The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-05
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

ton +. Sharp president; Louis u. Hell
Ter, vice president; d. Herbert Thomp-
son, secretary, and Pancoast G.. Lewis,
treasurer.
The Women's Civic Betterment AS
ISOLATION of Gloucester City will plant
some trees about the bathing pool OF
the Cumberland street Fairgrounds.
The Black Horse Automobile Club
has changed its name to South Jer'
sey Auto Club and decided to hold a
monthly meeting. These officers have
been elected: William H. lizard, presi-
dent; ]. S. Chew, vice president; Dr.
Robert X. Worrell, vice president; ].
II. Norris, secretary; E. Frank Pine,
treasurer.
No protests have been filed with
the State Board of Health against the
proposed new Camden county tuber-
culosis hospital to be built at Black
wood. This assures approval of the
plans of the Board of Freeholders.
The Good Government Republican
Association Of Mount Ephraim
changed the name to Centre Town.
ship Good Government Club, with
Frsnk s. Daugherty president; John
H, GLADDEN., Brooklawn, vice presi.
dent; Herbert Phillips, Bellmawr, sec.
rotary; Horace J.. Bryant, Lawnside,
treasurer.
.Ku Klux Khan literature was placed
Beneath the doors Of houses in Brook
lawn.
New Parent-Teacher Associations
have been organized recently at Plain.
vile and Forest Grove. An effort is
being made to have an association in
every school, district in Gloucester
county.
Women's organizations at Pitman
are working upon plans for a com.
nunity celebration on Christmas Eve.
Two former saloon buildings on
Broadway, Gloucester City, r to be
turned into gasoline filling stations.
Nearly 1000 members have been en-
rolled in the Carney's Point-Penns-
grove Community Y. M. c. A. as the
result Of a recent drive.
B%ridgeton's City Council has trans
ierred the street cleaning bureau from
the department OF public safety to the
department of streets and roads. Mo-
torized equipment has so changed con
ditions as to call for readjustment.
Members Of the Burlington Musical
Arts Club opened the season of free
community concerts recently.
The Blackwood~P arent-Teacher AS
ISOLATION presented the play, Twelve
Old Maids"
J. Edward Fagen, assessor of Tavi-
stock Borough, Is the first in Camden
county to file his books with next
years assessment. The borough is
the golf grounds Of the Tavistock
Country Club.
Among the speakers at the Camden
County Farmers Institute at Black.
wood were J. c. Crissey, Salem county
farm agent; w. w. Obey, manager
Seabrook Farm; Douglass S. Dilks OF
the State Department of Agriculture
ment station. In the evening an en-.
tertainment was given by the grange.
Charles Loller of Blackwood was
held under $500 bail by Justice Parker
on the charge of assault and battery
preferred by his wife. She said he
attacked her neal their home arc
when a neighbor anne to her aid he
beat HIM, too.
Glassboro business men and citi'
xens attended a public meeting in the
.Ora4,,,nifu hapCn tn diCnI1Cc nl1n9 for
organizing a civic association.
Taxes for the last half of the year
are now due and collectors are busy.
Contractors broke ground for P uls
boro's new 500, 900 school building.
Defective sections of cutters on
East Holly avenue, Putnam, have been
removed and fresh concrete laid.
Tatem-Shields post, American LIE
gion, of Collingswood was presented
with a silver cup won at the Legion
meet at Wildwood several weeks ago
Methodist men at Evan cleared
$40 from a recent oyster supper they
served. They will use the money for
church repairs.
Rev. Elijah Tozer, who has been al
the Auburn M. E. church, has resign
ed and gone to live with his daughter
because of i'll health.
Charged with reckless driving, vii
liam Applin of Morris Plains was fined
500 and costs at Morristown and sui
Tered revocation of his license at the
hands Of Recorder A. j. A. Bennell
The charge was made on behalf Of the
Morris County Traction Company
after Applin's automobile ran into one
of it's cars in Morris Plains.
Unless the Atlantic City and Sub
urban railway finds a means OF resum
Ing service within "a hours emergen
cy licenses will be issued to jitney
buses, was the ultimatam delivered
by Mayor Jackson of Pleasant lie &C
the company. The lines of tn 60 n
pany between Atlantic City and Som
ers Point and Alantic City al AD
secon were tied up for "a hnuls "a
result of the refusal Of tro ley men tC
operate one man cars.
To have money for a community
Christmas tree the Gloucester City
Women's Civic Betterment Associa
ton will have a baked bean supper
and social session.
Her throat slashed from ear to ear
the body of Mrs. Clara Early, s~ixty-on:
years old, of Hackensack was fount
stretched across a bed in her home
Police believe Mrs. Carly, who hat
been in poor health for a long time
took her life while respondent. Hell
husband. Frank Early, sixty-five years
old, has also been i'll for some time
Jts q whf1a he WAC domnataira fha'