The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-07-02

creek, near OuUIIee OOTu0ISy III the
presence of his father and other
bathers, who sought to save him.
Max Reidler, of Morristown, first
to be tried Of the eighteen men in
dicted last month on charges Of con-
spring to violate the prohibition laws,
was found guilty by jury Of eight
women and four men after two hours
elaboration. Sentence was deferred.
Two Newark schoolboys, Hale and
Frank George, IL and 13 years Of age,
respectively, are suffering from lep-
rosy in the county isolation hospital
at Soho.
A lunacy commission has been or
dered by Judge Williams, of Norris
town, to inquire into the mental con-
dition of August Pasquale, alias "The
Crank" who was given life SEN
tence in 1920 on charge of kidnap-
ing Blakely CoughMn, OF Norristown,
on June 2, 1920.
Daniel Toreky, OF New Brunswick,
who returned home after serving
sixty-day sentence for beating his
wife, shot and killed her and then
shot himself over the heart, dying
later in the New Brunswick Hospital.
Miss Louise Watts, of Birmingham.
Ala, and Miss Rena Bassetti, Of
Bridgeton, have been elected to vacan-
cies on the teaching star Of the
Bridgeton schools.
An annual salary increase of $4,000
was granted to DR.. William ]. Beckett,
superintendent OF Trenton's schools,
at special meeting of the Board Of
Education, which was called for the
purpose OF assigning teachers for the
school year beginning in September.
The increase brings DIR. Bickett's sal
airy to $4,000 a year. This is the
same salary paid the superintendent
In Atlantic City, according to John P.
Dullard, who sponsored the resolution.
A five-tOn truck loaded with kegs
OF beer crashed through bridge
across the Mill Stone River between
South Bound Brook and Weston re-
Gently. A negro chauffeur waded
ashore and disappeared in the woods.
He was last seen running through
Bound Brook. State Troopers took
charge of the truck and its cargo and
sent samples of the beer to be
analysed to determine it's alcoholic
content The truck is said to be the
property of Smith & Solomon Of New
Brunswick.
Delegates to the fifty-eighth annual
encampment of New Jersey posts Of
the Grand Army OF the Republic ar
Cape Mey, elected officers at the en-
campment Commander Edgar L.
Roray, of Post No. 5, Camden, OF
Glassboro, was elected state com
mander. William Hall, Of Nazareth,
Pa, ninety-twos a member of the
Jersey City Post No. 8, was the old
est veteran attending the encamp-
ment.
Ambrose Hansberger, of Philadel-
rhia, past president Of the National
Association Of Retail Druggists, speak
ing before the New Jersey Pharma-
ceutical Associations convention at
Spring Lake, said that the worst
problem that druggists faced was the
"injudicious activities OF prohibition
enforcement agents" He said legis-
gists to sell alcohol in smaller guam
titles.
An airplane was called into use for
the delivery Of large quantity of
sweet potato plants to William JEFF
fries by Vineland firm. This is the
first shipment of perishable freigh.
that has ever been sent by air from
All. caok{o,, ~ tha oo,,ufrv Tho do
livery was made in 10 minutes fly
after the start was made. The pilot
did not land, but dropped several
packages of the plants ON the farm as
he circled about.
Struck down as she was crossing
Center street and Park place, New
ark, by an automobile driven by q
man from the same town in which she
resides. Mrs Sarah Jones, seventy
three years old, Of 482 Park avenue,
Weehawken, is in st. Michael's Hos
pitaL She is suffering from shock
and decorations OF the head. The
driver of the machine was Joseph
Amberg.
Recorder Evans Of Paterson fined
and Benjamin Koffsky, both Of New
York, $3.50 each. Shaw and Koffsky
were arrested on Paterson bus.
Shaw said he was salesman and
Koffsky claimed to be singer in New
York cabarets.
Adrian G. Chamberlain, who re-
signed as federal prohibition enforce
ment director In New Jersey, is to
become manager of the Allenhurst
Park Estate, q realty company, which
is developing tract bordering Deal
Lake and Asbury Park.
Joseph F. Mcdonald Of New York
and Miss Anna Shea OF Newark were
drowned when a canoe in which they
were riding with another couple cap
sized near Bertrand island Their
bodies were recovered.
Under a readjustment of the fare
zones between Trenton and Camden,