The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-03

upon the erection of a four-room
schoolhouse here.
Somerville.-The Somerset County
Grand Jury adjourned until January
3, when 1t will take up several cases.
1t is not known whether the Hall
Mills murder mystery will be investi-
gated at this term. Neither Special
Attorney General Mott nor Detective
Mason, who gathered the evidence
presented to the last Grand Jury, has
been in Somerville since the new jury
was sworn.
Jersey City.-So acute has the coal
situation become in this city that au-
thorities have established coal sta
tons in every fire house. The coal
is being rationed out to the needy in
bags of 25 and so pounds. To obtain
coal, the applicant must satisfy those
in charge that the case is needy and
that there Is no fuel in the house.
Red Bank. = Prohibition officers
and State troopers are seeking iden-
tity of a gang of armed men who
separated a lone enforcement agent
from his capture of two truckloads of
liquor, at Bedford. The agent, single
handed, had ''raided" the trucks and
under his orders the drivers were
proceeding to this city WHEEL the
"holdup" occurred. Newark head
quarters verified the story, but re-
fused to divulge the name of the
agent.
Trenton.-The State House COM
mission sold 50, 1000, 900 bridge and
tunnel bonds to a syndicate of New
York bankers. The purchasers COM
prising the syndicate are Dillon, Read
G. Co., Winthrop & Co., Barr Broth
ers & Co. and Roosevelt & Son. The
bankers offered S1O2, 097, the state
realizing a premium of Sal $40. The
entire issue was oversubscribed 20
times. The bonds bear 4A per cent.
Trenton.-T he first accidental
shooting of the New Jersey deer hunt
ing season occurred when ]. W. Bot
ton, of Hammonton, received a
charge Of buckshot in his right knee.
Bottom and a party of eleven men
were in the brush when n of his
companions took a pot shot at a
deer. The full charge, fired from a
distance of eight feet, struck Bottom.
He was taken to a city hospital by
State police. His condition is not
serious.
Hammonton.-The opening Of the
deer hunting season here was marked
by the arrival of an almost unprece-
denied number of hunters. Sports
men are eager to shoot a buck the
first day of the season, in order that
they may start off with a clean slate
only one buck a year.
Deal.=Dr. Melville Skidmore, of
East Moriches, L. l., committed sui
eide on the beach here by slashing
his wrists with a penknife. He was
60 years old and had been in i'll
health for some time. He died as he
was being removed to a hospital.
Ocean City.-The City Commission
ers have awarded the Sutton & Cor
son Company the contract to build a
timber bulkhead and a fift1 FOOT
wide alley along the RceR
tMrn-furty-visAA
streets, at a cost of S9,941. This pro-
posed bulkhead will connect the work
already done and complete the bulk.
head line along the ocean front in
that section down to Fifty ninth
street.
Phillipsburg.-After Ter mother
and the school authorities had de-
cided not to intervene Rosa Frank
emo, IA years old, a student in the
local continuation school, went to the
town hall with Samuel Piassi, %
years old, and secured a marriage Ii
cense. Then her mother made siren
uous objections to the marriage and
sought the interference of school au-.
thorities, but when they decided not
to act she relented.
Woodbridge. Miss Ellen A. Fin
law, of Quinton, has been appointed
instructor in sewing in the local
schools.
Pitman.-The large new concrete
cistern for the municipal water works
is nearly completed.
Pitman.ZJudge Willis T. Porch of
this city, serving an ad interim ap
pointment on the Gloucester county
bench, was Endorsed for appointment
for a full term of five years by the
Gloucester County Democratic Execu.
tive Committee, meeting at Woodbury..
Gloucester City. - Democrats here
have now started a movement for com
mission form of government, willing
to take the chance of losing their new.
ly elected mayor, James H. j. McNal-
ly, as the Democrats of Camden are
taking a chance on Victor King. The
Republican leaders in either city will
not oppose the movement, hoping they
will win out at the election and regain
control of the Offices.
Trenton. = Without any apparent
reason, excepting a possible mental
weakness, Christi9n Breithaupt, bout
sixty years old, ended his life in the
stable of st. Francis Hospital, where
he was employed. He shot himself
through the right eye with a small cal
iber rifle, the bullet entering the brain
and causing immediate death, it is be-
lieved. %Breithaupt appeared at break
fast as usual about 7 O'Clock, but was
not seen again until his body vas
found.
Shiloh.-Young men here have or.
ganized an athletic club with quar-.
tiers in Smalley's Hall.
Gloucester City.-The P. e. Church
of Ascension realized $40 from its
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