The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-05

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following the close Of the rabbit sea
son
South Jersey police are keeping
close watch upon all strangers who
appear by day or night because OF
recent robberies. 1t Is the'belief that
hold-up men and thieves driven out
of Philadelphia and New York have
crossed the river to ply their trade.
The State Board of Taxation will
sit in Camden Thursday, December 6.
to hear the appeals of Willard T.
Gibbs, Jacob Blank of Ciementon
township, Catherine C. Mines OF Cam
den, and the Pussy G. Jones Company
Of Gloucester.
The Chamber of Commerce Of
Bridgeton has fostered the incorpora-
ton Of a local industrial corporation
which will erect a manufacturing
plant and lease 1t to incoming indus
trials.
The Alumni Association of the Egg
Harbor Cit yHigh School is present
ing an upright piano to the school
and it will be put into the new high
school building.
Masons from thirty lodges in Phila-
delphia mad vicinity participated in
a frolic of the order at the Ceilings
wood Masonic Club, the first initiatory
work OF the new degree team, a
sketch, "Life's Ups and Downs, in
Three Steps or Stumbles," being a
feature.
All the stations along the Grenloch
line Of the Reading are being painted.
Camden's new street signs will be
placed in position within the next Few
days. Posts have already been plant
ed along important thoroughfares.
The Ku Klux Khan had a meeting In
an open field at Northmount, follow
ing which a cross was burned.
The National Automobile Associa-
ton, meeting in Washington, has in
dorsed the Black Horse pike as a Sec
ond highway from Camden to the sea.
A silver offering at the "stunt par.
ty" given by the classes of the First
Presbyterian church, G%renloch,
amounted to $25.86.
To raise none for Christmas OK
penses the Broadway Parent-Teacher
Association had an entertainment in
the Gloucester city hall.
The Camden county engineers Of
fee has completed a new survey Of
the proposed road to s~traighten the
Mount Ephraim pike from Blenheim
to Chew's Landing.
The Grenloch Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation has named these officers: Mrs.
Julia Thomas, president; Mrs. May
Schiller, vice president; Mrs. Edna
Jones, secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth
Thorn, treasurer.
A special meeting Of the Grenloch
fire company was held to consider i'm
mediate purchase of additional ap-
paratus. The company served a sui
per, cafeteria style, in the Presby-
terrain church.
Need of funds for relief Of former
soldiers was reported by members at
a business session of the Burlington
county chapter, American Red Cross
1t has prepared Christmas bags to DE
sent to the Canal Zone. Mrs. William
H. Rogers, chairman, says all sections
of the county are responding gener-
ously.
Coroner Atlee Adams of Paulsboro
and the Gloucester county officials
have another mystery on their hands
to solve. The skeleton of a man fully
clothed, who had been dead about
three years, was found beneath the
foor in the barn IN the dairy farm Of
John P. Day, between Woodbury. and
Paulsboro. There is a bullet wound
in the skull. A rope around the neck
indicates that he had been ~strangled.
The West Jersey P~resbytery held
its fall session Tuesday at the Glass
boro Normal School.
The Women's Research Club, lead
ing women's organization in atlantic
City, has adopted a resolution con-
demning the activities of the Ku Klux
Khan.
The annual father and son banquet,
under the auspices of the Moorestown
Y. M. C. A, was held in the Friends
Academy gymnasium. The principal
speaker was Wilbur Thomas OF Phila-
delphia, executive secretary OF the
Friends service committee.
A parade of more tLan LOO school
children featured the observance OF
Educational Week" at Glassboro.
Six women have been selected In
the list Of jurors in Gloucester coun-
ty, from which q jury will be drawn
for the trial on December IL OF three
men charged with the robbery and
murder of Walter C. Crozier, a farmer.
The Ocean City Chamber of Com
merce will ask the city commissioners
to hare surface a number OF the prin-
cipal highways before next summer
The home for convalescent soldiers,
established by American Legion posts
of the district il what formerly was
the Boston property at Clarksboro,
will be opened for public inspection
December 3.
Not satisfied with polling the great
est majority aver given a candidate In
the county, Sheriff Henderson, who is
a Bridgeton boy, has just discovered
ue S the youngest sheriff in the state,
be.Ag twenty-seyen years and two
months old. Henderson is a promi-
men Legion man ard promptly ap-
pointed Frank L. Peacock, senior vice
commander of Shoemaker post, his
deputy.
The Salem County Firemen's Asso-
citation will hold its. next meeting at
Pedricktown on December 10. John
Whitaker, Jr., has been chosen Sec
rotary.