The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-05-17

den visited Gloucester City, where n
number of storekeepers had failed to
make out income tax returns.
Plans of the new Vineland hospital,
to cost 100000, were discussed by the
directors, and Harry A. Gittone was
elected treasurer.
Oaklyn borough commissioners VIII
consider paving the borough side or
White Horse pike after comforting
with members of the Board of Free
holders.
Gloucester City Is preparing an all
day celebration of Independence Day
In charge of the Merchants Commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce.
The directors of the C~ollinSswood
National Bank had their annual
planked shad dinner at Westville.
Fairgrounds for the children of Ma
tional Park are being laid out on
vacant land adjoining the NJ. E.
Church.
For the reason that Governor Ed
wards, in his opinion, is one Of the
strongest forces in the country arrayed
In opposition to prohibition, State Sen
ator Alexander Simpson of Hudson
county issued a conditional withdrawal
from the race for the Democratic
nomination for United States senator.
Max l.. Stegman, former executive
clerk in the Department of Parks,
charged with bribing a postal employee
to divert to him registered mail, was
acquitted by a jury in Federal Court
at Newark. Stegman was alleged to
have sought to obtain liquor with
drawal permits addressed to State Pro
hibition Director Brown.
Rev. Harry j. Iobst, a former men,
Der of the New Jersey Assembly from
Hunterdon county and for many years
an active figure in Hunterdon county
politics, has been made the defendant
in Il suit for divorce instituted in the
Court of Chancery by his wife, Flora,
of C~okesbury. The suit is based upon
alleged desertion.
An appropriate Memorial Day OBJ
servance Is being planned for West
mont by Allen 1. Morgan post, Ameri-
can Legion, and to raise funds for
exercises the post will give a pinochle
party in the firehouse Saturday night,
May 10.
Reports to the State Department of
Agriculture from hundreds of crop
correspondents confirm previous re-
ports that the damage by frost to New
Jersey fruits was %uneyenly distributed.
Orchards located where there was
little air draining are severely in
jured and will not produce much fruit.
Some varieties of peaches and apples
We're badly hurt. Consumers will find
some scarcity at times when these
but the total product Of apples and
peaches should be fairly satisfactory.
The police are seeking clews to the
mysterious motor truck and the men
who rolled away the 700 pound safe
containing 1928 from the office of the
Erie Railroad at Ridgewood without
a trace.
Finger prints of all members of
police and fire departments in cities
of the state which have adopted civil
service will be taken as a means of
identification. This is to assure the
State Civil Service Commission that
there are no frauds and impersona-
lions in examinations or on payrolls.
The State Public Utility Commission
has notified the Board of Trade that
Chief Inspector Belts has recon-
mended that the Wildwood Gas Com
pany revise it's charge for service con-
nections from SO to so cents a lineal
foot for pipe from the curb line to
meter and that the flat charge of $3.50
now included in the company's present
cost of installing service pipes be dis
continued. The charge has caused a
storm of protest ever since it was
granted by the Utility Commission last
summer.
A loss of 20 per cent in vegetables is
indicated in Burlington county; in Sa-
lem, Is; Gloucester, 20.
Bus owners, operating through the
rural districts, have announced sched-
ules Oh the daylight system.
All the Camden county towns will
adopt Notwithstanding time, most of the
municipalities having taken action, and
the others will do so without official
action.
Mayor Harry Peddle has issued a
proclamation prohibiting ball playing
in the borough park in the center of
Wenonah.
Genera Howell Post, G. A. r., is
arranging an attractive program for
Memorial day at Woodbury., when Sen
ator Runyon will be orator.
An additional mail carrier went on
duty at Haddonfield, and sections not
heretofore served will have free deliv-
cry.
Ministers in Woodbury. preached spe-
cial ermons to parents on the religious
training of children.
Odd Fellows lodges from all parts
of Gloucester county attended church
services In honor of the anniversary of
the order.
A report received by Gloucester City
council from the State Board of Health
shows that the city water Is absolutely
clear of all contamination. A week
stgo, after the nine cases of typhoid
fever had been reported and two
deaths had occurred, DR.. l. w.
Knight and an engineer Of the
state board visited the city and took
samples of water from ten different
places. The tests are most pleasing to
the city officials, because they show
that the typhoid was not due to the
water.