The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-02-26


graph pole as he stood on the step OF
jitney bus. He died in the Alexian
Brothers Hospital an hour after the
accident of skull fracture.
Found abandoned on the beach
north of Beach Haven with cargo Of
45O cases of whisky, the skiff Marion
Inn was seized by Captain Frank Falk-
inberg Of the Coast Guard station at
Ship Bottom and Sheriff John A. g.
Graft.
oysters produced and shipped from
| the approved areas OF New Jersey
have been given clean bill of health
by the United States public health
service The investigation and reoprt
was prompted by the state depart
ment of health by the prevalence OF
! typhoid fever in Washington, New
York and Chicago during the last two
months
The jury in the case Of Mrs. Marga-
ret Pagan Gaskill. charged with afro
cious assault and battery on Robert
| Marshall, former chief of police OF
Pleasantville, disagreed six to six
and was dismissed. Marshall was shot
several months ago while in the Gas
kill home in PleasantvilIe.
A hearing on plans for new draw
! bridge over Alloway creek at Quintony
| on Route of the state highway sys-
! tenn, has been announced in the Sa-
| lem courthouse by Colonel Earl L.
Brown, district engineer of the war
department The state highway de-
partment has already appropriated
| $50, 900 Cor construction The new
bridge will be of the bobtail swing
| span type, with 80 foot roadway and
draw opening also of 80 feet in the
clear for navigation.
John o. Vollmer, who was indicted
for killing DR.. George A. Nelson, nat
uropath, In his office, in Newark, last
May, and subsequently was adjudged
| insane and committed to the State
hospital at Trenton, has been cured
ard will be tried for murder, accord
ing to word from the prosecutors Of
| flee.
According to a statement made by
DT. Wallace F. Naylor, president OF
the Board of Education of Somerville.
| the schools of the borough will pay
spelling, mental arithmetic and gram
mar Somerville, he said, will carry
out It's program to emphasize these
studies if it is the only school system
in the state to do SO.
/ A campaign against the tent cater
pillar has been organized by the Nor
ristown Garden Club and will be car
ried on with the cooperation OF
school children in Morristown, Morris
and Harding townships.
| Opinion was divided about equally
at a meeting called by the Civic Club
| to discuss the value of city man
ager plan of government for Summit.
| One speaker declared that $4,000
man could save the city $4,000, and
another, who opposed any chang in
government, declared that city man
ager might pluge the city into all
kind of extravaganza land the help
less taxpayers would have to pay the
bill
Theodore Rose, nineteen years old
charged with bigamy, is still in the
Atlantic City Jail pending a hearing
Rose, who looks even younger, said
| that he still loved his second wife,
Harriet Smith, though she preferred
the charges which brought his arrest
One of Elizabeth's largest depart
ment stores. the F. T. Woodruff store,
on Broad street, in the heart of the
business section, was partly destroyed
and its entire stock a complete loss,
with an estimated damage of $350000,
1 IT, q oh ar,cy ynd onffro fra
force Of the city.
| During the past week the Gloucester
City Board of Health has paid for the
burial of many stray dogs at the rate
of so cents each.
Police are assisting military author
4 tiles in the search for thieves whCs
have thrice broken into the new arm
DRY at Salem and stolen supplies.
Joseph Pater of Philadelphia. was
fined $1O0 and $21.5O costs for charges
made by the Woodbury. s. P. G. A. for
allowing horse to starve. He moved
! from Mantua and left the horse.
Eugene d. Grovacchio, baker Of
Paulsboro, was fined $50 and costs by
| Recorder Fischer. Of Brooklyn, for col
liding with a wagon belonging to
Camden baking company and causing
Willard Batten. the driver. to be
! thrown out.
Westville Council will act on an,
ordinance for sewage disposal plant
to cost $2S,O00 at the next meeting.
The Pitman Masonic Clubs mid
winter banquet will be held in Phil
adelphia on March II.
Sale of the Passaic Cotton mills to
the Essex Cotton Mills. Inc, Of Della
ware, for consideration of $1.S94, 600,
was confirmed IN deed filed with the
county registrar at Paterson.
Students of the South Jersey high
schools are getting ready for the in
terscholastic debates which begin
next month. The subject this year is