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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Education of the City of Pleas
a%ntville, New Jersey, at the High School,
Washington Avenue neal Third Street,
Pleasantville, New Jersey, on Tuesday,
June 5, 1923, at s o'clock P. NJ, daylight
materials and performance of all work
required for the installation and compile
ton of a Mills Steam Boiler in School
No. 2. of the City of Ple~asantville stu
ate at the intersection of Park Avenue
with the right of way of the Atlantic
City and Shore Railroad Company, in ac-
c%ordance with plans and specifications
repaired by Bertram Ireland, Architect.
Each proposal must be accompanied by
a certified check made payable to the
order of Carrie E. Smith, Secretary, in
the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dol
lars, which shall be pinned to the outside
of the envelope containing the proposal.
Each bid must be delivered at the place
and at the time above stated for receiv-
required with a reliable Surety Company
satisfactory to the Board of Education
in a sum equal to 1907 of the contract
price. Plans, specifications, bond and
contract forms will be on file and may be
examined at the office of the Architect.
Bertram Ireland, Guarantee Trust Build
ing, Atlantic City, New Jersey. A set of
from the Architect upon a deposit of
Two dollars, which sum will be repaid
upon the return thereof in good condition
on said June 5th, at the time of the re-
ception of bids.
The Board of Education reserves he
right to reject any or all bids.
BY order of the Board of Education of
the City of Pleasantville.
CARRIE E. SMITH,
Secretary.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
RAPID IMPROVEMENT III
TELEPHONE @'NlTCHBOkRDS

When the telephone was first invent
ed and had arrived at the stage where
ordinary conversation was possible,
there we're only fwe telephones. me
az each end Of a wire.
The first telephones used CONNER
cially were leased in pairs and many
times the person 70 whom they were
leased had to string his own wires
from one telephone to the other.
usually from his house to his office or
factory.
Al that time 1t was not thought pos
sihle to have an inter-communicating
system until the advent of the switch
b. ri.
In May. 1877. the first switchboard
to connect telephone circuits was in
stalled, connecting five Boston banks.
This was followed up by the first
commercial telephone exchange. which
was installed In New Haven. Connect
cut. in 1878, with the eight con citing
telephones and soon after exchanges
grew In New York. Bridgeport and
p iladelohia.
This first commercial switchboard
WIS succeeded by various other boards
W until 1879, when the first Multiple"
bc.rd was installed.
The largest type multiple boards
have more than 100000 tiny sol
dered parts. 1900 electric signal
lights and owe 1000 miles Of wire,
more than enough to span the CONT
nent
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
TRAINED FOR EMERGENCIES.
PROVES HERSELF HEROINE

The telephone girl-how few of Us
who use the phone many times per
day realize that the owner of the
gentle voice at Central may prove
herself a heroine any day. She is
there, meeting every call upon her and
doing 1t without any Dragging or blus-
ter.
Take the case of the girl in Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania. She saw a sig
nal at her switchboard, plugged in 70
answer the call and heard means over
the phone. She acted-a doctor was
called. sent TO the place and probably
saved the life of the woman who had
fallen just as she started 70 phone.
Yet the young woman, herself a bride
of but two weeks, regarded II as part
of her work. She was trained to
think in ,mergeney-and was ready
when the emergency came. 1t is this
training thai makes heroes or heroines
in everyday life.-Waukegau HlL1
DGilu NftrS
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
Department of Banking and l%nsuranc

1ltilAOiAs oidg - -
Whereas. the OHIO FARMERS INSU-
RANCE COMPANY located at Leroy, in
the state of Ohio, has filed in this de-
partment a sworn statement by the prop
er officers thereof, showing its condition
on December 81. 1922, and business for
the year and has complied in all respects
with the laws of this state applicable to
it; now. therefore, l., Edward Maxson,
commissioner of banking and insurance
of the state of New Jersey, do hereby
certify that said company is duly autho-
riZed to transact its appropriate business
of fire. lightning, tempest, explosion, ma
rine, inland. including motor vehicle and
sprinkler leakage insurance in this state
in accordance with law, until March l.
1924. The condition and business of said
company at the date of such statement
is shown as follows:
Admitted assets ..........$ "a, 9O7. 531.72
Liabilities, except capital and
surplus ., fbJ,oU4.9f
Paid-up capital .......,...... ......
Surplus over all liabilities. -. 1,13S,2 26.75
Income for the year. ......... 3,190, 1922
Disbursements for the year.. 3.410, 744.23
In witness whereof. 1 have hereunto set
my name and affixed my official seal. at
Trenton, the day and year first above
written. EDWARD MANSON,
Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26

shot an arrow into the air; it fell
in the distance. | know not where, till
a neighbor said it killed his calf, and
l had TO pay him six and a half. l
bought some poison to slay some rats.
and a neighbor swore it killed his
cats; and rather than argue across
the fence, l paid him four dollars and
fifty cents. One night | sat sailing
a toy balloon, and hoped it would soar
till it reached the moon; but the can.
die fell on the farmers straw, and he
said I must settle or go to law. And
that is the way with the random shot;
it never hits the proper spot; and the
joke you spring that you think so
smart; may leave a wound in some
fellows heart.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
EARLY TELEPHONE CONCERTS
LIKE RADIO PROGRAMS NOW

In the Introduction of radio to the
public the first great attraction was
the broadcasting of concerts. 1t was
the same when the telephone vas be-
ing introduced to the public. An In
stance of this occurred In Michigan
the first time a telephone instrument
was brought into the state.
on March c, 1877. a telegraph oper-
ator by the name Of w. A. Jackson,
arrived in Detroit with a telephone
ser In his valise. He exhibited the
instruments at the Detroit Club. Much
interest was aroused. This increased
and became widespread when the tele-
phone was attached to a telegraph
wire from Chicago and a musical pro-
gram being rendered in the distant
city was distinctly heard in Detroit.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
Right Back at Him.

A very economic man in Iowa wrote
to a manufacturer of a patent medi-
cine which sold for one dollar. He
said:
please send ms a bottle of your
nerve medicine, for which I enclose
one dollar.
p. 81 have forgotten to enclose
the dollar, but no doubt a firm of your
standing will send it anyhow"
He received this reply:
we beg TO acknowledge your es-
teemed order and have pleasure in
sending you a bottle of our nerve
tonic-whieh we trust will help you.
p. S.-We have forgotten to send
the medicine, but no doubt a fellow
With your nerve does not need
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
SHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of a writ of fleri facias. to me
directed, issued out of the New Jersey
Court of Chancery, will be sold at public
vendue, on
WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY
OF JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-THREE,
at two o'clock daylight saving time) in
the afternoon of said day, in the Court
Room, No. POI, Second Floor, Guarantee
Trust Building. in the City of Atlantic
City, County of Atlantic and State of
All that certain tract or parcel of land
situate in the City of Pleasantville.
County of Atlantic and State of New
Jersey, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning in the Southwesterly line of
Wright Street three hundred and thirty
six feet ENTHUSIASTICALLY from the center
line of P~leasantville and Somers Point
Railroad: thence "a enthusiastically
and at right angles to Wright Street one
hundred and forty feet; thence ~ North
westwardly parallel with said Wright
Street sixty-seven feet; thence go North
~eastwardly at right angles to said Wright
Street one hundred and forty feet to the
Southwesterly line of Wright. Street;
thence "a Southeastwardly and in the
line of said Wright Street sixty-seven
feet to the place of beginning.
Decree approximately SSS2.16, besides
interest. costs and fees.
Seized as the property of Julia Harvey
ct ais. and taken in execution at the SUIT
of Home Building and Loan Association
of Pl%easantyille New Jersey, and to be
sold by -ooDDrzr
Sheriff.
Dated May 26. 1928.
c. c. Shinn, Solicitor. .oo
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
LESSONS IN ETIQUETTE.
BY Miss Vera Dence,

When taking a young lady for an
automobile ride do not insist that she
pay for all the gas and oil at every
filling station. II she wants to buy a
new tire occasionally do not mar her
pleasure by refusing.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
The Woman is Right.

Wife: George. where have you
been?"
George: Cunning, m dear, gun
ming"
Wife: Cunning for WHAT"
George: Shooting crap - yep =
shooting crap"
Wife: George, you must stop shoot
ing craps. The poor little things have
as much right as you TO live"
That cafeteria man who is advertis-
ing for a slogan might try: Heaven
helps those who help themselves"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26

First Little Girl: my mothers a
vegetarian"
Second Little Girl: we can't afford
meat, either"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
FACTS ABOUT THE
TELEPHONE

At the beginning of the last de-
cade the limits of telephone trans
mission were about 1900 to 1900
miles in open wire. Today almost
all parts of the United States may
be placed in communication with
each other over distances of 1000
miles and upward.
On January 25th. 1915. the trans
continental line Of the Bell System.
34O0 miles long, was formally open
ed. Since then service has been
given between cities on the Allan
tic and Pacific coasts.
In 1906 the longest underground
cable in operation was that be-
tween Philadelphia and New York,
ninety miles long. In 1913, the
observation-disclosures underground
cable line, 400 miles long, was COM
pleted. This was the worlds long
est cable of this kind.
Telephone service in Japan costs
$500 for the installation of the IN
strument and a government tax of
$40.
Telephone and Telegraph Age.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26

The only way to save daylight is to
use 1t.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26

Be flush and the world is with you.
Be broke and you must go il alone.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26

Advertise In The Pleasantville Press
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-26
Republican Club.

A regular meeting Of the Women's
Republican Club of Absecon will be
held at the home of Mrs. John Fall
vene, on Ohio avenue, Thursday eve
ming, May 31st. This is a very i'm
portant meeting, as their will be cleo
ton of officers, and it is desired that
all members attend. Should you need
transportation, notify Mrs. T. D.
Shovel by card, or phone 909-R. A
pleasant time is assured.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
DAVENPORT
VALUABLE IN
EMERGENCY
Easily Converted Into Com
Portable Bed When
Friends Come.
HAS OTHER USES
Practically Adds Another
Available Room at a
Small Cost.

With the prevailing tendency TO-
ward smaller houses, every square
foot of space in the home is put 10
constant use. In the majority Of
homes, there is hardly a room to Sc;
apart for the occasional use of guests.
The old-fashioned spare room" has
gone the way of the parlor and the
haircloth sofa, and that makeshift. the
folding bed, is no more. Providing
suitable accommodation for the UNI
expected guest without sacrifice of
space needed for everyday use in the
home is real problem confronting
the family in an apartment or small
house.
Fortunately for such families. the
resourcefulness of American manu-
facturers have been equal to the
emergency. In the evolution of "bet-
ter homes" the emergency of the sud-
den guest may be accommodated TO
the daily routine of living without
dislocating the domestic economy. Into
this gag in the plan of living. the
davenport bed fits with an exactness
really surprising. BY day broad
inviting davenport finished and up
hOiotViNu W Tue VI
living room or library, it becomes at
night with single motion bed
equipped with springs, mattress, pill
lows and coverings.
In Two Sizes.
The davenport bed is made in two
sizes. long and short models, which
fit it TO larger or small rooms. In
appearance it sacrifices nothing by
virtue of. its twofold purpose. il may
be had in many authentic period de-
signs, Queen Anne, William and
Mary, Renaissance or others. 1t may
be oyerstuffed in taDcstry, velour,
leather or other coverings. This re-
markable piece of furniture conforms
to the high standards Of modern hv-
ing rooms. Nothing of its adapt
ability for daytime use is sacrificed
on account of its availability as n
bed. To all outward appearance. it
is broad, luxurious couch in har-
mony with the finish of other fur
nishings, that conveys no suggestion
of its having another use. 1t is made
in conformity TO established designs.
so that no difficulty will be met in
the selection of other pieces of furni-
ture. 1t becomes a part of the fur
nishings of the room in which it finds
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07

bed. Sleep is sound and refreshing
and in the morning the occupants rise
with admiration for the marvellous
convenience of this 24-hour contribu-
ton TO modern living. The bedding
may be left to air briefly, then the
bed is made ~. and it is converted
back to its form of a davenport i'll
moment.
Taking into account the uses of
the davenport bed us a couch or Il
day bed and its availability for sleep
ing accommodations at night. the dav-
export bed is TO be regarded as a
remarkable advance toward the max
ing of better homes in the best sense
of the word. What can be regarded!
as more important than device which
adds TO the daily livableness of the
home and as an and TO hospitality as
well? Compare il with the old-fash-
Toned "spare rOom." which was used
occasionally and at other times re-
manned closed.
Practically the davenport bed
adds another available room to the
capacity of the home at compara'
lively small cost. Taking into ac.
coutn the furnishing, heating and
maintenance of an extra room. the
adding Of a davenport bed becomes
an instance of good management
and economy. Eighty-three Ameri-
can manufacturers resources en-
able them TO furnish davenport
beds in variety of sizes. finishings
and at prices which place them
within reach of everybody who is
building for better homes. And
their products are so distributed that
davenport beds are available almost
everywhere.
Copyright, American Homes Bureau.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
MANY USELESS STEPS
Modern Equipment Would Relieve
Drudgery In Home.

Women in charge of the home
service department of gas CON-
panies at recent convention the
American Gas association in Allan
tic City, \. j., announced that the
average American housewife takes
2113 steps to cook three meals a
day.
Computing that each step would
average distance of two feet the
distance Travelled in preparing these
three meals would be 1926 feet or
nearly three-Guarters of a mile.
Three-fourths of these steps. the
same women. said would be saved
by modern equipment being used in
the homes and arranging it prop
erly in the kitchen.
The opinion was expressed that
one of the best ways TO stop the
trend toward cafeterias and deli
catessens is to eliminate the useless
steps in the kitchen.
The domestic science experts Of
the principal gas companies in the
United States have investigated
home cooking in number of the
principal cities.
ITO make the great American IA
vorite apple pie the average house
wife takes 2G0 steps," said Mrs.
Anna j. Peterson of Chicago. "This
is 224 steps too many. / can prove
it in my model kitchen. i can also
show that IS steps are enough to
make batch of bread. although
most women take $50 steps before
they have completed their baking.
"These useless steps must be
eliminated by an intensive educa-
ton of the American women if we
expect to make homes out of houses
and stop the tray carrying habit in
cafeterias.'
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07

isn't room for one more, even
though the room seems cramped:
A tiptable or, as they are some
times called, tripod table. takes
up no room at all when not in use,
but when wanted as a tea table. it
holds all the tea things, and that
without crowding or clutter. That
same tiptable will serve as a read
ing table il there is room to have
it tipped down, and it may be
moved about with little effort from
one place to another.
End Tables Fill Need.
End tables and davenport tables,
the smaller. to be used at the arm
of the davenport or sofa, and the
long one at the back of the daven-
port, both are useful and desirable.
Lamps placed at the ends of the
davenport table make reading a
joy a night, for the light falls just
where it ought and the depth and
coziness OF the davenport makes
for real comfort.
A nest of tables matching the
style of furniture already used in
room will add beauty to the
other furnishings. and be found
useful beyond belief. When nested
these tables may be pushed back
out of the way, and with the least
amount of effort be placed in front
of guest to hold q cup of tea, or
placed at the arm of chair TO
hold an ash tray and cigarettes.
Desk For Every Room.
1t may be an overstuffed chair
which is just needed to make a
comfortable corner, corner which
has been bare and inhospitable. IL
it is a corner that father is to use,
see to it that the chair is deep
and loungy one.
There is not room in the house,
excepting perhaps the dining room,
where a desk is not needed. The
living room. the library. each bed
rooom, these all need desks, and
there is a desk for each of these
rooms. A desk for the daughter
room may be ms light and as
spindly as she likes and one for
the boys room may be as niannish
as he could possibly crave. while
for mothers room, what could be
better than a desk of many draw
ers, with or without a cabinet top?
For fathers room, desk-table
would be the correct and happy
selection. one large enough to hold
book-ends, with reference books,
and desk lamp and still leave
room enough for the widespread
ing of letters and papers.
III there are no servants, tea
cart will save innumerable steps,
for on it two or three services may
be brought into the dining room at
one time. and the dishes from as
many courses be removed to the
kitchen. At tea time, of course,
they are almost indispensable.
Copyright, American Homes Bureau)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
H|GHBOYsF0R
HOMES WHICH
ARE CROWDED
They Hold an Amazing
Amount of Linen and
y Towels.
DESKS FOR CORNERS
End Tables Fill Need; So
Do Attractive
Lamps.
DESKS FOR CORNERS
By BERTHA e. L. STOCKBRIDGE.


The home which is completely
furnished and FINISHED" is not as
fascinating as the home which may
be added to, for what is greater JOY
than buying new and greatly de-
sired piece of furniture! One
which just fits some corner or fills
some need?
Is the house a bit crowded? Is
closet and storage room for linens
scarce? What could be more de-
sirable than q highboy? A highboy
with its eight or nine drawers,
some deep and some shallow.
some long and some narrow. but
each drawer roomy, and the whole
capable of holding an amazing
amount of table lineh and towels,
is, a joy which each housekeeper
will revel in.
There was hardly home in our
grandfather's day which did not
have at least one Of these rOomy
pieces of furniture.
If ones home is in an apartment,
/ know of nothing which would be
of greater service than highboy.
for the space used is not much
greater than that needed for a chlf-
fonier, but the storage space is al
most, if not quite. double.
Mirrors Always Good.
: When considering mirrors we
usually think of the very utilita-
rian side. that of reflecting the
family when seeing if the collar is
right. or il "the hat is on straight
or IL the nose is sufficiently pow
dered, but the use of mirrors is
wider than that. / know of moth
ing which adds so materially to the
decoration of room as a good
mirror. well placed. A room which
has few windows will borrow light
from some unknown source if a
mirror is placed in the side farthest
from the light. The pictures hiding
in a mirror can only be found by
placing the mirror where some par
ticularly charming setting will be
reflected. the reflection taking on
beauty that the original has not.
No housekeeper ever had all the
tables she really wanted; she may
have all she has space for. but she
always longs for one more. And
i am wondering if. unless she. lives
in "two rooms and BATH" there
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07

its place, and by day it serves its
purposes as davenport, facing the
fireplace or in any position to which
1t is best adapted. 1t is complete in
itself as a dominating piece in the
room.
During the afternoon hostess
entertains friends at tea or n re-
eeption, who will comment on the
beauty of the davenport, its comfort
and in its perfect harmony with other
furnishings. A sudden storm or other
emergency makes it necessary for her
to entertain one or two of her guests
for the night. In small apartment
or house, such happening might well
cause her uneasiness. How should
the visitors be given accommodation
Not so with the hostess whose fur
nlshings include the modern daven-
port bed. She dismisses their pro-
tests with smile. The family routine
goes on undisturbed. The guests are
entertained without incident till bed
time arrives. They disappear to make
their preparations for the night, Won
dering perhaps where they are TO
sleep. To their surprise on Their
return they find where the davenport
stood, a wide, inviting bed with soft
mattress and buoyant springs. The
mystery is solved The marvellous day.
export bed.
When Friends Come.
Or in the case of the unexpected
arrival of brother or sister. uncle or
aunt, inability to entertain them i'm
the small apartment or house may
well cause embarrassment, in the alb
sence of some provision for extra
sleeping arrangements. Failure Ia
offer entertainment might we'll be
the cause of sincere regret. In oc-
easions like this, the davenport bed
proves its value beyond doubt.
With a single Gmotion and no need
for strength. the davenport is con
verted TO a bed. full sized and com.
Portable for one or two. 1t is no:
a makeshift as were old-time convert
ible beds. 1t is not contracted and
uncomfortable. Mattress and spring,
are of the same high quality which
distinguishes a luxurious permanent
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
WHEN COLOR COUNTS
Harmony Should BE Considered in
Buying Curtains.

In deciding upon material for cur
tains or portiers, let it be plain if
the rug is figured, and vice versa. 1t
may be the same color or contrast.
but lighter in value. To be one with
the wall, the background of printed
linens or cretonnes should be the same
color and thus make the design stand
out.
When rooms open out into each
other the curtains, especially the
glass, if all alike, give effect of space.
make rooms seem one, as they really
are.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
Gift for Couple.

Seguin, Tex. Oct. 6.-On the oc-
casion of the silver wedding anniver.
sary of Rev. and Mrs. f. +. Schues
sler on Sunday. September so. the
Ladies' Aid Society. of the Austin
Street Methodist church presented the
jubilee couple with handsome silver
service set.