The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-05-10

Trenton.-The State Hig hvay Com
mission has voted to engage Clarence
W. Hudson of Montclalr us consulting
and designing engineer for the pro
posed Raritan River bridge between
Perth Amboy and South Amboy. 1t IS
estimated the spa viii cost than
S4,000,000. The engineers fee will be
6 per cen of the contract price.
Newark.-For the first time the vet
Grams of the Civil War will not march
1t the head of the Memorial day pa
rade in this city, but will ride in auto
mobiles TO decorate the graves OF their
CONRAD es, 1t was announced
Atlantic City.-Loulse Van ViiIken-
berg, IN inspector at the North Anerl-
can Seashore Home at Ventnor, was
found dead of heart disease in her bed.
She was u sister of Anna Van Nalken-
berg, head o fthe institution, and a
cousin of Il. a. Van Valkenberg, Phila-
delphia newspaper editor.
Boont on.-Harry Coeland, a farmer
cf Montville, died within an hour after
beir " stung by a bee. He went into
the yard to chop wood and Old ms
wife, when he ret urned 10 the house,
he had been stung in the TEN pie lie
became unconsci Ous in 4 few minutes
and wal dead when physicians arrived
Hackensa ck.-A jury in the Bergen
county circuit court, including I'VE
women, gave n verdict of 9 cents
DANA ges to John N. Stein of Lyndhurst
in his suit tc recover $4,000 from
Edgar P Kane Of the same place for
the aliena ton of Mrs, STEMS affec-
tons. The jury was OFT just an hour.
One man fl yored 5000 damages and
another 81 1000, but the majority did
not consider Il necessary to allow DAM
| ages. "We meant our verdict TO be a
verdict OF guilty against Kane said
one juror.
Jersey Clty.-Helding her baby in
her arns Mrs. Ida Vivian Moorel ock,
nineteen years old, drank poison be-
II her husband couldn't buy her
new clothes. Mrs Pauline Wills, a
neighbor, seized n bottle the baby was
clutching and forced the milk down the
mothers throat. The antidote appar-
emily worked.
Newa rk.-Director of Public Safety
Brennan has ordered moving picture
theaters in the Roseville section of
Newark to close on Sun day, as a re-
suit of protests from pastors
Observation-Disclosures is BEING
made to the state commissioner OF
banking for n charter for 2 new trust
company here, st ock for which has
been oyersubscribe ed. to the s15O,00
mark.
Pitman.-A contra ct has been ava rd'
cd by borough council for mounting its
chemical apparatus on n neV motor
cha sis at a cost of $500.
Trenton Plans and specifications
for the proposed new brid &c to span
the Mana sQIan river between Us
borne's Corner and West Point Pleas
ant have been approved AT a joint
meeting Of the Ocean and Monm outh
| county boa r1s of freeholders.
Gloucester City.-Boy Scouts asst St
ed in locating the parents of four.year-
old Serena henson, who was found on
the street and spent Q couple of hours
at the city hall,
| westyllle.-A VOTE upon the prcpcs-
fvt purchase of III nd AfoHgs Big TlnbeF
tcreek for a borough park will be de-
Lferred until the next general election
by action taken by the council.
Bayonn e.-The City Commission has
retained Clyde 2 IS Of Morrist Ovn as
wa ter engineer and has directed him to
bore at Oak land and test the bottom of
the Ramapo Valley to find the bes- To-
cation for a dam and the depth TO
which the foundations will have to be
sunk.
Pennsgrove.-Twenty-eight students
will be grad uated at comlnenceme
exercises of the high school June s,
Pennserove- = This borough has
made a donation of 5000 to the Salem
County Memo rial Hospital.
Westville.-The planked sh ad season
is under way here and Glou cester City.
Clayton. A troop of Boy Scouts
from West Phil adelphia is camping on
the farm Of Perry Terrell.
G1oucest er CIty.-Commencement eS-
ercises of the high school will be held
in the Apollo Theater Th ursday, June
%, with % graduates.
Paulsbo orc. = About 100 men have
been taken on at tine Vacuum oil plant
here.
Camden. = Approximately $4,000
was realized by the government in the
auction sale of building lots at Fair
| view, the wal village near hire, Five
hundred lots were sold, tine average
price being S264, alb out what they orig
inally cost the govern II ent-
WildwoOd-The city commissioners
awarded a con tract to 0ber &Noolson
for grading and graveling IL street
ends on n bid Of S4,1S6.1O- The other
bidders We're Craythern & -sickerson,
S4,850-00, and K. III, Coney, $ ,S99'SS-
The streets to be improve are Junl-
per, Poplar. Magnolia, Glen wool, Ma
pie, Pine, Wildwood, Oak, Davis, Burkr
and Andrews. Work must be complet-
ed by June l.
Westmont-The burning of an SIS
900 mOrtga Sc on the old church and
the formal Ia lying of a cornerstone of Il
10000 stone church at Centre and
Emerald avenue marked a new era in
the history Of the congregation, which
Is years ago was a mission of the First
Church, Collinssvood.