The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-02-28

Wao hiQdC ny AOiIuCI AbcioJG4I IAooo
cutor Burling and was responded TO
~ DR.. James e. Bryan, superintend-
n of the public schools.
The steel work Is all up for Bridge
tons new nine story hotel, the taIlest
building in south ersey, with the ex<
ception of seashore hotels. It will
have 108 rooms, a convention hall and
will be the last word in modern hotel
construction.
Struck by the automobile OF City
Detective George T. Hamlyn of
Bridgeton. Carl, ~nine-year-old son of
Milford w. Weber, died soon after
ward in -Bridgeton Hospital from a.
fractured skull. 1t Is claimed that the
boy ran directly in front of the car
and that no blame could be sttached
to HamlyD.
Charged with keeping a d~isorderly
house on North Carolina venue, At
lantic City, Rose Ross changed her
plea from not guilty to non vult and
was fined $500 in the Atlantic county
court.
The Broadway Parent-Teacher As
sociation of Gloucester City
ed that the free library in the high
school will be open Mondays, We'd
nesdays and Fridays.
Catholina Lam bert, dean Of silk
manufacturers, died at Paterson. He
had been engaged in the manufacture
of silk in Paterson since 1859 and es-
tablished mills in Boston and Milan
and Florence, Italy.
Directors of the Gloucester City
Chamber of Commerce sent requests
to Camden county members OF the
legislature to support the bill for a
small claims court in each county and
the bill for a memorial bridge at
Washington's Crossing.
Employees of the Sayford Paper
Specially Company and the Zambone
retail clothing stores, Vineland, re-
ceived valentines in the shape of
$1,000 life insurar policies, the pre-
lDlu4Iis 70 be paid by their employers.
A large delegation of taxpayers of
Harrison township attended the meet
ing of the Board of Freeholders at
Woodbury., urging permanent i'm
provement of the road from EulIica
Hill to Pitman.
Contracts for construction of roads
should be let in the fall and winter
instead of in the spring and summer.
l.. II. Whitcraft of Hackensack, rep
resentative of the Portland Cement
Company, told the State Highway AS
sociation convention in Trenton. "If
New Jersey gave out road contracts
eOuoro1 r,1p+A. ~, 1J,,o-oa - ,o;l xs~
Whitcraft, contractors and material
producers would know just how to
plan their work. This system would
enable contractors to get materials
placed on the sites of the new roads
during the cold weather and thereby
avoid delay when actual work starts"
Nomination of Alfred ]. Perkins,
baker and former sheriff. as postmas-
ter of Atlantic City caused a political
shock. The nomination of Frank j..
Moore, acting postmaster and veteran
In the service, was looked upon as a
practical certainty. Congressman
Bacharach sent the recommendation
Of Perkins to the President Just one
day before United States Senator
Edge was due home from his honey
moon trip abroad.
Prosecutor Gaskill at Mays Land
ing invoked an ancient law in making
application to Judge Smathers to
nolle pros an Indictment found
against May Harris, wife of Ralph
Harris, who conducts a cafe and hotel
on North Carolina avenue, Atlantic
City. The couple were indicted to-
gether on a liquor selling charge, and
Prosecutor Gaskill submitted that the
state could not proceed against Mrs.
Harris.
Game Wardens Hall and Mizeli of
Salem county found a fine buck deer
that had been shot at Stow creek.
evidently eft by some gunner who
feared to remove il. The meat was
donated to the Bridgeton Hospital.
The Salem County Hospital is filled
TO capacity, and apartments in an ad-
joining building have been leased for
nurses quarters.
A total of 5S4 cases of measles was
reported in Gloucester, Salem and
Cumberland counties for. the first
week in February.
Owing to the congestion of traffic
in the business section the Millville
City Commission will pass a parking
ordinance.
The South Philadelphia Business
Mems Association has accepted an in
vitation to take part in the tri-cen-
tennial celebration of the landing of
the Dutch at the Gloucester river
front next June.
Schalick & Son, whose mill at Cen
treton was recently destroyed by fire,
have a force Of men removing the
debris preparatory to rebuilding.
Enough potash to supply the needs
of the United States for nearly a
thousand years, based on pre-war i'm
portations, is contained in the green
sands of New Jersey, the Geological
Survey announced. Moderate esti-
mates place the quantity of potash in
that belt at 256, 953 900 short tons
that could be mined from open pits.
The green sand mari belt extends
across New Jersey from the vicinity
of Sandy Hook southwesteriy to the
Delaware river, near Salem. a dis
lance of about 100 miles.
Not more than half of the residents
of Gloucester City who made income
tax returns last year will be required
to make them out this year because