The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-02-12


ing school children Of Delaware town.
ship across a railroad track on MARI
ton pike without stopping. according
to law, Harry schaeffer, Moorestownf
was arrested by State TT per Nc
Lean and Squire Wirth fined him $50
and costs.
The Bridgeton Board Of Education
organized with DR.. C. P. Lummie,
president; DR.. John H. Moore. vice
president, and H. Royden Tices secre-
tary. The salary Of the secretary was
raised from $500 to $500 because OF
increased duties.
Representatives OF the Insurance
Underwriters Association made an
inspection in Gloucester City and it is
believed that lower rates may be an
nounced
Congressman Patterson has intro
duced bill providing for new post
Office building in Gloucester City to
cost $4,000. An effort viii be made
to have it constructed on King street
on land owned by the Government.
Contract for construction OF tn
West Collingswood M. e. Church.,
which will cost $1,000 and is the gift
of S. Canning Childs, has been award
ed to Bennett Mclaughlin of Audubon,
and work will be started Immediately
Collingswood Commissioners have
requested Senator Woodruff and As
semblymen from Camden county to
oppose a bill which would give author
ity to boards Of taxation to nullify or
cut down bond issues and budgets.
The Planners Building and Loan
Association has just been granted a
charter by State authorities, making
the sixth association operating in
Bridgeton.
Washington's Birthday Is to be cele-
brated by the Trestle Board Masonic
Association at Glassboro with a
chicken supper and concert Monday
evening, February 90.
Twelve memorial windows are being
placed in the Bethlehem Reformed
Church, Classboro, while improve
ments and interior renovations are be-
ing made. Dedication services are
being planned by the pastor, Rev 4.
Staiger.
decorative purposes by girls of the
Shiloh High School and sold to help
swell the class fund.
Municipal permits for the operation
Of 80 autobuses by various operators
in or near Newark wee approved by
the State public utility commission
Twenty-Five vehicles will be operated
by the Public Service Company be-
tween Newark, Kearny and Arlington,
and two buses will be run by the same
concern between Newark and Irving
ton.
Organization has been perfected
the New Castle-Pennsville Fee
Inc, and announcement is made q
the new company plans to have
boats running on regular scheoA3.
between Pennsville and New Castle,
Del, on May next. Contracts have
been let for construction of pier 400
feet long on the New Jersey side Of
the river for ferry landing. The
boats will use the new municipal CONF
crete pier at New Castle for a landing
on that side.
Officers of the Monmouth County
Farmers Cooperative Association
have filed bill in Chancery for The
appointment of receiver or the &ak-
ing Of such other steps as the court
may decide necessary to liquidate its
affairs. Argument on a rule to show
cause will be heard by Vice Chancel-
lor Foster, in Newark, April %.
The Bridgeton Dahlia Association
meeting stressed the Importance Of a
city-made planting campaign in the
spring. Representatives from Rotary,
Kiwanis, Civic and other organizations
co-operated in the plan.
Haddonfield has been divided into
three voting districts for the annual
school election, when three members
Of the board will be chosen. The
budget totals $90.197, an increase of
approximately $4,000 over last year.
A grounding supper. an annual
event in Hurffville, attracted many pa
irons from neighboring towns The
supper was served by the men OF Beth
ell M. e. Church in the w. C. T. u.
Hall.
Four youthful robbers held up An
drew Kaufman. member of the New
ark leather manufacturing firm OF X.
Kaufman & Co., and escaped with a
satchel containing the company's $5,-
900 payroll. One shot was fred at
Kaufmann's head by the bandits, Ntt
he was not hit.
Hold-up men in an automobile
robbed the Superior Novelty Company,
on Edgar road linden, of a $4,000 pay
roll. They are reported to have fed
in their machine in the direction Of
Newark.
After 10 years in The hat manufac-
turing business in this state, sixty-one
years Of which the establishment was
located at Orange, the e. v. Connect
q Company, Inc, win close its factory
about March |, according to an an
nouncement by the president
Ezekiel Sooy, IS years old, broke