The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23

| his home, Park and Greene streets,
following a brief illness. Death was
due to complications and the infrmi-
ties of age. Mr.. Southland was widely
known.
Crowded. camps, with men, women
and children herded together like
sheep; water exposed to al sorts Of
pollution; heaps of garbage and If
use lying on the ground. These are
the conditions discovered by the
agents of the Ch1dren's Bureau of
the U. S. Department of Labor on the
strawberry farms of New Jersey.
Four propositions put to the vote of
Maddonfield by the Board of Educa-
ton, including a request for $40, 1000
additional appropriation to complete
the school building program, authoriz-
ed in February, were approved by al
most unanimous consent. But eight
votes were cast against any one of
the proposals.. Besides the additional
funds for new school buildings, the
voters approved a request for 81, 200
to purchase two lote adjacent to the
Elizabeth Haddon School.
Louis Fitzgerald, nineteen years
old, of Elizabeth was sentenced at
Plainfield to 80 days in the county
jail after his arrest in Park avenue on
a charge of driving an automobile
while under the influence of liquor.
He was examined by DR.. Raphael
Wood, city physician, who said he was
not in fit condition to drive a car.
Henry B%enzenga, wealthy member
- A. I4o1,a- @I@-,, - Arb,,r d IL
was sued by his mother, Mrs. Vincen-
"a Benzenga of New York, for $4,000
damages for injuries suffered in an
automobile accident July 9, 1922. Ben
zenga was driving. His mother and
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Iannicelli of AS
bury Park were passengers. The Ian
nicellis filed suit to recover $4,000
from Benzenga, which is still pending.
Miss Elizabeth Campbell, ninety
three years old, of 242 Nassau street,
Princeton, died at her home. Death
was due to the infirmities of age. Miss
Campbell, who was a lifelong resident
Of Princeton, was a member of the
Second Presbyterian church.
Levi Southland, eighty-seven years
old, a Civil Wal veteran, who served
in Company d, Twenty-third Regi-
ment, New Jersey Volunteers, and re-
enlisted in the Fourth Volunteers,
died at his home in ~Bordentown. He
is survived by a widow, two sons and
two daughters. He was a member of
Washington Post, G. A. R.
The masked men who threatened
George Titus, eighteen-year-old high
-1l10 h@,y " XUnct Do1Yanr with
death unless he confessed the theft of
$50 from his mother and then hurled
him into a lonely road when he pro-
tested his innocence are known to the
police.
Tenacious Kolb, ffty-five years old,
of III Sayre street, Elizabeth, an
elder in the Second Presbyterian
church, died following injuries he re-
ceived when struck by a train at the
rear of the ]. & S. S. Thompson coal
yards at East Grand street and Madi-
son avenue, of which he was yardmas-
ter. He died in the Alexian Brothers
Hospital. Both legs had been severed.
Captain Benjamin l.. Henderson,
sixty-six years old, n Captain Mel
son B. Sooy, seventy-ive years old,
both residents of Ocean City for many
years, died at their homes the same
morning. Both had been i'll some
years. Both were shippers of craft
taking parties out during the sum-
mer. Captain Henderson was a mem
Der of the Masonic lodge and Atlantic
commandery. He leaves a widow and
one son, Herschel. Captain Sooy
1ooyae twa GONG CI1rtic of Wi11nW
Grove and Edward M. Sooy of Ocean
City.
To supply the big demand for pre-
scription bottles Whitall-Tatums Com
pany had a force of men placing pots
in Factory No. 5, at South Millville,
where four furnaces were destroyed
by fire. The factory will be ready for
operation in about two weeks.
Mystery surrounding the theft of
diamonds valued at $40, 900 from the
home of Isaac F%ineburg, 302 Bellevue
avenue, Trenton, three years ago was
cleared up by the arrest of Louis
Goodman of New York city by police
there. Goodman confessed to the
theft.
New Jersey clubwomen in conven-
ton at Atlantic City confess to vio-
lation of the Volstead act, and less
than 40 per cent admit to Governor
Silzer that they have not disobeyed
the law or seen it violated in their
homes.
Jersey City has at last gained its
hearts desire to get a mention on the
state highway signs that formerly in
dicated the mileage to and direction
of New York city. The Atlantic City
and Philadelphia routes have been
thus posted.
In spite of a loan of S113, 900 au-
thorized for new schools by the voters
in February, the Board Of Education
of Haddonfeld has found it necessary
to request more funds and will con-
duct a special election for $4,000 ad-
ditional to meet the shortage for con-
struction of the two grade schools au-
thorized. When bids for The buildings
were opened it was found that, owing
to increased costs of labor and mate
rial, there was a shortage of $4,000
to meet the lowest.
May Day exercises will be held by
the pupils Of the Woodstown public
schools on May is.
Despite a petition signed by several
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