The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-19
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guson, president of the Union Trust
Company of Jersey City. as acting
chairman of the President Harding
Memorial Fund of New Jersey. Mr.
Ferguson lives in East Orange.
Jersey City.-Robert G. Smith, fol
many years president of the Street
and Water Board of this city and for
mer head of the Fourth Regiment
Armory, died at the age Of sixty-nine
at Sayville, L. L., where he had lived
for the last few years.
Newton. = Eighty-year-old Simeon
Everett, a farm hand of Sussex Dor.
ough, values the affections of his pref.
ty wife, twenty-four, at $4,000 and
has brought suit for that amount
against Horatio N. Hill, a wealthy
farmer of Vantage township, charg-
Ing alienation. Everett has been
married to his young wife five years,
in which time she has borne him two
children. She is his second wife.
West Orange. John Edward
WEIGH, eighty-six, Civil War dispatch
rider, who carried the news of Presi-
dent Lincoln's assassination to Gen.
eral Grant. died at the home of his
son, John Edward, Jr. The son is the
only near relative surviving the Civil
War veteran, who in recent years had
been the Oldest resident here.
Newark=Adrian Chamberlin, New
Jersey prohibition director, reports
that during November New Jersey
agents operating from the office here
made 131 raids, seized liquor and rs
trucks and autos valued at S431, S07,-
600.
North Bergen.-The bones of little
Jimmy Glass, found eight years after
the boy disappeared, were buried in
Flower Hill Cemetery, Hudson Boule-
ward, after services in a Jersey City
undertaking parlor.
Long Branch.-The drive for stock
subscriptions to construct a $500, 900
community hotel has reached the
sum Of S273 900, with five days more
to go. 1t is planned to have the hotel
completed by January, 1925. The
largest subscribers include Herbert
T. Parsons of Woolworth & Co.,
whose beautiful country home, Shad-
owlawn. is one of the show places.
Trenton.-Harry G. Eaton of Essex
county was chosen as the Republican
candidate for. speaker of the assembly
at the caucus here. The Democrats,
meeting in the Stacy-Trent hotel,
picked Linton s.. Marshall of Mercer
county as their candidate. Clifford R.
Powell of Burlington county was
chosen by the Republicans to be ma
jority leader. ana the Democrats
named Fred w. ] "oe of Middlesex
county as minority leader.
Gloucester City.-The fire depart
ment elected Elmer Steen president,
George Storms vice president, Harry
Lipsett secretary and Victor Eichen-
hoffe treasurer.
Trenton. = William L. Dill, state
motor vehicle commissioner of New
Jersey, announced that one Of every
eight persons in the state owned an
automobile and that at the present
rate of registration one in every four
will W a car in 1850. He estimated
that there will be an increase of 3d.
900 in the number of licensed opera
tors for the year, with a total of 445,-
900.
Pitman.-Men of the churches here
have made a complete religious sur
vey of the town.
Atlantic City. - The annual New
Jersey NJ. E. conference. scheduled
for this city on March II, has been
changed to March 4. Bishop Berry of
Philadelphia will preside.
Woodbury.-The Wednesday farm
ers' market here will be discontinued
until spring. but the Saturday market
will be retained through the winter.
MISUNDERSTANDING officers for
the Business Mems Association were
elected at a meeting in the American
quarters on r eve avenue.
Westville.-Bids for a school tt be
erected here for Deptford township
will be received by the Board Of Ed
.ucation on December Il.
Glassboro. Another meeting was
held to promote the movement for
the Civic Club.
Glassboro. Professor Nassau, d.
of music in the normal school,
has assumed leadership of the choir
of the Clayton Presbyterian church.
Glassboro.-The annual reunion of
the Twenty-fourth Regiment, New
Jersey Volunteers, will be held in the
First NJ. E. church on Decembe~ 10.
A potpie dinner will be served by the
Heritage Circle, Ladies of the G. A. r.
Melville. - The football eleven,
which captured the state champion
ship from Riverside, attended services
in Trinity NJ. E. church, and Rev.
George T. Hillman preached.
Gloucester.-The authorities cannot
get trace of William Hill, formerly OF
South American street, Philadelphia,
whose touring car was recently found
Woodbury., evidently stolen and
Hill has moved and eft no
address.
Port Norris.-Charged with viola
ton Of the prohibition law, Frank
Pruno. recently arrested by the state
police, was fined $3.50 by Judge Logue.
Tea Neck.-The leading citizens of
this place, armed with txes and saws,
have set about clearing off the ten
acres of wooded land on which will
be built the high school and athletic
field. Women played as prominent a
part as men. They erected a first aid
tent and dressing station and attended
IL men for minor injuries suffered
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