The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-16
NeU Jersey
State Briefs
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

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A contract for $17S,OOO for the cree
ton of two nine-room school buildings
at Pitman, was awarded by the Board
of Education to George w. .Shaner &
Sons, OF Palmyra. There were eight
bidders.
e. Morgan Barradale, of South
Orange, was named secretary of the
New Jersey Interstate Bridge and
Tunnel Commission to fill the vacancy
caused by the recent death Of John
C. McEnroe, OF Newark.
James MacMaster has been retired
as chief OF the Building and Loan Di-
vision of Banking and Insurance by
Commissioner Edward Maxson, head
Of the department. The retirement
becomes effective August 1.
Union City council boosted the mu-
nicipal tax ON saloons to $50 year
being a $50 increase. The tax was
fixed in licensing ordinance which
fixes the scale for licenses for every
thing from hotels to peddlers.
The midsummer season, now In
full swing, is proving to be one of the
most successful ever known in the
history Of Wildwood. Throngs of Wis
itors arrive daily to swell the already
mountaineering crowd Of summer
visitors.
Growers found prospects for about
half normal crop of white potatoes
in their annual potato run" through
Salem county. Drought, which pre-
vailed through the greater part of the
growing season, Is blamed for the
short crop.
Christopher Cowdell, foreman Of re-
pair work on the Cosmopolitan steam
ship line at Hoboken, was killed when
large box, being hoisted aboard the
S. S. Liberty from pier No. 2, Hobo
ken, fell, throwing him twenty-five
feet into the hold
DIR. James ]. MCGUIRE, OF Trenton,
has been re-appointed by Governor
Silzer as q member of the State
Board of Medical Examiners for a
three-year term. Members receive no
salary, but are paid $3.50 for each
regular examination.
Joseph M. Thompson, of New
Egypt. is definitely out of his position
as investigator for the State Depart
ment OF Institutions and Agencies, fol
lowing his failure to file an appeal
from his dismissal within the ten day
period allowed by law.
Another group of Princeton stu
dents sailed from New York on the
George Washington, in tourist third
class. for a summers tour Of Europe.
To date several OF these groups have
sailed and there are many hundreds
of Princeton boys abroad.
Seven cases Of infantile paralysis
have been discovered in as many days
In Jersey city, and DIR. ]. ]. Bowman,
superintendent of the County Hospital
for Contagious Diseases, said health
authorities feared this might be the
beginning of an epidemic.
An unidentified girl was killed, a
man was stunned, and fire damage of
$4,000 was caused by lightning in an
electrical storm near Hammonton.
The girl, believed to have been a
berry picker from Philadelphia, was
struck by lightning on the farm of
Michael Difneo. Another bolt set fire
to the farmhouse of Antonio Penza
destroying it and farm buildings val
ued at $4,000.
Lightning struck the chain Of box
stalls at the Pennington fair grounds
track recently. The fire which fol-
lowed destroyed forty-eight box stalls.
the training stables and barn.
Captain William HI. Taylor, of
Trenton landed at Sea Bright with the
first catch Of striped bass Of the sea-
son, including six fish that weighed a
total of 176 pounds. One alone
weighed more than forty-seven pounds.
Taylor caught the big fish from his
powerboat quarter of a mile off Deal.
James Lee, who has dealt in bass for
twelve years, said the forty-seven
FOUNDER was the largest ever brought
in by skiff or from the breakers.
Preliminary to the departure Of DR..
Frank Moore, superintendent of the
Railway Reformatory, for Europe on
July IL, a testimonial dinner was
rendered him by the officers of the in
stitution The affair, arranged by
James E. Borden, of Trenton, was held
at the Colonia Country Club. Mr.. Bor-
den is chief clerk at the Railway in
stitution and is brother of Free
holder William S. Borden, Of Mercer
county.
Residents of Edwards place, Prince
ton, were terrified by dog, supposed
ly mad which dashed down the street
foaming at the mouth and frightening
women and children on their porches
and in the yards. The dog ran wildly
about the street for some time, and
in terror group of householders who
had been purchasing produce from
farmer, fed. For few moments 1t
seemed as IL the brute would jump
dividing fence and fall upon small
child playing In one of the front