The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS


The Blackwood chamber of COM
merce, which has been reorganized,
met for the purpose of discussing the
establishment of central water plant
at Grenloch.
Charged with embezzlement of ST.
600, Harry S. Garrison was arraigned
before Mayor Felmey of Millville and
committed to the county jail to await
action of the grand jury.
Charged with operating an automc-
bile while intoxicated, Lawrence
Hughes, a young Millville business
man, was arraigned before Mayor Eel
may and sentenced to elk months in
the county jail.
John Mason, a twenty three-year-
| old woodchopper, who confessed to
the police at Millville that he killed
| William Camp after an attempt had
been made to harm his mother, was
committed to the county jail for a
| hearing before Justice Wilson. Ma
son says Camp was aiming a shotgun
at him when he fired the fatal shot
that riddled the mans breast.
Four square miles of woodland in
Clementon township, adjacent to Am
Der Terrace and Little Mills, was
burned over by fire, started from an
unknown origin. Fire companies
from a dozen towns were called to
fight the flames and prevented de-
struction of several homes.
The special convention hall COM
mittee, composed of representatives
of civic organizations and citizens of
Atlantic City, has recommended to
| the city commission that the city pro-
coed with the erection of hall on
! the Rendezvous Park site, at cost
| in the neighborhood of $6,000,000.
| The matter is now in the hands of
! the commission.
The county jail at Bridgeton is over
flowing. Jail Warden Albert p Ash
man has appealed to Judge Bartlett
for relief He states that even the
Jail hospital is being used for cell
purposes, although the prisoners are
decidedly we'll physically. The De-
cember grand jury recommended i'm
mediate action to relieve the conges-
ton at the Jail, which even then was
well filed. Three alleged murderers
are on the same floor With Juveniles,
and many women prisoners have been
forced to double up, the warden states.
A church nursery" is to be started
in the First Presbyterian church, Sa-
lem, beginning April /.
Residents of Convent hunted near
by hills for several wild dogs believed
to have been responsible for the de-
vouring of pheasants, chickens and
rabbits at night. On the farm of Paul
Moore 10 English pheasants, one gold
en- pheasant and eight rabbits were
killed in single night. The maraud-
| ing dogs ar believed to have a lair
in the hills.
West Cape May is laying plans for
a sewage system and disposal plant.
| Mayor Richinson who has been in Of
fee only since January, is sponsor Of
| the movement to provide something
which has been lacking. A petition
is being circulated for the two prof.
ects.
When Salvatore Forgoni, twenty
five years old, was placed on trial be-
fore Judge Shay in the Camden Grim
| inal court as result of pumping five
shots into his lifelong friend, Nicho-
| las Rocco, the unwritten law was in
| voked by his counsel. 1t was averred
that Forgoni returned home to find
his wife in the embrace of Rocco and
| that Forgoni shot him, nearly causing
| his death.
Miss Helen Ward. of New York, has
1 ma
of the Burlington County Y. w. C. A..
serving under Miss Mary G. Searles.
The Shore Realty Company has
taken out permit for the erection OF
a 100000 store and apartment building
at Ninth street and Central avenue,
Ocean City.
The congregation of the Greenwich
Baptist Church has raised the salary
of Rev. Albert E. Harker $500.
The new motor chemical engine for
the Monroeville volunteer fire COM
pany arrived and plans are being
made to house it with public cele-
bration
Failure of six fortune tellers" to
read the identity of two women detec-
tives cost them SITS and threat of
jail sentence for second offense when
they pleaded guilty to practicing PALM
istry in the Police, Court, Atlantic
City. The men were listed on the po-
lice records under such euphemistic
titles as Professors" Rajah. Amer,
Gorday, Martini, and the women were
Madame" Pauline and Ethel Evans.
The earthquake tremors we're plain
| ly felt in all South Jersey Saturday
night. While no damage was done
many people especially women and
children, were badly frightened. Own
| ers of radio sets reported that follow
ing the tremors the reception was
! much louder and clearer. Many set
owners also reported that during the
! tremors weird noises were heard. The
tremors we're felt more distinctly in
the central part of Camden. Dishes