The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-07-11

street, Hoboken, on a charge of L
der in connection with the death Of
his common law wife, Mrs. Mary
Clark, last March.
With the 5000. 900 gallon reservoir
that supplies Plainfield and nearly a
dozen other towns dry as a bone and
with no relief promised, a serious wa
ter scarcity faces that part of New
Jersey.
Joseph Champion, thirteen, Kearny,
was drowned while swimming in the
ice pond at Delawanna, between Pas
sale and Nutley.
A cross, believed to have been
placed by members of the Ku Klux
Khan, blazed on the lawn of ST. Pat
rick's Roman Catholic Church, Glou-
cester City. Woodbury. police discov-
cred the cross and summoned Rev.
Charles ]. McCorristan, rector of the
church.
John Hagan, health officer of Jersey
City, reported to Mayor Hague that
more hal 1000 children, many In i'll
health, are working in home sweat
shops" in Jersey City. Mayor Hague
ordered that all firms giving out work
to these unlicensed children be prose-
cuted. A large part of the contractors
are in New York.
Weddings will be performed at bar
gain rates by Rev. William Langwith,
pastor of the Middlebush Reformed
church, until July Is. In an
ment in the Somerset Church News, a
publication issued at New Brunswick,
Do,y Ar ~xrif1 -@at41 1A Mill -
form $40 weddings for S8.49 and SIS
ones for s3.9S.
The Mageshakey lumber yard and
three one-family dwelling houses near
by were destroyed, with a damage of
$4,000, by a fire which started in the
lumber yard at Carteret.
The heat got Paddy and he died.
Paddy was Newark's veteran draft
horse, famous for his fall into a man
hole at the Pennsylvania railroad
plaza, Market and Alling streets,
while pulling snow last February.
Paddy cost the city about $4,000 be-
fore he was brought safely to the
street.
Norman j. Gilfor, twenty-five, who
had been boarding at West Orange,
committed suicide by shooting him
self. He left the following note for
his sister, Mrs. Helen Abrams Of
Orange: Dear Sis-I have peer a fool
and wasted my money on girls in Phil
ly. l guess this is so long forever.
Brother joe"
Richard ]. Chaplin, mayor of Mount
Arlington borough and a former state
n O n II, lxr ~ ryn hold ,DIAr f1 lAA
bail for a hearing on a charge of vio-
lating the state prohibition law. De-
t~ectives from the office of Prosecutor
Bolitho swooped on the Mount Airing
ton hotel at Lake Hopatcong and
claim they found liquor. Frank Shaef-
fer, proprietor of another hotel at
Mount Arlington, was held on a SINH
lar charge. Liquor valued at more
than $4,000 was seized at the two no.
tells, according to the county detec-
tives.
1t was by City Clerk AL
fred White in Camden that prices of
lots in New Camden Cemetery will be
increased SO per cent.
After 35 years a teacher of drawing
in the Camden High School Miss Myr-
tie E.. Nye has been retired on a PEN
sion by the Board of Education. A
minute of commentator for her long
service was adopted.
Benjamin Falco of Carlsbad paid a
demure young woman he met in the
Hudson tube 500 for an unsigned bill
of sale to a large fleet of motorboats
in Newark bay. When he went to in
enact hic nnrnnorfuD tho Guards told
him of the hoax.
The drive of Allen Irving Morgan
Post, American Legion, of Westmont,
which has brought in over $1,000 to
date, has been extended in an effort
to complete the Juno of $4,000 to can
Gel a mortgage on the clubhouse.
Work on the addition to the Oaklyn
public school is progressing rapidly
and will be finished for the opening Of
the fall term.
Because of the organization of a
community. association the Civic I'm
provement Association of Highland
Park will disband.
A house numbering system has been
agreed upon by council, and Clayton
property owners will receive numbers
free of cost.
Fifty permits lave been issued for
picnics and social affairs in Knights
Park, C~ollingswood, since the opening
on Decoration day.
While the new concrete road from
Swedesboro t othe bridge at Woods
town has been completed it will not
be opened to traffic for a week.
H. Fay Babcock has been elected
custodian of the Woodbury. Courthouse
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Adon w. Cattell.
A four-wheel brake test at the con-
vention of the American Society of
Automobile Engineers came to a sud-
den stop at Spring Lake when state
police arrested Marshall Guillemon Of
New York city, driving a high-powered
touring car, on a charge of speeding
at sc miles an hour. He was fined
S25 and costs. A permit for the test
had been granted by the local coun-
Gil, but the state police refused to rec
ognize it unless it was Endorsed by
State Motor Vehicle Commissioners
Dill.
Twenty-Five workmen of the Cam
den Highway Department ended their
strike when Commissioner Sherwood
agreed to give them an increase OF 70