The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-02-07
Neu Jersey
State Briefs

The members of the Middle town
ship high school football team of the
| last season were banqueted at Cape
May Court House by the women mem
bers Of the faculty.
Gibbstown fire company has Install
ed a powerful radio set in the fire.
house.
Jacob Porch of Gloucester City, who
served 30 days in the Gloucester
county Jail for driving an automobile
while intoxicated, refused TO tell
where he got his drinks when arraign-
ed before Mayor McNally, so he was
sent to jail for Is days more.
The Asbury Park City Commission
has voted to withhold financial sup
port from the private owned Asbury
Park Hospital pending an investiga-
ton of alleged -mistreatment and
negligence of charity patients.
The Matawan 'Board of Education
authorities are considering plans for
a $11O, 900 high school building.
Rev. William T. Abbott. eighty
seven years old, celebrated a quarter
century activity in Asbnry Park
Lodge, F. and A. NJ, and 81 years in
Masonry at a special ceremonial
meeting.
A straw vote to determine the de-
sires of Palmyra people On the cleo
ton of a mayor incident to the adop-
ton of the borough form of govern
ment resulted in George N. Wilmer
| receiving a majority. James Hartley
and William H. Cook received an
equal number as second choice.
The Bellevue hotel at Cape May
Court House has been sold by Joseph
Kelly of Philadelphia to I. Tenen-
baum, Cape May merchant.
At a special election at Thorofare
the voters of West Deptford township
by a vote of LOG to % decided on a
four room schoolhouse to be built at
| Verga at a cost of $40, 900.
Members of the Millville Horticul-
tural Society are planning to foster
the growing of flowers at the state
| prison farm at Leesburg.
The Asbury Park City Commission
has leased to Ruff H. Brewer a grass
plot near the Boardwalk and Casino
for three years for a pony track.
Fifty carloads of material have ar
rived at Woodbury. for completion of
the State road from Penn street to
the connecting line with Route No. s.
Builders have heard a report that
40 houses are to be erected at Chest
nut Ridge, near the State Normal
| School at Glassboro.
A S167, 206 school budget has been
adopted by the Asbury Park Board OF
Education, reducing the school tax
rate % cents.
Rev. Walter Nickless, pastor of the
Newport NJ. E. Church, has been ask
ed to return for another year.
Signboards welcoming motorists to
Pitman have been placed at the main
approaches by the Rotary Club.
The Cape May Court House gram
mar school is closed because of
measles.
Some of the Woodbury. High School
teachers have asked for increases of
salary without stating what amount
is desired.
A site has been purchased by the
Township Committee, on which a
town hall will be erected at Gibbs
town.
Louis Adalbert Clinton, director of
extension work at the New Jersey
state agricultural experimental sta
tion, died in Detroit. Professor Clin-
ton was fifty-four years old.
The Millville City Commission
adopted the annual budget amounting
to $167 1903, an increase Of $4,000
oyer that of last year.
William Rapp, of Millyile, who fell
downstairs and fractured his skull
while visiting friends in Camden, has
died.
The whole town of Linden is talk
ing about the suspension of Nicholas
George, chief Of the fire department,
and there is a diversity of opinion as
to the justice of the action.
Despite an increase in ratables Of
$2,02S, SAT over last year Nutley can
expect a substantial increase in it's
tax rate for 1928.
Orange educators were saddened
last week by the death of Miss Anna
S.. Birdsall, directories of the kinder
garten class at the Park Avenue
School. that city, for more than
thirty-ive years.
Though the coming commission
election is still four months off, there
Is marked activity in political circles
in preparation for what promises to
be the greatest day at the polls in
PASSAGES history.
William l.. Blancha 4 Ind Mrs.
Blanchard of Newark and South
Orange have sailed on the steamship
Homeric on a cruise to the Mediter-
ranean that will carry them well
around the world during the four
months or more they will be absent.
The Hudson county courthouse was
seized by Deputy United States Mar
shall James J.. Donnelly to satisfy a
judgment If S1,247.19 obtained against
the Jersey City Board of Freeholders
by a New York towing company.
Thirty-eight days ago Miss Mabel
Chapman (Bobbie) Woods of Is Lin
coin avenue, Atlantic Highlands, mys-
teriously disappeared and despite the
diligent search of the police of three
states-New Jersey, New York and
Pennsylvania = Boobies" where
abouts are still unknown.
Gunners of New Jersey this year es
tablished a new record for killing