The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
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Trenton.-Bids for the erection of
the new armory at Salem will be OPEN
ed here on June %.
Brooklawn. - The Center township
Board of Education reelected Mrs. NJ.
Mayne principal of the schools here
and awarded the contract for the new
school to the Penn Construction Com
pany of Philadelphia for $4,000.
Woodbury.-Franklin w. Driver, a
farmer of Mullica Hill, was awarded a
verdict Of $4,000 against the Public
Service Trolley Company in the circuit
court. The jury returned the verdict
after long deliberation. Driver was
going north in this city with a load of
produce on September 2, 1920, when
his wagon was hit and wrecked by a
trolley car.
Berlin.-Additional motor vehicle in
spectors went On duty on the roads
leading to Atlantic City and other sea-
shore resorts. BY orders of William l..
Dill, state commissioner, all speeders
and careless drivers will be arrested.
All persons arrested for driving while
intoxicated will be SEN to Jail for at
least 30 days.
Trenton. - Experience has shown,
said Superintendent John Enright of
the department of education, that the
old maxim of 'sparing the rod and
spelling the child" has been proved a
fallacy. Superintendent Enright ad-
dressed the graduating class of Lake
wood Grammar School No. l, which
motored to the state house. He urged
the pupils to respect constituted au-
thority as a fundamental lesson in good
citizenship.
Trenton.-Fire wardens are offering
81 an hOur to men and boys for the
first two hours, and then the price
drops to so cents an hour. Men and
boys Offering their services, or, in fact,
under a ruling of the state authorities,
help of this kind can be drafted. One
dollar is given to all who report, even
though they do not go into action"
Hackensack. - George III. Holler,
manager of the Eureka Theater, dis
covered that the theater safe had been
robbed of $4,000 in cash representing
receipts of Monday and Tuesday. The
office DOR was open and the safe had
been turned over on its side, drilled
and opened with a "can opener"
Phillipsburg.-The Alumni AssOcia-
ton of the Phillipsburg High School
adopted a resolution favoring the ap-
preparation of 100000 for a new high
school. The secretary was instructed
to notify the Board of Education and
the Board of School Estimate. At a
recent meeting of the Board of School
Estimate the plan was voted down.
Rahway.-Mayor James b. Furber
visited the carnival grounds, where
shows are being presented under the
auspices of Railway Post, American
Legion, and stopped all gambling de-
vices on the grounds. Wheels of for
tune and all games of chance were
closed, and the Legion was notified
that two men must be put in each
booth TO sees that fhes games-are not
reopened. eya&a9n
Trenton. - Martin Ehlers, twenty
nine years old, Bergen county, received
at the state prison during the week, to
be executed on a murder charge, brings
the number of doomed men in the in
~stitution up to six. Ehlers has been
sentenced TO die during the week of
July %. John Vacchiano, Asbury
Park, convicted of murder, was also
received at the institution. He will
serve a life term. Vacchiano's arrival
at the institution brings the total mum
har ne npnuirtc carrinn 1ifa torr,c ~ RI
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Jersey City.-Fearing children would
become scarce in his n~eighborhood
through landlords barring families
with babies. John Swanson, a sixty
year-old retired shipbuilder, purchased
an apartment house at York and Van
Worst streets, where couples with chill
dren will be welcome. To accommo-
date the feet Of perambulators owned
by the families living in his house Mr..
Swanson bought a property next door
and will build a baby carriage garage.
A caretaker has been engaged.
Newark.-Sixty girls working in a
factory on Livingston street fled from
their work when a fire in an adjoining
garage threatened the factory. Excite
ment was caused in the factory when
the flames reached a gasoline tank,
causing it to explode. The fire. which
caused a loss estimated at $4,000, de-
stroyed eight automobiles.
Jersey City.-Trial of the suit of the
city Of Bayonne to recover $4,000 from
the Federal Shipbuilding Company of
Kearney for water pipes laid to the
company's plant in 1918 was begun be-
fore Judge William II. Speer without a
jury in the supreme court. After hear
ing testimony by Joseph Brady. Creigh-
ton Conklin and Charles w. Bryan, Jr,
the court postponed the case. The de-
PENDANT company through former Cor
poration Counsel John Milton of this
city and Lindabury, Depue 4 .Faulks
of Newark admits liability up to about
$4,000, but contends that its contract
with the city of Bayonne calls for moth
ing more. The question is n of law
and the construction put on the terms
OF the contract. The sun sued for is a
balance due on the work.