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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
RESOLUTIONS.

Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty God to
from our midst.
BROTHER ISIAH HORTON,
who has endeared himself to us both as a
and a Brother.
Resolved, That the members of Excelsior
No. 231, Jr. O.. U. A. NJ, do extend
TO the members of the bereaved family our
sympathy in this hour of trial, and
direct them to the mereiful Heavenly Father,
the God Of the widow and Father of the
tatherless, for strength and guidance in this
bereavement, and be it
Resolved, That the Charter of this Council
be draped for a period of thirty days, and
that a copy Of these resolutions be engrossed
and presented to the family. and that they
be spread upon the minutes and be published
in The Pleasantville Press.
GEO. w. SCHUSSLER,
w. c. VAN SAINT,
G. A. BURRELL,
Jan. 3, 1928.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
LEO is IN FLORIDA.

Mr.. Leo H. Guenther, who last sum-
mer conducted an ice route in this
city, is now an auto mechanic at Tam
pa, Fla. He made the trip down in
November in his Ford, and says the
climate there is delightful. His many
friends here have been remembered
with scenic post cards of the Sunny
South.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
ANNA M. HORN.

Mrs. Anna NJ. Horn, aged 20 years.
died here on Sunday. Funeral ser
vices will be held Thursday morning
at 1870 O'Clock, from the First Pres
byterian Church, and interment will
be made in Green Mount Cemetery.
Hammonton.-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
MISSIONARY SOCIETY TO ELECT.

The Womans Home Missionary So
ciety of Wesley NJ. E. Church will
hold its January meeting and election
Of officers this Wednesday afternoon
at 2.30 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Irwin Higbee, on Lake. Place.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given tina a new Sc
ries of stock will be opened in the Home
Building & Loan Association of Pleas
antville, N. j., lam. 81, 1923.
Shares are fifty cents (50c) each with
an entrance fee of ten cents Q0c) per
share.
You may subscribe for shares at any
The First National Bank. Any further
information can be obtained from
GEO. H. ADAMS, Secretary,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
DIED.

HORN.-At Pleasantville, N. J., on Jan.
7, Anna NJ, aged 20 years. Relatives
and friends are invited to funeral SER
vices on Thursday, Jan. II, at 1876 a..
M, from the First Presbyterian Church.,
Pleasantville, N. ]. Interment in
Greenmount Cemetery, Hammonton,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Home Building and Loan Associa-
ton of P~leasantville, N. j., will be held
at The First National Bank. in the City
OF Pleasantville, County of Atlantic and
State of New Jersey, on the 27th day of
January, 1928, at 7.30 o'clock, for the
election of directors for the ensuing year,
and for the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before
the meeting.
GEO. H. ADAMS, Secretary.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
SoMERs POINT W. c. T.. u.

All members of the Somers Point
w. c. T. U. are urged to be present at
the meeting this Wednesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. VanDusen, Shore
Road.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10

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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
PLEASANTVlLLE TRUST co.
of PleasantviIle, N. j.,

at the close of business Dec. 20, 1922.
RESOURCES.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY
BY H. G. WELLS

The fifty or sixty centuries in when all
this had to be achieved may seem long
time in comparison with the three-score ana
ten years of single human life, but 1t is ut
terly inconsiderable in comparison with the
stretches OF geological time. Measuring
backward from these Alexandrian cities to
the days of the first stone implements, the
rostro-carinate implements of the P1ocene
age, gives us an extent or time 1ully NUM-
dred times as long.
We have tried in this account, and with
the help Of maps and figures and time charts,
tc give just idea Of the order and shape or
these fifty or sixty centuries. Our business
is with that outline. We have named but
few names of individuals; though hence
forth the personal names must increase In
number But the content of this outline
that we have drawn here in few diagrams
and charts cannot but touch the magma
ton. .;
A Graphic Pen Picture
If only we could look close. we should see
through all these ST.. centuries procession
of lives more and more akin il their tashlon
to our own. We have shown how the naked
Palaeolithic savage gave place to the Neollth-
ic cutivator, a type of man still to be found
in the backward places of the world we
have given an illustration of Sumerian sol
diers copied from a carved stone that was
set up long before the days when the Semlt-
iC SargOn l. conquered the ldnu. lay ny
day some busy brownish man carved those
figures and no doubt whistled as he carved
In those days the plain of the Egyptian delta
was crowded with gangs of sWarthy work
men unloading the stone that had come down
the Nile to add a fresh course to the cur
rent pyramid One might paint a thousand
scenes from those ages: of some haWker mer-
chant in Egypt spreading his stock OF Baby"
lonish garments before the eyes of some pref
ty, rich lady; of a miscellaneous crowd swarm~
ing between the Iylons to some temple les
tival at Thebes; of an excited, dark-eyed
audience of Cretans like the Spaniards ot to-
day, watching a bullfight, with the bull-
fighters in trousers and tightly girded, ex-
actly like any contemporary bulltlghter; OF
children learning their cuneiform slgns-ar
Nippur the clay exercise tiles of school have
been found; of a woman with SICK nus
band at home slipping into some great tenn
ple in Carthage to make a vow for his re-
covery. Or perhaps it is a wild Greek, skim
clad and armed with bronze AK standing
motionless on some Illyrian mountain crest.
struck with amazement at his first vision or
a many-oared Cream galley crawling like
great insect across the amethystine mirror
Of the Adriatic Sea. He went home 10 ten
his folk a strange story OF monster
Briareus with his hundred arms. Or mllllons
of such stitches in each Of these 100 genera
tions is the fabric Of this history woven. Bue
unless they mark the presence OF primary
seam or Joint we cannot pause now to exam"
inc any of these stitches.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20

y NE fact, we may note, is common to all
D these accounts of developing social
- structure in the west and the east
and that is the immense power exercised by
the educated class in the early stages before
the crown or the commOnalty began to read
and, consequently, to think for itself.
In India, by reason of their eXclusiveness,
the Brahmins, the educated class, retain their
influence to this day; over the masses OF
China, along entirely different lines and be-
cause of the complexities of the written Ian
guage, the mandarinate has prevailed.
The diversity Of race and tradition in the
more various and eventful world of the west
has delayed and perhaps arrestedsforever any
parallel organization Of the specially intel
lectual elements of society into a class as
cendancy. In the western world, as we have
already noted, education early stopped
over and soaked away out of the control of
any special class; it scaped from the limita-
tion of castles and priesthoods and traditions
into the general life of the community.
Writing and reading had been simplified
down to a point when it was no longer pos
sible to make a cult and mystery of them 1t
may be due to the peculiar elaboration and
difficulty of the Chinese characters rather
than to any racial difference that the same
thing did not happen to the same extent in
China.
The World 400 b. c.
Up to this point we have traced in out
line the whole process by which, in the course
of 5000 or 5000 years-that is to say, in
something between $50 and 200 generations
mankind passed from the stage of early
Neolithic husbandry, in which the primitive
skin-clad family lad reaped and stored in
their rude mud huts the wild growing fod-
der and grain-bearing grasses with sickles OF
stone, to the days of the fourth century B..
c., when all around the shores of the Med1-
terranean and up the Nile and across Asia to
India and again over the great alluvial areas
Of China spread the fields of human cult1va-
ton and busy cities, great temples and the
coming and going of human commerce.
Galleys and lateen-sailed ships entered and
left crowded harbors and made their careful
way from headland to headiand and from
headland to island, keeping always close to
the land. Phoenician shipping under Egyp-
tian owners was making it's way to the East
Indies and perhaps even farther into the
Pacific.
Across the deserts of Africa and Arabia and
through Turkestan toiled the caravans with
their remote trade; silk was already coming
from China, ivory from central Africa and
tin from Britain to the centers of this new
life in the world.
Masters of Arts and Crafts
Men had learned to weave fine linen and
delicate fabrics of colored wool; they could
bleach and dye; they had iron as we'll as cop
per. bronze silver and gold; they had made
the most beautiful pottery and porcelain;
there was hardly variety OF precious stone
in the world that they had not found ana
cut and polished; they could read and write,
divert the course of rivers, pile pyramids and
make walls a thousand miles long.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
THE WIFE CHEATER
A New Romance
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

Joan Stockbridge marries Norman
Wayne in spite of many warnings from
her friends. She chooses him in prefer
ence to Herbert Livingston, who loves
her devotedly, but who lacks Norman's
charm. Norman is the kind Of man
who has never been known to care for
one woman more than a few weeks at
time, but Joan is confident Of holding
him. After marriage, however, she
finds this more difficult than she had
imagined, for he makes her miserable
by his attentions to other women. When
Edith, Joan's younger sister, comes to
visit them, Norman is very much at
tracted to her, and Herbert Livingston,
who has come back into Joan's life, tries
to make up to her for Norman's delin-
quencies. Joan realizes that Herbert is
still in love with her, but she is reckless
because of Norman's treatment and of
Edith's callousness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
Saving Wild Life

r OVERS OF WOODLAND life will be heart
ened to learn that efforts for the con-
servation OF the bison, or buffalo, as
we more commonly say in America, have
succeeded to the extent that there are three
thousand more of the animals now than
two decades ago.
The fact is of chief significance as show
ing what can be accomplished by way OF
preventing the extinction of valuable or in
teresting species Of wild life. If the states,
with the corporations Of their citizens, will
do half as much for the preservation of
birds and game as the national government
has done for the bison during these last
twenty years, a stupid and shameful chap
ter of our history will be rewritten in hap
pier terms.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
State Duties IN Highway Work

State DUTIES m H1gh1Ody w ork
40 immense has become the need for
adequate highways, says the president
of the American Road Building Asso-
citation, that the matter is no longer for
state jurisdiction alone, but must be dealt
with as a national problem.
That national aid and supervision are es-
sential is too obvious for argument Few
appropriations of Congress have yielded a
public dividend at once so substantial and
so widespread as have those allotted to
highway construction; nor has any other
one factor done so much for economy and
general efficiency in bodybuilding within
the states as have federal standards and
federal oversight. AS every county, if it
vantage in highway projects, must proceed
with an eye to the. interests OF its neigh
bors and of the state as a whole, so must
every state take account of needs and of
developments in the common country. Plain
ly, then, the problem is of national scope,
and warrants liberal expenditure of national
resources for it's solving.
But it should not be assumed on this &C.
count that the highway responsibilities or
the individual state cease or are minimized.
The more there is of federal aid, the more
there should be of state cooperation, for
only thus can the vast amount of admins
trative work be handled efficiently or local
interest and pride be kept responsive. 1t
is not to be desired and certainly not to be
expected that the states shall receive large
bounties from the national treasury for road
extension and improvement, without them
selves equitably contributing.
Georgia should bear this in mind. Her
last Legislature failed to provide any. sort
of means for meeting her insistent and far
ranging highway needs; it failed even to
safeguard her interests i'm federal aid road
funds. The consequences are, already dis
quieting, and unless there be retrieving &C
ton by the next General Assembly, they
may well become disastrous. The people
expect due legislation when their representa-
tives meet next Junes
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
EAR HYGIENE
Bv H. Addington Bruce

IT THIS season of the year it is partic-
In ularly important to guard against 1ntec-
4 N ton Of the ear. This because it is during
the winter that throat and nose troubles are
most prevalent and these may all too readily
have ear troubles as a sequel, by reason of the
intimate connection between throat, nose, and
ear through the Eustachian tube
Obviously then, all general hygienic meas
ures which serve as preventives of Catching
cold"-ample ventilation in the home, avoid
ance of over-eating, keeping good hours, keep
ing out of crowds when fatigued, etc.-render
valuable service in safeguarding the ear But
there are srecial precautions to be taken in
the ears behalf should cold unfortunately
be caught
One Of these and the most necessary, is
to beware Of blowing the nose violently. All
who do so blow the nose run the risk OF
forcing mucous and disease germs back into
the Eustachian tube, causing at least tenn
porary deafness, and possibly setting up an
infection with which the ear specialists may
find it hard to deal
For the same reason violent spraying of the
nose is to be avoided. On no account should
a current of liquid be used in the nose, be-
cause of the danger of forcing infection not
only into the ears, but into the s1nuses, with
possibly resultant assesses and even eye dis
ease If spraying has to be done, Warms
mild antiseptic solution should be used, with"
out the exercise of force.
Another precaution Of protective value to
the ear is to wear cotton in the ears when
ever motoring in open cars-or in closed cars,
if for any reason they draughty. So, too.
81 all To
for the ears if sleeping in room into which
a strong current of air is blowing.
And be careful not to poke anything into
the ear other than the cloth-Wound little fin
ger, in order to remove wax. AS rightly noted
by DR.. Edward Curtis:
"In healthy ear no more wax forms than
is needed for natures purpose. In natural
course the wax works to the fore gradually,
and comes away imperceptibly in superficial
washing by a cloth over fnger-end."
If the ear is plugged with wax that defes
removal by washing and that indicates it's
presence by a constant ringing in the ear, CON-
suit an ear specialist. He can be trusted to
remove it harmlessly whereas efforts to re-
move it ones self may have more or less seri-
Gus consequences to the ear, besides being
futile.
Finally a hint of peculiar significance to
parents who may deem it necessary to tnflict
corporal punishment on their children as an
aid to discipline:
Don't box child upon the ear. Or, II the
deed is done, and the child screams with pain.
don't in sudden repentance kiss the place to
make it we'll
"If the ear-drum happens to have been thin
ned by disease either the boxing or the kiss
ing may by conclusion split it. And while
rupture of the ear-drum is not always the
dreaded matter commonly supposed. 1t GER
tainly is not a justiiable punishment for
childish peccadilos."
Copyright, 1929 =
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
MY FAVORITE STORIES
Bv Irwin Cobb

This story may or may not be true in all
it's particulars, but in view OF the drops IN
the currencies of certain European countries
which suffered heavily in the Great War and
in the subsequent domestic and economic up
heavals which followed the hostilities, I am
inclined to think it at least has plausible
sound to it.
1t is said that Swiss hotel-keeper made
an announcement which was calculated to
bring him the patronage of refugee notables
from other lands. He gave it out that, at
current rates of exchange, he would accept
money of any continental nation in settle
ment of accounts AS a consequence, MS es-
tablishment was at once filled up with dis
tinguished exiles.
On a certain morning, so the story runs,
an Austrian asked for his bill. He glanced
at the figures and then heaved heavy suit
case upon the desk of the proprietor.
"You will find enough money in this bag
to pay you," he said.
Next to come was German noD!enan'
Upon learning the amount OF MS lnoenteo-
ness he produced a yellow slip ana put IL III
to the hand of the Swiss.
ssThis." he said, sis the bill of ladlng Tor
q carload of marks which arrived yesterday
consigned to me. The is now at the sta
ton. Go there and get as many bales as you
need"
Inc LnlTQ pdClOu was q AN00SI"SAA
After a glance at his bill he drew from an in
ner rocket a. fiat thin heavy package which
gave off metallic sound as he deposited 1t
upon the desk-top.
..What is this?" asked the hote-keeper'
."These" said the Russian, are Inc Gu
oraver's plates. Kindly take them and PRINT
az MANY million-ruble notes as may Dc re-
quired.
candidate for citizenship came TO
,,o+nra1ization bureau in New York to take
oTt his first papers. The applicant was
RTssian who spoke badly-broken Engllsh
ond was apparently eager to become Voter
IN tho shortest possible time. With MIN was
a friend and sponsor from the east side. :,
Under examination, the candidate betrayed
. tremendous lack Of knowledge OIL natlohal
history and institutions and pupnc men
FINALLY the examiner turned to MS coln-
panion: .1,u u,s iano-
1Here," he said testify, this mans lgno-
rance is appalling. Take him away ana eA-
Main something to him about the constltu-
tion and the government Of the united states
Don't bring him back until he Is better quail
fed. ..o,, +ol,ovv-
The eastsider led his cresttallen 1el1oW-
countryman away. Within an hour tney DUN
returned. u. hr,,os
Hello" said the examiner, what brings
you here again."
"Everything is all right" stated the east
slider. IT took my friend out and read to MIN
out Of the constitution, and he says ne likes
it frst-rate."
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
CHAPTER XIII
The Indictment of Hilton

In tba DAYS that followed, the situation at
our house did not change, save LOT Tue ldC'
that was different. Where before had &C
cepted Herberts attentions as a last resort
now welcomed them. [ realized that was
irving desperately hard to become the hlhu
of a woman Alice Wilson had once told me
I could never be, and in my heart knew SHo
was right. 1t wasn't in me to pay Norman
back in his own coin, to become lntereSGeu III
some other man to the extent of actually en-
loving it. No, 1 was a One-man woman:
wanted my husband, and yet was forced 10
nlav the game because there was nothing else
to do unless I wanted to sit at home alone
or watch Norman and Edith dance every
other dance together at the club.
But I realized to my surprise that IN spite
of myself was changing. 1t delighted me
the first time I realized that my old frlends'
Ruth and Margaret, were looking at me
askance. At first nothing was said, puC
growing GOODNESS developed between us, and
finally they came to call on me one afternoon
and the subject of Herbert was brought up
Immediately.
Joan, do you realize that people are talk
ing?" Margaret asked primly.
about me, how FUNNY" And went off
into gale Of laughter, as though thought
such an idea too funny for words. Actually,
| was not amused. / was sick at heart. L
longed to confde in Margaret and Ruth, but
suffering had hardened me, and [ was learn
ing the game of pretense through long prac-
tice.
Joan, you've changed" interposed Ruth.
You're not the same woman who married
Norman just five months ago"
what did you expect?" I asked lightly,
"and after all, girls, why are you censoring
me for something that you would not think
of blaming Norman for, it's hardly fair"
"You knew all about Norman before you
married him." from Margaret. Eve all told
you in fact, we warned you against marry
ing him. Joan are you sorry you married
him, don't you love him any more?"
"Of course I love him." I returned, "but
I don't see what that has to do with my
friendship with Herbert. Women do have
friends besides their husbands these days,
you know we're living in an enlightened age.
You might as we'll censor Norman for being
seen around town with Edith 1t amounts to
the same thing"
Margaret shook her head quickly
ooh, no, it doesn't! Norman is simply
playing and we all know it, but you're diff
ferent, Joan, and every one knows that in
the old days there was something between
you and Herbert, that's why people are saying
these things"
Margaret shook her head quickly.
I shrugged my shoulders as though it were
a matter Of the slightest Importance to me
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20

Two venerable theologians, an Fpiscopa-
liam rector, about eighty years old, and a
minister of the Presbyterian church, who
was somewhat younger, were very friendly
DESPITE their differences in faith. The hieA
churchman had always liked to be address,
ed as "Father." In course Of time new
rector succeeded the father" and the
Presbyterian by force Of habit continued
the high church title But the new rector
did not like it. "see here, DR.. Smith," said
the irate rector one day, "for some time I
have been asking you to stop calling me
father If you do it again I shall call you
mother and If, after that, you do it again
shall call you grandmother ,....
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
No Escape
BY RERTON BRALEY

AY by day I'm getting better, I
J am breaking every tetter
H. OF the maladies that bothered
me of yore
l who once was going blooey, reao the
book by Doctor Coue,
And I'll never be unhealthy any more!
I'm a faithful fond believer; l have cured
the scarlet fever
And the measles and the whooping
cough and pip,
And still others-U won't list 'em)-by
the simple Coue system
Which has filled me full of vigor and of
zip.
~ UT, although my many illnesses
have fed,
- I have got that Coue jingle in my
head:a
DAY by day, in every way,
Every way and day by day"
ooh, I know it every syllable and letter.,
Day by day, in every way,
Every way, every way,
am getting better, better,
I am getting better, better!"
OH my bean is going balmy, 1 shall
need a guard to calm me
~ If that Coue stuff keeps running
in my brain,
When I'm working, playing, sleeping. to
my cerebrum comes creeping
That eternal unacceptable refrain.
am Doctor Coue's debtor that my health
is better, better,
But my coco's going cukoo mighty soon.
a LII my cerebrations mingle with that
II everlasting jingle
OF the Coue stuff that cooingly I
Groom:
DAY by day, in every way,
Every way and day by day.
(Oh I know it every syllable and letter.,
DAY by day, in every way,
Every way, every way,
I am getting better, better,
1 am getting better, better!"
Copyright, 1929