The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-01-14
New Jersey
State Briefs

] TIC CAOl SAoCo.
Paul t. Ludlam, former fire chief OF
Millville, died at Winterhaven, Fla.
Ludlam, who accompanied the Mill
VILE football team on its trip south,
was stricken with acute Indigestion.
The body was shipped to Millville.
Charles Minister, a merchant OF
Woodbury. for nearly quarter cen
fury, died at his home, ISL South
Broad street, after an illness Of two
years. A widow, son and daughter
survive him<
Fellow firemen have presented a
gold watch to Dennis G. Fahy, for 20
years treasurer of the Liberty fire
company, and have further honored
him by electing him chief of the
Pennsgrove fire department for this
year.
Matthias Trout, seventy-four years
old, former town marshal, died at his
home, Pitman, after a prolonged ill
ness. He had served on the police
force ten years when 1t was one
man department. One daughter sur
wives him.
Mrs Apolonia Burkert, seventy
three, of 30 Fillmore avenue, Trenton
was killed when she fell down stair
steps in the home of Andrew Chalpe-
ga of 20 Oak street, where she was
employed as nurse to Mrs Chalpe-
ga Mrs. Burkett's skull was fractur-
ed, and she died instantly.
Trenton taxpayers during 1925 turn
ed into the city treasury $5,398, 1898
of that years municipal obligations,
according to City Tax Receiver
swartz. This sum is 1865 per cent of
all the outstanding city taxes for 1925
and represents greater collection
than in 1924
Paul Compo, Brooklawn barber,
convicted of arson, was given from
three to seven years in the state pen
itentiary by Judge Shay in Camden.
On May the mans shop was burned,
and firemen found oil soaked rags in
the debris. Compo was at once tried,
and the jury disagreed. At a re-trial
he was convicted, although he assert
ed he knew nothing about the oil
soaked rags.
]. Edward Fagen, assessor of Tavi-
stock borough, who won the honor the
past two years of being the first in
Camden county to file his books of as
sessments, lost the trophy this year.
The assessors Of Berlin and Delaware
townships filed their books with Sec
rotary Driver of the board, and the
latter at once informed Fagen, Cam
DIN attorney, that his laurels were
gone.
THE policemen of Gloucester City
petitioned the council for an increase
Of $25 month in their pay. The re-
mittee. The council granted IA more
notorious licenses, making total of
33, at 800 each, now issued. The
Public Utility Commission will be re-
Quested to order safety gates installed
at the King street crossing OF the
Reading railway.
Residents of Haddonfeld received
with surprise and dismay the an
nouncement that Mrs. Bertha Shipper
Irving, prominent in welfare and phi
lanthropic work in the borough and
county, president of the Loving Serv-
ice, member OF the State Board Of
Education and active for years in
Democratic politics in the state, had
been read" out OF the w. G. T. u.
county organization at special meet
ing
A son. missing nine years, is left
legacy Of $500 in will just admitted
to probate by Surrogate Norton in
Jersey City. According to the terms
Thomas Jordan is bequeathed that
amount by his father, the late Peter
Jordan Of Harrison, providing ne re-
turns to claim the money within five
years.
John T. Temple, dean OF the Mercer
County bar, was found dead in bed
from an attack of heart trouble at the
home of Mrs. Cora NJ. Roger, Tren-
ton, where he had rooms. He was in
the eighty-ffth year Of his age Mr..
Temple had been complaining for the
past few days, but no alarm was felt
over his condition.
Sporting a fur coat and diamond
ring, Elizabeth Craig, % years old,
was arrested in Camden by Detective
Doran, charged with taking 500
from Jacob Shendock, an Atco farmer
for whom she had worked as house
keeper In addition, a small truck
load Of household goods and liquor
alleged to have been bought with the
money, were taken.
Kelsey Babcock, nineteen years old,
Of Morristown N. j., was killed when
an automobile he was driving failed
to take sharp turn on the state high
way near Oakland. and struck tree.
Babcock was thrown from the ma
chine, suffering compound fracture
of the skull He was a sophomore at
Princeton. Donald lxipp, twenty years
old, of Passaic, who was riding with
him, escaped injury.
Plans. for the erection Of a fire hall
and community center were dis
cussed by Bettlewood Fire Company,