The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-17

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r. Lewis Shivers, and the estate re-
yerts to a son and daughter.
Voters of Chester township aHi be
afked to approve plans for a firehouse
for the motorized equipment recently
purchased by the Maple Shade Fire
Company. The company plans TO
erect a modern building at Main street
and Maple avenue.
Enrolment of pupils in the Glos-
cester City and parochial schools for
the first month of the new term was
the largest in the history OF the
schools. There were 1,728 enrolled in
the public schools, with IA classes On
part time.
A brush fire in the lowland between
Gloucester City and %Brooklawn caused
excitement in both towns, but firemen
extinguished it.
Under a new order issued by the
department in Washington the Chou
cester City post office will close at
$50 in the evenings and the last mail
will leave for Philadelphia at 6
o'clock.
An all day rally was held in the
Pitman Baptist church by the Won
ans Missionary Society of the Cam
den Baptist Association, embracing
| churches in Burlington. Camden,
Gloucester and Atlantic counties.
DR.. |. w. Knight of the State Board
of Health addressed a large assem-
blage of mothers at the Gloucester
City High School. explaining the use
of the Schick test for d~iphtheria.
which Is to be used on the children.
Fishermen and others Interested in
anti-%pouultion of waters won o victory
at the session of the second annual
conference Of the National Coast An
ti-pollution League, Atlantic City.
when Colonel James H. Hayes. repre-
senting the Standard Oil Company,
presented a resolution. which was
adopted, indorsing in principle the
Frelinghuysen bill.
Chares Williams. colored. was con-
victed at Bridgeton of killing Herbert
Williams, another negro. in a quarrel
at Seabrook Farms, August 26. The
prisoner claimed self defense and the
jury's verdict was murder in the sec
ond degree. Justice Black sentenced
him to from twenty to thirty years in
state prison.
Camden Is to have a complete clean
up, according to a statement made by
Commissioner of Public Safety Hitch
ner. He has declared war on all sa-
looms violating the law, dole sellers
and those who maintain gambling
houses.
There is a we'll founded report that
the idle s%hipyard of the Pussy. &
Jones Company, in the lower part OF
Gloucester City. may be sold to Henry
Ford for one OF his enterprises.
In furtherance Of his plan for the
formation of a motor club for Cam
den, Secretary William Kennedy OF
the Chamber of Commerce issued a
call for automobile owners to get the
proposition under way. 1t is his aim
to have a membership of at least
1900 and to be affiliated with the Ma
tional Motorists Association and the
Keystone Motor Club.
Senator w. Fl. Bright, deputy grand
master of the Grand Lodge, I. o. O.
F., was installed grand master at
Wildwoo dand was presented with a
gavel made from the keel OF the old
British gunboat Augusta, sunk In he
Delaware at Gloucester. The preSen-
tation was made by George T. Hamm
in behalf CT Greenwich Lodge, sPauis-
boro.
The F. w. Woolworth s and 10 cent
stores have leased the StOutenburg
building in Newark. They paid &c.
000, 900 for a long term lease.
The Women's Civic Betterment AS
ISOLATION of Gloucester City entertain
ed members and guests at a card par
ty and flower show at its rooms,
Broadway and Morris street.
The new edifice of st. Joan of Arc
Church, Fairyiew, was used for services
for the first time. masses being cele-
brated by the pastor, Rev. George A.
Walsh. School will be started on the
second floor in a few days.
The Gloucester City Baptist Sunday
school memorial exercises at he sol
diers' monument, Broadway and Mon
mouth street, for Townsend Young
and William Hickman, members, who
lSll III lue WUIlu wal. Nov L. ANA
Cherry n John w. Fielding, super
intendent of the school, spoke.
Felix Mingo of Seweli was commit
ted to the Camden County Jail for ten
days by Recorder Shoemaker of Cen
tire Township for driving q team while
under the influence of liquor and an
noying motorists.
Patrolman Albert York. promoted to
a s~ergeantcy by Commissioner Hitch
ner in Camden. has the record OF
never having missed a report or a roll
call in the seventeen years he has
been in service.
Commissioner of Public Property
Staley of Camden was selected to rep
resent the city at the annual conyen-
ton of the National Coast Anti-POiiu-
ton League at Atlantic City.
The Gloucester City Board OF School
Estimates appropriated SIP ,00e for
the new fireproof building to be con-
structed for the Board of Education.
W%oodlynrs firemen made a tour OF
the village Saturday night and receivr
ed donations from every householder
toward paying the debt and procuring
needed apparatus.
Fifty-three public garage owners in
Camden W y have failed to pay the
required license fee in the past four
wars were notified by Solicitor Miller