The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29
the charge was not excessive.

n charge was not excessive.
Raymond Fisher Of Merchantville
broke through the ice while skating in
the vicinity of an air hole. He was
rescued by companions. who at great
risk formed a human chain across the
ice to the edge of the water.
Audubon will ask the Reading rail
way and the Public Service company
to instruct their conductors to omit
calling Orston station and instead call
Chestnut street. Audubon. as Orston
has been absorbed by Audubon.
James Henderson. a negro. was trap
ped while shopliftinR In a Boardwalk
store at Atlantic City by Miss Mac
Donough. a detective, through the
clever use of a mirror. The stolen
goods were found In his possession.
The mill buildings Of the United
States Finishing company at P~assaic,
abandoned five years ago when the
company transferred It's business to
its Rhode Island and Connecticut
plants. were sold at auction for $50. 200.
When "a tube through which Mrs
Hanna NJ. Lukens Of Trenton was in
haling Illuminating gas slipped from
her mouth four canaries were asphyx-
lated. Mrs. Lukens died from the eff
fects. and Ill health is given as the
cause.
Though he was In a collision the day
before with a New Jersey Southern
passenger train at Long Branch. DR..
Walter S. Reed. @ former mayor and
twice elected to the assembly, was out
the next day. His machine Is a total
wreck.
That 100000 persons have been
benefited by the drainage Of 100000
acres of land In the mosquito extermi-
nation warfare Is the statement of DR..
Jacob G. Lipman. director Of the state
agricultural experiment station at New
Brunswick.
With the closing address on the pro-
gram by DR.. Calvin N. Kendall, state
commissioner of education, at the ded-
ication exercises In Hackettstown the
formality of turning ove the new
$4,000 school building ended and the
BCnOOl was tliOnA OpCh-
Under instructions of Hammonton
council, Town Clerk Seely, in the pres
ence of Mayor Elvins and Town Treas
urer Davis. destroyed SIT. 900 worth
of town bonds, made worthless by an
error In the engraving. The council
ordered new bonds engraved.
Montclair is to have a new branch
library, the trustees of the Montclair
Free Public library having arranged
for a book distributing station in the
south end of the town. A year ago
Andrew Carnegie gave funds for the
erection of a branch library In the
north end of the town.
Justice Frederick Kirby of Glouces-
ter, who has gained considerable noto-
riety owing to his efforts in hunting
deliquent tax dodgers, beamed with
smiles when he announced that he had
been left a fortune OF f6OO. GOO, equiva
lent to S~2.S56,0O0. by an aunt who re-
Gently lied in BellesaChs. Ireland.
Vice Chancellor Eugene Stevenson OF
New Jersey decided in Jersey City that
a woman who receives from her hus
band practically his entire earnings
every week over a period of years and
saves a neal sum must not regard it
as her ov in its entirety. The pos
session of $4,000 was disputed by Mr..
and Mrs. James Donnelly.
In view of the heavy expenses nee
essary to keep up baseball the Com.
monwealth club Of Montclair has de.
cided to discontinue its team. Be.
cause of the annual loss of more than
$1,000 on the team 1t was decided
that the money could be used to much
better advantage in providing enter
tainments and better club facilities.
Picked up eve years ago In an In
toxicated condition by Justice Henry
r. Greggs of Ridgefield Park and Civ.
en- something to eat. a drunkard heard
q young woman in the Justices house
playing the hymn "The Beautiful Isle