The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-04-12
CONCISE NEWSLETS
ABOUT THE CITY
Interesting Local Occurrences
Briefly Told

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Joseph Rose has been appointed ten
der at the Beach Thoroughfare bridge
on the Boulevard, succeeding Levi
Truck.
Mrs. Curtis Adams, of West Delilah
Road, left town on Monday to attend
the funeral of her mother, at Eliza
beth, N. J.
There will be a cake sale for the
benefit of st. Marks Church at Craw-
ford's Drugstore this Saturday after
noon, April II.
The Board of Freeholders may have
to institute condemnation proceedings
to secure land necessary in building
the Pleasantville-Mays Landing road.
Camp No. 9, P. @. of A., will give a
package party and dance in their lodge
room on Friday evening, April Is, at
$50 o'clock. Ladies, admission will be
a package. Refreshments will be
served.
l. Shore, of Vineland, who has rent
ed Hubin's Theatre, will open same as
a first-class Moving Picture house I'M
next Saturday, April 10. Watch next
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program.
The Standard Bearers of Salem M.
E. Church held an interesting meeting
on Monday evening at the home of
Miss Gladys Stebbins on Doughty
Road. The May meeting will be held
at the home of Miss Winnie Weller on
South Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Bates have
received word of the birth on Sunday
in Philadelphia of a grandson. The
youngster tipped the scales at 10 lbs.
and is the child of their son, Russell
Bates. Mrs. Bates went up on Monday
to personally meet the lad.
There will be a food and candy sale,
Saturday, April Il, from 10 A. M. to
3 P. M, in the room recently occupied
by the Adams Express Co. On N. Main
street. The sale is under the auspices
of the intermediate Society of the
Christian Endeayor of the Presbyte-
rian church.
The Board of F~reeholders have de-
cided to widen the span over Patcong
Greek in Mortified. They have awar-
ded the contract for the new Absecon
bridge to Sutton & Corson, for $1,000,
and for building the Gumwood Brook
bridge in Steelmanville to Clark &
Johnson for $500.
Charles Gibson, convicted of robbing
George H. Adams home, also for break
ing and entering another house, rob
bling still another woman, and afro
cious assault upon a fifteen-year-old
girl, was sentenced to 10 years and 4
months and fined $4,000 by Judge In
gersoll last Wednesday.
Battery D and Company l., in both
of which there are many PleaSantville
boys, have been ordered to be released
from service with the colors today
Saturday.. Also the drafted men
from New Jersey now in France have
been released. They will return to the
States by way of Hoboken, and will be
mustered out in camp here.
The Ryon tract at Park avenue and
Shore Road has been offered by the
owners through the local Chamber of
Commerce for use during the aviation
meet to be held in Atlantic City in
May. The offer has been communi-
Gated to the Atlantic City Chamber of
Commerce. 1t is submitted that there
is ample room on the big plot, sloping
down towards the waters of Lakes
Bay, for building of hangers or aer-
dTomes. The tract contains 20 acres.
There will be a rally of Christian
E~ndeayorers at Christ M. P. Church,
Belmont and Pacific avenues, Atlantic
City, this Friday evening, April 18th.
Take Suburban trolley at 7.20 from the
hotel corner. Rev. J. L.. Keith Mac
Leod will be the speaker of the occa-
sion. Reports from the recent con-
v%ention at Trenton will be given, and
arrangements will be made for the
county convention to be held in Pleas
antville on May 18th.
Maximum fines were imposed upon
a number of clammers who tonged
within the forbidden waters north of
Atlantic City and Ventnor. The de-
PENDANTS were taken before Judge In
gersoll, sitting in the District Court
in the absence of Judge Smathers.
The suits were brought by the New
Jersey State Department of Health.
The defendants were Charles Mason,
John Camp, w. D. Shourds, Richard
Johnson, Charles Tallman, Arthur
| Doughty and Flwood Foster