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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

and Speaker of the House delivered
appropriate addresses, principal point.
in which were as follows:
BY SENATOR EDGE
With all this honor comes a re,
sponsibility for good service.
Our Individual responsibilities, ire
spective of political divisions, are alb
solutely the same.
In these days platform pledges
mean something.
No hesitancy should be shown in
amending or repeating an unworka-
BILE statute.
Both parties have promised legisla-
ton leading to economy and efficiency
in State government.
BY SPEAKER GODFREY
Extravagances and unnecessary ex-
penditures should cease.
All public business should be con-
Quoted more economically eve than
private business, for the reason that
the State can purchase at wholesale
rates and the seller assumes no risk
of possible loss.
Civil Service laws should be car
ried out in good faith and not evaded
with impunity.
Contractors on State jobs should be
required to live up to specifications.
Useless offices should be abolished
and excessive salaries reduced.
Full opportunity will be given for
discussion of all matters before the
House.
Governor Fielder's message was re-
ceived by both bodies. It was con
sentative in tone throughout. 1t was
in fact, hardly more than a plea and
a prediction that harmony should ex-
list between the two parties whose
platforms were similar in all essen
tials; this, coupled with a suggestion
that the Legislature devote itself pri-
marily to the task of conserving the
State finances, amending present laws
where this may be found necessary
and eschewing for the present at
least, further attempts at reform leg
islation of a drastic character.
The Standing Committees were an
nounced, Assemblyman Whitman re-
ceiving places on three of the most
important committees as follows:
Game and Fish, Municipal Corpora
tions, and Railroads and Canals. He
was also named on Public Printing,
which is a joint committee.
In the assignment of seats, Assem-
blyman Whitman was placed on the
centre aisle left hand side immediate
ly in front of the Speakers desk.
This is considered one of the best
locations in the chamber.
With the introduction of nearly one
hundred measures covering at least
the bulk of the platform promises of
two political parties, the enactment of
one law which was signed by Cover
nor Fielder at night, and the author
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
THE NIMBLE DOLLAR

The old time merchant used to buy
half a years supply of a given ar
ticle at a time. He locked up all his
own money and all he could borrow
on his goods. If he turned his whole
stock in a year, he might be doing
fairly we'll.
To-day it is the ambition of live
business men to turn their capital of
tener. A five per cent. margin or
sales under the old system was not q
living profit. Under tire modern sys-
tenn of quick sales, it should yield a
handsome return.
The one means by which this mod
ern ideal can be realized is by per-
sistent advertising, reasonably pro-
portioned as a necessary part of regu'
lar expenses.
The amount of business that q
store does is in proportion to the per-
sistence with which it solicits busin-
ess. Consequently the store that ad-
vertises is the store that turns it's
capital frequently Such a merchant
does not need to get as much of q
profit on each sale as the slow turn
ing store does. Wherefore it pays
the public to patronize the stores thai
advertise because they "a afford tt
sell cheaper.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
BANK OFFICIALS ELECTED.

At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National Bank
of Pleasantville held last Tuesday af-
ternoon, directors for the ensuing
year were elected as follows: John F.
Ryon, Alvin P. Risley, Job C. Steb-
bins, Charles S. Adams, Lewis B. Ry-
on, Geo. W. Leech, Hugh Collins, Geo.
B. LETTERS.
The directors organized by electing
John F. Ryon, president, Charles S.
Adams first vice-president, Hugh Col
Inns second vice-president, George H.
Adams cashier, Osborne Ware assist
ant cashier, Floyd M. Smith book
keeper, and Horace Ingersoll assist
ant bookkeeper.
At the annual meeting of the Pleas
antville Trust Company, held Tuesday
afternoon, directors for the ensuing
year were elected as follows: James
L. Risley, Samuel Ireland, John P.
Ashmead, Tobias L. Mcconnell, ia
phet Price, Bertram E. Whitman, Rob-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

and flags and with the crowded gal
leries the scenes were really beautiful.
Both houses were called to order
promptly at o The Senate was
called together by William l.. Dill,
secretary of the last Senate, and the
certificates of the new Senators were
approved. The oath was then admin
istered to the eight newly elects.
There are only two new members Of
the Senate. They are Ackerson, of
Monmouth, and Allen, of Salem. The
former is a Democrat and the latter
a Republican. Senator Edge was
nominated for president by Senator
Read, of Camden, who will be the
leader again this year. The Demo.
Gratis nominated Senator McGinnis, of
Passaic, for president, and the vote
was eleven to ten. The body stands
eleven Republicans and ten Demo
Gratis.
The organization in the House of
Assembly differed from that in the
Senate in that, as the entire 60 mem
bers are elected each year, they all
had to take the oath of office. This
being the popular branch, there was
more public interest in the ceremony
mere diIu Tile CIOWuS VI oPCSudCol
were much larger.
The Assembly was called to order
by former Assemblyman Mark NJ.
Phillips, of Essex, who was Clerk of
The House last year. He is now one
of the Assistant Auditors in the of
fee of State Comptroller Edwards.
After prayer and roll call, the oath
of Office was taken simultaneously by
II on II
impressive ceremony. They all stood
at their desks and with right hands
raised wore to Support the Consti-
tuition of the United States and the
Constitution of the State of New Jer-
sey, and that l will faithfully dis
charge the duties of member of the
General Assembly according to the
best of my ability"
Nominations for Speaker yer then
called for. Assemblyman Whitman
was quick upon his feet and placed in
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
City Hospital.

City Hospital.
otale's assailant is being held to
I Ait the result of the injuries of his
sNtYm, and he has not yet been ar
before a magistrate for that
roa don
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

ization of investigation of State af-
fairs along various lines, the Legis-
lature established something of a
record when it convened for the first
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
STOP BUYING EXPENSIVE
COUGH REMEDIES.
Make the Best at Home.

Money spent for the old style, ready
made, cough syrups in bottles holding
only 2 to 2k ounces is very largely
wasted, because most of them are
composed principally of sugar and wa
ter. Yet you have to pay the same
price as if it was all medicine. Stop
wasting this money. You can make
a better cough medicine at home at
one-ffth the cost. Merely go to Thorn
as F. Crawford's Drug Store and ask
for 2 ounces (50c WORTHY of Schiff-
mann's Concentrated Expectorant.
Mix this with one pint of graduated
sugar and one-half pint of boiling wa
ter, which makes a full pint 516 oun-
ces). This new, simple, pleasant rem
edy is guaranteed to relieve the worst
cough or cold. Also excellent for
Bronchial Asthma, Bronchitis, Group,
hoarseness and whooping cough. One
bottle will make enough homemade
cough medicine to probably last the
whole family the entire winter. Chill
dren like it, it is so pleasant to take
and it positively contains no chloro-
form, opium, morphine or other mar
cotics as do most cough mixtures.
Keep it on hand in cast Of emergency
and stop each cough before it gets a
firm hold. The above druggist has
been authorized to return the money
in every single case where it does not
give perfect satisfaction or is not
found the best remedy ever used. Alb
solutely no risk is run in buying this
remedy under this positive guarantee.
advertisement.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
THE EUROPEAN WAR
IN BIBLE PROPHECY.

Undreamed of passions have burst forth
devouring the lands that patient hands
have beautifed and made fertile, and cen
turtles have stocked with art treasures. re
the entire world the war has come as a
complete surprise because they have moi
read our book 1850 p~ages-cloth) telling
that Just such conditions would exist, only
to be followed by the still greater devas-
tation of anarchy. The first edition came
from the press in 1897.
OF vaster interest and Importance Is its
promise of better things in store for TINS
earth. when the wrath of nations has
run its course. Send thirty-four cents II
stamps with this coupon) to cover post
age, to The Temple, No. 26 w. 6Srd St, New
York City, and receive a p promptly.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
LINEN SHOWER FOR
MRS. WHITMAN.

A complete surprise in the nature
of a linen shower was rendered Mrs.
fBertram E. Whitman, who lost all
her wearing apparel and personal be-
longings in the recent Leech building
fire, on Saturday afternoon last. Mrs.
Whitman had been invited to the
home of Mrs. May North Crist and
Miss Marjorie E. North TO attend a
function in honor of their sister-in-
law who it was stated would arrive
from Trenton. Instead, loving friends
had been busily engaged making beau
tiful articles of wearing apparel, etc.,
which were previously assembled in a
huge basket. This was placed before
Mrs. Whitman, who was unanimously
selected to open the packages in the
presence of the assemblage, in accord
ance with the terms of a game in
which the guests were about to partic-
ipate. Not until two or three pack
ages had been opened did she realize
the true purpose of the event when a
card bearing the words "For Mrs.
Whitman from" gave the closely
guarded secret away. Those partici-
pating were:
Mrs. May North Crist, Mrs. Joseph
H. North, Miss Marjorie North, Mrs.
Doughty C. Turner, Mrs. Henry c.
Munro, Mrs. Scott M. Long, Mrs. Mer-
vyn Wilson, Mrs. Hugh R. McClelland,
Mrs. Samuel Ireland, Mrs. Henry W.
Lewis, Mrs. Charles S. Adams, Mrs.
Walter w. Whitman, Mrs. w. Claude
Bailey, Miss Ethel G. Bartlett, Mrs.
Raymond G.. Ireland, Miss Clara G.
Bartlett, Mrs. Thomas Simpson, Mrs.
Robert M. Willis, Mrs. Sherwood Ris-
ley, Miss Ann C. Tischke, Mrs. Will
lam q. Adams, Mrs. Japhet Price, Mrs.
Halvor L. Harley, Mrs. Reuben l..
Babcock, Mrs. F. Fraley Doughty,
Mrs. Ambrose L. Hammell, Mrs.
George B. Conover, Mrs. Robert Nc
Laughlin, Miss Kathryn Willis, Mrs.
Julia A. Robinson, Mrs. C. N. Robin
son, Mrs. Lou Feasel, Mrs. Minnie Ire
land, Mrs. S. E. Whitman and Miss
Mary E. Weston.
Clouds may come, but clouds must go,
And they have a silver lining,
For beyond them all, you know,
Either sun or moon is shining.
So with trouble It's quite plain
Time at last will take its measure
Rainbows follow after rain,
Life must have its need of pleasure.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

ert M. Willis, George A. Elvins, Reu-
ben L. Babcock, F. Fraley Doughty,
Philip G. Hannum, Abram ]. Ander-
son, Lewis R. Smith, Charles /. Burk-
ard, Ambrose L. Hammell, d. S. Lee
Compile.
The directors organized by electing
Mr.. Risley president, Nh. Ireland first
vice-uresident, Mr.. Ashmead second
vice-president, Mr.. LeCompte treasur-
er and Mervyn Wilson assistant treas
urer.
Following the reorganization of
the board, the directors and officials
of the Pleasantvile Trust Company
dined at the Hotel Rodney Tuesday
evening as the guests of Director
Hannum. An elaborate menu was
specially prepared for the occasion
and consisted of the following:
Absecon Salts on half shell
Mock Turtle Soup
Celery Pickles Olives
Roast Vermont Turkey
Cranberry Sauce
Green Peas
Mashed Potatoes
Brown Sweet Potatoes
Waff1eS
Ice Cream Cakes Coffee
In Atlantic City the Guarantee
Trust Co. added to its board ]. Waugh
an Mathis, Harry H. Mailman and
Robert B. Scull, while the Equitable
Trust also added three as follows:
Theodore w. Schimpf, Frank Walsh
and Louis A. Steinbricker.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
AUSPICIOUS OPENING
OF N. ]. LEGISLATURE
Bodies Met Promptly and Broke
All Records for Opening Ses-
sion--Committees Named

The 10th session of the New Jer-
sey Legislature convened at the State
House IN Trenton at noon on Tuesday.
Senator Edge was elected President
of the Senate and Assemblyman God
frey Speaker of the House of the As
sembly. Their desks and the desks
of the various Senators and Assem-
blymen were filled with sweet-smell-
ing blooms, the gift of admiring
friends. The First Ward Republican
Club of Pleasantville and other friends
sent floral tributes to Assemblyman
Whitman. The Assembly and Senate
chambers were decorated with flowers
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

%nomin 9tS his colleague saeshg11"n,, Hon ! Al Garl,
Quinn, ofsMiddlesex County, was plac-
ed in nomination by the Democrats.
Mr.. Godfrey was elected by the party
vote of SO to %. He was escorted to
the Speakers chair amid great cheer
ing.
Both the President of the Senate
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
SUNDAY AT THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Subject of sermon at the Presby-
terrain Church on Sunday morning is
"Rescuing the Perishing"; evening,
Serving the Master" Sunday School
at $50 p. M, and Christian Endeavor
at 6.45 p. m.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

To feel strong, have good appetite
and digestion, sleep soundlv and en-
joy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters,
the family system tonic. Price, $1.00.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16

. For baby's Group, Willie'S daily
cuts and bruises, mamm-s sore
throat, Grandma's lameness.-Dr.
Thomas Eclectic Oil-the household
remedy. 25c and 50c.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-16
FRANK POTALE STILL IN
CRITICAL CONDITION

Frank Potale, the Italian who was
stabbed by Michael Cardillo in Allan
tic City several days ago, is still in
the same condition as when taken to
Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-12-16
PROSECUTOR
GIVES UP 10

Woodbury., N. j., Dec. 14.-Joseph
j. Summerill, Prosecutor of the Pleas
of Gloucester County, has rendered
his resignation to Governor Fielder,
to take effect January 8.
Prosecutor Summerill was appoint-
ed in 1912 by President Wilson, then
Governor, and his term would expire
in 1917. Two years ago he was ac-
cused of using his Office to force the
sale of a Clayton Glass Plant to a
bondholders' committee of which he
was a member, but jury acquitted
him. .ls sal
1t is explained here that his resig-
nation is the result of the press Of
private business. 1t is known that
complaint was made few weeks ago
by Albert T. Repp. member of the
Glassboro Township Committee. as5
Rep startled the county following
the primary election in September by
asking an investigation Of alleged
poker and drinking clubs. His in
tended probe involved Sheriff Robert
t. Mead, Republican who publicly ad-
mitted that he was head of one of the
clubs Repp attacked.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-12-16
WHOLE NO. 3448
FREE COUNTY
SERVICE CONE

Today ends the business of the In
ter-State phone exchange in Bridge
ton. Tomorrow the only telephone
service available for the public here
will be that furnished over the Bell
system under the management of the
Delaware and Atlantic Telephone
Company.
City and county officials, especially
will miss one feature of the old In
ter-State service here. that OF free
county service. Particularly conven-
lent has been the service to MillvilIe
and Vineland without toll charges.
All this ceases today and hereafter
persons desiring telephone connec-
tons with these places, will be at
toll rates.
A good many Interstate phones
have already been replaced with the
Bell phones. A number of other
Bell phones viii soon be installed
where the Interstate service has
been used. ~.
Some of those who have Intef-
State phones in residences, have not
yet decided to install the Bell owing
to the additional charge of so cents
a month over the Interstate rates.
But the convenience of the telephone
once enjoyed is not easily dispensed
with. sill
The next issue of the telephone di-
rectory of the Delaware and Atlantic
Telephone Company will be interest
ing from local viewpoint.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-12-16
The HOUR
OF DANGER

Between seven and eight o'clock
has been defined as "the danger hour"
by the Raritan Copper Works, Perth
Amboy, New Jersey. Thirty-seven of
the 205 accidents during six months
in this plant were recorded during
that hour, which is the first hour of
the day shift. In commenting upon
this, "The Mixer, an iron and steel
trade publication says:
1T is known that more accidents
occur on Monday mornings than at
any other time; also, that more acc1-
dents occur on mornings that follow
holidays than on mornings of other
days."
The publication of the General
Safety Committee of the Raritan Cop
per Works, s''The Ingot" says:
ITO any man who can think in a
straight line the above statistics
mean just one thing
'The Ingot" attributes morning ac-
cidents to night drinking, and advises
the men to "cut out the booze" 1t
processes entire detachment from the
anti-liquor war in this way: This is
no grape juice journal. We hold no
brief for prohibition. What we are
working for is safety"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-12-16
MRS. HORTON
SUDDENLY DIES
After Eating Her Supper
Passed Away.
READING PAPER.
Hrs Jane p. Horton Expires Last
Night at Her North Pearl
Street Home.

Without warning, suddenly, Mrs.
Jane p. Horton, last night, died at
her home, North Pearl and Marion
Streets.
known and highly esteemed among
the older people of Bridgeton, has
been living quietly in her home, an
invalid, but still able to be about the
house. Her brother, James Chees-
man, made his home with her and
locked after much of the household
cares.
Yesterday Mrs. Horton spent the
day in her usual manner, and in the
early evening, went out in the dining
room for supper and ate an unusually
hearty meal which she seemingly en-
joyed very much. Arising from the
table at the end of the supepr, she
went in the sitting room, sat down
in her favorite chair by the table,
picked up paper, and began reading
the daily newspaper. While she was
doing this, Mr.. Cheesman remained
in the dining room looking after the
clearing of the table
But very few moments afterward
Mr.. Cheesman glanced in the sitting
room and was surprised not to see
his sister sitting in the chair. He had
| not heard her move and he went in
the room, went to the side door,
thinking it possible Mrs. Horton had
stepped outside. There was no evil
dence of this and Mr.. Cheesman look
ing about the room was shocked to
find her body crumpled down upon
the floor where she had slipped from
the chair. Hastily going to her Mr..
Cheesnlan found she was dead. Not
wlthstanding physician was quickly
summoned He pronounced death
due to heart failure.
Mrs. Horton would have been 80
years old had she lived until April
| next. She was the widow of the late
James Horton, prominent citizen
who was engaged in the glass bust
ness. He died February 16, 1901. Mrs.
Horton was sister of John Chees-
man, James Cheesman and Mrs. Mary
Allen. Children surviving her are
John Horton. Mrs. Emma Weeks and
Mrs. Millie Berger, this city, and Mrs.
Anna Stetelinis, of Pleasantville.
Mrs. Horton has long been a con-
sistent member of First M. E. Church
and an earnest Christian woman.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-12-16
CHRISTMAS
COMMANDMENTS

Thou shalt remember first the
very young and then the very old.
2-Thou shalt love the giver OF the
gift because of the gift. r,
3-Thou shalt purchase only what
thou can'st afford, remembering the
spirit of the gift and not the value.
4-Thou shalt not be a mere ex-
changer of gifts. Let thy heart be =
part of every gift or greeting thou
shalt send.
5-Thou shalt make such gifts as
thy skill may warrant, inasmuch as
the work of thy hand gives added val
lie to the offering.
6-Thou shalt tie up no bitter re-
membrance with a gift, but only Peace
and Good Will.
Thou shalt have thy gifts ready
several days before the time of de-
livery, that the Immediate days before
Christmas may be filled with Peace
and Joy and not with frenzy and tur-
moil.
8-Thou shalt seek the abodes of the
poor and needy with such wholesome
gifts as may cheer and nourish their
bodies and hearts.
9-Thou shalt not receive thy gifts
with torrents of gush. Thou shalt
show thy gratitude in more sincere
ways.
1O-Thou shalt, at the earliest
chance, give written or verbal thanks
to thy friends for such kindnesses as
they may have bestowed upon thee at
the Christmas time.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-12-16
do QUAIL
MIGRATE?

The Mays Landing Record discuss
es the question of quail migration,
editorially as follows:
DO quail migrate? Game Warden
William B. Loder, of this county, says
they do. Sportsmen are divided on
the question, which is, however, one
on which few have dwelt seriously
enough to arrive at any definite con-
clusions. NH
If Warden Loder is right. this may
be the reason why quail, so plentiful
in the early part of the autumn, dis
appear so mysteriously before the
season is over.
In confirmation of his opinion, War
den Loder says he has been large
coveys of quail flying Southwark, ear
Iy in the Fall, at much higher lati-
tude than they are accustomed to fly;
that he has heard of authentic cases
OF quail being picked up on shipboard
twenty miles at sea; that in running
the State boat along the coast to Cape
May, he has repeatedly seen large
eoyey of quail on sandbars along the
shore, far from their usual haunts.
Tn some instances, says Mr.. Loder,
he has observed several coveys Of
quail together, sometimes to the num-
Der of a hundred birds, and in a few
days time disappear 1t has been a
common belief among local sportsmen
that these disappearances were attri-
butable to the scurry of the birds for
deep woods and swamps.
Migration of quail, Mr.. Loder con-
tends, is caused, not by the approach
of cold weather, but by scarcity of
food and we agree with him heartily
that county sportsmen should get to-
gether in order to plant small plots
of ground throughout the same fields,
that the birds may have plenty Of
food. Perhaps such a course would
keep the birds here and sportsmen
would have good hunting throughout
the season. The experiment is worth
a trial"