The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-07
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS


Howard G.. Borden, East Orange,
who scored high in the original Edison
QUESTIONABLE, got the $500 a year job
as New Jersey director of l-bor.
Ida Kramer, seven-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Isadore Kramer of
Woodbury., who disappeared March %
and whose mutilated body was found
In the marshes near Woodlynne a
month later by a hunter, was murdered
by George +. Munroe, nineteen, of
Camden, who corfess,d to County
Prosecutor Charles Wolverton.
Frank ]. McGrath of Manhattan,
who lost a leg as the re-ult of a bullet
In July, 1920. has no cause Cor action
in his $500 damage suit against
Young, a Newark jury declared.
Steamboat passenger service be-
tween Burlington and Philadelphia,
suspended several years ago, following
the destruction by fire of the local
pier, will be resumed, arrangements
having been made for a river line to
use the old steamboat wharf at High
street.
The boys of the North Vineland fire
company want to make Mrs. Fred Gill
lis honorary chief of the department.
An oil stove set the ellis kitchen on
fire and Mrs. ellis had to run to the
hennery to procure IN eXtinguisher to
save the house. This is the third time
recently that the brave fire fighterahas
saved the buildings of the chicken
ranch.
Attorney James II. Butler was in
dorsed for county judge by Atlantic
City Post, American Legion, of which
he Is commander. The veterans say
Butler has the support of 1900 former
service men. His chief opponent is
Attorney William II. Smathers, who, it
Is believed, will be Endorsed by the
Democratic County Committee.
Arrangements have been completed
for the transfer of a part of the Jessup
property on Hunter street, Woodbury.,
to the Y. NJ. C. A., and a new building
will be erected at once. Large contri-
buttons have been made by a number
of men. The new buildin will be
used principally for the several groups
of the city and will cost about $4,000.
Scores Of property owners in Bur
llngton filed with city officials protests
over methods used by a paving concern
In drenching Broad ctr, ct with road
oil. Expensive carpets in many homes
and in churches along the thorough
fare were ruined when tracked with
tar and oil, which had beer poured so
thickly on the highway that it ran in
the cutters. Hundreds of visiting au-
tomobiles were coated with the, mix
ture, and owners are threatening to
sue the city for damages.
The State Board of Commerce and
Navigation announced it had rejected
the application of the Jersey central
railroad for permission to build a four
track bridge over Newark bay fr0rl
Elizabeth t. Bayonne. The board held
maintenance of a bridge ct the pfo-
posed point would be "prajudit1aI to
the best Interests ct Q2yigatibprsxa and
I Inconsistent with the maximum devel-
opment Of the waterway" !
The Ocean City Street Railway Com
pany, through its trustee, Rober- Chew,
has requested permission from the city
commissioners to lay tracks and run
cars on Central avenue from Eleventh
street to Wesley venue and along this
avenue to Ninth street. The proposed
change will bring passengers Il block
nearer Asbury avenue, the main busf-
ness street. The commissioners have
called a public HEARING 10 June II on
the application.
Probabilities of Colonel Thomas II.
Birch of Burlington, former United
States minister to Portugal, entering
the Democratic gubernatoriGl race
loomed strong when it was announced
that the Burlington County Democratic
Committee and friends of the colonel in
other parts of the state are urging
him to become a candidate" Colonel
Birch, who returned recently from
Portugal, is now at the hone of his
father, James III. Birch, in Burlington
and has been planning to return on a
business mission.
Two persons were killed and another
seriously injured when an automobile
driven by Charles Steelman went over
an embankment ON the Budd Lake road
heal Hackettstown The dead are Mrs.
Alena Kebler of Succasunna and her
seven-year-old son, Allen. Mrs. Clarke
Steelman was badly hurt. Steelman
mistook the road and drove on to Il
staging, from which the car plunged
into a ditch. He escaped serious in
jury, as did his wife and his brother,
Clarke Steelman.
Disappearance of gold from the
Perth Amboy plant of the American
Smelling and Refining Company has
been cleared up, it was announced by
the police, by the arrest of Pulius Of
trosky, a smelter at the plant; Harry
Fishkoss, a jeweler, and Harry Her
bert. They are charged with grand
larceny and receiving stolen goods. 1t
Is alleged that Oftrosky stole the gold,
turned it over to Fishkoss, who in turn
gave it to Herbert for delivery to a
New York dealer. The amount involv-
ed is estimated at $500.