The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-18

| sleeping sickness from which MIS-.
| George Cooper is suffering at the nome
| of BENJAMIN Cooper in Meeford.
Rev. Charles S. Woodruff of Allen
dale, addressing the Newark M. T..
conference, urged the conference 10
summon former Governor Stokes be-
fore 1t to explain his recent u~tterances
relative to the Volstead act. LII.
Woodruff pointed. out that Mr. stokes
is a member of the VI. E. church n
president of the Ocean Grove Assoc1a-
ton.
Nine to three for acquittal Is the re-
ported standing of the jury at mount
Holly that disagreed after the trial OF
DR.. Charles Street Mills, prominent
physician of Riverton, charged by
Miss Myrtle Wisner, also of Riverton,
with immoral conduct. The jury was
out for "a hours, and Judge Wells dis
charged it after becoming satisfied
that no agreement could be reacned.
There were ten men and two women
on the jury.
In an address at Newark Bishop
Nicholson urged higher salaries Tor
Methodist clergymen. He said the
church had always stood for the bet
terment of Industrial conditions, but
that 1t had failed to do for its W
workmen what 1t had been urging cap
ital to do for labor. He said that %
or 60 per cent of the clergy were be-
ing paid less thar $4,000 a year.
Fire of an unknown origin Destroy
ed the exclusive Ilderan Club at a
way. The damage is estimated at be-
tween $50, 900 and $50, 900. When the
firemen arrived the entire roof OF the
clubhouse was in flames. Thousands
of dollars worth of expensive rugs
! and furniture were lost. Virtually the
only thing saved was a grandfather
clock, won by the club bowling team
in 1917 in the "Millionaires' League
Royal J.. Mansfield of New York was
low bidder at S32,9S1 on the work OF
reconstructing the bridge on Roose-
welt Boulevard to Ocean City mt was
awarded the contract by the Board of
Freeholders at Cape MAJ Court House.
By the adoption of a resolution intro
duced by Director Champio~ the posi-
ton of supervisor of bridges was ere
dIeu, Will 9A,OOO yCdlig odAo-y oHN
Edward Lore of Ocean City was ap-
pointed.
Two women became hysterical in a
Broadway theatre, Camden. They
said they had cen bitten on the legs
by a cat, or a rat, or a dog. 1nvesti-
CATION disclosed eight-year-old Eugene
Roberts, colored, of Mt. Vernon street
hiding under a seat. 81 pinched 'em
on the legs" said the boy to Police
man Sapanore, who had been summon
ed. He also admitted his guilt in
court and added: "They sure did get
frightened. l never had so much fun"
Roberts was sent to the detention
house.
Clarence Markham and Sidney Uns-
worth, popular young men OF Vine
land, have the town l. a great pitch
of excitement. They have purchased
government airplanes and are assem-
bling them ready for fight. The avia-
ton field is filled with visitors, who
expect something to happen.
The fire alarm called a halt to a
hunt for burglars at Westmont, and
600 residents abandoned their efforts
to find the thieves and ran to the fire.
Then it was learned an accomplice of
the thieves, who had taken $1,000
worth of silverware from a house, had
rung the alarm, distracted the pur-
suers and helped their escape.
When the New York Betting and
Packing Company at Passaic, a sub
sidiary of the United States Rubber
Company, posted notices declaring a
10 per CEN increase from April 2, As
employees who had walked out just
a few hours before returned to work.
Two thousand workers are benefited.
The planked shad dinner season
opened at Gloucester City when a
number of Philadelphians dined there.
Plans are being made for the dedi-
cation of the new high school building
at Swedesboro On April IA.
The employees of the Breslin Broth
ers' rug mill, Gloucester City, were in
formed of a 10 per cent increase in
wages Saturday. The announcement
was a pleasing surprise to the men
and women workers.
Everett n~ine-year-cld son of E. N.
lhdENlu VI MdplS avenue, SOAiA6o
wood, who has been seriously i'll, is
reported to be suffering with sleeping
sickness.
Suckers and cells are being caught in
tributaries to the Delaware river by
fishermen while they are waiting for
shad to appear.
The Rutgers Glee Club furnished
the music for the dance of Pancoast
Post, American Legion, at Drivers
Hall, Woodstown.
The State Board of Health reports
four cases of scarlet fever in Elmer
borough.
The average attendance Of pupils in
the Brooklawn schools for the month
just closed was the best of the term,
nearly IS per cent.
Collingswood commissioners of as
sessment have received the plans and
data of the sewer system recently
purchased from private control from
the engineers and will begin work this
week on the assessments.
Frank w. Denning, aged fifty-seven,
of Delanco shot and killed himself in
a sun porch of the home of Mrs. Clar-
ence Miller, his sister, at Mount Hol-
ly.
Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Thompson, c. c.
Avis n George B. MacAltioner of
Woodstown will attend the sessions of
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