The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08

the same time the ~freeholders pave the
boulevard.
The police have released Mrs. Daisy
Hal of Upton place, Railway, and Mrs.
Pearl Daniels of the same address,
both colored, after having held them
as material witnesses In the murder
of Mrs. Halls husband, Joseph Hall.
The latter was slain In the backyard
of his home. The prosecutors office
has asked County Physician F. w.
Westcott to make another probe for
the bullet, so as to determine if it is Of
the same caliber as the revolver found
under a bed in the Hall home.
A writ of certiorari questioning the
constitutionality of the state sweat
shops law was served on Justice Sulli-
a by Alexander ~Freedberg and Moe
Vogel. Jersey City clothing manufac-
%turers, who have been fined 800 each
and sentenced to go days in jail for
alleged violation of the law. The writ
will serve as a stay of execution of the
sentences until it is argued November
7. Prosecution of other sweat shops
cases also will be held up.
Forest fires which ragged ~furiously
In the vicinity of New Gretna, Atlantic
county, for two days were completely
extinguished. A heavy downpour Of
rain completed the work of fire ward
n begun three days before. The loss
is heavy.
John Watson, formerly City Record
er, an auctioneer and secondhand fur
niture dealer of New Brunswick, was
almost instantly killed and three other
men, all of New Brunswick, were
slightly injured when their automobile
struck a telegraph pole and turned
over on the river road near New
Brunswick.
Fire at Gloucester destroyed three
buildings, with a loss estimated at
$780, 900 before a downpour of rain
checked further progress of the flames
which were threatening a dozen resi-
dences. The buildings burned were
the garage n motor car salesrooms
of M. Polivnick, the frame building
occupied by the Gloucester Grain,
Dairy & Feed Company, and the resi-
dence of Leroy Page.
Mute evidence of a boys Intellectual
effort to save his brother from drown
ing was found in the Passaic River
ear Summit, when the clasped bodies
of Frank ~Hackenburg, seventeen years
old, and his brother Paul, twenty-one
years old, both of Summit, were recov-
cred near Johnson's Bridge by Lester
Genung, fourteen years old, their
chum.
Newark officials declared hat plans
have been perfected to put a large
number of additional jitney buses into
service in event of a strike of trolley
men employed by the Public Service
Railway Company.
A forest fire raging over a Is mile
area near Chetsworth endangered the
lives of scores of persons, who were
forced to fee. Volunteers were called
from miles around to check the flames.
The Woodbury. Rotary Club has ar
ranged for a fishing trip to Fortescue.
The state highway department is
widening the road between the old
Gloucester toll gate site and Brook
lawn.
oapAO oSSoa ~
Grafton at Wildwood. The coaches op-
crate between Atlantic City, Wild
wood, Cape May and intermediate
points. The company promises all
year round service and during the
summer service from s a. m. to IL
D. m. The run is scheduled as two
hours between Atlantic City and Wild
wood.
Wenonah boy scouts returned from
a ten days outing at Ocean City.
Machinery is being moved from the
dupont plant at Lodi to the dye works
at Deepwater, Salem county.
Neighbors have helped Charles
Manguson, whose buildings and live
stock on his farm near Clayton were
destroyed by fire recently, get started
again.
Work will be started shortly in Had
donield borough on a $4,000 sewage
disposal plant and outfall eve in the
Batesyille section.
Fire ruined the factory of the Dia-
mond Match Company at Railway.
Damage was $4,000.
William Towers, aged thirteen, Of
229 Pearsall avenue, Jersey City, was
killed when struck by lightning at the
summer camp of his parents at Gull
vers Lake, Branchville.
The United Textile Workers Of
America and the Associated Silk
Workers are in the midst of a bitter
war for labor supremacy in Paterson.
The six spa wooden bridge built
more than half a century ago over the
Delaware river between Stockton and
Center Bridge, Pa, burned when
struck by lightning.
The Y. w. c. A. camp at Fries Mill,
which usually closes the middle OF
August, will be kept open until Sep
TENDER l because of SO many apphca-
tons from young women.
Governor Silzer of New Jersey has
started an investigation to get proof
against ships which have been throw
ing refuse into the ocean only to be
washed up on New Jersey beaches.
Straw and broken cases from bootleg
cling ships, rotten fruit and vegetables
and other refuse have come in.
The Gloucester County Board OF
Freeholders has approved specifica-
lions for improving a section of the
Blackwood-Woodbury road at an esti-
mated cost of $4,000.
A set of chimes presented to the
First Baptist church, Collingswood, by
7 II Rexon in memory of his daugh-