Palisadian., 1925-12-04
State and County
News in Brief

Special for The Palisadian
The Barringer High School eleven
won the scholastic football champion
ship of New Jersey last week when it
defeated the strong East Orange team
by score of 10 to before a holiday
crowd of 10000, which jammed its
way into the new Newark City school
stadium Barringer had not held the
N. ]. /. A A. title since 1919.
Miss Helen NJ Clark, former teach
er in the Secaucus schools, brought
suit in the Court of Common Pleas at
Jersey City for $4,000, charging defa-
nation of character, against Matthew
Pechtel, supervising principal of
schools in that town. Miss Clark COM
plains she was removed as teacher
on the grounds that she smoked ciga-
rettes. She has been acting as school
clerk since Pechtel refused to reap
point her.
There is a report from Harrisburg
saying that Governor Pinchot may
call the Pennsylvania legislature to
meet on January IL, the same date the
New Jersey legislature will organize.
If such is the case the opportunity
may be afforded for settlement of
the contest between that state and
New Jersey over the question of
charging tolls on. the Camden-Phila-
delphia bridge. Usually the Pennsyl-
vania legislature holds its regular ses-
sions only in the odd numbered years.
Within the near future tuberculo-
sis clinic for eastern Bergen county is
to be established by the Cliffside Park
Elks' lodge in either Cliffside or Fair
view for the purpose of affording aid
to all persons showing symptoms of
the disease in those or the surround
ing towns of Palisades Park, Fort Lee
and Edgewater This decision was
arrived at in meeting attended by
both members of the lodge and the
Bergen County tuberculosis League.
The complete and official tabulation
of the vote cast at the November cleo
tion gives Moore a plurality of 38,42S
over Whitney. Bergen was the ban
ner Republican county, with a plurali-
ty of 11,506. Both the Socialist and
Prohibition vote throughout the state
was negligible, the latter polling bare
ly more than 1000 votes. The vote
cast this year fell almost 100000 short
of the total cast in 1924, more than 25
per cent of the eligible voters failing
to go to the polls.
George H. Lawson, former Baptist
minister and pastor of the Peoples
Evangelical church of Orange, N. j.,
former chaplain of the Ku Klux Klan
and former anti-Klan candidate for
governor of New Jersey, was commit
ted to thirty days in the Monmouth
county Jail when found guilty by a
Perth Amboy judge of having been
drunk and disorderly
From present indications the inau-
guration ceremonies at Trenton on
January /, when A. Harry Moore takes
the oath as governor, promises to be
gala affair. Most likely the scene will
be laid in the Capitol Theatre, where
many other similar events have been
staged. The oath will be administer
ed by Secretary of State Thomas F.
Martin, and Mr. Moore will be sworn
in by Chief Justice William S. Gum
mere of the Supreme Court of New
Jersey. Following the reading of his
message to the assembled legislators
the governor and his party win review
the inaugural parade from the State
House. 1t is estimated that 100000
Democrats will be in line, 10000 of
them coming from Hudson county
Mayor Frederick Donnelly of Trenton
will act as grand marshal. A grand
inaugural ball will be held in the eve
ming in the ballroom of the Stacey
Trent hotel.
Snow removal equipment has been
distributed to all parts of the state by
the New Jersey state highway depart
ment, everything being in readiness to
meet the heaviest storms of the ap-
preaching winter Seven additional
v type locomotive plows have been
placed at stragetic points in the north
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