The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-08-16

2 was announced by the city direc
tor of revenue and finance here.
Observation-Disclosures are much in de.
mand at peach and apple orchards In
Gloucester county.
Seaville. - South Seaville has the
heaviest fruit crop within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant."
Collingswood.-The BOG teacher stu
dents of the state summer normal
school here started their final examf-
nations.
notwithstanding August the congre-
cations of the Presbyterian and Bap-
fist Churches here will unite in their
Sunday services.
Highland Park. - Residents of this
place are much annoyed by petty thiev-
ing at night.
Pensauken. = Police made four ar
rests in an effort to stop orchard rob-
berries, but the men proved they were
not criminals and were discharged.
Deptford.-As a result of frequent
disturbances in a dance hall here the
place has been closed.
Mount Royal. Assemblyman John
B. Ttratton of this place presided at
the annual reunion of the Stratton clan
at Alcyon Park.
Northmont. = Residents here have
asked the Centre township committee
to improve the roads in this section
and to install electric lights.
Port Elizabeth. The Pennsylvania
railroads announced intention of clos
ing It's station here has caused ship.
pers here to protest to the Utilities
Commission.
Bridgeton. = Fifty members of the
Schuylkill County Agricultural Society
visited farms, orchards and nurseries
in this district.
Brooklawn.-A certified plan of the
new st. Mary's Cemetery on Brown
ing's lane, below here, has been ap.
proved by the Centre township coin
mittee.
Newark.-Mrs. Elizabeth A. Harris,
lone woman member of the Essex
County Board of Freeholders, has de.
manded equal rights for women prison
ers with males in the county work
house. The men work daily in the open
air; the women are allowed outside
but twice a week. Mrs. Harris said an
enclosure could be built for the wom-
ems open air walk, .,id the 'roblem
was left to Chairman Dodd and War.
den Hosp.
Wildwood.-A contract for cement
pavements along Atlantic avenue from
Schellinger to Montgomery avenue WAS
awarded by the city commissioners to
Thomas Delaney for $6,454. The WORK
will be for the property owners bene.
fit.
Trenton. = William Hewitt, sixty
eight years old, one of the best known
iron and steel men in the country and
FOR 4S years an official of the Trenton
Iron Company, now operated by the
American Steel and Wire Company,
died in a Philadelphia hospital after an
operation on the throat.
Observation-Disclosures in Jail is not
a good cause for a member of a school
board to absent himself from meetings,
Assistant State Education Commits
sioner Strahan ruled in dismissing the
appeal of Edward Pulls, member of the
Board of Education in Jefferson town.
ship, Morris county, for reinstatement.
Neutrality-suspicious. of the Public
Service Railway Corporation were no.
titled by Thomas Carroll, clerk of the
common council, that the company has
no right to prevent jitney bus opera
tors from approaching the ferry land
ing. A fence has been erected near the
car tracks, keeping the jitney men OFF
the property.
Millville.-Through the efforts of
the Municipal League, of this city, an
automobilist tourists camp has been
opened at Union Lake park.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS thunderstorms
that kept many away, $736 was
cleared at the recent carnival on the
Haines farm at this place for extern
sion work of the Burlington County
tuberculosis League.
Elmer.-The Presbyterian women
here cleared $500 from a lawn fete.
Palmyra.-Work on the new section
of the high school is progressing rap
idly.
Riverton.-The Board of Health Of
this city has unanimously recon-
mended that the Borough Council con-
tract for municipal collection of gar
bage.
Palmyra.-It is estimated that about
1000 automobiles passed over the
Tacony-Palmyra ferry en- route to and
from the shore for the weekend.
Paulsboro.-The plant of the Stand
ard Fuse Corporation at this place,
has been sold to Trenton parties, who
will make oilcloth and linoleum.
Millville.-Games Warden George
Phifer has released several hundred
black bass in Union lake, north OF
this place.
understandable council here is
having a dwelling erected for the SUI
perintendent of the municipal water
works.
Pitman.-Road contractors began to
pillow up Broadway, making three of
the principal streets now torn up for
paving.
Maple Shade.-A big catch of Japan
csc beetles made by Charles and VIII
liam Schlatterer, boys of this city, will
be taken to the Camden Dahlia Club
for its offered price of five cents per
100.