The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-09-13

Bridgeton.-The road from here to
Fortescue, the Delaware bay fishing re-
sort, has been completed and opened,
eliminating all detours.
Burlington-Residents of South Bur-
lington are demanding that health au-
thorities enforce the law prohibiting
the keeping of swine within the city
limits and that all piggeries be closed.
Vineland. - Harvey L. Shaw, Civil
War veteran, was given Il surprise eel
ebration when % OF his children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
trooped in TO observe the seventy-ninth
anniversary of his birth.
Bridgeton.-Miss Elizabeth B. Cham
berlain, former missionary to many
foreign countries, was buried here.
She was eighty-nine years old.
Vineland.-Ray SCHNEIDER, the well
known ball pitcher, found a nest of 25
green snakes in the brush on a build
ing lot he is clearing here.
Elizabeth.-Because of increased or
ders the Singer Sewing Machine fac.
tory will operate a nine hour day
schedule instead of eight hours, it was
announced by Walter f. Dixon, works
manager. The plant is short of coal,
but there stlll is sufficient to keep it
going for a month. After that the
company intends TO burn oil.
Rutherford - The senate has con-
firmed the appointment of Reid Howell
nG lnna1 nnGtna1 cfnr I1nniDl IlG
Vries vas nominated for postmaster at
Carlton Hill and Richard Van Ider-
slime at Wyckoff.
Morristown. Although he receives
$1,000 a year, consisting of a salary of
$4,000 a year and an annuity of 500
a month, Allan b. Mills of Madison,
director of the architecture and con-
%struction division of the State Depart
ment of Institutions and agencies, told
Judge Quayle in the First District
Court that he cannot afford to pay
even S. on judgments of more than
$4,000 against him.
Cape May.-Captain Francis Holmes
of the yacht Emily, while fishing off
Bug Lighthouse in the Delaware Bay
had the battle of his life with a sword
fish which he hooked on his line. After
nearly an hour and a half the captain,
assisted by a party of Philadelphians,
landed the fish on the yacht. The fish
was six feet long and weighed more
than 400 pounds. This is the first
swordfiSh that has ever been caught in
the Delaware Bay, according to fisher
men around Fishing Creek.
Morristown. - One man was killed
and damage estimated at $4,000 was
caused by the explosion of a boiler at
the p~aper-board mill of r. B. McEwan
& Sons at Whippany. Walter Beyers,
a paper maker, who came from York,
s. c., about two months ago, was
changing his clothes in the boiler room
when the accident occurred. He was
so badly scalded that he died a short
time after. Other employees were in
another room and escaped injury.
Pitman. = This place now has the
youngest of rotary clubs in the state.
1t began to rotate with a series of
weekly l%uncheons. J. Howard Morris,
cashier of the Pitman National Bank,
is president of the club.
Trenton.--This has been an off sea-
son for bayshore and coast farmers in
the gathering and drying of sea grass.
For a time there was a big demand for
sea grass for use in stuffing the uphol-
stery of cheap automobiles, mattresses,
etc. Now there are said to be heavy
importations of foreign substitutes.
Woodstown.-J. Gilbert Borton, who
has been chosen president of the new
Salem county Chamber of Commerce,
is to be honor guest of the chamber of
commerce here, of which he Is an ac-
tive member, when the home %organiza-
ton en%tertains the new county body on
Thursday night, September ID. AT that
time it is expected that a program of
activities will be outlined by President
Borton for the new county Gambler.
Ocean Grove. = In consequence Of
the presence of William Jennings Bry-
an at camp meeting the famous audi
forum Bible class had the largest at
tendance in all the half century his
tory of Ocean Grove. Mr.. Bryan spoke
to nearly 5000 persons on the subject
VI IIuytis
Cape May.-Edward Morton, sixty
two years old, mayor of West Cape
May. is dead. He had been a section
foreman on the Cape May division of
the Atlantic City railroad for % years.
He leaves q widow, four sons and one
daughter.
Camden. Fish pirates are again
raiding the pounds along the south
Jersey coast, Sea Isle City being sus-
pected as their rendezvous.
Mount Ephraim. Runnemede, one
of the towns along the Mount Ephraim
pike, now has electric lights, and most
of the homes are being equipped.
Lake Hopatcong. = Thunder that
rolled back and forth across the lake
in a severe storm is believed to have
raised the body of Jauncey Ketchum,
printer, of Clifton, who was drowned
eff Chestnut Point. The body was
found floating on the surface soon
after the storm ended. Dynamite failed
to produce the result the storm brought
about.
Long Branch.-Attempts by federal
prohibition agents to clear the back
yard of the st. James Hotel of a group
of men who were impeding the loading
of seized liquor and peer in the course