The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-04-12
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Senator White may have a primary
fight in Atlantic, with Assemblyman
Joseph A. Corio as a formidable con-
testant and former Senator Emerson
J.. Richards also in the race.
Assemblyman Arthur N. Pierson of
in the lower legislative branch, will
III for the Runyon vacancy in that
county.
Mrs. Alice Tilden, a cripple, of 20
Comstock street, New Brunswick, vas
married to Charles Badman. a wealthy
farmer of Oswego, n. Y. Each is six
ty-eight years old.
Mrs. John Y. G. Walker of Llewellyn
Park, West Orange, has begun teach
ing Il children's sewing class of 20 at
the Community House, that town. The
class, which has one session a week,
will meet Tuesday afternoons at $3.50
o'clock.
Comptroller Dennis F. Collins of
Elizabeth received by express from a
Long Island town the tax assessment
duplicate and field book of Assessor
Harry Weaver of the Eleventh ward,
who has been missing since February.
On the outside of the package was in
scribed, "From Inger Weaver, Spring
field Gardens, Long Island" Inger
Weaver is said to be the name of Mrs.
Weaver, who is said to have sailed for
Denmark with her son several days
ago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins tanning,
seventeen, cannot apply for an annull-
ment of her runaway marriage under
the New Jersey age-of-consent law I'M
til she shall have become of legal age,
according to an opinion filed in the
Trenton court of chancery by Chan
cellor Edwin Robert Walker.
Under the assembly reapportionment
bill, repassed by the legislature over
the governors veto, the Bergen and
Union delegations will be made up Of
four representatives each. Hudson
will have II instead of IL legislators,
and Morris hereafter will send one in
stead of two lawmakers. The Essex
delegation, with u votes, will be the
largest.
While night traffic on the Boulevard
Loop was at its height and many per-
IONS were returning to their homes
from theaterS an armed bandit held
up an automobile party of four which
had just left the Park Inn at Hudson
Heights and escaped with 500. In
the car were Alfred M. Schmidt and
Charles Weber, both of Hoboken, and
Agnes Smith and Loretta Bell, both of
West New York. Mis- Bell sat on her
pocketbook and thus saved the money
that was in it.
In Mercer former Assemblyman Will
liam H. Blackwell of Titusville will
run against A%ssemblyman George w.
Guthrie of Trenton for the G. o. p.
senatorial nomination. Guthrie will
urge that the farmers bloc of Con-
gresham Hutchinson and County
Clerk Fetter of Hopewell should be
willing to permit the senatorship to go
to a city candidate.
I. Grossman of Lakewood, prOprie-
tor of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ho-
broken for a new modern hundred
room hotel TO be rushed to completion
in time for the opening of the fall sea-
son, The hotel will be of stucco finish
and will be of three stories. 1t will
cost about $250,000. 1t will have a
large ballroom and a dining hall with
a seating capacity of 400.
Residents of Verga and National
Park have heard that the state will
soon take over Hessian avenue from
the battle-ground to North Woodbury.
and that it will be macadamized.
Daylight saving has been recon-
mended to Pennsgrove borough council
by the chamber of commerce, but near
by farmers protest.
Byron Pennington Croker Post,
American Legion, wildwood, celebrat-
ed the attainment of 121 paid up men,
bers and opened the campaign for
funds for the Blessed Haven for Dis
abled Veterans with a general rally
and banquet.
Services in celebration of the two
hundred and nineteenth anniversary of
the laying of the cornerstone of the an
cient edifce were conducted in st. Ma
rvs p. T.. Church, Burlington.
Petty thieves have been active in
Glassboro, one of the victims being
George Benninger, from whose house
nearly $40 was taken.
Kenneth Roberts, giant sailor, and
Pearson White, held last August when
the liquor laden schooner Pocomoke
was seized at Atlantic City, were taken
from the Gloucester immigration sta
ton to Trenton by Deputy United
States Marshal Healey as witnesses in
the United States district court.
In addition to Sussex county's rata
bles being increased $44S,0SS over last
year, the tax rates in 81 of the "a dis
tricts in the county show increases,
while the remaining three are less than
last year. Clarence L. Reeder, secre-
tary of the Board of Taxation, com
pleted the rates a few days ago.
Mrs. Van Ness, reports have it, will
seek the G. O. p. nomination for state
senator in Essex when the voters in
1923 select a successor to Senator Par
ry.