The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-06-20
new JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

The Camden Chamber of Commerce
has a prospect committee" at worl
with a view to conducting a member
ship drive.
The Berlin Presbyterian Church is
placing memorial windows in the edi
flee, to be dedicated Sunday, June "a.
In the weekly tests conducted by
state motor inspectors at Camden &c
of $40 who took the examinations
failed.
OF an enrolment of 1850 there were
219 boys and 213 girls present at every
session of the Gloucester City public
schools last month.
Bids for three small bridges in
Gloucester county have been received
by the Bridge Committee and the
Board of Freeholders will award the
contracts or June 81
Floyd Cox, found guilty of breaking
and entering Pennsylvania Railroad
box cars at Atlantic City, was sen
fenced by Judge Smathers in the coun-
ty court to from one to three years in
State prison.
dCnCI AoSOCldIlOuS III
South Jersey have been invited to in
spect the new State normal school at
Glassboro ON July "a. DR.. j. ]. Savisz,
principal of the school, will speak.
Dennis ]. Mulhearn, one of the Off
Gals of the Noreg Realty Company,
holding company for Brooklawn, vas
presented with a gold watch and chain
by the residents as a birthday gift.
Work is being rushed on the in
stallation of the mammoth pipe organ
for the new high school now nearing
completion at Atlantic City. The or
gan, costing $4,000, is said to be one
of the largest and finest in the coun-
try.
Work has been begun on the cree
ton of a band stand at Pyne Poynt
Park, Camden, where Commissioner
Hitchner proposes to give public con-
certs this summer. 1t will be dedicat-
ed in July by the Pyne Poynt com
munity chorus.
j. B. Springer, secretary of the Con-
sumers' League of America, has writ
ten a letter commencing Policeman
Raymond Stark of Camden for finding
and returning a wallet. containing a
large sum Of money lost from an auto
mobile.
The Supreme Court denied the re-
quest of the city of Newark to stay
Its mandate, pending a petition for a
~re-hearing in the cas- involving the
rights of the state to fix the quantity
of free water which can be granted to
municipalities.
Mrs. Abbie Johnson, 70 years old,
died at Bradley Beach from drinking
a preparation of gasoline and nitro
benzine she mistook for whisky for
medicinal purposes.
Mrs. William Coulter, aged A, Of
South Bridgeton, died in Bridgeton
Hospital from burns she received on
May 29 when a lighted lamp ignited
her dress.
Gloucester City will have a broad
casting station if licensed by the Gov
eminent. A station has been installed
in Flexon's garage, and mex Sunday
the sermon of Rev. w. Earle thinner
man will be broadcast from the First
M. E. Church.
The Victor Talking Machine Com
pany contributed $500 toward the pur-
chase of instruments for the Camden
City Firemen's Band. Other firms
have contributed various sums and
Commissioner Staley has ordered
$4,000 worth of instruments.
improvements have been promised
around the passenger and freight sta
ton of the Pennsylvania railroad at
Pitman to harmonic with the Dor
ough park.
When the Camden city commission
ers last met a delegation from the
Civic Improvement Association of
Fairview asked that the recreation
field on Ceilings avenue be purchased.
1t is now owned by the Fairview Ath-
letic Association.
More thar 500 fishermen arrived at
Cape May on the Readings fisherman
special to try their luck at the fish,
which, Oldest inhabitants say, never
were so plentiful.
Veterans of the wars paraded at
Glassboro, with S. S. Ledden, old
marshal, at the head again. Elmer b.
Woods was master of ceremonies at
the memorial service.
Public school children, under the
leadership of Mrs. Bessie Wells, par
t~icipated in exercises at harrington.
The children marched to nearby GEM
e%teries, where they laid flowers on
the graves. Rev. e. o. Morgan de-
livered the address, and sports were
then conducted.
Allen Irving Morton post, American
Legion, of Westmont, with a band and
accompanied by school children, pa
triotic organizations and members Of
the fire company, conducted a cere-
mony at the new post hall and then
marched to the soldiers monument,
where a program was carried out.
Flowers were cast upon the surface
of the Delaware river in exercises in
memory of sailor dead at Pennsgroye.
Capt. Samuel P. Denny was the chief
marshal.
An inspector of the Postal Depart
ment, Washington, has been in
Gloucester City for two days looking
over stores and sites offered for the
post Office. The department has not
decided whether it will build or lease
a building.
Capt. Francis Holmes of Norbury's
Landing and a party of two fishermen
broke all records on the Southern
Delaware Bay shore for one days
channel bass fishing when just at sun