The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-24

Jersey, mas Deen reelected president
of the General Committee of the
Gloucester County Changers Picnic.
The Gloucester Township Commit
tee will meet at Blackwood on Janu-
airy % to allow property. owners to
offer any objection they may have to
the annual appropriation budget. The
total is s28,751.47, an increase of s10,-
200 oyer last year.
Earl, eighteen-year-o1d son of Po-
liceman George e. Zaman, Ocean City,
killed a five-pronged deer, weighing
$50 pounds, on the plains near Tuck
erton. This is the second shot by
this boy this season.
Judge John ]. White, one of the pro-
prietors of the Observation-Disclosures
Hotel, was elected president of the
Atlantic City Hospital Association at
the annual meeting Wednesday night.
Walter Hanstein was reelected secre-
tary.
Jimmie" Burke, alias Albaum, Of
Philadelphia is serving a six months
sentence in the Cape May county Jail
as a dope addict. Mrs. Burke paid a
visit to him. With her she brought a
valise, which she left with Warden
Calhoun in the kitchen of the Jail be-
fore entering the sherif''s' of1ce.
Sheriff Redding gave her permission
to see her husband for five minutes.
While she was talking with the pris-
oner Deputy Sheriff Hoffman opened
her valise and found a bottle of hq-
uor. Mrs. Burke is now in the county
Jail under 500 bail.
Lewis M. Scott, son Of Major Gen.
eral Hugh L. Scott, U. S. A, OF Prince
ton, retired, has been appointed exec
utiye officer of the Fifty-seventh In
fantry Brigade, New Jersey National
Guard. He was a major during the
war, serving with the Second Infan-
try, First Division, A. E. F., and re-
sides in Camden.
Having issued an order that the
use Of air l.fes on the streets of
Gloucester City must stop because so
many school windows, electric light
globes and other articles had been
destroyed, Mayor McNally informed
the youngsters that he will provide a
place for them to use their guns. A
place will be set apart at his commu-
nifty center building on the river front
with targets to shoot at. If they re-
quire something alive to shoot at he
will have the longshoremen gather
live rats.
The Western Electric Company an
nounce the purchase from Joseph P.
Day, Inc, of a tract of land compris-
ing So acres on the Kearny Meadows,
south of the Lincoln Highway, ad-
joining the large plants of the Fed
eral Shipbuilding Company and the
Ford Motor Company, having a front
age on the Passaic river of about
1000 feet, upon which it will immedi-
ately begin the erection of factory
buildings.
Decision of the State Highway
Commission in favor of a connecting
link on Route No. 2. through the
southern section of Burlington, has
ended a long wrangle over the loca-
ton of the new road. Broad street,
one of the city's chief business thor
oughfares, favored by n group of
citizens, was rejected by state Off
Gals because of railroad grade cross
Ings and the possibilities of traffic
congestion. The new route will leave
Broad street free for railroad use and
local travel.
Harry c.. Mohr, sentenced at Mount
Holly to life imprisonment for the
killing of John Brunen, circus owner,
left the Burlington county Jail in Gus
tody Of Un%dersheriff Stone for Tren-
ton, where he began serving his
term. Mohr expressed his belief that
he will get a new trial through an al
peal, which, his counsel said, will be
taken to the court of errors and ap-
peals.
The mems and women's Bible
classes of the Brooklawn Methodist
Church have combined and will hold
joint meetings in the future.
The Egg Harbor City continuation
school, with an enrolment of So pu-
pills, had the extraordinary attendance
for the month of December of 1914 per
cent.
The ordinance committee of Glouces-
ter City Council has been instructed to
prepare an ordinance defining the du-
ties OF the city engineer, who is paid
$500 a year.
At the annual sourkraut supper of
the South Gloucester Democratic Club
arrangements were made to attend the
Inauguration of Governor Silzer on
January 16.
The Paulsboro Board of Education
will proceed with plans for the cree
ton of a proposed new grade school
building upon a plot the purchase of
which was authorized at a special
election.
Building operations in Long Branch
in 1922 more than doubled the pref
vious year.
Game wardens and their deputies
are warning parents who gave their
boys air rifles for Christmas that
their use is illegal in this state.
William B. Gather, former justice
of the peace at Mantua, who was
denied a trial after he had been con
victed and sentenced to Jail for shoot
ing Arlington Walls, also Of Mantua,
as the latter fled when Gather at
tempted to serve a warrant, was re-
leased for the third time under $5,-
900 bail.
There are twelve cases of measles