The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-04-19

opened at the store Of Harry Van, on
Ceilings road.
Woodbury.. - The Rotary Club has
started a move to have the council
erect a public comfort station near the
courthouse.
Woodbury.. - The Euyeka Triangle
Club has appointed . committee to
urge the Board Of Freeholders to i'm
prove the road to Blackwood and Ma
tional Park.
Newfield.-The comptroller of cur
rency has issued a charter to the First
National Bank, with $4,000 capital.
Richard w. Dyer is president and AL
fred Chambers cashier.
Atlantic City. : Several candidates
are in the field for postmastership of
this city, the term of William Louden-
slayer expiring in October next.
Among them are Robert M. Johnson,
Assistant Postmaster Frank Moore,
City Commissioner Louis Steinbricker
and Milton Seaman.
Millville. = The Woman's Club has
decided to build a home adjacent to
the First Baptist Church at a cost of
from $4,000 to $4,000. Architects
have been authorized TO prepare plans.
Atlantic City.-Petitions for the
nomination of Senator Joseph S. Ere
l~inghuysen to succeed himself have
made their appearance here and sign
ers are being sought by City Hall at
taches.
Trenton.-Oficers of the New Jersey
Association of English Teachers re-
Gently elected are: President, Miss II.
Margaret Coult of Barringer High;
vice president, Mellinger E. Henry,
Dickinson High; secretary-treasurer,
Miss Mabel A. Tuttle, Linden High
School members of the executive
board, Professor Charles Whitman OF
Rutgers College and George J. Stein
metz, of Paterson Ugh School.
Hightstown. = The daylight saving
question Is again being agitated here.
Although Hightstown was rather late
In adopting it last year, its benefits
were enjoyed from the middle of June
until the latter part of September, but
was not put IN without considerable
opposition by the farmers of the Sec
ton and some of the ~townspeople as
we'll.
Trenton. = The New Jersey voca.
tional and Arts Association will func.
ton Under the leadership of an execu-
tive committee composed as follows:
President, Arthur F. Hopper, director
of manual and fine arts in the Plain
field schools; vice president, Miss Ma.
bel CASTOR, art instructor, Montclair;
secretary, Miss Bertha E. %Snediker,
Highland Park school, New Brunswick,
and treasurer, Philip NJ. Wagner Of
Cleveland Junior High and Fawcett
School of Industrial Arts.
Trenton.-Opposition to the soldiers
bonus bill as passed by the house was
expressed by Senator Frelinghuysen of
New Jersey in a letter to a constituent.
~Richwood.-A skim of ice formed on
shallow pools, but the temperature
rose several degrees, and fruit growers
do not believe that any serious damage
has bene done to the trees, most of
which are still dormant. Buds of plum
trees, which are the furthest advanced,
showed no signs of frost damage.
Glassboro.-A bid of 81, 629,1O0 was
made by the Commercial Trust Com
pany of Philadelphia, representing the
bondholders, for the entire property of
the New Jersey Gas Company, operat-
ing in about 20 towns and villages In
south Jersey, at a receivers sale at
| the central office of the company here.
The bid represents the amount Of
bonds outstanding, with interest and
| otbnr ~ Indebtedness fna;lov+ 10 +ho eo1n
added, SO that the receivers sale
wipes out about $600,00 0 in stock and
makes way for the reorganization of
the company.
Trenton. - The application for a
franchise to conduct a bus line between
Millville and Vineland was heard be-
fore the Public Utility Commission.
Wenonah.-The new school, erected
at a cost of $4,000, was dedicated at
public ceremonies.
State Treasurer William T. Read of
| Camden was sworn in again by Justice
Trenchard at Trenton and %reappointed
L. Kensil Wildrick of Newark his chief
deputy. He has been state treasurer
for two three year terms. Colonel
Mahlon r. Margerum Of Trenton also
was sworn in as a member of the State
Board of Taxes and Assessments at a
salary Of $4,000 a year..
Following her a%rraignment in Allan
tic City and her plea of not guilty to
the charge of murder in the first de-
gree, Mrs. Marcella Hurley Wills, ac-
cused of Staying her husband, Lewis
| Wills, two weeks ago, arrived at the
county jail, Mays Landing, and was
hurried through the Sle-iff's office to a
room. on the first floor, which differs
from the average vleeuing apartment
in hotels only In the fact that the Win
dows are guarded by heavy iron bars.
Rev. Albert w. Lowder, seventy-five
years old, a retired minister Of the At
rican Methodist Church. was found
dead in a gas filed room at the home
of his nephew, Howard S. Lowder, 127
North Arkansas avenue, Atlantic City,
He went there to attend a conference
of colored Methodists, and when he re
tired he complained of being cold. His
nephew lighted a gas stove in his ROOM,
but the lights in some manner were ex-
tlnguished, and the fumes filled the
room. Rev. Lowder lived at 124O
South Warnock street, Philadelphia,
with his wife.