The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-09-20
New Jersey
State Briefs

Nearly 5000 pupils enrolled in thu
Millville public schools. Owing to thu
crowded conditions the "oard Of Edu
cation will speed plans FOR q $3O0,O0l
high school building.
Many drug addicts from Philadel
phia, made desperate by the absence
of peddlers from accustomed haunt'
because of the crusade against them
are besieging Camden druggists ant
hospitals to obtain narcotics.
The $3.50 realized by the Ladies
Auxiliary of tie Shaw-Paulin Post
American Legion, at Glassboro, will BIZ
used towards furnishing the post quar-
tiers In the new community building.
John Corcoran, janitor a Glouces
ter City public school, D. | the Board
of Education more than $500 by doing
repair work about the building, SO the
board voted him $50.
A farewell party was given by young
people of the First M. e. Church, Col
lingswood, to ten girls and boys who
will depart for college.
The Antler Club of Woodbury. has
made arrangements for the annual trip
to the deer GODS when the season
opens.
After many months delay Paulsbo-
ro's sewage disposal plant has been
completed.
After hearing testimony in Camden
Henry M%enehan, twenty-five years old,
of Moorestown was discharged by Re
corder Stackhouse. He had been ar
rested on suspicion of attempted bur-
glary, but proved his innocence and
established a good reputation.
Automobile trucks with Hanged
wheels will replace trolle. cars on the
Rumson-Red Bank branch of the Mon
mouth County Electric Company's sys-
TEN.
Philip Sheridan Hannah, aged fifty
six, retired business man, of PaSSaic
died from conclusion of the brain and
other injuries received when he was
struck by an Erie passenger train
which he tried to board. He leaves
two sisters, Mrs. Richard j. Scolesi
wife of the president of the Passaic
National Bank and Trust Company,
and Miss Edith Hannah.
Bert j. Daily, a member of the
Bayonne City Commission, charged at
It's latest meeting that fraud and for
gerry" permeated the petition recently
circulated in Bayonne requesting that
the question of a change in the form
of city government be placed before
the voters. He demanded an investiga.
ton. 1t is expected the commission
will make it.
The City Commission of Asbury
Park awarded Jesse A. Rowland a con
tract for the erection of a 100000
jetty for the protection of the beach
front. Howlan. was the only bidder
The complete transaction will be APP
proved by the State Board of Naviga
ton. According to Rowland, who de
veloped the Rowland type jetty in ust
at Seabright, the Asbury Park jetty
will be completed by February l. Tit
jetty is designed to protect beach frqal
property from the storms in eaf1,
spring.
Electric shock was declared to have
caused the death at Bayonne of Ed
ward Mountain, ~thirty-eight years old
according to the report made by thu
examining physician. Mountain wa:
said by witnesses TO have grabbed &
fallen electric wire on Hobart avenue
near his home. His right hand wa:
burned to the bone and his body was
thrown Is feet in the air, landing OF
his head. The wire carried about 2,40(
volts.
Edward Chew. at Williamstown, has
commenced picking his cranberry
crop.
One contractor will erect eight
houses on the new tract being de
veloped east of Woodbury..
High school pupils from Pedrick
town and vicinity will be transported
to the Pennsgrove school by bus.
The Gloucester City Fairgrounds al
King and Monmouth streets closed fol
the season with special exercises.
Excavations are under way for the
foundations of the 20-room hlgl
school building at Pitman.
In addition to the several roads now
under construction in Gloucester
county, all of which will be completed
before cold weather, bids are asked
for a road between Swedesboro ant
Woodstown also for resurfacing Del
aware street, Woodbury..
Governor Edwards wrote United
States Senator Edge urging immediat,
action on a bill introduced by the lat
ter authorizing the federal government
at any time, in case of IN emergenc,
similar to that now existing, to talk
over and operate any or all coal mines
Leonard Baus, 115 Rushing avenue
Trenton, asks damages of sic, 900 iron
the Trenton and Mercer County Trac
tion Corporation in a suit just filed II
the Mercer Common Pleas Court. ii
alleges loss of his left leg, togethe
with other painful, sever and perma
mem injuries, as the result of a trolley
auto crash in which he figured. Jane
Meaney, 1017 South Clinton avenue
who b-ings suit Jointly with Baus, ask
the sum of $500 for damages to his au
t0mobile.
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