The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-06-27

forest fire hat swept thirty square
miles of valuable timber lands. DIS
covering the woods ablaze, h ran a
half mile to the nearest house, bor-
rowed the family %fiivver, and the
sped seven miles, spreading the alarm.
Men responded and kept the menac1ng
flames from the town.
John ]. Keeger, twenty-six years
old, of Paterson, was found lead in
Cold Spring Lake, Butler, with his
fishing tackle in his hand. Harry
Hinkle, a boy who lives in the village.
saw the body lying in two feet OF
water, lea the edge of the lake. He
notified the police, and County Physi-
clan Robert Armstrong was called.
DR.. Armstrong gave as his opinion
that Keeger had probably been strick-
en- with a heart attack and fallen into
the water.
The borough of Woodlynne has been
granted a lower fire insurance rate by
the New Jersey schedule rating de-
partment.
Paul Noble, eight years old. carried
off the honors for perfect attendance
in the Brooklawn school. He did not
miss a session during the entire term,
nor was he late once.
The work of repaving North Broad
way, Gloucester City, by the State
Highway Department, was begun.
Poles, trees and other distractions
between Warren street and the New
49,, CroaI hrilon houn hnnn mnVnd
back, as the street will be widened
three feet on each side.
Judge Bodine, in the United States
District Court, Trenton, continued to
impose heavy penalties on violators OF
the Federal Prohibition act. Joseph
Russo and Nicholas Shevillio, both of
Atlantic City, pleaded guilty to trans
portation of four cases of beer and
we're fined $3.50 each.
William Fisk Macdonough, aged sew
enty-seven years, for many years man.
ager of ]. Depollier & Son, jewellers,
died at the home of his brother, north
East Orange. He was a descendant of
Commodore John Macdonough, who
fought at the battle of Lake Cham
plain. He leaves four children.
Delegates attending the fifth annual
convention of the New Jersey Hotel
Mems Association, in session at Wild
wood were entertained by the local
Hotel Mems Association at Cape May
with a sightseeing tour and a lunch
con at Congress Hall.
Worried over his crops, Stephen
Kiuiekowsky, fifty, a farmer, hanged
himself to a tree on his farm in James
burg.
The Salvation Army has purchased
what is known as Star Lake, owned
by Mrs. Catherine ample, of New York
City, at Butler. The place will be a
permanent home and summer camp.
Leanor F. Loree, president of the
Delaware & Hudson Railroad, has
given the women's institution at Rut-
gers, New Brunswick. an athletic field
and $4,000 with which to purchase
equipment. Work on construction IF
the field will begin this summer.
President Demarest announced the
gift to the New Jersey Woman's Col
lege, governed with Rutgers by the
same board of trustees, of twenty-five
acres Of land on the Raritan River by
James Nelson of New Brunswick.
The property, Demarest said, is val
ued in excess of $3.50, 900.
John Boderick, thirty-fve years old,
was sentenced at Elizabeth to not less
than five years nor more than thirty
years in state prison by Supreme
Court Justice James j. Bergen. when
he pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree of his wife, Mary, aged
thirty-two, in their home May 6 last.
Rev. w. Earle Zimmerman and the
official board of the First Methodist
church, Gloucester City, entertained
the members of the church at a sup
per, closing the drive for funds to pay
off the church debt.
Gloucester City council appointed a
committee to arrange a celebration
with Mayor McNally when the first
ship docks at the new Armstrong Cork
Company's plant in that city.
The annual arts and craft exhibit of
the Gloucester City public schools was
tended by many visitors.
The bac~calaureate sermon to the
graduating class of the Woodstown
high school was preached by Rev. w.
II. Leslie.
Miss Laura Dougherty, principal of
the junior high school at Gloucester
City, who will be married, rendered a
dinner to the teachers of the school.
twenty-five graduates, the largest
class vel graduated from the Clayton
high school, received their diplomas
at commencement exercises at the
Methodist church.
Plans to make the White Horse pike
a great white way" with powerful arc
lights strung across the pike from
Camden to Berlin were discussed by
the Clementon Township Committee
at a meeting in the White Horse no.
tel. The Township Committee decid-
ed to take immediate steps to improve
the lighting of the pike where it
passes through the township and in
structed the township clerk, Edward
Arentzen, to communicate with the of
icials of all boroughs and towns along
the pike in al effort to interest those
communities in the plan.
The Mount Royal fire company
cleared $500 from a snapper supper
toward paying for a new fire truck.
Donald Newton, aged eighteen, son
of a clergyman of Trenton, and Har-