The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-17
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

The sum of 1920 has been raised in
Gloucester City for the Japanese re-
lief fund.
The Monmouth Club of Gloucester
City entertained a number of guests
at a pig-roast at is headquarters, Fill
more and Morris streets.
The report of tie Camden Health
Department shows a total of "a con-
tagious diseases for September, as
compared with so for August. Scarlet
fever and tuberculosis were respon-
sible for the increase.
Gloucester Township Committee
will hold a sepcial meeting October Is
to act On the application of owners
for, the widening of Lower Landing
road at Chow's Landing to a width of
SO feet.
Assessors of the taxing districts
must low start their work of making
tie assessments for next year. The
assessments must be made of the real
estate as it appeared Otober /, and
the books must be finished by jan
uary 10.
State motor inspectors in Camden
licensed IT'S automobile drivers.
Thirty-two failed to pass.
After a long talk by William O'Con-
nor, a field clerk of the State Board of
Taxation, the Gloucester Township
Committee decided to defer action on
the question of a tax assessment map
for the township until the next regular.
session.
The ontractor began ~excavating be-
tween the trolley tracks on North
Broadway Gloucester City. to build a
new roadbed and paving between the
tracks. The Sta Highway Depart
nent recently paved both sides of the
street, hanging the grade.
Anthony Franio, 81 years old, OF
Lewis street, Camden. WAS held in
$500 bail by Police Judge Cleary. The
police say they found some white
mule" in his cigar store.
American Legion posts in Camden
ounty are preparing for a big Armis-
tice day celebration Saturday, Novem-'
Der 10. Representatives of a number
of posts formed a committee to ar
range for united celebration.
The water department Of Gloucester
City had connections made with the
l6-inch main to Brooklawn so that
people in Riveryiew Heights may have
q better supply.
the ~Pleasantville Baptist Church for
four years has accepted a call to a
church at Bloomingdale. His resigna-
ton was read at the meeting Of ne
congregation.
Delegations of Masons from South
Jersey are planning to participate in
the laying of the cornerstone Of the
George Washington Memorial at Alex
sndria, Va, on November l.
Rev. David H. Shock, for many
years superintendent and manager Of
the campmeeting grounds at Pitman,
has resigned. Miss Anna Williams,
treasurer. has also resigned
Mayo Mueller and Fire Marshal
BREEDER visited the schools In Egg Har-
Dor City to investigate fire conditions.
a report of which Is to be sent to the
State convention.
Work Is being pushed to complete
before freezing weather the concrete
piers of the bridge across the railroad
tracks at North Woodstown.
A building and loan association is
now assured for ~Runnemede, a grow
ing suburb Of Camden, OF the Mount
Ephraim pike.
The Young Mems Progressive
League is making plans for its usual
Halloween parade and carnival at
Ocean City. There will be a number
of prizes.
AT a dinner held at Beasley's Point
the male school teachers of Atlantic
City appointed a committee to organ
lie a schoolmasters' club.
Because of the danger of bringing
the gypsy moth into New Jersey, no
Christmas trees from New England
will be permitted to be brought into
New Jersey after October l.
Admitting guilt of a charge for
which they were indicted. Raymond
Wilkinson and Gladys Munter were
fined $500 each by Judge Eidredge at
Cape May court house.
Patriotic societies and school chill
dren held fag-raising exercises at the
new Pitman High School. The exer-
cises started at 2:30 p. m. and there
was a short street parade. The
Board of Education announced a pub
lie inspection of the new buildings
for October IL.
Expectations that an anti-klan
demonstration would result from the
ill-feeling aroused by a meeting in
the Roseland Methodist Protestant
Church, when a Ku Klux Khan repre-
sentative made an address, were real
lied when fifty Roseland citizens
staged a protest meeting In the street
in front of the borough post office.
An effigy of a hooded figure, CARRIED
in imitation of the robes of the khan,
was strung up and dashed securely
to the arm of a telephone pole.
Kalmia Tribe, Imp. o. r. NJ, of
Ocean City, is building a large hall at
Eighth street and Haven avenue, and
expects to lay the cornerstone Novem.
Der "a.
Another kink in the New Jersey
trolley situation was ironed out when
the Public Utilities Commission &C.
quiesced to the proposal of the Pub
lie Service Corporation for a five cent
fare by Zones. The nickel rate will
be operative in the larger munich
palities with an additional five cents