The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-14

ney dance.
For the first time in It's history
Warren county has a woman deputy
surrogate. She is Miss Hope Trim
mer, who succeeded Gilbert Belford,
who will enter business.
The Camden County Firemen's AS
ISOLATION met at the Highland Park
fire house. Representatives from all
parts of the county were present.
Ethel Devaul, sixteen years old,
who disappeared from her home,
Gloucester City, was located in Cam
den by the police and returned.
With two members sick and a third
absenting himself for strategic rea-
sons, Mayor Stanger vas unable to
get q quorum at the meeting of Glass
boro council. Appointments over
which the mayor and council are
d~eadlocked we're held over for anoth-
er week.
Among the speakers at the meeting
of the Fairview improvement Asso-
| citation when commission government
was discussed were Mayor King. Pro-
lessor Oscar H. Kale, Mr.. Curry of
luof INOu-f dTLlSdu LcdSuCt SouhSiAhoA
Won Media and Leo Harkins.
The will of the late Frederick Roe
del, Sr., undertaken, of Ala SoC.h
Fifth street, Camden, probated an es-
tate valued at about s25, ZOO, Is left
in trust to the widow, with the pro-
viso that she will not remarry.
The Wenonah group Of Y. M. c. A.
held a father and son banquet, and R.
D. Hughes of Woodbury. was the prin-
cipal speaker.
Miss Ruth Mund, a Vineland high
school girl, was run oTer by IN auto
mobile at Lincoln and Lands
and her leg was broken. She was
helping her little brother across the
road with his express wagon.
DR.. Boardman, former regional
| commander of the Boy Scout move
ment and Chautauqua lecturer, ed
dressed the Millville Kiwanis Club.
Members of the Paulsboro fire COM
pany have raised sufficient funds by
subscriptions to pay off a mortgage
on their fire house.
High prices for asparagus last year
will result in a Is per cent increase
in acreage. Increased cost of manure
has forced many farms into the grow
ing of certain crops to maintain soil
fertility. The acreage devoted to
cowpeas alone in Middleton district
will exceed 1000.
Labor on farms In Jersey Is as
scarce as In war time, and wages are
even higher. Help Is demanding, and
In most cases getting, wages that
equal those paid skilled mechanics.
Twenty-Five dollars a week is being
offered, and the farmers are not as
sured that the men will lay at those
rates.
The appointment of Councilman
Marcus Cramer as postmaster of
Gloucester City, which position pays
$1,000 a year, was sent to the senate,
according to word received from
Washington. The recommendation
was made by Congressman Patterson
a week ago.. Cramer will file his bond
as soon as he receives official notice
of his appointment, but will probably
week. He will succeed Thomas J.
Foley, a Democra VINO mas neld tne
position eight years.
Warm weather and rain have help
ed to bring the two feet of frost out
of the ground in south Jersey. In a
few days spring blowing and hotbed
work will be in full progress. There
will be a reduced acreage of nearly
all truck crops. Low prices and high
xya horo n fnndanou m dicnnnroon
normal acreage. The early potato
and onion acreage will be about one
half of last years, while tomatoes and
peppers will be about the same.
Swedesboro having taken yer the
water plant, it has been necessary to
create a water department, with u SUI
perintendent and clerk.
A radio inspector" is the lates i'm
postor who has been around Verga.
He charges a dollar for an 'inspec-
ton" of the apparatus.
Delinquent Tax Collector Johnson
has caused a furore among the delin-
quent taxpayers at Millville by threat
ening to issue warrants for their ar
rest.
C. c. Avis and George B. McAltioner
Of Salem county will attend the
worlds Baptist assembly at Stock
holm, Sweden, in June.
The officials of the Ocean Front Ho-
tel Corporation, Ocean City, are pleas
ed with the progress being made on
the beach front hotel, the Flanders.
Doctors report that the epidemic of
grip and measles which have spread
over south Jersey all winter is now
subsiding.
Frank Cain, a retired resident, died
suddenly at his home on Columbia
avenue, Millville. He Is survived ~
a widow and daughter.
The senior class of the Woodstown
High School will present an cperetta
on April 5 and 6 under the direction
of H. M. Station, musical Instructor.
Rev. B. Harrison Decker, pastor OF
the First M. e. Church, Salem, has
notified the official board that he de-
sires to leave at the end of his term
in March.
Cinders are being used more extern
sively for road building around Mon
roeville, and such roads are said by
drivers to stand up better than gravel
under the Gpring thaws.
r. L. Chester of Ocean City has
o~urohacod tho .princasa Theatre a