The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-11-19
New Jersey
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over the Camden ferries Sunday.
Professor w. L. Nassau is directing
movement for organization Of
community chorus at Elmer.
Between 500 and 700 gunners' IL
censes were issued by City Clerk
Mars, of Burlington, last week.
"The old Slate" is the name Of
publication issued by the Pupils AS
ISOLATION of the old Bacon's Neck
Academy.
Both sides OF Mantua avenue, so
feet wide, at Wenonah, have been
paved with concrete within the center
of the town.
Six pupils of the Gloucester City
public schools are absent because, Of
broken arms, according to the report
of John Corcoran, truant officer.
John SPINNER, IS years old, COM
mitted suicide in woods near his
home at Baptist Town by hanging.
His body was discovered by his son.
Arrangements have been completed
for the Chautauqua to be presented
from November 81 to 23 under the
auspices of the Bordentown Lions
Club.
AS a result of overcrowded class
rooms in the Paulsboro public schools,
an overflow class has been started in
rooms rented in Liberty Hall by the
Board of Education.
Mrs Irma Abramson, rs years old,
twas murdered in an apartment at
Newark Her throat was slashed with
razor Peter Dorer, alias Bruno,
was apprehended following half-mile
chase by police, who saw him run
from the houes In which Mrs. Abram
son lived
Teachers and parents who are anx
ious that their children shall become
Americanized are fostering Parent
Teacher Association at New Italy,
near Vineland, and held rally to
push the work. The president is
Mrs. B. Mattarazza.
Mrs. Mary GRECO of Jersey City,
was found guilty of violating the vice
and immortality act blue law" by
acting Judge William McGovern in
Second Criminal Court. Sentence
was suspended. Mrs. GRECO early
Sunday erected clothes pole in her
back yard.
Jesse Hart of Newark, known to
police as Jesse James," began a
sentence from five to nine years in
| Trenton State Prison for robbery. He
was sentenced by Judge Caffrey, now
sitting at the trial Of Harrison Noel.
He was convicted on several counts,
receiving sentences to run consecu-
| lively.
According to the local dealers
Trenton is facing serious coal fam
Inc and there is but enough hard
fuel in the yards in Trenton to last
| five days. Forecasters believe that
there will be long and severe win
ter. While from 80 to 40 days OF
cold weather are normal, the pre-
dictions call for SO days of extreme
cold this winter.
State Senator Morgan Larson, OF
Middlesex County, was chosen as Sem
ate President at a meeting Of the Re-
publican majority in the State House,
Trenton. Senator Larson will sue
coed State Senator William H. Bright,
of Cape May County Senator Fran
| els B. Davis, Of Gloucester County,
was chosen to succeed Senator Lar
son as majority leader.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Sproull of Ar
lington entertained at their home re-
Gently the delegates from New Jersey
who attended the international Chris
| tian Endeavor convention In Portland,
Ore. OF the so delegates attending
the convention 4S were present at this
reunion.
The bridge across Main street in
New Egypt is blocked and no travel Is
allowed over 1t. All traffic coming in
| by way of Cookstown must make
detour to get into New Egypt. If cold
weather will hold off It is estimated
the bridge will be finished within q
few weeks.
Walter e. Soltmann has rendered
his resignation as steward at the
vineland Home for Feeble Minded and
is now executive secretary to Major
Walton A. Green, who is chief assist
ant to General Lincoln c. Andrews,
director of prohibition enforcement
| for the federal government.
The celebration of the hundredth
ANNIVERSARY of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at Everittstown has just
ended at that village The first Meth
odist church In Everittstown was
/ erected on site inside the yard Of
the present church property. A large
| pine tree nearby is still standing, as
it was when the first church building
| was dedicated in 1926.
Alarmed because of the ever in
creasing amount Of property which
year by year escapes taxation upon
one pretext or another, Governor Sill
ger has directed Attorney General
Katzenbach to challenge before the
courts the constitutionality Of an act
passed by the 1925 legislature exempt
ing from taxation all personal proper
ty held in warehouses of New Jersey.