The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-04-05
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

~Assemblyman Gaede, minority lead
er in the assembly, is considered a pos
sibility for the Democratic state n
torial Endorsement in Hudson.
Enraged, it is believed, by u%nrequit-
ed attentions, Alphonse Boyer, twenty
two, married, shot Elsie Smith, nine
teen, in the plant of the Mapel Silk
Company in Paterson and then shot
himself. Both died in the hospital.
At the mex meeting of borough Il
Gil action will be taken against erect
Ing outdoor advertising signs at Ma
tional Park.
A boy of three and a girl of sixteen
months, children of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bonner, who reside On a farm
two miles south of Clayton, were burn
ed to death when their home was de-
stroyed. The mother was working
about the barn, and when she attempt
ed to save the children she was bafled
at every entrance and badly burned.
All games of chance, including pad
die wheels and gambling devices, will
be barred at the annual church, fire.
men and other organization carnivals
In Gloucester county this year.
Gustave Fillhower, town marshal of
Jamesburg, was stabbed in the right
side with a pair of scissors when he
went to serve a warrant on Nicholas
Bosco, who was charged with beating
his wife. Bosco ran, Lut was arrested,
taken to New Brunswick and held in
$4,000 bail on charges of a%trocious as
sault and battery with intent to kill.
Income tax collections for the first
installment of the 1921 income tax in
Newark amount to SIT 100000, ade-
crease of $9,500,000 for the same pc
Rod last year, the Newark internal rev.
enue collectors office reported. Belat-
ed returns, however, are expected to
raise the total to $4,000 DOC.
The Perth Amboy county workhouse
found Joseph Bunosky, a drifter, 80
tough that when he was sent there a
second time for vagrancy officials re-
fused to admit him, and the police had
to free him.
Assemblyman Applegate of Middle
sex was the most %applauded man of
the legislative session. His speech in
advocacy of the ratification of the
Eighteenth amendment caused a near
riot in the house. The Hudson boys,
In Applegate's opinion, are a lot of
know-it-alls. He gained this impress
sion after discovering that it was the
Hudson crowd who moved his desk to
the cellar and left him without a seat
the day following the delivery Of the
speech in favor of prohibition.
State Senator Thomas d. Barber in
formed the Warren County Board Of
F~reeholders that the State Highway
Commission would reimburse the board
for the money spent in constructing
the Morris turnpike from Phillipsburg
to Port Golden. When 1t was decided
by the board to have this road con-
structed the commission promised to
reimburse the board for the money ex-
pended.
Frank Kee, a contractor and farmer,
had a desperate fight for HIS life on his
farm neal New Brunswick when John
Kish, a farm hand, believed suddenly
to have gone insane, attacked him with
a pitchfork. Kee, siXty-four, called
for help, and his wife and daughter
rushed to his aid. The wife got the
~pitchfork away from Kish, who then
choked Kee. The daughter summoned
n%eighbors, who finally overpowered the
crazed man and tied him to a post I'M
til state troopers arrived.
A belief that the many candidates
seeking the postmastership in Bloom
field will soon know who is to be rec
commended by the postmaster general
to President Harding prevails in the
town.
The body of Harry Melsher. former
semi-professional baseball player of
Orange, was buriCC in Wheeling, w.
Va, where for the last eight years he
had made his home. Mr.. Welsher died
in Ell Paso, Tex, where he had gone to
regain his health. .
The action Of .>ishop Joseph F. Ber-
ry at the New Jersey conference of
the Methodist Church in removing Rev.
walter s. Atkinson from the Freehold
church and appointing him to Centen-
airy church, Camden, has aroused a
storm of protest in Freehold.
Present day boy life in Trenton will
be greatly improved as a direct result
of the survey which has been practical
ly completed by committees of the Y.
NJ. c. A. and Rotary Club. Incomplete
reports of the workers engaged in this
big undertaking were received at a
conference Of the committeeman in the
community room at the State Normal
school. The reports will be completed
and tabulated within a short time, and
various recommendations will then re-
ceive attention.
Choice locations for farmers instead
of hucksters at the retail market were
urged by committees of the Market
Growers Association of the agricul-
tural division of the Trenton Chamber
of Commerce and of the Contemporary
at a conference with Mayor DonneIly.
1t was he opinion that farmers, for
whom the retail market was originally
intended, had not shared in the best
locations last season.
49, $500 $3.50 r.