The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-16
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PIainfeld.-Elias E. Milliken, an
employee of the A. M. Griffen Hard
ware Company Plainfield, for forty
years, is dead at his residence here,
aged So.
Atlantic City.-The Atlantic County
Board of F%reeholders voted to issue
$780, 900 in bonds for road improve
ments and an addition to the county
jail. 1t is planned to prepare the
five county roads for summer automo-
bile traffic here.
Elizabeth.-Fire which broke out
here shortly after midnight complete
ly destroyed the Elizabeth town and
country club. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, covered by insurance. No
one was in the building at the time.
The fire started in the card room,
which had been occupied a short
while previous by five players. 1t is
believed a cigarette butt was re-
sponsible.
Asbury Park@More than 1000
acres of pine and cedar we're de-
stroyed or damaged in Shrewsbury
Township, five miles west of Asbury
Park, as a forest fire, famed by a
brisk west wind, sped on despite the
heroic efforts of 100 volunteer fighters
to check it.
Elizabeth.-Former U. S. Senator
James E. MARITIME, who died in Florida
ON February 26 last, left personal
property valued at $4,000, according
to letters of administration on the
estate granted to the late Senator's
sister, Mrs, Harriet Myers, of HOO
Watching avenue, Plainfield, with
whom he made his home,
Hoboken.-The representative OF
this city charges Commission on Tax
alton Of Property Of the Port Of
Authority is stacked,
Jersey City.-United States Senator
Edward l.. Edwards submitted his
resignation from the presidency Of
the First National Bank here which
position he held since 1916. Senator
Edwards said there was nothing be-
hind his withdrawal except that his
senatorship was making large de-
mands on his time.
Dever.-Caught between two freight
cars in the Port Morris yards of the
Delaware, L~ackawanna and Western
railroad Ralph w. Brewster, a laborer,
of this city, had both legs severed and
died within a few minutes. He is
survived by his widow.
Gloucester.-At a meeting of the
Gloucester Township Committee VIII
liam Ritter was elected chief of po-
lice to succeed Eugene Lambert, re-
signed. Traffic officers will be placed
at Chew's Landing and B~lackwood.
Wood1ynne.-Three rooms in the
new addition of the local school were
opened to relieve the o~vercrowded
conditions.
Plainfeld.-Dr. Norman Hayes Pro
basco, 40 years old, a practicing ply
stefan in PIainfield for twenty years,
died at his home there. He was born
in Plainfield and was the son of the
late DR.. John B.. Probasco. He was
graduated from the College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons in New York in
1898. During the World Wal he was
a Captain in the Medical Corps sta
toned at Camp Dix. His wife and
one son survive.
Fairview.-Julian d. Garrison, 81
years old, salesman for an electric
firm, died suddenly in the bathroom
of his home, No. 1897 Constitution
road here. Coroner Pratt gave a
certificate of death from apoplexy.
Observation-Disclosures of the new
State highway bridge over Alloway
Creek here is expected to start soon.
Fairview.-Ten bicycles have been
stolen within. a month here and the
police believe they are being taken
by boys who sell them to some dealer.
er.
Gloucester.-The Pitman bus line
from Camden has been granted per-
mission by the City Council to operate
three additional buses through this
city.
Bridgeton.-The S. p. C. A. and local
Board of Health were summoned to
rescue a Collie dog from the bottom
Of a 40-foot well, where the canine
was bowling in water up to his neck.
The animal finally was Iassoed and
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hauled to safety.
Millville. candidates have
taken out petitions for City Commits
sioners, the election to be held next
month at this city. The present mem
bers, with the exception of Mayor
Walter H. Felmey, are included in the
list.
Princeton.-Dr. Charles E. Erdman.
was removed from his position as adj
visor of the students Of the Princeton
Theological Seminary by a vote Of the
seminary faculty, it was made known
here. His removal from the post he
has held for eighteen years is CON
sidered the elimination Of a long at
tack made against him by members
OF the faculty Of the seminary. The
charge against DR.. Erdman is that as
student advisor he had opposed the
idea of the E~vangaIieal camirar,