The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-04-12

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ware river and Rancocas creek is re-
ported by fishermen, who find it nee
essary to use the strongest nets.
Catches of a thousand pounds to the
haul are not unusual.
Mrs. Margaret 3. Laird of Essex,
who had the satisfaction of being re-
elected to the 1922 session, while her
1921 co-worker, Mrs. Jennie C. Van
Ness, was defeated, may not seek a
third term. Mrs. Laird is uncertain as
to her future political plans.
Orange painters have renewed their
wage scale of So a day, according to an
announcement made at the Orange
Federated Trades Council by Christie
pher Davis, business agent of painters
local 242. The new agreement with
the boss painters was signed recently,
Mr.. Davis said.
Miss Anna L. Williams, recently
elected president of Ventnor City's
Board of Education, is being doomed
by friends for mayor, to succeed Amor
w. Brennan.
The Public Service Electric Compa-
ny ]NON oCioCy VIM SlNHt PASJNNN'
600 in improvements within the next
three years. Virtually the entire
amount will be devoted to supplying
additional generating capacity. The
Essex station will be the first in op-
Grafton, two units being needed.
While Dry Agents Stone and Heller
of Newark were in Passaic they de-
taatn1 tho o1or IF mach En11nwinO
their noses, they came to a building
resembling a stable on the banks OF the
Passaic river. A fence was around the
place, and they smashed through 1t.
Two men ran out and disappeared.
The hootch hunters found foul big
stills going full blast.
George L. Burton of South River
was reelected chairman of the State
Highway Commission for the third
time. A. Lee Grover of Trenton was
reelected secretary. The commission
announced that the proposed bridge
across Raritan bay, connecting South
Amboy and Perth Amboy, would have
ITO feet right Of way.
The Orange tax rate was set at $3.S2
and the West Orange rate at S4.49 by
the county tax board. This is a de-
crease of % cents on the Orange rate
and an increase of 81 cents on that of
West Orange. The increase in the
West Omnge rate was caused chiefly
by the inclusion of $70,445 in the
amount to be raised by Commissioner
of Municipal Accounts w. r. Darby,
who examined the city budget and
found that certain sums had been I'M
properly left out.
County Judge Ingersoll at Atlantic
City set aside the will of Mrs. Alice
Gerry Griswold of Baltimore, former
international society leader, in which
her daughter, Countess Anna st. Clair
Da Contubia of Milan, Italy, was cut
off and the entire estate left to Mrs.
Mary M. Drischman, wife of a butcher.
Opposition to the alleged demand of
soap manufacturers that Congress
place vegetable oils on the free list
was voiced in a telegram dispatched to
Senator Frelinghuysen following a con
ference of representatives of New Jer-
sey farm organizations in Trenton.
The conference also named a delega-
ton to go to Washington to see Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen.
New Jersey manufacturers of food
products met at Achtel-Stetter's, New
ark, to organize. Samuel Mueller of
Jersey City, who presided, said he had
in making food products that they were
interested. He said the aims of the
proposed society should be to better
conditions and promote the welfare of
food producing industries of the state.
In his annual report to the Millville
City Commission Fire Marshal John
Stevens reported 70 alarms of fire dur
ing the fiscal year.
Verga Board of Education is looking
we two sites on which to erect a new
school.
Pennsgrove Chamber of Commerce
is looking for a manufacturing plant
which needs a large wharf along the
Delaware river.
The Lions Club of Wildwood at
their weekly dinner adopted resolu-
tions favoring a half million dollar post
office and a state armory. The princi-
pal speaker was Senator W. IL. Bright,
president of the club.
Game wardens released a consign-
ment of ~one-year-old English ringneck
pheasants in Salem county, there be-
ing in all IA cocks and 80 hens.
A band of gypsies has encamped in
the woods west of Rio Grande, between
Cape May and Wildwood. City COM
missioners have instructed the police
not to allow the women to come within
the city limits.
An ~unfavorable report that was for
warded to Washington by General Pro-
hibition Agent Green Miller regarding
the office and field forces and condi-
lions in general in the prohibition de-
partment in New Jersey is believed by
State Prohibition Director Brown to
have been the cause for the rumored
shakeup in the department.
The Board of Health of Washington
organized for the year by re-electing
DR.. f. J. LaRiew president. Other Off
GERS also were chosen for the same
posts again. Two women members,
Mrs. Clarence Z. Slower and Mrs. Sam
uel B. Libby, took their seats and were
named on the sanitary committee, Mrs.
Slower as chairman.