The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-02-07

uliooloA lOl StICCt uuCCllA6o CdCi At6ht
in connection with three weeks evan
gelistic services in the First M. q.
Church.
Representative e. e. Hutchinson of
Trenton was prominently mentioned
in Republican, circles at Trenton as
the man most likely to be named as
the Republican member of the new
State Highway Commission of three
members If the present legislature
gives Governor Silzer power to name
such a board.
Wallace Moone, twenty-one years
old, of Philadelphia, who became n
of the leading lights of society at
Point Pleasant last summer while m
ployed in Johnson's Hardware Store
and who, the police say, was engaged
to wed a Point Pleasant girl within a
few weeks, vas arrested at Freehold
as a fugitive from Indianapolis, Ind,
where, it is alleged, he was implicated
in the hold-up of Frank Randall on
January 20.
A writ of review of the trial and
conviction of Harr..- c. Mohr for the
murder of Honest John" Brunen was
denied by Chancellor Edward R.
Walker. Counsel for Mohr served no.
tice that he would appeal to the court
of errors and appeals on a writ of
right. Application for the writ was
based principally on he grounds that
Charles NJ. Powell, whose statements
from the stand we're instrumental in
Mohr's conviction, was insane.
Horribly BIZ. n by three dogs,
which attacked her in the woods
while she was on her way to school,
n~ine-year-old Julia Scherfel of Albion
crawled a quarter of a mile to her
home and dropped unconscious on the
lawn. She was removed to Cooper
Hospital, Camden, by DR.. Howard
Westcott of Clementon, who took rs
stitches In her wounds. The girls
condition is regarded as serious.
Neighbors found the dogs in the
woods and killed them.
Charles Barsol, fisty-eight years old,
accused of the murder of his wife,
was found guilty by q jury in county
court at Morristown of second de-
gree murder. The jurors were out
four hours and a half.
The Chamber of Commerce of Vine
land called a meeting of local coal
dealers and interested citizens to CEN
sure the profteers and closed the
gathering with a unanimous vote de-
claring the coal men had given the
public a square deal on prices n in
their efforts to procure fuel for the
town.
Charles P. Early, seventy-four years
old, father of County Counsel William
Early, died at his home in Merchant
vile. Up to the time of retirement
from active business, IL years ago,
Mr.. Early was secretary and treasurer
of the Merchants Trust Company Of
Philadelphia.
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of H. Ward Rommell, Eleanor
Owen and Mrs. Harry C. Kramer, the
latter of Camden, returned a verdict
generating the railroad company
from all blame and laying the tragedy
upon Rommell for "carelessness in
driving the car" The three persons
were killed when the Salem train
struck the sedan driven by Rommell
at the Mantua avenue crossing, south
of Woodbury..
The County Board of Freeholders
has received a deed for the riparian
rights on Sunset Lake, West Wild
wood, and will make application to
the Wal Department 10 erect a bridge
connecting Wildwood with West Wild
wood one square above wN"re it Is
now. The board abolished the office
of purchasing agent, thereby saving
the taxpayers $4,000.
Livingstone Drummond, giant ne
gro bandit sentenced by Judge Will
liam H. Smathers at Atlantic City. to
from 60 to 100 years, has entered
state prison.
For a number Of years Rutgers
College, at New Brunswick, has been
taking a leading part in the endeavor
to bring light to the latent oracular
power of the youth of the state.
The churches of Fairview held spe-
cial services to commemorate the pro-
hibition amendment, effective three
years ago.
While on a visit to his daughter at
$40 Rex place, Camden, Washington
Scropp, "a years old, of Pottsville,
Pa, died suddenly from apoplexy.
Owing to lack of coal, services
were recently held in the Sunday
School room of the First Baptist
Church, Millville. The public library
has closed for an indefinite period.
Property owners Of Gloucester City
are urging the Board of Education to
delay the establishment of a dental
clinic in the schools until the pro-
posed new school is built.
Workmen digging under the foun-
dations of Hunts Casino Theatre, on
the boardwalk, at Wildwood, found
the bones of a human arm and hand
and nearby some Spanish coins and
an old hand-molded ring.
According to Investigations made
by citizens who have filed protests
to alleged extravaganza of the Allan
tic County Board of Freeholders sal
aries of the principal officers exceed
those of any other county in the state
of the same population and ratables
by nearly 100 per cent.
Bricks from the high wall which
surrounded the old Whitney glass
works in the center Of Glassboro, re.
Gently razed, may be used to build a
new hall for the Red Men.
Tba commemorative at the Pitmau