atlantic
City, charging that a month after
their marriage her husband became
"harsh and neglectful." The vice
chancellor referred the case to a spe-
cial master in chancery.
Fourteen fremen and four police
men were swapping yarns outside en-
CINE house 4, Elizabeth, when shouts
directed their attention to a bull run
ming toward them. The firemen and
policemen ran into the street, block
ing the path Of the animal. The bull
charged the uniformed formation,
which scattered, and ran into a field,
upsetting an automobile and three BIZ
cycles and knocking down several
small trees. Patrolman Richard Barry
got a riot shotgun and killed the ami
NAL
Nathan Barnert, philanthropist and
benefactor, known as "Paterson's
Grand Old Man." was honored at Pat
erson on the occasion of the dedica-
ton of bronze statue in front of the
city hail. Men prominent in the bust
ness and political life of the city were
in attendance. Mr.. Barnert is eighty
seven years old and was born in Po-
sen, Prussia, coming here when boy.
Among some of the buildings erected
at Paterson by Mr.. Barnert are: Home
for the Aged Poor, Barnert Memorial
Hospital and Barnert Memorial Hos
pital Nurses Home.
Growth of Pennsville section is re-
flected in the registration of voters
this year, in which Lower PENIS Neck
township shows greater increase
than any of the other districts in Sa-
lem county. The total registration
for the county is 1905, an increase
of nearly 400 over year ago. Salem
city's total registration this year is
4,479, while Pennsgrove has 2,2S4. The
registration in other boroughs is:
Woodstown, LA, and Elmer, 500. In
the townships the registration runs:
Alloway, 709; Elsinboro, 231; Lower
Alloways Creek, 667; Lower Penns
Neck, 1,161; Warrington, 1856; Old
mans, $40; Pilesgrove, $685. Pitts
grove, S4O Quinton, 5S7; Upper Penns
Neck, 1,155; Upper Pittsgrove, 1906.
While taking inventory, Max Null
Ter, of Nutley, part-time clerk in the
drug store of Adolph Alvens, dropped
dead of heart disease. His wife, son
and two daughters survive.
Governor Silzer announced the ap-
pointment of William Lowden of
Elizabeth as member of the State
Board Of Dentistry. He succeeds DR..
Charles Faupel, who resigned.
Stricken with a heart attack while
driving a horse drawn truck in Town
ley, Thomas Walsh, seventy years old,
fell from the truck and died before
the arrival of an ambulance from the
Elizabeth General Hospital. Walsh
was employed by Michael Murphy, a
Townley farmer, more than 80 years.
That a crime wave is prevalent in
Essex county was denied by Common
J Pleas Judge Edwin G. Caffey at New
ark, in charging the second half of
the September term grand jury. There
are no great questions Of lawlessness
to be presented them, the jurist said.
in appointing Edison L. Clark, BAL
Park avenue, as foreman.
George Winters, who stabbed his
young wife fatally October IA, in Jer-
sey City, was taken to the county Jail
from the City Hospital. Winters was
prisoner in the hospital recovering
from a six-inch stab wound in his
chest which he inflicted after he killed
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