The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-02-14
Although he had been declared lie.

to serve from one to two years in
state prison, Newark, by Justice
Sticket on a charge of carrying a re-
volver.
Senator Stevens of Monmouth in
troduced a bill abolishing the present
Boxing Commission and creating a
new commission of three members,
who are to receive salaries of $4,000
a year.
Jitney bus operators operating be-
tween Journal Square tube station,
Jersey City, and Cayenne over the
boulevard, who served notice on the
public in defiance of the Boulevard
Commissions order of an increase of
fare to 10 cents, decided to postpone
the fare boost.
Mrs. Julia Stevens Bradford, the
widow of Rev. Amory H. Bradford,
who was for 40 years the pastor of
the First Congregational Church Of
Montclair, died in that city at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. j. Allyn
Oakley.
Paving of Pitman avenue and other
improvements In the town were ad-
vocated at the annual banquet OF the
Pitman Board of Trade at the Hotel
Pitman. The affair was also some
what in the nature of a celebration Of
the completion of the first street paw
ing under a program which originated
with the board.
Bills aimed to bring about the 5
cent fare plan sponsored by Governor
Silzer were introduced by Minority
Leader George of Hudson in the
house. The bills, two In number, af-
feet all state trolley lines. Mr.. George
said he had personally drawn the bills
and that they agree In every particu-
lar with the views of the governor.
A husband who does not see his
wife at least once a week Is without
honor, Vice Chancellor Robert H. In
gersoll held at Atlantic City in allow
ing Mrs. Margaret Hessert, nineteen,
Camden, to fix the amountsof her ali
mony in her divorce suit against Ed
mund E.. Hessert, .wenty-one, a medi-
cal student.
Argument or injunction proceed
ings begun by the city of Newark to
prevent the Jereey Central railroad
from building a new railroad bridge
over Newark lay was begun before
Federal Judge Lynch, Newark. For
mer Attorney General George w.
Wickersham, as special counsel, in
dictated that the city would base its
plea for The injunction on states
rights" He cited a half dozen cases
from supreme court records to show
that the voice of the state has always
been a powerful one in the construc-
ton of bridges within its own bounda-
ries.
Fire totally destroyed the cottage
of H. S. Bamberger in the fashionable
summer colony at Ocean and Jerome
avenues, Deal, at a loss estimated by
fire officials to lie $4,000. Cause of
the fire is unknown.
Timothy J.. Carroll, sixty-two years
old, for two terms a member of the
New Jersey legislature and for AZ
years in the employ of the municipal
government of Jersey City, died at
his home in the Horseshoe, Jersey
City. He is survived by his wife and
a sister.
William T. Let's, regarded as the
Oldest business man of Hoboken, died
at the age of eighty years. He had
been a trustee of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church Cor mora than ten
years. Three sons and a daughter
survive him.
Provisions of the will of the late
Marcus It. Ward of Newark, b%equeath-
ing a residuary estate valued It more
thar 1900, 900 to found a home for
aged and respectable bachelors and
widowers in New Jersey, were upheld
by the court of errors and appeals in
a decision just handed down.
Agitation for construction of a mu-
nicipal system at Glassboro has
been revived.
William ]. Keogn, acting chief of
the fire department at Hasbrouck
Heights, died at his home in that
town in his th~irty-sixth year
Harry E. Fine, fifty-one years old,
retired Trenton engraver and widely
known as the New Jersey sponsor Of
the Lincoln Highway, died n a Phila-
delphia hospital
Damage estimated at .'iore than
$175,000 was caused by fire which de-
stroyed eight stores in the business
section of Asbury Park and for more
than six hours threatened The entire
business district.
The Girls Cooking Club Is arrang-
ing to serve Lot lunches for pupils at
the Daretown school.
Starting next week, one man ears
will be operated on the Public Serv-
ice trolley lines between Camden and
Blackwood and Mantua.
Millville's ordinance prohibiting
roller skating on sidewalks will be
enforced by the police.
Mrs. Levi Ballinger and her sister,
Mrs. Elizabeth d. Evans of Marion,
were run down by an automobile and
killed almost instantly as they were
walking homeward on the Medford
road. Ballenger was walki with
them and saw the approaching car,
but too late to avert the fatality. He
jumped in time to save his life. The
automobile was driven by Richard
Lamb, hotel proprietor and noted
wing shot of Mount Holly, who ascrib-
ed the mishap to the glare of the
headlights of a Camden-Medford mo-
torbus.
The Deal Inn. near Asbury Park.