On Jan. 5 former Judge Maja Leon Berry, solicitor of the Ocean County
Board of Freeholders, entertained that body, the county officials and
newspaper men at a dinner at the Ocean House. The occasion was the
host's forty-fifth birthday and he has followed this custom of
entertaining the officials for the past twelve years.
Mr. James R. Nugent, of Newark, was nominated on January 16 by the
Governor for Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex county, but, a week later,
was refused confirmation by the Senate, by a vote of 17 to 3.
Mr. William E. Holmwood, of Newark, has removed his law office to 43
Washington street.
Mr. J. Victor D'Aloia, of Newark, has gone to Europe for a stay of about
two months, so as to visit his parents in Italy.
A testimonial dinner was given to Judge Rulif V. Lawrence, of Freehold,
at the Hotel Belmont at that place, on January 2, and he was presented
with the gift of a gold watch.
The Monmouth Co. Bar Association held its annual meeting at Freehold on
January 3 and reëlected its President, Halstead H. Wainwright, of
Manasquan.
The Union Co. Bar Association held its annual meeting at Elizabeth on
January 3 and elected as its President Mr. Clark McK. Whittemore. It
decided to ask the Legislature to increase the jurisdiction of the
District Courts.
State Senator Thomas Brown, of Perth Amboy, was appointed counsel for
the Public Utilities Commission on January 3, to succeed Mr. L. Edward
Herrmann, although the latter is still retained by the Commission as
special counsel in the prosecution of the Public Service rate case
before the United States Supreme Court. Senator Brown has practiced law
at Perth Amboy since 1907.