The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-02


sembly Of the Order of Artisans was
held in the City Hall. Nearly 100
members have been enrolled.
Pitman.-Announcement is made OF
the sale of the present post office
building and apartment house on
Broadway, to Horace C. Garrison, Of
Atlantic City. The government holds
a four-year lease on the lower floor
Of the building for post Office pur-
poses.
Glassboro.-Faculty and students Of
the Glassboro Normal School are ar
ranging an elaborate Arbor day pro-
gram.
Pitman.-Directors of the Pitman
Swimming Club served as pallbearers
at the funeral IF Oliver S. Nichols, a
former long-distance swimmer and
coach and official in the Middle Allan
tic district of the A. A. u. Nichols
was the founder and coach Of the
Pitman Swimming Club.
Haddon Heights.-The special cleo
ton to decide the annexation of Fair
field Estates with Haddon Heights
will take place April Fl, it was an
nounced.
Bridgeton-George Jonas, a former
glass manufacturer, well known
throughout New Jersey, died here.
aged 65. He established the glass
works at Minotola, which resulted in
the founding of the town afterward.
He was connected with glass manufac-
turing plants at Williamstown and
Cape May Court House.
Sea Isle City.-James Reegrades,
"a, OF Green Creek, Cape May coun-
ty, a linesman for the Keystone Tele-
phone Company, was killed here,
when 1900 volts Of electricity passed
through his body while he was repair
ing wires On a telephone pole.
Bridgeton.-Despite ar army of
rats which nightly play tag around
her improvised cot in the corridor
Of the Millville lookup, Mrs, Frank
Norton still refuses to leave the side
of her actor husband, who faces a
charge of -manslaughter for running
down and killing 9-year-old John Di-
Paul on the Bridgeton-Millville high
way.
Decentralization papers have
been issued by Governor Silzer for
the return to this state of Solly Karp,
who is wanted in Passaic county to
answer a charge of implication in the
theft of the payroll Of the Manhattan
Shirt Company, of Paterson. Karp
is now under arrest in New York.
Stillwater.-William l.. Vought. a
farm hand for Mrs. Theresa Hallett.
was killed when the team with which
heNwas blowing a field ran away and
dragged him with the reinS about his
neck. DR.. e. w. Lands of this place
said death was probably ~instanta-
neous. There was a cut on his cad,
caused by stone, the doctor said, and
his neck was broken. No was
near when the accident happened.
Atlantic City.-Daylight saving will
become effective in Atlantic City at 2
a.. m. on Sunday, April rs. and will
continue until the last Sunday in Sep
TENDER. This is provided for in an
ordinance on the city statute books.
City Solicitor W.. Frank Sooy declared
that, daylight saving goes into effect
automatically in this city, and the pre-
sumption is that the resort will CON
tinue to have the new time from year
to year
Trenton.-Edward Maxson, acting
as special master, recommended to
Chancellor Walker that the marriage
of Albert f.. Hoffman and Margaret
Bohnenberger, of East Orange, be n
nulled. HOFFMAN alleged his wife had
entered into the marriage contract
with mental reservations not to abide
by all the obligations. He alleged
she married him to avoid fulfilling
the wishes of her parents, who wish
ed her to become a missionary. Hof-
man alleged she left him last May to
become a dancer. They were married
in 1928.
Trenton.-The nomination of James
B. Loughl.n Of Dover to be a member
OF the Morris county tax board was
confiPmed by the senate.
Dover.-The home of John j. Moore
and several other properties in Silk
Mill lane were threatened by a woods
FIRE on the western slope OF Reservoir
Hill. The flames were extinguished
by fremen.
Florham Park-At a special meet
ing of the borough council Ilayor Helm
explained to the citizens questions at
issue in the suit brought by Lloyd w.
Smith agains, the borough to prevent
the installing of water mains through
part of the borough. Briefs in the
case, filed with the supreme Dur
March 8. were read.
Passaic.-Louis Blasick, a rubber
mill worker, and his th~ree-year-old
daughter, Victoria, were found dead
Of gas poisoning in their home here.
Two other daughters, Hermina. five,
and Jennie. eight, also we're overcome.
Riverdale.-An ordinance for the
issuance Of municipal bonds for $23.-
600 was authorized to pay for the wa
ter distribution system recently in
stalled. Borough Engineer Fred N.