The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-08-30


many.
Jerry Gould, colored. just released
from Jail at Bridgeton, made himself
solid by making a perfect catch of a
one year old baby from a second-story
roof during a midnight fire.
The first section of the Mantua-
Glassboro pike. whtch IL being paved
with concrete, is open from the hotel
at B~arnsboro 10 Chestnut street, Man.
tua.
Captain William @. Sutton vas re-
elected president az the annual re-
union of the Sutton family at Tum-
bling Dam Park. Bridgeton.
Following their usual custom, the
survivors Of the cid Twelfth Regiment,
New Jersey Volunteers, will have their
annual reunion on Labor Day, Septem-
Der l. They will have morning and
afternoon sessions al the Methodist
Church at Elmer and a dinner will be
served.
Riverton has a boy swimming Won
der in ten year old Allen Hemphill,
whose featS recently included swim
ming across the Delaware River. Few
of the adult swimmers attempt this,
but the y%oungster did it in less than
half an hour. and he is now practicing
TO lower that record.
The Central Railroad. which runs
into the southern end of New Jersey.
win operate its trains with coal mined
in England. as the result of the strike
on this side Of the water. Three
steamships are scheduled TO dock at
Jersey City this week with cargoes of
English coal. observation-disclosures
owe until domestic fuel is available
through the reopening of the mines
In the bituminous districts.
II. tbs Newman. a founder of the
Plainfield Y. NJ. c. A, and for many
years Connected with the Boice Runyon
Lumber Company, died at his home,
No. 112 West Fifth street. Plainfield.
He leaves his wife, two daughters and
three sons.
Leases of two small railroads to the
Pennsylvania Railroad were filed at
Trenton In Secretary of State Thomas
Martins office for periods of nine hun
dred and ninety-nine and a half years.
The roads leased are the Perth Amboy
and Woodbridge Railroad Company
and the New York Bay State Railroad
Company. Agreements with the Penn
~sylvania were entered into April last.
Miss Bridgeton" will be entered in
the pageant at Atlantic City. The pub
licity committee of the Chamber of
Commerce will appoint a committee
of judges to select the city's most
beautiful girl for the role.
At a meeting of the Pennsgrove Boz
ough Councils Rev. Apologize, as
spokesman for the Protestant churches,
registered a protest to the operation Of
the %carrousel of the Olympia Park
Sunday, vending of ice cream and
other goods by street peddlers. The
mayor advised that he would look into
the matter.
Mrs. Hettie S. Novinger of Baltimore
instituted suit in the Court of Chan
Gerry at rTenton against her husband,
DR.. Walter j. Novinger, a Trenton
o~steopath, who. she charges, owes her
alimony for sixteen years at the rate
of 81, 1000 a year. She is seeking to
compel him to pay S16,166.66. The
couple separated in 1906, at which
time, Mrs. Novinger states, he made
an agreement TO pay her $1,000 a
year in monthly payments.
The authorities of Salem county are
endeavoring to solve the mystery sur
rounding the death of Albert Wojick,
five years old, of Alloway township,
who was found suffering with what
seemed to be a revolver wound, near
his home. The boy died within q
short time and his last statement was
that his brother, Henry, eight years
old. had shot him. The latter is in
such a highly nervous state that 1t is
impossible to get at the truth.
Application to the State House Com
mission for funds witt. which to carry
on its work made by the Morris Canal
Abandonment Commission.
John +. M%onahan, former sheriff and
city commissioner, stated that he was
not a candidate for James r.. Nugent's
place as Essex Democratic leader.
Herbert w. Slower of Plainfield an
nounced himself as a candidate for the
state senatorial nomination on the
Democratic ticket to succeed William
N. Runyon.
A unit of the New Jersey Women's
Republican Club has been formed at
Pennsgrove, with Mrs. John M. Sum-
merrill, chairman. and Mrs. Hannah L.
Ashcraft, treasurer.
Mrs. Mary Startali, siXty-six years
old, of Mansionville wa killed when
struck by a Central Railroad of New
Jersey train we the Bridgeton spur at
the Mansionville crossing.
Senators Edge and Frelinghuysen
have asked Congress to appropriate
100000 to create a permanent harbor
at Atlantic City.
State Trooper William ONeil suffer
ed fractures of his left arm when
caught in a traffic jam at Egg Harbor
and run down by a New York machine,
the chauffeur of which put on more
speed and dashed away. O'Neil is in
the Egg Harbor Hospital.
Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly OF
Trenton announced that he will not be
a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor. He said he does
moi care to make a political campaign,
as he is just recuperating from a recent
illness. Mr.. Donnelly had announced
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