The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-09

charges on vehicles and livestock be-
tween Hoboken and New York.
Mrs. Katherine Morgan Dix, 81 years
old, died at her home in Plainfield. She
was a niece of John Adams Dix. for
mer governor of New York, and the
daughter of Colonel Roger Sherman
Dix of New Hampshire.
The extinction of the oyster, threat
ened by pollution from industrial
wastes, has been prophesied by DR..
Nelson of the Board of Shell Fisheries
and State Experiment Station at New
Brunswick.
Farming districts in Gloucester
county are making a determined stand
against daylight saving. Some of them
may come wei later, but for the pres
ent the county is going to run on old
time.
Completion OF the elevation of the
tracks of the West Jersey & Seashore
Railroad over White Horse pike at
Camden City line was officially an
nounced and northbound trains began
to run upon 1t. Southbound traffic was
opened two months ago. The elevated
extension wipes out several dangerous
railroad crossings in New Jersey. The
White Horse pike, long a main artery
Of travel TO shore points, has been the
scene of many mishaps since automo-
biles became popular.
The most singular alienation suit
ever recorded in the section has been
filed in the supreme court, Woodbury.,
A-l l. l. - - T. A.
county circuit. Mrs. Pauline Edith
Sarlo of Woodbury. has instituted suit
against former Mayor Willard F. Cat
tell asking 100000 for the Toss OF
her husbands love-" charging Cattell
as being the of their estrange-
ment.
William H. Souder of B%ridgeton, 55
years old, we'll known in canning cir
Giles throughout the east, died sudden
ly following a stroke Of paralysis. Mr..
Souder was at Rio Grande, Cape May
county, starting his canning there for
the season.
While playing poker at his home
Charles S. Mills, a prominent hotel
man of Asbury Park, was stricken
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minutes. causing a blood vessel to
break. He died two minutes later.
The Camden County Board of Taxa
ton will not tour the county this
year to receive and hear appeals on
assessments. The assessments In all
towns have been increased and if
there are many appeals the board
will Vici+ Tho Iic4riaf onJ hoo- 49,,
The appeals from all and nearby sub
urbs will be held at the Court House,
Camden. There will be likely be
more than last year because of the
increases.
Angelina Del Vecchio, % years old,
died in the Orange Memorial Hospi-
tai from poison, which, the police
say, she swallowed at the grave of
her former sweetheart in the Holy
Sepulchre cemetery. The girl was
found crying at the grave by Mrs. AL
ice Rupert, who had gone to the
cemetery to visit the grave Of a rela-
tive. She told Mrs. Rupert she was
i'll and was assisted to the Office of a
physician nearby. He ordered her re-
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the dead girl say she has been de-
spondent since her sweetheart, An
thony De Lazzaro, was killed by a
railroad drill engine last August.
A demented boy, dressed in wom-
ans clothing and believed to have
escaped from the New Lisbon State
Colony for the feeble-minded, is re-
! npr+oJ m boVo haa0 rarnnnCih1a for a
forest fire near Centerton which de-
stroyed two saw mills, ravaged Valu-
able timber lands and threatened the
summer bungalow settlement at
Union Lake Grove.
The names of three women were
drawn on the Monmouth county grand
jury for the May term.
Italian women are helping Glouces-
ter county farmers setting out onions
and other light field work.
Hundreds of radio fans are up in
the air" Eel a notice served by the
Public Service Company that its poles
cannot be used for a~erials.
Sparks from an engine caused a
block of evergreens and most of the
grass in a South Orange cemetery to
go up in flames, causing a loss of more
than $50, 200.
Bids have been received by the Had
don Township Committee for paving
Cooper and Center streets and Crystal
Lake and Virginia avenues, West
mont. The lowest bid was 500, 129.
An ordinance prohibiting roller skat-
ing on the paved streets of Millville
went into effect, and the police were
instructed to see that it is enforced.
Sea Isle city commissioners have
contracted with the local band to play
on the Boardwalk two nights a week
during July and August.
The electric cross to be erected in
the tower of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Ascension, Gloucester
City, will be a memorial to local boys
who lost their lives in the world war.
1t will be erected by the Knights Of
st. Paul.
Joseph P. Day, who has been desig-
mated by the government to dispose
of the 447 homes at Brooklawn next
month, will open headquarters this
week so that he can consult families
occupying the homes and who desire
to purchase.
Fines of 1850 were collected by the
county at Elizabeth, representing pen
alties imposed by Judge Stein on vio-
lators Of the liquor laws.