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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
County Patients Are
Highly Entertained
Murphy's Ministries Assis
Knights of Columbus Com
mittee in Pleasing Event.

The Shut-in Committee of the
Knights of Columbus of Atlantic City
gave an entertainment on Saturday
afternoon for the inmates of Pine
Rest and the county asylum at North
field. 1t was one of the best of the
year and a most enjoyable program
prevailed. Charles Doom was in
charge and the trip vas made from
Atlantic City in automobiles with
Hugh Genoe as master of transporta-
ton.
Murphy's Minstrels were the enter
tainers and the merry mirth makers
and sweet-yoiced singers and funny
end men never worked with greater
zest to please an audience.
The program included a tenor solo
by Billy Long; monologue and song,
Joe Hamilton; quartette numbers by
Doom, Yuel, Rogers and Richards;
jig, reel and clog dances by Muller
and Geiger; comic songs by Billy
Long, and selected tenor numbers by
Charles Doom.
AT the conclusion of the entertain
ment a dance was given the inmates.
The music was furnished by Muir
phys Steel Pier Minstrel Orchestra.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
Peterson Is Captain
OF High School Team
Selected by Coach Helfrich for
Next Year--Painter to Be
Manager for 1928.

Coach Emery Helfrich has selected
Clarence Peterson, the eighteen-year-
old shortstop of the P~leasantville
High School baseball team, for the
position of captain of the 1928 team.
Peterson's selection vas expected,
as he has been playing brilliant base
ball throughout the season, and he
possesses all the necessary ability
that a scholastic baseball leader
should have.
He is a younger brother of Walter
Peterson, the former South Atlantic
League infielder, who is playing with
the Shanahan team of Philadelphia
this season.
Members of this years team were
awarded their letters by the Athletic
Board for having played the exact
number of games required this year.
They are George Field and Phi
Tripician, pitchers; Ware, catcher;
Jonas Henry, Willis Clarke, Captain
elect Peterson, and Painter, infelders
and Rodney Smith, Russo, Barry and
Newman, ou%tfielders.
Borden Painter, who played second
base on the Mainland school boys nine
this season, was selected as manager
for 1923. He is also a member of the
basketball and football teams.
Field, the veteran pitcher of the
~Pleasantyille High School nine who
was the mainstay on the mound fol
the Maroon and White this season
will be lost to the team by gradua
ton, as will Jonas Henry, the regular
first baseman, and Rodney Smith, an
%outfielder.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
Prominent Women
Hosts To Children
Inmates of Children's SeaShOre
House Given Outing atsGran-
nywOOd" Last Week.

Twenty-Five children from the Chill
dren's Seashore House, at Atlantic
City, were taken to "Grannywood,"
the country home of Mrs. E. G.
Shreve, at Mortified, last week for
an outing. Many prominent people
gave their automobiles and assisted
in entertaining the little ones during
the day.
Mayor Edward L. Bader sent a car
to the Seashore House and told the
authorities there that he would send
as many more cars as would be re-
CURED for the children. Mrs. d. S.
White, of the Traymore, filled her car
with the youngsters and brought them
over, as did Mrs. Richard Hayden.
With her car filed, Mrs. Silas Shoe
maker, arrived at "Grannywood" and
the Riddles surely did enjoy the ride
over. Mrs. Fish, of Pleasantville, also
brought over a car full of the little
ones.
The grounds of "Grannywood," all
aglow with the beautiful blooms OF
the hundreds of varied hued rose
bushes, made an ideal place for the
little unfortunates to spend a happy
day.
Games of all kinds were played and
the different ladies interested the lit
tie ones in books, puzzles and other
modes of entertainment. Many were
wheeled around in different convey.
ances and some played croquet.
Mrs. Shreve, the hostess of the af-
ternoon, served her little charges OF
a day with ice cream and cake and
other refreshments. She also gave
each child a bouquet of the lovely
roses growing so profusely around the
attractive grounds.
The children seemed to be having
the time of their young lives and the
memory of this pleasant day spent in
the country among the pines will al
ways linger in their minds, due to the
kindness of Mrs. Shreve and the other
ladies, who took such an interest in
their pleasure.
Miss e. Garrison, the superintend-
ent of the Seashore House, was con
stantly with her little charges, and
she kept an eye on all of them and
joined the ladies in helping them to
have a very happy day.
Miss Ruth Hayden spent the after
noon entertaining many of the chill
dren by reading to them and showing
them pictures, and she played all
sorts of games with the kiddies.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
MEDALS AWARDED STUDENTS.

Miss Mildred Haines, one of the
High School graduates, was prevented
from attending the commencement
exercises last Thursday evening be-
cause of an accident some weeks ago.
She was awarded the Parent-Teach-
ers' Association medal for attaining
the fastest speed on a typewriter,
Her record was sixty-five words a
minute for ten minutes with a deduc-
ton of ten words from the net score
for each mistake. Esler Helms re-
ceived a medal for his work in science
during the past year. Two medals,
for the best athletes in the Senior
Glass, We're given to Miss Edythe
Samson and Bernhard Albrecht. The
large silver loving cup, which the
High School Alumni Association an
nually presents to the valedictorian
of the gradating class, was presented
to Miss Frances Ambruster.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
TRAIN
LEAVES TRACK
Parting of Train in Center
Causes Bad Wreck at Abse-
cOn-All Traffic Blocked.
Rails Badly Twisted

Shortly after noon Oh Monday there
was a bad freight wreck on the West
Jersey and Seashore Railroad at Abb
secon. The through freight due about
12.15 was using the north-bound track,
on its way to Atlantic City, to give
way for the express due shortly after.
Just before Station avenue was reach
ed n of the cars in the center of a
thirty-car train left the tracks at a
frog. This caused the train to part.
At the time it was said the train was
making a speed of about forty miles
an hour.
The engine and several cars con-
tinued down the track dragging TWO
derailed coal cars over the ties. One
of these cars broke loose near the
Rockingham Hotel and the other n
was dragged along the ties all the
way across the Shore Road, when it
twisted so as to block both tracks
and parted from the head cars. How
this car ever went so far off the rails
without turning turtle is a deep mys-
terry.
When the train parted the emer-
gency brakes were set, but the speed
of the train and the down grade gave
the engine and head cars sc much i'm
petus that a half mile was covered
before the front end of the train came
to a stop. The most fortunate part
of the accident was that no one was
injured.
An express from Philadelphia was
due shortly after the wreck and ar
rived ove the south-bound track with
in three minutes of the accident. This
train vas held up, as also was the
New York express following close be-
hind. The several hundred passen-
gers of these two express trains were
compelled to walk around the wreck
to a relief train which was sent out
from Atlantic City to allow them to
finish their journey.
Twelve cars loaded with miscellane-
Gus freight were jammed together in
all sorts of shapes. Every car was
derailed and some of them had the
trucks forced from under them. Others
were wedged together at the ends and
one or two of them were turned
square across the tracks. The road
bed was torn up for q. long distance.
One rail was bent In. a y-sh&fe and
another rail- was forced fftttn N
twenty feet up an embank fI618I{ ana
ben in the form of q horseshee,,ssaS WINS
still another rail was forced across
the south-bound track.
AS the tracks were blocked to
traffic the express trains were dis
patched over the West Jersey and
Seashore Railroad via Pleasantville,
while the section hands and wrecking
crews were clearing up the w~reckage
and ~relaying the misplaced rails.
Great crowds of people were attracted
to Absecon to take a look at. the
wreckage and watch the crews clear
ing the tracks. Cars were lifted bod
lily by the giant crane and carried be-
yond the tracks and others were over
turned and their loads of coal and
such other freight emptied beside the
rails.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
High School Alumni
Entertains Seniors
Annual Dance Given at Atlantic
City Country Club Saturday
Night-Many Lucky FavOrs.

The fifth annual reception and
dance, given by the High School
Alumni Association to the Senior
Glass of 1922, was held on Saturday
night at the Atlantic City Country
Club at Mortified. There was a large
attendance and the evening was great
ly enjoyed.
During the course of the evening a
number of lucky favors in the shape
of candy were given out. Among
those who won prizes were Mrs. Chas.
Penhallow, Mr.. William Stephenson,
Miss Mary Penhallow, Miss Laura
Dougherty, Miss Elizabeth Test and
Miss Laura Carpenter.
Streamers, balloons, crickets and
other novelties were distributed dur
ing the course of the evening, and the
floor took on a very colorful effect
during the closing hours.
The committee in charge of this af-
fair is composed of the following:
Boice, Mr. Ward Weaver, Mr.. Chas.
Bowen and Mr.. William Stephenson.
Among those who attended were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles o. Wilson, VIM.
C, Sullivan, Miss Mildred Ackley, Miss
Dorothy Allen, Charles G. Bowen,
Miss Elsie Allen, Eugene Bates, Wal
ter E. Moeller, Miss Millicent Thomp-
son, Miss Ella Adams, Micky Lavigna,
Miss Laura Doherty, Joe Conway,
Paul Vaizla, Miss Mary Penhallow,
Miss Catherine Sullivan, H. c. Hart
zell, William Bowen, Edgar f. Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs.>Chas. Penhallow, George
Field, S. Cecil Smith, Miss Margaret
Gordon, Miss Jessie Gordon, Geo. Nc
Ginley, Russell Swift, Edward McGin-
ley, Nevin Wike, Miss Anna Uzzell,
George Watt, Miss Jessie Brown,
Preston Forbes, Miss M. Fisher, Rich
ard Brickman, Miss Nellie Collins,
Miss Marion Adams, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Wilson, Ward Weaver, Miss
Leonore Myers, Miss Dorothy Thomas,
Esler Helms, Miss Marietta Gordon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Carton, William
Stephenson, Miss Lottie Frambes,
Miss Edythe Baker, Miss Laura Car
penter, Miss Sarah Bowen, Albert
Newman, Rodney Smith, Miss Eleanor
Conover, Mr.. and Mrs. P. Ortruduhl,
Miss Edna NJ. Price, Mrs. Edna Leh-
man, Miss Emma V. Price, Miss Eliza
beth Price, T. Rudolph Kucher, Will
liam Essington, Jr, William Field,
Stanley Price, Mrs. Florence G.. Sulli-
van, Miss Eleanor Helfrich, Jack Ball,
Albert Newman, George Martin, j..
Francis Gallagher, Miss Matilda Reed,
Miss Emma Clark, r. William Yates,
Miss Edythe Sampson, Bernhard AL
brecht, Miss Nina Dreyer, Joseph w.
Walker.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
JERSEY EIGHTH
IN TAX RETURN
Residents of State Paid Four
Per Cent. of Total as Shown
by Federal Return.
Per Capita Was $13.71

The statistical report for income
taxes for 1920, made public recently
by Internal Revenue Commissioner
Blair, shows that the State of New
Jersey paid more than 4 per cent. OF
all the federal income taxes collected
for the calendar year 1920, ranking
eighth among the States in the
amount paid.
The States of New York, Pennsyl
vania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio,
California and Michigan paid more
federal income taxes, in the order
named, than New Jersey.
In New Jersey 296, 9S9 income tax
returns were made, or 4.0S per cent.
of the total of the United States; the
net income reported was 1917 1913, 627,
or Alp per cent. of the total of the
United States, and the tax paid was
$43,275,477, or 4.03 per cent. of the
total paid for the whole country.
Interesting figures on the total num-
Der of returns made, the amount oil
net income, the amount of the tax
paid for the calendar year 1920 and
the -four preceding years are also
given.
The total number of personal re.
turns filed for the whole United
States for the calendar year 1920 was
1883, 904, while the total amount oil
net income reported by these returns
was $23, 1856, 629, 1873.
The total tax paid, including normal
tax and surtaX, amounted to $1,075,
053 ,6S6. AS compared with the veal
1919 the figures show a growth oil
1927. 1874 in the number of returns
filed, and an increase in the total net
income reported amounting to 1856,
1877, 1885, but a decrease of 1874, 576.41S
in the total lax.
The average net income per return
for 1920 was $3,26S.40, and the aver
age amount of tax was $148.0S, max
ing the average tax rate ABB.
In New Jersey, with a population oil
3,155, 800 in 1920, 9.41 per cent. of the
population filed tax returns. The
average net income per return fol
1920 was $~3,292.56, and the average
amount of tax returned was $145.71
The per capita income tax for New
Jersey amounted to $13.71.
Comparative figures on the prog
ress made in the amount of income
tax returned in the period from 19lt
TO l920 are also shown. In 1916 onl,
1901 persons in New Jersey filed in
come tax returns, representing a ne
income of approximately 1854, 000, 900
on which the amount of tax paid was
$3.50, 231. In 1917 the total number
of returns made amounted to 134, $50
which represented a total income fol
the year of 1921, 042, 424, and a tota
tax of $25,71 .042. For the veal 1915
the total number of returns filed in
creased to 1876, 704, and the amount Of
net income represented was 1858, 112,
$50. The tax paid for the veal
amounted to $43, 109,6 GAS.
During 1919 the number of persona
returns filed in New Jersey reached
231,757, and the net income represent
ed amounted to 1928, 42S,6 72. The Ia,
yield for the year amounted to SAT,
321,422.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
1906 TRAINS DAILY.

Beginning last Sunday the Atlantic
City and Shore Fast Line put in effect
a schedule which gives Pleasantville
the best trolley service it has ever e
joyed. There are now LOG trains daily
between here, Atlantic City and Ocean
City. In the early morning hours
there are several trains which leave
every ten minutes for Atlantic City
and throughout the day the trains
leave every twenty minutes.
From Atlantic City, in the late af'
ternoon, a number of the trains are
run at ten-minute intervals. In the
morning the first car leaves Linwood
at $50 and Pleasantville at 600. Al
night the last car leaves Atlantic City
at 1890 and arrives at Pleasantville
at 1880. People who live here and
work in Atlantic City will appreciate
this frequent service.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
DEER AUTO.

Blinded by the headlights, a deer
jumped through the windshield of an
automobile On the Pleasantville-May
Landing road Friday night, causing
serious injury to Mrs. Carl Moberg, of
New York, an occupant of the car.
She was cut acros the face by flying
glass and kicked in the stomach by
the frenzied animal. She was taken
to the office of DR.. James, at Mays
Landing, where it required six stitches
to close the wound in her face. The
husband of the injured woman was
slightly cut by glass and was Kicked
several times, but not badly,
The deer ran into the road shortly
beyond Pleasantville, but when the
machine slowed up, darted back again.
A short distance farther on it reap
peared and did not move until the
automobile was close, when it leaped
over the hood. During it's struggles
it broke the steering wheel and it was
with great difficulty that Moberg
drove his wife to the physicians resi-
dence.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
Another Carnival
Here This Week
Billie Clark's Broadway Shows
Playing Benefit for Mainland
Post American Legion.

With twenty cars, in which fifteen
shows, five rides and twenty-five con-
cessions were transported, the Billie
Clark's Broadway Shows came into
town on Monday afternoon for a week
stand. They will play a benefit for
Mainland Post, American Legion and
may remain here for the second week.
The management of the shows prom
Uses the people a clean entertainment
full Of amusement for both old and
young.
The shows come here from Haddon-
field, having worked up from Norfolk,
Virginia, where the season was open
ed. The exhibitions will be at Hamp-
ton Court and Verona avenue, where
the Riley Shows exhibited a short
time ago.
One OF the attractions carried is
Miss Quincy, IN a series OF diving
acts. Every morning al ten o'clock
there will be a free exhibition by Miss
Quincy, who will dive 100 feet into a
tank containing but four feet OF wa
ter. Another attraction which mysti-
fees the people is the saving of a wo-
man in half in full view OF the audi
ence The Wallace Circus Side Show
is carried by the Clark combination.
This show consists of trained goats,
birds. monkeys and other animals.
One of the veterans handling a con-
cession with this show is Jack Ever
hart, known to many OF the older gen
Grafton as one OF the old time prize
ring favorites. Jack was in the prize
fighting game when it was the custom
to go seventy or more rounds, some
times with bare knuckles. During his
time he met many of the best that
came along. He is still hale md
hearty at about so years of age.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
County Election
Board Will Meet
COrbin City Wards to Be Re-Dis.
tricted to Equalize List of
Registered Voters.

The Atlantic County Board of Elec-
lions will meet on Monday afternoon,
June 26, for the purpose of re-dis-
tricting the two wards of Corbin City
so that the list of registered voters
in each ward will be nor nearly
equalized. At the present time there
are about twenty-five voters in one
ward and probably one hundred and
thirty in the other. The division
lines of the wards will be SO changed
that there will be about the same
number in each ward. 1t was intend
ed to hold the meeting this week, but
because of the absence of Secretary
Harry Lovett, who is in Toronto at
tending the convention of Kiwanis In
terhational, the date was advanced
III week.
The County Election Board will
meet for reorganization early in July
The time set is the first Tuesday, but
that being the Fourth of July, some
other date will probably be selected
At this meeting Clarence Petit, an
Atlantic City lawyer, will take his
place on the board to succeed vii
liam Charlton. William Hauenstein
who was recently r~e-appointed for his
eleventh term of two years as a mem,
Der of the board, will again be made
president, and Harry Lovett will also
again be made secretary of the board
The other member is e. Leroy
Adams, of this city.
Some time in July the County Board
will again meet to select the District
Boards of Registry and Election fol
the coming elections. The members
the District Boards are named sc
Ae1at they may take office the LIST oil
August.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
DRIVER FINED.

After being arrested on Monday ev
ening by Motor Vehicle Inspectors
Loveland and Kohoe, Clarence Hatton
of Absecon, was fined $22.50 by Judge
Brown. The charge was refusing to
stop when the officers blew theii
whistle. The hearing was quite a
lengthy one and quite argumentative
at times. Judge Brown first fined
Hatton 500 and ordered his drivers
license revoked, at the request of the
inspectors. Later; after hearing some
witnesses for Hatton, he decided not
TO revoke the license, and changed the
fine to $3.50. Many of the specta-
tors were of the opinion that the in.
spectors had exceeded their authority
in making this arrest. There was
very little evidence produced at the
hearing on which to base a convic-
ton.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
FREEBOOTER HELD UP.

Freebooter Charles Kesler and his
wife, of Absecon, were held up by a
bighwayman while driving on the
Shore Road, opposite the Linwood
Golf Club Friday night. A bandit
over six feet tall stepped from the
side of the road and leveling a re
y%olyer, cried: Throw up your mitts. >
Kesler was unarmed, but instead Of
obeying the command, stepped on the
gas and shot ahead. He went to the
Mortified Country Club and notified
the State Police by phone. Officers
were dispatched to the scene, but
were unable to get any trace of the
tall bandit.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
COMMITTEES Of
K|WAN|S CLUB
President Stanley Zippler An
nOunceS His List for Bal
ance of Year 1922
Price Is Representative

The Kiwanis Club now has its char
ter and is fully organized, and Presi-
dent Stanley Zippler has completed
his list of committees for the year
1922. Japhet Price is the District
Representative. The other officers
and committees of the club are as fol
lows:
Oficers-Stanley w. Zippler, presi.
dent; Robert l.. Race, vice-president;
Charles e. Jackson, treasurer; Nehe-
miah Andrews, secretary.
Board of Directors-Stanley w. Zip
pier, Charles E. Jackson, Charles S.
Adams, Mercer Wilson. Louis d.
Champion, Nehemiah Andrews, Harry
Lovett, Raymond P. Thompson, Rob-
ert l.. Race, DR., w. j. Hudson.
Program and Education-Arthur P,
Ryon, DR.. w. j. Hudson, DR.. Robt. M.
Grier, Stanley E. Parsels, John H,
Weaver.
Membership-W, w. Clark, Hugh
Collins, VIM. j. Hosbach, VIM. Shar-
rock.
Attendance-Chas. E. Jackson, DR.
G. F. Starr, Harry Helfrich, Jr., Louis
c. Spalding, Geo. w. Smith.
Publicity-Harry Lovett, Rev. Thos
NJ. Simanton, Thos. F. Crawford
Chas. Penhallow, DR.. c. H. Conover.
Reception-Japhet Price, Walter r
Thoms, Thee. F. Locke, John F. Ryoni
r. NJ. Willis.
Sports-Harold A. Miller, Geo. w
Hallman, Chas. Frambes, Joseph Helf.
rich, Robt. MacLean.
House-E. Leroy Adams, Chas. S
Corson, Chas. S. Adams, Thomas
Marsh, Louis r. Smith.
Finance and Business-Geo. H
Adams, T. H. Smith, r. p. Thompson
r. l.. Race, Harry E. Brewin.
Public Affairs and Inter-City Rela
tions-Rev. Thos. M. Simanton, Albert
E. James, John j. Green, DR.. L. S
Madden, Preston B. Adams.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-21
NOW IN CANADA.

City Clerk Nehemiah tldrews and
Gas superintendent Harry Lovett are
now in Toronto, Canada, attending
the convention of Kiwanis %InterDa-
tional. They left here Sunday after
noon in company with a delegation
from the Atlantic City club. At Phil
adelphia they were joined by delega-
lions from Ocean City and Trenton.
They arrived at Niagara Falls on Mon
day morning and after viewing the
famous water fall they continued on
to Toronto. The local mel will leave
Toronto on Thursday afternoon and
will arrive home Friday about noon.