The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-09-06
New Jersey
State Briefs

The post office at Gloucester Cit.
has found it necessary to engage al
auto truck to deliver parcels post pack
ages, which are steadily increasing IL
number.
A iby show featured the annua
carnival of Shaw-Paulin Post, Ameri
can Legion, on the firehouse grounds
at '.oro.
A Catholic club has been formed al
Brooklawn and efforts are being made
to have a mission established there
The matter has been referred to Rev
Maurice e. Brio, pastor of st. Mary's
Church, Gloucester, where the resi-
dents now attend service.
More than $1,000 was realized al
the carnival held by the North Mer.
chahtville Fire Company.
District Superintendent Alfred Wage
Is announced as the principal speaker
for re annual harvest home and fes.
tival to be held by Methodists al
Friendship on September g..
Feach festivals and harvest homes
now have the call in south rural dis
tricts.
The Pitman Woman's Club engaged
Wilbur Nj. Walden, assistant state en-
tomologist, TO give a lecture on mos
quitoes, with moving pictures, at the
camp meeting auditorium.
National Park Board of Education
appointed Miss Nina Wicks of Iona a
grase teacher, and now has its full
quota of teachers.
Because Of conflicting dates for rep
resent tives of the local units, the
meeting Of the newly-organized Salem
County Chamber of Commerce has
been changed from September II to
IA at Woodstown.
A drumish weighing fifty pounds
was caught by Frank j. Mullins of No.
B3 North Harrisburg venue, Atlantic
City, on the Somers Point-Longport
bridge.
The Brooklawn Community Associa-
ton has sent a request to the West
Jersey & Seashore Railroad Company
for more trains.
Housewives at National Park are
doing more preserving than for years,
uuc " inc blB 1lop VI liuit.
An cold home week" under the aus
pieces of Millville Lodge of Elks will
be held beginning September 4. Pa
rades, industrial and farming exhibits,
athletic events and fireworks will be
features.
Former Senator Lewis 7. Stevens
of Cape May has withdrawn as a can
didate for the assembly and friends
have prevailed upon Aaron w. Hand,
former county superintendent of
schools, to accept n nomination OH
the Republican ticket.
Mrs. Ivy Giberson pleaded not guilty
at Toms River when arraigned on a
charge Of numbering her husband, vii.
liam Giberson, while he lay asleep in
their Lakehurst home August IA. Mrs
Giberson, wearing a dress Of black
and white striped chiffon, laughed and
talked with those in the room during
her a%rraignment.
Mrs. Annie Whittemore, mother Of
Clark Mex. Whittemore, vice president
of the Union County Trust Company
of Elizabeth, died in Elizabeth, the
eighty-second anniversary of her birth
Arthur Breeze Proal, q civil ant
electrical engineer known as an expert
In methods of fuel reclamation ant
who was employed on the Panama
Canal, died of pneumonia at his home
in Nutley. He vas fifty-two years Of
age, a graduate Of Stevens Institute
His wife is president of the New Jer
sey State Federation of Women's
Clubs.
A half-mile section of the Green.
wood Lake turnpike, neal Pellingtor
Park, Is being widened.
George H.. Mott, aged eighty, a CiviI
Wan veteran and former New York
merchant, died at his home in Sum.
NIT.
Harry Lafferty, of Ferrell, has an
nounced his candidacy for the Assem-
bly, and has been Endorsed by some
Democratic Clubs.
Gloucester City fire department has
changed the date of its parade anf
housing the new fire apparatus from
September 80 to Saturday, October 8
The Boonton Board of Education ma.
engaged Miss Frances Van Cleaf o.
Rockaway to teach In the high schoo
at a salary of $1,400. Her mother, Mrs
Minnie Van Cleaf, has been engaged t,
teach In the grades at ST. 200.
Richard G. Chamberlain, secretary
treasurer Of the Real Estate Tit,i
Company Of New Jersey located II
Trenton, has been appointed to tb,
Executive Committee of the newl.
formed New Jersey Title Association
The organization meeting Of the asse
citation was held in Asbury Park.
While posing in her bathing suit 70
her father to take her photograph
Miss Elizabeth Mautner, sixteen year
old, of New York, was swept from he
position in the Railway River by al
u~ndercurrent, 1t Is believed, and car
ried D. a deep channel, where sh
drowned. James Stevens, of Railway
attempted to save her, but exhaustion
compelled him to abandon his efforts
after struggling with the girl, VII
twice pulled him under.