The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-01-27
CONCISE NEWSLETS
ABOUT THE CITY
Interesting Local Occurrences
Briefly Told

The local branch of the w. C. T. u,
has voted to present to the free public
library of Pleasantville eighteen vol
umes hearing upon temperance sub
jects.
Speaker Schoen called Assembly
man Bertram E. Whitman to the
Speakers chair and he presided owe
the House of Assembly on Tuesday af-
%ternoon.
A fire tower, sixty feet high, from
which can be observed the location of
any forest fires in Atlantic County
woodland, is being erected on the
Pleasantville-Mays Landing road.
Raymond Sipps, of Launch Haven,
has entered the contracting business
at Pleasantville, having opened an
office here. He will continue to re-
side in Somers Point for the present.
The Pl~easantville w. C. T. U. will
hold a Literary entertainment, Friday,
Feb. End, in the Smiths Landing Pub
lie School, from 3 to A o'clock. Par
ents and friends of scholars are in
vited and urged to be present.
It's a trifle early, to be sure, but
there are some people in this section
who are predicting that Governor
Edge will not stop climbing politically
until he has reached the presidency of
the United States.-Ocean City Senti-
mel.
The F~ortnightly Bible Glass will
meet at the home of Mrs. George H.
Adams, E. Verona Ave-, Friday, Feb.
End, at 3 p. m. All ladies invited.
Subject, "Jesus Christ, the Saviour of
the World Mrs. Samuel R. Stratton
and Mrs. Lewis R. Smith will sing two
duets.
A reception and testimonial will be
rendered Commodore Louis Kuehnle
by the Edge Marching Club at their
headquarters in the Guarantee Trust
Building Annex this Saturday eve
ming. All club members and friends
of the Commodore are invited to at
tend.
A delightful social gathering was
held in the basement of ST. Marks
Church under the auspices of St. Mar
garet's Guild last Thursday evening.
There were orchestral selections by
the Lord family. ~recitations by Mrs.
Franklin E. Smith, plenty of good
things to eat, and everybody present
spent a very pleasant evening
If you ride a bicycle and have been
in the habit of riding upon the side
walks, you are warned not to do SO in
the future. The city fathers give no.
tlce by advertisement on page 6 of
this issue that they intend prosecut-
ing all violators of the ordinance,
which prohibits this practice. 1t will
be well for you to read the ad. and
heed it.
A jury at Mays Landing this week
decided that Edward Taylor has no
right to the strip of ground running
across his property to the rear of
~Pleasantville and which had been used
for years as a public road until Taylor
closed it to the public a year and a
half ago. The road is 600 feet long
and Z feet wide and belongs to Egg
Harbor Township.
The newly organized basket ball
team of the ladies of the faculty of
our Public Schools had a most inter-
esting practice game on Tuesday eve
nlng in the gymnasium. Among the
star players are Misses Clara Rawley,
Bertha Kewley, Lillian Stevens, Emily
Davis, Mary McAllister, Gertrude Toll
bert, Edythe Hodgson, Miss Rider,
Miss Mcclellan, and others.
Decision was withheld in the Dis
trlct Court in the case of Andrew
Markas, of Linwood, who is endeavor-
ing to recover SIS from the Taylor
Packing Co. An agreement had been
reached whereby the Company was to
give Markas a horse in exchange for
81 tons of hay. Markas delivered
the hay but did not get the horse.
The Taylor Co. claim that he was so
long in making delivery that they con-
Guided he was not going to bring the
nay, and therefore they disposed of
the horse to another party.