SOME STATE NOTES.
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.