The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-07-25

tion?" will be the leading topic for
discussion at the midsummer meet
ing of the Gloucester County Pomona
Grange at T.ickleton.
The County Board of Freeholders,
in regular session at Atlantic City.
voted 10 call for bids for paving the
Absecon Boulevard with asphalt
blocks. The freeholders adhered to
their decision despite opposition from
the State Highway Commission and
other interests opposed to the use OF
this material.
The will of the late General Lewis
T. Bryant, former state commissioner
of labor, probated in the office of the
surrogate at Mays Landing. leaves
the entire estate to his widow. Mrs.
Mary L. Bryant. The document is
brief and makes no reservations. Ac-
complaining the will was the state
! ment that the estate had been ap-
praised at $50. 900, but it is generally
believed hat its value is much
greater.
The Township Committee of Dept
ford decided that s~elf-appointed traffic
cops can no longer officiate in that
section. For several Sundays men
wearing badges have been holding up
lines of cars on the roads around
Blackwood Terrace and Almonesson,
making unnecessary congestion, until
one of the committeeman investigated
and found that a number Of young
men are wearing badges that do not
carry any authority.
Road houses inc saloons in the SUBJ
urbs of Camden and along the route
to Atlantic City are doing more bust
ness than at any time since prohibit
ton is supposed to have gone into
effect. They are not required to pay
any city, county or government license
and are doing business Sundays the
same as on weekdays. The road
houses are surrounded nights with
automobiles and the clinking of glasses
shows thai those on the inside are
having lively times.
Japanese beetles nave appeared in
thousands at Haddonfield, destroying
gardens and all forms of vegetation
Specimens were given to the county
agricultural department for examina-
ton. Since then the insects have
greatly increased in number and are
devouring rose bushes, grape vines,
corn, lettuce, cabbage and hay on out
lying farms.
Sheriff Redding and State Trooper
Jeson raided the disorderly house on
the Mill Lane road, about a mile out
side of Cape May, known as 1.-THE Red
Op;anu E1nrnnnn Howard pl1pOQd
proprietress, of New York, and Peggie
Martin, of Green Street, Philadelphia,
were sent to Cape May county Jail in
default of $1,000 bail. William Con-
way of Camden, alleged dope peddler,
also caught in the raid, was taken to
Jail. 7
Wilbur Thompson, seven years old,
of Washington avenue, Gloucester
City, narrowly escaped death when
struck and hu1 ed twenty feet by an
electric train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad between Market and Powell
streets. At Cooper Hospital. Camden.
it was found hat he escaped with
painful injuries Of the back. arms and
forehead. His condition is ~notseri
Gus. The boy was on his way home,
and, after a fast freight had passed.
started across the tracks, failing to
see the passenger train.
Acting Secretary of War Davis ask
ed officers in charge of the training
camp at Camp Dix to appeal to the New
Jersey State authorities in an effort
to stop bootlegging at the camp.
Droughts during June seriously de-
creased the production of truck crops
in New Jersey, according to the State
Department of Agriculture.
Several south Jersey fire companies
have been invited to participate in the
housing of new motor apparatus by
the Cedarville fire company.
Millville Kiwanis Club will hold an
outing at Atlantic City next month
and have as guests a host of children
who have never seen the ocean. The
idea was proposed by President Biv-
ms.
A daily vacation Bible school start
ed at Paulsboro, to continue four
weeks, with all of the local Protestant
denominations cooperating.
Catherine Mueller, aged f~orty-three.
died in the Railway Hospital from
blood poisoning, which developed
from an insect sting received while
she was working in her garden.
The Blackbird, a speed boat COM
peting in the race in the Raritan river
at Perth Amboy, caught fire just as it
was about to cross the line a winner.
1t sank after an explosion.
nj H~.-Al ~; ~ horI 80 Co-a
den gave a concert for the inmates OF
the Camden County Insane Asylum
and Almshouse at Blackwood.
Charles Culkin and his wife, Ruth,
both eighteen, were arrested at At
lantic City as fugitiyes from Bradley
Beach, where they are charged by the
parents of the girl with the theft of
500 and jewelry.
Alfred Bonnema, eighteen years old,
was sentenced to life Imprisonment at
hard labor by Justice Minturn in Pas
sale court, Paterson. Bonnema had
been convicted of shooting Harriet
Hunt, also of Paterson, ON March 20
last because she spurned his love.
Prosecutor Deyoe urged the imposf-
ton of the life sentence in view of the
young mans low mentality.
Work on the sewer system in West
vile will be started within a few days.
The total cost will be about $153 900.
One of the fastest woman drivers
who ever passed down the White