The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

a platform of quietude and order, es-
pecially on Sunday.
In Trenton Mayor Frederick W.
Donnelly, an o~utspoken advocate OF a
liberal Interpretation of the dry laws,
was reelected with all but n Of his
commissioners.
Handsome summer home of James
M. Pidock, at White House Station,
east of Phillipsburg, destroyed. Loss,
s35, 200, partly insured. Origin un-
known. Mr.. Pidcock and his family
are In Moultrie, Ga.
The City Commissioners elected at
Cape May were Frank B.. Mecray,
Leonard H. Davis and George P.
three Republicans.
Wal between councils of the sister
boroughs of Netcong and Stanhope is
on because of the controversy yer
the Edwin T. Wills ice house in Main
street, Stanhope.
The Stanhope Borough Council join
ed battle with the Netcong group by
adopting a resolution urging that the
Ice house be allowed by the State
Board of Conservation to remain
where it is.
Three-year-old Henry L. Wolfe, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Wolfe of 43
Hickory street, B%loofeld, was drown
ed in the Morris canal at Hickory and
Liberty streets, in that town. The
lad had been playing neal the bridge
at that spot.
Pensauken Township voted against
commission form of government. The
vote was 653 for the proposition to
1916 against. The Republicans op-
posed and the Democrats favored
commission rule.
officials of Morris county Jail at
Morristown are trying to learn if
there is any legal means of forcing a
prisoner to leave. Eugene O'Neil,
cook, arrested for assault, refused to
quit the Jail when his term expired.
"Tve decided to stay and help out
your chef in the kitchen" he said.
Hes a fine fellow and very short Of
help"
Fire damaged the J. L.. Mott Compa-
ny's plant at Trenton to an estimated
extent of $4,000. The blaze started
in oil on the floor of the enamelling
shop, which was ignited by overhead
ed ovens. Hose across the tracks tied
up traffic on the Trenton-Camden
branch of the Pennsylvania railroad
for more than an hour.
The Public Utility Commission ap-
proved the application Of the Mon
mouth Lighting Company for permits
sion to issue first mortgage 5 per cent
bonds to the amount of 5000, 900 and
$4,000 in capital stock at par. The
issue Is to reimburse the lighting COM
pany for extensions and improve
ments.
His second fall into the Delaware
and Raritan canal at Trenton proved
fatal for f~ive-year-old Walter Servis.
Leaving the house after his mother,
Mrs. Jennie Servis, warned him to
stay indoors, Walter joined his nine
year-old brother, George, in play on
the bank Of the canal and went too
near the edge. His brother called for
help, but the fathers efforts to save
the boy were useless. The body was
recovered with graphing irons. The
AlOLllCA Old " wi LII lIoI obOuI q
year ago the boy had fallen into the
canal at the same spot, but had been
rescued by workmen.
Commander R. J.. T. Paul of the
Haddonfield American Legion Post
will appoint a committee of five to
meet with representatives of other or
CARNATIONS in the borough for a fit
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The municipal sewer project for
Glassboro is now in the hands of the
borough council, and it is expected
that citizens will be asked to vote
upon it when actual costs are deter
mined.
Six hundred cases of measles were
treated in Collingswood from the out
break of the epidemic last November
until May 1, according to an an
nouncement of DR.. E. B. Rogers,
Board of Health director. Only six
cases remain, however.
Following a brief Illness of pneu-
monia, Neil lessen, superintendent of
the Hightstown Rug Company, died at
his late bone on Bank street, flights
town. NJ. lessen, who was thirty
seven years old, came to Hights1own
from Denmark nearly 20 years ago.
He was held in high regard and was
widely known in this section. He
was for many years an active mem
Der of the Knights of the Golden
Eagle.
Harry Harter, an automobile sales
man, was sentenced to life imprison.
ment at Paterson for the murder OF
Mrs. Evelyn Rainbow, known locally
as a concert singer, murdered about
six weeks ago in the cellar of her
home. Harter, who is married and
has two children, but who has been
separated from his wife for some
time, formerly boarded in the Rain
bow home. He became infatuated
with the woman
Mrs. Wilson Mcclure, at Bunker
Hill, sent word to the sheriff's office
that her chicken coops were agar
raided, the ninth visit of the thieves.
The state highway department has
Informed Gloucester City officials thai
Broadway between Newton creef
bridge and Timber creek is to BIT
widened to 40 feet. The street is par
of Route No. 6 and is 80 feet wide.
The transportation committee o
the Pitman Board of Trade, John NJ
Hutchinson chairman, has announced
that it has procured two additions