The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-06-04
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City Council. BY single vote Bozzo
succeeded in nosing out his Repub-
lican opponent, Albert Avella.
By an overwhelming vote, approx
mating 20 to 1, voters Of the Bor-
ough of Clementon at special cleo
ton, authorized school Improvements
costing $4,000.
Howard F. Brown, ffty-six years
old, native of Mt. Holly, died sud
denly in the barn Of Rossteen Hib-
belts at Oakhurst, where he went
after taking some home remedies for
acute Indigestion.
Mt. Olive Township Board of Ed
ucation decided to submit propo-
sition of about $4,000 for two pro-
posed schools at Budd Lake and
Flanders to be voted upon June 16
in the school.
The residents of Upper Mountain
avenue, Little Falls, have presented
petition to the township committee
requesting 1t to refuse permission to
the Northern New Jersey Oil Com
pany to erect tanks and maintain
distribution plant as the section is
residential
After nearly five years of litigation
and six months of deliberation by
Judge Egan of Orphans Court, de-
cision was handed down establishing
the right of Mrs. Petrusa Czipinski
of Bayonne to share, to the extent
of dover rights, in the estate Of Jo-
seph Czipinski who, she claimed, was
her husband by common law mar
rage.
Members of city council and other
Gloucester City officials inspected the
well-paved streets of Haddonfeld.
They were pleased, and it is likely
that the same kind of material will
be used on most of the streets of
Gloucester.
On motion of Louis C. Graupner,
new member, Audubon Borough Com
mission adopted a resolution calling
for the display of the American flag
in the commission chambers at all
meetings in the future. delegation
from the P. o. S. of A. Immediately
offered to supply handsome silk flag
for the purpose.
The Chester Township Fire Com
missioners have purchased a pumper
for Independent Fire Company No. 1
at a cost of $11, 500. The equipment
will be delivered in the near future.
A four and one-half pound pickerel
was caught by Charles Bender of
Lake Hopatcong at the lake. 1t has
been placed in the aquarium in the
store of Mayor John Wills at Stan
hope.
A new ordinance for grades on
Broad street, Glassboro, has been
passed by the borough council in an
ticipation of the widening Of that
thoroughfare for the new state high
way.
Frank Mather of Paterson was
saved from drowning in the Passaic
river near the hydro-electric plant of
the Society of Useful Manufactures
by two employees of that company
after they had been notified by a
motorist that man was floating
down the river beneath the Spruce
street bridge.
Borough commissioners of Haddon-
field at the weekly meeting reached
an agreement with the fire company
members to accept compensation of
S12 a year each from the borough for
services in lieu Of $500 tax exemp
ton as provided by a state law which,
it has been claimed, is unconstitu-
tional.
Railway is on the point Of following
the example set by Kearney and other
municipalities in the State that pro-
hibit the use of screens in places
where beverages are sold. An anti
screen ordinance passed at the Com
mon Council session on first and sec
ond readings, will get public hear
ing the week after next.
Mt. Olive township schools annual
field day at Flanders resulted in the
local school leading with "a points.
Mt. Olive was second, with 80 points,
and BARLEY was third.
mayoralty contest will feature the
June primaries at Pitman as result
Of the filing OF nomination petitions
by Mayor Edward H. Gurk and Coun-
Gilman Harry B. Briggs, Jr., both Re-
publicans.
Harry Flanger, former member Of
Morris county, Sheriff Estler's staff,
is recovering from two serious knife
wounds inflicted by two unknown as
sailants who leaped on him as he en-
tered the yard at his home recently.
Lieutenant James Rowland Kyle,
Jr., a naval aviator, was killed at
Lakehurst while making a "lift-off'
leap from an airplane in which he
was ascending with another student
officer to practice parachute jumping.
Perhaps no appointment ever made
to fill a vacancy in any West Essex
school or municipal body has given
more satisfaction than has the choice
of Freebooter Zonas G. Crane as
school commissioner for the joint
Caldwell. West Caldwell school dis
trict.