The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-05-24

thc 9<,UOO pipe organ DeiHR lus.diiSu
in the Glassboro NJ. P. Church will be
dedicated May q.
The Citizens Committee of Glouces-
ter City received a letter from the
State Board of Education that its re-
quest for an investigation Of school
conditions had been referred to State
Commissioner Enright, who will sub
NIT a report at the next meeting.
A new schedule of rates for water
for borough and domestic purposes has
been filed with the Glassboro council
by the Clayton Glassboro Water Com
pany. The Public Utility Commission
recently granted The company an in
crease.
The contract for the erection of the
soldiers memorial building at States
and Pacific avenues, Atlantic City, was
awarded by the City Commission to
the P. II. Kelly Construction Company,
Philadelphia, for $4,000.
A number Of breakdowns in the con-
crete mixing machinery have delayed
work on h two mile stretch of the
Observation-Disclosures road.
thC StdAC NiiloIoiiotS tph'
will be held in the Robert Treat hotel,
Newark, May 30. Prominent members
of the medical and allied professions
will lecture on scientific topics relat-
ing to the profession. Aside from the
lectures a social time will be enjoyed.
A baby buffalo was born on the &C.
dar Valley Stock Farm, near Alloway,
owned by Reeves Timberman. The
farmer bought three buffalo calves a
few years ago and has raised them
| with his COWS and horses.
Nearly 200 boys will take part in the
track meet at Page Park, Woodbury..
Saturday, May 81, under the auspices
of the Rotary Club. Handsome prizes
have been donated by merchants.
A former store building at Carney's
Point has been purchased by the La
dies Aid Society of Union Presby-
terian Church for removal to the
church lot to be ~remodeled into a par
ish house.
The Collingswood Horticultural So
ciety decided to hold the annual fall
flower show on October 6 and Z. NJ. e.
Douglass of Woodbury. gave a lecture
on dahlias.
The Camp Dix run supply has been
stemmed at the source, according no
Philadelphia detectives who raided the
home of Nick Ogrodnitzki of Fair
mount avenue, near Third street, and
seized a 80 gallon still, other materials
used in the manufacturing of liquor
and alleged stolen goods valued at ST.
600. 1t is charged that the liquor
from Ogrodnitzki's stills has been find
ing its way to Camp Dix with great
regularity.
The majority of families living at
Fairview who bought their homes are
now complaining of the assessment
which Camden city has levied. Most
Of them claim the assessment is more
than they paid for the homes and will
appeal to the county board.
Two fourteen-year-old Camden girls
who decided to hike to Atlantic City
and obtain positions for the summer
were picked up on the4.White Horse
pike below Berlin III Gnrtlssl q
J J
Tskey les honfeg up nnelt to C)emen-
ton on aetrolley 6fssTP6 Nsen walked to
Berlin and were NpecialiSway down
the pike when stbpksshal ri
Arwames Lodge of Odd Fellows of
Gloucester City presented David Cope
land. one of the Oldest members, a
framed picture of himself, which will
be hung on the lodge room wall, and
to James Luker, a veterans jewel for
having finished 25 years as a member.
More than IT'S society leaders are in
Lakewood at the Laurel-in-the-Pines
Hotel for the annual court of the So
ciety of Colonial Wars. s.
William II. Brown, s~eventy-two, and
his wife, siXty-eight, were burned to
death when fire destroyed their home
at Jerseyville.
Andrew ]. Murray, reputed to be
East Oranges w%ealthiest saloon owner
md wholesale liquor dealer, earned
by cable at Bermuda that his huge
stock of choice and not so choice
WHISTLES, wines and beer is in the
hands of federal prohibition authori-
ties.
Issuance Of $2,50O,000 capital stock
by the Public Service Gas Company
was approved by the Public Utility
Commission. The company sought ap-
proval of an issue of $3,200,OOO. The
proceeds from the issue granted Will
be used to reimburse the company for
extensions made prior to September 1,
1921.
National ComIlaller Hanford Mac
Nider of the American Legion received
a royal welcome from the citizens or
Trenton, including many veterans OF
the world war. He left for Plainfield,
which which place he will go to Eliza
beth. His New Jersey tour will ter
inmate in Newark at a reception ana
mass meeting in his honor.
The East Jersey Water Company
obtained from Supreme Court Justice
Swayze in Jersey City a writ of GER
tiorari for a review of the decision OF
the State Utility Board holding that
the company is not a public utility and
does not come within the purview OF
the boards jurisdiction. The writ is
r%eturnable to the June cou term IN