The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-12

Congressman Randolph Perkins for
acting postmaster at this place. Mr..
Perkins also recommended %reappoint-
ment of Edmund A. Kenny as postmas-
ter at River Edge.
Elizabeth, n. 1.-THE last payment
on a forty-yearold debt sustained by
this town shortly after the panic Of
1879 was made to the Bankers Trust
Company, fiscal agents for the city,
by Mayor Victor Mravlag and City
Controller Denis F. Collins. A check
for $703, 900 was delivered to the trust
company and the last of the old bonds
issued during the boom years after
the civil war, totalling, with accrued
interest, 100000, was cancelled.
Newark, n. J.-Charged with the
theft of 10000 worth of materials
from the United States army supply
base at Port Newark, four privates are
under arrest after an investigation Of
several days. Part of the alleged
stolen property, valued at $4,000, has
been recovered and search is being
made for the remainder.
S~omerville, n. john Murray, of
Passaic, was sentenced to ninety days
in Jail at this place that he may
recover from the nervous shock he
said had resulted when Mrs. James
Gibson, wife of a farmer near here,
his unsolicited advances.
Pitman, N. Mayor Frank S. Van
Hart, of Camden, stood upon the same
platform with his father and his son
at a father and son" service at this
town by the mems class of the Meth
odist Episcopal Sunday school. The
mayor was the principal speaker at
the meeting and spoke both as a son
and as a father in advising parents in
the large audience as to the response
bilities towards the rising generation.
Leon A. Golf, president of the class,
made a short address, and q musical
program was carried out under the
direction of w. Z. Hunterson.
Camden.-Army worms have in
vaded grass and grain elds in scat
tered sections of Salem county.
Hancock's Bridge.-Old Home Day
was observed here with a chicken pot
pie dinner, ball game between the
Shiloh and Vineland teams, concert
by the Salem Tall Cedars band and a
home talent entertainment as features
of the program.
Elizabeth.-A Bible in the family
for years and given to him as a wed.
ding gift by his father, is left by James
Muir, who died at Summit May 8, to
his son, J. Malcolm Muir of Short
Hills. in the will filed for probate with
the Union County Surrogate.
Newark.-Rocco Petoia of this
place, was sentenced to serve from
one and a half to three years in state
prison on a charge of selling cocaine.
The evidence was that Petoia sold
twenty-seven decks of cocaine Octo-
Der 16 to Jerry Spatula of 147 Eighth
N
Asbury Park-James Quatino was
held without bail on a charge of MUIR
dering Raffao Alderelli. Several men
were assembled ut Alderelli's store
and during Il quarrel ii is said that one
threw a bottle at another. The argu-
ment was resumed in a lot in rear
III tiC Slolt IN QudiilO 10 Sdid 1 "
have red the shot which struck Alder
ELI in the stomach. He-1ied in the
Asbury Park Hospital.
Manufactured with atrocious as
sault and battery upon Charles Holly,
colored, of 152 New Jersey Railroad
avenue, and his daughter Blanche,
sixteen years old, May II, and recent
ly found guilty by a jury, Rev. Charlie
Chaplin Walker, colored, evangelist of
105 Walnut street, was sentenced in
this town by Judge Flanagan to serve
two years in the Essex county peni-
Tertiary.
Gloucester City.-Army worms have
appeared here, and owners of gardens
are much annoyed.
Mount Holly.-Struck by the mud
guards of an automobile along the
road near Rancocas Park, a short dis
lance from his home, Jacob Garlinger,
sixty-seven years old. a mason, was
so badly injured that he died in the
hospital here. The car was owned by
A. Clenton Clement of Westville, who
hurried Garlinger to the hospital.
Clement was unable to see the man
walking too close to the path of auto
mobiles.
Paulsboro.-A pair of eagles flew
over the baseball grounds, high in the
air, during a game here.
Gloucester City.-Eleven teachers of
the schools here who will not return
next term We're tq2dered a reception
by the students when the schools
closed for the vacation period.
Woodstown.-After much discussion
the borough council has decided to
purchase an assembled motor fire
pumper of 600 gallon capacity for S.
25S.90 and a motor chemical engine
for $5,396.07.
Elmer.-A location has been selected
at the edge of this place for the Salem
county prison road camp, which will
be moved shortly from Auburn for the
construction of the Elmer-Norma road.
Camden.-Stockholders of the First
National and the National State
Banks here approved the plans to
merge the two institutions.
Paulsboro.-Unable to secure a dog
catcher at any price, Mayor Doolittle
has advertised for a suitable person"
to accept the position. Numerous COM
plants of dogs running at large have
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