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The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 27

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The Courier-Newsi
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Bridgewater, New Jersey
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27
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PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN PLAIXFTELD COOtlER-XEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1927 i RETURN TOQUELU REVOLUTION Remus' Daughter Stands By 31. E. Pastor Resigns From Ku Klux Klan To Award Medals To "Crack" Shots i 39 Brancli Banks Have Been Started i 1 1 I Belmar, Oct. 14 Rev. John J.

Messier, member of the New Jersey Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, for many years, announced yesterday that he had resigned from the Ku Klux Klan. Until a few weeks ago he was Exalted Cyclops of Asbury Park Klan, 7, which is engaged in litigation with the Monmouth Pleasure Club Association, fee, over a million dollar property on Shark River. The Klan contends that the club purchased the property for the secret order and holds it in trust only. Rev. Mr.

Messier declined to comment at length on his reason for but promised to make a statement soon. "The standards of the Klan are fine." he said, "but I cannot agree with the government side of the Klan." Gvic Improvements For Nearby Towns The action the Metuchen fiorough Council In, appropriating 120,000 for the purchasing of apparatus and equipment for the new fire department, is one of the outstanding civic forward steps in this vicinity during the recent past. In Hillside Township, sixty can-diepower lights have been ordered placed along several thoroughfares. The Erhardt street bridge, connecting Hillside and Union Townships, has been ordered repaired at a cost of $2,000. The Public Service Corporation is to replace the old commercial building at Neilson and Albany streets, Xew Brunswick, at a cost of 5200,000.

Jamesburg Methodist Church, remodeled, has been opened again for worship. The Trinity Methodist Church, Montgomery street. Highland Park, has let a contract for a new building to cost New York, Oct. 14 Added impetus was given the AU-Ameri-can Rifle team tryouts for the Second Corps Area, In progress today and the balance of the month at Forts Niagara, N. and DuPont, by the announcement of Major-General James II.

McRae, at Governors Island, that medals would be presented to the three highest scorers by the National Rifle Association. Crack shots with aspirations to represent the United States in the .1928 International Rifle Matches who are eligible to compete include all civilian rifle experts residing in New York State, New Jersey, and Delaware as well as officers and men of the Regular Army, Reserves, Navy, Marine Corps, and National Guard. i it General G. A. Salinas, left, chief of aviation in Mexico, and Captain Emilion Carranza, the "Lindbergh of Mexico," are snapped at El Paso, just before departing for Mexico City to aid in quell- ing revolutionary outbreaks in the southern republic.

The two officers were in El Paso to greet Colonel Lindbergh when the recall order came. Trrnfon. Oct. Thirty-nine l.ranth banks have been established in tea cities of the State as the of the laws passed by the jr7 Leclslatare authorizing the tabfbin-nt of these units of organizations. The Fidel-Av Union Trust Company, of iMda.

in the tettlng up of (ix branches in that city. TV-re are now fifteen branch fnfc in Newart. Jersey City ws rrcond with Bit and the cities follow: Elibeth. Camden and Trenton, three Uh: Paferson. Perth Amboy and Pa-si Ir.

two each, and Bayonne (Pd Hoboken. one each. VixJer the terms of Chapter 20, 0f 1927, banks and trust are authorized to es-Sh branches and Chapter 34 -fves the same privilege to sav in -s Institutions. The majority of those which have taken advan-, v(s 0f the first-named statute are trut companies. Three savings banks have done the same under other law.

Under both acts Commissioner Fiankin? and Insurance Edward Maxson has the power to the establishment of l.ranches If It appears such action WM be of service to the public. requirements are laid down in the' respective acts as to the fl-ranclal strength parent banks nave in order to obtain this re-mission and both acts prohibit ihP establishment of branches in of less than 25,000 Jopulation and limit their number In certain other communities. i mil i i i ill mi II i hi a ii. y' fii infect, 1 1 -rrrr. 1 -I Asks Campus Airport For Omaha University Omaha, Oct.

14 (UP) Dr. Karl F. Wettstone, who assumed duties as president of Omaha University this fall, immediately started a campaign for a campus large enough for a landing field for airplanes. "I want a campus with a landing field," Dr. Wettstone said, "because within 50 years students will foe whizzing through the air to and from college and we will be teaching courses in aviation in much less time than that.

Does that sound visionary? It is not. It is going to come." Phone 3188 Phone 3188 Romola Remus, 20, above, daughter of George Remus, Cincinnati bootleg king who shot and killed his second wife on the eve of divorce proceedings, has declared her faith in her father. The girl, a daughter of a previous marriage, plans to assist in every way she can at his tria. IbS nr-mam IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIFE May Order Armoured Police Cars Abroad Whiskered Dr. Durham Is Dead, Aged 67 144 E.

FRONT ST PLAINFIELD. N. J. New York City Daniel Cohen, a taxicab driver, saw Quigley, a policeman, hand a summons slip to a motorist for speeding. He was in high spirits and felt like teasing.

"Why don't you hand me one of those, I want to find out what color they are," he laughed. Quigley's dignity was ruffled, but a little later he again spied Cohen and observed that his badpe was displayed incorrectly. "You have been wanting see the color of these, so here's one," he said. Cohen paid in court. i 5ARLY FALL PURE FOOD SALE ri'P LOSES TO SKUNK Sandusky, O.

Bill Metzger's airdale pup was attacked by a Fkunk. Valiantly the dog fought the battle, but the skunk won. "I never saw such an ashamed dog in mv life as my dog was after the se'rap'said Metzger. "He just lay on the ground, his eyes with his paws, and groaned something fierce." The dafr apparently mistook the skunk for a cat. Vienna, Oct.

14 (UP) Owing to refusal of the Austrian Metal Workers Union to manufacture armoured cars for the Vienna police in Austrian factories, the government is planning to place orders for such cars abroad. The equipment of the Vienna police with armoured cars was decided upon by the Austrian Government aftsr the Vienna riots of July 15. Maxeys, Oct.) 14 (UP) Dr. Sam Durham, noted far and wide for his whiskers is dead. Dr.

Durham was said to have had the longest whiskers in the country. They measured six feet end to end. The doctor was short and he could wind his whiskers around his feet and still walk. He was 67 when he died. I 1 The plain statement that every department contributes a generous share of the hundreds of wonderful bargains for this sale will again fill the market today and tomorrow.

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25c 25c 25c DRIED BEEF, 9c Sliced, i lb FANCY LIMA BEANS, 3 lbs. Pigs" Feet Pigs' Liver Phila. Scrapple, lb 17c Pure Print Lard, lb 14 Finest Scrapple Sliced Beef Liver 9C lb lb ISC I2e Pork Kidneys FANCY CAULIFLOWER 20c and 25c FRESH BEEF HEARTS, lb FIRST PRIZE or NUCOANUT MARGARINE, lb 25c fJc Red Front, Big Name, Charlie's Wonder 24 East Front Street Plainfield, N. J. CALIFORNIA GRAPES, Seedless, 10c lb; 3 lbs for'.

FRESH PIGS' FEET, 4 lbs NEW SAUERKRAUT, 4 lbs 25c 25c w. 'r.

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