The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-17
New Jersey
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LOHS DTducu. -Drydut d. 1NeWCoAip
of this place was reelected director
of the Monmouth county Board Of
/, Freeholders.
Asbury Park. Representatives Of
the State Board of Commerce and
| Navigation and shore municipal off,
Gals met here to consider the propos-
ed Shrewsbury river improvements.
Camden. Democrats are making
| great preparations to take part in the
Inauguration of Governor Elect Sill
ger. 1t Is expected more than 1000
men and will be in line, head
ed by two brass bands. Former As
| sistant Prosecutor John J.. Cleary,
| president of the Camden Democratic
Club, will be marshal.
Gloucester City.-Of 1897 pupils en-
| rolled in the schools last month 548
were present every day.
Gloucester Cfty.-The continuation
| school, which has 81 pupils, will be
| transferred from the building at Mon
mouth and Ellis streets to the base
ment of the Broadway school.
Camden.-Receipts at the Office of
Motor Vehicle Agent John Welsh
have averaged from $4,000 to S14, 900
a day during the past ten days, and
the rush for licenses is not over.
Freehold.-The trial of Ralph Eova-
Mo, charged with the murder of his
wife at Centerville on August s last,
will open here January Is, Supreme
Court Justice Kalisch announced in
charging the Monmouth county grand
jury.
Burlington.-Plans are being made
by Burlington county Democrats to
send a big delegation for the Silzer
inaugural parade in Trenton, January
16. Captains are forming companies
in every district.
Riverside. = Miss Katherine Dick,
said to be the youngest officer of the
order in New Jersey, has been in
stalled worthy matron of Riverside
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.
Lumberton. Owing to the coal
shortage the Board of Education has
decided to extend the school vacation
another week.
Paulsboro.-On a charge of being
drunk, John Pedrick was taken to the
county Jail. When he went home
Pedrick found the doors locked
against him. He then sought a nights
lodging in the chicken house with
about so fowls. He wore a fur lined
coat and seemed none the worse for
the might out"
Wenonah.-Mrs. A. A. Reynolds is
the new overseer of the poor, having
been appointed by Mayor Ogden.
Wildwood.-Plans for the new $780,
900 Baptist church to be erected at
Maple and Pacific avenues, the site
of the present structure, were APPROX
ed by the building committee and
were submitted to a congregational
meeting. 1t is the hope Of the COM
mittee to have the structure finished
before the end of 1923. The commit
t-ee~consists of T. s. GosliE, Palmer
IN. YIay, Clarence Eldridge, Frank
Colson, Robert J.. Kay. Mrs. Frank
| Sheppard and Mrs. Ed Armstrong.
Woodbury.-Judge Porch denied g
new trial to William Gather, former
squire of Mantua, convicted Of shoot
ing Arlington Walls some weeks ago.
Gathers attorney made application
for a retrial on the ground that it was
not shown he actually shot Walls and
on newly discovered evidence. Cal
| Their was sentenced to six months in
the county Jail and fined $3.50. He
was liberated on bail, but was re-
manded. An appeal will be taken.
Brooklawn. : The Noreg Realty
Company presented the M. E. Church
q clear deed for the land where the
new edifice is soon to be built.
Gloucester.-Leon G. Buckwalter is
now in charge as receiver of the Glou-
cester Ferry Company. John A. Waters
will be continued as superintendent
and services will soon be resumed.
Gloucester City.-Pastors and rep
resentatives of the local Protestant
churches formed an ev~angelistic asso-
citation to direct a three weeks cam
paign, which will begin January 2S.
Newark.-State police are running
down clews which indicate their claim
that William Battles, ~nineteen-year-
old negro, confessed slayer of Mrs.
Charles F. Brigham of Orange, had
some connection with the murder of
eleven-year-old Janette Lawrence of
Florham Park, neal Madison, a year
ago. State troopers and local police
secured the negro section Of Madison
searching for traces of a family
named Battles, which is believed to be
closely related to the prisoner.
Ocean City. - Building Inspector
Smith issued 600 permits for improve
ments here during the year. Permits
of new buildings to the approximate
value of $780, 900 were issued. This
does not include the new o%ceanfront
hotel on Eleventh street, the Elan.
ders, the estimated cost of which is
81, 200, 900, and work on which was re-
Gently started. Every month during
the year, with the exception of Au'
gust, showed an increase in building
operations over those of 1921, and the
total for this week is double that OF
last year. The number of permits is
sued in 1921 was 420.
Mount Ephriam.-The Mount Ephri
am Baptist Church will extend a call
to Rev. E. D. Capper, of Philadelphia
to become permanent pastor.
Woodbury.-Trafic officers rounded
up more than a half-hundred automo
bilists driving without new license
| tags, but all were permitted to go.
Williamstown.--There was more ex
element here when a carload of Goa
arrived than a year or SO ago when
circus arrived for winter quarters.