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Another weapon to defeat the enemy was the establishment of City Farm Gardens in the country. They were urged by the Government and not only provided food for city residents, but abolished unsightly vacant lots.
Charles Shimer Boyer, born in Pennsylvania in 1869 to Benjamin Franklin Boyer and Alabama Shimer Boyer, is most notably recognized as the inaugural President of the Camden County Historical Society.
Frank T. Lloyd (1859–1951) was a Camden printer turned lawyer who served in the New Jersey Assembly, as Camden County Prosecutor, as a Circuit Court judge from 1906 and as a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice from 1924 until his retirement in 1938.
Fifty years ago, the old town of Stockton was annexed to the City of Camden over the protests of Democratic members of the town council.
Freed from the restraint of judicial dignity, former Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd is back to the simple pleasures of the barrister once more.
Frank T. Lloyd, retired Justice of the Supreme Court in Camden, and his son, Frank, Jr., both of whom live in Merchantville, are on a Winter cruise through the Caribbean.
Judge Newton H. Porter, Montclair Republican, was sworn in yesterday as a Supreme Court Justice and a member of the Court of Errors and Appeals. Justice Porter was appointed to succeed Justice Frank T. Lloyd, whose term expired several weeks ago.
A test suit to clarify the law governing a two-percent assessment against the pension salary of James R. Clay, retired Camden police sergeant, will be brought by the City of Camden through Firmin Michel, city counsel.
Supreme Court Justice Ralph W. E. Donges yesterday was assigned to preside over the Camden-Gloucester county Second judicial district of the Supreme Court.
Resuming law practice after 30 years on the bench, former Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd yesterday revealed that Governor Moore offered to reappoint him for another term but he declined.
Governor Moore today nominated Circuit Court Judge Newton H. Porter, now sitting in Essex county, to the state Supreme Court seat left vacant by the retirement of Justice Frank T. Lloyd, of Merchantville.
Hundreds of lawyers, court attaches and private citizens visited the office of Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd yesterday to pay their respects to the jurist, whose retirement became effective at midnight.
Funeral services were held on Saturday for Charles S. Boyer, whose death on November 10th was recorded in the Mirror last week, at his late home at 205 East Central avenue, Moorestown.
A probe of vice and crime conditions is being conducted in Camden city and county by New Jersey state police on orders of Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd.
Judge Frank F. Neutze today turned over to the Grand Jury 26 cases involving riot charges growing out of RCA strike disorders last week. He demanded an aggregate of $135,000 bail for the release of the men.
Detective Stanley Wirtz, suspended by Police Chief Arthur Colsey yesterday pending investigation into charges that he supplied the guns and an automobile for a holdup, has been ordered to appear today before Commissioner Mary W. Kobus, director of public safety.
Two men alleged by city and county authorities to have succeeded the Klosterman brothers in controlling the Camden numbers racket last Spring, were exonerated by the Camden county grand jury.
Six alleged slayers will appear in Camden Criminal Court Monday to enter pleas to indictments. That is the largest number of persons charged with murder to appear in the court at one time for more than 20 years.
Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd yesterday "laid down the law" to four Camden county municipalities at a hearing of the county's mandamus proceedings to compel payment of $426,952 in back taxes for the years 1930, 1931 and 1932.
Demanding a fair election and protection to Democratic voters, A. Harry Moore was greeted here last night by the largest crowd to gather at a Democratic meeting in Camden's recent history.
Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd has deferred action on a Democratic application for additional police protection in Camden to assure a "fair and honest election" November 3.
Shooting of an alleged racketeer at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, near the threshold of one of South Jersey's notorious reputed gambling joints threw Camden police into renewed warfare on gangdom yesterday.
Circuit Court Judge Frank T. Lloyd yesterday accepted chairmanship of the Camden Chamber of Commerce Committee which is to study the unemployment question and make suggestions for remedial measures.
Immediately after the April term of the Camden county courts opened yesterday, Circuit Court Judge Lloyd, who presided with Common Pleas Judge Kates in the absence of Supreme Court Justice Garrison, called attention to the fact that Court Crier Charles MacCready had been associated with the administration of justice in the county for an even half century.
When Circuit Court Judge Lloyd was asked in Camden yesterday to approve assessments made by commissioners for sewer construction in the Twelfth ward, counsel for abutting property owners interposed an objection.
After being arrested on a capias and held in $30,000 bail, Hallock A. Penrose, of the Penrose Motor Company, of Virginia, was released on his own recognizance by Circuit Court Judge Lloyd in Camden yesterday.
David Baird, State Assessor and Republican leader of South Jersey, following his annual custom, held a Christmas reception Christmas morning at his handsome home in Cooper Street, Camden. Prominent politicians, citizens and persons in all walks of life to the number of 500 greeted Mr. Baird.
The police were yesterday asked to locate Johnson Webster, who is accused of having stolen $18 and an overcoat from Isaac Atkinson, a farmer, of Columbus, N. J.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's account of the enthusiastic welcome given State Assessor and former Sheriff David Baird on his return from Europe; Dr. H. H. Davis was among the Camden men in the greeting party.
James McCann, who was committed to the Camden county jail last week on a charge of assault and battery on his brother, John, who died shortly after his admission to the Cooper Hospital, was yesterday held in bail for court.
The main court room was crowded with interested Third warders this morning, when the first of the criminal complaints growing out of the riots at Third and Beckett streets, on the night of July 28, last, during the Congressional primary, was taken up. It charged Charles Wagner with assault and battery on Policeman Harry Miller.
"Beyond all question the murderer of these little boys is now in jail and the public's anxiety can now be allayed," said Prosecutor Frank T. Lloyd last night in making the first important statement concerning the tragedy of last week, when John Coffin and W. Price Jennings, two Camden lads, were murdered in an uncultivated field near Haddon Heights.
It is now generally believed that the Camden county authorities have succeeded in establishing a clear case against young Paul Woodward, who is in the county jail, charged with the crime of taking away the lives of little John Coffin and Price Jennings.
While mystery apparently as absolute as ever still obscures the motive and the criminal in the case of John Houseman Coffin and W. Price Jennings, the unfortunate Camden lads whose trip to the country at Haddon Heights last Wednesday resulted so tragically, it is surmised from hints dropped now and again the matter may soon be cleared.
Nothing has yet been learned as to the whereabouts of John H. Coffin, the eleven-year-old son of William Coffin, division agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, fourteen years old, son of Joseph Jennings, leader of the Third Regiment Band, the two Camden boys who disappeared on Wednesday when they left, it is presumed, for the Trenton fair.
John Coffin, 11 years old, son of William Coffin, division freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, 14 years, son of Leader Joseph Jennings, of the Third Regiment Band, are missing from their homes and the Camden police have been asked to locate them.
James Bland has been held responsible for the murder of John Morrison at the Camden primaries of Monday night by a coroner's jury.
A sensation was created in the Assembly Chamber this afternoon when County Detective John F. Smith, of Camden, placed Samuel G. Warwick, of Glassboro, under arrest on a warrant charging him with threatening to take the lives of Sheriff J. Wesley Sell and Prosecutor Frank T. Lloyd.
There is a determined effort in Camden to keep pace with other cities that have indorsed The Inquirer's plan to give cheer to trolley conductors and motormen.
County Detectives Smith and Cherry and City Detective Painter, of Camden, are investigating the death of Cornelius Preston, whose body was found in Big Timber Creek, near Westville, on March 5, 1899.
The Mount Holly Fair, like all the other Jersey fairs, has its "Big Thursday." That is the day the politicians get together to shake hands, swop stories and look after the political machine generally.
The Republicans last night placed in nomination delegates to be elected to attend the Assembly Convention, which will be held in this city on October 17. The election of the delegates will take place on Monday next.
The political contest in the town of Stockton is at fever heat. Leaders in both the Republican and Democratic parties are wrangling among themselves and it is impossible to foretell the outcome.