The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
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of the bungalow type, are being built
at Sewell.
Wenonah water consumers are now
allowed to use lawn sprinklsrs from 8
to 7 In the evening.
Two of the moving picture theatres
In Gloucester City have been closed
because one firm now controls all
three.
One of the large sand companies
near Manumuskin has received a rush
order from a Pennsylvania steel mill
and workmen have been making as
high as 1920 a day loading barges.
AS soon as repairs are made to the
Lipman building, machinery will be
installed for a shirt factory at Elmer.
Professor Ernest Townsend of Boon
town was elected Millville's superin-
tendent of schools to succeed Profess
sor Frederick ]. Sickles, resigned.
Professor Harvey Smith was elected
principal of the high school.
Vineland's Presbyterian, First Meth
bdist, FIRST Baptist, Episcopal and Con-
gregstional churches have formed an
fnteTchurch League to encourage out
door sports.
With 1000 Boy Scouts and scout
sdaddies," both real and foster, banked
OF the edge of Parvin's mill pond,
Bridgeton, a huge log cabin was dedi-
Gated at the close of an inspiring pro-
gram. 1t is the dominating structure
In Camp Channon, the Cumberland
county scout camp, on the outskirts
of Bridgeton.
After a brief reign as the money
crop for South Jersey farmers, toma-
toes have capitulated to early white
potatoes. White potato prices are
nearly twice as high as they were at
this time last year. Shippers are look
Ing for the market to improve rather
than slump as the digging progresses.
Potato shipping stations are open
through the early white potato belt.
Weather conditions are ideal for dig
ging, but growers are in no great rush
to ship their spuds because they ex-
pect prices to advance from S4.40 to
s4.75 a barrel for grade 1 Cobblers.
Morris County Traction Company
trolleys are being operated under the
direction of temporary receivers fol-
lowing institution of a SO, 1000, 900 mort
gage foreclosure action in Federal
Court in Newark. The company has
been directed to show cause on Au-
gust 6 why the receiyership should
not be made permanent.
More than $50 of the leading resi-
dents of Pitman and Glassboro met in
Pitman at a special session of the Pit
man Board of Trade to launch the
movement for the completion of the
Glassboro-Malaga route as a part of
the state highway system. Speakers
showed a lot of enthusiasm, and it was
decided to enlist the cooperation of
all of the towns along the route to OBJ
tain action by the State Highway Com
mission in-paving the remaining IA
miles.
Delighted by soaking showers which
assured the salvation of the seasons
fruit crop, nearly 1000 fruit growers
and farmers gathered in Glassboro at
the new State Normal School for the
seventeenth annual summer meeting
of the State Horticultural Society. All
OF the principal fruit growing districts
of the state were represented, and the
gathering became enthusiastic "
plans to put New Jersey peaches and
apples in the forefront in the big mar
kets of the east.
Work is we'll under way in the cree
ton of the new Presbyterian church
at Elmer.
Boy scouts of Salem pitched their
summer camp at Woodmere, a
Quinton, to remain until July 30.
Contractors believe the new con-
crete bridge over Fenwick creek, at
Salem, will be completed by the mid
die of August.
The Pitman Woman's Club is max
ing plans for a flower show to be held
IN September.
The old bell tower at Carney's Point
has been removed and the bell hung
on top of the quartermaster's shop.
All Sunday school workers of Sa-
lem county will gather at Centerton
Lake Saturday, August IS.
Nearly $500 has been raised by Oak
Ign fire company in q campaign for
new apparatus.
Unless all indications fail there will
be a bumper crop of cantaloupes and
watermelons in Cape May county.
Policemen Lincoln n Simpson Of
Gloucester City discovered a flaming
cross in front of the convent adjoin-
ing st. Mary's parochial school.
w. Penn Corson was low bidder for
repaving Haddon avenue between the
railroad bridge and Kings Highway,
Haddonfeld. The bid approximates
S122,000.
A community nurse is again on duty
at Pitman, Mrs. Katherine Pierce hav-
ing been assigned by the state depart
ment of health. Children's clinics
will be held Wednesday afternoons.
Although the camp meeting does not
open until August 3, MAN, families
are occupying cottages in the grove at
Malaga.
The Gloucester City public schools
will reopen Thursday, September 6.
In an attempt to save her niece from
drowning, Mrs. Marie Walkley, thirty,
of Glen Ridge, lost her life in Echo
Lake, near Butler. The niece, Mary
Weber, twelve, New Haven, Conn,
stepped into a hole in the bed Of the
lake and called for help. The aunt
went to her rescue. Both drowned be-
fore help could reach them. Mrs.
Walkley is survived by her husband
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