The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-31
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Seniors of the Woodstown High
School have arranged for a series of
entertainments during the fall and
winter to raise funds for a sightseeing
trip to Washington. d. C.
A contract for erection of a new
edifice was awarded by Christ Luther
an Church, Fairview, to E. J.. Kritz-
berg, of Philadelphia, for $31. 200. The
building will be of red brick. so by
so feet.
At a meeting of the Gloucester
Township Committee many property
owners appeared asking that the
Lower Landing road. from Chew's
Landing, be widened. A survey was
ordered.
A new 10-room school building to
relieve crowded conditions is needed.
according to some members of the
Pennsgrove Board of Education, who
have had tentative plans prepared.
Robert Henry, an itinerant umbrella
member was committed to the county
Jail for Is days in the Gloucester Po-
lice Court because he laid down to
sleep in a Burlington street and,
stretching, broke a store window.
A library is being equipped for use
OF the students at the e State Nor
NAL School, Glassboro.
Survivors of old Company F, N. G.,
of Salem, are arranging for a reunion
and banquet early in November.
Colonel D. Stewart Craven has been
chosen superintendent of the First
Presbyterian Sunday school, Salem.
A large preserving and canning
plant and a cold storage plant are to
be erected It Canton by Frank H. G.
Shrimp.
A report of the Camden police de-
partment for September shows 176
arrests for drunkenness, on a par
with the days a%ntedating prohibition.
A cafeteria has been opened at the
South Woodstown public school Hot
lunches prepared by the class In do
mestic science are served daily at
small cost.
The proposed new line of Black
Horse pike, from Chew's Landing to
Blackwood, with a slight curve at
Timber Creek, to avoid a sharp curve,
is meeting the approval of the people
behind the projected new boulevard to
the sea
Charles Leavitt, a planning expert,
working in Camden In company with
city officials, made an inspection of
the waterfront to obtain a comprehen-
s:ve idea Of what may be done in de-
veloping the clty's great advantages.
The Pussy & Jones Co. has t:ken
an appeal to the State Board of Edu-
cation from the assessment of 1894
600 on it's idle shipyard in Gloucester
City for this year. The company
wants it reduced to 1924, 240.
Charles r. Noe, Sc years old, chair
man of the board of directors and for
several years president of the Me-
chanics' Trust Company, died at his
home in Bayonne after a brief illness.
He had been a Masonic member over
30 years, one OF the oldest In the state.
Bloomfield Joseph Sisom, of Oaklyn,
state chess champion and winner of
the four-state chess tournament play
ed last summer at the Waldorf-As-
toria, New York, married Miss Mary
E. O'Neill. daughter of Michael J..
O'Neill, of Logan. at a wedding at
tended by many friends of the couple.
The new filter plant at the Glou-
cester City water works vas started.
Bicycle thieves are still operating
in Gloucester City, and the police be-
lieve the wheels are being sold to
some dealer.
Independent Republican and Demo
cratic voters In Fairview have start
ed their campaign to elect Arthur N.
Ashmore a member of the county
Board Of Freeholders. "Stickers"
will be used.
Suit was entered by Mrs. Mary II.
Munyan, of West Deptford township,
Gloucester county, in the Circuit
Court. to recover $40, 900 each from
the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad
and Public Service Railway Com
panies as compensation for injuries
received by her two children, Thomas
and Mary, who were aboard a trolley
car which was struck by a train at
Mantua.
Application for a charter for q new
national bank in Ocean City has been
approved by the Government eutheri-
ties. The incorporators are Russell
H. Nulty, Edward NJ. Sutton. Clar-
ence Dubois. J.. Howard Slocum and
John J. Foster. The capital will be
800, 900 and the surplus 800. 900.
DR.. Adolf Lorenz, Viennese ortho-
pedic surgeon. WI supervise clinics
at the Newark City Dispensary every
Thursday morning, it was announced.
He will make Newark his New Jer-
sey headquarters.
The October grand jury, at Mount
Holly. liter indicting Jack Savinar,
of Riverton, on a charge Of desertion
that involved his wife and six chill
dren. took W a collection and gave
Mrs. Savinar $54. In the preliminary
presentment made by the jury before
taking a recess there were "A bills
of Indictment. 2f being liquor cases.
The Gloucester City street depart
ment is placing IN oily solution on
Hudson street to settle the dust,
which has been annoying the resi-
dents. Many housewives complained
because the children tracked the oil
into their homes.
The fifth ANIMAL convention of the
Kiwanis Clubs of the New Jersey dis
~proximately 1.400 members present,
establishing a new attendance record.
Henry w. Egner, Jr., past president