The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-04-05

fired several shots into a crowd of his
striking workmen, injuring one. Ryan
said he had been prosecuted by labor
leaders and others.
Chancellor Edwin r. Walker of New
Jersey appointed Alonzo Church, senior
member Of the law firm of Church,
Harrison & Roche of Newark, as vice
chancellor, to succeed Eugene Steven
son of Paterson, whose term expires
April 10.
Joseph Gerrish Ayers, who retired in
1901 from the Navy Medical Corps
with the rank of rear admiral, died,
aged ninety-two, at the home of his
son in Montclair.
Frank Papparaenon, a leper who has
roamed at will through New Jersey for
nine years, was detained by Newark
health authorities, and United States
Surgeon General Cummings will be re-
quested either to have him sent to the
leper colony in Louisiana or deported
to Greece.
Mosquito determination work con-
Quoted in New Jersey during the past
20 years Is to a large extent RESPONSE
BILE for the average increase of 307 per
cent in value of state taxable property
from 1899 to 1921, according to the
state department of conservation and
development.
Vice Chancellor John e. Foster In
Newark ordered Jonathan Meeker COM
mitted to the Union county jail and to
pay q fine of $50 for contempt Of cour
o fI,ua - c11I 10 oil
mony, $50 in counsel fees and $17.96
court costs. Meeker lives in Plainfield
and his wife in Riverdale, Morris coun-
ty. The case has been in chancery
court for 30 years.
Fire broke out In the plant OF the
Atlantic Chemical Works at Bayway, a
suburb of Elizabeth. Three alarms
were sounded, bringing out every one
of the IL fire companies from Eliza
beth. Smoke from the flames hamper
ed the work of the firemen. The dam
age was big.
New Jersey Public Utility Board an
nounced that the new gas rate of S1.25
goes into effect on March 81 for pa
irons of the Public Service Gas Com
pany.
Archie zimmerman of Paterson plead
ed guilty before Federal Judge Bodine
in Trenton to a charge of receiving
stolen goods in connection with the al
legged gigantic silk theft conspiracy re-
Gently unearthed involving the divert
ing of silk goods in interstate traffic.
Sentence was deferred. Pleas of gull
ty were also entered by Thomas Myers
and Samuel Goldstein Of Jersey City,
charged with receiving stolen cloth.
Judge Robert II. Ingersoll at Allan
tic City signed an order for the release
of Mrs. Marcella Wills, who shot and
killed her husband, Louis Wills, in
their home there last Saturday. The
action was taken to permit Mrs. Wills
to go to a local hospital to have ar op-
GRAFTON performed.
State Commander Fields of the Dis
abled Veterans Organization of New
Jersey threatened that 1,600 eX-service
men receiving government rehabilita-
ton in the state would strike unless
Riley r. Briggs, transferred to New
York, was r~einstated as New Jersey re-
Mobilization officer. Fields delegation
charged politics in Briggs removal
Miss Elsie Smith, nineteen, and Al
phonse Boyer, twenty-five years old,
were found in the drying room of the
Maple Silk Company's plant at Pater-
son. each with bullet wounds in the
head. The girl died shortly afterward
in a hospital, and l;eyer followed later
in the day. Boyer, who was married
and the father of two children, is al
legged to nave shot Miss Smith and then
himself.
Several interesting meetings are
planned for early spring by the Law
renee Grange, and committees are now
at work preparing for the program.
Colonel II. Norman Schwarzkopf, SUI
per%intendent of the state onstabulary,
will complete the personnel of the two
troops of state police from among 800
candidates FOR the 43 vacancies as
troopers.
Railway will receive $275 from Rut-
gers College students as compensation
for damages to municipal property in
the riot which ensued on the night #
February 2, when sophomores attempt
ed to break up a freshma- class Ginner
in the Cross Keys mn.
Walter B. Davis, supervising princi-
pal of the Madison schools, was elected
president of the Morris County Teach
ers' Association at he annual meeting
at Morristown to succeed Mrs. Grace
r. Boil. principal of the North Side
school, Dover.
Mrs. Charles Davenport, hfty-hye
years old, of East Orange was fatally
injured when she attempted to alight
from a Pennsylvania railroad train as
it moved out of Matawan station.
Both legs were severed, and she died
before she reached a hospital.
Some of the possibilities in connec-
ton with the commercial development
of the Raritan river to New Brunswick
with the deepening of the channel have
been demonstrated forcibly this win
ter. Notwithstanding some severe cold
weather the river was kept open and
traffic maintained by boats of the Rar1-
tan Refining Corporation, a subsidiary
Of the Eastern Potash Corporation.
Crude oil from Mexico was brought up
the river from Bayway in barges and
the refined oil shipped back by the
same means.