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

Company factory at Minotola, de
stroyed by fire, have been transferred
to the Millville plant.
The Epworth Leagues Of the
Bridgeton district are planning a Sc
ries of debates, with a silver cup for
the winners.
Officials of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company turned over to Attor.
ney General McCran property deeds
involved in the abandonment OF the
Morris canal. Governor Silzer signed
a legislative bill conveying to the
Morris Canal and Banking Company,
as trustee, all the properties the state
gets in the canal abandonment agree
ment. Under the agreement the Le-
high Valley gets title to the Big Ba-
sin, in Jersey City, except for a $50
foot waterway, which goes to the
state.
Joseph J. Novack, city clerk of Gar
field and brother Of Edward Noyack.
who was shot and killed by policemen
at Montclair after he had been ar
rested as a suspected automobile tire
thief, will Engage counsel to deter
mine whether the police were justi-
fed in the arrest and subsequent
shooting. The policemen say that
Edward Novack and another man,
who escaped in the excitement, jump
ed into an automobile and attempted
to escap after being placed under
arrest.
Professor William E. Breazeale,
whose twenty-one-year-old daughter,
student nurse Of the General Hospital,
disappeared from New Brunswick, ap,
peared before the Middlesex county
Board of F~reeholders, requesting the
board to offer a reward for informa-
ton as to the whereabouts of the miss
Ing girl. Investigations by the state,
county and city authorities have been
without avail, not a trace of her hay'
Ing been found.
Isaac Klein, Democratic postmaster
at Salem, has resigned, to TAXI effect
at once. Klein would normally serve
until his successor Is appointed with
out the necessity of a resignation, but
he decided to voluntarily end his serv'
Ices at the conclusion of eight years.
The state supreme court has just
made a decision of unusual interest to
property owners in seashore resorts
as reported to the city commissioners
of Ocean City by City Solicitor Bos
we'll. 1t relates to the construction OF
bulkheads in navigable waters and
the assessment of owners of AUDITING
lands, the first decision wherein land
owners are assessed for filling of land
TO support the bulkhead.
Motor Vehicle Commissioner Dill
revoked the licenses of four automo
bilists, three for speeding and one fol
driving while intoxicated. Those
whose licenses were revoked fol
speeding were: Stanley Worynski
Plainfeld; Moses E. M. Frank, Pas
safe, and Frank Osmuiskf, Summit
James Withers Of Moorestown was
the alleged intoxicated driver.
Ray d. Thatcher Of Easton, Pa, 9
New Jersey Power and Light Compa.
ny lineman, was awarded compensa,
ton Of S 1,02S.13 as the result of be
ing bitten by a ~copperhead snake near
Clinton while %stringing wires for the
company several months ago. Thatch.
er said he was bitten as he was about
to climb a pole, and as a result OF
the bite his right leg has become
partly paralyzed. 1t was the first
case of the kind ever brought before
the New Jersey Compensation Com
mission, which made the award.
The Ocean City Kiwanis Club Off
GERS, who are working for the success
of the annual booster banquet in Phil
adelphia early in April, have invited
all the civic organizations to take
part.
Parents, teachers and members OF
the Board of Education were guests
at a special session of the Glassboro
Parent-Teachers' Association at the
high school.
At the meeting of the Salem Parent
Teacher Association there was a dis
cussion upon the subject "If l Were a
Parent" and 'Tf l Were a Teacher"
The Schick test, with incubation
as a prevention Of diphtheria, was re-
peated at the Pitman public schools.
Amateur players of the Elmer
Grange have had much success this
winter in the production of the drama
"Oak Farm" and repeated the play
again Tuesday evening at Daretown.
Burglars broke into the combined
store and residence at Port Republic
of Mrs. Eunice Bartlett and stole sew
eral dollars In cash. a roll of hnoleum
and four f~ve-gallon cans of gasoline
The raid was discovered by Mrs. Bart
lett next morning when she entered
the store. Automobile tracks were
found in front of the place.
Interested citizens are getting flna
signatures to a large petition to pre-
sent to the Glassboro borough coun
Gil In March asking for construction
of a sanitary sewerage system, to be
built and operated under municipa
ownership. There il said to be an al
most unanimous sentiment in fave O.
municipal sewers.
Lillian council, Sons and Daugh
ters of Liberty, at Glassboro. is plan
March 10.
The inspection of gas mains II
Broadway, Pitman, as a precautioI
against further leaks will continue an
other week because of difficulty II
cutting through concrete and froze1
earth.
Wal has started between the auto
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