The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-02
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STATE BRIEFS

Healey Brothers were given permits
to run auto buses to Bridgeton, East
Vineland and Minotola by the Lands
Township Committee.
A new ice plant being erected at
Pitman will have a maximum capacity
of 40 tons daily.
A campaign Is on to raise 1000 as
Pitman's quota toward the work of
the Y. M. c.. A. in Gloucester county.
The old Markley estate in B~ridgeton
has been taken over by the B~ridgeton
Homes Corporation, and moderately
priced homes will Immediately be
erected.
Sixteen Gloucester City plumbers
were granted licenses by the Board of
Health. The board fixed the week of
April 80 as cleanup week.
That a certain group of men in Rah-
way, the names of whom he did not
mention, have threatened to start a
petition of recall against him if, as
head of the police department, he did
not name a man of their choice to the
force, was the charge made at a meet
ing of the city commissioners by
Mayor James B. Furber.
Justice of the Peace Seldom of Yer
ga summoned Frank Catando of
Northmount, a Public Service trolley
motorman, to his office because he re-
fused to stop his car at a certain sta
ton to let off an elderly woman and
himself. The squire claimed that the
motorman abused him, and in the
presence of Superintendent Macarthur
severely reprimanded Catando and
ordered him to appear in his court in
one week to make a public apology.
In a bitter contest taxpayers of
Moorestown township at a special
meeting in the high school auditorium
passed upon an additional appropria-
ton of $50, 900, which, with S111,932
voted at the annual meeting in Feb
ruary, makes for additional educa-
tional facilities. 1t was the largest
gathering ever turned out for a school
board meeting, more than 300 voters
crowding the auditorium and over
flowing into the street.
Governor Silzer is not 1T present al
lowing his mind to dwell upon the pos
b4plllly VI I6pl CoSAlluS lAt Cllo az
ic party in the presidential campaign
of 1924, according to a statement Is
sued by his secretary, Frederic NJ. P.
Pearse. The governor has of late
been coming into growing prominence
as a presidential prospect and has
been In demand as a speaker at i'm
portant political gatherings in all
parts of the east.
Left alone at play a bedroom at
the home of her parents, Nh. and Mrs.
Carmine Pavone of Orange, two-year-
old Antoinette shouted childish pratt
tie through a window at other email
children in the street while she
munched candy" she had found on
the dressing table. Less than three
hours later Antoinette died in Orange
Memorial Hospital from commissions.
The supposed Candy was sugar coat
ed pills.
Public Service Corporation officials
at Newark denied that the Public
Service Electric Company, the new
corporation being organized to finance
the 500, 900 900 power development
project, was other than a financial
convenience" to make possible the
erection of the giant plant. They
pointed out that the actual manufac-
of the Public Service, and the new
company will not manufacture one
kilowatt of power.
Hammonton police have been au-
thorized to kill an Objectionable dog
found running at large.
The Highland Park Civic Improve.
ment Association had two men work
ing all last week cleaning up the I'M
improved land and lots, and tons of
rubbish were gathered.
Admiral Farragut Camp, Sons of
Veterans, of Gloucester City will have
charge of the Memorial Day celebra-
ton and is already arranging the pro-
gram.
Excavations are being made for 80
veloped tract at Bellmawr.
The new concrete road between
Paulsboro and Gibbstown is to extend
from curb to curb where it passes
through the latter town.
For neglecting to send her son to
school at Millville Mrs. Matilda Al
lard was fined S. by Judge Logue.
Contracts for S337,4S8 for paving
three sections of Monmouth county
roads. ~aggregating nearly seven miles,
have been awarded by the freehold
ers.
All but one of the 447 government
homes at Brooklawn are occupied.
The government officials will continue
W. J. Benford in charge of the village
until the homes are sold next month.
The Pitman Highlands Chemical
Engine Company is having It's appa-
ratus mounted upon a new and
heavier motor chassis.
Miss Idella Avis of Mullica Hill will
accompany her uncle, C. C. Avis of
Woodstown, to the worlds Sunday
school convention at Glasgow, Scot
land, in June.
Edward Quinn, a Gloucester City
fisherman, caught the first S. ad of thu
season in the Delaware river there.
William Boyer, thirty-two, died at a
hosDital in Newark. Iaking the third