The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-02-12

oyertures to West Collingswood and
real estate dealers for the building of
a suitable bridge over a stream which
will connect the two places by the con
nectiOn of Sloan avenue.
Chicken served at the home of City
Electrician Frank Simmer of Atlantic
City resulted in the illness of all the
members Of the family from ptomaine
poisoning. Several brass tacks were
found in the chickens craw.
A small fire that broke out in a chute
in the laundry in the cellar at the State
Hospital For the Insane at Morris
Plains caused some excitement IN the
women's department of the main build
Ing. Order was o 0 restored.
Recorder William ]. Cain of Bayonne
has made a record for imposing fines
and since he assumed office in April
has collected $4.120, enough to pay the
salaries of himself, clerk and three III
terpreters and leave a balance.
Only ten deaths have resulted in as
many years from diphtheria in Mont
clair, according to an announcement of
the health department. The number
of cases of scarlet fever in the last
year was the lowest in ten years.
Inspired by the story of the work of
the Alfred B. Bradley Bible class of
the Palmyra NJ. e. church. the Allen
town NJ. E. Sunday school has organic
} ed a class with forty-eight men enroll.
ed, and George Wilbur is president.
Robert X. Atherton. thirty-five. who
is said to have exhausted a fortune left
him by a wealthy uncle. is a prisoner
In the Paterson General hospital as a
result of a jump of seventy-five feet
from the falls into the Passaic river.
The city patrolmen of Bayonne will
petition the city officials to adopt mil
itary collars for summer wear They
assert their laundry bills are too high
because of the necessity of wearing
three or four linen collars on hot days.
Fire destroyed the Methodist Episco-
pal Home For the Aged at Ocean
Grove and imperiled the lives of four
teen of the old inmates, who were car
ried out by iremen and volunteers. An
o%verheated stove is given as the cause
Of the fire.
Burlington county dairy farmers are
heading a movement for the organiza-
ton of a COW test association. Own
ers of several hundred of the finest
milk cattle in the state are interested
and will seek to form a permanent or
ganization.
Miss Nannette Burkhard, superin-
tendent for fifteen years of the Allan
tic City hospital, resigned. Her resig-
nation was due to trouble in the hos
pital staff. following the death of a pa
tient to whom the wrong medicine was
administered
Mrs. Charles \. Whelan of East
OIduSc HAS II6Sellleu 10 lue washing
ton society a complete set of furnish
ings for the women's rooms at the club
house. Old French prints adorn the
walls, while the window hangings are
of Italian fillet lace.
The American Federation of Labor
has been laying plans for the past six
weeks and is preparing to launch a
campaign to organize workers in every
branch of the great silk industry in
Paterson. according to an announce
ment made in that city.
Teaneck's police force resumed duty
again. the township committee decid-
ing it better to observe public opinion.
Chief Murphy and his force of four
men retired because the people. through
a misunderstanding. had voted down
the police appropriation.