The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-11-14
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the Fire Hall by the Home and School
League.
Brooklawn.-An election will be
held Saturday, November II, to select
lighting commissioners and to ratify
the lines of the sewer districts.
Highland Park.-The Ladies Auxil-
larry of the Fire Company has elected
Mrs. Walter Anburger president, Mrs.
James Mcconnell treasurer and Mrs.
James Benesole secretary.
Camden. = Postmaster Ellis COM
pleted arrangements for merging the
Audubon and Oaklyn post offices,
which come under the supervision of
Camden, as a result of an order. made
at Washington. Postmaster Ellis said
carriers and an auxiliary will look
after the delivery of mail and that for
a while, or until they become acquaint-
ed with the territory, two daily deliv-
cries will be made. The post office
for the two communities will be To-
Gated at Merchant and West Atlantic
avenues, Audubon, in charge of Super
intendent Cooper Macmillan.
Newark.-The steam freighter SUI
boatco, owned by the Transmarine
Company, limped into port damaged
above her water line by collision with
an alleged rum-running ship off High.
lands. No n was injured. Members
of the crew said a ship with lights ex.
tinguished struck the Suboatco's bows,
carromed and made off in the misti-
ness of dawn.
Ocean City.-Robert Wheatley, a ne
gro, was held in $1,000 bail on a
charge of having shot George Breck.
ley. Wheatley is alleged to have told
police he fired two shots as a salute
for Navy Day as Breckley was passing
in an automobile. One bullet caught
Breckley in the head. He will recover,
Runnemede.-For running into the
automobile of John Price, IN Black
Horse pike, Frederick Schuster, Cam
den, was fined $3.50 by Recorder
Shoemaker Of Center township.
Camden.-John j. Kilmartin, a fire.
man at the Camden water works, has
been laid off by the city commission
cIS dllCl SCI flh6 81 yCdlos
Grenloch.@The property of the
Bateman Manufacturing Company, in
the hands of a receiver for several
weeks, is advertised to be sold at auc-
ton on November 81.
Phillipsburg. - The bbody Of Mrs
old, of this place, was found in a va
cant lot near a public school by school
children. She had been missing for q
day, and relatives and friends con-
Quoted an all-night search for her.
She had been i'll for some time, had
apparently wandered away and, be-
coming exhausted, laid down and ex
PRED.
Princeton.-That any attempt to at
tain the eulogized Princeton spirit" in
a few minutes Is bound to prove un.
successful, just as undergraduates
the comment of Mayor Updike when
he sent Austin Cannon, nineteen
years old, giving his address as ia.
maica Plains, Mass, to the county jail
and retained Kenneth Karl Koepfi
twenty-five years old, address un.
known, both posing as students, for
further hearing upon charges of pass.
ing worthless checks IN merchants.
. Wildwood.-The congregation of the
Presbyterian church has decided to
install a new pipe organ.
Millville.-The City Commission de-
cided to enter into an agreement with
the State Highway Commission for
completion of the paving of Route Is,
n mile, connecting with Bridgeton.
Standardization are being cir
culated asking the Publicity Utility
Commission that the buses passing
on or let off passengers at all streets.
At present they may only stop at Ave
sham avenue.
Newark. - Anna Rosenswig, nurse
at the Overlook Hospital, was tech
nically charged with manslaughter by
Detective Guliano of Prosecutor Bige-
lows office in connection with the
death of two men at the hospital, al
legedly from forcible feeding.
New Brunswick.-William F. Hoel-
ger and Alfred Butler were found not
guilty by a jury of having procured an
Illegal operation which resulted in the
death of Grace M. Bedford.
Pompton Plains.-Despite the heavy
rains, the peat bog fires in the farms
adjoining the Bog and Fly road, in
P~equannock township. have not all
been extinguished.
Manasquan. = Mounts hotel, for
many years n of the leading resorts
along the shore, is being transformed
into stores by its new owner, Motor
Inspector Samuel A. Reeves of AS.
bury Park. The place has been closed
about Ave years.
Trenton. - A new application by
Paterson for participation in the de
velopment of the Wanaque watershed
was received by the North Jersey Dis
trict Water Supply Commission. The
request Is for a share in the project
amounting to rs, 900, 900 gallons of wa,
ter daily.
Cape May.-Beach combers picked
up more than 200 half filed bottles oil
whisky and gin on the beach here. II
is supposed that they came from some
i'll fated rum runner. Some of the
bottles were found in cases which
washed up on the strand.
Jersey City. - Superintendent Of
Schools Edward A. Murphy invites
Juvenile Court Judge Meaney to fur
nish records and figures to back VI
his charges in an address that drug
peddlers are developing their clientele
In the public schools of Hudson. Mr.