Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-11-13
NelU Jersey
State Briefs

poolroom in East Newark and es-
capped with $4,000.
National Park borough officials ex-
peet to have the new pumping station
and municipal water system in opera
ton before the end of this month.
Klansmen propose to make the
Blackwood Masonic clubhouse, which
they have purchased, a center for ac-
tivities of south Jersey, it is said.
A chorus of mohers and their
daughters sang as a feature of a
mother and daughter" service at the
First M. E. Sunday school, Glass'boro.
Pennsgrove Council has arranged for
the refunding of floating indebtedness
for the new municipal hall by bond
issue of $4,000 under date of Decem-
Der l.
Daniel Marinaro, lawyer, Norris
town, who pleaded non vult and was
jailed in default Of $1,000 fine on
charges of conspiracy in the case Of
James H. Bolitho, has been released.
The Gloucester City Board of Edu-
cation has decided to transport the
higher grade pupils of the Highland
Park school to the Gloucester schools
and will award the contract at its
meeting this week.
The Westville and Newbold Water
Company has been asked to furnish
water to Verga for domestic and fire
purposes. The company has promised
to have a representative at the next
meeting of the township committee.
Playing about the lawn at the sewer
plant, West Burlington, where he had
been left while his father and other
workmen were busy in another part
of the plant, James Bolshevis, 5-year
old son of James Bolsheyis of Chelten
avenue, fell into one of the sewer
beds and was drowned. The child's
body was discovered few minutes
later by an Italian laborer and every
effort was made to resuscitate him,
but without result.
When the State Board of Education
meets November for its monthly
session, 1t is expected that recommen-
dations will be made by the commit
tee of the School for the Deaf that
steps be taken to sell the property at
Hamilton and Chestnut avenues,
Trenton, which is now being aban-
doned as a school. Completion of the
new buildings at Trenton Junction
will make it unnecessary after next
fall, it is said, to carry on any school
activities at the Hamilton avenue
school.
Mrs. Annie Fox, %, was shot to
death by her husband, John, in Mont
gomery street, Highland Park, in
! front of the home of Samuel Shul-
man, in which she was employed as
domestic. Fox shot himself through
| the head and died an hour later. An
infant child of Mrs. Shulman's was
in Mrs. Fox's custody at the time OF
the shooting and escaped uninjured.
Fox and his wife had been separated
for some time, Mrs. Fox refusing to
accede to his REQUESTS that she quit
working and return to him.
In celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the organization OF
the Broad Street M. E. Sunday school,
Burlington, special services were held
in the church all day. Several former
pastors were in attendance. In an
inspiring address DR.. Harry G. Wilson
emphasized the utter dependence OF
the church of the future upon the
present younger generation, and the
resulting need for providing ade-
ouate religious training for the boy
and girl. A splendid rally of the sun
dav school was held during the AFTER
noon. DR.. Sherman G. Pitt preached
in the evening.
The schools Of Gloucester county
were closed while the teachers assem-
bled at the normal school, Glassboro'
for the county institute.
Bridgeport is promised electric cur
rent on December 1. Poles have been
erected and electricians are working
night and day to be ready.
Allen Crissey of Salem, former sec
rotary of the Salem-Cumberland-
Gloucester Holstein-Friesian Associa-
ton, has been chosen head of extern
sion work east of the Mississippi Val
ley for the National Holstein Associa-
ton.
The one hundred and third annual
synod of the New Jersey Presbyterian
Church closed at Asbury Park with
resolution scoring the recent report
of the Federation Of Churches touch
ing on prohibition. 1t also heard DR..
Marina S. Poulson, New Jersey Anti
Saloon League head, score corrupt
politicians"
While the rest of the world is wor-
rying about the coal shortage, the
residents of East Orange are cutting
down trees from the 5000 acres OF
woods owned by the city and carting
them to their cellars. The city OF
East Orange last year planted $4,000
new trees to prepare for such emer-
gencies as the existing coal shortage
and for the preservation of the woods.