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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
AN ORDINANCE fixing the compensa-
ton of the City Clerk in the City of

AN ORDINANCE fixing the compensa-
ton of the City Clerk in the City of
Mortified.
Be it Ordained by the Common Council
of the City of Mortified.
Section 1. That commencing January
l, 1924, the salary of the City Clerk in
the City of Northfeld. shall be Five Hun
dred ($500.00 Dollars per annum: paya-
BILE in quarterly installments of One
Hundred and Twenty-Five ($125. 00) Dol
lars each, on the first days of March,
June, September and December in each
year.
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of
ordinances inconsistent herewith. be and
the same are hereby repealed and this
ordinance shall take effect Immediately
after final passage and publication.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the
above Ordinance was passed on first and
second readings by the Common Council
of the City of Mortified City on Monday,
August goth. 1923, and that said Common
Council of the City of Mortified City will
consider the final passage of the above
Ordinance at its meeting to be held in
the City Hall. Mortified City, New Jer-
sey, on Monday evening, September 10th.
1928.
By order of the Common Council of the
City of Mortified City.
GEORGE H. MULLER,
CITY Clerk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev, j, l.. Keith Macleod, Pastor

Services Sunday as follows:
1890 a. m.,- Divine Service.
2.30 p. m, Bible School; George H.
Adams, Supt.
z p. M, Young Peoples Meeting.
s p. M, Evangelistic Service.
The Pastor will speak morning and
evening. The subject for the morning
will be: THE Voice that spake out of the
Bush. Was it Fact or Fancy?" And for
the evening, The Souls Greatest Need
in these Days of High Pressure and
Living"
The United Prayer Service will be held
next Wednesday in this church. with Mr..
Ezra Lake as leader.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
SALEM M. e. CHURCH..
S. Monroe VanSant, Pastor.

Services Sunday as follows:
9.45 a. M, Glass Meeting.
1890 a.. M, Morning Worship and Ser
mon. The pastor viii exchange pulpits
with Rev. George w. Toms, Jr., pastor
st. Johns NJ. P. Church.
2.30 p. M, Sunday school,.
s p. m, Evening worship and sermon
by the pastor, subject THE Compassion
of Jesus"
Wednesday, s p. M, Mid-week church
service.
Thursday evening. Senior and Junior
Choir's rehearsal.
Friday evening, Mems Club.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25

There is no false modesty about the
Cent.a-WJrd Column of The Pleasant
vile Press. 10 legitimate proposition
need hesitate to launch forth to find
a response. Need not even sign your
name or address. This office receives
and holds replies for you, If desired.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
His Part.

Kind of Man (who had just stopped
Hilltop gang from initiating a new Kid
in the community: $50 you admit the
unfortunate boy was carried to the
pump and half drowned? What part
did you take in this AFFAIR.""
Tough Kelly: DE left leg"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
OIEo

WEVILL.-At Northheld. Y. J.. on Aug.
%, Charles a., in his S7th year. Fun
non Ave. N|ortheild, on Saturday, Aug.
-, AT / p. IN. Interment Trenton, y. j.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25

Council of the City of Mortified City will
consider the final passage of the above
rdinan at its meeting to be held in
the City Hall, Mortified City, New Jer-
sey, on Monday evening, September 10th.
1928.
BY order of the Common Council of the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. M. r. Matthews, Pastor.

Sunday: II a. M. and s p. M. Sister
Cross. Evangelist of New York City. will
m, Bible School. j. E. Moody. Supt.
Wednesday, 8 p. M, Prayer Meeting,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
COUNTY BAPTIST CHURCHES.
Rev, r.. e, Mahoney. Pastor,

Services Sunday as follows:
Seaview-SunGay School, II a. M; Ser
vices. 7.30 p. m.
Somers Point-11 a. m.
Cardiff = Sunday School. $50 p. m.
preaching. $50 p. m.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25

SEALED BIDS will be received by the
Board of Chosen Freeholders of Atlantic
County. New Jersey, on September 18th,
1923, al - o'clock noon daylight Saving
Time). at the meeting room of the Board
in the Administration Bldg. of the Coun-
ty Asylum at Mortified. N. j., during a
regular meeting of the Board at that
time and place. for furnishing all requlr-
ed labor. equipment and materials and
for reconstructing a highway bridge over
Hospitality Branch in Buena Vista Town
ship. known on the County records as
Bridge b. located On what is known as
the Blue Anchor Road. including filling
of the approaches. a pile trestle bridge
and various other incidental items in
volYed in the work.
Plans and specifications, showing and
describing the proposed work, are on file
at the office of the County Engineer, 636
Guarantee Trust Bldg, Atlantic City, n.
J., where prospective bidders may secure
them without charge. Nc bid viii be
considered unless written on the bidding
blank attached to the specifications. A
certified check in the amount of 1870 OF
the bid. together with the consent of
proposed surety. viii be required of each
bidder. as set forth in the specifications.
A bond in the full amount OF the contract
price will be required of the successful
bidder. to guarantee construction OF the
work in accordance with the plans and
notifications. The right is reserved to
reject any or ali bids.
BY order OF the Board of Chosen Free
holders.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
WESLEY M. e. CHURCH.

Rev. W.. L. Shaw, Pastor.
Services Sunday as follows:
$50 a. m. Glass Meeting.
1890 a. m. and s p. M, Worship and
Sermon.
$50 p. M, Sunday School.
z p. M, Epworth League.
Monday evening at s o'clock. at the
church, regular monthly meeting of the
Sunday School Board. Arrangements are
to be made for Rally Day, and every Off
Ger and teacher is urged to attend.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
The Brave Man.

Redd: Hes what l call a really
brave man."
Greene: What do you mean by
that?"
Redd: We'll! He let's his wife
drive his car when he's in it."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
CHURCH


ST. MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Rev. Charles w. Colt, Rector.
Services Sunday as follows:
10 a. m, Sunday school,.
IL a. M, Holy Communion and Sermon
by the Rector.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. T. NJ. Simanton. Pastor.
The pulpit will be supplied morning
and evening on Sunday by Rev. d. Lin
ton Doherty, of oxford, N. j.
2.30 p. M, Sabbath School.
BETHANY M. {. CHURCH.
L. D. Champion, Pastor.
Services Sunday as follows:
2.30 p. M. Sunday chool.
s p. M. Song Service and Preaching.
Wednesday, s p. M, prayer meeting.
THE PENTEcoSTAL ASSEMBLY
MISSION HALL.
10 Turnpike Road.
Rev. Walter E. Albee. Pastor.
Sunday: Sunday School at $50 p. m.
Young Peoples Meeting at Ills p. m.
Preaching at 7.45 p. m.
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday we
nings, 7.45 o'clock.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25
Maybe Darwin Can Tell

We have Just noticed a headline in
the Poland China Journal (Kansas
City, Mo- that reads like this:
Relation of the Pure-8red Hog
to Average Nebraska Farmer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25

F.W.. Clerk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-25

F. ". WILLETTs, Clerk.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01
THE BARON'S LAST BANQUET

Ger low couch the setting sun had thrown its
latest ray,
Where in his last strong agony diving warrior
lay,
The stern old Baron Rudiger, whose frame Mad
ne'er been bent
By wasting pain, till time and toll its iron
strength had spent.
They come around me here, and say my days of
life DER,
That shall mount my noble steed and lead my
They come and to my beard they dare to tell
me now, that /,
Their own Hege lord and master born,-that 1,
ha. ha must die.
And what is death? I've dared him oft before
the Paynim smear
Think ye he's entered at my gate, has come to
seek here?
I've met him, faced him, scorned him, when the
fight was raging hot
I'll try his might-l'll brave his power DEFY and
fear him not.
"Ho! sound the tocsin from my tower, and fire
the culverin,-
Bid each retainer arm with speed,-call every
vassal in,
Up with my banner the wsl-the banquet
board prepare;
Throw wide. the portal of my hail. and bring my
armor there!"
An hundred hands were busy then-the banquet
And rung the heavy oaken floor with many
martial tread,
While from the rich, dark tracery along the
vaulted WALL
Light cleaned on harness, plume and spear, DER
the proud old Gothic hall.
Fast hurrying through the outer gate the mailed
retaners poured,
On through the portals frownng arch, and throng-
ed around the board.
While at its head, within his dark, carved oaken
Armed cap-a.pie, stern Rudger, with girded
falchion, safe.
Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the
cheering wine;
There's life and strength in every drop-thanks.
giving to the vinei
Are We all there, my vassals true?-mine eyes
are waxing dim:
Fill around. my tried and fearless ones each COB.
let to the brim.
you're there but yet 1 see ye not.
Draw forth each trusty sword
And lett me hear your faithful steel clash around
my board:
hear ss,R it f sisatg Louder yetWhat clogs my
Up all. and shout for Rudiger Defiance unto
Death!"
Bowl rang TO bowl-steel clang to steel-and rose
n deafenins cry
That made the torches flare around, and shook
the flags on high
"Ho! cravens; do ye fear him?-slaves, traitors
have We flown?
Ho! towards, have ye left me to meet him here
0lonel
But defy him let him comet Down rams
the massy cup,
While from its sheath the ready blade came
flashing half way up;
And with the black and heavy plumes scarce
trembling his head.
There in his dark, carved oaken chair Old Rudiger
sat-de0d
Albert Gorton Greene
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01
Pungent Paragraphs

The South seems to be suffering
from an epidemic of whipitis-Indian-
apolis News.
August has plenty of kick left in
the sunshine on the beaches. Chicago
Daily News.
Amy Lowell describes herself as
roaming the hills on n charger as
red as maple leaves" A Percheron +?
New York Evening World.
Ridicule isn't really funny unless it
hits somebody whose superiority is an
offense TO our vanity.-Youngstown
Vindicator.
ave speak American" is suggested
as the new slogan. Some of us surely
do.-Cincinnati Times Star.
Correct this sentence: "Oh. do look
quickly, john" cried the wife, land
see what beautiful ankle that wom-
an has. Hartford Times.
There is nobody so hopeful as the
political candidate who hasn't a
ehance.-Harrisburg Telegraph.
The doctor has one thing in common
with the bootlegger. The result of his
activities is TO lessen the number of
those from whom he gets a living
Baltimore Evening Sun.
Nobody, we suppose, can be more
indignant than a girl in knickers who
gets into snapshot with extreme re-
luctance and then finds that she has
been cut off at the neck.-Grand Rap
ids Press.
Whether wearing suspenders is a
sign Of crudity or of social Importance
is owing to whether a man wears them
for comfort or = woman wears them TO
keep up her evening gown.-Wilming
ton (Del.) Evening Journal.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01

Here is his statement, word for
word as he wrote it:
MY APOLOGIZE.
"Hearken, ye judges! There is
another madness besides, and it is
before the deed. All! Ye have not
gone deep enough into this soul
Thus speaketh the red Judge: why
did this criminal commit murder !
He meant to rob- / tell you, how
ever. that his soul hungered for
blood, not booty: he thirsted for the
happiness of the knife!"
And again:
"What is this man? A coil of wild
serpents at war against themselves
so they are driven apart to seek
their prey in the world"
SO wrote one whose art and wis
dom are nought to this rabbit Drained
generation; but it was given to me
to find my meat and drink within
ms pages and to see my own youth
full impressions reflected and crys-
tallized with the brilliance of genius
in his stupendous mind.
Remember, /. who write, am not
thirty years old.
AS a young man without expert
ence / sometimes asked myself il
some spirit from another order of
beings than my own had not been
slipped into my human carcass. Ii
seemed to me that none with whom
l came in contact was built on, or
near, my own pattern. for / had only
met one person as yet-my mother
who I'D not suffer from the malady
OF a bad conscience. Ny father and
ms friends wallowed in this COM
plant.
At fifteen years of age I killed a
man. and found, in a murder UNDER
taken for very definite reasons.
thrill beyond expectation. That Incl
dent is unknown; the death of my
fathers foreman, Job Trevose, has
not been understood till now. He
lived at Paul, village upon the
heights nigh Penzance. Among the
sheds one day, unseen, /
CHANGED to hear Trevose speak of
my mother to another man and de.
clare that she did evil and dishon-
ored my father.
From that moment ] doomed Ire |
vose death and, some weeks later. |
after many failures to win the right |
conditions, caught him alone in a sea |
fog. / walked beside him for fifty |
PAGES, then fell behind, leaped at his |
neck and hurled him over the cliff |
in an instant.
My life proceeded orderly; I chose
the profession of dentist, as being
likely to introduce me TO people of a
more interesting type than my
fathers acquaintance and / kept
IN open mind for myself, but a shut
mind for others.
The brainless Robert Redmayne,
brought his niece to spend her school
holiday with him and discovered in
he seventeen-year-old school girl a
magnificent and pagan simplicity of
mind, combined with a Greek lowell
ness of body that created in me a
We loved one another devotedly
rom the first understanding.
Continued in Our Next Issue)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01
LOVE OF NATURE

According to news story in one of
the eastern papers, there is a little plot
OF ground in the heart of New York
City which has been converted into
miniature garden. This little tract is
no larger than an ordinary table cloth
and is part of the ground on which
stands the church of St. Francis of
Assist, the aged pastor Father Kennedy,
being the gardener. Surrounded as it
IS by towering office buildings, paved
streets, concrete sidewalks and the noise
and hustle of the metropolis, the little
garden is an unusual break in the
monotony of city Nfe.
In the same city not so very far away
from this little spot is dark and for
bidding tenement which towers into the
sky. And midway up, there are half
dozen flower pots containing bits of
green and blooms, atop one of the fire
escape landings which leads by a Win
dow into one of the dark rooms of this
uninviting dwelling place.
Of course there are lawns and flowers
and parks and green spots in New York
City as in any other city. Not quite
so many of them, not quite so large.
not quite 50 inviting perhaps as in
smaller cities where land is less val
liable But down in the districts where
these bits Of green struggle for existence
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01

nv, a,-e.T..- IINt.SS.
Inc Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO the
~ tor puhcation OF all news dispatches credited 10
NOT otherwtse credited in this pantr and also
.oca' news published herein. All rights ~ renubl,cs
ZION or special dispatches herein are also reserved
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01

1 ana red Wig ana starts Tor Berry
Head on Redmayne' motor bicycle
The sack supposed TO contain tn,
body is found, and that is all. Hi'
purpose is to indicate hiding place
for the corpse and lead search in Q
certain direction; but lie is not goins
to trust the sea; he is not going &C
stand the risk of Robert Red
mayne's corpshe spelling his game.
No, his victim never left Foggintor
and probably Michael will presently
tell us where to find the body.
Meanwhile a false atmosphere is
created under which he proceeds to
his engagement at Crows Nest
And then what happens? The first
clue-the forged letter, purporting to
come from Robert Redmayne to his
brother. Who sent it? Jenny Pen
dean on her way through Plymouth
to her Uncle Bendigo's home.
".Ienny plays widow but spends as
much time as she wants in her hus-
bands arms all the same; and to-
gether they plan to put out poor
Ben. He'd never seen Pendean, of
course, which made the Doria swim
die possible. i incline to think that
Michael meant to begin with the old
sailor and that, wien Robert turned
up unexpectedly on Dartmoor, he
altered his plans.
NOW we come TO the preliminary
steps at Crows Nest which ended
in the death of the second brother.
You offered just the starting point:
and before you left on that rough,
moonlight night, Pendean had re-
created the forgery of Robert Red
mayne and appeared before you in
that character. And not content with
this, he kept the part going for all
it was worth. AS Robert Rcdmayne.
he broke into Strete Farm and was
seen by Mr.. Brook. the farmer.
Now we get to blindman's buff
with the forgery. Follow each step.
Bcndigo never sees his supposed
brother once; you never see him
again. Your united search through
the woods is futile; but Jenny and
her husband in the motor boat bring
news of him. Robert must see Ben
digo all alone-and he must have
food and a lamp in his secret hiding
place.
well, it's fixed up and Ben de-
cides to meet his brother after mid
night, alone; but the old sailors
pluck wavers-who shall blame him !:
and he arranged in secret with you
that you should be hidden in his
tower room when Robert Redmaync
comes to keep the appointment.
snow the next thing puzzled me |
for moment: but I think / know |
what happened Only Pendean's |
final statement. if he ever makes one.
will serve to clear the point; but / |
can guess that at that first inter-
view with Ben he tumbled TO the |
fact that you were hidden in the
tower room.
THAT being so, his own plans had
to be modified pretty extensively.
Whether he meant to finish off Ben
that night, you can't be sure: but
there is very little doubt of it. Every
thing was planned.
Nov we get another lifelike re-
port Of runaway Robert: and finally
Bendigo consents to visit him in his
hiding place. The lamp is going to
burn and show the particular cave
IN that honeycombed coast where
BendigO's brother is supposed to be
concealed. Another night comes and
Ben goes to his death.
Two Redmaynes have gone to
heir account and there remains but
me. Meantime the course of true
owe runs smoothly and Doria mar
les his wife again."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01
A Puzzle a Day

Start at any circle in the diagram.
and draw straight line from its
center to the center of any other cir
Gle. From there, turn at an angle,
and travel to another. The puzzle is
to follow n course that will include
all the circles once, and no more.
The course must not be broken: q
turn must be made at every circle:
and no lines of the course NAV
cross. The line, for example may
not run from 1 to TO IL; or IS to
y to ., as no turns will be made az
q or .. The course shown in the dia-
gram does not meet the conditions,
as circle ID is not included. and can
not be, because the course from Is to
IA may not be continued.
Yesterdays answer:
The dealer who increased his sale
of automobiles by three each day, and
who sold one hundred cars in eight
days, made sales as follows: First
day, 2; second, 5; third, 8; fourth,
IL: fifth. IA; sixth, II; seventh, 20:
eighth, %.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01

in on atmosphere filled with dust an,
SCOT, poisoned with gases and contami
nations due to overcrowding and indus
trialism, where only fleeing rays of sun
light can supply the heat needed fo
plant life, where on all sides are bleal
walls and the complex hurry of cit,
life, there is no other touch of nature
That the love of nature is inborr
IN nearly every one. even those pitifu
folks who are born and reared in such
environments, is indicated by the thronr:
that stop to look at this little garden
plot in the center of New York. The
pot plants high up on the fire escape
are too far removed from the sidewalk
to receive attention from the passerbv
hey perhaps give pleasure to only the
wrlnkled and worn little woman who
tends them. To her no doubt, thew
speak silent language of green hills,
ripping waters. lazy, floating white
clouds in blue skies, shady trees and
wild flowers. They. are the one touch
OF nature that she can bring into a life
thrown by fate into such surroundings.
But most of the people who pass the
little garden have seen the country with
its charms. Probably most of them had
forgotten the fresh air, soft breezes and
the grass and flowers of the country
side or at least temporarily forgotten
them. calling them to mind only occa-
sionally when they had leisure to in
dulge in retrospection. Thousands and
thousands of people who daily pass the
little garden have the Unborn love of
nature revived by the sudden appear
ance of this little plot with its carefully
cultivated flowers and green things there
in the midst of great city. Nobody
can fathom the countless heartaches,
the signs, the longings that this little
plot OF nature has awakened in the
course of single summer to those
who had left the peace of the country
behind and were hopelessly enmeshed
in the snares of business in the big town.
. On the other hand. it probably would
be amazing to count the thousands of
city dwellers who pass daily by this lit
tie garden without giving it a thought.
SO long have they been bred to CITY
lite that the natural love for such things
has been completely stifled and driven
from their hearts.
But seeing them hurrying along rush
ing recklessly here and there, unmind-
tul of anything except the narrow little
groove in which each has fitted himself
one can well believe the story told some
years ago of a New York visitor to
Arizona who when he saw the vast ex-
panse of sand and sagebrush, the dim
mountains many miles away, the ar~ovos
and foothills remarked dryly: eyes,
its very pretty no doubt but there's
entirely too much scenery"