The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19

Miss Hammonton| IN the Atiantlc
| city Beauty Pageant. was married
to George w Nelson, a young bust
ness man OF New Market, by Rev. viii
liam Howard Gardiner, Of Sterling,
Mass.
Col. William Hayward, former
| United States Attorney for New York,
was called to the witness stand in the
Federal District Court, Trenton. where
Tex Richard, fight promoter, and FIVE
others are. on trial for conspiracy to
transport Dempsey Carpenter fight
pictures in violation of the Interstate
| Commerce Law.
The tug Lorraine Rita, which was
confscated by the United States Coast
Guard service near Sea Grit a month";
ago with 5000 cases of whiskey on
board and taken to the wharf OF the
Bureau Of immigration, Gloucester
City, was turned over to a United
States marshal and towed across the
| river to another wharf. A libel was
placed on the tug by a New York
firm.
The Simpson bill authorizing the
Port Authority when it shall have re-
ceived like authority from the New
York Legislature to construct and
maintain a bridge across the Kill 0
KulI from Bayonne to Staten Island
was passed by the Assembly at Tren-
ton by a vote of 40 to 5.
Women's silk hosiery, 1900 dozen
pairs, valued at $4,000, was stolen
from the factory of the Crepicilk Ho-
siery Company, Passaic.
The Assembly, at Trenton, by a vote
of IL to 80, defeated a bill to increase
the power of the New York Port
Authority.
Miss Margaret Carlough, "a years
old, of East Orange, has brought suit
in Newark for $4,000 damages against
the United States Radium Corpora
ton of Orange, charging that she was
poisoned and incapacited while em-
ployed by that concern.
Secretary of State Thomas F. Mar
tin announced the reappointment of
William L. Dill as Assistant Secretary
Of State. This carries with it the posi-
ton of Commissioner of Motor Vehi-
cles.
At the meeting of the B~rooklawn
Board of Education fourteen applica-
tions were received for positions as
teachers.
Eugene G. Lambert, chairman of the
Gloucester Township Committee, who
has been chief of police of the town
ship for years, presented his resigDa-
ton at the meeting of the committee
at Blackwood:
Residents of the Fairfield district
will have an opportunity to determine
by vote whether they prefer to be
made part of Haddon Heights or
Mount Ephraim. There is a referen
dunn attached to the Haddon Heights
merger and also to the bill i~ncorporat-
ing Mount Ephraim. A special cleo
ton will be called.
There was an alarming increase in
the number of persons who drove all
tomobiles while intoxicated and an
increase in the number of fatal
tomobile accidents during the past
year in Jersey, according to the All
nual report of William T.. Dill, state
motor vehicle commissioner.
Fire destroyed the two-story fac
tory building of the Brilliant Novelty
Company at $50 Eighteenth street,
West New York. Employees escaped.
Charles w. Letzgus, solicitor Of
Gloucester and Brooklawn, went to
Trenton to have Supreme Court JUS
tice Katzenbach approve a rule to
show cause why a writ of certiorari
should not be granted to have the
Supreme Court review the proceed
ings of National Park Council where
by the licenses of the three buses OPP
Grating to Westville were revoked.
Millville Kiwanis Club is planning
to hold a business mems exhibit in
the Taube1l building.
Courtlandt Fl. Shute has been APP
pointed by the Glassboro council to
inspect work ON the municipal sewer
system now in course Of construction.
A group Of 35 homes is being Duilt
at Fairyiew. the first building boom
of any size started since the govern
ment sold the village to individual
owners.
The Bridgeton city council has been
urged to have the entire system Of
street numbering revised, as houses
similarly located on parallel streets
nov have wide differences in numbers
in many instances.
Petitions signed by 1900 residents
were presented to Mayor Anderson
and Gloucester City council asking
that in ordinance be passed to pro
hibit Sunday moving picture shows
and other Sunday amusements.
The war department has notified
Gloucester City council that the Cam
den county board of f~reeholders is
preparing to erect a new bridge e
Newton creek at Essex street, It is
likely that a demand vii be made for
a lift bridge.
State troopers hauled a speeder in,
to police court before Mayor Johnson.
Bridgeton, only to learn he was a FIRE