The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-04

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heating apparatus, was discovered by
the ~janitor. Godfrey Hawk. The 300
school children will be taught tempo
rarily in churches and lodge rooms.
Newark.-Nathan Levine, a seventy
~two-year-old grocer, saved his aged
wife here when the explosion of an
oil stove in their apartment above the
store endangered her life. Levine was
waiting on customers when the explo-
sion occurred. Upstairs he found the
bed on which his seventy-one-year-old
wife was lying on fire. He dragged
her from the bed and led her down.
stairs. She was uninjured.
Philadelphia.-Ona charge of op-
Grating an automobile on the wrong
side of a trolley car, Leroy Riley,
thirty-three years old, of North Park
avenue, this city, was arrested in
Camden. He failed to appear in court
when his mann was called and the
SIS he left as security was forfeited.
He wanted to bride me with SO to
let him CO." said Policeman Kelly, who
made the arrest.
Asbury Park. Few important
changes were made in the assign
ments of pastors of the New Jersey M.
E.. Conference, which concluded its
sessions here. One of them was the
transfer of Rev. DR.. E. F. Ham from
the First Church, Camden, where he
has served six years. to the Fret
Church. Atlantic City. Rev. J. D. Bills,
for four years superintendent of the
New Brunswick district, retires be-
cause of ill-health and is succeeded by
Rev. D. Alfred Wagg, formerly of the
Bridgeton district. No other changes
in the superintendent was announced.
MISUNDERSTANDING that his sal.
airy wa stoo large and more than he
was entitle dto, Town Treasurer John
G. Hess paid himself only 81, 200 and
turned about 1900 into the town
treasury. The Board of Council has
adopted a resolution commencing him.
Trenton.-Governor Silzer signed
the bill of Senator Stevens investing
in the State Board of. Conservation
and Development the title to the prop
erty of the Morris canal and provid-
ing for the organization of the Morris
Canal Commission.
Burlington. = Miss Cornelia Van,
Solver, n of the Oldest residents of
this place, is dead at the age of nine.
ty-one years. She retained all her
faculties until her recent illness.
Burlington.-Early completion of
Route No. 2 through Burlington city
and from the city to Camden, with an
other link between B~ordentown and
the Mercer county line, was urged
upon the new State Highway Com
mission at a conference with Burling-
ton county freeholders. Major Cen
eral Hugh L. Scott, chairman of the
State Commission, presided at the
meeting, which was held in council
chambers at the City Hall.
Paterson. Unrequited love ended
in a tragedy here when Harriet Hunt,
eighteen, a mill worker, was shot and
killed by Alfred Bonnema, also eight
cen, in the plant of the Warner Manu-
featuring Company, silk bag makers.
Bonnema emptied his revolver into the
girls body. The couple were alone
in the room when the shooting &C.
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by the machines no one is believed to
have heard the shots. Bonnema then
walked into another department and
told Superintendent Harold Curzon of
the murder. Bonnema says he loved
the girl for three years, ever since
she came to work at the mill. FREE
quently, he told the police, he asked
for her company and was refused.
Gibbstown. = The new 500, 900
schoolhouse, almost finished, will be
the largest grammar school in the
county.
I Gibbstown.-Petitions are being cir
culated to have Broad street paved
with concrete while the new road is
being constructed.
Millville. - State Motor Vehicle
Commissioner Dill has approved the
traffic ordinance passed by the City
Commission, and it will go into effect
Immediately. Parking lines will be
painted on High and Main streets.
Pitman. Residents of this place
are arranging to entertain about 80
young men of Bucknell University
Glee Club. who will sing at the local
Baptist church Monday night, April 2.
Glassboro.-Fire alarms have about
worn out the electric siren installed
here eight years ago., and a new one
will be installed.
Camden. = Searching the home of
John Cruthers, alias E. K. Willis.
2905 Octagon road. detectives from
New York, accompanied by Officers
Kay and Reese of this city, reported
that they found a quantity of obscene
literature, which was confscated. 1t
was stated that Cruthers had been ar
rested in New York.
Trenton.-State police were In evil
dence along the White Horse pike be-
cause of the heavy run of automobiles
to the seashore and other points.
There was a steady traffic all day, and
towns along the pike also had ira fic
officers on duty. The officers are car
rying on i crusade at the beginning
of the eason to stop speeding and
avert accidents. Some arrests were
made, and the offenders were taken
before justices of the peace at Berlin
and Hammonton.
Woodstown. The medic-l inspec-
tor of the schools here reports that
there are still more than 400 pupils.
who have not been vaccinated as 4
precaution against smallpox.
Jersey City.-The loss of $3.50, 900 in.
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