The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-09-20

be obtained Is Indicated by the placing
of fires under several furnaces.
Residents of Lawnside have filed
protest with Centre township Board OF
Education to the change in the school
program.
The monthly report of William NIL.
Ter, clerk, slows not a marriage license
issued in Centre ~town-hip, Camden
county, during August.
The body of Mrs. Susie Dietrich. sew
enty-four, was found in the cellar OF
her home in Camden by her daughter.
She had a bullet wound In her right
temple. che had killed l-rself In a fit
of dependency induced by Ill health.
Tetanus caused the death at Cooper
Hospital, in Camden, of Tillle Hinewiz,
eve years old, of 1892 Thurman
street, Camden. While playing bare
footed In the street she scratched a
foot and the wound became infected.
Millville police found an automobile
in the woods west of tie city, and 1t
| proved to be the car Of George Toy OF
B~ridgeton, stolen several days ago.
The Haddon township Board of Edu-
cation has requested the Gloucester
City School Board to care for the 112
grade pupils from Gloucester Heights
until the new school building at the
latter place is finished.
Rev. D. e. Stoery Of Upland, Pa,
has been called as pastor of the Mag
nolia Baptist Church and will accept.
Tho haorJ % fr1cfnac will nIIrnhncQ
three lots at Lincoln and Camden i've
nues for a new edifice.
Charles r. Zacharias was elected
president of the Wanamassa Commu-
nifty Association of North Asbury Park
at the annual election. Other officers
are: l.. Roy Martin, vice president /;
George e. Wilson, treasurer, and Will
liam Rooster, secretary.
A. A. Clegg, forty-two years old and
for ten years truant officer of the city
schools, died from heart failure while
working around his farm on Seashore
road, near Wildwood. Clegg had also
been a special officer and served an
enlistment in the United States caval-
ry. He is survived by a widow and II
children.
Chancellor Walker has just granted
a final divorce decree to Mrs. Francis
e. Cordova Of Atlantic Highlands, who
brought suit three years ago against
J.. Frank Cordova, a former Methodist
minister of South River. The former
clergyman created a sensation eight
years ago by clipping with Julia
Browne, a young member of the choir
of his church.
Robert Ambry, a clerk in the city
clerks office at Jersey City, was held
In $1,000 bail by Judge MARKEDLY in
criminal court on a charge of issuing
worthless checks. William Roche, a
clerk in the %surrogate's office, was held
ON a charge Of obtaining money under
false pretenses. The complaint was
made by a barber, who received checks
amounting to 500 from Ambry.
An explosion in the ammonia plant
Of the Althano Humus Company, fer
tillzer manufacturers, caught fire that
| wiped Out three of the company's
buildings at Hackettstown with dam
| age estimated at 100000. No one was
injured. Twenty carloads Of celery
and a large store of provisions for the
employees were part of the loss.
Mrs. Bertha N. Rich of Trenton has
brought suit for $4,000 against the In
terstate Fair Association. The action
is based on the death of her husband,
Walter A. Rich, who was killed Octo-
Der 2, 1920, by the discharge of a ma
chine gun, part of a war trophy ex-
hibit at the fair. Rich was shot down
before the eyes of his wife, with whom
he had gone into the tent in which the
exhibit of weapons was displayed. An
investigation Of the fatality was con
Quoted by military authorities, but lit
tie developed.
The H~arrisonville harvest home net
ted the church about $3.50.
A booster meeting of Odd Fellows
is being arranged at Woodbury., Sep
TENDER 30.
DR.. e. M. Duffield, war veteran and
first full-term mayor of Glassboro, has
decided to be a candidate for re-elec
ton, after having announced that he
preferred that somebody else rum.
The New Jersey Children's Home
at Trenton has been stocked with
| white potatoes for the winter by the
Women's Bible Glass of Woodstown
Methodist Church.
Several accidents have occurred to
Mantua children playing on the new
concrete street, and the township au,
thorities will issue warnings that
the law will be strictly. enforced as to
speed.
The Thorofare Fire Company will
dispense with the usual carnival this
year, and a chicken potpie dinner will
take its place.
One hundred pilots of party fishing
boats from Fortescue, Greenwich
Piers and Bivalve, attended the an
nual meeting and banquet of the Del
WARE Bay Anglers Association at
Fortescue. The chief speaker was
Senator Firman M. Reeves, of Mill
VILE.
A barn on the farm of J. Franklin
Mccoy, near Sussex, was burned aftei
being struck by lightning and crops
and grain that were stored In the
structure were destroyed. Horses II
the barn were taken out safely. A
barn ON the Vanauken farm, on the
Observation-Disclosures road, also
was destroyed.