The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
NelU Jersey
State Briefs
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Union Fire Company OF WeSlVlll6 -
planning to hold it's annual carnival
opposite the railroad station at that
place on September A and 5.
At the meeting Of Brooklawn Bor-
ough Council the ordinance for the ex-
tension of sewers on portions of sew
eral streets, to cost about $50, O04, was
passed IN final reading.
Mrs. Merrill Ernest is chairman of
the flower show committee of the Pit
man Wpman's Club. Plans are being
made to hold the annual flower show
the middle of September.
The Newark Board Of School Esti-
mate is planning to give c~onsidera-
ton to a new budget prepared by the
Board Of Education which calls for an
expenditure Of $1,258, 900.
Borough officials at Glassboro are
planning to beautiful the newly wild
ened apd paved Broad street, on the
Delsea drive. One of their first steps
will be to have all telephone and
electric poles painted.
On Friday and Saturday evenings,
August 28 and 20, a peach festival will
be given on st. Lawrence Church
grounds, White Horse pike, Laurel
Hill Springs, for the benefit Of the
church and school building fund.
A. e. Spear, of VineIand, has been
paid $276 by the township for loss Of
valuable chickens killed by stray dogs.
Wilbert Birdsall, of Oak road, was al
lowed a claim of $26 for twenty-one
-chickens killed in the same manner.
Under the provisions of a new ordi-
nance of Brooklawn Borough Council,
the Public Safety Committee must
pass on all plans for new buildings
and then submit same to Council for
final action. This will put a stop to
any oil service stations being built
on the State highway.
Thomas L. Martin, formerly a rural
carrier, and now acting postmaster at
Yardvtlle, Mercer county, N. J., passed
the examination held in June by the
Civil Service Commissioner for appli-
cants for appointment as postmaster
at Yardville. Martin was the only n
to take the examination.
A fire of supposed incendiary origin
destroyed the farm buildings On the
farm of Wilmer Ifill, Gibbsboro road,
between Clementon and Gibbsboro,
Clemention township, doing damage
estimated at SO, 900. The farm is
known about the countryside as the
-Four Winds"
Haddon Heights Council took steps
at its monthly meeting to establish
an Office in the Town Hall for the
transaction Of business pertaining to
the borough. The matter was placed
in the hands of the Finance Commit
tee of Councils to select suitable
clerks for the work.
Audubon Borough Commissioners
at their weekly meeting authorized
a traffic control signal light to be in
stalled at Kings highway and White
Horse pike as a result of an accident
at the intersection last week, when d
traffic officer was dragged IS feet be-
meath the wheels OF a skidding motor
car.
The rates charged by the Central
Railroad of New Jersey and other
carriers for shipment of cast iron pipe
from Somerville, Newark, Elizabeth.
Bayonne, Trenton and nearby points
to New England points are not g x
cessive or discriminatory, the Inter
state Commerce Commission decided.
Early peaches and apples are now
coming to market. Late peaches do
not indicate a large yield. Late ap-
pies are improving from the rains.
Considerable sowing of clover crops
is in progress.
Henry Schomber, rear Woodbury..
has sold his farm ON Mantua avenue,
reserving the house and three acres
of ground, to Louis Berkowitz, Of
Camden, for development purposes.
For the purpose of developing a
large tract of land at Ocean City, the
Shore Gardens, Incs capitalized at
$500, 900, obtained a charter at the Of
fee of Mercer County Clerk Hart
pence.
The summer meeting Of the New
Jersey State Horticultural Society
this year will occur on August IL and
Is and will comprise an auto tour OF
parts Of Middlesex and Monmouth
counties.
For the next few weeks farmers
around Daretown will not let any
function interfere with their potato
work. The season will commence
early in the coming week, and 1t will
be work from daylight till dark. until
the last of the tubers are lin the
fold"
The e municipal farmers market
in Burlington will be open every day
in the week, instead of only Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, as formerly.
This action is taken to care for the
unusually heavy business being done
there this season.
Fire was narrowly averted in the
Marion p~ostofice when the suns rays
caused the explosion OF a number Of
combs on display in a glass jar in the
window: Miss Hardness, the post
1 -4-kAA-o $780,. - .