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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04

Streets-Anderson, Chattle, Adams.
Licenses-Chattle, Adams, Anderson.
Public Property = Adams, Meloney,
Chattle.
Lights-Chattle, Meloney, Lutz.
Police-Adams, Meloney, Chattle.
Ordinances = Anderson, Ireland,
Chattle.
Poor-Meloney, Anderson, Lutz.
Fire Department-Meloney Chattle,
Anderson.
Education-Chattle, Meloney, Lutz.
Printing-Meloney, Chattle, Adams.
Sanitary-Anderson, Meloney, Lutz.
Building-Adams, Meloney, Chattle.
Rules-Chattle, Meloney, Anderson.
Railroads-Lutz, Meloney, Chattle.
Audit-Anderson, Meloney, Ireland.
Public Parks and Playgrounds-Me-
loney, Anderson, Chattle.
Library|Chattle, Adams, Lutz.
Council meets on first and third
Monday evenings of each month. 8
o'clock in June, July, August and
September; 7.30 o'clock all other
months.
Board of Education.
President-Arthur H. Stiles.
MISREPRESENTATION S. Weaver.
Secretary-W. G. Penhallow.
Custodian School Fund-Webster
Price.
City Superintendent Of Schools
William C. Sullivan.
Medical Inspector-Dr. J. H. North.
Truant Officer-Harry ]. Grimm.
Members-John S. Weaver, Arthur
H. Stiles, Charles D. Thompson, Joseph
H. Bradley and w. G. Penhallow.
Committees
Finance-Weaver, Thompson, Brad
lev.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
Ia SHORTAGE THREATENS
PRODUCTION
rhe Fertilizer Industry Hard Hit by
the War.

The supply of fertilizer for 1919
spring sown crops is threatened by
shortage of labor in the fertilizer fac
tories. This fact is of particularly Sc
rious import to the potato farmers of
the country, for the great potato sec
lions are coming more and more to de-
pend on fertilizer for the economical
production of this crop. Thus it hap
pens that the very factor which pre-
vents factories running to full capac-
ity also has effect in preventing farm
ers from using their own depleted farm
labor supply to best advantage. Labor
cannot be used to advantage on those
fields which can give but half a crop.
The fertilizer industry is normally
a seasonal industry. About the first
of February the factories are normally
in full blast, producing fertilizer for
use on spring crops. Then they Idle
down. again for a period of several
months In late spring and early sum-
mer. This requires a large floating
supply Of labor, a supply which has
largely been eaten up by demands of
the shipyards and munition factories.
Transferring the industry from a
seasonal basis to a full II months op.
Grating basis will certainly be cOnom
ical of labor. The factories can then
work at somewhat diminished daily
capacity for more weeks in the year,
and in this way get out the necessary
tonnage. 1t can't be done at once,
however. because factories do not have
storage space enough to allow of this.
Goods must be shipped out almost as
fast as they are made-so that the
greatest possible output by the re-
stricted supply of labor may be as
sured.
If fertilizer users the country over
will order early, through accustomed
channels, and agree to take the goods
from the car on arrival, much may be
done to help insure a sufficient supply
for next springs business. Early Or
dering, however, means NOW.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
Soft Corn ~(aboVe) Full of Water, Hard
Corn below All Corn.

hogs and fat steers must later on be
marketed at the same time-to the
disadvantage of all concerned.
But-why grow soft corn, when a
crop of hard corn costs less per
bushel?
Corn is planted when the soil is still
cold, and just after the soil has been
leached by the winters rains. Avail
able plant food in the soil is lacking.
The reserves in the seed are soon ex-
hausted, and then the plant "hangs
fire"-makes no growth, remains small,
spindling, and sickly-until such time
as the weather warns up and soil
plant food begins to become available.
Available plant food, especially avail
able phosphOric acid and ammonia,
when applied in fertilizer have won
derful effect in saving time-in getting
growth started early in the season.
Later on in the summer poorly fer
tilted corr once again "hangs fire."
1t waits, and waits, and is eternally
slow in ripening its seed. Too often
such a crop is caught, still immature,
by the first killing frosts of the season.
A high available phosphoric acid fer
tilizer applied at time of planting is
a tremendous aid in ripening up the
corn quickly and surely.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
ROSTER OF OFFICERS OF THE
CITY OF PLEASANTVILLE.
Mayor-Thomas F. Crawford.

Mayor-Thomas F. Crawford.
Clerk-Nehemiah Andrews.
Assessors-tirst Ward, Reuben E.
Adams; Second Ward, George M.
Bates.
Tax Collector-Webster Price.
City Treasurer-Geo. Zippler, Jr.
City Engineer-Samuel J. Clark.
Tax Search Clerk-Webster Price.
City Solicitor-Louis D. Champion.
Chief of PoIice-Clarence Krewson.
Police Justice-Richard G. Brown.
Building Inspector-Paul Wootton.
Plumbing Inspector-Edward G
Helfrich.
Overseer Of the Poor = Daniel s.
Edwards.
Janitor of Fire House and City Hall
Mark Fritseh.
Street Supervisor-Samuel Price.
Chief Fire Dept.-Paul Wootton.
Fire Warden-James A. Gilkey.
Sinking Fund Commissioners
Thomas F. Crawford, Mayor; George
Zippler, Jr., City Treasurer; Franklin
e. Smith, Clark Adams and John P.
Ashmead.
Members Atlantic County Board of
Freeholders - Clark Adams, First
Ward; John P. Ashmead, Second Ward
Councilmen-At-large and President,
Albert e. James; First Ward, Wilbur
w. Adams, Charles M. Chattle, Mi
chael Lutz; Second Ward, Walter ].
Anderson, Edward N. Meloney, Ray
mond G. Ireland.
Council Committees
Finance-Meloney, Anderson, Lutz.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04

It's easy to Get Dough in the
First Place. There's always a Kind
Friend-or a Shylock. But it's
Tough to Round it Up again when
you have to Settle the Marker. And.
most likely, you'll FAN for the
Quick Touch you ian make from
Another Guy. And then Another
till you've got More Creditors than
Heinz has Pickles.
If it's a Pal you Nick, you'll Lose
Him, for you'll Duck around Cor
ners when you Lamp him in the
Distance, and you haven't got the
Comeback Coin. If it's a Shylock,
you'll Never Lose Him, which is
Just as Bad. He won't Let you.
He'll Haunt the Shop and the Old
Homestead. He will have you in
Hook for Life. You might as Well
be Caught in Quicksand.
And if you're Hooked Bad, you're
Scared Stiff. You're Afraid Of your
Friends, even though they don't
Bring Up the Delicate Question.
You're Afraid of your Boss, lest
he Get Hep to the Gentry that are
Trailing you. You can't Make Speed
on the Job you have; and you Don't
Dare take a Chance on the Good
One you might Grab if you were
only Squared Up. You're always
Nibbling at your Pay Check through
the Week.
If you Are to The Bad over
Dough, fellows, Pull Out of 1t. Hike
to your Shop instead of feeding the
Traction Magnates Git will help
your health), practice War Conser-
walton on the Grub, make the Old
Suit do for a Spell-but Get Even.
And if you're All Straight now,
Keep That Way. Pass up the Junk
you Think you Need, if Getting 1t
means Owing the Price. You Don't
want it that Bad.
Far the Worst Thing in the World
Is to be a CDR" debtor, not Doc
tori and one of the Best Things 1
know is to be able to Slant Right
at the Map of the Universe and tell
it to-You get Me. don't you? 60
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
SHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of a writ of feri facias, to me d.
rected, issued out Of the New Jersey Court OF
WEDNESDAY, TIL EIGHTH "a OF
JANUARY, NINETEEN HUNDRED
N NINETEEN,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon of said day,
Guarantee Trust Building, in the City of At
lantic City, County of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey.
Situate in the Township of Egg Harbor
(now Somers Point City,, County of Allan
tic and State of New Jersey.
Beginning at a post standing on the bank
of Patconk Creek being a corner to Master
John Scull's about sixty links from the
Southeast end thereof, and extends thence
%. South thirty-nine degrees West three
chains and seventy-fve links by low water
mark to Hosea English's line 90 South
fifty-six degrees East in the said English's
line eight chains and thirty-eight links to a
post in said English's line CD North thirty
degrees and a half East four chains and fifty
links to the said John Scull's line "a in
said line North siXty-one degrees West seven
chains and eighty links to the place of be-
ginning.
Excepting therefrom the following describ-
ed lot: Beginning at the third corner as
mentioned in deed of Harry f. S. Wescott ct
al. to Mary H. Flemings, recorded in book
230 of deeds, page 479, and runs thence Cd
North thirty and one-half degrees East as
recited in said deed two hundred and seventy
eight feet to Southwest line of a public road
thence 90 Northwest along same three hun
dred and seventy-fve and three-tenths feet;
tHtucG NoJ SOUTHWEST mdhluS an IHleilOI an
gle of ninety-ive degrees and thirty-six
minutes one hundred and seventy-four feet;
thence (4) Southeast making an interior an
gle of one hundred and twenty-four degrees
and thirteen minutes eighty-nine feet to the
second course in the aforesaid deed thence
90 South ~ffty-six degrees East along said
old division line three hundred and thirty
eight and three-tenths feet to the beginning.
Seized as the property of Arnold DeBrier
ct ais. and taken in execution at the suit of
Alvin p. Risley and to be sold by
ALFRED j.
Sheriff.
Dated December IA, 1918.
Herbert R. Voorhees,. Solicitor.
Prs fee, $20.40
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
A SOIL FERTILITY PROPHECY

Editor Collingwood of the Rural
New Yorker says:
Gasoline leaves no organic matter
behind it. We have come to the time,
and we are rapidly going further into
it when there will be practically no
stable manure for people to buy and
put IN their ground. And then people
will suddenly wake and realize that all
these years they have been giving to
stable manure a value it did not carry,
and that, with fertilizers properly han
died and with crops, they will
be able, to get the same results with
less labor, with more profit and with
far greater satisfaction"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04

~ UPPOSE Bonnie Leonard, the
- Greatest Little Mittster since
the days of Old Black Joe
Cans. were TO start in a Muss with
another Good One-like jennie Dun
dee, say-with that Right of his
Tied Behind his Back.
Would he Have a Chance? Not
even the Well Known Kind they
Say a Chinaman has.
Suppose that great Stake Horse,
Omar Khayyam q know En-, see?
though don't Play Emu Went to
the Post with a Three Hundred
Founder, like Fatty Arbuckle, or
Big Bill Edwards, in the Saddle.
Would a Gambler Play a Jitney
on him? Nix. They are Wise in
Their Way. For he'd be as Dead
as a Morgue full of Doornails, which
d CUES would be a Pretty Defunct
Institution.
Where would a champion swim
mer Get wearing Lead-soled Slip
pers? Or a Hundred Yarder
equipped with Trout-Fishing Boots?
The Old Handicap would be Too
Much for Them, wouldn't it? The
Best you could Give Them would
be Sympathy, which is All to the
Good in its Place, but said Place is
in Mr.. Webster's well-known Vol
m of Light Reading. And you
wouldn't have many Kind Words
for the Handicapped that tagged the
Starters with those Burdens.
But give me a Listen, fellows!
A lot of you are Tagging Yourselves
with a Handicap, that not only
Slows you Up but Pulls you up,
Dead.
I mean DEBT.
OF all the Bone Plays that a Lad
IAN Pull In the Game of Life the
C%oncretest. I think, is to Get him
self Hooked for the Dough. And
Hooked is the Right Word. For you
Grab the Cash and Overlook the
Barb Underneath, and that keeps
you Fast to the Line-the Pay Back
end of the Transaction.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
OUR DWlNDLING MEAT SUPPLY

You have no doubt become accus-
toned 10 meatless days, but secretly
you are probably waiting and hoping
for the day when you can again eat
a good steak without feeling unpa-
triOtic.
But do you realize that the average
meat supply per individual, wen be-
fore the war, had fallen off nearly one
fourth since 1900? To be sure, each
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Susan A. Strickland, Deceased.
Pursuant to the order of Albert c. Abbott,
Surrogate of the County of Atlantic, this
day made on the application of the under
signed, Executor of the said decedent, notice
is hereby given, to the creditors of the said
decedent to exhibit to the subscriber, under
oath or affirmation. their claims and demands
against the estate of the said decedent, with
in nine months from this date, or they will
be forever barred from prosecuting or recov-
ering the same against the subscriber.
ABSALOM II. HIGBEE,
Somers Point. N. ].
Mays Landing, N. j.
Dated December 23rd, 1918.
Printers fee. 1892.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04

THE WORLD SHORTAGE
of LIVE STOCK

A census of cattle In France
reveals a decrease of II per
cent in beef animals, SO per cent
In sheep and 40 per cent In hogs
since December 81, 1913. Italy
has suffered a loss Of 81 per
cent of horses, Is per cent for
mules, and 8 per cent for swine.
No one can even guess what the
decrease in Germany, Austria,
and Russia has been, but it must
be enormous. According to a re-
liable estimate the decrease of
live stock in all Europe is equal
to one-half the amount of live
stock in America today. This
estimate places the loss at 100,-
100000 head.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
BERTRAM E. WHITMAN,
NOTARY PUBLIC
All Work Promptly Attended To
IL ". Washington Avenue
PLEASANTVILLE, NEW JERSEY

Building and Repairs-Thompson,
Weaver, Bradley.
Teachers = ~Penhallow, Weaver,
Thompson.
Property-Bradley, Weaver, Thomp-
son.
Grievance = Thompson, Weaver,
Bradley.
Books and Supplies-Penhallow,
Thompson, Weaver.
Truancy-Weaver, Thompson, Brad
ley.
Regular meetings first Tuesday of
each month.
Board of School EstimatGs.
Thomas F. Crawford, MayIr: Wal
ter J.. Anderson and Edward N. Me-
loney, Councilmen; Chas. D. Thompson
and w. G. Penhallow, member\s Board
of Education.
Board of Health.
Guy Wilson, president; George w.
Stinger, vice-president; JesG4e Bowen,
secretary; Neil S. Campbell registrar
of vital statistics; Williams Ander-
son, Mark w. Blake, SamyA3 lei q. Bowen,
Jr.
Inspector-Dr. W. j. Hhg,dson.
Meetings are held on sacond Thurs
day evening of each 3month at 7.3I
o'clock in Council Cha mber.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
SOFT CORN LOSSES
How Proper Management Enables
Corn Crop to Get Ahead of
the Frost.

An ear of hard corn may break, but
1t never bends. An a of soft corn
bends easily, but it never breaks.
Sometimes water may even be wrung
out from such corn.
A soft corn year" is disastrous.
The corn can't be stored, and can't be
sold. 1t must be fed at once-with the
result that hundreds of carloads OF fat
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT!

Notice is hereby given that the Accounts
of the Subscribers as surviving executors of
the estate of Thomas E. French, deceased,
and reported for settlement to the Orphans
Court of Atlantic County, on Tuesday. the
fourteenth day of January next, at which
application will be made for commits
sions.
Dated December II, A. D. 1918.
THOMAS H. FRENCH,
LEWIS e. FRENCH.
Herbert R. Voorhees,. Proctor,
Atlantic City, N. ].
Prs fee. $685..
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Absecon will be
held at its office in the City of Absecon, coun-
ty of Atlantic and State of New Jersey. on
Tuesday, the fourteenth day of January,
the election of directors for the ensuing year
and for the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before the meeting.
RAYMOND S. STEVENSON, Cashier.
Absecon, N. j., Dec. 10, 1918.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
A TRUST
COMPANY.

Pleasantville, N. j., Dec. 13, 1918.
Notice is hereby given to the Stockholders
of this institution that the annual meeting
will take place at the Banking House on
TUESDAY, JANUARY IA, 1919,
at $50 o'clock in the afternoon, for the pur-
pose of electing directors to serve for the en-
suing year and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come before
D. S. LECOMPTE. Treasurer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Pleasantville will
be held at its banking house in the City of
Pleasantville, county of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey, on Tuesday. the fourteenth day
of January. 1919, at 4 o'clock in the after
noon. for the election of directors for the
ensuing year and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come before
the meeting.
GEO. H. ADAMS, Cashier.
Pleasantville. N. j., Dec. IS, 1918.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
PUBLIC NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that persons hav-
must have them in the hands of the City
Clerk on Friday preceding the regular meet
ing nights of Common Council, which are
the first and third Mondays of each month.
otherwise they will not be paid.
By order of the Common Council of
Pleasantville.
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
G
REWARD.

$40 reward will be given for infor.
nation leading to the arrest and con-
yiction of anyone emptying sewage in
Egg Harbor Township.
By order of the Board of Health,
VIM. HAUENSTEIN, Sec.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
Debt THE Quicksand
By BILLY SUNDAY
(Famous Evangelist

Copyright, 1917, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-04
PUBLIC NOTICE!

Public notice is hereby given that the
city cesspool located at the gravel pit,
Doughty Road and Washington avenue. is
completed and ready for use. Permits
must be secured for the cleaning OF cess
pools from the undersigned. All persons
failing to do so will be prosecuted.
G. II. CONOVER,
Health Inspector of Pleasantyille.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-17
DEATH OF J. L. CASE

j. l.. Case, father of Sheriff M.
Allard Case, died at the Patton hospi-
tai on Monday, at the age of 7S years.
Funeral services were held on Monday
interment being in the family burial
grounds in Clear Creek township
Rev. T. J. Waters of Dana conduct
ed the services. Confederate veterans
acted as honorary pail bearers.
Mr.. Case had been in failing health
for many months. An operation per-
formed few weeks ago failed to
bring the expected relief. He is sur
vived by M. A1lard Case and Will J .
and J. P. Case of Florida, all present
at the funeral services and Mrs. C.
F. Reeses of Illinois, his only daugh-
ter, who was unable to be present.
j. L. Case served gallantly through
four years of the war. He was man
held in the highest esteem, was a good
citizen in every sense of the word and a
most excellent neighbor than which
few higher tributes may be paid any
man
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-17
QUICKEST, COOLEST, PRETTIEST

The quickest moving man in Hen
Jacksonville is a man-Without any
legs. He is a colored man and is,
physically, just exactly one-half man.
He rides around on a contrivance
mounted on roller skate wheels and
beats the ordinary pedestrian by a
block.
The coolest place in Hendersopville
is on that big projecting porch of the
Smith building, the Offices of Smith,
Shipman and Arledge, and of Smith,
Jackson and Morris. It's always cool
there-as many have found out to
their delight.
The prettiest girl in Hendersonville
is Miss-but her name is so well
known that to repeat it here might be
superf1uous, as it were. But she GER
tainly is pretty.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-17
THE GOLF LINKS
(FrOm AsheviIle CitizenC

Hendersonville, July 15.-The NUM-
cipal golf course will be ready for play
about May 15,. r. A. Leonard, golf
professional in charge of it's construc-
ton, said today. The course is being
carved out of the wilderness of trees
which but recently covered it's site and
what will eventually be enticing fair,
ways now closely resemble the once
famous Hindenburg line. Possibly
one-half the stumps of the great trees
have been pulled and the sight they
present is a strange one. Two power
full stump pullers are constantly at
work as is also a large force of men.
Possibly $4,000 will be spent in
building the municipal golf course:
Nine of the holes will be ready for
play some time in May, Mr.. Leonard
says. The nine-hole course will
measure 3,4O0 yards, or several hun
dred yards more than any other nine
hole course in the south. Mr.. Leon
ared declares that the 112 acres Of
land bought for the links is admirably
adapted to it's purpose. From almost
any point on the tract there is mar
velous view of the surrounding noun
tains. The landscaping of the course
will in no way detract from it's natu-
raj beauty. 1t will not be barren
course, but magnificent clumps OF
great trees are being left to further
enhance it's admitted charm. Neither
will there be any water hazards on
this nine-hole course, but that will
come later when the remainder is
built and the miniature lake there
: will reflect the trees and the skies in
it's placid depths. The thirteenth or
"unlucky'' hole will be close by but
that is in the future and so need
cause golf enthusiasts no alarm.
But what was wilderness is now
rapidly being transferred into the be-
ginning of a model eighteen-hole
municipal golf course, made possible
by the public spirit of Hendersonville,
and which, it is believed, will prove
an important factor in developing the
tourist traffic of the resort.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-17
COMMISSIONERS TO BUY FORD

In order tht County Tax Super
visor J. o. Williams and his assoc
iates may cover their extensive terri
tory, the county commissioners at
their recent meeting decided to buy an
automobile of a we'll known brand
that made by Mr.. Henry Ford OF De-
troit, who employs $4,000 persons and
pays not one of them less than 80 a
day.
The idea is that the Ford will en-
able the three tax men to get to the
outlying districts where they VIII
scatter and make their visits OF per-
sonal inspection of property. "nen
their task is completed the Ford VIII
he sold, for a Ford never wears out.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-17
THE JUDGE HAS
CHANGED MIND,
AND IS WISER

l said they were FOOLS" remarked
Judge c. N. Pace, yesterday, trying
to wedge his portly form through the
crowd filling the twnty-foot sidewalks
on Main street. eyes, sir, said they
were fools when they planned to put
down a.twenty-foot walk on this
street. I thought eight or ten feet
would be a plenty. But I have chang
ed my mind"
The crowd on Main street is but
some faint indication of the size OF
the crowd here. 1t is quite needless
to say that the hotels are filled, but it
would be appropriate to say. right
here that soon there will be prem
ium on accommodations anywhere in
the city.
1t is already the greatest season
the city has ever experienced and the
first chapter of the story is just be-
ginning to be interesting. Where to
put all the tourists that are headed
this way will be problem difficult to
solve.