The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-15

record breaker at the Morristown post
office. Postmaster Eugene s. Burke
states that the total receipts from
stamp sales, parcel post. insurance.
etc, for the quarter were SIS, 1856 6.
Mrs. Hattie T. Bayley of Morristown
has signed papers by which she adopts
Francis Louis Helke. a former sailor
In the United States navy, as her son.
He is twenty-five years old. He had
been on Mrs. Bayley's farm since Sep
TENDER.
George Emmans of Newton gathered
n~inety-six oranges from a tree of the
Florida bright variety. The fruit is
large. A fruit dealer said that the
ninety-six would fill an orange crate.
The tree is between fifty-fve and sixty
years old.
According to a bulletin by the state
department of health for November.
there was a decrease in deaths among
children under five years of age. while
an increase appears in deaths of per-
sons more than sixty years DID. There
were 3,129 deaths.
b 0 an hour after striking his head
against a beam Joseph Zellner, twenty
four years of age. IF Paterson started
to demolish the furniture and assault
ed his wife when she tried to calm
him. Neighbors overpowered him, and
he was taken to a hospital.
When a w%estbound West Shore ex-
press train struck an automobile truck
belonging to Swartz Bros. of Kearny
at the West Englewood crossing at
Hackensack Willard Barnes of Harris
was killed and Dennis Smith of East
Orange was fatally injured.
James Graham made an appeal to
the borough of Rutherford to pass an
ordinance to stop the running of dogs
at large without being muzzled. He
said that a valuable cat belonging to
him had been killed by a dog owned
by David B. Black of Park place.
NJ. NJ. Book. fifty years of age, a
wealthy contractor of Westwood, was
killed at the Harrington Park rail
! road crossing when his automobile was
struck by a West Shore express train.
Bernard Manning, nineteen, employed
by Book, received two broken legs.
The MiddleseX county mosquito com
mission asked the New Brunswick
board of freeholders for an a%ppropria.
ton of $4,000 this year. Of this amount
$4,000 is desired to fight the mosquito
in the salt marshes and the balance
for the attack upon the fresh water
species.
Prompt action in disposing of the
case of William Ellwood of Danbury
probably prevented an attack upon the
prisoner when he was arraigned before
Justice Mccarthy in Newton charged
with an attack upon John Carey. thir-
teen, of Sandy Hook. He was held in
$1,000 bonds.
On condition that money be raised
to cancel a mortgage of $4,000 on the
church property, a member of the
Christian Union Congregational church
in Montclair whose name has not been
I mentioned has offered to give a similar
sum toward the purchase of a pipe or
gan for the church.
Corporation Counsel John Milton
asked the members of the city commits
SlOl 10 give Hill TIE power 10 engage
an expert and to proceed to apply tc
the public utility commission for an or
der to compel the Public Service cor
poration to sell six trolley tickets for
% cents in Jersey City.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed ii
large building on the farm of Sarah E
Woodward at Cream Ridge, together
with crops. machinery. pigs and chick
n The loss was estimated at over
$4,000. Two fires have occurred pre-
viously at the farm, and Investigations
led TO a strong clew of incendiarism.
The board of public utility commits
sioners ordered the Public Service Rail
way company to give passengers board
ing its nOrthbound cars in Cliffside
Park, Bergen county, transfers to its
Hudson river line, to be accepted by
the company for a ride TO the Edge
! water ferry. The board further order