The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-03-05

was announced by Mrs. Eva Taylor,
leader Of the local w. G. T. U.
Lawson Purdy, vice chairman Of
the commission which prepared the
coming ordinance under which build
ing operations in New York city are
now controlled, will be the principal
speaker at the state conference on
coming to be held at the Stacy-Treat
Hotel. Trenton, March 10, under the
auspices Of the New Jersey State
Chamber of Commerce.
Men and women from every coun-
ty in the state enrolled in the free
one week courses at the State Col
lege Of Agriculture. Flower garden
ing Is the most popular course and
has a registration of thirty-fiye. Poul-
try feeding las twenty-five, livestock
feeding eleven and milk testing thir-
teen.
Commissioner Swan of Trenton is
negotiating with the State Highway
Department in an effort to have that
body take advantage of the state law
which enables the Highway Depart
ment to construct roads leading to
state institutions.
A verdict of guilty, with a recon-
msndation for mercy, was returned by
jury in Newton composed of SIX
men and six women in the trial of
Wilbur Gray of Andover for an Of
Tense against a fourteen-year-old girl.
Four hours were spent in delibera-
ton.
DIR. Ralph Gilady of Hackensacx,
was fined $25 and costs of court be-
fore Recorder William 3. Brown for
failure to obey traffic stop sign at
Station Square. The physician testi-
fed that he was on an emergency
case for DR.. Clarence Byers of Ruther-
ford when he passed the sign.
Harry Visconde, cook, of East
Orange, N. j, is being held in Albany,
N. Y, in default of $4,000 bail
charged with kidnapping, abduction
and third degree assault on complaint
of Miss Peggy Poppalardo, fifteen,
also of East Orange.
Eva Weiss, five years old, died two
hours after her clothing had caught
fire from a gas stove in her home in
West New York. The child had been
left alone while her mother went shop
ping. A neighbor extinguished the
flames.
Zeal on the part of a local cross
word puzzle solver has led to the dis
covery of a nearly 800 years old Bible
among odds and ends that had been
stored away for years in the Barron
Free Public Library of woodbridge.
The Borough Council of Keyport
has ordered roundup of the large
number of unlicensed dogs. For some
time the matter has been hanging fire,
owing to the fact that the council has
not been able to get the services of a
dog catcher
The reading Of a voluminous pa
per on solution Of the traffic problem
in the section of New Jersey ada
cent to New York city, particularly
| in Jersey City, Newark and Eliza
beth, by Fred LAWS, assistant con-
struction engineer of the New Jersey
State Highway Department, featured
the first days session of the annual
convention Of the Association OF
Highway Officials of the North At
lantic States.
That a hospital patient should
jump from a second story window
and run block in his night clothes
and undergo all the incident expo
sure, not to mention the forty-foot
jump without suffering serious harm,
is remarkable enough, but that he
should do it all twice with impunity
is almost incredible Yet this is
what Nicholas Sibilia has done with
in the lapse of twenty-four hours at
St. Gerard's hospital, Newark.
People skepticaI about the approach
C spring should visit Arthur M. Jag
ger in Rockaway and view the fifteen
young grasshoppers he picked up in a
field near his home.
At the annual elections of the water
and lighting districts of Lebanon the
appropriations of $1,000 for light and
1880 for water carried and commits
sioners were elected as follows:
Light, Erastus w. Sutton, ]. Ramsey
I1OnAA0A anu w AAAdA0 H. O0AAe5B AA W
George n Boudreau.
At meeting of citizens residing
along Route 16 of the state highway
system between Somerville and
Princeton, strong protest was voiced
against a change in the road at South
Somerville. upon which the State
Highway Commission has agreed.
Whether the Eureka Corporation.
consisting Of former members of the
Eureka Yacht Club, with property
on the west bank of the Hackensack,
Kearny, or the present members of
the club are entitled to possession Of
the club property valued at about $751;
600, and building and loan certificates
valued at $4,000, is the question that
Judge Ackerson of the Circuit Court
| will decide in a few weeks.
Mayor George T. Everitt Of Hack
ettstown has received a gold medal,
suitably engraved, in recognition of
his lony service as express messen-