The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-07-18
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

at Palatine beginning Saturday. July
rs.
For the six months period ending
June 80 reports show deposits aggre
eating $50, 800, $50 in Camden banks
Belmont Fire Company, of National
Park, has received the new chassis fol
the fire apparatus.
The Fairgrounds in Gloucester City
are more popular than ever and tbs
attendance much larger than last
year.
The first Jersey peaches are Icing
shipped at prices that make the grow
ers optimistic over the main crop.
Kamp Karney, for Y. M. C. A. boys
of Carney's Point and vicinity, is open
at Avis mill pond, near Woodstown
There are 40 in camp.
Stickers ~worded Everybody Likes
Pitman" were placed upon wind
shields of hundreds of visiting cars
by the local Board of Trade.
The Wenonah Borough Council took
up for final action an ordinance to
provide for the drilling of an artesian
we'll to supplement the towns present
water supply.
A vacation Bible school is open in
the Fairview Community Baptist
Church, and will be in session every
day to July 81, with the exception of
Saturdays.
Miss Edna Baessler has been elect
ed assistant to the supervising prin.
cipal of the Woodbury. high school,
succeeding her sister, Laura, who re-
signed to take a college course.
Because of the menac from the
damaged steeple on the Glassboro M.
P. Church, struck by lightning more
than a week ago, hat block is still
closed to traffic. The steeple will be
removed.
George Huff, of Gloucester City, has
been appointed division chaplain of
the Sons of Veterans of New Jersey.
During July and August there will
be baby clinics every Wednesday and
Thursday at the Community Center
Building, Gloucester City, under the
direction of the State Child Welfare
Association.
Cape May county Democrats have
announced that Thomas Ludlam, of
Sea Isle City, will be their candidate
for Assembly. Assemblyman Ralph
Stevens, of Cape May, will again be
a candidate on the Republican ticket.
More than 100 children are regis
tered in the Summer Bible School of
the Fairview Community Baptist
Church. The school will continue four
weeks, and the instructors are he: ded
by Rev. and Mrs. Thomas N. Martin.
Joseph White, fifty-two, of 434 Fifty.
third street, Brooklyn, died in st. Eliz
abeth Hospital, Elizabeth, from burns
received while attempting to extin'
national Composition Co., of Union
Township, where he vas employed.
Fire of undetermined origin which
swept through a poolroom at Schel
linger avenue, Wildwood, wiped out
the Sweet block near the seashore
with a loss estimated at S175,0 900
Bath houses, a plant, stores and
concessions were destroyed with an
additional heavy loss. Several per
sons were rescued from apartments
above the stores.
The annual camp meeting at Sea-
vile will be held from July 10 to 80.
Jacob X. Tryon went ON duty as
Pitman's first motorcycle policeman.
Combined choirs sang at the first OF
the summer community services in
the Presbyterian church at Wenonah.
Plans for the purchase of a motor
pumping apparatus have been made
by Oaklyn fire company No. 1.
More thar 10 members are enrolled
In the chamber of commerce recently
organized at Newfield.
Outdoor services, with all local
Protestant denominations participant
ing, began at Woodstown.
After a little more than one hours
elaboration the jury that heard the
trial of Samuel Lesavoy of New York,
charged with stealing gems valued at
$40, 900 from a roo at an Atlantic
City hotel, returned a verdict of not
guilty in criminal court at Mays
Landing.
"Goodby, friends. I desire that
everybody be happy. My teeth have
driven me crazy" This note. found in
the bedroom of John Eberschutz, thir-
ty-nine, a Newark mechanic, explain
ed the cause of his suicide. Eber-
schultz had tied a ROPE to the head of
his bed, with the other end around his
neck, and then jumped off the bed.
Charles j. Strahan, assistant state
commissioner of education, declared
that the election of the school district
of Long Beach township, Ocean coun-
ty, was illegal on the ground that the
notices of the election were not prop
erly published. The election was held
to vote for an appropriation CT a
budget of 1000 and also for the ele-
walton of one member of the Board of
Education.
At the service in the First M. E.
church, Gloucester City, the Liberty
band gave a sacred concert, which
was broadcast by radio.
A traffic policeman has been placed
on duty for the summer al Clinton
avenue and White Horse Pike, Oak
Ign. with a %semaphore to regulate the
heavy motor traffic Saturdays md
Sundays.
A balance of s7,9S2, $3.50 rests in
the treasury of the state of New Jer-
sey at the end of the fiscal year, ac-
co,ding to a report made to Governor
George S. Silzer by State Comptroller
Bugbee.
The police of Gloucester City are