The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-18
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

1AAthaA oAAt f~1
ed the required examination for en-
trance to the New Jersey state police
training and has entered the school.
David ]. Price, %forty-one, treasurer
and business manager of the Jersey
City baseball club of the International
League, died of pneumonia in his
home. Jersey City. He Joined the
club organization when Joseph F. Mo-
ran purchased the franchise and be-
came treasurer a veal ago.
Three suits, totaling 100000, have
been filed against the Public Service
Railroad Company in Mercer supreme
court by. Charles Wonderlin of Tren-
ton. The sum of $50, 900 is asked for
the death of his wife and ~fifteen-yeaE-
old daughter, Mabel, who were killed
In a motorcycle-trolley crash on the
Mercerville- Hightstown road October
20 last, and a like amount for personal
injuries.
Settlement at a compromise figure
of the sensational heart balm suit
brought by Miss Jennie LAMA of
Trenton against Tito Salamanca.
also of Trenton, became known. Miss
LAMA, 1t is said. has agreed to accept
the sum of SIC, 900 and consented to
cancellation of the $4,000 judgment
which she obtained against Salaman-
dra in Mercer court last November.
James T. Weart was elected mayor
of Palmyra, which was recently
changed from a township. Weart is a
Republican.
Harry w. Brown, eighty-nine years
old, one of the pioneer ~glassworkers
of south Jersey, died at his home,
Millville. He was one of the organ
izers of Thomas Sharp Post, C.. A. R.,
and Resolution hose company. He is
survived by two sons.
That the city is being robbed of
many thousands of dollars annually by
"three city officials" through the sale
of junk, confiscated articles and un-
claimed automobiles, was the charge
made by Magistrate Joseph Barry of
Atlantic City when he addressed the
Chelsea Union League.
According to fishermen at Glouces-
ter City the cold weather will affect
the early run of shad and they will
not operate their nets for several
days. They usually get into action
the first week in April or last of
March. Fishermen at P~ennsville and
below that point will likely try out
their nets at once.
A stolen motor car, believed to have
been used by the robbers who stirred
residents of Westmont and Ceilings
wood and robbed four homes. was
found abandoned on the outskirts of
Collingswood. The car bore an Allan
tic City tag and it is thought may
have been stolen at the resort on Eas-
ter.
Written N lead pencil on an ordi-
nary caro- the will of Mrs. Minnie Rick
was ~probated, about the b~riefest ever
filed In Camden. 1t reads as follows:
81 leave everything l possess to my
daughters, ]. Lille and Ella Victoria
Rick" The estate is valued a. about
$1,000.
Surviving only a few days the sud-
den death Of his wife, Edward c. Da-
Wis, we'll known resident died at Bur
Iington at his home on Bustleton road.
Mrs. Davis dropped dead while at
work in the kitchen. Her husband,
seriously i'll at the time, never recov-
cred from the shock of her death. He
was seventy-nine years old and a
member of several fraternal %organiza-
tons.
A new parking system was tried out
on Broadway, Pitman, to relieve traf-
fc congestion, which has become Sc
rious since paved streets have brought
more cars into town.
The new chimes in the First M. E.
church, Ocean City, were rung for the
first time Easter morning. The bells
are operated electrically.
The new brick manufacturing plant
north of Millville, which will be one of
the largest in south Jersey, has start
ed operation.
The choir of the P. q. Church of the
Ascension, Colchester City, sang for
the inmates of the Camden county
sanitarium at Ancora.
The First Baptist church, Cape May
Court House, has arranged an attrac-
tive musical program for the next
eight Sundays.
Miss Catherine Miller of Paulsboro
has received a medal for speed on a
typewriter awarded by the manufac-
turers.
Teachers institute will be held in
Middle township High School on April
16. and all Cape May county schools
will be closed hat day
An old fashioned spelling bee will
be a feature of the April meeting of
the South Dennis Home and School
Association. The grown ups will spell
against the children.
The Collingswood Assembly of Arti-
sans has started for 76 new members,
its quota for the fftieth anniversary
rally planned for April 80.
Deacon Philip Smith has started a
movement to organize a Baptist
church at National Park, assisted by
pastors in nearby towns.
William A. Parent, until recently
president of the Pitman Board OF
Trade, is dead at Allentown.
Henry Leville, colored, forty years
old, Is dead at Vineland and Floyd
Denny, thirty-five years old, is under
bond for the grand jury while Coroner
Halsey is investigating a Christmas
fight in which the mel took part. LIE,
vile was found on the sidewalk, and
when he became sober he said Denny
hit him on the temple with a bottle
Leville failed to improve to any great